Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 148 Slaves are slow to sell, help us!
Guo Kang rejected most of Tuo Huan's proposals, and only kept the lamp that was indeed "Li Da Brick Flying".

Because he feels that the focus now is on teaching and experimenting.After all, he is not a professional talent, just understand some small experiments.When more people participate in the research, people smarter than themselves will surely stand out, and technological breakthroughs will soon be achieved.

The current equipment is too crude, it is better to wait for them to study for a while.Local scholars must be more familiar with the materials and craftsmanship of this era than he is. Even if they polish and streamline a little, they may be better than the current situation.

In this case, scarce funds should be used mainly to allow participants to conduct research and experience summarization.Rather than start right away and build a giant wonder, start with a small research facility.Every time there is an improvement, pay for an upgrade and refurbish it.This is the period of rapid technological rise, the best strategy.

In this way, it will not take many years to find out the highest level that can be achieved in this era, and the rest will wait for breakthroughs in materials and craftsmanship.

In this period, you can use the plan of Tuohuan to pile up power and scale.If you really want to build a spectacle, it's better to wait for that time, not now.

As for the Slavic slaves sent off... this is really useful.

Tuo Huan heard Guo Kang talk about his concerns, and also considered the problems that would arise if technology research and development could not keep up with Western Europe.However, he is confident about this and thinks that he will not lose.

For example, as we all know, slaves are a major feature of Rome.

Although slaves have basically appeared in various civilizations, it is really rare that the number of slaves is so large that slaves have become the mainstay of the economy, as in Rome's Italian region.

In fact, in Guo Kang's previous life, with the deepening of research, a group of scholars believed that the slave society was actually a feature of Rome, or even only a feature of several regions such as Italy.In the process of fighting around, the Legion gathered a large number of slaves from the entire Mediterranean world here, forming such a spectacle.

In other places, the two conditions of "continuously winning and being able to capture prisoners" and "preferring to use slaves" may not be met at the same time.

An example is that in Seris, people once believed that the Shang Dynasty was a slave society.However, with the rapid development of archaeological technology, scholars have gradually discovered that this does not seem to be the case.

The army of the Shang Dynasty did fight all day long and often captured prisoners, but they did not often "use" the prisoners, but often "used" the prisoners.This word in oracle bone inscriptions means to kill for sacrifice.

Therefore, the people of the Shang Dynasty seemed neither greedy for money nor lustful - they didn't like to capture male slaves to work, and they didn't like to capture female slaves to play with.

In this case, it is impossible for him to accumulate as many slaves as Rome did...

Therefore, such cases may be very rare and not a general rule.

Even the Purple Horde Khanate, although retrograde everywhere, the slave manors can't come back.Most of the slaves were resold shortly after they were captured.

Italian commercial countries, such as Venice and Genoa, have many commercial stations along the Black Sea coast.Under the rule of the Purple Horde, many commercial city-states lost their military and tax privileges, but the Khanate welcomed trade itself.There are many preferential treatment for old friends like Venice.

These men were skilled slave traders who had been in the trade for hundreds of years.They have a sales network all over the Mediterranean, and they can sell slaves quickly to reduce the cost of hoarding.

But the main problem is that Slavic slaves are too cheap.

During the long-term trading process, slave traders formed a complete set of evaluation methods.

For example, the most valuable are the Circassian slaves in the Caucasus.Tianfang taught the slave traders that these people were the most beautiful and intelligent.They were very popular in the harem of sultans and emirs everywhere - both male and female.

It is a pity that the Purple Horde mainly obtained slaves from Magyar, Germany and Slavs.

The prices of the Magyars are moderate, while the prices of the Germans are severely differentiated-their men, especially experienced mercenaries, are very popular with the princes of Tianfang Sect.The sultans often sign contracts with them, and they will be freed as long as they fight for a few years, and they are even willing to provide spoils of war as rewards.

But on the contrary, slave traders did not like German women.Mamluk merchants thought they were too stiff and unfeminine, and it was difficult to meet buyers who were willing to ask for a price.

It's just that the Purple Horde itself also likes to recruit German and Magyar prisoners of war in this way, and these mercenaries often don't pick their customers very much.In reality, not much has made it to the market.

And the Slavs...

The price of better Slavic slaves is only a quarter of that of Circassian slaves.In the event of large-scale sales, it will continue to depreciate.This price is really frustrating.

Before the Purple Horde Khanate and the Mamluks had a hard time talking, one of the main problems was that with the reform of the Beiya Army, the number of slaves in the Qincha, Bulgar and Tatars on the grasslands decreased sharply.

Under the new system, no one can reorganize other people's tribes, organize them to serve as soldiers, and at the same time sell their relatives, wives and daughters as slaves.In this case, everyone has to rebel...

Later, the Purple Horde went south and entered the Greek region, annihilating the Western European mercenary regiments entrenched there, and the Principalities of Achaia and Athens established by them, and easily drove away the Neapolitans who tried to infiltrate there.

Tuo Huan told Guo Kang that the most supporters of his mother were not around Dadu, but in Athens and Moreia.Therefore, it is conceivable that these places are no longer used as a source of slaves.

In this way, the vast majority of slaves came from Slavic regions.

In addition to fighting Poland, Lithuania, and the rebellious Rus Principality, there are also a large number of unattended villages in the local area.The residents of these places are almost all part-time bandits.And the Purple Horde Khanate was not polite, and often took the initiative to destroy these settlements and sell the people inside as slaves.

On the land of Eastern Europe, various wild Slavic settlements can often be found beside various river forks and among the woods.The Purple Horde has been catching it for decades, but it hasn't seen a decrease so far.The slave traders themselves wondered why the Slavs couldn't catch them all.

Of course, this situation makes the Slavs even cheaper.

Mamluk merchants have always been very silent, thinking that they are shoddy.This market is full of low-end products, how can people buy them.

But the purple tent has no choice but to explain to them that there are still slaves now, and they are all Slavic slaves. You don’t have any other choices...

Now, the only good news is that there is another outlet.They can be sold across the ocean for Javanese dollars.

Although it seems far away, the Indian Ocean route is very mature.Moreover, there are various supply stations along the way and buyers who want to purchase, they can go all the way and sell all the way.Javanese dollar traders were also very active and can be found in the Red Sea and East Africa.

The Purple Horde has always hoped that the other party will buy more, but this business route is currently full of obstacles.

The sale of Slavic slaves is directly related to the income of the northern frontline military government and the interests of the legionnaires.Seeing that everyone's slaves are almost unsold, Khan Ting has been anxious.

Therefore, seeing that Guo Kang's research required the use of Slavic slaves, Tuo Huan was immediately moved.

With the help of Rome's advanced slave system, it is easy to surpass the backward Western European feudal countries in the speed of scientific research and the efficiency of experiments.If these devices can be mass-produced, it will be even better if the unsalable Slavic slave labor has a place to go.

Moreover, these technologies will be profitable in the long run, and Khan Ting can afford to wait.Therefore, he even hoped that Guo Kang could use it more, as long as it was convenient.

　Looking at the character card, counting the label points that will be collected soon, Nurhachi should be able to get four stars soon.

　　The effect is that in the column of gifts given by the characters, change the existing ones: chicken legs, blades, amulets, diamonds of true love, etc., to names of your own.I plan to change it to Irish, 楛石, Iron Armor, Imperial Book and so on.Go back and see how much you can change.

　　
　
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