Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 671 Great Voyage ([-])

Republic 460 Seventh Year Summer (677)
Kingdom of Juliya

Lion Island

Lower Zheng He Trading Post
"A strong male slave costs [-] renminbi, an ordinary female slave costs [-] renminbi, and a good-looking slave is paid separately. Children only need [-] renminbi, and old slaves only need [-] renminbi."

[Caiwei Pirates] finally arrived at the end of the voyage - Xiazheng He Trading Station.

The silk, porcelain, wine, wool cloth, glass and other goods on the ship were packaged and sold to the trading station, and then many black slaves from South Tianzhu were purchased from the trading station.

The natives of Tianzhu have brown-black skin, while the light-skinned ruling class of North Tianzhu are descendants of invaders who migrated from the west, including Aryans, Persians, Greeks, White Huns, Da Yuezhi Man, blah blah blah.

The slaves purchased this time were mainly strong male black slaves, because the plantation lacked such strong male slaves who could work.

The source of black slaves is also very simple. The trading post has only one hundred soldiers, so they must not dare to attack those tribal city-states.

The reason why so many black slaves can be stored and sold to merchant ships/pirates who come to the trading station is that the trading station obtained it through trade with the Kingdom of Julia.

The Zhuliye Kingdom often invaded the indigenous tribes of Lion Island, which can be compared to Emperor Wu of Han's attack on the Southwestern Yi.

In the process of aggression, many natives would naturally be captured as slaves. The Kingdom of Zhuliya was not interested in large-scale land reclamation. If there was time to open up wasteland, it would be better to directly attack and annex other surrounding Tianzhu countries.

The cycle of land reclamation is too long, and the Wang family has a tradition of land reclamation. In normal countries, merger wars are given priority instead of going all the way overseas to land reclamation.

Because the demand for land reclamation is not great, in the past, the Zhuliye Kingdom slaughtered the indigenous people on the spot, and didn't bother to catch them.

Now, with the republic's slave trade coming here, the Zhuliye Kingdom changed its strategy of directly killing the aborigines, and instead captured the aborigines and sold them to the republic's trading post.

The trading station uniformly purchases all kinds of handicraft products transported by merchant ships, and then sells the handicraft products to the Kingdom of Zhuliya, and then buys indigenous slaves from the Kingdom of Zhuliya, and finally sells these indigenous slaves to the trading station merchant ship.

The purchase price of a strong male black slave at the trading station is one thousand coins/one tael of silver/one gold coin, and the price sold to merchant ships/pirates is two thousand coins/two taels of silver/two gold coins.

In the middle, the trade war made a difference.

Merchant ships/pirates are also very profitable. The purchase price of a strong black slave at the trading station is [-] renminbi/two Republic gold coins, and after being transported to the slave market in Xingfan City, the uniform purchase price of the Xingfan City government is [-] Money / Seven gold coins.

The Xingfan City government is also very profitable. These slaves will be retailed by the Xingfan City government of the Republic to one plantation after another. The retail price is [-] yuan/ten Republic gold coins.

When a strong black slave was sold for the first time, the price was only 1000 yuan. When he was sold to the plantation for the last time, the price was 10000 yuan, a full ten times the profit. Who can not be tempted, who can not be crazy ?

The raw materials produced by these slaves for plantation land reclamation, such as sugar cane, spices, wool, maggot, gum, silk, etc., will be transported to the handicraft workshops of Yan State for processing, where there are many free workers. The raw materials produced by them are processed into handicraft products through a machine.

For example, sugar cane is processed into brown sugar, wool is processed into cloth, silk is processed into silk, and spices are used to make sachets and other luxury goods.

These handicraft products processed by free migrant workers will be transported to Xingfan City by guild merchant ships/citizen pirates, sell some of the handmade products that Xingfan Country needs, and then buy some raw materials that do not need to be processed.

Then, this part of the raw materials and the handicraft products that Xingfan country does not need are transported to Tianzhu for sale, and then slaves are purchased from Tianzhu, and the slaves are transported back to Xingfan country for sale.

During the period, we will also pass through some trade transfer stations, which can be used as temporary supplies replenishment places, and some small-scale trade can also be carried out incidentally.

Handicraft workshops in Yan State—the origin of raw materials in Xingfan Country—Tianzhu market/slaves, such an infinite circular trade process, slaves produce raw materials in plantations, free people become workers in handicraft workshops, citizens act as pirate leaders/small shareholders, They set up handicraft workshops/operate plantations/finance the pirate group/become the major shareholder of the pirate group, and the government of the republic maintains the trade order/punishes those who break the order/opens up more routes and trade transfer stations for all classes.

Although the Central Plains also often organized large-scale Silk Road trade, it was only the official behavior of the Central Plains court. It was just the government alone, and the court was making money alone.

The Republic's Maritime Silk Road trade is carried out by the entire society. New and old nobles, wealthy guild merchants, republican citizens, and free people all participate in it, sharing dividends and making money together.

The black slaves in South Tianzhu had their hands and feet tied.

In order to prevent them from escaping, the ends of their ropes were all connected together, and they were all tied to the pole of the boat.

The pirates salvaged seawater from the sea, and used the excrement brushes used to clean the toilet buckets to clean the mud from the bodies of these black slaves in southern India, so as to prevent them from being infected with the plague.

Every black slave is a precious asset of the [Caiwei Pirates], if they die accidentally, it will be a huge loss of property.

Just like a shepherd can't bear to see his lamb die, just like a monarch can't bear to see his subjects die, the mentality is the same.

State Shepherd State Shepherd, the shepherd/shepherd of a state, and the subjects are the lambs raised by the shepherd.

Officials persecuting the people are like a shepherd/monarch to the monarch, because there are too many lambs/people to take care of, so he hired/examinated a sheep-herding boy/official and asked him to help take care of the flock/the head of Guizhou, and the result is this The boy/official actually secretly ate a few sheep/corrupted, the shepherd/monarch will of course be angry.

But there are exceptions. If the shepherd/monarch loves/favors this kid/treacherous minister, he will ignore the kid/treacherous minister’s harm/plunder to the lamb/people.

Because, in essence, the lambs/subjects are just the property of the shepherd/monarch. Once you understand this essence, you will naturally understand the so-called wise and foolish kings.

Regardless of whether you are a wise king or a foolish one, they are all independent husbands!
Some monarchs are relatively stingy and cherish their property, so they will not allow officials to search for the people's fat and anointing.

Some monarchs are very generous and do not cherish their own property, so they will allow so-called treacherous officials to plunder the common people.

A large number of black slaves crowded the ship, making the pirate ship smelly.

"Why did you buy so many Kunlun slaves? Which wealthy family needs so many Kunlun slaves to serve?"

Wang Bo didn't understand very well. After all, the Central Plains didn't have such a big demand for land reclamation. The Central Plains had a large population, and there wasn't enough wasteland to distribute to refugees. How could there be any need to buy slaves to open up wasteland?

Therefore, due to the different national conditions, Wang Bo subconsciously substituted the national conditions of the Central Plains, thinking that these Kunlun slaves/black slaves were bought by the dignitaries of Yan State to serve them.

He did not expect that the demand for slaves in the Republic's plantations would be so huge.

(End of this chapter)