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- Nanyang.
When the Liaodong region in the north begins to experience cold winter snow, it is still as hot as summer here in Nanyang.
Danhe City, Luzon, in Zhao Ming¡¯s plantation, Zhao Ming is riding a horse to inspect his plantation.
Looking up, except for a cement road connecting the outside world, there are endless sugar cane forests all around. Thanks to the superior natural conditions here, sugar cane grows very well here, with high yield, high sugar content, and extremely benefits. amazing.
Therefore, planting sugarcane has become the first choice for plantations in several provinces in Nanyang. A large number of sugarcane plantations are spread throughout Nanyang, which in turn has formed an extremely large cane sugar industry chain.
¡°The price of sugarcane has dropped again~¡±
Looking at the sugar cane forest in front of him that was ready for harvest, Zhao Ming felt a little unhappy.
Because the price of sugarcane is falling year by year, it is getting lower year by year. Although the sugarcane harvest is good, it cannot be sold at a good price.
¡°There are really too many people growing sugarcane, and there are sugarcane plantations everywhere, so it¡¯s normal for prices to drop.¡±
¡°Maybe I should try to grow something else, otherwise life will not be easy in the future.¡±
Zhao Ming was thinking silently in his heart.
Soon, they rode on horseback and arrived at a sugar cane forest. Here, hundreds of slaves were working hard, harvesting sugar cane, tying the sugar cane into bundles, and then carrying the sugar cane to the surrounding areas. On top of the wheeled carriage, they were waiting for their owner, Zhao Ming, to transport the sugar cane to Danhe City for sale.
"Master~"
Seeing Zhao Ming coming, Hussein quickly walked up with a smile on his face.
He is Zhao Ming¡¯s slave, a Persian businessman, who has traveled far and wide, and is good at business and management, so Zhao Ming also entrusts him with the management of slaves and plantations.
"Are the new slaves still obedient?"
Zhao Ming nodded and looked at the more than a hundred slaves working.
These more than a hundred slaves come from a wide range of sources, including Javanese people from Southeast Asia and Tianzhu people from Tianzhu. Among the Tianzhu people, they are divided into Tamils, Dravidians and fair-skinned Aryans. These types of slaves were purchased by Zhao Ming through the slave market in Danhe City.
Behind, Zhao Minglu purchased many new slaves one after another, including Persians, Arabs, and Ottoman Turks.
It can be said that although Zhao Ming only has more than a hundred slaves, the sources of these more than a hundred slaves are very wide, some are black, some are white, and all kinds.
¡°She is quite obedient and works seriously and hard.¡±
Hussein replied quickly.
"Ah That's good."
Zhao Ming nodded with satisfaction.
The economic prosperity of Nanyang plantations requires a large amount of labor, and slaves are naturally the best and cheapest labor force. Therefore, Nanyang has always been the most important slave consumer market in the Ming Dynasty.
Every year, hundreds of thousands or millions of slaves are sold to Nanyang and then bought back by plantation owners in Nanyang. The expensive slaves stimulate the development of the slave industry and form a very complete industrial chain.
There were several types of slave industry chains at the beginning. One was dominated by the Ming Dynasty Commercial Bank. They mainly colonized Tianzhu and captured the people in Tianzhu through various means, either by directly arresting them with open fire, or by Either through deception or purchase, a large number of slaves were first gathered on the island of Ceylon and then sold to Southeast Asia.
Tianzhu is now the most important source of slaves in the Ming Dynasty.
In addition to Tianzhu, in Burma, Siam, and the island countries of Southeast Asia, although the Ming Dynasty's trading houses did not directly arrest or rob them, they often cooperated with some local snakes, and the local snakes used various means to turn people into slaves. Sold to Ming Dynasty's trading firm.
¡°These are places relatively close to Nanyang, where a large number of trading houses, merchants, and fleets mainly engaged in slave trade are active. A slave can be sold for dozens of taels of silver in Nanyang. This is a very profitable business.
This stimulated countless people to join this lucrative industry, and a large number of slaves were continuously sold to the Ming Dynasty.
However, most of the slaves in these places have dark skin and short stature, so they are called black slaves by the people of Ming Dynasty. In addition to black slaves, the market demand for white slaves in Ming Dynasty is also very large.
The Ming Dynasty regarded white as beauty and liked white slaves.
Therefore, some businessmen traveled thousands of miles to the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Persia and other places to buy white slaves and transport them to Southeast Asia for sale. White slaves were generally tall and strong, and the price was high.?What's better, it's not as easy as I am now. "
"That's true~"
"By the way, why is there no news about the rubber I mentioned last year?"
"Don't mention the rubber. A friend of mine invested a lot of money to plant some. As a result, they are still small saplings. Even the rubber plantations under Daming Ocean Trading Company have been losing money. I heard that they cost 70 to 80%. It will take years to produce glue.¡±
"It will take seven or eight years. Fortunately, I didn't plant any seeds. Otherwise, it would take years and months to get the money back."
"That's something only rich people can play. But the last time I read the newspaper, the price of this rubber is very expensive. It needs to be transported back from Golden Continent. I heard that rubber has many uses. I estimate that this kind of rubber will be used in the future. Not bad, after all, Liu Shangshu¡¯s industries are all growing rubber.¡±
¡°Seven or eight years is too long, and we don¡¯t even know how to plant it yet. The risk is too great.¡±
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