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Chapter 1118, Eastern European Slaves

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    On the west coast of the Black Sea, the beautiful Danube River flows quietly, carrying snow water from the Alps into the dark Black Sea.

    The land is vast and snow-capped, but as far as the eye can see, it is filled with smoke and thick smoke. On both sides of the Danube River, the Ottoman cavalry carries fluttering crescent flags and drives groups of slaves slowly across the cold earth.  progress.

    The Ottoman Empire has been fighting fiercely with the coalition of Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, and Poland for almost a whole year.

    Since the beginning of the year, when the Ming Empire went to war with the Ottoman Empire, Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire, and Poland, aware of the opportunity, took the initiative to launch attacks on the Ottoman Empire.

    When the main force of the Ottoman Empire was deployed to the Asia Minor Peninsula to fight fiercely with the Ming Empire, their attack was very fast and smooth. They marched all the way eastward, just like the Crusades, and once pushed the front line to Thrace.  , only a few hundred miles away from Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

    But when the Ottoman Empire and the Ming Empire signed an armistice agreement, the army returned to the war on the Western Front. The powerful Ottoman Empire army quickly began to take back many occupied areas, quickly repelled the coalition forces, and continued to invade the West.  They attacked and defeated the proud knights step by step.

    By now, the two sides have been fighting bloody battles in the Danube River Basin for several months, causing heavy losses to each other, but the Ottoman Empire seems to have no intention of stopping here.

    Hungary, the Holy Roman Empire and Poland have all sent several waves of peace envoys to propose peace talks to the Ottoman Empire, but they were all rejected by the Ottoman Sultan.

    It¡¯s not that the Ottoman Empire is unwilling to negotiate peace, the Ottoman Empire is actually supporting it now. You must know that the losses of the Ottoman Empire are much greater than those of the Three Kingdoms Alliance.

    Being swept away by the Ming Dynasty's 200,000 troops, the elite army alone lost five to six million. In addition, there was a fierce battle with the Persian Empire in the east, and the Ming Dynasty had to cede territory to compensate the Ming Dynasty.

    To be honest, the current Ottoman Sultan has even used the gold items in his palace as war reparations and given them to the Ming Dynasty. He is so poor.

    But precisely because of this, the Ottoman Empire must recover its vitality and strength as soon as possible, and naturally the trauma of the war must be transferred abroad.

    One of the most important methods is the slave trade.

    ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Through war, they would capture slaves on a large scale, and then sell these slaves to the Ming Dynasty, so as to quickly recover from the trauma they suffered.

    The Ming Dynasty was an extremely large empire, with vast land, a huge population, and a strong demand for slaves.

    Those who engaged in slave trading with the Ming Dynasty were not only the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate in the north, but also the current Ottoman Empire. Even Italians and Venetians in the Mediterranean were engaged in slave trading.

    As for the Arabs and Persians in the Middle East, they made a lot of money from the slave trading business.

    The profits of the slave trading business are really too high.

    A strong slave can be sold to the Ming Dynasty for a high price of thirty taels of silver. If the slave is obtained through war, the cost is almost negligible.

    So the Ottoman Empire set its sights on the population in Eastern Europe. Almost all its troops were mobilized here. While launching a powerful offensive, it began to unscrupulously capture people on this land and sell them into slaves.

    The Ottoman Empire has also become addicted to the business of capturing and selling slaves.

    People in the Ming Dynasty are very concerned about credibility. A slave costs thirty taels of silver. If it is a female slave with beautiful appearance and good figure, the price can be higher.

    No matter how many slaves there are, the Ming people can eat them all, and they can pay you silver dollars on the spot. Just transport the slaves to the islands in the Aegean Sea that were ceded to the Ming people.

    Very simple.

    One slave is thirty thousand taels of silver, ten thousand slaves are three hundred thousand taels of silver, and one hundred thousand slaves are three million taels of silver.

    Often in one battle, the Ottoman Empire army can easily capture tens of thousands of war prisoners. If they sweep the surrounding area, they can easily capture tens of thousands of slaves and easily obtain hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.

    If you can break into a city, it is not difficult to arrest 100,000 people, and millions of taels of silver will come to you in one fell swoop.

    Is there any business in the world that can make money faster than this?

    ?Obviously, no.

    ¡°At least for the Ottomans, they found no faster way to make money.

    &nbspTheir elderly parents were killed because they were of little value, and the rest of them were all captured and have been walking in the ice and snow for several days.

    "Hold on, hold on~"

    "The darkness before dawn is the hardest. As long as you get through it, you will be reborn."

    Brad looked at his sister and then at his wife. Both of them had turned red from the cold, and white frost had condensed on their eyebrows and hair.

    I looked up again and looked around. Everyone was almost the same. Many people even had frostbite on their feet and could no longer walk. They were pulled down to the roadside and killed by Ottoman soldiers.

    So Brad knew that he couldn¡¯t stop. Once he stopped, he would definitely die. These ferocious Ottomans didn¡¯t care whether you had frostbite or not.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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