East Africa, the Chu State entered the East African prairie all the way south.
The east coast of Africa is similar to Tianzhu. Many merchants and vassal kings from the Ming Dynasty divided it into dozens of vassals, large and small, and hundreds of merchant colonies.
The Tang State, the Zheng State, the Lu State, etc. were all vassal states established by vassal kings. The territories of the East African Commercial Bank, the Territory of the Indian Ocean Rim Commercial Bank, the Territory of the Western United Commercial Bank, etc. belonged to trading houses or a certain big family. colonies established.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away here, very far away from the Ming Dynasty. In addition, it was established with the encouragement and support of the Ming Dynasty court.
Therefore, these vassal states and colonies are actually independent kingdoms, each implementing its own system.
King Ning was the first vassal king to come overseas to establish a vassal state. At first, the first place he looked at was East Africa, but later it was now Western Tianzhu where Ning Kingdom was established first.
But he never gave up expanding his vassal state in East Africa.
Therefore, here in East Africa, there is a large piece of land belonging to the Ning Kingdom, which was probably located in an area near the Indian Ocean in Kenya in later generations.
This is an extremely fertile land, and Ning Guo also attaches great importance to it.
Chixia City was established on the coast. With Chixia City as the center, large-scale migration of people arrived here, while encouraging land reclamation and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and at the same time, they continued to expand into the inland areas of Africa.
Ning Kingdom is divided into two parts, one part is in Tianzhu, with Anning City as the center, and the other part is in East Africa, with Chixia City as the center.
Most of the Han people who followed King Ning to the sea stayed in Anning City. The total number was about 100,000. In addition, there were about 50,000 Han people who came to Chixia City under King Ning's encouragement policy and established a city with Chixia City as the center. Ningguo in East Africa.
In addition to vigorously encouraging Han people to immigrate and reward Han people for having children, King Ning also moved a large number of slaves to Chixia City in order to consolidate and develop his land in East Africa.
The sources of these slaves are extremely complex. They include natives from Tianzhu, Slavs from Eastern Europe, Ottomans who were captured and plundered by the Ming army, Arabs who moved to Ningguo through the slave trade, and Italians from southern Europe. , French, as well as Siamese, Burmese, etc. from Southeast Asia.
There are more than one million slaves in the Ning Kingdom, and more than 300,000 of them were moved to Chixia City by King Ning. They established extremely large plantations here to grow spices, rice, corn, sweet potatoes, sugar cane, etc.
In addition to a large number of slaves, King Ning also tried every means to attract people from the Ming vassal states and various tribes within the Ming Dynasty to settle and live here.
There are many Koreans and Japanese people who were deceived by Ningguo in various ways, and the number is almost tens of thousands. In addition, in Central Asia, there are many nomadic tribesmen who have been trafficked, abducted or Even though they were deceived, there were tens of thousands of people here.
In short, King Ning would do whatever it takes to develop his own Ning Kingdom.
He clearly realized the importance of people and used various means to move hundreds of thousands of people to Chixia City. Chixia City also developed and prospered rapidly, becoming one of the largest cities in East Africa.
Fifty miles west of Chixia City, there is a small town called Saifati Town. Just hearing this name, you can tell that this town is not Minghua at all.
This town is very simple. It is a newly built town. The roads in the town are still yellow mud roads, which are not hardened with cement like other places. At the same time, the houses in the town are also wooden houses, which are not popular in the Ming Dynasty. Reinforced concrete houses.
The town is small in size, but has a large population, tens of thousands of people.
¡°These people are all Jews from Spain and Portugal.
In order to obtain a large number of slaves from the Ottoman Empire, King Ning reached an agreement with the Jews who were responsible for selling slaves from the Ottoman Empire.
King Ning was willing to take in Jews who were excluded in Spain, Portugal, France and other places, while the Jewish minister of the Ottoman Empire who was responsible for selling slaves sold a certain proportion of slaves to Ning at a preferential price.
This business is naturally a huge profit for Prince Ning.
The profits from the slave trade are very high. No matter how many slaves there are, there are not enough slaves to sell. What's more, Ning Country is vast and sparsely populated, and slaves are also an important labor force for the development of Ning Country.
Secondly, you can get some Jews for free, so why not.
So tens of thousands of Jews came across the ocean.The master of the world, his words are directly related to the life and death of the more than 10,000 Jews in front of him.
Generally speaking, in Europe, if a ruler comes to find them, they will basically do nothing good. They will either extort their money or drive them away.
So Brown was really nervous, fearing that King Ning would extort their money or drive them away again. When they got here, if they were extorted for their money, it would be okay. At worst, they would hand over all their money.
But if they are driven away, they really have nowhere to go.
This is Africa, not Europe. To the east are the vassal states and colonies under the Ming Dynasty. To the west and inland is the territory of the Kunlun slaves. There are many kinds of diseases. Even if they are not attacked by the Kunlun slaves, they will still suffer. It is difficult to survive.
"Merciful Lord, please don't punish us anymore."
Brown prayed silently in his heart, and the Jews around him were also extremely nervous after hearing the translation. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com