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- Winter City, the capital of the Northwest Province.
With the arrival of winter, the entire earth seems to be frozen. The cold current from the Arctic is raging across the earth, heavy snow is flying, and the cold wind is biting.
Lin Tong struggled to walk in the snow with a load of briquettes. The snow here is really heavy. When it snows, even the door will be blocked tightly. In the snow Walking becomes extremely difficult.
Fortunately, this is the city of Winter City. The snow on the roads is cleared every day and is not as thick as outside. Otherwise, there would be no way to walk in the snow.
¡°Hu~hu~¡±
After finally returning to his home, Lin Tong also let out a heavy sigh of relief.
It¡¯s really too cold.
Lin Tong is from Huguang in the Ming Dynasty. He grew up in the warm south. Last year, he accidentally killed someone in a fight and was sentenced to exile in this winter city.
Coming from the warm south to this winter city in the extreme northwest, he could not remember how he spent last winter, and he almost froze to death here.
"Drink hot tea to dispel the cold~"
牺如 lingshufang.com 牺如。 Lin Tong¡¯s wife meets When Lin Tong came back, he quickly brought a cup of hot tea and said thoughtfully.
"Hmm~"
Lin Tong looked at his wife with a smile on his face. Then he looked at her belly. It was already bulging and she would give birth soon.
His wife¡¯s name is Popova. When you hear the name, you can tell that it is not a Han name. Popova is a Slav. She was later robbed by the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate and sold as a slave to the Ming Dynasty. When she arrived at Winter City, she was bought by Lin Tong and became his wife.
Winter City is far away from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, and the weather is freezing. No Ming people have been willing to take the initiative to immigrate here. In order to consolidate its rule over the northwest province, the imperial court also exiled a large number of prisoners to Winter City.
Since ancient times, most of the criminals have been men. Among the prisoners sentenced to exile in Winter City, ninety-nine out of one hundred are men. As time goes by, there is naturally a great demand for women.
Therefore, as a large number of prisoners came to Winter City, a large number of slave traders also spotted this business opportunity and sold a large number of female slaves to Winter City and sold them to these prisoners as wives, concubines, etc.
It¡¯s very profitable.
Because it is very close to Europe, especially Eastern Europe.
Not only did a large number of slave traders buy slaves from the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, but now the people of the Kazan Khanate also saw that plundering slaves could bring huge benefits, and they also actively participated in the Slavic war in Eastern Europe. from the plunder of men.
A large number of slaves passed through the nearest Winter City from the Kazan Khanate and were then sold exclusively to various parts of the Ming Dynasty. The slave trade has become an emerging pillar industry in Winter City.
The price of purchasing these slaves from the Kazan Khanate is very low. If you transport them to Winter City and sell them for dozens of taels of silver, you can make a huge profit.
ãá reduce 75z*w.com ãá. As for many people worried that these exiled prisoners have no money.
There is no need to worry about this, because the Ming Dynasty is supporting you.
No one here in Northwest Province is willing to immigrate here, so the only option is to exile the prisoners, but since they are all male prisoners, it is definitely not an option in the long run.
Therefore, the government in the Northwest Province also applied for such a policy from the imperial court. When every prisoner exiled to the northwest province purchased a female slave, the imperial court would provide an interest-free loan and then subsidize one-third. The price of one.
It can be said that this is an extremely preferential policy.
One-third of the money for buying a female slave is given by the court, and the remaining two-thirds are returned to you as an interest-free loan. In short, the government here just wants you to buy more and more, and create more people. The better.
Because the imperial court needed more people to consolidate the Ming Dynasty's rule over the northwest province, and to match these exiled prisoners with female slaves, on the one hand, it would allow these prisoners to settle down here and live here in peace and contentment.
On the other hand, it can also reduce the contradictions and conflicts between prisoners. If they were all prisoners, these people would originally be criminals and brave and fierce. If they were put together, it would not be a big deal and they would die. Where are the people.
"But it's different if these prisoners are paired with women. If they have the energy to go to bed with their own women, how about making more dolls?A high-quality fur.
Therefore, the fur trade here in Winter City is very hot. Whenever summer comes, a large number of fur merchants will swarm in, waving their money to buy furs, and then resell them to the Beijing and Tianjin areas. The profits Very amazing.
The other one is grain trading. The dimension of Winter City is too high and the weather is too cold. There are very few crops that can be grown. Currently, only potatoes can be grown. Therefore, the demand for grain is huge. A large amount of grain needs to be transported from several southern provinces every year. come over.
In addition, there are a large number of minority tribes here in the Northwest Province, and they also have a great demand for food. In winter, these minority tribes living on the vast Siberian plains will exchange their furs for food.
Most of the food in Winter City was actually exchanged by people from these minority tribes. As for the exiled prisoners, they actually couldn't eat much food. Mi He Mi
The third trade is the emerging slave trade. Going to the Kazan Khanate to sell slaves to Winter City is also very profitable and develops quickly, but the capital requirements are relatively large.
Because if you go to the Kazan Khanate, you have to bring at least a lot of goods with you, and then buy a large number of slaves to come back. A casual trip will cost at least tens of thousands of taels of silver.
"Perhaps we can take advantage of this winter to bring some grain, salt, tea, sugar, etc. to various tribes to do business and exchange for their furs."
After much deliberation, Lin Tong also made a decision
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