Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1119, The biggest business in the Mediterranean
A port in the Danube River Basin, where a large ship with a crescent flag was moored at a simple pier, and a team of Ottoman Sipahi cavalry arrived here with a large number of slaves.

"Get on board quickly, get on board quickly~"

When they came to the pier, the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire were still urging them, and the sound of the horsewhip was endless. For disobedient people, they didn't mind using the horsewhip to make them more docile, and even executed them directly, leaving the corpse aside.

The Bled family followed a large team to the side of a large ship. At the boarding place, soldiers of the Ottoman Empire were distributing horse bread, which was made from a small amount of flour with a large amount of bran and beans used to feed horses. The finished bread is also the main thing that Brad's family eats these days.

Every day they can get a piece of this kind of black bread, which is very hard and very unpalatable, but this is the only food they can get now.

After receiving the food, Brad's family boarded the boat. The cabin was already full of people, but there were still people squeezing in continuously, so that people were crowded and almost stuck together.

But the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire didn't seem to be satisfied with this, they were still stuffing people into the cabin, and Brad bent his body desperately to prevent his child from being squeezed.

The smell in the cabin was extremely bad, all kinds of stench mixed together, making people sick, but the Ottomans didn't care about it at all.

As soon as the ship was full of people, it set sail and sailed along the Danube to the Black Sea.

"Uh~"

Brad resisted the urge to vomit, because he knew that if he vomited, he would probably have to endure the stench of the vomit all the time.

Moreover, there is no water on the boat to wash you off. Everyone's body stinks to death. All kinds of stench are filled together, and the boat is constantly shaking. There was a sound of vomiting.

Brad hugged his child tightly, and looked outside. He was lucky. The whole family was near the window, so he could breathe some fresh air and see everything outside at the same time. .

Although the smell in the cabin is very bad, thankfully, a large number of people are crowded in the small cabin, and everyone finally does not feel the cold.

"Where are they taking us?"

The younger sister, Kela, looked outside the cabin. The strange world always makes people full of fear.

"I don't know, it might be the Ottoman Empire, it might be the Middle East, or it might be sold to the Ming people."

Brad shook his head slightly, the future was bleak, and the unknown fate made people full of confusion and worry, with his wife, sister, and two children by his side.

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The West Island of the Aegean Sea, originally called Paros Island, is one of the largest islands in the island group in the southern Aegean Sea, and it is also one of the few islands ceded by the Ottoman Empire to the Ming Empire.

Its geographical location is very important. It not only guards the exit of the Aegean Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, but is also very close to Greece and the Asia Minor Peninsula. The natural environment on the island is also extremely good.

Therefore, West Sea Island also became the location of the Governor's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty in the Mediterranean Sea and the Aegean Sea, as well as the location of the Ming Dynasty's Mediterranean Fleet.

With the ceding of West Sea Island and the surrounding islands to Daming, the merchants of Daming who came to the Mediterranean to do business finally had their own foothold in the Mediterranean.

Coupled with the geographical location here, it quickly attracted a large number of businessmen and firms of Ming Dynasty to come here to do business.

Along with the arrival of Ming merchants and Ming firms, merchants from the Ottoman Empire, the Middle East, Persia, the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Venice, Italy, France, Spain and other places also flocked here.

In less than half a year, Xihai Island has become the most famous commercial island in the entire Mediterranean.

In the harbor of West Sea Island, there is a port wharf area that has not been completed for a long time. Ships from various places are moored here. The flags of various countries and regions are fluttering in the wind, showing the commercial atmosphere here.

In the urban area near the port, on both sides of the spacious concrete roads, there are brand new buildings standing. Under the sunlight, the glass windows are shining brightly.

Almost every building here is an office of a commercial firm or a big businessman here. Only truly powerful commercial firms and merchants can have their own offices here.

Among the many buildings, there is a building that is the tallest and also the most dazzlingly decorated. The words 'Ningguo Royal Firm' are hung on the building. People in the circle can tell at a glance that this is the establishment of King Ning of the Ming Dynasty. The largest firm in Ningguo is affiliated to the firm of Ningguo Royal.

In Ningguo Royal Firm, Liu Yang, King Ning's most important counselor and also the left prime minister of Ningguo, was standing on the top floor overlooking the harbor of West Sea Island.

“What a beautiful place!”

Liu Yangzheng couldn't help admiring softly.

He was originally the Prime Minister Zuo of Ning State, and it stands to reason that he should be here to assist Ning King in governing Ning State, but this time the matter is too important, so he traveled thousands of miles and came to the Aegean Sea in person.

Coming here, Liu Yangzheng has only one purpose, which is to get more slaves for Ningguo.

The reason why King Ning was able to quickly make a fortune overseas and establish the Ning Kingdom relied on the slave trade.

Guli Kingdom, which occupied Tianzhu at the beginning, was rapidly expanding with Guli Kingdom as the center. During the expansion process, it also continued to sell slaves on Tianzhu, relying on the huge profits from the slave trade.

King Ning not only paid off the large amount of funds he had borrowed from major commercial firms and merchants, but also quickly established and developed Ning Kingdom.

Later, King Ning got in touch with merchants from Persia and the Mamluk Kingdom, and began to sell white slaves. The white slaves were strong and strong, and they were good at work, so they were very popular in the market.

Needless to say, women, in places like Tianzhu, East Africa, and Southeast Asia, if you don't have a few white slaves and concubines, you are considered a failure of the Ming Dynasty.

Relying on the huge profits from the slave trade, Ningguo developed very rapidly, and now it has become the largest vassal state overseas, not only occupying a vast land on the Tianzhu mainland.

Moreover, it also seized a large piece of land in East Africa, both in terms of land area and economic strength, far surpassing other vassal states.

However, any profitable business will soon attract a large number of people to join. There are many business firms in Daming, and many of them are extremely powerful.

Like Daming Ocean Trading Co., Western Union Co., Sihai Co., Sangong Co., Zhang Brothers Co., etc., these firms are almost pervasive, and they will get involved in any profitable business.

On the Tianzhu side, many commercial firms, vassal states, and colonies have joined the slave trade, and the competition is fierce, so that the price of slaves on the Tianzhu side is constantly falling.

Naturally, they would not let go of the more profitable white slave trade, and they were soon associated with Persian merchants, Middle Eastern merchants, Ottoman Empire merchants, and even Spanish and Portuguese merchants.

All of these had a huge impact on Ning State, and directly affected King Ning's financial revenue. At the same time, because Ming Dynasty expanded to the South Caucasus, Nanyun Province became an extremely important slave trading point, which further impacted King Ning's slave trade. .

All these made it impossible for Ning Wang and Ning Guo to earn huge profits as easily as before.

Therefore, both King Ning and Ning Guo were looking for a new way out, and they also set their sights on the Mediterranean Sea, sending Liu Yangzheng to Xihai Island.

Not only has the largest commercial building been built here on West Sea Island, but it has also established long-term and stable trade relations with these surrounding merchants.

This was the main reason why Liu Yangzheng came to Xihai Island, after all, it was for the slave trading business of Ningguo and King Ning.

"Prime Minister, the slave trade in the entire Mediterranean Sea has now been transferred from Sicily to Xihai Island, and at least tens of thousands of slaves are handled from here every day."

"Slave trading has become the largest business in the entire Mediterranean. Whether it is the Spaniards, Portuguese, French, Italians, or Ottomans, Arabs in the Middle East, almost all merchants are doing slave trading. Business."

Beside Liu Yangzheng, Zhou Jingming, Minister of the Household Department of Ningguo, also looked at the scenery of the port area and said that he, like Liu Yangzheng, was sent here by King Ning to trade slaves.

"We must win as much share as possible. Our country Ning now needs a large number of slaves to build the country, and we also need to rely on the slave trade to earn funds to develop Ning country."

Liu Yangzheng nodded slightly. The slave trade in the Mediterranean was already very popular. In the past, the chiefs and nobles of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East had a very strong demand for slaves, which stimulated the slave trade here.

But the scale is not too large, and the slave trade of hundreds or hundreds is considered a big list.

But with the arrival of the Ming people, the demand for slaves in the Ming Dynasty immediately stimulated the merchants in the entire Mediterranean, and a large number of slaves were sold here. Hundreds or thousands of slave trades are very common, tens of thousands, or even A slave trade worth tens of thousands or tens of thousands is considered a big deal.

Slave traders from all over the world continuously sold slaves here, then sold them to slave traders and firms in Ming Dynasty, and then transported them back to the Indian Ocean, where they were sold to colonies, plantations in vassal states, or to Southeast Asia.

The trade of tens of thousands of slaves every day is a business of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which has become the hottest and largest business in the entire Mediterranean.

　The slave trade in the Mediterranean has a very long history~ at first it was done by the Vikings, followed by the Genoese in Italy, followed by the Spaniards, ordinary people~Venices and so on.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)