Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1215, The Jews of Ningguo

In East Africa, Chu State entered the East African prairie all the way to the south.

The east coast of Africa is similar to Tianzhu. Many merchants and feudal lords from Ming Dynasty divided it up and down, forming dozens of feudal states and hundreds of colonies of merchants.

Tang State, Zheng State, Lu State, etc., are all vassal states established by vassal kings. The territories of East African commercial firms, Indian Ocean Rim commercial firms, and Western Union commercial firms belong to commercial firms or certain big families. established colonies.

The sky is high here, the emperor is far away, and it is very far away from the Ming Dynasty. In addition, it was established with the encouragement and support of the Ming 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 place he first set his sights on was East Africa, but later it was West Tianzhu that established Ning Kingdom first.

But he has never given up on expanding his vassal state in East Africa.

Therefore, on the East African side, there is a large piece of land belonging to King Ning Ningguo, which is probably located in an area near the Indian Ocean in later Kenya.

This is an extremely fertile land, and Ningguo attaches great importance to it.

Chixia City was established in the coastal area, and with Chixia City as the center, a large number of people migrated here, while encouraging land reclamation and the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and at the same time continuously expanding to the inland areas of Africa.

Ning Kingdom is divided into two parts, one part is in Tianzhu, centered on Anning City, and the other part is in East Africa, centered on Chixia City.

Most of the Han people who followed King Ning to the sea stayed in Anning City. The total number was about [-]. In addition, there were about [-] Han people who came to Chixia City under the encouragement policy of King Ning, and established a city centered on Chixia City. Ningguo in East Africa.

In addition to vigorously encouraging Han people to immigrate and rewarding Han people to give birth, 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 complicated, including the natives from Tianzhu, the Slavs from Eastern Europe, the Ottomans who were captured and plundered by the Ming army, the Arabs who traveled to Ningguo through the slave trade, and the Italians in southern Europe. , French, and Siamese, Burmese, etc. from the Southeast Asia region.

There are more than one million slaves in Ning State, and more than [-] slaves were moved to Chixia City by King Ning, where an extremely large plantation was established to grow spices, rice, corn, sweet potatoes, sugar cane and so on.

In addition to a large number of slaves, King Ning also tried every means to attract people from the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty and various tribes in the Ming Dynasty to settle and live here.

Many Koreans and Wa people were tricked here by Ningguo in various ways, and the number is almost tens of thousands. In addition, in Central Asia, many nomadic tribes were trafficked, kidnapped or Even the tricks came here, and there were tens of thousands of people.

In short, in order to develop his Ning country, King Ning did not hesitate to use any means.

He clearly realized the importance of people, and used various means to relocate hundreds of thousands of people to Chixia City, which made Chixia City develop and prosper rapidly, becoming one of the largest cities in East Africa.

Fifty miles west of Chixia City, there is a small town called Safati. Just by hearing the name, you can tell that this small town is not very bright at all.

This town is very simple, it is a newly built town, the roads in the town are still yellow mud roads, not hardened with cement like other places, and the houses in the town are also wooden houses, which are not popular in Ming Dynasty Reinforced concrete houses.

The small town is small in size, but it 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 the Jews who had been rejected in Spain, Portugal, France and other places, and the Jewish Minister of the Ottoman Empire who was in charge of selling slaves sold a certain percentage of slaves to Ning at a preferential price.

For King Ning, this transaction is naturally a huge profit.

The profit of slave trading is very high, and there are not enough slaves to sell, not to mention that Ningguo has a vast land and sparse population, and slaves are also an important labor force for the development of Ningguo.

Secondly, you can get some Jews for nothing, so why not do it.

As a result, tens of thousands of Jews traveled across the ocean to Chixia City and settled down here. They called the place where they settled down Safati, which means new hope.

In the small town of Safati, Brown, who is over [-] years old, is patrolling the town. He is the oldest Jew here, and he is full of knowledge, so he is deeply respected by everyone, and he was elected by everyone as the speaker, responsible for Communicate with officials of Ningguo.

"A peaceful and peaceful life, I hope this life can continue forever."

Watching the children playing and playing carefree, Brown smiled.

In Europe, Jews live in constant fear, often being ostracized and expelled, displaced, without a stable life and place.

At this time in Western Europe, the war between Spain and England, France, and Portugal was in full swing, and the situation of the Jews was even more dangerous. Regardless of the outcome, the rulers of these countries would not miss the opportunity to plunder the wealth of the Jews. Extremely serious anti-Jewish thing.

A large number of Jews moved to the Ottoman Empire, seeking the protection of the Ottoman Empire.

The Jews naturally knew about the Ming Empire. In the impression of Europeans, the Ming Empire was synonymous with power and wealth.

Brown did not expect that one day he would be able to immigrate to the Ming Empire, even though Ning was only one of the many vassal states under the Ming Empire.

But this is also the Ming Empire. Legend has it that the son of the Ming Dynasty loves the people like a son, even if they are not from the Ming Dynasty, they will treat them equally. Hong Kong on the British Isle is enough to illustrate this point.

After going through untold hardships, they finally came to Ningguo, East Africa, and settled down here.

Although it was far from the Ming Dynasty, which was full of gold in the imagination, King Ning treated them very well and gave them a large piece of land. They only needed to abide by the law and pay very little tax.

Owning a piece of land of their own is definitely a great gospel for the Jews who have been wandering for thousands of years.

Brown patrols the small town of Safati and the surrounding land every day, treating it as a treasure. In a short period of time, he is familiar with every inch of land, every mountain, and every river here.

"Da da da~"

There was a sound of hoofbeats, and a few horses came to the small town of Safati quickly, which immediately attracted the attention of the Jews in the town.

They are really too sensitive, this kind of sensitivity has been cultivated for thousands of years, any trouble will make them feel alert and afraid.

Fortunately, they breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that the person who came was a Daming man with black eyes and black hair.

"My lord~"

Brown came in front of several people, took off his hat, and saluted respectfully.

"Hmm~"

Li Feng looked at Brown in front of him, then at the town, and nodded slightly.

He is a county magistrate under Chixia City in Ningguo. He is mainly responsible for administering several immigrant towns. He came to Safati Town this time to convey King Ning's will to the residents of the town.

"Master Li, I didn't know you were here, so I'm sorry to welcome you."

Brown said to Li Feng with a smile all over his face, what he said was very good.

"Brown, how long have you been in Ningguo?"

Li Feng looked at the Jews around him, he could see the vicissitudes of life and tiredness on their faces. Migrating from Europe to East Africa was not an easy task.

If it weren't for Ning Guo's manipulation, there would be no way for them to come here with their abilities.

"My lord, it has been almost half a year since I came here."

Brown calculated and replied.

"In half a year, you can speak Daming dialect quite well. Can you write Ming characters?"

Li Feng nodded and asked again.

"I'm not very good at it yet, I can only write some simple Ming characters."

When it comes to Ming characters, Brown also has some headaches. The characters of the Ming people are completely different from the characters in Europe, and it is very difficult to learn. He didn't learn much in half a year.

"Then you have to work hard and study hard."

"This time, I came to your Safati town to convey to you the latest will of His Royal Highness King Ning."

Li Feng frowned and said.

"Please tell me, my lord!"

Hearing Li Feng's words, Brown cheered up immediately, and his whole body became tense.

King Ning is the ruler of the Ning Kingdom, a great nobleman of the Ming Empire, and the master of this world. His words are directly related to the life and death of the more than [-] Jews in front of him.

Generally speaking, in Europe, if there are rulers looking for them, there is basically no good thing, either extorting their money or driving them away.

So Brown was really nervous. He was afraid that King Ning would extort their money or drive them away again. When he got here, if he was extorted, it would be fine. At worst, he would hand over all the money.

But if they were to be driven away, they would really have nowhere to go.

This is Africa, not Europe. To the east are the vassal states and colonies under the command of the Ming Dynasty, and to the west is the territory of the Kunlun slaves. There are many kinds of diseases. Difficult to survive.

"My merciful Lord, please don't punish us any more."

Brown prayed silently in his heart, and the surrounding Jews were also extremely nervous after hearing the translation.

(End of this chapter)