Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1495, messed up, really messed up
"That's a really nice proposition!"

Although Dongfang Yue lamented the cruelty of the Duke of Colster, he had to say that this was really a good plan to make a fortune.

There are three main incomes from the colony. One is the valuables produced by the colony, such as gold, silver, diamonds, ivory, pearls, emeralds, agate, pearls and so on.

These are very valuable and are very popular in all countries in the world. Often the value of a colony has a lot to do with the output of the colony. There is a huge difference in value between a colony with gold mines and a colony without gold mines.

The second income is mainly the agricultural output from the colonies, such as the spices needed by the Europeans. In the past, when the Portuguese just opened up the Indian Ocean route, the spices brought back from Tianzhu could be obtained dozens or even hundreds of times. profits.

In addition, the establishment of large-scale plantations in the colony to grow food, sugar cane, rubber, etc. is also one of the benefits of the colony.

The third income is the most important income of the colonies, that is slaves, and the demand for slaves is very strong all over the world.

Not only the Ming Empire has a very strong demand for slaves, but also the Arabs in the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire in West Asia, the Persian Empire, and Europeans all have a very strong demand for slaves.

Among the many trading places in the Mediterranean Sea, the slave trade has been the most important and profitable business since ancient times, with an extremely long history.

The slaves in the colonies are often very cheap. Sometimes you can exchange a lot of slaves with a little thing, and the profits are astonishing if you change hands casually. Although some colonies do not have gold and silver, they have a large number of slaves. The income is higher than that of mining gold and silver.

Among all kinds of slaves, the most valuable slaves are white slaves. This is mainly related to the aesthetics of the Orientals. Not only the Ming people like white slaves, but also the Koreans and Japanese people like white slaves.

The male white slaves are tall and strong, and they are perfect for doing physical work. These slaves are most needed in the plantation. not bad.

Now the price of white slaves in the market has always been very high, dozens of taels of silver for a white slave, and the profits are so huge that the Ottoman Empire and the Crimean Khanate have gained a lot of wealth by plundering white slaves.

In addition, the Republic of Venice in Italy in the Mediterranean, relied on various tricks and abductions to make huge profits, counting money to the point of cramp.

If pirates go to plunder the coastal areas of Western Europe, I am afraid that they can get extremely rich profits just by plundering these white slaves, and by the way, they can also attack these Western European countries that support pirates, killing two birds with one stone.

With such a vicious plan, Dongfang Yue couldn't help but take another look at Duke Colster.

"Is Mr. Dongfang interested in my proposal?"

Korst saw Dongfang Yue's strong interest and asked with a smile.

For Korster, he doesn't have the slightest psychological burden. It was you who were shameless and indecent and used pirates to attack Spain, so don't blame Spain for using the same method to deal with you.

England, in particular, has always been synonymous with pirates. Their king issued privateering licenses to pirates and participated in the distribution of spoils. They didn't blush when they did such a dirty act.

The French are not much better. They play tricks on the Spaniards over and over again. At the beginning, they agreed to attack Italy together, but after defeating them, they want to monopolize them. They claim to be the boss of Europe every day, but they always do some despicable and shameless things.

"Of course I'm interested~"

"In the words of the Duke, since they are rogues, we must be even more rogues!"

Dongfang Yue thought for a while and replied.

At present, the Wa Kingdom has only three colonies in West Africa, and the income is acceptable. However, because of the pirates, there are powerful warships and troops in their hands, but there is no way to expand wantonly and obtain more benefits.

This is not in the interests of Japan.

To be honest, the fleet in my hands is still led by the Japanese king, who saves money by saving food and clothing. I hope that I can get more colonies and get more income to support the struggle between the domestic and the shogunate.

After all, the Japanese king was poor at the beginning, and even the previous generation of Japanese kings had no money to be buried decently when they died. region, there is no shortage of money.

I have a lot of courage on my shoulders, and I have to find a way to break the situation in front of me.

"Haha, that's good~"

"Then it's settled, and it's time for them to have a taste of being robbed by pirates!"

Duke Colster immediately laughed happily.

As long as you are greedy and interested in participating, I am not afraid that if you don’t wade into this muddy water, even if you don’t want to get involved in the right and wrong in Europe, I’m afraid you can’t help yourself.

Soon, the Duke of Colster reached a lot of agreements with Dongfang Yue, and they planned to join forces to make some big deals in Western Europe.

"Hey, finally I was able to drag the Wa people into the water~"

"When Spain goes to war with them, I don't believe that you Wa people can stay out of it."

"Although Wa Kingdom is not Ming Dynasty, it is also a vassal state of Ming Dynasty, and its strength is still acceptable."

After seeing Dongfang Yue off, Duke Colster laughed happily.

Spain must retaliate against the piracy of England, France, Portugal and other countries, and the most simple and rude thing is undoubtedly to declare war on these countries.

However, Spain does not want to continue to fight against many countries with one country. The pressure is too great, so it must recruit allies. Wa is obviously a good ally.

"It's a pity, I really don't dare to implement my plan, otherwise, if Daming's vassal states and colonial firms can be dragged into the water, then it will be impossible for Da Ming to see his vassal states and colonies suffer. These countries are much simpler and easier.”

Korst looked at the world map and sighed secretly when he saw the huge territory of the Ming Empire in the east.

In fact, he has already thought of a way to drag Daming into the water, but he dare not carry out this plan, because once this plan is exposed, Spain will be finished.

"My lord, my lord~"

"It's not good, it's not good, something big happened, something big happened!"

Here Korster was thinking about the next action, his adjutant Real came over in a hurry, and he had already yelled out before he arrived.

"What happened?"

"Is that colony being ransacked by pirates again?"

Colster seemed calm, and he was used to it. There were pirates looting the colony and treasure ships every now and then, and sometimes he even blamed these pirates in order to embezzle the treasure of the colony.

"No, no~"

"It's the Persians. Tens of thousands of Persian troops attacked our colonies such as Arak and Hillman in the Gulf of Guinea almost at the same time. In addition, the Koreans didn't know why, and they suddenly started attacking our colonial strongholds."

"And the two sides seem to have agreed on a time. In a very short period of time, almost all of our colonial strongholds in the Bay of Benin were completely captured by the Persians and North Koreans."

Real spread out the map, circled it, and said anxiously.

"what?"

"Persians and Koreans?"

When Duke Colster heard this, he was immediately dumbfounded.

"Persians, did they fly over with wings?"

"They don't have any big ships that can sail to West Africa here. Could it be that they came to West Africa from land?"

"how can that be."

Colster was a little unbelievable, looking at the map, frowning.

"North Koreans, we didn't provoke them, why would they attack us?"

"According to the information we have obtained so far, it seems that the Persians spent a lot of money to hire Ming's business houses to transport [-] fully armed troops to West Africa."

"As for the Koreans, they have long coveted our colony in the Gulf of Benin, and they must have colluded with the Persians."

Real replied: "Not long ago, we received news that it seems that a North Korean fleet consisting of dozens of warships has arrived in West Africa."

"North Korea has always claimed to be the second most powerful country in the world. It claims to be the strongest country other than the Ming Empire. They have a fleet modeled after the Ming Navy. It is said that they have dozens of large warships and are equipped with advanced Miyun cannons. "

"However, North Korea and Ming Dynasty are very close. East Asia has always been very stable. The pirates have long been wiped out by the navy of the Ming Empire. Therefore, the navy of North Korea has nothing to do. It is estimated that this time it was dispatched to West Africa. side."

"North Korea Navy!"

Hearing Real's words, Duke Colster's frown deepened. It was a wave of ups and downs. He was thinking about what to do with the pirates on the other side. He didn't expect the Persians and the Koreans to unite again. Without making a sound, he directly started to seize his own colonial stronghold.

"It's really messed up now, it's completely messed up~"

"Persians and North Koreans get together, and there is a strong North Korean navy, we are really tricky."

"It's pirates, and it's Persians and Koreans. We attack from both sides."

Korster stood up and began to walk back and forth, constantly thinking about countermeasures.

"Humph~"

"The reason why the Persians and North Koreans are so arrogant is not because of the navy in North Korea's hands. Perhaps we should let the North Koreans know how powerful we are against the Spaniards, and let them know the pain, so that they dare not be unscrupulous."

"As for the Persians, without the warships of North Korea, they may be thinking too much if they want to gallop on the West African continent. Once they go deep into the inland, various diseases are enough to completely defeat the Persians. "

"Send me an order to prepare for a sneak attack on North Korea's Yanshan Port!"

(End of this chapter)