Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1574, coveted everywhere

In the royal palace of Ningguo Anning City, King Ning is listening to Li Shishi and Liu Yangzheng's report on Ningguo's treasury revenue last month.

"Your Highness, last month our Ning State tax revenue was as high as [-] taels of silver, in addition to a large amount of taxes in kind such as grain, cloth, tea, and spices."

Li Shishi reported to King Ning with a smile on his face.

After these years of painstaking efforts, Ningguo is also thriving and developing very well. The income of Ningguo treasury has also been continuously increasing. It is as high as [-] taels of silver in a month. Calculated, it is almost tens of millions in this year. The tax revenue of two silver was gone.

This is a huge amount of wealth. You must know that the Persian Empire and the Ottoman Empire are about the same number. The tax silver received by the Ming Empire in the past was only more than three million taels of silver. It can be seen that Ningguo is indeed doing very well, and it is worthy of being the number one vassal state now.

"Not bad, not bad~"

King Ning nodded in satisfaction after hearing this, he was in a pretty good mood.

This overseas country has established a vassal state, and he himself is the boss. Don't mention how chic he is living these days. Ningguo's business is booming, and his own private slave business is also booming.

The land on Tianzhu's side has been divided up by everyone, but on the African continent, Ningguo's land is also constantly spreading to the depths of the African continent.

Now Ning State is powerful, with a huge land, a large population, and a strong army. It is a proper first vassal state.

"Your Highness, I just heard the news from Egypt that after the opening of the Egyptian canal, you can collect 150 million taels of silver in one month, and you can collect about 1800 million taels of silver in a year."

Just as King Ning was smiling happily, a minister hurried over to report the news about the Egyptian Canal to King Ning.

"You can collect 1800 million taels of silver by sitting at the cash register for a year?"

When King Ning heard this, he immediately felt as if he had lost something most important.

"My king's 100 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock~"

Then, King Ning couldn't help beating his chest and stamping his feet and howling.

At the beginning, I had 100 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock in front of me. I thought it was too little, so I didn’t want it. Now the value of the 100 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock exceeds 2 million taels of silver. The key is that I can get a considerable sum of money every year after that dividend income.

"100 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock~"

"My king's 2 million taels of silver~"

King Ning beat his chest and stomped his feet, his intestines turned green with regret, and he was instantly unhappy.

Compared with the 100 million shares of Egyptian Canal stock, the monthly income of hundreds of thousands of taels is nothing at all. Selling slaves by yourself can make a lot of money for a year, but you can only earn 2 million taels of silver in the year of the monkey. .

"Madan, I really want to send troops to defeat Egypt~"

King Ning scolded, looking at the place in Egypt on the map, his eyes were spitting fire. Obviously, his minister Liu Yangzheng first proposed the construction of the Egyptian canal, but he didn't even get it.

……

At the junction of the Eurasian continent, in the palace of Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, Bayezid II was silently counting his small coffers.

Since losing to the Ming Empire, they not only lost all the underpants of the Ottoman Empire, but also owed a huge amount of war indemnity. They need to pay five million taels of silver war indemnity to the Ming Empire every year. This is a huge and The heavy burden made Bayezid II unable to breathe.

He wanted to tear up the agreement countless times and forfeit the war reparations.

However, the Ming Empire is getting stronger and stronger. The 20 troops stationed here in Nanyun Province have been eyeing the Ottoman Empire. The Black Sea Fleet and the Mediterranean Fleet are strictly intercepting the sea routes of the Ottoman Empire.

He has the confidence to face the entire European coalition forces, but he has no confidence to fight the Ming Empire again, because he knows clearly that if he loses to the Ming Empire again.

It is really possible that the Ottoman Empire will fall apart, not only the Ming Empire, but also the Ottoman Empire and Europeans will all fall into trouble, waiting to carve up the Ottoman Empire.

So even if the war compensation is huge, he can only grit his teeth and persist.

But fortunately, the rise of the slave trade allowed the Ottoman Empire to recover.

The continuous demand for slaves in the Ming Empire made the price of slaves continue to rise, and it also made the slave trade in the Ottoman Empire continue to flourish.

The expansion and plunder of Europe by the Ottoman Empire was mainly slave plunder. Millions of people were trafficked to Ming Dynasty by the Ottoman Empire, which brought huge wealth and income to the Ottoman Empire.

Not only is it capable of paying the Ming Empire's war indemnity, but it also has surplus funds to rearm a powerful army.

But such a good thing will not last forever. At a stop with the European coalition forces in Vienna, the Ottoman Empire was defeated, and the European coalition forces won at a heavy price.

The expansion momentum of the Ottoman Empire has been suppressed, and it is no longer possible to plunder white slaves and sell them to the Ming people through wanton expansion as before.

This made the entire Ottoman Empire anxious, and the lack of slaves meant that the income of the Ottoman Empire would be greatly reduced, its own expenses would be huge, and the Ming Empire would have to pay war reparations.

It is fundamentally difficult to maintain the financial revenue of the Ottoman Empire itself. At that time, taxes will definitely be greatly increased, which will intensify internal conflicts.

For the Ottoman Empire, slaves are the life system of the empire and the treasury of the empire, and they are absolutely indispensable.

"It seems that we can only expand and plunder the territory of the northern Slavs."

"If there is really no other way, we can only find a way to rob Italy and France. We must support the pirates."

"If we don't snatch hundreds of thousands of slaves this year, we won't have enough funds to compensate the Ming Empire."

Bayezid II silently planned that it would be impossible to give up plundering slaves.

If you can't defeat the European Allied Forces head-on, then you will be dragged along. Anyway, as long as you don't show the momentum of continuing to expand westward, the European Allied Forces are not monolithic and will slowly disband soon.

At that time, I can still use various methods to go to European countries to hunt grass valleys, and the pirates will also have to support them. In the past, pirates brought me considerable income every year.

However, since the Ming Empire and the Spanish Empire wiped out the pirates, the piracy of the Ottoman Empire has been severely damaged. However, with the popularity of the Black Sea trade route in the past few days, a large number of ships need to pass through the territorial waters of the Ottoman Empire. The pirates of the Ottoman Empire have become active again. .

"Great Sultan~ Just received news from Egypt~"

"The Egyptian Canal is opened, and the annual navigation fee is expected to be as high as 1800 million taels of silver!"

When Bayezid II was thinking about how to make money, Ali Pasha rushed to report.

"Can you receive 1800 million taels of silver for the one-year navigation fee?"

When Bayezid II heard this, he stood up immediately, how could he sit still.

I have worked so hard to plunder slaves everywhere, earning hard money, begging for life on the edge of a knife, and leaving a bad reputation, Egypt is good, why sit and collect money, once the canal is opened, you can sit and collect 1800 a year Ten thousand taels of silver.

This is so unfair.

Bayezid II was jealous all of a sudden.

For Egypt, the Ottoman Empire has always been eyeing, wanting to annex this piece of fat, but the successive wars in the past few years have left the Ottoman Empire with no time to estimate the land of Egypt.

Who knew that they would quietly create a canal with the Ming people, and it would bring a huge income of 1800 million taels of silver a year.

"Immediately summon all ministers and nobles to discuss matters~"

"Our Ottoman Empire must swallow this Egypt. With this canal, we won't have to worry about war reparations in the future."

Almost without any hesitation, Bayezid II immediately ordered a group of ministers to discuss attacking Egypt, wanting to swallow this piece of fat.

……

In the palace of Dabris of the Persian Empire, Ismail I was also thinking about the affairs of his own country.

"It is absolutely impossible to not have your own warships. The army in the West African colonies has always been isolated and helpless. These trading houses in Ming Dynasty are all cannibals, and the asking prices are getting higher and higher."

"What kind of pirates, what interests of Spain and Europe are all excuses, how dare these pirates attack their Ming ships?"

"What benefits does Europe have for them? At the very top, it is the slave trade."

"Let them transport some food and weapons to West Africa, and they are asking for two million taels of silver. Why don't they grab it~"

Ismaili was so angry that he was half dead.

The war between the Persian Empire and the Spanish Empire is still going on, and the competition for the West African colonies is in full swing. The coalition forces of the Persian Empire and North Korea cannot do anything to Spain, and they are suppressed miserably.

Thinking that his tens of thousands of new troops might be on the sidelines in West Africa, Ismayi I couldn't sleep or eat.

"You need money to buy a ship, you need money to buy weapons and equipment, and you need money everywhere~"

Ismail I is really sad. Compared with the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire is in a more difficult situation. There is no object to plunder, and there is no slave trade and trade. It relies on domestic taxation and local specialties. How much silver do you have?

"Your Majesty, good news, good news~"

At this time, his teacher and prime minister Charland came over with a smile on his face.

"The news came from Egypt just now. After the Egyptian Canal was opened to navigation, the Ming people estimated that the Egyptian Canal can receive 1800 million taels of navigation fees a year."

"The navigation fee of 1800 million taels of silver?"

When Ismail I heard this, he immediately stood up, and his whole body was revived.

Such a huge amount of wealth can be just sitting and collecting money. How could such a good thing fall on the heads of the Egyptians? It makes me angry to think about it.

"Bring the map and call a group of ministers to discuss the matter."

"I'm so pissed off, it's Egypt can be hit by the world's pie~"

(End of this chapter)