Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1833, the slave market in Nanyang
On the Treasure Island Ryukyu side, Emperor Hongzhi stayed for a few days, and then directly arrived at Nanyang Crescent City by boat.

Crescent City was originally the capital of the Luzon Kingdom. Later, the Luzon Kingdom was attacked by the army led by Du Mingen for killing the people of the Ming Dynasty. The country was almost destroyed. The entire Northern Luzon Islands belonged to the Ming Dynasty and became the Nanyang of the Ming Dynasty. Province, only a small part of southern Luzon still belongs to Luzon, and has become the current Ming vassal state Luzon.

The original capital has also become the current Crescent City, the largest city in the entire Nanyang region.

On the beach of Crescent City, Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin were the same as the people here, wearing shorts, holding coconuts in their hands, drinking coconut juice, and leisurely looking at the young man of Ming who was surfing here in Crescent Bay.

"It's really hot here in Nanyang. It's almost winter, and it's as hot as summer here. The newspapers didn't lie. The lower the latitude, the hotter the climate."

Emperor Hongzhi wiped the sweat from his forehead. He was used to the cool climate in the capital, but when he came to Nanyang, he was really not used to it.

It's going to be winter soon, and it's still so hot here.

"Your Majesty, this is a tropical area. It is so hot all year round. There is no difference between spring, summer, autumn and winter, so this place is especially suitable for developing agriculture."

"The rice of Nanyang, Cochin, Elephant Forest, and Siam is very famous in Daming. Because of the abundant sunlight, heat, and abundant rainfall, rice can be grown here three times a year, or even in two years. During the seven seasons, the number of rice plantings is high, the yield is high, and the quality is good."

"Now this is the most important rice producing area in my Ming Dynasty, and the rice grown is exported to all over the world."

Liu Jin also wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "In addition to rice cultivation, the sucrose here is second only to Ryukyu. There are also a lot of vegetable cultivation, and the fruit is the place where my Ming Dynasty produces the most. The durian here is Mangosteen, mangosteen, coconut and other fruits, His Majesty must try it, the taste is very good."

"Really!"

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and nodded, then thought for a while and said, "I heard that there is the largest slave market in Ming Dynasty in Nanyang. I would like to visit the slave market here and learn about the situation of the slaves here."

"Your Majesty, the Crescent City in Nanyang indeed has the largest slave market in Ming Dynasty, where you can buy slaves from all over the world."

"The entire Nanyang provinces have more than ten million slaves. Large and small plantations are basically supported by slaves."

Liu Jin nodded solemnly and said, most of the slaves in the world came to Nanyang in the past. Now, the demand for slaves in various colonies and vassal states of Ming Dynasty is also increasing, and Nanyang is getting a little saturated. .

"Let's go to the slave market."

Emperor Hongzhi immediately became interested. Seeing that the coconut in his hand was put in the hand of the little eunuch beside him, he walked towards the slave market.

The slave market in Crescent City is located near Crescent Port, mainly to facilitate the distribution of slaves.

Ship after ship of slaves was transported here, sold here to plantation owners or distributors, and then transported by ship to plantations across Southeast Asia.

When Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin came to the slave market, it was already crowded with people. Shiploads of slaves were driven off by slave traders, and then they found a vacant lot and started the auction.

"European white slaves, European white slaves, high-end goods, everyone, look, this skin is like suet jade, and this figure is tall, with big breasts and big buttocks. You can work and warm your bed when you buy it back. baby."

A slave trader stripped a group of European female slaves naked and yelled loudly with a tin horn. Such a scene immediately attracted a large number of people to come to watch, and all of them looked at these female slaves with bright eyes.

"Not much to say~"

"The auction starts now~"

"This female slave is only 16 years old, and she is still a perfect body. You can see that she is well developed."

"Now the starting price is 30 taels of silver, the one with the highest price will win."

"30 taels~"

"32 taels~"

"35 taels~"

"40 taels~"

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Accompanied by the sound of bids, the slave owner shouted excitedly.

"Two times for 60, two times for 60, two times for 60 three times, congratulations to this master for successfully buying this slave, please pay next time and go through the relevant procedures."

The slave trader said to an old man in his fifties. Everyone looked at this old man and couldn't help booing immediately.

"Old Wangtou, can you do it?"

"Yeah, you're in your fifties, and you come here every now and then to buy female slaves. Aren't you wasting resources?"

"That's right, what a pity that such a little girl is in your hands."

"Bah~"

"I can't do it. The one I bought back didn't spread the branches and leaves for my old Wang family. I have dozens of sons now, and you actually say I can't do it?"

"It's you, a dwarf. You bought more than a dozen female slaves before and after, and I haven't seen you give birth to an egg. Are you really bad?"

Hearing what the people around him said, the old Wang was so angry that his beard was crooked, and he even said that he couldn't do it. He was so angry. If he couldn't do it, would I come here every now and then to buy female slaves?
"You can't do it. I don't want to give birth to children who are not like me. Look at the sons you gave birth to. They are all blond and blue-eyed. How many of them look like you? It will be a problem to marry a wife in the future. I guess it can only Bought a slave girl to be your son's wife."

Hearing what Old Wangtou said, Shorty Sun became impatient and said hastily.

"And~"

"It doesn't look like what's wrong, it doesn't look like it's my seed, and I'm from Daming, I have a lot of money, so worry about not being able to marry my son a wife?"

The old Wang said without cutting his head.

As the earliest old immigrant to Nanyang, he was a sailor when he was young. He traveled all over the world and accumulated a huge family business. Now he owns several large plantations and has thousands of slaves under his command. He lives a small life. It's very comfortable.

"Haha~"

"Come on, come on, go on, go on~"

"This time the auction is for a group of sisters. Let's take a look at the looks. They are almost identical and beautiful. They are tall and tall. They come from the Alps."

"Auction together, the starting price is 60 taels of silver~"

The slave trader didn't waste any time and continued to auction off his slaves.

Now the best seller in Nanyang is female slaves. European white slaves are transported here, and the price difference is at least double when they are resold. When encountering good goods, they can earn even more.

Male slaves are not easy to sell here, and it is troublesome, because it takes time to castrate male slaves, and this process will lead to the death of some male slaves.

Generally speaking, male slaves are now sold to major colonies and vassal states, where there is a large demand for labor, and there is no requirement for castration.

"Male slave, male slave!"

"A good Slav male slave. He is strong and strong like a bull. All of them have been castrated and trained. They are very obedient and serious. They are definitely the best slaves in the plantation."

In another slave trader's place, all strong male slaves stood neatly, and the slave owners kept shouting, yelling, attracting a large number of plantation owners who came to buy slaves.

"Black slave, black slave~"

"A black slave from Africa."

"The price is cheap, as long as 30 taels of silver, 30 taels of silver, you can't buy it at a loss, you can't be fooled, you can still work when you buy it back."

At a slave trader, a group of black slaves gathered together, looking at everything strange in front of them with curious eyes.

The slave owner shouted with a tin trumpet sold.

However, very few people came to buy slaves.

People in Ming Dynasty regard white as beauty, they like white slaves but hate black slaves, they think black ones are scary and unattractive, and people who have bought black slaves are also gradually developing, these black slaves are very lazy, lazy, lazy, lazy Very often, they will show you how to do it seriously when people are around. Once the slave master leaves, these black slaves will sit down and rest immediately.

In this regard, the white slaves are relatively much better. Give some intensity appropriately. These white slaves are still very diligent in doing things, and the white slaves are also smarter. If you teach a lot of things casually, they will master them.

But black slaves are dying. No matter how hard they teach them, they can't teach them. They can only do some physical and rough work, which is of no great use.

This has also led to the fact that the price of black slaves in the market has always been very low, and often even if it is low, no one wants it.

Ordinary slaves can be sold for four to fifty taels of silver, but this black soil can usually be bought for 30 taels of silver.

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the slave market in front of him with great interest. The entire slave market was very large, and there were many merchants selling slaves, and even more people came to buy slaves.

A large number of plantation owners will come here to take a look when they have nothing to do, and buy some slaves to go back.

Crescent City is the largest city in the Nanyang region, attracting a large number of merchants, firms, etc., and many firms will come here to buy some slaves back, and then train these slaves to become porters, buddies, etc. of their firms.

It is very expensive to hire a Daming person to do something, even if it costs tens of taels of silver a year, someone may not be willing to do it for you, so buying a slave to be a porter or a buddy is actually a very cost-effective thing.

They don't need to be given money, they only need to be given food. These slaves can still do things, and even work harder than the people of Daming. After all, it is always better to be able to enter a business than to enter a plantation.

All of these have contributed to the prosperity of the entire slave market. A large number of slaves from all over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa were trafficked here, and finally flowed to various parts of Southeast Asia, becoming slaves in plantations, or buddies, porters, and slaves in commercial firms. Or become the concubine, servant girl, etc. of the Ming people.

(End of this chapter)