Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2077, Europe 2
"Of course, these Englishmen used to be pirates, they have always been robbers, and these things suit them best."

The person next to him smiled and nodded.

Daming people basically would not directly participate in the dirty affairs of Europe on the European side, even though these few merchants were here to buy slaves with grain.

However, some Englishmen are hired to do the work. On the one hand, the wages in England are low, and many Englishmen are even slaves, and they don't even need to pay wages.

Another aspect is that because these local people are hired to do these things, they know everything about the situation here, which can greatly reduce trouble and save costs.

Just like in front of you, these Englishmen are doing very well and working very hard.

"This time is really a good opportunity to make a fortune."

"There is a great famine happening all over Europe. You can buy slaves with a little grain. This change of hands is a waste of money."

"The population on the island of Ireland is not very large. Those powerful businessmen have all gone to France and the Holy Roman Empire. I heard that the slaves there are shipped to the Gold Island and Africa in one ship after another. Many Everyone has made a lot of money.”

"Isn't that right? France, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain are the most populous in Europe. Spain must not go there, leaving France and the Holy Roman Empire."

"We can get a few ships of slaves here and make a lot of money. We can make a lot of money when we ship them to Hong Kong and change hands. Then we can buy some grain and exchange them for slaves. I estimate that this business can last until next year."

"Haha, this year is really a harvest year."

Several Ming businessmen chatted happily, drank tea leisurely, looked down at the pier from time to time, and showed disgusted expressions when they saw the scrawny and filthy crowd.

These Europeans really don't like hygiene, and they are really too dirty. They travel to many places in Europe, and the whole of Europe is almost the same, even the noble castles are extremely dirty.

Paris, accompanied by the raging winter, the whole of Paris fell into a bleak state. The severe cold froze up the Seine River. On the thick layer of ice, from time to time, you could see skinny bodies frozen inside. corpse.

The streets of Paris are stinky and full of filth, and a large number of them are constantly looking for anything that can satisfy their hunger.

At this moment, even the rats were too scared to show their heads, because for the hungry crowd, rat meat was extremely delicious food.

In the impressions of later generations, it seems that famines rarely occur in Europe, only in our eastern lands there are famines from time to time.

This is actually very incorrect.

In ancient times, not only was the east full of famines, but the whole world was the same. Almost all famines existed, and they were very common.

In ancient times when science and technology were not developed, the output of food planting was very limited, and it was also very dependent on the weather to eat. The age with good weather was better. Once there was any disaster, hunger was very common.

On the Ming side, because it has been basically a unified dynasty, there are special historians and local chronicles to record these major events, so historical materials can be checked in detail to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties have records .

It’s different here in Europe. Europe has rarely been unified, and most of the time has been divided. They have no unified country, and no unified historian to record these things.

At most, people in the church will occasionally record some things, so that when later generations study these things, some people say that there is very little famine in Europe, but there is a lot of famine in the East.

But in fact, Europe is the same as the East, famine is common, and various plagues and diseases are rampant.

In the past two years, Europe has encountered almost the same situation as Ming Dynasty. Last year, it encountered an extreme drought, which caused a sharp drop in Europe's grain production, and it was itself short of food.

Then this year, the climate in Europe was abnormally abnormal, with a lot of rainfall.

Due to the continuous rainfall in Ireland and England, the potatoes were moldy and diseased, and the harvest was almost wiped out. The wheat in France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Spain also suffered a sharp drop in wheat production due to the continuous rainfall.

These two consecutive years of famine have made the whole of Europe worse, falling into boundless famine.

In addition to the famine, man-made disasters are also one of the important reasons leading to this famine.

On the one hand, there are Japanese pirates raging in the coastal areas of Europe. The Japanese people regard Europe as their own cash machine. A large number of Japanese pirates are raging on the west coast of Europe, constantly plundering places, robbing property and slaves, and plundering a large number of people. .

In order to deal with these Japanese pirates, the Europeans had to do their best to recruit a large number of young and strong labor forces to join the army to fight against the Japanese pirates. However, the Japanese pirates are well-equipped and well-trained, and the Europeans often cannot beat these Japanese pirates, resulting in the loss of a large number of young and strong labor forces. Death and passing.

And these labor forces are the most important labor force in the farming society. Without them, a large amount of land cannot be cultivated.

Secondly, in order to obtain more benefits, the nobles on the European side occupied a large amount of land to raise sheep and used them to export wool to the Ming people.

The price of wool has always been very good, and a large number of nobles have found business opportunities from it. Shiploads of wool have been exported to Daming, but a large amount of land has changed from fertile land to pastures.

For the nobles here, the availability of food has little effect on them, they only care about whether the silver coins of the Ming Dynasty in their hands will change more, and whether they can afford expensive luxury goods from the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, the farming method here is still very primitive and backward. Europeans don't even know about retting. They often reclaim fields one after another. After several years of planting, they find that the fertility has declined and then reclaim new fields. The reclaimed fields are uncultivated. If the cycle is repeated, the planting efficiency will be low and the yield will be lower.

Natural disasters combined with man-made disasters have caused the whole of Europe to be ravaged by hunger. At this time, it is cold winter again, with hunger and cold, and countless people simply cannot survive the winter in front of them.

Fortunately, at this time there are still kind-hearted Daming people who came to Paris with a steady stream of food.

It is almost exactly the same as here in Ireland. The Ming people generously use grain to buy slaves here. One person can exchange a bag of grain weighing dozens of catties. This is undoubtedly a big deal for the hungry Parisians Gospel.

Countless people lined up to sell their wives and children, and local French officials and nobles even had to come forward to help maintain order.

Although the king of France, King Francois I of the Big Nose, knew very well that if this continues, the whole of Paris will be transported away.

But he still had to support the actions of the Ming people, because compared to being starved to death, selling some of the people could at least get life-saving food for the rest.

France is in great need of food now, and then the whole of Europe has no food, only the people of Ming Dynasty still have an endless supply of food.

It is said that the people of Daming have an incomparably large fertile land on the Golden Continent. They use machines to cultivate the land. It only takes one person to cultivate thousands of acres of land. There is so much food that they can't finish it.

Although everyone doesn't quite believe the rumors like this, how can one person cultivate thousands of acres of huge land?

But there is no doubt that the Ming people have food in their hands.

The whole of Europe is starving, but Hong Kong is still extremely prosperous and lively. Many people from all over the world go to Hong Kong to buy food.

But the cunning Ming people don't need your silver. They need slaves. If they want to buy their food, they must use slaves in exchange.

They were really greedy. It was said that a slave could be sold for dozens of taels of silver when sold to Ming Dynasty. If it was a beautiful woman, it could even be sold for a higher price.

However, now, the Ming people just wanted to exchange grain for slaves, which made the Europeans refuse to cooperate with the Ming people for a while, but soon, they had to accept such a plan.

Because the whole of Europe is in great need of food, even if they are oppressed by the Ming people in this way, they have to accept that a large number of people were sold to the Ming people as slaves, and what they got in exchange was only a bag of food. Just a bag of food.

Houzhao City on the Baltic Sea Coast!

This city was built under the presidency of Zhu Houzhao, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, and named after him. At this moment, trains came from the east, bringing in loads of grain.

Compared with the famine and production reduction in Europe, the Black Soil Province on the Great Plains of Eastern Europe has ushered in a bumper harvest.

The land in Heitu Province is fertile and flat and open, which is very suitable for mechanized farming. Immigrants from the Ming Dynasty used mechanized farming methods on a large scale in this land, making Heitu Province the granary of Daming.

At the same time, in the early years, the Ming people had built a railway line across the Eurasian continent, and the train could go directly to Houzhao City in the west.

At this moment, Houzhao City has completely turned into a huge slave market. Slaves from all over Western Europe and Eastern Europe are constantly gathering here, and then they are transported to the east by train after train.

At the same time, from the east side, trains and trains of food arrived here continuously, and then ships, ships, trucks, and trucks were transported to various parts of Europe in exchange for slaves in these places.

The hungry and cold Europe has now become the best source of slaves for the Ming people, and also the cheapest source of slaves. Millions of slaves have been imported into the Ming Dynasty, so that the price of slaves has dropped significantly.

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