Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 931, slaves from all over the world
"Forget it, no matter what, let's think about our own affairs."

King Ning also nodded slightly after listening, smiled and looked at a place in front of him, and said, "It's been a long time since I visited the slave market."

"Let's go to the slave market."

As King Ning walked towards the slave market, he also asked about slaves.

Compared with transit trade and the like, King Ning actually paid the most attention to the slave market, because this is the current main business of King Ning.

The demand for slaves in the Ming Dynasty is very strong, and the number of slaves needed by the plantations in Nanyang alone is very large.

There are many islands in the vast Nanyang. Since Liu Jin led his army to sweep Nanyang last year, Ming's territory in Nanyang has continued to expand.

Although it is still the provinces established at the beginning, except for the northernmost Jiaozhi Province, the three provinces of Xianglin, Nanyang, and Zhenghe are constantly expanding.

The most outrageous of them are the two provinces of Nanyang and Zhenghe. They have continuously annexed islands and brought these islands into the territory of Ming Dynasty.

However, large and small commercial firms in Daming are constantly seizing islands in Nanyang, because the more islands they seize, the more plantations they can open up, and the occupied islands will naturally be merged into Daming. Only in this way can they enjoy the protection of the Ming Navy.

The plantation economy developed at an unprecedented speed, and the demand for slaves was also very strong.

Ningguo is backed by the huge Tianzhu continent and has extremely rich slave resources. Naturally, King Ning also learned from the Western United Firm and started the slave trade in Tianzhu.

He has actually become a great slave trader.

A slave may only need a piece of cloth to buy on the Tianzhu mainland, and once it is sold to a slave merchant in Ming Dynasty, it can be sold for a dozen taels or twenty taels of silver.

These slave traders then transported the slaves to Nanyang, where they could buy forty or fifty taels of silver, forming a huge slave trade industry.

And King Ning is at the very beginning of the slave industry. The main business of Ningguo is to capture slaves on Tianzhu mainland, or buy slaves from various countries on Tianzhu, and then transport them to this peaceful port and sell them directly to here. The slave traders in the country may transport them to the island of Ceylon and sell them to the slave traders and firms here in the island of Ceylon, and make a lot of money from it.

The rapid development of Ningguo is due to the great contribution of the slave trade. As for this business and trade, it actually developed after the slave trade made money and built a large-scale port. At the same time, it came to Ningguo to do business at the beginning. Most of them are slave traders.

Ever since the Western United Commercial Company captured Ceylon Island and Liu Jin led his army to sweep across the Southeast Asian countries, the slave market in Ming Dynasty began to face a difficult situation. There was no source of slaves.

However, Ningguo and the Western United Commercial Bank turned their attention to the huge Tianzhu continent, continuously plundering slaves from Tianzhu, and soon became the main source of slaves in the Daming slave market.

It also allowed Ningguo, Western United Commercial House, and Shuguo to make a fortune quickly by relying on the slave trade. Millions of slaves were continuously sent to large and small plantations in Nanyang by them from the Tianzhu mainland.

"My lord, the price of the slave market in Daming has dropped recently. In the past, adult male slaves could be sold for more than [-] taels of silver, but now they can only be sold for more than [-] taels of silver."

"As for the female slaves, because of the Ming Dynasty's recent military war in Central Asia, a large number of female slaves were plundered. This has caused a huge impact on our slaves in Tianzhu. The price has dropped sharply, and it is very difficult to sell."

"The skin of the people in Tianzhu is too dark, which doesn't meet the aesthetics of our Daming people."

Speaking of slaves, Liu Yangzheng also quickly reported the recent changes in the slave market to King Ning.

"Isn't the drop too steep?"

When King Ning heard this, he frowned immediately. Slave trading was his main business, and this price fluctuation had a great impact on him.

The price of terminal sales has dropped, which means that he must also reduce the price, otherwise no slave merchant is willing to take over and buy it.

"It is indeed a sharp decline, mainly because not only our Ning Kingdom is buying and selling slaves on a large scale, but the slave trading on the side of the King of Shu is also getting bigger and bigger. They are now able to capture almost [-] slaves every month."

"In addition, the Western United Commercial Bank also successfully captured the Kingdom of Andra this year, and obtained a large number of slaves. The number of slaves that can be traded every month has also increased by at least [-]."

"In addition, Zhang's Commercial Company, Four Seas Commercial Company, etc. also occupied some colonies on the east coast of Tianzhu, and are now engaged in slave trading."

"The supply on the slave market has suddenly increased a lot, which is also the main reason for the drop in slave prices."

"Also, on the African side, a large number of black slaves have also begun to be transported over. The Arabs and Persians in the Middle East also know that the price of slaves in our Ming Dynasty is high, and they are selling a large number of slaves to our Ming Dynasty."

"The slaves sold by the Persians and Arabs are not only expensive because of the high price of white slaves, but also very popular, especially the female slaves, which are in short supply in our Ming Dynasty."

Liu Yangzheng also nodded, and began to tell King Ning about the current slave market situation in detail.

In the past, Ningguo and the Western Union Company monopolized the slave market in Tianzhu, but now there are many more people to share the cake, the source of slaves has increased greatly, but the demand for slaves has not increased greatly, so the price will naturally fall of.

While the three of them were talking, they also came to the slave market in Anning City.

The slave market in Anning City is considered to be the largest slave market in the Western region. For this reason, King Ning also specially built a huge square for slave trading and trade.

Here in the huge slave market, there is a lot of people. Looking around, there are crowds of people. A large group of slaves are gathered together by slave traders. The slave traders and men are holding signs or constantly shouting, Attract customers to come and buy your own slaves.

There are a lot of people who sell slaves. There are local slave traders in Tianzhu. Catch, go and cheat.

There are also slave traders from the Middle East and Persia. These slave traders often gather a large number of merchants who come to buy slaves, and the slaves in their hands are basically sold out quickly.

In addition, there are black slaves from Africa. Those who sell these black slaves are often the Ming business houses with colonies in Africa or some vassal kings. For example, the King of Chu established the Chu State in Africa.

Well, the current main business is the business of selling black slaves, frankincense, and myrrh. The life is very tight, and it is not as prosperous as King Ning's.

"Tianzhu slave, Tianzhu slave~"

"The top-class Tianzhu slaves only cost twenty taels of silver, which is very cheap!"

Beside a large group of Tianzhu slaves, there are children who are constantly yelling.

It's just that the slaves on his side cost twenty taels of silver each. Obviously, the price is too expensive. The slaves can only be sold for more than forty taels of silver when they are transported to Nanyang, and the price is still falling now. Naturally, no one wants them. slave.

"My lord, these are slaves of the King of Shu's family. The slave trading business in the Kingdom of Shu is not as good as that of our Ning Kingdom, so the King of Shu usually transports slaves to our Ning Kingdom for sale."

"Of course, if you are a long-term slave trader, you will go directly to Shu to buy slaves."

Liu Yangzheng looked at these people, and immediately said to King Ning.

"Our slaves in Ningguo are also sold on a large scale through familiar merchants and firms. Generally, they are not placed here for trading. The main business here is small-scale trading."

"Sell a slave~ Sell a slave~"

"A good white slave, a beautiful white female slave~"

At this time, there was another voice, the Daming dialect spoken was a bit strange and not very standard.

King Ning also looked over, and saw a group of Middle Eastern and Persian businessmen shouting continuously. Behind them, there were hundreds of slaves. All of these slaves were stripped of their jackets and only wore trousers.

The male slaves are better, but the female slaves here are full of white flowers. Under the turbulent waves, it also attracts a large number of people to come to watch, and the transactions are also very hot.

The Middle Easterners and Persians who are good at doing business even played auctions. Ten slaves and ten slaves are auctioned together. The price is very high, especially female slaves. Ten slaves can usually be sold for hundreds of taels of silver. On average, the price of a single slave is dozens of taels of silver.

Sometimes when there are particularly beautiful slaves, the price keeps soaring, making those Middle Eastern and Persian merchants who sell slaves laugh from ear to ear.

"Black slave, black slave~"

"A black slave from Africa, strong and strong~"

"Only fifteen taels of silver, only fifteen taels of silver~"

Opposite the Middle East and Persian merchants, there is a group of merchants who sell black slaves. Each of these merchants shouted feebly. In front of them, only a few people were patronizing. Blockbuster.

Black slaves are really unpopular. Daming people are quite picky in this area. Even if they are slaves who work in the house, they should try their best to choose good-looking ones.

This black African slave with skin as black as charcoal is the worst slave in the market. Although the price is cheap, no one cares about it. You must know that slaves with darker skin in Tianzhu are not easy to sell, especially Let alone black slaves in Africa.

(End of this chapter)