Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 751 Who Is Selling Slaves
Dongzhang Port is also the place where Luo Sigong chose to build a new port.

In fact, in terms of geographical location, this place should be called Nanzhang Port.

However, Taichang has already named the other two cities of Xinzhang State as Nanzhang City and Beizhang City, and the construction of these two cities has already started at this moment. In order not to confuse the names, Luo Sigong can only Give this place a Dongzhang Port.

Of course, the name is not the point, the point is the function or function of the port.

At this moment, a pier for docking the Spike warship has been built.

The wood is ready-made, just cut it directly. They don't even need a sawing machine for sawing squares and planks. Anyway, it is a temporary dock in the early stage, so they don't care about the appearance at all.

The logs thicker than the thighs were directly used as pillars and brackets, and the logs thicker than the arms were directly nailed into wooden rafts as the table tops. The entire two-foot-wide and four-fifth-foot-long spike warship can be docked, which is strong and convenient.

At this moment, the Spike warships from Xinzhang City have already arrived and started to transfer supplies, and the food and fresh fish they need can be delivered within a day.

The wood and firewood they cut down no longer need to be pulled by horse-drawn carts by land, they can be directly loaded onto the boat, which is very convenient.

Luo Sigong was even thinking about whether to build a port city directly here, and then build a row of regular docks for berthing Spike warships and several large fishing boats, armed merchant ships, and even Aegis ships and gunboats.

Of course, such a big plan still needs to be decided by the emperor, and he can only wait for the scout team sent out to investigate the situation in the southern colony clearly before going to ask the emperor for instructions.

At this moment, the ten scouting teams also sent back news and the maps they detected one after another.

His guess was right. There is a large farm opened by the Portuguese less than a hundred miles directly in front of the avenue they drove. If they continue to open the road, the road will probably end up in other people's farms by now. .

The southern colony is much more developed than the original Natal. They not only opened large farms everywhere, but also opened many forest trails. There is no problem with passing a carriage.

Luo Sigong really didn't understand why there was such a big gap between the colonies of the Portuguese?

On this day, he was in the tent carefully drawing the map of the south according to the detected situation. A young and strong North American Indian tribe who was in charge of the scouting team suddenly walked in quickly, bowed his hands and said: "My lord, we have detected Those niggers chained to work."

This is really a new situation, because generally the Portuguese on farms with black people working on them would not trick people from the primitive tribes here to work.

The people of the primitive tribe here have only seen those black people working in the jungle from a distance, and they don't know much about the situation of those black people.

Hearing this, Luo Sigong directly waved and said, "Come on, look at the map and point out their location."

The young and strong man from the North American Indian tribe hurried to the handsome table, carefully looked at the map on the table, then pointed to a blank space on the map and said: "Here is a large farm with a radius of more than ten miles. There were niggers on chains."

Luo Sigong nodded slightly, drew a circle of about ten miles according to the scale on the map, and then asked: "How many Portuguese are there, and how many black people are there with chains?"

The young and strong North American Indian tribe said without hesitation: "There are about a hundred Portuguese there, and there are four to five hundred black people tied with iron chains."

Luo Sigong immediately asked again: "How about the equipment of these Portuguese?"

The young and strong North American Indian tribe still didn't think about it: "There are hundreds of them, only four or five have muskets in their hands, and a dozen or so have swords, and the rest of them are either sticks or whips."

Uh, how do you take care of four or five hundred black people with so little equipment?

The black people in the family are all tied to iron chains, so they must not be willing to work for them. A few muskets and a dozen swords can suppress four to five hundred young men who can do physical work?
Luo Sigong thought for a while, and then asked again: "What's the situation with those black people, please tell me well."

The young and strong North American Indian tribe couldn't bear it and said: "Those blacks are really miserable. The Portuguese put an iron ring around their necks like a dog on a leash, and an iron chain was attached to the iron ring.

When they were working, the Portuguese would tie the iron chains around their necks together ten by ten, so that they could not escape alone.

Also, the place where they live is a big cage nailed with thick logs, so people from the outside can see through the inside.

Although these wooden cages all have thatched roofs for shelter from the rain, fifty people can be stuffed into each wooden cage, and the people inside can lie down and rest in rows.

What's more, the iron chains around their necks were locked to the stakes outside, and they could only move a few steps inside the house.

What they ate seemed to be a soup of corncobs, corn roots, and sugarcane roots, and the Portuguese didn't even let them pick wild vegetables.

As for the bones left over by the Portuguese, they were all thrown to the dogs and not given to them. "

Alas, why are these Portuguese colonists so vicious? This is to make them work, but also to make them unable to resist!
Luo Sigong sighed slightly, then waved his hand and said, "Go, let's explore again."

In the next ten days or so, all kinds of detected information continued to come together, and the maps drawn by Luo Sigong's collection of various sources became more and more complete.

This is a long and narrow colony, about a thousand miles long from east to west, but less than five hundred miles wide from north to south.

The main city of the Portuguese is not by the sea, but more than [-] miles away from the sea.

There is a very strange river there. The river is about ten miles wide when it enters the sea, but it shrinks sharply to about two miles wide when it is less than twenty miles away from the mouth of the river, and it is less than forty miles away from the mouth The position shrank to only more than ten feet wide.

The main city of the Portuguese shrank to a position of more than ten feet wide in about two miles.

According to the scouts, there are more guards in this main city than in the original All Saints City. The scouts can't go into the city to count the exact number, but depending on the scale of their defense, there are at least 500 or more guards.

This problem is more difficult. If Carinho takes them to receive them, it will be troublesome if they resist.

They may not have too many casualties. The problem is that if Carinho is killed by others, the emperor's plan will be disrupted.

Also, the problem of those blacks, it seems that there are many blacks working on the farms around the Portuguese main city, and the total number may be several thousand.

How to deal with these problems?
Of course Luo Sigong couldn't be the master, he could only leave a thousand households here to guard, and then he rushed to Xinma City with the map to ask the emperor for instructions.

When Taichang saw the map, it was four or five days later.

In the study room of the Emperor, he stared at the map carefully for a while, and after listening to Luo Sigong's general introduction, he asked: "From this map, do you just need to extend the avenue in the jungle to the south?" More than 200 miles away is the main city of the Portuguese in the south?"

Luo Sigong nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, their main city is just over 200 miles south of the road we drove."

Taichang then asked again: "How long will it take for you to open the road to the vicinity of their main city?"

Luo Sigong reckoned: "Seven or eight days should be about the same."

Taichang asked again: "Can people from the primitive tribes over there enter their main city?"

Hearing this, Luo Sigong couldn't help but had an idea: "Yes, they can take their fur goods to the Portuguese main city to exchange things, but they can only go during the day and cannot stay in the city overnight."

He understood what the emperor meant.

The emperor wanted the young and strong Indian tribes in North America to pretend to be people from the primitive tribes over there, and then pretend to carry fur goods into the city in batches to trade things.

In this way, no matter how people restrict their apparent number of people entering the city, they can gain an advantage in numbers in the city through this method.

Sure enough, Taichang pointed to the two large farms between Dongzhang Port and the main city of the Portuguese: "You sent your elite men to launch a surprise attack from the jungle, take down these two farms, and then strangle these two farms." Is there any problem with not letting the news spread on the road to other places?"

Luo Sigong thought about it, and then said carefully: "Your Majesty, I think that the most important thing to guard against is the people sent by the main city to snoop the news, we can take De Xie La's people to steal these two farms.

In this way, even if someone from the main city sends people over, nothing abnormal can be seen. We just need to take the person down and prevent people from running away so that no news will be leaked.

If our people were guarding there, they would probably be able to tell that something was abnormal at a glance.

If people turned around and ran as soon as they realized something was wrong, we really might not be able to catch up. "

Hearing this, Taichang nodded slightly and said: "Well, then let De Xie La lead his men to follow you to the direction of the farm, and after you take down the two farms, hand them over to them for guarding.

The young and strong North American Indians passed through these two farms and entered the jungle near their main city to stand by.

In this way, when Carinho brings people into the city, you can let the young and strong of the North American Indian tribe pretend to be people from the local primitive tribes to enter the city to trade furs as a countermeasure.

Remember, let them bring more weapons and mix them in the leather goods. If the Portuguese there dare to resist, they will be shot!

You should also be careful, put on the black iron armor, if the lord over there wants to resist, you will directly do him. "

His thoughts were different from Luo Sigong's. Luo Sigong was afraid that it would be troublesome if Carlinio was killed, but he didn't want to sacrifice a soldier of the Ming army.

The Portuguese in this colonial territory are not good at dealing with black slaves as human beings. It is hard to know how cruel they are, and it will definitely not work if they are not fully prepared.

Hearing this, Luo Sigong hurriedly cupped his hands and bowed, "My minister understands, by the way, Your Majesty, how should we deal with those black people?"

Uh, this.

Hearing this, Taichang couldn't help frowning and thinking.

He really didn't expect that there would be black slaves in the Portuguese colony.

Isn't this black slave trafficked by the British?

Spain and Portugal seem to have always been hostile to Britain. How could they sell black slaves to their colonies?
In fact, he made a mistake, the black slaves were not only sold by the British.

After the beginning of the Age of Discovery, it was actually the Portuguese who were the first to trade black slaves.

However, the scale of their sales is relatively small, at most tens of thousands of black slaves are sold a year, so they are not very famous in the black slave trade.

Later, the Dutch became the overlord of the sea. After taking the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast from the Portuguese, they controlled the passage from Africa to America. The protagonist of the slave trade became the Dutch.

However, the Dutch did not sell many black slaves, and they only sold 10,000+ black slaves a year at most, so they were not very famous in the black slave trade.

Later, after the British became the overlord of the sea, the protagonist of the slave trade became the British again.

They are the most ruthless slave trade owners. There are at least several million black slaves trafficked by the British from the European continent to America and Europe a year.

According to the statistics of European countries, the number of black slaves sold by the Portuguese was less than 100 million, that of the Dutch was only about 200 million, and that of the British was more than [-] million.

However, less than half of these black slaves reached their destination alive in the end, and less than [-]% survived in the end!
This is the dirtiest black slave trade in history. The Anglo-Saxons captured hundreds of millions of black slaves in Africa and made billions of pounds in profits. In the end, less than 1000 of these black slaves survived Ten thousand!

Of course, it's definitely not going to work right now.

Taichang will definitely not let this inhumane evil continue!
(End of this chapter)