Daming Crazy Emperor

Chapter 776 Crazy plunder
In the south of Pernambuco, in a farm closest to the Shilla River.

The cages where the black slaves were originally held had been chopped down into firewood, and the main house was surrounded by camps of the Ming army, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Shenwu Battalion were waiting.

The corn planted in the farmland has already matured, but the soldiers of the Ming army did not care about it.

This bit of food is nothing to them at all. Giving it to the people of the nearby primitive tribes can still feed them for a few days.

When the people from the primitive tribes around received the news, they all ran over in a hurry, breaking the corn happily.

Luo Sigong sat in the temporarily remodeled study room, frowning and looking at the map in front of him, his mind full of questions.

This anti-Habsburg alliance army is probably crazy, and it is actually driving the black slaves to cut down the forest like crazy.

According to the news sent back by the twenty scout teams, he roughly drew an area.

The army of the anti-Habsburg alliance has already driven the black slaves and cut out an open space with a radius of two to three hundred miles!

What's more, these guys went crazy and arrested people from the primitive tribes here, men, women, old and young.

The primitive tribes here were so frightened that they fled north frantically. The population of the primitive tribes within [-] miles south of the Silla River increased by four or five times.

More than 4 primitive tribes gathered nearly [-] people!

Of course, this population is nothing to them, just use the Spike warship to pull it to the port near the south of Olinda.

There is a lot of food over there, enough to feed this few people, even if it is not enough, just send merchant ships to pull it.

A merchant ship can pull millions of catties of grain, and even if the people of these primitive tribes can eat, they can eat it for about half a month.

He just couldn't understand what the anti-Habsburg alliance army wanted to do.

The idea of ​​Prince Kong Dai is actually very simple, that is to rob money, rob people, and rob resources!

Right now he is really robbing everything, very crazy.

Because he wants to build his own country, he needs a lot of money, a lot of people, and a lot of resources.

Originally, he thought that there could be some gold and silver mines here, and no matter how bad it was, copper mines would be fine.

Unfortunately, there is no gold, silver and copper here, only iron ore.

It's okay to smelt iron ore to make weapons by yourself. If you sell it for money, you probably won't make a lot of money after the shipping cost.

Fortunately, the jungle is dense and there are trees everywhere.

The profit of wood is relatively high, especially the wood such as mahogany and teak that can be used to build ships. If you pull a ship back to the European continent, you can earn at least a few thousand pounds of silver.

For other kinds of wood, the valuable ones can earn hundreds of pounds of silver by pulling a boat back, and the worthless ones can be used to smelt iron if they are chopped down and burned into charcoal.

Prince Condé fell in love with the wood here as soon as he took Bahia. This is not a forest, but piles of silver!

However, he did not have enough boats on hand.

Because what they drove over were either building boats, gunboats or warships, and they were not specially used to pull goods at all.

This problem is easy to solve.

They don't have enough ships. The Dutch have them. The Dutch don't have too many armed merchant ships.

Moreover, at this moment the Dutch have already captured the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast, which are less than ten thousand miles away from Bahia.

More importantly, his younger brother Minuit is Dutch, and even this guy still has a little bit of fame in the Netherlands.

Together, the three decided to let Minuit lead the fleet to the Gold Coast and discuss the timber business with the Dutch there.

There are five to six hundred shipyards in the Netherlands, and the demand for timber is frighteningly large. No matter how much he cuts, the Dutch can eat it!
Ever since, the two sides quickly reached an agreement.

The Dutch sent a boat to collect it, no matter how much wood he cut, the Dutch would accept it, but the price was [-]% cheaper than the market price, which offset the freight.

Soon, their timber business started.

However, with a big business, he found another problem.

He doesn't have enough labor under his hands!

There are no machines for felling trees in Europe, and they still have to do it manually at this moment.

It takes a long time for several people to cut down a tree with a thick waist. Although there are more than [-] black slaves in Bahia, they still have to cultivate land for them. .

This means that the money is there but he doesn't have enough manpower to move it!
How to do it?

It was just a coincidence that the Dutch slave trade had just started, and there were not many places to sell slaves after they were captured, so they were in a hurry!

No way, eighty to ninety percent of the colonies in the world are controlled by Spain, and it is impossible for them to buy black slaves from them.

They were split from Spain, and they were traitors. The Spaniards have been catching them and beating them. After they developed, they also caught Spain and beat them.

The two sides are already at the same level, and people will buy their black slaves.

As for Continental, the population is already crowded, and many locals have no work yet.

Black slaves used to be able to do some heavy physical work such as digging and mining, and the demand was not great at all.

Suddenly there was an extra Prince of Condé who was in urgent need of black slaves, and the Dutch were naturally overjoyed.

As soon as the two sides worked together, they quickly reached an agreement.

The Dutch merchant ships brought black slaves directly from the Gold Coast and the Slave Coast, and then brought timber back.

No matter how many black slaves were brought over, Prince Condé would accept them all.

In fact, black slaves are not very valuable at the moment, even the strongest black slaves can be sold for dozens of francs, and a pound of silver can be exchanged for hundreds of francs.

That is to say, one pound of silver can buy more than a dozen black slaves, and a boatload of mahogany and teak wood is enough to exchange tens of thousands of black slaves!
It can be said that everyone was happy. The Dutch earned both the shipping fee and the money from selling black slaves, and they also avoided the waste of shipping capacity by rushing over from Africa with empty ships every time.

Prince Kong Dai has more and more laborers, and the timber business is getting bigger and bigger, making money soaring.

As for cutting down the forest what to do.

It doesn't matter, he just wants to clear the forest and plant corn, sugar cane, cocoa, and even coffee.

Corn can be used as military rations, and the leaves, roots, cobs of corn and sugarcane leaves and roots can also be used to feed cattle, sheep, and slaves.

This is the most suitable place to grow corn, and the yield of corn is simply not too high.

Moreover, the Portuguese here have already figured out the technology of corn planting. He only needs to intimidate and lure them, and let them bring slaves to plant it. There is no cost at all, and the food produced is quite amazing.

There is also sugar cane. The sugar cane in the Governorate of Brazil is a hot commodity in Europe, and there is no need to worry about the market as much as you plant.

Moreover, this side is also particularly suitable for the growth of sugar cane, and the Portuguese have already figured out the sugar cane planting technology.

Still the same sentence, all you need to do is coerce and lure.

If you do it or not, you will be paid if you do it. If you don’t, you will become slaves. Not only will you not be paid, but you will still eat what livestock eat every day!
The Portuguese here have no choice but to follow him.

And cocoa and coffee would be great.

Cocoa beans are used to make chocolate, and they are very valuable in Europe, and they are very sought-after.

Moreover, the Portuguese have long tried to grow cocoa in Bahia, and there is no problem with the planting technology.

As for coffee, it is also known as black gold, its value is almost equal to gold, the Portuguese have also started experimenting with coffee in Bahia, and the results seem to be pretty good.

All this is all cheap for him.

He frantically drives the black slaves to cut down the forest, and then madly exchanges the felled wood for the black slaves, and then lets the black slaves cut trees and plant the land, making money for him.

Another advantage of this deforestation is that you can find the gathering place of the local primitive tribes while cutting down the forest.

If the Indians of these primitive tribes were hiding deep in the jungle, he would not dare to provoke them.

However, he was exposed before his eyes, so naturally he would not be polite, and directly put an iron chain around his neck, and that would be his slave.

Both men, women and children are welcome. Men can cut trees and plant the land, while women and children, old and young, can peel corn, pick up branches, burn charcoal, and so on.

Anyway, these people just consume some corn roots and corn cobs, and there is no cost at all. The more people there are, the more they earn.

Moreover, after capturing all these primitive tribes, hidden dangers can be eliminated, making Bahia truly his country.

Prince Condé robbed, chopped, and sold like this, and the money and food in his hand became more and more, more and more.

In just over a year, he actually gathered hundreds of thousands of slaves and cultivated millions of acres of fertile land.

This is why he didn't attack Pernambuco madly.

The pawns under his hands are precious, and they have to be used to guard and drive hundreds of thousands of slaves.

The ships under him are also busy, he has to go to Europe to recruit craftsmen and soldiers.

After all, Europe and Bahia are tens of thousands of miles apart, so there is no way without ships.

Now he is not short of money or food, he has already started recruiting craftsmen and soldiers.

The purpose of his recruitment of craftsmen is naturally to build ships, cannons, guns, swords, and a bunch of weapons and equipment.

Needless to say, his purpose for recruiting soldiers is to establish his own country, and then take down the entire Brazilian Viceroyalty and even the entire South America.

At that time, he can even lead his army back to Europe, seize the throne of French king, and dominate the entire continent!

As for the source of soldiers, he didn't have to worry at all.

These days, as long as you have money and food, there are a lot of recruits in Europe.

For example, the Kingdom of Bohemia separated from the Holy Roman Empire, the Principality of Prussia, the Principality of Transylvania, the Marquis of Saxony, the Marquis of Palatinate and so on.

These places have become the battlefields of the Habsburg dynasty and the anti-Habsburg alliance. They have been fighting for more than ten years, and there is no food output at all.

The people there are dying of starvation, as long as they can be given food and wages, they can work hard for you!
At this moment, he has already recruited [-] new recruits, and they have almost practiced, and they are basically ready to go to the battlefield.

Of course, this amount of people still couldn't satisfy his appetite.

At this moment, he only has more than 5 troops under his command. What can this little force do?
His goal is an army of 50!

You know, Bahia alone is bigger than France, and it is not a problem to feed tens of millions of people.

What's more, after he has enough troops, he can lead the army to continue to expand to the west, south and north.

As long as he wins the entire Brazilian Governor-General, it will be enough for him to support an army of 50.

At that time, it will not be a problem to win the entire South America, dominate the European continent, or even dominate the entire world!
Unfortunately, the ideal is plump, but the reality is skinny.

He is dreaming in Bahia, and the scout team under Luo Sigong has quietly come to his "country".

When the Ming Empire came, his dream was about to be shattered.

Even if he really has an army of 50, Taichang can still get him down!
(End of this chapter)