I am Da Song

Chapter 582 The Japanese slave trade like a rolling chariot
Someone built a city overseas, but the emperor hardly paid any attention to it.

It seems so taboo, it is simply unimaginable.But in fact, there is really no need to pay attention at all.

It's really not that Zhao Huan is big-hearted, but that the poor outside the region can't bear to look directly at him.

Colonial plunder, sending local resources such as spices, gold, copper ore, iron ore, ivory, tortoise shell, pearls, and gemstones back to China is still a promising prospect.

But living there, even mobilizing troops to rebel... This is really overestimating the local economic carrying capacity.

The local cities simply cannot afford to support many soldiers!

Among all countries in the world, warriors should be regarded as a better source of soldiers.

But Dongying Island, which claims to be the same as Huatong and has a similar civilization, you can't even imagine how poor they are.

Even after another 500 years of civilization development, by the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people in the Central Plains would have achieved the freedom to eat rice.Small daimyos in Japan still have to eat dried radish and wild vegetable soup, and they have a little freedom in eating and drinking until they become powerful daimyos all the way.

But even the most powerful demon king Oda Nobunaga was burned to death in the Honnoji Temple just because of a stinky fish in his diet.

Therefore, the average height of their warriors is a little over 1.5 meters, and most of them are less than 1.6 meters.Cao Cao, who is 1.6 meters tall, can be regarded as a giant among them!
In terms of the level of agricultural production, if the merchants in Nanyang only occupied a few cities, they would not be able to supply the number of troops they pulled out.

The reason why these merchants seized the city was more convenient for development and production, so as to avoid being constrained by the indigenous forces.

Seeing that Zhao Huan was completely unmoved by a city, Zheng Wanchun immediately understood that today is a distinguished guest, and the other party's vision and insight are absolutely extraordinary.

He cheered up and said solemnly: "Although Nanyang is not as prosperous as the Central Plains, it is rich in specialties. Spices are the most important thing."

"To tell you the truth, the easiest way to develop Nanyang is to manage spices."

Zhao Huan nodded, it was obvious, but he still asked: "What do you mean by business? Ship trade?"

Zheng Wanchun immediately shook his head and said, "It is to occupy a piece of land, build a manor, plant frankincense, cloves, nutmeg, and sugar cane."

"Suppose the distinguished guests hire [-] strong men with military experience from our dental firm to go to Nanyang, they can occupy at least [-] acres of vast land, and then drive the local aborigines to plant cloves."

"At least a hundred cloves can be planted on one acre of land, and it only takes a few years to harvest a large amount of spices. The lifespan of a clove tree is nearly a hundred years."

Speaking of this, Zheng Wanchun's tone was full of confusion: "My dear guest, do the math, this six thousand acres of land, five or six million clove trees, how many stones of spice can be produced?"

The main output of cloves is its flower buds. After drying, the yield of each tree ranges from 32 to [-] catties.

One stone in the Great Song Dynasty is 92 Song Jin. Roughly calculated, one stone is one hundred catties. These [-] hectares of clove fields can produce more than [-] stones of spices.

Zhao Huan's demand for the spices of the Song Dynasty is far more clear than Zheng Wanchun.

Before Zhao Huan ascended the throne, 60.00% of Shibo Division's income was taxed on spices.

This is the goods that ranks first in terms of both volume and value among the goods imported by the Song Dynasty.

According to the statistics of Song Shenzong Xining ten years (1077), only one place in Guangzhou Port imported more than 35 catties of frankincense.

But you must know that these spices are all imported at high prices. Although it is not like ambergris, which costs a couple of spices and a couple of gold, it is not a big problem to sell a catty of spices for the same price.

As long as the goods in this spice plantation are sold to the Central Plains, there will definitely be no shortage of sales.

The huge demand of hundreds of millions of people in the Central Plains can digest the huge production of spices.

So Zhao Huan speculated a little bit. Even if what Zheng Wanchun said was exaggerated, planting spices in Nanyang should be a very profitable way to develop.

Zhao Huan said: "I'm not very interested in the planting industry that depends on the sky for food. Apart from growing spices, do these people who have gone to Nanyang have other ways to get rich?"

Zheng Wanchun looked at He Qinhu, who was as majestic as a ghost and god beside Zhao Huan, and said, "It's not like there is no such thing, go to Dongying Island to fight more dangerously."

"Fusang maids and Japanese slaves are excellent sources of goods."

"If you can conquer the country of Dongying, you can get at least tens of thousands of men and women. Among them, the Fusang maidservant can get more than [-] guan to [-] guan. This is the fastest way to make a fortune."

"The Japanese slaves are even more expensive. One can sell for six hundred to thousands of guan. If it is a top-level samurai who can make hundreds of people, the price can be doubled or tripled. Some people have sold it for a high price of [-] guan!"

Japanese slaves, like Kunlun slaves and Bodhisattvas, are all expensive young slaves.The advantage of Japanese slaves is that they are both servile and patient, especially in a civilized society with strict laws, their tolerance limit is far beyond that of countless other ethnic groups.

Without the soil on the lower gram, they are very good loyal servants.If someone is skilled in martial arts, he is also a good guard.

A Japanese slave with three thousand strings belongs to the rare world.The price of most Japanese slaves is between [-] and [-] guan.

This price is very suitable for workshop owners, planters, captains, and escorts.

After all, to hire a non-commissioned officer of the Great Song Dynasty, one person would be paid ten guan a month, and more than a hundred guan a year.

As long as the slave is not short-lived, a buyout is obviously extremely cost-effective.

But Zhao Huan had no choice but to say: "This operation is too risky, isn't it? It is equivalent to leading troops to fight on the Eastern Islands."

Zheng Wanchun said: "Wealth and wealth are in danger. As long as you can get a few warriors and dozens of beautiful maids, you can get riches at your fingertips. This is a goal that no one in the Central Plains can achieve in their lifetime. In the past, it took a family to struggle for generations. , It is not possible to achieve what you want if you can’t produce a prodigal son.”

"But you need to know that it is normal to be rich for only three generations. Even if you have thousands of dollars in wealth and hundreds of acres of fertile land, you can't support a prodigal son among your descendants."

"Even in that Tokyo city, how many people have a lot of money?"

It was hard for Zhao Huan not to agree with this.

Just look at Yang Yuanwai. He is a Yuanwai who owns hundreds of acres of fertile land. He lives a comfortable life and has a lot of wine and meat. In terms of living standards, he is enough to kill most of the big names on the Eastern Islands.

But if he follows the rules and spends his days guarding fertile land, he will not be able to achieve wealth in his life.

To be able to have hundreds of dollars of surplus money is to be diligent and thrifty to manage the family, and it is worthy of being able to buy a Silla maidservant as a concubine.

His wealth is far away from him.

As Zheng Wanchun said, high risk is accompanied by absolute high return.

Go to the Dongying Islands to give it a try, and if you succeed once, you will be rich.

This should be very tempting to most of the people in the Song Dynasty.

And with this point, the Japanese slave trade that has already started is like a chariot rolling forward, which cannot be stopped at all.

(End of this chapter)