Daming 1805

Chapter 186 Slave Trader
The installment payment model has already appeared early in the Ming Dynasty, and it has the same logic as borrowing.

Emperor Shizu didn't specifically promote it, so many traditional scholars don't like to see this kind of business model, thinking that it's the so-called method of living without money.

Only use it when you really have to.

Now the imperial court of the vassal state is leading, it is not a private loan, and it is not for obtaining any theory.

It is still a big thing to do for bachelors to ask for women, so it can be used for granted, so no officials came out to object.

Dian Bu understood Zhu Jingyuan's meaning, and immediately went to notify and arrange related matters.

At the same time, the pier of Quicksand City was also busy, and the Hu Jibai slaves transported from the Barbary pirates' hometown were disembarking.

More than 100 soldiers maintained order around, and dozens of Ming women helped to check the status of orchids.

These women are all from immigrant families in Ming Dynasty, and they are all relatively outgoing, eloquent, or able to write a few words.

Now that there are not enough officials in the kingdom, these women are often recruited to do some chores.

They yelled for the orchids to go out in a line, each holding a box of cotton swabs and checking the orchids' ears one by one.

If the cotton swab sticks out dry debris, it is registered as "dry ear", which means that the person will not have body odor.

If it is oily yellow mucus, it is registered as "oily ears", which indicates that the person will have body odor.

Apocrine glands in other parts of the body can also secrete similar "grease", which contains protein and fatty acids.

In fact, these things themselves have no smell, but there are bacteria on the surface of the human body, and they will decompose these things.

After sweating and waiting for a while, the body will appear as if it has been fermented, with a rotten and sour smell.

People in different regions have slightly different body odors because of the different flora in the living environment.

Since the smell is caused by bacteria decomposing secretions, the obvious logic is that the dirtier the area around the secretions, that is, the surface of the body, the more bacteria live there, the more obvious the fermentation effect and the stronger the smell .

In this era, the cleanliness of one's body is directly related to one's living standard.

If you can take a shower before going out in the morning, don't participate in physical labor, and don't sweat easily, then the performance of body odor will not be too bad.

If it is matched with suitable perfume and medicine, it can make people mistakenly think that it is tasteless.

Conversely, if it is the most ordinary worker, the living environment is inherently harsh, and there is no chance to take a bath every day, it may be repeatedly fermented.

The effect is conceivable.

Therefore, in the slave market, the price of the same slave varies by at least one-third to double whether it smells good or not.

Therefore, picking ears to check whether there are oily ears has become the most important part of checking slaves.

The slaves who had been sold had long been used to it, and they all cooperated with the inspection very honestly.

Of course, this inspection is mainly aimed at the Hu and Taixi groups.

The Mo people don't need to test it directly, you can't find a dry ear out of a few hundred people, and you may find one or two out of a thousand people.

Moreover, the Mo slaves could not be sold for a price, and the price of a tasteless individual picked out of thousands of miles is often not as good as the most common orchid.

Even if the price is one-third higher than that of ordinary Mexican slaves, the base is too low and it is meaningless, and careful inspection is a waste of energy.

For each ethnic group in Taixi, the proportion of dry ears is about [-]% to [-]%.

For Egyptians and Persians, the proportion of dry ears is about 20.00% to [-]%.

The white slaves captured and raised by Barbary pirates are mainly ethnic groups around the Mediterranean Sea, and they have a tasteless rate of about [-]%.

One tasteless one can be produced out of ten, and the price of tasteless individuals can double, so it is necessary to check in turn.

Those with dry ears are taken away separately, grouped and managed separately, and those with oily ears are managed together.

This is just the first item of the check, followed by a doctor checking for common diseases.

Then send them to be disinfected, take a bath, change clothes and observe them for three days, before distributing them to single workers.

The doctors and women were busy when news suddenly came from the dock dispatch office:
The slave ship from Tianzhu was about to dock, and the other party reported that it was a 3000-ton West Sea canal passenger ship with [-] female slaves from Tianzhu.

The news shocked the doctors, sentinel captains, and officials at the scene.

I originally thought that they should arrive in two or three days later, and there is a high probability that they will use an offshore passenger ship of one or two thousand tons, which usually only pulls a few hundred to 1000 people.

Because from the beginning of the year, under the influence of Zhu Jingyuan, the Ming court began to tighten the slave trade policy.

Ming merchants devoted less and less ships to slave trade, and turned to more promising immigration transportation.

Most of the slave trades are old ships, small ships, and ships that are not suitable for oceangoing.

Now this gang of slave traders built a [-]-ton ship, which was completely beyond the expectations of the relevant personnel.

The sentries who maintained order at the scene immediately detach and arranged a flag to control the designated docking point.

The women who help the workers have no place to move around, because the situation of the slave traders is obviously abnormal, and the palace must arrange more people to help.

The relevant news was immediately notified to Dian Bu and Chang Shi, and also sent to Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan was obviously taken aback when he saw the news:
"Did these slave traders just get a new big ship? And do you know that we have three thousand single workers here?"

The book said rather bewilderedly:

"The slave traders are all private businessmen, and it is possible that their business plans have changed, or they have new shareholders.

"It's no secret that there are [-] single workers here, and the workers often laugh at themselves as one of the [-] single workers."

The royal consortium has many industries, almost involving all aspects of Ming Dynasty, and the industries that are not involved at all are very limited.

One of the most typical industries is the slave trade.

Before the Ming Dynasty, slave trade was not prohibited, but it was also discouraged, and neither the royal consortium nor the imperial court operated it.

Zhu Jingyuan considered for a few seconds before making a decision:

"Send more guards to maintain order, and invite more immigrant women from Ming Dynasty to help check the female slaves.

"Don't let the female slaves disembark directly, and bring the leader of the slave trader to me first."

Dian Bu immediately agreed, and immediately led the guards to the pier.

Twenty kilometers away from Quicksand City, a [-]-ton passenger ship was heading for the port at a speed of [-] knots.

There were two groups of sailors on the bow deck, standing in two rows separated by a few meters.

The group on the left is mostly Ming people, with a small amount of Japanese and Koreans in the middle.

The group on the right is obviously Thai-Western.

In front of the two groups of sailors, there were two men who were obviously leaders, one from Ming Dynasty and the other from Taixi.

The two kept a distance of two meters from each other while chatting.

Gu Rui, a slave trader in the Ming Dynasty, is now in high spirits, and said to the Taixi man two meters away:
"As long as this transaction can be completed, we will find a good way to make a fortune.

"Daming will definitely continue to immigrate to and around the Great Food Country in the future, and there must be a large number of bachelors among the immigrants.

"The officials of Ming Dynasty especially like to find women for bachelors, so there is no need to worry about the sales.

"Tianzhu, which has just finished the war, has a lot of women. You British people transported to Mozhou, mainly young men, and women are even more worthless, so they can be sold here.

"It's inconvenient for you British to go to the Great Food Country, and it's also inconvenient for us to go to South Tianzhu in the UK. It's just right for the two of us to cooperate.

"In the future, we will use two identical ships, your people will go to South Tianzhu to pick up the goods, and my people will go to Dashiguo to deliver the goods.

"Change the boat on Xiaoxiyang every round, and there will be a steady stream of money in the future.

"It's less than [-] kilometers in total, and it only takes five or six days to go..."

The British slave trader Lufrey expressed a slightly disturbed expression:
"As long as this trade can be done, it must have a future, I'm just worried about the attitude of King Dashi.

"If we combine like this, will we inexplicably offend Prince Dashi, and then deal with us Xiyi..."

Gu Rui sneered and said:

"Worried about you still coming here? The key is that they all smell like salted fish.

"We Daming people are bored on the boat for three months, and it doesn't smell as bad as yours for three days.

"Tell you to wait in the open sea and still not listen to me? It's too late to regret it now!
"When we get to the Great Food Country, someone will castrate you with a knife!"

Lu Fuli was slightly embarrassed by Gu Rui's ridicule, but the original anxiety weakened instead:

"I don't follow, I don't know if this deal will be successful, and I don't know how much you sold it for.

"Don't worry, I'll just follow you, and I won't follow you in the future.

"It's just that if you want to make money, you have to continue to endure the smell.

"Even if we are people who don't follow you, there must be something interesting on our ship.

"Those orchids also have a smell, you will get used to it after a long time.

"Who made us barbarians? Satisfaction stinks..."

Gu Rui directly waved his hands and scolded with a smile:

"Get out, say you are fat and you are still panting."

An hour later, Gu Rui and Lu Frey's boat docked at the pier of Quicksand City.

A group of guards had been scattered around to control the scene. Ten guards ran quickly to the side of the ship and watched as the passenger ship lowered the gangway.

Then two soldiers shouted from below:
"Let the ship owner or the boss come down! Our king wants to see them! The others stay on the ship and don't move!"

Gu Rui and Lu Frey were on the bow of the ship, and immediately ran down the gangway when they heard the greeting.

All the way, I was uneasy, excited and curious, and followed the guards out.

Then they saw three other ships not far away, three passenger ships of about [-] tons.

There is no problem with a passenger ship appearing on the pier, but the problem is that there are orchids disembarking on the ship, and there are Daming women checking below.

In the open space under the three ships, rows of orchids were already standing, waiting for the follow-up arrangements.

Seeing this scene, the hearts of the two slave traders suddenly turned cold.

They couldn't imagine that the three 1000-ton ships of the Ming Dynasty only transported more than [-] to [-] people.

Basically, according to the standards of normal passengers, rooms were arranged for the female slaves, and life-saving facilities were prepared.

Instead of the two slave traders, a 3000-ton ship loaded more than [-] people and felt a bit empty.

If it wasn't for the three thousand bachelors on Daming's side, they might have stuffed more female slaves in.

Now, the two slave traders looked at each other with sad expressions, and the same thought arose in their hearts:
"Someone got there first!"

"Oh shit!"

(End of this chapter)