Daming 1805

Chapter 188

After the two slave traders Gu Rui and Lu Fuli left, Zhu Jingyuan sat in his chair and thought for a while.

What these two slave traders did, as well as the sending of female slaves for the Great Food Kingdom this time, are actually not a big deal.

What Zhu Jingyuan was a little bit concerned about was the extent to which the British indulged in the slave trade in India.

Even with a boat that can only run ten knots, it only takes more than 20 days from Tianzhu to the southwestern Mozhou colony in the United Kingdom, and the round trip takes less than [-] days.

Can run seven times a year.

A 3000-ton transport ship can hold [-] people.

Two hundred ships of the same type can transport more than 4000 million people in ten years.

In the southern Tianzhu area controlled by the British, the total population of Taixi, mixed descendants of Taixi and Tianzhu, and pure-blood Tianzhu is only about 7000 million.

The transportation volume of 4000 million people is enough to bring all the young and middle-aged people in South Tianzhu to Tianzhu.

If you don't want a woman, it can be shipped in less than five years.

Because the Tianzhu region has just experienced more than ten years of world wars and lost millions of young and middle-aged men, the ratio of men to women is outrageous.

At the same time, it is of course not a problem to transport away Tianzhu to accumulate gold and silver wealth.

In five years, more than 2000 million young and strong male Tianzhu people were transported to Mozhou in the southwest to rebuild a new Tianzhu.

No, English can be popularized in this process and a New England composed of Indians can be built.

Young women were sold to the nearby Daming vassal state.

In the original southern part of Tianzhu, only the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled are left. Most of them will die slowly, and only a few will remain in the end.

In the end, Daming was allowed to take over such a "wasteland" in Nantianzhu.

If other countries are bound to win South Tianzhu, what the British are doing now may anger the other party.

For Daming... this should be considered a good thing...

Even if Daming realized that his population was not enough, he would not ask for Tianzhu people.

If the British can really evacuate all the people from South Tianzhu, then Ming can coexist peacefully with the British for a longer period of time.

Can Daming also transport people from Tianzhu to Dongmozhou to open up wasteland?
It doesn't seem necessary, as before, just pull some servants from Tianzhu and go to Dongmozhou to conquer the local aboriginal regime.

However, single immigrants going to East Mozhou can take a concubine of Hu Ji from Tianzhu area to Mozhou to prevent them from having bad thoughts about Mo people.

When Gu Rui and Lu Frey returned to the pier, the Tianzhu orchids had already started to disembark.

It was still the same as before, with guards standing guard on the outside, and Daming's women beside the boat first checked the ears, and then diverted them to the doctor for examination.

Gu and Lu looked at this situation and didn't worry about anything. The sailors on board were their confidantes, so of course there was no problem with the points.

However, some goods can only be mobilized by two bosses.

After returning to the ship, the two immediately went to two special cabins, picked up eight orchids who were held in isolation, and handed them over to the officials in charge of receiving them.

The book of the Great Food Kingdom also came to the scene.

The two came directly to find the book:
"Master Dianbo, these orchids are all carefully selected top quality, and they are a little thought we prepared for your majesty.

"I was in a hurry when I went to see the king before, and I didn't have time to take it out, so I asked the master to help pass it on."

Dian Bu took a look at those orchids first.

Their images are quite upright, they don't look too old, and they are all relatively clean.

If it is an ordinary old oily officialdom, there must be a smoother way to deal with it.

However, the original officials of the Great Food Kingdom were relatively inflexible. After Dianbo understood what was going on, he said very rigidly:
"Wait here for a while, I will send someone to ask the king for instructions."

Then he immediately called a handyman back to the palace to tell Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand indifferently and said:
"Since it's a gift, it won't be billed or counted. It should be treated as a gift and just let the book accept it."

Zhu Jingyuan knew in his heart that the careful selection that Gu Rui said might be true, but it might not be for himself.

These slave traders, most of them selected a few high-quality goods in advance, and gave them to the lord wherever they went to sell ordinary slaves.

As far as I am concerned, it is better not to take it for nothing, and to give it to the workers together with ordinary female slaves than to let them take it back.

The point is that there will be no consequences if they accept it, and they dare not think that they have received such a large gift and owe them any favor.

The market price of high-quality orchids is estimated to be in the range of five or six hundred silver bills, which is almost half that of Korean maidservants and women of the same grade.

Eight fine orchids are worth more than 4000 silver bills, which is quite a lot in front of ordinary people.

But now the target is Zhu Jingyuan, and the transaction between the two parties is at the level of hundreds of thousands of silver bills, so this addition is not particularly conspicuous.

With the help of immigrant women from Ming Dynasty, the orchids transported by Gu Rui and his wife were counted in the evening of the same day.

In addition to Zhu Jingyuan's eight gifts, there were 610 people with dry ears and 460 people with oily ears, for a total of 72 people.

According to the conditions negotiated by Zhu Jingyuan, the individual grades will no longer be subdivided, so the total price will come out after counting.

A total of 28 Daming silver notes.

The two slave traders Gu and Lu originally thought that they would have to spend a few days in Dashi Kingdom to ask for money.

As a result, just after counting, the Dashi King's Mansion paid the cash directly, without delaying all night.

In the bright classroom of the palace, after carefully counting a box of banknotes, the two slave traders left carefully.

Even though they knew that the Great Food Kingdom could not be black and white, the two of them were quite nervous with this huge sum of money.

It was almost a trot all the way back to his boat, and he was completely relieved after being surrounded by his own sailors.

Walking into the captain's cabin, Gu Rui put the box on the table, and then spread it directly on the chair.

He took a few breaths, lit a cigar, looked at Lu Frey opposite him and said:
"Although the king of Dashi Kingdom is domineering and aggressive in bargaining, he is open-minded and straightforward. This business can be done."

Lu Frey also said excitedly:
"That's right, this big food country is really rich. Three thousand female slaves ate it directly, without any delay in cash."

When Gu Rui heard this, he suddenly laughed:
"The king told us before that the land in Dashi country is barren and the products are scarce..."

Lufrey also laughed:

"The land is indeed barren, the capital is surrounded by sand, and there is nothing but oil."

Gu Rui took a deep puff on his cigar:

"Isn't it enough to have oil? If I have a piece of oily land, I won't do this business anymore. Who wouldn't like to make money lying down."

"I don't know where there is oil? Do you want to try to explore Mozhou?"

Lu Frey thought for a while, then looked at the box in front of him, still nervous about the money:
"Let's talk about this matter later, let's divide the money first, after the two of us divide it, we will share it with the brothers.

"First earn all the money from this line of business in our hands, and then think about other things."

Gu Rui reminded with a dry smile:
"Now that the new year of Ming Dynasty has just arrived, a new round of local immigrants from the Great Food Country will leave after the Spring Festival or even after the fifteenth day.

"It's at least mid-February to come to the Great Food Country.

"That's why Dashiguo asked us to deliver the next batch of goods in late February of the Ming calendar.

"Then the next shipment should be after April.

"It will take less than a month for you to prepare the supply in South Tianzhu.

"You can accept male and female slaves at the same time, you send male slaves to Mozhou at the end of January, and I send female slaves to Dashi Kingdom in late February.

"When you come back in late March, you will immediately accept a batch of female slaves, and then let me go to Dashi Kingdom in late April.

"Your people have been busy all the time, except for the two trips to Dashi Kingdom, which lasted a total of more than ten days, I was free the rest of the time.

"I have so many people who can't watch you make money!

"In the current market, everyone is making money, and if they don't make money, they are losing money!"

Lu Frey suddenly realized, but still shook his head with a smile and said:
"Then don't think about oil, you can't take advantage of two months to go to Mozhou to find oil?
"You are from Daming, why don't you directly invest in and contract Yin Zhou's farm.

"If you really can't do it, you can also invest in shipyards. Aren't you Daming now an industry that pays full payment when you start work, and you can make money when you start work?

"It's really too busy, you can also arrange for people to buy stocks, and now Daming also makes money when he buys them.

"And these are all your own affairs, and have nothing to do with our cooperation.

"Now let's divide the money first, so that the brothers can feel at ease.

"The orchid business in Dashi Kingdom has just started, and the future business is still growing..."

Gu Rui didn't delay any longer, there was no way to delay this matter:

"Okay, let's divide the money first."

Although Osman's "colleagues" robbed business, the money earned this time was not too much.

But this kind of business is profiteering in the first place. Many female slaves in Tianzhu are just like those who were picked up for nothing in South Tianzhu.

All the personnel on Gu Lu's ship were divided according to their status and merit.

Then the ship stopped in Dashi Country for three days, replenished with coal, fresh water, and food, and then left.

The two people's boat met another small boat outside Dashi Peninsula, and Gu Rui took his own people to change boats and return to North Tianzhu.

Gu Rui went to find out how to invest.

When Lu Frey returned to his old nest in Mumbai, South India, he met the officers of the British Naval Intelligence Bureau in South India-Li Bott and Wang Will.

It was the two British "folk friendly people" who were kicked out from the port of Nagasaki, Fengyuan country.

After the two of them were sent to Tianzhu, they directly stayed in Tianzhu to work.

At this time, the famous MI[-] had not yet been established, and the current British intelligence agency was also at a relatively early stage.

Lufrey himself was not a British intelligence officer, but he was a peripheral informant of the British Naval Intelligence Office.

These multinational maritime businessmen will report their discoveries to the liaison personnel of the intelligence agency from time to time.

It doesn't need to be a very confidential thing, just what you see and hear during the transaction process, and all kinds of such public situations are enough.

For example, how big is the pier of Dashiguo, how many berths of different levels are there, and how many oil storage tanks are there on the pier.

The location and size of Wangfu at the dock, the number of oil wells around Wangfu, etc.

In this exchange, the officers Li Bote and Wang Weier were both taken aback by Lu Frey's description.

"Their oil production is like pumping water from a well?"

Lufrey immediately shook his head and said:

"No, no, it's not pumping, they don't need a pump, the well pumps itself out.

"The Great Food Country is a pipe installed on the natural fountain, and there is a switch on the pipe. After turning it on, crude oil will spray out."

Li Bote said a little excitedly:
"That's the high-pressure self-spraying well. How fast is the fuel spouting? Have you had a chance to observe it? How long does it take to fill a standard one-stone oil barrel?"

Lufrey recalled what he saw in those three days:
"Their oil well is not far from the dock, at least the ships docked at the dock can see it.

"If you get closer to the palace, you can see it more clearly.

“However, most of the crude oil is sent directly to the large storage tanks on the docks through pipelines.

"Only a few of them are directly loaded into oil barrels, and a one-stone standard oil barrel can be filled in just over 20 seconds.

"I roughly counted, at least three barrels can be filled in one minute..."

Both intelligence officers were taken aback again:
"Three barrels in one minute..."

"One barrel in 20 seconds, this day will not be four to five thousand barrels..."

Liebert immediately continued to ask:

"How many of these wells do they have?"

Lufrey recalled the situation and said:
"There are only [-] wells in production, but some workers are continuing to drill..."

Hearing the news, Li Bote and Wang Weil seemed to be a little relieved, there were only eighteen wells...

But thinking about the output of these oil wells, the expressions of the two couldn't relax again.

Then, with extra care, he repeatedly confirmed the authenticity of the news.

After asking for more details, he said goodbye and returned to his office.

After discussing for a long time, the two wrote a simple report with their judgments attached:
"Da Ming's large-scale increase in oil production, combined with the news that Daming has abolished coal stations and built oil storage facilities, shows that the Ming Navy may be turning to fuel power."

It was then sent by telegraph to Office of Naval Intelligence headquarters in London.

(End of this chapter)