Daming 1805

Chapter 197 Someone jumped off the building

Cao Zhennan's sailors drove to the largest brothel in Charleston.

I have inquired about selling slaves for the past few days, and I am waiting to get the money to come over to have fun.

When the sailors of Ming Dynasty went to the territory of the Taixi people, they could get Taixi women basically without any effort.

But Daming Sailor will basically go directly to the brothel.

Because the tradition of Ming Dynasty is to punish rape but not whoring.

Moreover, the officials of the Ming Dynasty are sometimes very lenient. If you mess around on the territory of the Taixi people, you may be punished after you go back.

You can go whoring for nothing when you go to brothels, at least you can get the lowest discount, and you don’t need to give tips.

So unless you are planning to settle in Taixi, or you are really poor, you want to find a place to eat free food for a long time and dawdle.

Otherwise, simply solving physiological needs is basically going to a brothel.

As a result, as soon as a group of people arrived at the entrance of the brothel today, they saw two people jumping off the roof.

And it's on the ground.

White and red ones are flying everywhere.

Several sailors scolded directly:
"Damn, bad luck."

"Why did you jump off the building in the brothel?"

"I've seen someone die on the belly of a female kiln sister in a brothel, but I've never seen someone who jumped off a building by herself."

"What a disappointment, let's change to another..."

A group of sailors cursed and avoided the dead man, planning to find another brothel.

The accountant and translator under Cao Zhendong asked curious people around him:

"What's wrong with this man? Why is he looking for death?"

The Americans on the side of the road saw that they were from Daming, and they immediately explained enthusiastically:

"I don't know the specifics, but it is estimated that Mo Nu was garrisoned, and it must have been bought with borrowed money."

"Just keeping Mo Nu will not jump off the building. The abolition is a heavy bet on Mo Nu's stocks and futures."

"A few days ago, the price of Mo Nu soared to one hundred pounds, which is 700 Ming silver bills. They probably pushed it up by force. Otherwise, Mo Nu would not be worth so much money."

"As a result, the merchants of Ming Dynasty directly imported ink slaves on a large scale, and the price dropped to [-] in less than a week. These people lost money directly, and jumped off the building if they didn't pay the money."

"I bought Mo Nu and used it myself, but I lost some money. It is absolutely impossible to jump off the building because of this."

After hearing these comments, the translator took a few breaths of air.

In the simple discussion of these people, a situation was directly revealed.

This group of Xiyi merchants speculated on the price of Monu in the United States, but the Ming merchants accidentally washed it away.

They may have been planning and planning for a long time, but they were indeed hedged out accidentally.

The big merchants of Ming Dynasty just saw a business opportunity to make money, and then rushed to it.

If I hadn't planned to follow the sailors to the brothel, I happened to see this scene, and then casually asked the onlookers on the street, I would have no idea what happened here.

These people didn't do their own research, and they didn't expect to be able to transport Menu here from the Antilles. This is completely asking for trouble, and it has nothing to do with our Ming merchants.

The translator shook his head helplessly.

Then I began to worry a little about my own safety, as well as the safety of my boss and sailors.

In the past few days, the Daming sailors in Charleston are basically Yunmo Nu.

Under normal circumstances, this group of Xiyi would definitely not dare to do anything to the Daming people.

But they all went bankrupt and jumped off the building. What should they do if they find a few Ming people to support them before they die?
The interpreter became extra cautious, got into a brothel to play all night, and took the sailors back to the ship the next day.

Fortunately nothing happened other than that.

After that, as Cao Zhennan expected, more and more Ming businessmen participated.

The Mexican slaves were purchased in the Antilles and transported to the southern part of the United States for sale.

It directly became the hottest business among the merchants of Ming Dynasty.

Slaves in the Antilles quickly rose from a disliked commodity to a favorite commodity.

In just half a month, the price soared from seventy or eighty silver bills to two hundred silver bills.

The price of slaves in southern America also quickly dropped from seven hundred silver bills to three hundred silver bills.

Such a pure slave trade will not make money, it is purely working for the shipowner.

So the merchants of Ming Dynasty gave up this industry very quickly.

But the trafficking is still going on.

Many Thai and Western plantation owners in the Antilles began to directly sell their slaves one after another.

There is a Taixi planter who has not left in the Antilles Islands and has heard the news from outside.

Planters who have moved to Mexico or the United States.

They are all selling their slaves for as long as three hundred silver bills.

These plantation owners figured it out.

Anyway, I have lost my original plantation, and I need to start all over again to go anywhere.

It is not a good choice to go to Mexico and the United States and compete with the original local plantations.

It's better to go directly to Mozhou to develop the latest colony, and the pressure of competition can be less.

The point is that the price of Mexican slaves in Mexico and the United States is extremely high, while the price of Mexican slaves must be very low.

Even if the price of the ink slaves drops to three hundred silver bills, they can buy three or more ink slaves when they sell one ink slave in the United States.

Sell ​​the original slaves in the United States, and go to Mexico with a huge amount of wealth.

Just invest directly in new plantations and recapture slaves in Mozhou.

Related news is still spreading, and the scope of slave sales is also expanding.

It is slowly expanding from the Antilles to the entire South Yinzhou.

The large number of plantations in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies may have a total number of menu in the tens of millions.

It is not known how many will be transported to the United States.

On the other side of the earth, Tianzhu.

When Lu Frey raised the source of slaves from Tianzhu, he once had a conflict with Gu Rui.

After the two were fired in the telegram, they met again on a ship in the open sea.

Lu Frey asked Gu Rui with an incredulous expression:

"What on earth are you thinking about?
"Do you want to save the most exquisite female slaves for Dashi Kingdom? Instead of sending them to Northern Yinzhou?
"Even if it's the most exquisite, can you sell it for three hundred silver bills in Dashi Country?

"It's worth [-] silver bills in Beiyinzhou!"

Gu Rui sat on the chair, crossed his legs and asked directly:
"What did I say in the second half of the sentence?"

Lu Frey immediately became even more puzzled:
"You asked me to select from the interesting orchids, those who are relatively decent in appearance and body, and generally belong to the upper middle class, and send them to Beiyinzhou for sale. Shouldn't these be sent to Dashi Kingdom?"

Gu Rui continued to ask:

"Then if these two kinds of orchids are sent to Beiyinzhou, what's the difference in selling price?"

Lufrey said instinctively:
"Of course there is a difference! The best ones will definitely cost three thousand, and the middle ones will cost two thousand and five..."

Gu Rui asked again:

"If you don't send the best ones, and only sell the middle ones, should you sell them for less?"

Lufrey reacted:

"If there is no one else to do this business with us, even the upper-middle-class orchids will have to sell three thousand silver bills, because they are the best.

"Moreover, according to the brothers who provide sales channels, this is not a normal demand, they are not a tool for production and operation, nor are they necessary.

"This is the private demand of the rich, and the affordability has its limits...

"The price is too high, they might as well break the law and directly fuck their own immigrant children."

Gu Rui lowered his legs and clapped his hands:

"Isn't this the end? Anyway, no matter how high-quality goods are, there is no way to widen the huge gap in price.

"Sending the best quality ones to Northern Yinzhou will actually lower the price of our mid-range orchids.

"There are no high-quality products, only middle-to-high-end orchids are sold, and they are also sold at the highest price.

"Why do you want to send the high-quality goods to Beiyinzhou?

"At the same time, we have to consider how long the business in Beiyinzhou can last.

"The Great Food Kingdom is definitely a long-term partner.

"In the future, there may be hundreds of thousands or even millions of shipments in Dashi Country.

"The king of the Great Food Kingdom is the emperor's favorite grandson, His Majesty's favorite son.

"He is the imperial envoy of the Governor-General's Dashi, Mediterranean, and Eastern Mozhou affairs.

"In the future, our main business scope will be under his jurisdiction.

"The Xihai Canal we are going to go is also under his jurisdiction.

"If you offend him, if you let him know, you will send the best to Yin Zhou...

"Ha ha……"

Lufrey understood the logic perfectly:

"I get it, but the question is, can we guarantee that we are the fastest?
"Will other people sell the best orchids directly to Beiyinzhou?"

Gu Rui thought for a while and said:

"This can only be a risk, but the risk should not be great.

"It's just that the Ming people and the British are unable to manage this business.

"It's a very outrageous choice for me, a man from Ming Dynasty, to cooperate with you, a British man.

"Other Ming merchants may not be able to embarrass themselves.

"Even if someone thinks about it, they may not be able to plan all the implementation plans.

"It may not be conceivable that the Tianzhu people should be sold to Northern Yinzhou.

"The two of us have not heard the news at all in our own channels, so it should not exist.

"Even if someone sent the most exquisite orchid over without our knowledge.

"He sells it for three thousand, and we can sell it for two thousand and five, so we won't lose too much."

Lu Frey nodded slowly, accepted Gu Rui's logic, and then went back to continue stocking up.

Lu Frey started to prepare goods for going to Mozhou years ago, and he didn't stop during the Chinese New Year.

By the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, nearly [-] slaves were basically prepared.

As a result, in the past two days, Gu Rui received the news that the price of Yin Zhou's Mo people's slaves plummeted.

There are only three hundred silver bills left, and it is expected that the Tianzhu male slave can sell four hundred to five hundred silver bills.

However, the valuation of the upper-middle-class Tianzhu female slaves remains unchanged, and the price of three thousand silver notes can still be expected.

Gu Rui and Lu Frey met overseas again, and Gu Rui said without waiting for Lu Frey to speak:
"The latest news is that the outrageous price was deliberately inflated, but it was destroyed by a swarm of merchants from Yinzhou Daming, and the instigators have already jumped off the building.

"However, we still have to go. Ordinary male slaves can be sold for more than four hundred silver bills, and a single slave still has two to three times the profit of the Mozhou market. It is still worth going.

"What's more important is that the price of the upper-middle-class female slaves remains unchanged, even if it is for these female slaves, I have to make a trip.

"Female slaves can't travel in large numbers, and the cabins are also empty. Ordinary male slaves should be regarded as incidental cargo."

Lu Fuli also understood the logic of what Gu Rui said, so he didn't say any more nonsense.

The two quickly made the final preparations, and then officially set off for Beiyinzhou.

When entering the Red Sea on the [-]th of the first lunar month, it was stopped by the patrol fleet around Jizhou.

Gu Rui and Lu Frey took out the export certificate of Nan Tianzhu issued by Lu Frey according to the predetermined plan, and took out the lease and transaction documents of both parties.

It may seem like you're drifting on the edge of being illegal, but there's nothing really illegal about it.

But the patrol didn't let them go right away.

Instead, the situation was sent to Zhu Jingyuan by telegram.

Matters in this gray area must be brought to the attention of the "governor", and there will be a practice in the future.

(End of this chapter)