When Simon heard Brown's words, he immediately looked at the large ships. These large ships were new steamships, huge in size, and several large smoke pipes were emitting black smoke at this moment.
"Coffee is the seed of a plant. After it is roasted and ground, it is brewed with water or milk. It tastes slightly bitter but has a fragrant aroma."
Brown once again explained in detail: "It originated from the East African Plateau of Chu State. The local indigenous people discovered that coffee can refresh themselves, so they consumed it and slowly turned it into a drink."
"This kind of ship is called a steamship?"
Simon's attention at this time has been completely attracted by the steamship. He had already seen one when he came here, and now he has seen a few more, and he also asked about it.
"Yes, steamship~"
"It is a new type of ship powered by a steam engine's wheeled propeller. It is very fast. Compared with traditional sailing boats, it is much faster. Especially when going against the wind or against the current, its speed is even faster.
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"The carrying capacity is astonishing. One such large steam ship can carry more than several large treasure ships."
"It is said that the cost of building such a large steam ship alone exceeds 200,000 taels of silver. Currently, only a large shipyard in the Ming Dynasty can manufacture such a large steam ship."
Brown also often reads newspapers and knows something about this type of ship.
"Steam engine?"
"A ship costs two hundred thousand taels of silver?"
When Simon heard this, he couldn't help but open his mouth wide.
Two hundred thousand taels of silver, this is just a ship. Although the Jews are good at doing business and are synonymous with wealth in Europe, it seems that it is really not enough in front of the people of the Ming Dynasty.
This Ming Dynasty requires 200,000 taels of silver for one ship. I am afraid no one knows how many ships there are in the entire Ming Empire. Just how much silver the Ming Empire's shipbuilding industry can create in a year is probably an astronomical figure.
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"A steam engine is a machine that uses steam to provide power. We can also see many steam cultivators and harvesters here in Chixia City. They came from the mainland of the Ming Dynasty. They are very efficient. People can sit on the machines.
Above, you can control the machine to plow and harvest."
"In addition, there are several steam rice mills and steam flour mills here in Chixia City. They also use steam engines to drive machines to grind rice and flour. The speed is very fast and the efficiency is extremely high."
"I heard that in the Ming Dynasty, there are various machines driven by steam. Labor in the Ming Dynasty is very expensive. To hire a Ming man, you need to pay at least five silver coins per month, and food and accommodation are also included.
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"Therefore, local businesses and factories in the Ming Dynasty like to use more machines to do things. The efficiency is high, the cost is relatively low, and the quality of the products produced is more reliable."
"It is said that steam engines are also used to drive something called a train, which can travel thousands of miles in a day. I heard that it has been built from the capital of the Ming Dynasty to the Hezhong area in the west."
"We in Ningguo heard that His Royal Highness Prince Ning is also planning to build a railway from Anning City to Delhi in North Tianzhu. There is no plan to build a railway in Chixia City for the time being. The cost is too high. I heard that any railway
They all require tens of millions of taels of silver."
Brown knew a lot of things and was very talkative. He talked endlessly about many things in Ming Dynasty.
"The local labor force in the Ming Dynasty is so expensive. Doesn't this mean that the income of the people of the Ming Dynasty can reach dozens of silver dollars a year?"
Simon listened carefully, calculated carefully, and immediately exclaimed.
He knew very well the purchasing power of the Ming Dynasty silver dollar.
One Ming Dynasty silver dollar is enough to cover the expenses of an ordinary family in Europe for half a year. This Ming Dynasty person can actually earn dozens of silver dollars a year. Such an income is really terrifying.
Just from this, we can see how wealthy the people of the Ming Dynasty were. Even the people at the lowest level, with today's income levels in Europe, would definitely be considered rich.
With a few dozen silver dollars a year in Europe, this is the standard for wealthy people, and one can live an extremely wealthy life.
"A few dozen silver dollars is a very ordinary income. If you have some skills or know how to run a small business, you can easily earn a few hundred silver dollars a year."
"A large number of people in the Ming Dynasty have migrated overseas and outside the customs, resulting in a shortage of manpower. Without adequate salary, it is impossible to recruit people. This is one of the reasons why the Ming Dynasty likes to use a lot of machines."
Brown smiled and replied.
He has long been accustomed to the wealth of Ming people. At first, he didn't believe many reports in newspapers. But after contacting some Ming people, you found that these Ming people are still very humble and low-key.
"Then why don't they use slaves in large numbers?"
"The price of slaves is still very cheap."
Simon thought for a while and said, in comparison, the price of this slave is very cheap. Even if a slave is sold for dozens of taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty, hiring people from the Ming Dynasty will cost dozens of taels of silver for a year. Calculated in this way
Come on, this slave is actually not expensive. After all, if you buy it back, it is a long-term asset and can generate value for you in the long term.
"Because the people of the Ming Dynasty think that the mainland of the Ming Dynasty is a sacred land that belongs directly to them. They do not allow lowly slaves to survive in their holy land, unless they are female slaves."
Brown thought for a while and said, he also couldn't figure out why slaves were not allowed to be freely traded and used in the Ming Dynasty. In the end, it could only be attributed to this reason.
Of course, he didn't know that the reason why Liu Jin made such an arrangement was to promote Ming's local technology and innovation. Manpower was expensive, so he had to find ways to use machines. This technology would naturally become more and more powerful, and the industrial revolution would eventually
It will promote technological revolution and produce an explosion of science and technology.
Only the leadership of science and technology can allow the Ming Dynasty to truly establish their global dominance, always maintain a solid position, maintain their huge size, and maintain their huge wealth.
"Slave girl?"
When Simon heard this, he was slightly startled again.
"Look at that Ming man over there, and you'll understand."
Brown looked at the confused Simon, looked around, and soon saw a man from Ming Dynasty walking toward the dock with a dozen women and a bunch of little kids.
Simon looked in the direction of Brown. He saw a short, ugly man from Ming Dynasty. Yes, he was indeed ugly and short. However, at this moment, he was sitting on an open sedan with four tall men.
, a strong white slave was carrying him, and there were more than a dozen women following him.
These women are all Europeans with blond hair and blue eyes. They are all tall, graceful, and beautiful. They wear beautiful clothes and look like princesses.
Next to them, there were a bunch of chirping little kids, big and small, vying for the first place and shouting non-stop to the Ming people sitting in the sedan.
These children looked mixed-race at first glance, and they were obviously the children of this ugly-looking Ming Dynasty man, who kept shouting.
"A man like him actually has a dozen such beautiful women?"
Simon was dumbfounded and his eyes turned red.
Every man will be envious and jealous.
"This is very common in Ming Dynasty."
"Rich people in the Ming Dynasty and ordinary people would buy a large number of female slaves, whether they were concubines or servants, they would buy a few of them anyway."
"The overseas vassals and colonies of the Ming Dynasty treated these Ming people very favorably. As long as they are willing to immigrate, like ours in Ningguo, the government will directly give you five slaves for you to choose."
"In addition, when an immigrant comes, the land will be at least several hundred acres. Any land reclaimed is yours. You didn't even have to pay taxes in the past few years."
"So as long as these Ming people come overseas, no matter they were beggars or disabled when they were at home, when they go overseas, they will be superiors. Based on their status, they are of the highest level.":.
"There are a few female slaves around here, that's all normal."
"Actually, this is also a policy of the Ming people. The purpose is to reproduce children. If there are more women, they will naturally have more children. In addition, the medical technology here in the Ming Dynasty is much more developed than in Europe. Their children will survive.
If the rate is much higher, the number of Ming people will expand rapidly in the future."
"I estimate that in another twenty or forty years, the number of people in the Ming Dynasty may exceed 1 billion."
Brown smiled and explained to Simon.
Before you came here, you could never imagine the status and treatment enjoyed by the people of Ming Dynasty.
Just by relying on their status as Ming people, they were able to easily acquire a large area of land and many slaves in Ningguo. The government in Ningguo even encouraged you to create humans. The more children you gave birth to, the more they would
There are rewards for you. If you give birth to a child, you will be rewarded with a piece of land. If you give birth to a group of children, a large piece of land will belong to your family.
And these are only some of the benefits that people in Ming Dynasty can enjoy.
They also have the privilege of being tax-free for several years and farming land without paying taxes. In all other aspects, the people of Ming Dynasty have priority, and everyone else must give priority to people of Ming Dynasty.
It was as if in front of me, when everyone else was waiting in a long queue to buy rice dumpling leaves, the Ming man came directly to the front with his wife and children.
The people around him didn't have the slightest objection to this, and even enthusiastically gave up their seats to let him buy rice dumpling leaves first. Many people enthusiastically came forward to greet this Ming Dynasty man.
After he finished buying the rice dumpling leaves, everyone continued to line up to buy the rice dumpling leaves.
"The status of Ming people is determined by all aspects, and is even stipulated by law. In everything, Ming people have priority."
"The emperor of the Ming Dynasty has always valued population and encouraged fertility, so female slaves can be sold to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, because women mean children and the future. Whoever controls women controls the future."
"In addition, the territory ruled by the Ming Dynasty was extremely vast, and a large amount of land was uninhabited. Because there was not enough population, it could not be developed, so a large number of people were needed."
"Today, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty pays more attention to this and has abolished the capitation tax. The traditional concepts of Ming Dynasty people also include the idea of continuing the family line and continuing the incense."
"So we attach great importance to having children. It is said that millions of female slaves are sold to the Ming Dynasty every year and become concubines of the Ming Dynasty people."
Brown sighed as he spoke.
The population of the Jews is so small. The total number of Jews in the entire world is probably less than a fraction of the Ming Dynasty people. The key is that the Ming Dynasty people still attach so much importance to reproduction.
I am afraid that in the future, the population of Ming people will continue to double and increase. It is now more than 100 million, and in the future it may be one billion.
The key is that the Ming people still have an extremely vast land to support a sufficient population. Let alone one billion, it is two billion or three billion. Considering the vast land that the Ming people currently occupy, they can easily support it.
"This~"
Simon was speechless after hearing this. He thought for a moment and said, "Don't they value their own blood?"
"Are these mixed descendants of foreigners still considered Ming people?"
"You don't understand the people of Ming Dynasty."
"It is precisely because they value the inheritance of their own blood and the inheritance of their incense that they encourage fertility and like to have more children."
"As for the issue of bloodline, didn't I tell you earlier that the people of the Ming Dynasty believed in princes and generals in Xiangning. The people of the Ming Dynasty who have been passed down to this day all have rich ancestors, and may even be members of the royal family.
Bloodline.”
"So their so-called bloodline is completely different from ours. We pay attention to bloodline. We Jews will never mix blood with other people. Nobles pay attention to bloodline. This is especially true between royal families in European countries. They are all cousins.
Kiss each other."
"But people in the Ming Dynasty are different. What they pay attention to is cultural identity. As long as they are their own children, as long as they grow up in a Chinese atmosphere, learn the culture of the Ming Dynasty, and grow up under the influence of this culture, they are the Ming Dynasty.
people."
"They won't mind it too much, but the Ming people like people with white skin and regard whiteness as beauty, so they especially like and love European white slaves. As for the local Kunlun slaves here in Africa, they don't
like."
Brown smiled and explained, the more you understand the Ming people, the more you will understand the inheritance and culture in the Ming people's bones, and you will understand why the Ming people attach great importance to this.
As for whether the child is of mixed race, it doesn't seem to be very important. As long as he is of Ming descent, it is fine. As long as he grows up in the environment and atmosphere of Ming Dynasty, even if he is of mixed race, it doesn't matter.
relation.
"This Ming Dynasty man is still really weird~"
Simon really can't figure it out. The Jews are extremely conservative and have been very xenophobic since ancient times. Intermarriage is only among the Jews. They really can't figure out why the Ming people are like this?
"Perhaps this is their spirit of being open to all rivers and being tolerant!"
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