The dark Kunlun slaves were all sitting on the ground, all looking at Du Mingen, looking at the person in front of them who was completely different from anyone they had seen before.
"Distinguished guests, these slaves are the best slaves. Look at their teeth~ They are all very sound, which shows that they are very healthy and very young."
"It's very cheap. A slave only costs one tael of silver. If you buy more, I can also give you some female slaves or some small slaves."
Faisal picked up a slave, patted the slave's strong body, and then opened his mouth, revealing his neat, white teeth.
Seeing Du Mingen's interest, he thought Du Mingen wanted to buy these slaves, so he started to sell them hard.
"Look, these are all female slaves. They all have big butts and big breasts. You will definitely not lose money if you buy them back. They are very good no matter what they are used for."
"Your crew will definitely be very lonely when sailing on the sea. Buying some female slaves to stay on the road is also a good choice."
Listening to Feisal's introduction, Du Mingen and others shook their heads repeatedly.
The Ming Dynasty has always regarded white as beauty. This black Kunlun Slave does not conform to the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty people in any way. This is absolutely unacceptable.
"One tael of silver per slave is quite cheap. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, a slave on the grasslands used to cost dozens of taels of silver."
"These slaves may still be useful when large-scale plantations are built in Southeast Asia in the future, but that is also a matter of the future."
Du Mingen touched his chin and began to think deeply.
In this era, human resources are still very important.
In an era without large-scale mechanization, all aspects were inseparable from manpower. Many of the plantations of the major Ming companies in Nanyang hired natives to help with planting, because not many Ming people were willing to immigrate, and Ming people went to sea.
, often the moon sound is very high.
Many people in the Ming Dynasty have not been in business for a long time. After getting a little familiar with the environment, they will go it alone. That way, they can make money faster. No matter how bad they are, they can still reclaim the land by themselves. The reclaimed land belongs to them. Few people say that they will give it to others.
land.
Du Mingen looked at these female slaves again and thought about his crew. Even if he thought about women, he would not know how to deal with such goods.
"Do you have any white female slaves here? If so, I will buy some."
After thinking about it, Du Mingen felt that since he had the opportunity, he should see if he could buy some white female slaves, some Middle Easterners, and Persians who were very white, at least they could still meet the aesthetics of the Ming people.
"White female slave?"
When Feisal heard this, he immediately shook his head and said: "We don't have it here in Mogadishu, but we have it here in Cairo, Egypt. There are a lot of them. You can buy as much as you want."
“Cairo, Egypt?”
When Du Mingen heard this, he immediately shook his head slightly. He was also planning to go south to explore the east coast of Africa. This time he did not plan to go to Egypt.
After the transaction with Faisal was completed, Du Mingen continued to wander around Mogadishu.
The feeling of Mogadishu to Du Min'en is similar to that of the Middle East and Persia, except that there are a large number of Kunlun slaves here. Other than that, there are not many differences.
A few days later, Du Mingen's fleet set off on its journey again after replenishing food, fresh water, and some vegetables and fruits.
Along the east coast of Africa, the fleet also continued to move south.
What surprised Du Mingen was that as the fleet continued to go south, the people he met along the way became darker and darker. Later, the people he met were as black as charcoal.
Compared with these Kunlun slaves in Mogadishu, they look much whiter.
And there are huge differences in face shape, lips, nose bridge, etc.
The further south you go, the thicker the lips of Kunlun slaves are, the more depressed the nose bridge is, and the more ugly the face shape is.
In addition, after leaving Mogadishu, Du Mingen did not encounter a decent city all the way south. Every place he went to was almost in a very primitive tribal stage. There were only a few places similar to Mogadishu.
Like the sand, some small cities were built here due to the arrival of Middle Easterners and Persians.
"It's time to get ready to go back~"
"Africa is really a backward land. On the entire east coast of Africa, except for Mogadishu, there is not even a decent city, just tribes of various sizes."
"But this coastline is really a golden coastline. It is rich in ivory, diamonds, gold and silver, as well as countless large and small Kunlun slave tribes."
"It will be very easy to occupy this place in the future. How many people are needed? A few hundred people will be enough to easily occupy a colony here."
"It's just that these Kunlun slaves are very lazy and give people the impression that they are not enterprising. Among all the places I have traveled to, this is the most backward and primitive place."
"Although the descendants of the Yin Shang in Huangjin Continent are still in the primitive tribal stage, those descendants of the Yin Shang are extremely intelligent, very tough, and good at fighting. They have also established a huge empire here in Zhongjin Continent."
"But here in Africa, along the way, I haven't even discovered a decent country. It's really incredible!"
Du Mingen recorded the situation on the east coast of Africa in detail in his sailing diary.
"This place is very rich, with a pleasant climate and fertile land. Such a God-given land actually makes these lazy Kunlun slaves cheaper. This is simply a waste of nature!"
"We, the people of the Ming Dynasty, are hardworking and intelligent, but they can only survive in the land of China. How unfair is God."
As he wrote this, Du Mingen couldn't help but sigh.
Only those who have truly gone to sea and seen all over the world will know that the Ming Dynasty is not the center of the world, and the places outside the Ming Dynasty are not all barbaric lands.
There are many places where the climate is better than in the Ming Dynasty, the land is more fertile, and the products are richer.
When he came to the fertile land of Africa, Du Mingen saw its richness and fertility.
That's why Du Mingen had such emotion.
Here in the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty have almost developed and utilized the land to the extreme. As long as the land can be reclaimed, they have been reclaimed and planted with grain, vegetables and fruit trees.
But even so, the people at the bottom still have no food to eat, no clothes to cover their bodies, and work extremely hard. Their lives are not as comfortable as these lazy Kunlun slaves here.
This made Du Mingen feel that God was very unfair.
After Du Min'en's fleet arrived at the location of Kenya in later generations, Du Min'en felt that it was time to return. This time it had been long enough and the voyage was far enough. The key was that the crew members were also homesick and it was time to go back.
Returning to the city always seemed very long. Along the way it came, the fleet headed east towards the Ming Dynasty.
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Capital City of the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Jin has also been very busy recently, very busy.
Because the tax bureaus and shipping offices in various places throughout the Ming Dynasty finally began to report the taxes and account books collected from various places to the capital.
There is no way, Ming Dynasty is too big.
In an era without airplanes, cars, telegraphs, or telephones, speaking out basically relied on walking, and communicating messages basically relied on shouting. The transmission speed of this information was very slow.
Not to mention anything else, just for the original two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, the speed from Yunnan to the capital was still very slow, even if there were official roads and fast horses.
Not to mention today's Ming Dynasty, which is no longer limited to the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the traditional sense.
To the north, on the Liaodong side, with the arrival of immigrants and the liberation of Liaodong military households, great enthusiasm and motivation broke out here. A large number of people left Liaodong Dusi and headed for areas further north.
On the grassland, grassland towns are still under construction. The northernmost grassland castle has now been built to the northernmost part of the North Sea. It is said that many businessmen go here to buy furs. There are a lot of mink furs here.
The quality is very good.
In the west, with the rise of the Ming Dynasty on the grassland, the Oara tribes in the west are in panic all day long, always worried that the Ming Dynasty will continue to expand westward this year.
To the east, Ginzan Prefecture and the leased Hyogo Tsu have established shipping offices. In just one month, the shipping offices in these two places received more than 1 million taels of tax money.
There were too many merchant ships traveling between the Ming Dynasty and Japan.
Especially since the Ming Dynasty vassal state agreement was concluded at the end of last year, not only merchants from the Ming Dynasty went to Japan, but Korean merchants also began to appear frequently in Japan and the Ming Dynasty. The same merchants from Japan and some daimyo controlled merchants also
It began to appear frequently in Ming and North Korea.
With the frequent exchange of ships and goods, the shipping department naturally received more and more money.
Further south, on Ryukyu Island, there are now more than a dozen cities built. Except for the initial Ryukyu City, which was expanded and built successively, the other cities are all major trading houses of the Ming Dynasty.
built.
Nowadays, counties and counties have been set up in these places. The imperial court has appointed officials and tax bureaus to collect taxes here. The sugar industry in Ryukyu is a hugely profitable industry. This tax can be collected casually.
In January, Ryukyu turned over hundreds of thousands of taels of silver.
Further south is the newly established Nanyang Province. There are large and small plantations here, and it is also the only place for merchants to travel to and from Nanyang. The Shipping Department and Taxation Office of Crescent City received one million taels in just one month.
tax money.
Tax money and data from various places were also gradually gathered here in the capital, which kept Liu Jin busy as he had to report to Emperor Hongzhi every day.
