The slave trade is actually a new industry in the Silver Blood Guild of Xuanzhu County. Except for a few merchant guild fleets, no other chamber of commerce is involved in this business.
It's not that businessmen have a conscience, but they think that although the returns of this business are high, the risks are greater. They can make a lot of money just by holding on to their current business. If they have the opportunity to make money, they will make money.
But if picking up money puts your anus in danger, then I won’t thank you.
The slave trade is not about transporting slaves from Dongyang District to other places to sell piglets. There is a saying that Dongyang District is actually quite short of people. Not to mention large slave owners like the Jing family, other chambers of commerce that open factories also prefer to use them.
Slaves came to replace workers, and local slave merchants would absorb them themselves, making it impossible to sell them.
The process of the slave trade actually starts from Xuanzhu County, transports weapons, food and other important materials to Tianji District, sells them to Tianji warlords to obtain gold and silver, and buys prisoners of war and refugees as slaves, and then transports them to the sparsely populated Sjiadi area.
Slave, get a large amount of planting products from the landlord of Sjiadi and return to Xuanzhu County. In one round, you can get a large amount of gold, silver and agricultural products, which is an extremely huge profit.
It can be seen from the process that the slave trade only started after the riots in Skyrim District. It is precisely because there are too many refugees in Skyrim District who cannot survive, so they are willing to be transported to an unknown country like Skadi even if they know that they will.
It just so happened that Scardy seemed to have just experienced a round of civil strife and was in urgent need of population to restore production. The slaves, landowners, and chamber of commerce could all work together.
Although the slave trade process is very profitable, there are many problems in it. The biggest problem is that this kind of trade is not lasting-as long as the Skyrim District settles down, this trade is equivalent to breaking the key chain. No one thinks that the Skyrim District can be chaotic.
After several decades, it was concluded that this was a 'small business' that could only last a few years, and the chamber of commerce, which had been accustomed to doing 'big business' for hundreds of years, naturally disdained it.
Even the Jing family feels that 'human trafficking' is more sustainable than the 'slave trade'.
Nowadays, those who engage in small businesses in the slave trade are basically small chambers of commerce at the bottom of the list. In fact, Jing Zhengwei has also thought about joining this industry. This small amount of money may be a speck of dust to the Jing family, but to Jing Zhengwei it is like a mountain. And Jing Zhengwei has also thought about joining this industry.
Zhengwei relied on the Jing family's name. He wanted to enter, but other chambers of commerce only dared to welcome him but did not refuse.
But Jing Zhengwei still had no intention of intervening in this matter.
This is of course not something Jing Zhengwei discovered due to his conscience, but he felt there were long-term risks.
Tianji District has a vast territory and abundant resources, and its people are tough and tough. Most of them are generous and tragic people. Now that they are in chaos, everyone rushes to cut off their leeks. After Tianji District is unified and integrated, will they forget that Dongyang merchants once sold their families’ wives?
Is it about women being slaves?
Those new rich people who are most excited about the slave trade will always have their money flowing into other industries of the Silver Blood Society. According to Jing Zhengwei's understanding of the upper echelons of the Silver Blood Society, it is estimated that when there are signs of unification in the Tianji District, they will
Deliberately make friends with the new warlord, and then jointly slaughter the chambers of commerce that had previously made a fortune from the slave trade, giving them to the new warlord as an apology, and letting the new warlord win over the people.
Send a sum of money, punish yourself with three drinks, and then the matter will be over.
Otherwise, why do you think the Silver Blood Association has eighty-eight chambers of commerce? There are many things that are inconvenient and inappropriate for the established chambers of commerce to do. The only ones who will take risks are the chambers of commerce at the bottom who want to get ahead. Once successful, the established chambers of commerce will use the market to harvest their belongings.
own profits; if something goes wrong, the Temporary Chamber of Commerce and Industry will take the blame, and while sending money to apologize, they will completely ignore themselves.
The Silver Blood Association is an old capitalist, and they can always cut leeks - even the lower-level chambers of commerce are their leeks.
Le Yu stood up immediately, and Qing Lan was so frightened that he quickly grabbed him: "Sir, please wait until I finish speaking."
"Actually, there is nothing wrong with the account books." Qinglan said: "They are all normal sea trade transactions. Moreover, the route you chose is also in the Eastern Triangle, sir. The type of cargo is similar to that of a slave merchant ship. I have no substantial evidence."
Although Jing Zhengwei is not involved in the slave trade, he also chose to go to Tianji District to do business - what business is the most profitable? Of course it is the arms and food business! After the riots in Tianji District, all the people's wealth and anointing collected by the noble families fell into the hands of the warlords.
Of course I want to exchange gold and silver for urgently needed items.
However, the output of weapons in Xuanzhu County is not high. That is to say, Jing Zhengwei owns the mineral Red Moon Fortress and is an upstream material provider for the weapons industry. He relies on this relationship to steal some of the weapons shares from other chambers of commerce. Just weapons and
There was simply not enough food to load the merchant ships, so some of the daily necessities were shipped to Skati for sale.
"But some small changes have taken place in the past few months." Qing Lan continued: "Six months ago, Director Bai took the initiative to increase the purchase of grain and fruits, reduce the share of daily necessities, and add a batch of
New Product: Grace Lock."
Le Yu was silent for a moment and said: "He mentioned to me at the time that the big landowners in Sjadi also had many slaves, and the gap in the grace lock was huge."
Grace Lock, a high-tech gadget from Xuanzhu County, naturally has a broad market in Sjiadi where slavery is prevalent. At that time, Jing Zhengwei felt that Director Bai had a keen sense of business, so he made him fully responsible for the specific affairs of maritime trade. Jing Zhengwei
I usually don't interfere much other than checking the accounts.
Unlike Le Yu, a lazy guy, Jing Zhengwei is not lazy. He only needs to control the direction of the industry, and there is no need to do everything himself - after all, the highest state of 'Qin Ri' is to be full of love but clinging to the heart.
Every night on Qin Day, he also had to go sightseeing with his new wife during the day to cultivate their relationship.
While other rebooting guys devote themselves wholeheartedly to their work, Jing Zhengwei, the rebooting master, spends his days in the Tomb of Heroes of Wenrou Township.
The deeper the love, the more intense and cruel it becomes.
When Qing Lan was working, Le Yu took the initiative to sit next to him and read a book. This was more or less influenced by Jing Zhengwei - otherwise he would definitely stay in the poker hall and continue to improve his points.
"In the past six months, the fleet has conducted Eastern Triangle trade a total of three times. Each time, there were a large number of grace locks in the cargo. Each time the grace locks were sold, a large amount of money was obtained. All the accounts were correct, and suddenly it seemed that there was no problem.
." Qing Lan adjusted her glasses: "But, Manager Bai forgot one very crucial thing."
Speaking of this, Qing Lan paused and glanced at Le Yu, who looked at her quietly.
"Sir, can you guess what key information Manager Bai forgot to tamper with?"
"I can't guess what information Director Bai forgot to tamper with, but I can guess that you will most likely be kicked out of bed by me tonight."
Qinglan curled her lips and continued: "Along with the grace lock, there were also light energy replenishers sold to Landlord Scardy. Six months ago, there were seven light energy replenishers in the trade. But four months ago,
There is only one trading item, and only one is shipped in the returning fleet. However, the number of grace locks has not decreased, but has increased!"
Le Yu understood immediately.
Grace locks are similar to mobile phones. Each slave can only install one. Therefore, if you want to sell more, you must expand your customer base. After all, a landowner only has so many slaves, and the grace locks will be filled quickly.
The seven refills six months ago were equivalent to seven sets of grace locks, which could be sold to seven customers. However, only one was shipped twice, and the total number of grace locks increased instead of decreasing, which means that these grace locks
The locks are all sold to one customer!
It is not necessary and impossible for one customer to take so many grace locks, and it is not in line with the principles of business: this kind of bulk goods can only be sold to one customer, and there are very few customers who can buy it. What's more, grace locks are not a necessity.
You can absolutely lower the price like crazy, but no one else will buy it if you don’t sell it to me.
In Scardy, you can eat as many goods as you want. Currently, there is only one kind of goods: slaves.
Coupled with the increasing proportion of grain and fruits, reducing the carrying capacity of daily necessities to make room, the answer is almost ready to come out.
"The grace locks were not sold to the landlord of Scardy, but were given as gifts tied to the hands and feet of the slaves." Le Yu said: "...In other words, the fleet also colluded with Director Bai?"
Slave trading requires a fleet to carry out the slave trade. Only if Supervisor Bai is in cahoots with the fleet can he possibly do such a thing under Jing Zhengwei's eyes.
So, does Jing Zhengwei know that his subordinates are doing this kind of thing?
Le Yu searched his memory and was stunned.
He sat down slowly. Qinglan looked at him carefully and said, "If you give me a little more time, I might be able to find more evidence..."
"Evidence?" Le Yu smiled softly: "Why do I, the eldest young master of the Jing family, need to explain to others what I do?"
The implication is that it doesn't matter whether there is evidence or not.
"By the way, when will the fleet come back?"
"Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, if there is a storm on the way, it may be even later."
"In that case... good." Le Yu closed "The Legend of Fire God", stood up and walked out. Qing Lan asked: "Sir, are you going to confront Director Bai?"
"No, I'm going out to play."
"Then I'll go too." Qinglan stood up.
"Have you finished your work? Do you still want to go out and play?" Le Yu said in a tone that was full of hatred.
"Oh." Qinglan sat down.
"I'll come back at noon and go out to eat." Le Yu walked to the door and stopped, thought for a moment and asked, "Do you like to drink iced honey five-flower tea?"
Qinglan blinked: "...I like drinking coconut milk."
“Where can I buy it?”
"Friends on Main Street."
"Hmm..." Le Yu folded her hands and pondered for a while, then clicked her tongue: "Okay."
