234 Slave Trade

The slaves, who had been half-dead during the voyage, were driven to the foredeck by the whipping of the crew, and in twos and threes. Several of the crew prepared a large vat of strange liquid: as soon as each slave reached the barrel, a sailor with a large soft brush brushed his filthy, stinking bodies. After washing, their originally dirty and dull skin became shiny and firm, and they looked much more divine than just now.

Then Captain Higgins watched the sailors open a barrel of rum, and one of the sailors spilled the fire from the horn barrel. Stirred it up again. Two sailors grabbed one of the slaves, one pinched his mouth, and the other took a wooden spoon and poured a large gulp into the slave's mouth.

"This will make them jump alive one by one, and even those who are going to die will look jīng." Higgins said proudly, Captain Higgins had worked on slave ships in the past, and was familiar with this set. Quark hired his ship to draw on his experience.

"The goods look good" Quark Poor has seen countless ducats and pesos flying in front of his eyes, whether it is sugar, silk, tea, rhubarb or Chinese groceries, they are all goods, and they can earn 40~100% profit when they are shipped to Banten

"Do you really have to sell this batch?" The captain asked.

"Of course, I have a patent certificate." Quark said with a little regret, "I didn't expect so many people to die, I thought that at most a dozen people would die." ”

"If it weren't for the storm and the attack of the Portuguese, there wouldn't have been so many people lost." Higgins said, "The cost of repairing the ship must be in your name." ”

"No problem." Quark is poor and overshadowed by the bright prospect of making a fortune, and he is full of promises.

Captain Higgins took out a bottle and took a big gulp into his mouth, his eyes blinking as if thinking about something.

Under the supervision of quarantine officers at the Sanya Health Center, the slaves were sent in batches to a quarantine camp near the mouth of the Tiandu River, where slaves were received. According to the procedure, shave the hair, carry out a series of quarantine and purification procedures such as bathing and flea extermination. He Fanghui ordered them to rest and quarantine for two weeks, and then go to the front-line construction site to work. The mining surface is waiting for labor to excavate.

Meals are provided according to the standard of the quarantine camp to ensure that they can recover as soon as possible.

After everything was arranged, he asked Hu Xun to be called. The former overlord of Anyu City and the murderous Emperor of the Earth has been living a life of leisure since he was allowed to return home. Hu Xun is very interesting, knowing that his life and that of his family are in the hands of Australians, and it is better to be honest if he wants to live. What's more, his son is still a hostage in Lingao.

"Chief Ho" gave him the title of "Civil Affairs Advisor". On weekdays, I report to the "Sanya Civil Affairs Office" on time every day to help deal with some civil affairs affairs. After all, Hu Xunqian is a local and is very familiar with the surrounding environment and people's feelings. It's kind of fully functional.

"There's a formal job for you to do," He Fanghui rolled his cheeky mouth, "Lao Hu, are you willing to do it?" ”

"Yes, yes." Hu Xun only said that he was willing.

Fang Hui immediately gave him the position of director of the Sanya slave camp. He knew from the public opinion survey that Hu Xun had always been ruthless and a rather violent figure. It is not necessarily good to do civil affairs, and to be the director of a slave camp is to make the best use of everything.

"This position is a formal cadre establishment," He Fanghui patted him on the shoulder enthusiastically, "Now you are a formal 'cadre'." ”

"Thank you for the cultivation," Hu Xun nodded again and again. He wasn't much happy, just a little dazed and at a loss - what kind of situation was he in?

"When you work, you are strictly guarded by the militia and you are not allowed to come into contact with other people." He Fang gave instructions to Hu Xun back, "Everyone must complete the work every day, and whether it is completed or not depends on the means you have." ”

Hu Xun nodded: "Iǎ's understood"

The prison supervisors were all selected from the Sanya correctional team. The corrections team was formed after the riots to house the laborers who participated in the riots and those who committed certain crimes in Sanya. Everything from harming others to stealing. They are used in the hardest and most dangerous jobs until they can accumulate enough points to return to their normal status. Needless to say, the overseers selected from the corrections squad will be very hard working and ruthless.

Assign Hu Xun the task. He Fang returned to the Merchant House, which was a place to receive foreign traders in the future, and at the same time had been required to take a shower and change his clothes, which also served the role of quarantine. They are wondering how much they can get out of the slave trade.

As a merchandise with the British, the Ministry of Colonization and Trade had already shipped some of the trade goods in advance. In addition to being prepared to pay Quark's poor slaves, it is also one of the future trading ports and a trading base for Southeast Asian companies that are being formed. It is necessary to stock up on a certain number of trade goods. The Colonial Trade Department brought a large amount of Leizhou sugar and rum. Large quantities of silk, raw silk and miscellaneous goods were also trafficked from Guangzhou.

He Fanghui and Quark bargained, and Zuihou finally agreed on the price. The two sides agreed to use sugar and silk as prices for Lingao. Perform the jiā cut immediately.

Since Quark enjoyed the preferential treatment of exemption from import and export duties, he spent very little in the port of Sanya. Roughly calculated, the profit from this voyage was 70%. It's not super profitable, but Batavia is so close to Sanya that he can go back and forth as many times a year as he does, and the loss rate won't be as high as this one - not necessarily every time he'll encounter both Portuguese and storms.

With such a profit, Quark's ambition to be poor became more and more vigorous. He is ready to convince shareholders to invest more – and the results of this trade are enough to give more money to investors who are still clutching their pockets. With the money, he wanted to buy and hire more slave ships; Trying to acquire a plot of land somewhere in Banten or the East Indies and create a "slave island" - it would be too cumbersome to buy from the Dutch before each departure now, and would certainly cause prices to fluctuate. Moreover, the Dutch were not very friendly to the British, and this channel could be closed at any time. He had to have a place to "stock up" in case there was a shortage of goods, and at the same time let the "goods" go through a certain period of quarantine, so that there would be no outbreak of plague and heavy losses when they got on board the ship - the price the Australians gave him was "CIF price". He had to make sure there were enough people alive to get to Sanya. The local "Australian senator" told him plainly that the number of slaves he had brought in was too small - not enough.

Zuihou also had the ambition to provoke the Dutch to fight with the natives of the East Indies, or for the indigenous kingdoms and empires of the East Indies to attack each other, and that the war would bring a large number of captives - and he had come to settle the problem of captives for the rulers. It seems that it is not difficult to provoke war between the natives - there is already a constant conflict on a scale that will expand if they are provided with enough weapons. When the time comes, you will have as many captives as you want......

After Jiā Yi was reached, He Fanghui invited Quark and his party to a banquet at the merchant house, and the two sides toasted each other. He Fanghui congratulated the "directors of the East India Company" and "the King of England", and Quark congratulated "the senators of the Senate" -- "good health" countless times, and the wine glass was filled countless times, and He Fanghui could not help but be secretly surprised to see Quark poor drinking rum like drinking water.

Quark's excitement was palpable, and it had been more than ten years since he left home to trade in East Asia. Although he made money, he was always an iǎ merchant at sea, making a mouthful of leftovers under the system of the East India Company. Now that he has such a channel to make a fortune, thinking about what he will look like when he returns to the motherland with millions of dollars in his pocket, this iǎ businessman is even more fascinated. His mind was full of calculations on how to expand his business.

He was reluctant to stay even a few more days in Sanya, and was eager to return to Banten immediately to trade the next batch of slaves. However, Higgins said that if you want to carry high-end goods such as sugar and silk, it is better to wash the cargo hold below deck first to avoid contamination.

Captain Higgins' advice was not simply "a captain's sense of responsibility", and he knew better than quark the considerable profits of the slave trade. So he went through the official channels and asked to visit the "governor of this place".

When he heard that a British captain was going to pay a visit to him, He Fanghui felt strange. But out of duty, he received the captain anyway.

Captain Higgins turned out to be self-nominated. He mentioned that since they needed slaves so much, weishenme didn't buy black slaves? Black slaves were much more robust, hard-working, and more vigorous than the natives of the East Indies. It's nothing more than that the price of the purchase is a little higher. But since they have sugar and rum, they don't have to worry about paying at all.

"If gentlemen have such needs, I am willing to serve them." Captain Higgins bowed, and then boasted about his "achievements" in the slave trade.

"No, we don't." He Fanghui shook his head and said, "The blacks let them stay in Africa." ”

"I don't understand—" Higgins said disappointedly.

"We don't need to." He Fanghui once again rejected his "kindness".

Higgins saw his idea of obtaining a patent for the importation of slavery from the Australians fall through. After returning to the merchant house, he began to lobby Quark Poor, saying that he was willing to take a stake in the slave trade. Considering that he needed a specialized ship and a knowledgeable captain, Quark immediately welcomed him into the shares. However, the specific share distribution will wait until after the second IPO after returning to Banten. A！ ~！