The whole Peanut Tun is close to the left, and now it is a huge construction site.

The sandbag and timber bastion is now complete, guarding the entrance to a peninsula to the north of a fairly flat peninsula with trees cut down and a large area of flat land. According to the plan, the first city of the United States of New Island will appear on this flat peninsula. The city's capital construction has begun, half of the embankment around the peninsula has been built, a new pier has been put into use, smoke is rising from a residential area made of logs, a market is between the pier and the residential area, and a circular shore defense battery has been built at the top of the peninsula. Between the forts, the docks, the bazaars, the residential areas and the forts, a smooth dirt road was built.

Among the markets fenced in with wooden fences, the most imposing building is the business name with the sign "Xu Liu Liang Xing" - the name of Xu Liu Liang Xing is a bit awkward, so the people of Peanutun Tun do not use this name, but call it "Human Trafficker Xing", that is, a trading house specializing in human trafficking!

Quite a wicked place!

Maeda Ju, who arrived in Peanutun Tun with her infant son on a merchant ship from Xu Liu Liangxing, now lives in the "human traffickers' shop", and by this time she has put her son to sleep and started working again—because she has her son with her, and she can't do farm work, so she has become a "dead commodity" that no one wants. However, Liu Liang, who was in charge of Xu Liu Liangxing's business in the new mainland, was unwilling to sell her at a discount, so he temporarily left her to help in the firm.

And Maeda Kiku is actually the daughter of a samurai who served in the Saga Domain's Jinya in Nagasaki, and she also grew up in Nagasaki, can speak fluent Chinese, and can also keep accounts - the Saga Domain has been responsible for maintaining law and order in Nagasaki for a long time, so it set up a Jinya in Nagasaki and sent samurai to stay for a long time.

In addition, the area where the Saga Domain was located has long been an important center for trade between China and Japan and North Korea. Therefore, there are many samurai who can speak Chinese and do business. And Maeda Kiku's maiden family has been a samurai who has been doing business for generations, and she has heard and witnessed it since she was a child, and she also has a business acumen.

So he quickly adapted to Xu Liu Liangxing's criminal business - human trafficking!

Of course, Xu Liu Liangxing's "crime" was not discovered until more than 200 years later. At that time, no one thought that Xu Liu Liangxing was sinful.

Even those girls who were sold didn't think Xu Liu Liang was bad...... Just look at the buildings of Xu Liu Liang Xing, there are no facilities for incarceration, and the Japanese women who live here will not be restricted from their freedom. They can wander around, find buyers on their own, and bring buyers to pay for themselves!

It sounds incredible, but the reality is sometimes so ridiculous!

Most of the people brought to Peanut Tun by Xu Liu Liangxing are the daughters of farmers, and in Japan, they are "superfluous" - because it is difficult for non-eldest men of peasant families to get married, so no one wants the extra daughters of these peasant families, and they will be sold by ruthless parents when they grow up a little...... Among them, if you are lucky, you can become a merchant or a samurai's concubine, and if you are lucky, you will almost have to become a wandering girl (prostitute), if you look a little worse, then even the wandering girl is not appropriate, you can only do farm work at home, and you are afraid that you will not be able to eat a few full meals until you die!

And in Peanutun, these people who are redundant in the local area have suddenly become hot and stearful sweets - as long as they go to the nearby construction site and take a turn, there will immediately be tall and handsome men who own a large piece of land to come up and see the price. This kind of man who is big and owns so much land, if it is in Japan, it is something that girls like them dare not think of!

And the value of these girls is fixed, written on the kimono they wear, and they do not accept bargaining, if several men have a crush on a girl at the same time, then the girl can choose a favorite buyer from among them.

Elopement with a buyer doesn't happen because there's nowhere to run ...... The entrance and exit of the market are guarded!

Soon, a girl named Ah Xiang pulled a big man with tanned skin (the men here in Peanut Tun are giants in Ah Ju's opinion) into Xu Liu Liangxing's shop.

"Sister Aju, these are ten minks!" Ah Xiang smiled and handed a stack of mink skins to Ah Ju, "You count." ”

Ah Ju smiled and took the mink, carefully checked them one by one, and then carefully wrapped them up and put them away, then took out a box containing the deed of sale, found the one that belonged to Ah Xiang and put it on the table, and took out a clay box and another white paper full of handprints.

"Ah Xiang, make a mudra, the thumb of your right hand."

"Hay." Ah Xiang answered, and obediently typed a handprint on the blank space of the white paper.

"Guest officer, please check." Ah Ju handed over the white paper with Ah Xiang's handprint and the deed of sale with Ah Xiang's handprint to the big black man, this was to confirm that Ah Xiang was indeed owned by Xu Liu Liangxing.

"I've tested it...... That's right, that's right. After checking the deed of sale, the big black man was already smiling from ear to ear.

He was a bankrupt tenant farmer in Daming, and because he owed usury to the landlords, he was forced to sign a contract to go to the New World to do hard labor—all of which were good things for the big and small shareholders of the United States!

In order to get some people to develop the New World, all kinds of coercion and temptation were used!

This big black guy thought that the New World was as miserable as hell, but when he came, he realized that the wages here are very high, the land does not cost money, there is meat to eat every day, and there are cheap girls to marry to be wives...... As long as you go to the forest and catch ten silly minks and skin them, you can get a fourteen or fifteen-year-old white and tender woman to give birth to a son!

It's paradise!

"This is the invoice, please keep it." Ah Ju has already issued an invoice - Xu Liu Liangxing's human trafficking is a legal business! Therefore, if there is an invoice, you also need to pay taxes according to the law, and the tax rate is 10 percent...... That is, a mink or the equivalent of silver, gold, wheat, etc.

"Invoices? What's the use? "The big black man is illiterate, he took the invoice and looked at it, but he didn't understand.

Ah Ju explained: "Guest officer, the guards outside the market will have to check the invoice before letting you take Ah Xiang away...... In addition, the tun chief of the tun where you live will register Ah Xiang for naturalization and issue a household register after checking the invoice. ”

The management of the House of the Americas is still very strict!

Population, land, industry and commerce, all registered!

The strong men were to perform military and hard labor, the land was to be taxed in kind according to the law, and all kinds of industrial and commercial operations were to be taxed not only according to the law, but also to serve the interests of the United States, and to be "guided" by the Americas...... For example, Xu Liu Liangxing's business was carried out under the "guidance" of the American Mansion!

This is to obtain strategic resources for the House of the Americas!

According to the information available to the American government, every Japanese woman who can get married can have an average of seven to eight children in her lifetime.

In other words, if 10,000 people can be transported to the Americas, 70,000 to 80,000 children will be born in the Americas in the future! That's a lot in the New World!

When Ah Ju trafficked human beings for Xu Liu Liangxing, two of the three major shareholders of Xu Liu Liangxing, Liu Liang, who was in charge of the business of the American Mansion, and Liang Youxin, who was in charge of shipping (he was originally a ship's bow, was pulled into the gang by Xu Kan), were reporting to Wei Zhongzhong in the American Mansion in that fortress (Fortress of the Americas).

It is not to report how many more people have been successfully trafficked, but to report that the transport ship commanded by Liang Youxin encountered a Spanish ship in the North Pacific.

It turned out that Liang Youxin's Pacific sailing ship (a large hard sailing ship) encountered a large bird ship flying the Spanish red forked flag in the North Pacific Ocean near the Gulf of America!

Moreover, the sailors of the Daihia Ocean sailing ship also noticed that there were many Orientals on the Spaniard's big bird ship, and judging by their dress, it seemed that they were from Japan......