Chapter 115: Great Khan, I Want to Buy Mao Mei!
Originally, Marindu happily planned to leave Bakhchisaray with his mission and escort and return to the Danish battlefield. But while leaving the city www.biquge.info Marin stumbled upon a group of Crimean cavalrymen who drove a group of bound men into Bakhchisale.
"Who are these people?" Lithuanian Deputy Envoy Viktor looked at the bound men and women in confusion.
"They, ah, are Slavic slaves captured by the Crimean cavalry......" Marin suddenly almost jumped off his horse.
"Slave ...... Slave trade...... Mao Mei ...... Damn, I almost forgot ......."
He immediately turned his horse's head and returned to Bakhchisare, leaving the rest of the legation on standby, returning to the Khan's palace with only Karn.
Hearing that the messenger had returned, Möngkejire Khan was surprised, but summoned Marin. After all, Marin's "North Sea Chamber of Commerce" is now the god of wealth of the Crimean Khanate.
"Participate in the Great Khan!" After entering the Khan's Palace, Marin hurriedly saluted.
Möngkejire Khan was also nervous about Marin's sudden return, for fear that Marin would regret it and not buy cattle and sheep from the Crimean Khanate in the future.
"Your honor, I don't know why I suddenly turned back?"
"That's right, the Great Khan is about to march into the Ryazan principality. After this battle, there should be a lot of slaves, right? ”
"Of course, the Ryazan principality has a population of more than 100,000 people, and the city of Ryazan alone has more than 10,000 people. If you break through the city of Ryazan, clean up the rest of the Principality of Ryazan again, and capture 10,000 or 20,000 young men, women and children, it should be no problem. "As for the situation in the Principality of Ryazan, Möngkejire Khan is also very clear.
"It's good, I wonder how the Great Khan will sell after he catches the slave?" Marin asked seemingly casually.
"This ...... If you catch 10,000 or 20,000 slaves, I don't know if you can sell them all......" Möngkejire Khan suddenly felt a little distressed when he thought of this. Although the port of Kaffa exported slaves on a large scale, it could only export a few thousand slaves per year, mainly to Turkey. However, if the Turks are not willing to buy more, they may not be able to sell so many people this time......
"Why don't I help Da Khan digest some?" That's how Marin speaks. obviously wanted to help his subordinates buy Mao Mei, but he said that he was helping Meng Gejire Khan digest the "inventory......
"Really?" Möngkegire Khan was struggling with the sale of slaves, and Marin offered to help him digest it, much to the surprise of Möngkegire Khan.
"Of course, Great Khan, can I lie to you?"
"How many slaves does your envoy's chamber of commerce want? What kind of slave do you want? Möngkejire Khan asked excitedly.
"The main thing is to be young and able-bodied, to be able to do farm work. Of course, young and beautiful girls too. How much is it...... I'm not sure, I'll go back and ask for instructions, maybe a few thousand still need ......"
"Thousands? With all due respect, what do you want so many women for? The demand that Marin said also frightened Montgogire Khan. Generally speaking, the number of human beings trafficked by the Crimean Khanate every year is only a few thousand, not more than 10,000. And Marin opened his mouth to ask for thousands of female slaves, which frightened Möngke Jire Khan as well. Now, Möngkegire Khan is somewhat suspicious of Marin as a liar. Because, the other side is really good to the Crimean Khanate, helping to solve all kinds of problems......
"That's right, over there, the cost of marriage for young men is very high now. Is the price spicy and expensive...... The woman not only wants a house, but also a car...... Well, the carriage...... So, it's hard for those young men to get married...... It just so happened that I heard that on the Great Khan's side, the price of female slaves in Eastern Europe was cheap, only a few gold coins each. Our chamber of commerce plans to set up a subsidiary engaged in matchmaking business, specializing in selling women from Crimea to return home and sell them to those single young people as wives......" Marin said casually. What he said was clearly the situation of traveling through the former China......
Möngkejire Khan really believed it, because he didn't know the specific situation in Western Europe, at most he knew a little about Lithuania. As for the social situation in Western Europe, he naturally did not understand. Besides, what did he want to know? As long as someone is willing to buy his slaves.
"I see...... But, my lord, a few gold coins a piece, that's a married woman......" Möngkejire Khan kindly reminded.
The Green Cult values women's chastity, and there is a big difference in price between girls and women. But Christian areas have never paid much attention to these. In the eyes of traditional Christians, they only look down on indulgent women who mess around before they get married, but they never look down on women who are married. Because, if you are unmarried, you will be unruly and chaotic, and you will go to hell after death. And the women who have been married are generally poor women who have died of their husbands or have been abandoned by their husbands, and there is nothing wrong with them in themselves, and they have not violated the rules. So, in Europe, it is normal to marry widows, especially those who are rich. If there were noble widows with large fiefdoms, it would be more popular, and the king would come to pursue them......
"It's not a problem, for poor young people, women and girls are the same. Of course, the woman's husband, it is better not to come to the door......"
"Please rest assured, when we robbed those women, most of their husbands were killed, and there was no aftermath......
After Ma Lin heard this, he felt a chill all over his body - it was really a robber nation, not to mention robbing other people's women, and killing other people's husbands, and vicious ...... However, his participation in the slave trade seems to be very vicious......
"Well, we're going to buy mainly young women, but also some young girls. However, it can't be ugly......"
Marin has actually made up his mind, and now, there are a lot of immigrants in East Friesland. Most of them are poor young singles. Because the population of the previous manor could not bear it, he was driven out of the manor by the original owner of the manor and forced to wander around looking for work.
However, finding a job is not so easy either. After all, it is now an agrarian society, and the handicraft industry is not very developed, and only a small number of people find work. Many people could not find work, either to beg, to starve to death, or to work as robbers for a living......
Marin recruited a large number of young bachelors who had no work to do and served as serfs. These people, it was a problem to survive, it would be good to be able to marry a wife, where would they care if the wife was a girl or a woman?
Therefore, Marin's purchase of a large number of hairy young women was actually for those newly recruited single serfs. Moreover, the price of a young woman is much cheaper than that of a young girl. Marlin didn't buy one or two, but hundreds of thousands. If you buy all the girls, it will cost twice as much.
For example, a young woman who looks good is priced at 6 gold coins each. And a good-looking girl costs as much as eleven or twelve gold coins. The price of a beautiful girl is more than 15 gold coins......
Marin has done his best to help those single serfs buy wives. You know, even in the 21st century, no country ZF will find a partner for single young people. Therefore, even if it is a young woman who is looking for those singles, it is very worthy of them. Moreover, Marin also specially asked to choose a good-looking one worth 6 gold coins. Those ugly young women who only cost 4 gold coins, Marin didn't buy them......
In addition, Marin also plans to get a group of hairy beauties to go to the Americas and develop colonies together. Mao women, when they were young, were very beautiful, and after the age of 30, although they were not beautiful, they were tall and very capable of working. Sent to the American colonies, just to help those immigrants do farm work. After all, most of the people who are willing to go to the colony now are young people who can't get along. Ordinary East Friesian girls are not happy to marry those immigrants and go to the colonies to suffer together. Only these hairy beauties, because they were sold into slavery, would go to the American colonies, marry those immigrants, and work with their new husbands to develop the Americas......
As for Ma Lin's proposal, there is also a group of beautiful hairy girls, which are mainly used to reward officers and soldiers in the army. The officers and men in the army worked hard for Marin, so naturally they couldn't just use women to fool them. Those who have made war exploits can use beautiful girls as rewards.
Previously, Marin had sent Alter to Naples, Italy, to exchange food for beautiful Italian refugee beauties. After all, in the past two years, because of the war in Naples, the farmland has been barren, and many girls have not been able to eat.
Originally, Marin planned to recruit twenty or thirty thousand young women in Naples to marry his soldiers. However, after Alter recruited the first batch of 2,000 beautiful girls and the second batch of 8,000 Italian girls, France and Spain, which divided the Kingdom of Naples, discovered Alter's actions and forbade Alter to continue exchanging grain for beautiful women in Naples. Because, France and Spain, fearing that Alter would use food, abducted all the girls of the Kingdom of Naples. In that case, in the future, the lads of the Kingdom of Naples will not be able to find a daughter-in-law and will not be able to give birth to offspring, and in the future the number of citizens who pay taxes to both countries will be reduced......
In this way, Marin's original plan fell through. And 10,000 Italian girls are really not enough for their soldiers to divide up......
Those who are willing to be mercenaries and exchange their lives for money are basically young bachelors and poor boys. So, most of the 25,000 mercenaries under Marin's command (including the 5,000 sent to Italy) were singles. 10,000 Italian girls are not enough to divide it up.
Therefore, when Marin came to the Crimean Khanate this time, he remembered that he could buy Mao Mei as a wife for his subordinates......
Of course, for those soldiers who have made military exploits, they cannot be sent away casually by women. A beautiful girl can be regarded as a high-grade reward, and it can also stimulate the enthusiasm and desire in the hearts of the soldiers......
All in all, the beautiful woman with hair is used to be a wife for serfs. Of course, those soldiers who have no military exploits can also choose a beautiful woman with Mao Zi as their wives. And those soldiers who have made military exploits can rely on their military exploits to obtain a beautiful girl with a hairy girl as a wife......
However, in order to specifically pit Russia and stimulate the Crimeans. Marin proposed to buy only women from the Rus' countries, not from other Eastern European countries, such as Lithuanians and Romanians.
In this way, if the Crimean Khanate wants to get Marin's order, it has no choice but to go to the Grand Duchy of Moscow to grab Mao Mei......
In this way, every year, the Grand Duchy of Moscow was reincarnated by the wolf cubs of the Crimean Khanate. Want to rise? Destroy the Crimean Khanate first......
For Marin's request, Möngke Jire Khan was not satisfied. However, it would be nice to have someone buy their slaves in large quantities, and even if he was a Great Khan, it was difficult for Möngkegire Khan to interfere with other people's choices. It's a big deal, I'll go to Moscow and Ryazan to grab it more in the future......
Before leaving, Marin suddenly proposed:
"Great Khan, please give me the flag of Crimea, and the customs clearance paperwork!"
"Huh? Envoy, what do you want our flags and customs clearance documents for? Möngkejire Khan was puzzled.
"It is so, Great Khan, buy slaves, which we intend to transport by ship from the sea. And the ships needed to go through the Turkish straits, passing through the territory of the Turks. And the country of the Great Khan, and Turkey are allies. So, I suppose, your flag and customs clearance paperwork, the Turks should buy it, right? ”
Of course, the Crimean Khanate is Turkey's little brother. The Turks also relied on the Crimean Khanate to help suppress the Slavs of Eastern Europe, so naturally they would not refute the face of the Crimean Khanate. If you get the customs clearance documents of the Crimean Khanate and go through the Turkish Straits, you will indeed not be embarrassed......
"Why not take the land route from Lithuania?" Möngkejire Khan was a little puzzled. You know, the cattle and horse trade that was negotiated before was all about taking the Lithuanian land route......
"The Great Khan did not know that in our western part of Europa, the Holy See forbade the open trade in slaves. So, the slave trade had to come quietly. And, as you know, in the eyes of the Holy See, you Green Religion, that's heretic. If I openly cooperate with you on land and sell Slavic Christians into slavery, I will be punished by the Holy See......"
In fact, the Holy See, though corrupt, is also benevolent because of Christian doctrine. Moreover, Christianity has always been opposed to slavery and the slave trade, including the black slave trade.
However, later Protestantism rose, Catholicism was defeated, and the majesty of the Holy See was lost. Later, the European countries did not take the Holy See seriously, and took care of the black slave trade on their own. The Holy See has nothing to do about it.
However, the current Holy See is still very authoritative. Before Alexander VI died and his father-in-law had not yet come to power, Marin could not openly sell Eastern European slave girls. If Alexander VI had found out, he would have been unable to eat and walk away. Even if he bought cattle and horses from the Crimean Khanate, Marin intended to play in the name of the North Sea Chamber of Commerce. Because, on the surface, the Beihai Chamber of Commerce is a Jewish-run Chamber of Commerce, and it has nothing to do with Marin. Even if something happens, Marin will not be implicated. It's a big deal, build a new "vest" and get a new chamber of commerce......
Therefore, Marin asked for the flag of the Crimean Khanate and the customs clearance documents, guaranteeing that the merchant ships under his command would pass through the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea to Kafa, the slave export port of the Crimean Khanate, to buy slaves. After all, the sea is not as crowded as it is on land. As long as you don't use your own banner, no one will find out that you are trading slaves......
After listening to Marin's explanation, Möngkegire Khan expressed his understanding. So, he presented Marin with four flags of the Crimean Khanate and signed a customs clearance document with his own handwriting. The document is written in Arabic, which is common in the world of the Green Religion, and is understandable to Turks......
After getting the flag and customs clearance paperwork, Marin really left this time. He took Karn back to the gates of the city, joined his original team, and set out on their way home......