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John. Petrovich. Within a few days, Hornisian arrived in Port Kaffa. He came by boat, and thankfully, the port of Kaffa wasn't surrounded by damn cold weather, the ice outside the port wasn't heavy, and ships of all sizes were able to dock at the docks. Hornician was accompanied by a distinguished guest from Istanbul, Boris of Russia, a servant of Nasukhpasha, who had come by order of Nasukhpasha to consult with Mr. Mo San, the commercial chargé d'affaires appointed by the East Bankers, concerning the export of the slave resources of the port of Kaffa to the East Bank.

As for the matter of finding someone to represent, it was decided by Golmo, who was far away in Istanbul. Although he was still waiting for the final and definite news from his own country on whether to build the battleship Bayezid for the Ottoman Empire, he also privately approached Nasukh in the spirit of preparing for both. Zade. Hussein Pasha asked him to act as an agent for the export of Kaffa slave girls to the East Coast. Gaumo considered that if the mainland vetoed the export of battleships to the Ottoman Empire, many of the originally vigorously negotiated business between the two sides, such as the road from Istanbul to Edirne, the expansion and reconstruction of the ports of Suez and Kaffa, the construction of a 15-kilometer freight track for the Kaffa iron mine and the sale of supporting vehicles, and the opening of four treaty ports including Thessaloniki, would come to an end. Naturally, this also includes the Kafa slave trade, which is very favored by the East Coasters, and in the future, the East Coasters will be restricted from trading in the two ports of Smyrna and Suez, which will cause a lot of trouble for the East Coasters.

Therefore, after much consideration, Gaumo decided to draw Nasukh Pasha, who was now a popular man in the Sultan's court, into his camp. Tong Guò made a roundabout relationship and finalized this extremely important business first. That is, the agents of Nasukh Pasha bought the slave girls needed by the people of the East coast, and then transferred them to the ports of Smyrna or Suez, and sold them to the fleets of the people of the East coast. Although the price is much more expensive than buying directly from the port of Kaffa, it is safe and secure, and many complicated relationships will be settled by the people of Nasukhpasha, and the people on the east coast will only have to pay for the goods.

Nasukhpasha naturally would not refuse this kind of business that was almost lying at home and picking up money for nothing, plus he had dealt with the people on the east coast for several years, and there was also some foundation of trust between them. So he readily agreed to the request of the people from the east coast, and he also brought in his old friend, the Egyptian Pasha, to share the risk. At the same time, it also means to be wealthy. And Hornisian as the "white glove" of the Pasha of Aleppo and the Pasha of Egypt. He was responsible for providing a large amount of working capital for their slave business, so he would consult on the details in more depth after Boris and Mo San had agreed on those matters of principle.

The negotiations with Boris went smoothly because the two sides were talking about general matters and did not go into details that could easily lead to debate. Therefore. Mo San only took a day. The talks between the two sides ended on February 1o. After gifting Boris with a pistol with an intricately crafted ivory handle, a hookah made of sterling silver, and a large amount of silk. Boris returned to Istanbul on a ship with a smile on his face, hinting that he would speak well for the East Coasters in front of Nasukhpasha.

After Nasukh left, all that remained was to discuss the details of the cooperation with the Armenian merchant Khornisian. Given that there is a high degree of sincerity of cooperation between the two sides. So this kind of negotiation was not really a hard job, and Mo San and Hornisian sat for a few afternoons in a café in Kaffa that had been closed due to the New Army insurgency and now reopened, and they were almost all negotiated. Female slaves were divided into different grades according to criteria such as appearance, age, health, and "place of origin", and then scored comprehensively. Based on 100 points, the price of more than 7O points is 1oo yuan, 75 yuan between 4O points and 7O, and 5O yuan for those below 4O points. The two parties agreed to use the official metal currency of the East Coast "yuan" as the only means of payment, and the transaction did not accept the advance payment system, and the two parties to the transaction received money and goods on the spot.

One point we have to mention here is the question of the "origin" of female slaves. In the long history of slave export in the port of Kaffa for 200 years, we can see that the female slaves taken from Russia are the most resistant, and many of them are thinking about escaping all the time.

In contrast to Russian slave girls, female slaves from Poland or Transylvania were considered the most docile and easily assimilated by the host family, and they generally accepted reality easily, accepted their new life, and survived tenaciously. As a result, the price of female slaves from these two places is generally relatively high, and the market has been in short supply for a long time. In addition to the slave girls, the Easterners will also consider whether to buy some more young boys and girls depending on the financial situation at hand, and the Easterners are a staggering group of money-spenders, and they will not rest until they spend every penny they have.

Regarding the number of female slaves traded, Mo San and Hornisian also worked out a preliminary agreement after discussing with Hornisian. The agreement is for a period of five years, and in the fourth year, there will be a meeting between the two parties to determine whether the agreement needs to be extended, or whether there is any need to adjust the price or quantity of supply. In this five-year agreement, it was agreed that from September of the first year (1645 A.D.), the caravans of the House of Hornisian were to transport no less than 2,000 female slaves between the ages of 15 and 35 to the merchant houses set up by the people on the east coast of Smyrna. At the same time, they had to find a way to transport 500 of the same slave girls to the port of Suez on the Red Sea coast, and the people on the east coast had set up a sizable freight yard outside the small remote town.

Among them, female slaves from the port of Smyrna were to be transported directly to the country by ship to balance the gender ratio. As for the 500 female slaves in Port Suez, they were prepared for the colonies of New China, Australia, and South Africa. In order to solve this thorny problem, and to better develop the colonial economy and serve the homeland, it is time to give the colonists' inhabitants a little sweetness. The country has been on the high for so many years, and the residents of the colony have worked hard and made great sacrifices for the national exhibition, and if they can't even marry a daughter-in-law, it will be really unreasonable. It is also time for the residents of the colony to enjoy the fruits of the country's high development, and now this free daughter-in-law is one of the benefits of the government.

One can imagine how enthusiastic the local residents would be when the group of about 500 female slaves arrived in Xinhua Port. Since the government of the East Coast Republic had been strictly prohibiting the inhabitants of the country from marrying the aborigines without permission for several years ago, the inhabitants of the new Chinese colony had left the large number of Malay women in the neighbourhood untouched, which caused them to complain and complain. Therefore, since the year before, the new Executive Committee has been discussing whether to allocate valuable women's "resources" to the colony. After a year-long debate, the Executive Committee finally reached a conclusion last year, and decided to gradually solve the problem of the imbalance in the sex ratio in the overseas colonies from 1645, and the first step was to allocate 500 female slaves to Xinhua Port and Tacheng Port to alleviate the living problems of as many as 1,500 Ming singles in the local area. As for the 600 or so French and Irish male immigrants from the two places, they could not share the female slaves, but they were temporarily granted legal intermarriage with the local Malays for two years.

According to this agreement, 25ooo female slaves will be transported in the first year, and the number will increase by 2o% every year thereafter, and the number will exceed 5ooo in the last year. Even if the price is calculated at a median of 75 yuan, the East Coasters will pay a huge fee of close to 4o yuan in the last year. If we add the 2ooo female slaves provided by the Ottoman government, the East Coasters will pay a total of 500,000 or 600,000 yuan for these female slaves every year, which poses a serious challenge to the trade volume of the East Bank Republic to export to the Ottomans. Because you can't expect extra money from the country to subsidize the slave trade on your side, there are a lot of places to use the money, there are huge debts to pay, and they also expect to squeeze some money out of the Ottoman trade surplus to subsidize the country.

In addition to the question of money, the supply capacity of the port of Kaffa is also a problem. According to the average number of the last two hundred years, the number of slaves traded in Port Kaffa each year was about fifteen thousand, about half of whom were young women. It seems that the number is enough, but the problem is that there are also a lot of buyers, and if the East Coast people buy a few thousand people at once, it will inevitably break the fragile balance of supply and demand in the market in an instant. When the price of slaves soars, even if Nasukh Pasha and the Egyptian Pasha have a wide relationship and great energy, they will not be able to withstand the wrath of the people. Do you think the Jews who control the market are good at it? Which of them doesn't have a deep network behind them?

Therefore, the solution to the problem is to increase the supply of "goods". This will require the Tatars to continue their efforts, and they need to increase the scale and frequency of their sorties, and try to plunder more women to come back, so as to smooth out the price fluctuations caused by the surge in demand. The attacks of the Tatars by the neighboring Poles and Russians have always been a headache, in which Poland hired a large number of German mercenaries, and at the same time also organized its own Cossacks with six thousand rosters as a defensive force; And the Russians are even more exaggerated, every winter and spring they mobilize seventy or eighty thousand people to defend against a massive attack by the Tatars, which is an extremely heavy financial burden for them.

Thinking that buying a female slave could also indirectly curb the two old countries, Mo San smiled unkindly, I didn't mean to. (To be continued......)