Chapter 341: The Golden Route

Facts have proved that the natives in these places in Southeast Asia are indeed not good slaves, and this is definitely not a matter of character, although the Koreans are nests, but they still have to resist before being taken captive, and then they are honest, and these natives have no intention of resisting at all.

In front of the sword of the Jingshi merchant group, he honestly followed the ship, but the labor force was indeed too poor, and it was quite unsuitable for the cold outside the gate, nearly a third of the people died there, fertilizing the already quite fertile black soil, which made the merchants of the Jingshi merchant group cry out loudly, thinking about how much silver they had to lose.

Although it is not good to work, and it is not suitable for the climate in the north, the Jingshi merchant group found that there are a large number of people who can buy this way in the south, although they are not as capable as Korean slaves, but they can also work to some extent, and if they are sent in large quantities in the spring, they can also solve a lot of problems.

It's just that this time the price must be fiercely lowered, this kind of person is worth three taels, and two people are about the same.

Jiang Feng in Inchon firmly controlled the maritime trade in the Bohai Bay, so he was not too enthusiastic about the direct trafficking of natives, after all, it was not as profitable as the Korean slaves, and now the area south of Seoul, more precisely, in the area south of more than 20 Minwei to the seaside, the Minwei regiment was regularly organized to plunder the population, and the captured Korean slaves could be deducted from future taxes.

The training of the civil guard regiment is much stronger than that of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, but there are not many opportunities for actual combat, and there are 3,000 Jiang soldiers in the north and south of the civil guard, and this time the capture of slaves is just to be used.

In the spring of the 14th year of Jiajing, a dozen Nanyang Chinese ships carrying thousands of natives came to the northern sea, and these Chinese took the initiative to come to Incheon and asked to meet Jiang Feng to pay protection fees, tolls, or similar road money.

Originally, according to the suggestion of some civil guards, these civil guards were people who had benefited greatly from the captivity of Korean slaves, and after deducting taxes, they could also be exchanged for cash, and these civil guards suggested that the slave trading ships of these dozen Nanyang Chinese should be detained and monopolized this business.

The merchants who bought slaves were resident in Incheon, and it seemed that there should have been a consensus on the price of the natives in Southeast Asia for a long time, and the price of three taels per person was directly pressed down to three taels for two people.

Jiang Feng calculated that the profits of the natives were really not interesting for their own capture of Korean slaves and smuggling at sea, so it was better to sit on the ground and collect money like this......

The first deals were soon finalized, and then the commander of the Spanish garrison in Luzon came to the north with more ships, both Chinese and Spanish, and what their ships had in common was that they were full of honest natives.

This matter has formed a fixed procedure, and it is completely handled in accordance with the first time, first come to Incheon to pay the fee, and then the merchants of the reclamation manor come to pick up the goods, and then the empty ships go to Linjia Island in Laizhou, which is also secretly controlled by the Jiang army, and fill it with the special goods of the Ming Dynasty, and drive back to Nanyang. As long as such a transaction does not encounter wind and waves, it is really difficult to make money, and the governor of Luzon, Spain, wrote excitedly in his diary: "Maybe I have discovered a new golden route, and it must be that my sincere prayers have been answered by God!" ”

However, the best labor force has always been the North Korean slave trade controlled by Jiang Feng, and the North Korean labor force is basically knowledgeable about work, and has a greater ability to resist the cold. Therefore, the price of Korean slaves is close to four taels of silver and is in short supply, but the merchants also have accurate information from Jiang Feng, and the share of 50,000 slaves will not exceed 50,000 per year, and each family will distribute it.

According to the letter sent by Tie Dan to Jiang Feng, Jiang Feng roughly estimated that the speed of frontier outside the pass should be about half of Jilin Province in the future, and there were about 50,000 soldiers of large and small reclamation merchant groups and various border guards, Jiang Feng imported more than 100,000 slaves, and they were all digested quickly. Then they operated, and the big merchant groups continued to annex these small estates to expand themselves.

It can be noticed that the number of people who have entered the customs is obviously much smaller than half a year ago, because the people who can be mobilized are basically mobilized, and the industries and estates of the Jingshi merchant group in the customs are also in need of people to operate, and although the weather is not smooth in various places, it can be regarded as peaceful, and the displaced people rarely appear.

In this era, the transportation of information is still extremely inconvenient, so there are many things in Nanyang that Jiang Feng does not know.

Now the two factions in the court are arguing about the matter of the imperial grain, but the matter of the reclamation manor outside the customs has not been raised, first, the officials still know who is doing it behind the reclamation manor, and the emperor may not know about this matter, and this is not a big deal.

Second, he also wanted to get a piece of the pie, and the news of Jingshi was transmitted back to Jiangnan, and then the news of Jiangnan was transmitted to Nanyang.

Now the land in Jiangnan can be said to be almost developed, and the farmers are not so easy to deal with, but the idea of using slaves to cultivate the land outside the border has inspired many people, and several big businessmen in Nanyang have bought a large amount of land in the two cities of Jakarta and Surabaya.

These big businessmen are not good people, they all have such a relationship with the pirates of the South Seas to a greater or lesser extent, and even one person is the nephew of Deng Fang of Shuangyu on Liuheng Island, and there is naturally no shortage of manpower in his hands, and in Borneo, this place was originally the so-called slavery.

You don't have to grab it yourself, you first bought a large number of people for a small amount of money, and then you directly started a similar manor operation.

The cost of grain and various crops quickly became cheaper, and the power of these merchants swelled rapidly, especially Deng Fang's nephew, who recruited a large number of people to come to Nanyang in places like Fujian and Guangdong, where they had a tradition of going to sea, and these people did not come as slaves.

Rather, it existed as a slave catcher and a convoy, and with the maintenance of these people, the manor gradually expanded, and some people calculated such an account, although it was said that the trade and piracy at sea were huge profits, but counting all kinds of risks, it was not as good as the profit insurance of this slave manor.

The situation of grain merchants and farmers in Jiangnan gradually deteriorated, and the grain produced by the reclamation manors and Nanyang manors outside the customs gradually began to suppress grain prices, and the farmers in Jiangnan have always been the best people living in the Ming Dynasty, but this situation has gradually changed, and some people began to go bankrupt without support, and the land was naturally acquired by the big landlords.

Because of the existence of Jiang Feng, the pirates on the sea did not dare to be arrogant, and many people changed careers to become merchants on the sea, so the sea trade was more prosperous than three years ago, because of this prosperity, so the demand for various goods produced in Songjiang, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Yangzhou and Songjiang has greatly increased, not to mention, those who came directly to buy silver and empty ships after the slave trade in Incheon, all kinds of increases are to make the owners and merchants of the handicraft factories make a lot of money, and at the same time, they all feel the shortage of manpower. Many bankrupt farmers are filling these gaps.

In fact, now the Jingshi, whether it is Emperor Jiajing or high-ranking officials at all levels, are a little unable to understand the current situation, and the situation of the peasants in Jiangnan has always been regarded as a bottom line. If there is a problem with the situation of the peasants who have the best lives, then there is nothing to say about the peasants in other places, but the peasants in Jiangnan began to go bankrupt, but not in a disaster year, and the fullness of the treasury of the Ming Dynasty was already the best in history.

The bankruptcy of the peasants is often the source of unrest, but the current situation is that a large number of peasants are absorbed by the large and small handicraft workshops of various state capitals, and if it were not for the various documents and reports of Jinyiwei, the court would not even be aware of such a situation.

Many things have been quietly changed, and the decree of banning the sea is now no longer complied with except for the imperial court's own naval army, and no one even takes it seriously, and even in the welfare of the six officials of the Beijing Division, many rare things are from the sea trade, but everyone is turning a blind eye.

The above things are a year or two years later, after the incident of Daemon Island, everyone at sea is sober, Daemon Island is so close to Liuheng Island Shuangyu, Deng Fang and Xu Qi on the island have always pretended to be invisible, thousands of miles away Incheon Jiangfeng sent a fleet to easily lay down Daemon Island, many maritime forces on this island used to pull relations, they all saw clearly, it can really be said to be solid and tight, but it is said that less than a day of work is to fall apart.

More than 1,000 of those brave Japanese were sold into slavery, and the remaining 4,000 or 5,000 were all moved out of the island......