In the contract, the payment for the first batch of goods was made according to the quantity said by Shen Yue, and the overall quantity was determined according to the number mentioned by Kent before.

100,000 taels of silver, 6,000 taels of gold, part of which was used to pay for the purchase of porcelain and silk by the Shen family, and the other part was paid to Shen Yue as a deposit.

Daming 16 taels a catty, 100,000 taels of silver, 6250 catties, more than three tons of weight, all cast into 1000 grams of silver pieces, each box of silver converted into Ming units, about 1500 taels, a total of 67 boxes, plus more than 10 boxes of silver extorted by Shen Yue before, almost 80 boxes.

The 50,000 taels of silver sent by the Zhang family have almost filled the Shen family's already small silver cellar.

Who would have thought that Shen Yue would so quickly make the Shen family, which had not accumulated a total asset of 100,000 taels for several generations, have so much silver in a short period of time?

Moreover, it is not fixed assets such as houses and land, but cash!

Silver is not paper money, which is too inconvenient.

Now, Shen Yue didn't dare to deposit it in the bank, once it leaked out, the silver would bring about murder.

"Didn't you let you dig more silver cellars before?" Shen Yue also had a headache.

You can't let this lot of silver sit in the courtyard like this, can you?

"Young master, all the manpower that our family can use has been transferred out......," Yang Fu said aggrievedly.

I have to hunt whales and refine oil, and I have to make soap and refine glycerin, and even the family members of the servants who came with me are busy making clothes and shoes all day long.

There is not enough manpower.

"Then let's move to the wing of my yard first." Shen Yue was helpless, so he could only give orders.

It is definitely not possible to put it outside the compound, there is silver in the box, and only a few people know that all of them are absolutely loyal people.

People who don't know think it's the goods brought by the Franciscans.

After a busy day, it was already dusk, and Shen Yue ordered the kitchen to prepare a sumptuous banquet to entertain Kent and Thomas and their officers in the evening. At the same time, he also ordered to entertain the guards of Kent.

"Shen Qi, transfer our family's family out of Minzhuang and arrange for people to take turns guarding my yard." When the silver is moved in, it naturally has to be guarded well.

After Shen Da appeared in the morning, he didn't see a figure, and he didn't know what to do.

This matter can only be handed over to Shen Qi to be responsible.

At noon, the two sides talked about things, but they didn't reach an agreement at first, and Shen Yue didn't talk about generosity, so he casually made some pastries to make up for it, and then continued to talk.

In the evening, the banquet was not sumptuous, but some chicken, duck and fish, and let the ship eat all kinds of dried meat and dry food, and Kent, who had long since faded out of his mouth, and Thomas and several officers on the Frence, regardless of their image, took large pieces of meat in their hands and stuffed them into their mouths, and finally held their bellies round.

There were not many rooms in the house, and the officers were sent back to stay in Kent and Thomas.

For the tea provided by the Shen family, the two did not know how to taste.

There is nothing good about the tea shipped to Europe, not to mention that Europeans do not have such a thick tea culture as Huaxia.

After drinking and eating, Shen Yue chatted with the two of them, asked about the slave trade in Europe, and then asked, "By the way, do you know any slave catchers or slave traders?" ”

"Shen, the Ming Empire has a huge population, do you need slaves?" Thomas asked curiously.

The population of the whole of Europe combined, it cannot be compared with the Ming Empire.

The capture of black Africans as slaves was a slave who needed free work in the colony to open mines and plant.

"The population of the Ming Empire is indeed large, but it is expensive to hire them. If it's just a skilled worker, it's not a problem, but it's an ordinary ......," Shen Yue smiled.

Some lives are very harmful to the human body, and Shen Yue doesn't want to be scolded by future generations. Naturally, the slaves who bought them don't have that kind of worry.

"How much do you need?" As a businessman, Kent naturally would not give up any business.

Moreover, Spain was the first country to engage in the slave trade.

"As much as you want." Shen Yue smiled, "In addition, I need technicians, whether they can weave or do carpentry, I can give a high price!" I can make warships or forge guns, and I can pay two hundred taels of silver per person! ”

"The price is too low, there are skilled slaves, very few." Kent said with a frown.

He couldn't figure out what Shen Yue was going to do.

"No, you don't understand, technicians are not slaves, I hire them to help with the work, and I pay them a monthly honorarium...... "Shen Yue said seriously." I know that many technicians in Europe live in poverty, not exploited by the aristocracy. As long as the salary is high enough, I think they will be willing to come and work for me......"

Slavery had long since been abolished in Europe, and ordinary people still needed vassal aristocracy to survive, except for skilled craftsmen and yeoman farmers.

These people had greater freedom, but they had to pay taxes to the nobility of their region and their kings, and their income could not support a rich life.

Land, means of production, markets, etc., were all controlled by the aristocracy.

This is also why Europeans are willing to invest in the colonial movement, the aristocracy pays, the people at the bottom of the society work hard, and all the profits are the aristocracy.

The exploitation is worse than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Shen Yue knew the situation in Europe so well that Kent was dumbfounded.

"If you can cast guns and build warships, I can pay you two hundred taels of silver for each person!" Shen Yue knew the greed of the European colonizers.

The slave trade, which lasted for centuries and was even the most lucrative trade in Europe at one time.

The first to do this were the Spaniards, and as long as there was a profit, Spanish merchants and sailors would become slave traders.

Shen Yue needed obedient black slaves to do the hard work; He needed European skilled workers to realize some of his designs, not because he didn't believe in the level of Ming craftsmen, but because nowadays, there is too little technical personnel.

"Really?" Kent licked his lips.

Thomas was also interested, "Shen, do you need black slaves?" Each of them will only cost two hundred taels of silver, and you will have them completely, and even their descendants, without having to pay wages......"

"You're robbing money! Thomas, do you think I look like I'm rich? The slaves you get in Black Africa cost almost nothing! Shen Yue jumped up exaggeratedly.

I actually want to rob myself!

Two hundred taels of silver to buy a slave is not expensive. A member of the Shen family has a monthly income of eight cents, plus food, clothing and so on, and it costs at least twenty taels a year. In ten years, it will pay off.

Moreover, the children born of slaves are also slaves.

"Shen, this is already very cheap, you know, from black Africa to South America, a black slave can be sold for 110 pistol gold coins! The price of fifty taels of silver is already very cheap. Thomas said.

Shen Yue glanced at him, shook his head and said, "With such a high price, I might as well hire our own people." Black slaves need to be guarded to prevent them from rebelling, running away or even working lazily......"