Chapter 67: The White Slave Trade
After examining the actual situation in Constantinople, Jiang Yin finally decided to start the 'White Slave Trade' program.
In later history, from the time of the Age of Discovery, which began with Columbus, a program called the slave trade prevailed in the Western world.
After the discovery of the New World, the exchanges between Westerners and the natives at the beginning were peaceful and friendly, and Columbus even called the natives of the New World brothers, and exchanged goods with them at the same price, and the natives naively thought that Columbus was really their eternal friend.
But when Westerners saw gold, the greed in their hearts began to twist and spread like the satanic serpent in the Garden of Eden.
When Columbus landed in the New World for the second time, he no longer carried wine and gifts, but muskets and cannons, and the natives were greeted no longer with a brother's embrace, but with bullets to shoot.
From the beginning of the fifteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, the slave trade wrote one of the most shameful and despicable pages in the modern history of mankind.
According to statistics, the black tribe "slave hunting war" in the process of 400 years of enslavement, African blacks were killed tens of millions, from the mouth of the Senegal River to the mouth of the Congo River in the vast area, moored one after another European colonial countries slave trading ships, the black bow is like an open mouth of blood, waiting to devour human flesh.
In the first half of the eighteenth century, the island of Santo Domingo imported 2.8 million slaves, and by 1976 there were only more than 65,000 left, an average of more than 40,000 deaths per year, according to the calculation method of sacrificing at least 10 or so black Africans for every slave transported to the Americas, the slave trade cost Africa 100 million people, which is equivalent to the total population of Africa in 1980.
The crimes committed are hard to write, and the blood is full of blood, and the bones are white.
It can be said that Westerners have brought endless hardships and hardships to Africa, but in later generations, they despise Africa's poverty and weakness, and they rely on the plundered manpower and assets to continue to grow and develop, and even later, they also launched the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China.
This kind of predator's face, Jiang Yin, as a patriot, hates it very much.
However, in later generations, many Chinese people still admired these foreigners very much, foreigners are smart, foreign moons are roaster, and even foreign air is sweet.
Jiang Yin looks down on these people from the bottom of his heart, what's so great about white people? In medieval Constantinople, all the white people he saw were as hairy as baboons, smelling of foxes, living in dilapidated and rotten houses, unhygienic, and defecating in the open.
Compared with the Great Song Dynasty, it is simply a comparison between primitive civilization and the state of etiquette.
For the enslavement of these white people, Jiang Yin does not have the slightest burden psychologically, these people are not the ancestors of those war criminals in the Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China, and China in later generations has no ability to investigate the ability of these people, but in this time and space, how to deal with these white people, it is not up to him to have the final say......
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Ten wagons drove up to the north gates of Constantinople.
The white soldiers in the city were obviously all a little flustered, they had never seen these strange big guys, all of them clenched their bows and crossbows, as if they were facing a great enemy.
"Call your captains out! Jiang Yin stepped out of the truck and shouted in proficient medieval English.
When he shouted, the white soldiers on the city tower suddenly felt shocked, and a leader looked at Jiang Yin carefully, and the yellow-skinned man saw it for the first time, and after hesitating for a moment, he still shouted to the city: "I am Anderson, the chief stationed at the north gate, may I ask this gentleman, what are these big monsters behind you?" What was the purpose of coming to Constantinople? ”
"I am a great merchant from the far east, and I have brought ten carts of goods from the east, and I want to see your king, Basil II, and I ask you to report it quickly." Jiang Yin's tone of voice was very arrogant, where had the leader of the white soldiers on the city tower seen this battle, and he was immediately intimidated.
His Majesty the Emperor will certainly not be able to see him, but his commander, the commander of the garrison of the city defense, General Brontë, should be qualified to talk to the one outside the city.
"Wait a minute, dear sir, I need to inform our general." Anderson shouted respectfully downstairs.
"Yes, please hurry." Jiang Yin waved his hand, and the two subordinates brought him a bamboo reclining chair and sat under the city tower.
Seeing Jiang Yin's treatment, Anderson was even more sure that the person downstairs was a big man, and he couldn't help but rush to the garrison of the city defense department. I directly found General Brontë, who was drinking tea at the city defense department.
"General Brontë, outside the city, outside the city! ...."Anderson gasped.
"What's going on outside the city?" Brontë was a high-ranking nobleman who controlled the defense of Constantinople, wearing a blonde aristocratic hairstyle, a leotard, and a round black cloak fastened to one shoulder, looking like a typical medieval European aristocracy.
"Ten huge chariot-like monsters came from outside the city, led by a yellow-skinned man, who... He claimed to be a great merchant from the Far East, wishing to meet His Majesty the Emperor. Anderson said breathlessly.
"Merchants of the East?" Brontë's face was shocked, the East is a mysterious place, in Byzantium, there are many top treasures that are transported back from the East by caravans, including tea, silk, and porcelain, but he has never seen an Oriental person, this time when he heard that there were Orientals coming to Byzantium, he was half confused and half excited.
"Anderson, are you sure he's an Oriental? Not other Eastern Slavs or Central European Celts or something? ”
"General Brontë, although his subordinates have not seen an Oriental, but the man is yellow-skinned and has black eyes, and he is definitely not an Eastern Slav and a Central European Celtic." Anderson assured.
"Well, since it's a gentleman from the far east, I really need to meet him." Brontë said to the servant in the house with some excitement, "Clean up, there will be distinguished guests coming later." ”
"Yes, General."
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When Brontë and his party arrived on the city wall, Jiang Yin was a little impatient, he was wearing sunglasses, lying on a recliner, and a folding fan in his hand, his aura was very powerful.
"That's the gentleman." Anderson pointed to Jiang Yin under the city tower.
Although Brontë is a nobleman, where has he seen Jiang Yin's outfit, and he suddenly felt that Jiang Yin was also a big man, otherwise he would not have named him to see His Majesty the Emperor, which would have to be a good life.
Thinking so in his heart, Brontë finally spoke downstairs to the city: "Dear Mr. Dongfang, the contempt is the general of the Byzantine Empire's garrison of Constantinople, Brontë Weston......"
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