Port of Annam, Hongji City.

The three slave ships slowly approached the wharf, and the sickle and hammer flag of the Nanyang Labor Service Company were waved in the wind. To serve our customers, the sickle and hammer imply workers and peasants, and it is the largest sales market of Nanyang Labor Service Company.

Ahem, no one knows how strong Chen Ming's bad taste is contained in this.

On the Hongji port, the senior management of the local labor export company looked at the three large ships approaching the port with eager eyes, which was money for them.

Wearing a rattan hat, carrying a short stick, and an armed belt with a double-barreled handcuff on his waist, Lin Ahai led the team to maintain order in the port, and it was his turn to be on duty this time.

"Go back and back, I don't know the rules......"

"You're so active, you want to follow into quarantine, don't you?"

Foaming at the mouth, these people with red armbands on their arms were quite arrogant. Lin Ahai whistled in his mouth, and his eyes widened.

About ten minutes later, the gangway was erected, first a group of security guards of the Nanyang Labor Company, one by one, loaded with guns, and then a steady stream of people began to disembark from the three boats. They were dressed in clothes that were clearly different from those of Annan, there were men, women, and children, but they couldn't see the old people.

For every 100 people, a batch will be taken.

The whole process lasted half an hour, a total of eleven teams came down, and the last team was missing a small half, and then the manager who led the team appeared this time.

"Beep beep beep ......" Lin Ahai whistled, but the whistle was directly obliterated in the noisy crowd.

There is a serious shortage of labor in the whole Hongji City, not only in the coal mines, but also in rice cultivation, and the labor force continues to be imported to Phnom Penh and Vientiane.

As China's authority on the Indochina Peninsula grew, more and more Chinese began to move out of Hung Kai and into Phnom Penh, Vientiane, and Luang Prabang, where mining and logging were common.

In Chen Ming's previous life, although Cambodia and Laos were one of the least developed regions in the world, both countries have rich forestry resources, producing teak, pear, red sandalwood, ebony and other precious timber, Cambodia has a lot of gold and gem mines that can be developed, and Laos also has gold mines and tin mines.

From the perspective of the state, these places are not worth Chen Ming's big fight, but for private capital, there is still a lot of hope.

Especially after China stopped Siam's preparations to send troops to Vientiane, the status of the Chinese in the local area was even higher.

These two countries are closed and backward, and many mining methods are the old ways that China has been abandoned, and Chinese merchants have reached an agreement with the nobles who occupy the gold mines to hand over as much gold as they want every year, and then the rest belongs to themselves, so as to make profits, which has become a very common way now. It is very similar to the method of profiting from the Chinese mining companies that mined gold for the local indigenous aristocracy in West Borneo, except that the Chinese merchants here have much more rights and guarantees than the original Chinese laborers.

So labor is very scarce.

Hongji Port, the largest concentration of Chinese on the Indochina Peninsula, is also the largest slave distribution center on the peninsula. The Nanyang Labor Company is very popular here, as they can put at least 1,000 slaves into the area every month.

With the support and endorsement of a group of nobles led by the queen and the emperor's eldest son, the development speed of Heibing Ocean Security and Nanyang Labor Service is beyond imagination. Who made China lack labor at this time?

The Korean serfs are now extinct in the market, and the Japanese serfs have the state as a guarantee, and even the imperial court looks down on them, so they can't go too far. The ownership of the flag slaves is in the hands of the imperial court, and only a few appear in the market.

If the immigrants in the Northeast catch the bannerman, the ownership will belong to him. It was also a way to encourage local immigrants to fight against the bannermen who had fled into the forest.

The state also forbade the breeding of black slaves, which caused a great increase in the production cost of many labor-intensive industries. So you can fully imagine what a perfect time it was for the Black Ice Ocean and the South Sea Labor to collide.

Surakal Tower at the headquarters of Java Island.

On the edge of a dense rainforest of hundreds of kilometers, in the middle of a wild wetland meadow. Under the cover of several light mortar guns, hundreds of soldiers of the Black Ice Ocean Security Team, wearing black-and-green striped combat uniforms, rattan armor hanging on their chests, large-brimmed rattan hats, and flintlock pistols in their hands, lined up in two columns with a horizontal formation of more than ten meters, and opened a distance of four or five meters between each other, like two fishing nets, slowly and cautiously advancing towards the rainforest to the south.

Not far behind these soldiers, two or three hundred disheveled Chinese were closely followed, each with knives and guns or firearms, looking around excitedly.

The shelling had not stopped, and small flowering shells were constantly kicking up patches of smoke and dust in the rainforest ahead. The closer they got to the woods, the slower the pace of the Black Ice Ocean security guards, and from time to time a soldier stopped and pulled the trigger in a certain direction, and a short man dressed as a commander raised his hand to signal the troops to be more vigilant.

The sound of artillery was incessant, the guns rose and fell, and the battle line continued to advance towards the target rainforest.

Suddenly, a line of gunfire rang out from the woods, and immediately someone fell in the two columns of people who were marching, followed by a series of exclamations and gunfire. The mortar artillery crew in the rear immediately adjusted the muzzle and angle, and then a series of shells flew out of the barrel and smashed into the place where the gunfire and white smoke came.

Explosions erupted in the depths of the woods, accompanied by faint cries, and soon there was movement at the edge of the woods, and several black ice security soldiers ran hunched over, all armed with katanas, double-barreled handcuffs and grenades in their hands. A moment later, the explosion of a grenade rang out, followed by the sound of a wah-wah-wah, and hundreds of ragged Jawwa natives rushed out of the woods wielding all sorts of tattered weapons, all with red eyes and hideous expressions.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The grenade exploded, then the gunfire rang out, and several of the security guards who had emptied their handcuffs immediately fell to their knees.

"Shoot!"

The Black Ice Yang security guard raised the musket in his hand, and saw the front and back rows of firelight and gunpowder gushing out. The natives of the claw depression who rushed out of the woods were shot one after another, and their running bodies fell to the ground in various movements in the rain of bullets.

The security guards in the front row threw away their muskets, drew their katanas, and rushed towards the natives with a scream.

"Kill the ......"

The security team members in the back row began to reload their bullets, and the Chinese who followed them also brandished their weapons to kill.

In this rainforest area, the muskets of this era are not useless, if they just want to defeat the enemy, the security guards of the Black Ice Ocean only need to stay in place to reload ammunition and shoot, and those natives will most likely not be able to rush forward. But what they need is not this, but to annihilate the enemy, preferably to capture the enemy alive. The power of the musket is too great, and if it is hit, it will not kill but also be seriously injured, so in order to obtain more benefits, the security guards of the Black Ice Ocean prefer to use the katana in their hands to teach the natives how to behave.

All you need to do is slash and kill some of the people who rushed to the front, and the morale of the remaining natives will drop in an instant. Then it's the rhythm of pursuit and capture.

As a mercenary of the Sholo Sultanate, the enemy of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, it is logical that the Black Ice Ocean Security Company will attack the Yogyakarta people by force.

"Get on the bayonet! Keep moving! ”

The commander in the back row slashed forward with the katana in his hand, and forty or fifty Black Ice Ocean guards quickly advanced forward. You have to be fast, or you won't be able to eat meat.

The art of these claw natives fighting is really stinking at home, and the emotions are like lightning, coming quickly and dissipating quickly.

The natives who rushed out of the woods were killed and wounded one after another, and in the face of the katana of the Black Ice Ocean guards, they were almost crushed with a single touch, just like before. Those with muskets will only hide in the rainforest without showing their heads.

The Dutch provided Yogyakarta with a lot of weapons, both hot and cold, otherwise they would have been beaten even worse by the Black Ice Ocean. Don't you see that even the local Chinese have started to earn extra money? After the Black Ice Ocean security defeated the natives, these Chinese from Surabaya and Ermarang rushed up to help arrest people, and how much money was given to catch one, and the injured, disabled and dead were also given bereavement benefits, which attracted many Chinese to participate.

These Chinese are not purely for money, and many of them are in a revenge mentality.

But in any case, their appearance greatly facilitated the operation of the Black Ice Ocean Security Company.

"Big brother, these black ice soldiers are really powerful, they don't look tall, but they can really fight. Within a month, the natives of Surakarta had collapsed. Our brothers also drank the broth. I've made so much money in just a few days......"

In the Chinese team following behind the Black Ice Ocean Security Team, a neatly dressed man said to the middle-aged man who was surrounded by seven or eight people around him, and more Chinese were running and chasing at the moment, while raising the knife and gun in his hand and making an exaggerated shout.

"That's it. Don't look at who is behind these Japanese dwarfs? That's the Queen's Mother. Uncle Guo suffered such a big loss in Yogyakarta, and it is no wonder that the queen can bear it. The boss thought about the money he had fallen in his hands this month, and his heart blossomed.

"It's not that these dwarfs can fight, it's that the Black Ice Yang Security Company is powerful, no matter how bad the crooked melons and cracked dates are, the more people can train out elite soldiers......"

……

Since the establishment of the Black Ice Ocean last year, Japanese samurai have begun to enter the Black Ice Ocean one after another. Although this expansion was very slow, it was not comparable to the regular army at all, and when the scale reached a certain level, Hei Bingyang himself had to stop, but the number of the latter quickly expanded to five hundred, forming five security teams.

While dealing with Yogyakarta, its business has also really begun to enter the security industry.

In the territory controlled by the Dutch, many Chinese settlements needed such business. For this reason, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Nanjing also sent a special representative to Batavia to consult with the Dutch, but the Dutch could not agree to it.

But the main task of the latter is still to deal with Yogyakarta, since entering the claw depression, several battles in a row, the black ice ocean turned the Yogyakarta people on their backs. Then the establishment of the entire slave hunting system will be logical.

……

Chen Ming was looking through the account books of Nanyang Labor Service Company in Nanjing, and compared with last year's income, the benefit in the first half of this year was even higher.

Chen Ding stood next to him with a proud face, holding his head high, waiting for praise.

In the first half of this year, just in the first half of the year, the net profit he obtained from Nanyang Labor Service Company reached 600,000 yuan, which means that the profit of the entire company in the first half of the year was as high as 2.5 million yuan. It's a total profiteering!

Last year, the Nanyang Labor Service Company, which had a total capital of only 1 million, made a net profit of 2.5 million yuan in the first half of this year, so it will be 500 people in a year, which is 500% of the income, what an astonishing figure.

The slave trade was a good deal.

Although the value of human trafficking in the East is far less than that of the West, and I don't know if the West has always had a shortage of population, the price of a strong male black slave in the Americas can be as high as 100 pounds, that is, 300 taels of silver, which is completely unthinkable in China.

In the Manchu Qing Dynasty more than ten years ago, a big girl with craftsmanship only needed a dozen taels of silver, and the price of no craftsmanship had to be cut in half. And the price of a male valet is hardly higher than that of a woman, and sometimes even lower.

It is no wonder that in the past few hundred years, the Europeans have sent tens of millions of black Shuli to the land of the Americas, purely driven by interests.

"What do you want to do with this money?"

Nanyang Labor Company no longer needs to continue to invest funds, so the profits in the first half of this year will be dividends. 600,000 Chinese dollars is not a small amount, how can Chen Ding spend it?

Chen Ming asked curiously and expectantly.

"The child is going to divide the money into three parts, the first part is 200,000 yuan, and the child decided to give it to the queen mother for charity."

"The second part is 300,000, and the child is ready to set up a venture capital company." Of course, the concept of venture capital funds was pointed out by Chen Ming, and Chen Ding always kept it in mind after listening to it, and the more he tasted it, the more he felt that it was a good way.

"In the past two years, more and more patented inventions have been applied, but there are more and more news in the newspapers that inventors have lost their efforts due to financial reasons. The kid thinks it's worth it. And as my father said, this venture capital can not only fund inventions, but also invest in companies.

As long as one of the ten orders can be successful, then there will be money. ”

"The last 100,000 yuan, then keep it for the child to spend for himself."

Chen Ding happily went out of the Qianqing Palace, and Chen Ming praised him greatly, which made Chen Ding very happy.

"Big brother, big brother ......"

Back at his residence, Chen Ding's yard had already gathered more than n small spots. As soon as they saw Chen Ding coming, they all hugged him.

"Big brother, this is my money."

"This is my ......"

"And mine, I want that kind of high slide......"

"I want a merry-go-round!"

"I want a trampoline, I want a trampoline......"

"Water biking is fun. Big brother, you must ask someone to build a water bicycle, otherwise I will go to sue my mother, and you will cheat people and cheat money! ”

It's a good feeling to be watched by a group of younger brothers and sisters with longing eyes and warmly embraced, but what the hell is this after suing my mother? What is it called scamming people and cheating money?

Chen Ding's face stiffened suddenly, but he looked at a group of younger brothers and sisters who changed their faces instantly......

"Yes, after suing my mother, there is no high slide, and I will also sue my mother."

"And me!"

"Big brother, there must be a merry-go-round......

Chen Ming's face stiffened even more, "Building an amusement park outside the palace is for you little farts to play, okay?" "Chen Ding has been in his own army several times, and he is already old, so he doesn't need to go to the amusement park to play.

This group of little kids only raised a total of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan, "What am I spending these 100,000 yuan for......?" Chen Ding doubted his original choice. Why do you owe so much to these little guys about the idea of an amusement park?

also has the pride of being a big brother, and promises them to build an amusement park for them to be satisfied.

Self-inflicted. "That's 100,000 yuan." (To be continued.) )