Chapter 475: The Americas

"The Belt and Road Party also has to be cultivated!"

Looking at Montesquieu's dazed and departing back, Emperor Yang muttered to himself there with a deep face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Indeed, it is time to cultivate the Belt and Road Party.

In the process of conquering Europe in the future, this kind of person will inevitably be indispensable, in fact, even if he invades Europe now, there will also be a leading party to lead the way for the king, the Europeans of this era are not so highly conscious, of course, even if they have enough consciousness, it is also indispensable to do this, the leading party is a species that may appear in any era. What's more, except for one Netherlands, at this time the rest of Europe were some monarchies, such as the United Kingdom is still a constitutional monarchy, and the other countries are no different from the Middle Ages in terms of system, France originally had a Estates-General, but since Louis drove those parliamentarians out of the French parliament hall with a horsewhip half a century ago, it has completely returned to the era of pure monarchy.

As for other countries......

There is no difference between other countries and the Middle Ages.

The country is not the country of the common people, but those feudal monarchs and hereditary nobles, the national problem has just begun to show a little bit at this time, the vast majority of the people do not have the concept of the country and the nation, who gives them a good life with whom they mix, and the Ming Dynasty, even if it is the living standards of the people of the Ming Dynasty and Europe is not a level, which is very clear to the European crew on the merchant ships that travel between the Ming Dynasty and Europe every year.

If they were asked to choose between Yang Feng and the kings, of course they would choose Yang Feng.

There is no doubt about it.

Look at those white people who did not hesitate to take the initiative to convert to the Holy Religion to obtain the status of Ming subjects, as well as those in Mozambique who would rather stay as second-class citizens than go back to Europe, and go to their kings as cattle, horses, and cannon fodder......

Or a numb.

A numb agent of his own conscience.

For example, liberal democracy or something.

For the sake of freedom and democracy, stand up and welcome Master Wang! Let the Holy Light of the Emperor dispel the dark clouds in the skies of Europe! Let the army of the Holy Religion cleanse the land of Europe with the dirt of feudal rule! Let the spring breeze of freedom and democracy blow through the ice of a thousand years!

Well, Emperor Yang won't let them eat Republic noodles.

"I love it!"

Emperor Yang said proudly.

And at this moment, the distant city of Jinshan.

Built on the south shore of the entrance to Jinshan Bay, this small city has less than 10,000 inhabitants, but it is the capital of Yongping Province in the Ming Dynasty.

And this is also the only military stronghold of the Ming Empire in the Yinzhou continent, not only stationed in an army garrison, but also a permanent fleet, with four large cruisers with a displacement of 3,000 tons, and the total strength of the army and navy exceeds 5,000, and the city is also a real strong fortress, with rocks and large Ming-style fortresses made of reinforced concrete transported from China, protecting all the residents in the city.

It also protects the west bank of North Yinzhou, one of the most important commercial centers......

and some kind of special trade.

"Thirty dragon dollars, thirty dragon dollars!"

On a high platform in the middle of the city, a stout man shouted with a leather whip in one hand and a trumpet made of iron in the other.

And beside him stood a white man in coarse cloth trousers, who looked sixteen or seventeen years old, with a blank forty-five degrees on his face, looking up at the sky, and behind him more than twenty men, women, and children of the same color, but there were no young girls, who, like him, wore simple clothes of the worst cotton, and awaited their fate in a daze.

"Check it out!"

The man with the leather whip pulled his head and said: "Look at this thin skin and tender meat, look at this thick eyebrows and big eyes, what a handsome offspring, if this is taken to Yingtian, I am afraid that a hundred dragon yuan will not be a problem, what are you waiting for?" It's three times the price when you change hands! Thirty dragon yuan, Tong Suo is not bullied, thirty dragon yuan! ”

"Thirty dragon dollars!"

After he finished speaking, the man in the audience raised his hand and shouted.

"Thirty-one."

Then another person shouted.

"Thirty-five, I like his pi shares!"

Another shouted.

Then there was immediately laughter around him, although the white man on the stage didn't understand his words, but when the two looked at each other, they still couldn't help but be *** tight.

"Thirty-five, thirty-five, is there anyone else out of the higher?"

The man with the whip shouted.

Now no one raises the price anymore, these guys are all second-class dealers, they buy white slaves to go back and resell, thirty-five dragon yuan plus the freight they transport back to China, and the franchise tax paid, go back and sell at least twice the price. But seventy dragon yuan is seventy taels of silver in the past, although the white slave is more popular, but it has to be a white girl, in fact, there are white girls who will not be put in the market, and the big-name dealer directly snatched it inside. As for men, it's a grade off, after all, there are only a few people with special hobbies, and white Spaniards are not very white, they are all skewered by the Moors of North Africa, and the rich people of Daming like the kind of standard blonde and blue-eyed, which can only be regarded as skewers, and it can't be sold at any price, and it won't be here if it's really valuable.

"Okay, thirty-five dragon yuan, into ......"

The man shouted

"Will!"

However, at this moment, there was a sudden exclamation from the back of the crowd, and then in his stunned gaze, a beautiful white girl rushed over, rushed to the front of the stage, and looked at the white beautiful boy on the stage with painful eyes.

"Elizabeth, help me!"

The latter also pounced, knelt on the stage and grabbed her hand like a life-saving straw.

"Uh, Miss Swan, do you know him?"

The man with the whip said in amazement.

"Mr. Zhang, he was my friend when I was a child, can you let him go?"

Elizabeth said as she looked at him expectantly.

"This, Miss Swan, although I will be happy to serve you, but the problem is that this person does not belong to me, he is just the goods that our auction house has accepted for auction, and his ownership belongs to the respected Chief Yang and his tribe, so I have no right to dispose of it, of course, with the friendship between us, I can still fight for you, Chief Yang, for the sake of the friendship between us, can you give this slave to the beautiful Miss Swan?"

Mr. Zhang looked back and said.

Behind the white men, on a chair covered with bearskin, sat a middle-aged Indian man in a Ming costume, sitting like a landlord and a wealthy man, still holding a teacup in his hand, and behind him stood two guards with short guns in their waists and machetes behind their backs, he blew the tea very magnificently, and said in still a little stiff Chinese: "No, he is the trophy of our tribe, even if I am the chief, I can't give it to others, this girl can pay if she wants, Of course, if she wants to serve me, it's fine. ”

"Well, then I can't help it."

Mr. Zhang said to Elizabeth helplessly: "Miss Swan, maybe you can pay more than thirty-five dragon dollars and buy him." ”

Elizabeth quickly took out her small purse, poured out a pile of silver coins and dragon dollar bills, and counted them nervously, while her childhood sweetheart also lay there and counted together.

"Forty dragon dollars!"

But at this moment, the guy who likes Will Pi shares suddenly shouted.

Elizabeth, who was counting the money, was immediately stupid.

"I have forty-one dragon dollars."

She suddenly shouted in surprise.

"Forty-five!"

The man shouted contemptuously.

"I, I'll go find my father!"

Elizabeth said with tears in her eyes.

"Elizabeth, as a friend, I need to solemnly remind you that this friend of yours has undergone surgery, I think you should know what this means, then you had better think carefully, sixty silver coins is not a small amount, as far as I know, with Ling Zun's salary, it will take at least three months to earn so much, and he still has eight children including you to support, if you pay this money, it is likely that your brother's milk powder money will not be enough, so are you sure this broken friendship is worth this price?"

Mr. Zhang said.

Elizabeth wrestled in pain.

Will looked at her with a wistful gaze.

"Elizabeth, you have to learn to grow up!"

Mr. Zhang pushed Will aside, squatted on the stage and stretched out his hand, patted Elizabeth on the head, and then said earnestly.

Then Elizabeth ran away crying.

"Elizabeth, Elizabeth!"

Poor Will was dumbfounded, lying on the stage and outstretching his hand, crying out sadly to his childhood sweetheart, who turned his head, gave him one last look, and then continued to cry and run away.

"Your Excellency, I once again strongly protest against this trade of yours, they are all citizens of our Kingdom of Spain, not of African tribes, and you have no right to turn them into slaves, let alone to perform that inhumane operation on them, which is extremely disrespectful to His Majesty the King of Spain!"

At this moment, in the office on the second floor of a building not far from the auction house, a middle-aged white man watched this scene and said to the governor of Yongping Province in the Ming Dynasty.

"Consul Swan, they are prisoners of war of the Yin people, and it is also the Yin people who sold them, we have no obligation to rescue them for you, in fact, if it weren't for our merchants who bought them, the fate of these people would be even more miserable, they would be sold to other tribes by the Yin people in exchange for goods, and some of these tribes are likely to retain the cannibal tradition, so we saved them, do you want them to enjoy a peaceful life in Daming as the retinue of a certain rich merchant?" Or would they rather be the food of the cannibals? As for the circumcision of them, it was done by the Yin people themselves, and they are said to have a tradition of treating prisoners of war in this way, so this is also irrelevant to us. ”

The Governor said.

Well, that's how it was in the Americas.

European countries are desperately developing their American colonies, whether Britain, France, the Netherlands, Spain, all of them have turned all their energy to the Americas, and the contradictions between them and the Indians are also becoming increasingly intensified, the latter with the Ming Dynasty steel weapons, constantly attacking the settlements of European colonists, capturing those who were not killed, and then transporting them to Jinshan Port to be sold to the auction house to those slave traders, in exchange for dragon dollars to buy everything they need, including guns and ammunition, and then go back to continue to catch European colonists to sell.

It has become a thriving trade.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with Daming.

The people were captured by the Indians, and they were also captured by the Indians, and Jinshan City was just a trading market, as for those Ming slave traders who bought them......

This is legal trade, and if you Europeans pity those white slaves, you can come and pay for it yourself! We are familiar with each other, but we are not familiar enough to buy people and release them to you, and we cannot interfere with the Indians to catch white slaves. In other words, we have a closer relationship with the Indians, and even now many Indians have begun to convert to the Holy Religion, especially those who went to Daming back then, and now they have worshiped our Emperor and His Majesty as a god. And the bronze statue that His Majesty the Emperor gave them back then has become a holy relic, and it is completely understandable that we provide them with a place to trade and sell some weapons to them.

As for their capture of white slaves......

Well, who told you to go to their territory?

"Consul Swan, in the final analysis, it is your own problem, if you don't go to their territory and seize their homeland, how can they arrest your people? As far as I know, you seem to kill their people on a regular basis, even entire tribes, so it seems that they have no one to arrest you, and if you had loved them, this would not have happened. You see that we are in perfect peace, and there are a third of the Indians in the city of Jinshan, and they are well-read and good-natured, and I do not see in them any of the cruelty that you say, and in fact I think they are even more like a gentleman than your sailors. ”

The Governor said.

You don't love each other, you are obviously embarrassed, okay!

Consul Swann sneered.

However, he also knows that this matter will definitely not have a result, they are different from these Ming people, the latter came to Jinshan purely for trade, the current Ming Dynasty has no shortage of colonies, and Australia alone is not satisfied, not to mention North America, which is far away from the ocean, so there is no basis for conflict between the Ming and Indians, and now there are only 10,000 immigrants and a Jinshan City, and then there is a gold rush point and a small agricultural area, Not only will it not rob the Indians, but on the contrary, it will bring countless much-needed things to the Indians.

This is the basis of mutual love between the two parties.

But they can't!

They can't get along in the country, so they came to North America to live, they can only grab territory from the Indians, they can only snatch wealth from the Indians, otherwise they can't live, they have no choice, and the relationship between them and the Indians can only be to kill each other.

This is fate!

Consul Swann looked out the window gloomily.