Chapter Seventy-Three: Trade

Fortunately, Yang Dashuai is still very reasonable, and after understanding that Heiba really didn't mean to be angry with him, he spared this guy, after all, the reality is like this, if you really want to follow his standards, it is estimated that you can only find a bunch of children to. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

As for the two little Lori......

Of course, this has to be adopted, raised, and raised for a few years, you can eat it, anyway, Yang Dashuai has already raised one, and he doesn't care about raising two more, saying that Yang Feng feels that if he continues like this, he will have to change his junior high school.

This issue is just a trivial matter, and the key is to talk about the business of both parties.

In the last almost a year, his trade with the Satsuma clan has become more and more pleasant, Shimazu Tsunagui bought all kinds of luxury goods from Yang Feng at a high price, and now even pocket watches and the like have begun to buy, and then sell these things to those ministers and daimyo at a higher price, in just less than a year, they have made a huge fortune, and the Shimazu family, which was originally financially tight, suddenly turned over, and it is said that even the lower-ranking samurai under his command have lived a good life of having fish and drinking a little wine when they have nothing to do.

Of course, this is none of Yang Feng's business.

Yang Dashuai only knew that he had earned more than 800,000 taels of silver from the Wa Kingdom in less than a year, not counting the amount he spent on buying sulfur and copper from the Wa Kingdom, and with the passage of time, the influence of these luxury goods has become more and more extensive, and the number of times Heiba has been running here has become more and more frequent recently, after all, it is only 1,400 miles from Nagasaki to here, and it will take a few days.

However, what Yang Feng wanted to sell them this time still made Hei Ba startled.

"Great, my lord, you say you can sell all of this to us?"

He looked at the iron cannons in front of him, which could almost be said to be like firewood, the cannons that were terrifying to look at, the well-made horn composite bows, barrels of gunpowder, and even ordinary armor, swords, and spears, all of which were almost piled up like mountains in the warehouses, and it could be said that when these things were in hand, the strength of the Satsuma clan would instantly skyrocket to the second only to the Tokugawa family.

"It's not just you, the North Koreans and several Nanyang families want it too."

Yang Feng said.

"At what price are you going to sell it?"

Kurohachi asked tentatively.

Yang Feng waved very casually, and Qiu Hong, the director of the logistics department of the Dashuai Mansion who followed beside him, immediately took Hei Ba to talk about business.

In fact, Kurohachi didn't dare to decide whether to buy these things, and even Shimazu Tsunaki had to take some time to think about it if he wanted to buy them, because there were too many of them, and once he bought them, it would immediately cause the Tokugawa shogunate to be vigilant and even take action. This is the armament of tens of thousands of Qing troops, which prince in the Wa country has tens of thousands of troops? The Shimazu family really wants to get this, not to mention that it is absolutely invincible on the island of Kyushu, will the Tokugawa shogunate allow such a thing to happen? This is a disrupted balance, does Shimazu have the courage?

In short, it's not that simple.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Yang Feng, he only does business.

Just after Hei Hachi left in a hurry, the British sent his slaves, a total of more than 1,500 blacks in four ships, and the Dutch also arrived, who pulled two ships of hundreds of tons of crude oil for him, and I don't know how they collected it, there is definitely no mining technology now, and it is definitely not a simple job to collect hundreds of tons of crude oil in the swamps that seep out of the surface.

"Why don't you find the right veins to mine?"

He looked at the black, foul-smelling crude oil in a large wooden barrel in front of him, and asked Cork who had sent this batch of crude oil.

"Your Excellency, first of all, we need to know what you are doing with it, we must be sure that you will definitely want this kind of thing in a steady stream before thinking about anything else, otherwise we will develop the mining technology and invest a huge amount of money, and in the end you don't want us, what will we do?"

Cork is quite frank.

"Well, I'll give you the answer to that question right now."

Yang Feng said and beckoned.

A subordinate next to him handed over a very delicate glass lamp, with a glass cover on it, and a little flame burned in the cover, and under the flame was a tampon, which reached into the lamp, and soaked in a pure liquid that was almost colorless.

"Lamp oil?"

Cork was not a fool, and immediately understood what Yang Feng wanted him to see.

"Yes, lamp oil, I call it kerosene, but it is not extracted from coal, but from this oil, and of course I will not tell you how it is refined, but that does not prevent us from cooperating. You provide me with oil, and I am responsible for refining it into kerosene, and this kind of thing can be sold all over the world, because it is a necessity of life, just like people in Europe need spices, and everyone needs lamp oil, so think about it, what a huge market it is. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Well, Your Excellency Marshal, we have a good cooperation."

Cork said with a smile.

"So what happened to the rubber I wanted."

Yang Feng then asked.

"This will take a little time, Your Excellency Marshal, you must know that here is far away from the Americas, let alone purchase from there, even if this order is sent there, I am afraid it will take more than half a year, and it is estimated that it will be very good for you to be able to see what you want this time next year."

Cork said.

"Well, the news is very frustrating, so it looks like we're going to have to grow it ourselves in Asia."

Yang Feng said.

"Rest assured, I've asked my friends there to collect seeds for this tree, and if the environment is right enough to grow in the East Indies, we'll definitely continue to expand the plantation."

Cork said.

While the two were talking, a group of naked, depressed and even dying African black uncles were escorted down from the British ship, where they looked at the strange world with a frightened and dazed gaze, looking at the heavily armed Ming soldiers on the dock, one of them walked slowly, and the white crew of the slave ship behind immediately unceremoniously whipped him, and the sudden screams quickly alarmed the busy workers and ordinary people watching the excitement.

Then there was a scream on the dock.

Obviously, the common people here have never seen black people, and in their eyes, these guys who are covered in darkness are like demons, and even some Ming soldiers are so frightened that they raise their guns, but they also give those ordinary people courage, but no one escapes, but they are far away from the four slave ships, pointing and talking in horror.

At this time, the white crew member was unceremoniously whipped again.

The hapless black uncle screamed again.

Now the people on the dock are not afraid, it is obvious that these monster-like guys are not a big deal, they can whip and scream, so they are no different from ordinary people.

After the horror disappeared, those ordinary people immediately became interested in these guys, and came forward one by one to see the rarity.

At this time, the first black man walked down the gangway, trembling under the bayonets of the Ming soldiers on both sides, and walked to a quarantine officer, who also strengthened his courage, and then directly cut through a tattered piece of his clothes with a knife, and then there was an exclamation around him, because this black guy's guy is absolutely magnificent, and it is almost catching up with the donkey.

But it's a pity that there is nothing else below, just like His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of our Qing Dynasty, those two balls were cut off.

At this time, several quarantine personnel came forward with a big hair brush, dipped in the potion and began to disinfect the black man, and after completing this work, he immediately took a soldering iron and burned the words on his chest, and then threw a set of clothes for him to wear, and the black man was then escorted to another Ming army transport ship next to him, they only came here to inspect the goods, and after the inspection, they had to be sent to the coal mine in Keelung for the rest of their lives.

At this time, those ordinary people also completely eliminated their fear of them, and understood that these black guys were actually just a group of big animals.

"Your Excellency Marshal, I can't imagine that you still like to use eunuchs."

Cork said as he watched the scene with interest.

"It can't be helped, some jobs have to be done, but this black man is too expensive, too far to transport from East Africa, the mortality rate is too high, it would be nice to have slaves from some closer places."

Yang Feng said.

It was not cheap, because the mortality rate was so high that the British were asking for almost twice as much as the American market.

"But there's no black people closer home."

"Why do you only catch black people and sell them? Wouldn't it be more convenient to capture those natives from Southeast Asia as slaves? ”

"It's troublesome, you have to know that we don't actually take it ourselves, we buy it from the tribal chiefs in Africa, and they sell us the captives they have obtained in the war, but the inhabitants of Southeast Asia believe in their gods and are not allowed to sell their brothers of the common faith as slaves."

"But there is more than one religion in Southeast Asia, and the brothers they share in the same faith cannot be sold, and if the believers of other religions catch it, can't they be sold? For example, if the Siamese people believe in Buddhism, they will definitely not mind this problem, and for example, the Hindus in Tianzhu will not care about this problem, and the Buddhists in Annam will not consider the problem of brothers, if there is a war between them, won't you be able to harvest a lot of prisoners of war? I'm going to have a lot of slaves anyway, and there will definitely be more in the future, but the cost of buying blacks is too high, and I'll have to find another way to go on like this. ”

Yang Feng said.

He does need a lot of slaves in the future, because his next step is definitely to go out and develop colonies, for example, the nearest Australia is a good target, at this time Australia has no one to colonize, but he will definitely not have too many people in Australia at the beginning, if you want to turn it into his granary, you must use slaves.

"Well, but there's no war between them."

"Then let them go to war with each other, then I don't need to teach you this kind of thing, I believe those kings will also like this kind of business."

Yang Feng said.

Cork didn't say anything, just smiled casually.