Through ocean trade, the goods of the country are sold overseas for a profit, and then the goods of other countries are purchased and shipped back to make a profit, which is completely profitable.

Such windfall profits are now monopolized by state-owned capital consortia, and through this model, the golden power is also restricted, so as to prevent big capital maritime merchants from continuing to grow, so as to touch politics.

In the ninth year of the Apocalypse, the scale of foreign trade has expanded a lot, which has made the profits of foreign trade continue to rise, and the profits of state-owned capital in overseas ocean trade soon exceeded hundreds of millions of yuan.

At the same time, the volume of trade with the Mongols continued to rise. In order to pursue profits, the scale of sheep breeding continued to increase, and at the same time, the scale of grain imported from the Ming began to increase, and Mongolia's economic dependence on the Ming continued to rise.

Those Mongolian nobles lived a very comfortable life through this model, and the types of luxury goods that the Ming Dynasty could provide for the Mongolian nobles also increased with the expansion of overseas trade, and the luxury goods from all over the world were also enjoyed by the Mongolian nobles by selling their wool and sheepskins, cowhides and other raw materials.

Such a good day made the Mongolian nobles very addicted.

At the same time, the Mongols also tasted the sweetness by robbing other neighboring countries, and robbery may not be able to rob so many precious metals, but it can rob people.

The Ming needed slaves, and the Mongols were happy to grab them. The Ming Dynasty is now developing the Western Regions, which requires a lot of labor, and at the same time, with the development of immigration, there is a shortage of women in overseas immigration areas.

Affected by the lack of local pulling power and the imbalance in the ratio of men and women in the population, this stimulated the demand of the Ming for the external population in foreign trade. Both the Middle East and the Portuguese sold slaves. Suddenly let the state-owned capital consortium discover the benefits of slaves.

How do you get a lot of slaves?

It's obviously not good to run to catch it yourself. This is uncivilized behavior, Daming, as a **** country, naturally can't do such a bad behavior.

Since you can't arrest yourself, then buy it! Daming is not without money, now Daming is not lacking money, what is money? Money is a commodity. Daming actually exchanged commodities for slaves, and then used slaves to produce commodities, which was a good deal.

Who can provide a large number of slaves?

The Portuguese can. Arabs in the Middle East can also, but not in very large numbers. So the Mongols played their part, and this gang of bandits began to start a business of human trafficking.

After Lu Xiangsheng intervened in the Central Asian steppe, the Mongols were warned by the Ming Dynasty and had given up the idea of occupying the Central Asian steppes, but the robbery of other ethnic groups began to intensify under the instigation of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mongols targeted Tsarist Russia in the Volga Valley.

Da Ming was willing to pay 30 yuan for a 'high price' for a person to buy an adult male slave, provided that he was in good health, and at the same time was willing to buy an interracial woman at a price ranging from above to below. Prices are determined mainly based on age, appearance, and whether they are in perfect shape.

If it's a child. Daming bought them all, and when he raised them, he was a laborer.

The Mongols in the course of their expansion in history. The most common thing to do is slaughter, and now these people can be sold to Daming for money, and they suddenly found a way to make money. Lin Danhan felt that this business could be done, and it was a very cost-effective business. And by cooperating with the Ming State to engage in such a business, the Ming State was willing to sell more weapons and equipment to Mongolia.

So the Mongols began to continue to sweep the Central Asian steppes, and one after another Central Asian nomads were defeated by the Mongols, and all these populations were packaged and sold to the Ming Dynasty.

After these slaves came to Daming, because they were far away from their hometowns, it was basically impossible to escape, because they did not know where to flee and were completely unfamiliar with the outside situation.

At the same time, when the Ming Dynasty used these slaves, they all turned them into indentured slaves, that is, contract laborers. Contracted workers can also get a certain amount of remuneration through labor, and they also have a certain amount of security in food, clothing, housing and transportation, and their lives are not too hard. And because of the remuneration, it also improves the enthusiasm and resistance of production to a certain extent.

These slaves have a great demographic dividend, and they are capable of doing dirty work. And those who were of different races were sold in large numbers to overseas colonies where the ratio of men to women was severely disproportionate, so that single men who had immigrated to the past could start families.

Mixed race is not too much of a problem, these Central Asian aliens are not black, they belong to a completely acceptable group, and the parents are Han Chinese, and the children can integrate into the Han culture without hindrance.

The money earned by the Mongols from human trafficking was transferred back by the Ming Dynasty through the export of goods, and the capital was still returned in the end.

Moreover, the Mongols cleared the obstacles for the Ming to occupy the Central Asian steppes, and once the Ming developed the Western Regions and had sufficient transportation capacity, they could expand westward frantically.

The trade volume between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia also began to increase rapidly because of human trafficking. Every month, tens of thousands of captives were sold to the Ming Dynasty.

The population needs of the Ming Dynasty made Lin Dan Khan and Mobei form a special army of slave hunters and began to capture slaves everywhere. Many of these slaves became cotton workers, and they still did the work of picking cotton and watering it.

The wool produced by the Mongols also began to occupy a more important position, and the wool mills in Beizhili began to grow in scale. In particular, Mongolian herders in the Mingtong region have been producing wool as their main business, and the amount of wool produced every year is increasing.

The animal husbandry industry in Australia and New Zealand has also begun to develop, and it has begun to produce wool, and wool production will not continue to expand in the future, and the scale of raw materials produced by Daming will become larger and larger, so that Daming can have more textiles to export.

The entire Western Regions is now being developed, highways and water conservancy projects are being built, and in the Yumenguan area, a drilling team is drilling.

After just over a month of drilling in Yumenguan, they successfully drilled their first oil well, and oil began to spew out of the ground.

The news was sent to the capital by telegram, and Zhu Youxiao was very happy to learn that the oil well had been drilled, which meant that there was one more commodity in the Ming Dynasty, that is, kerosene.

In this era, the oil used by people to light lamps was mainly vegetable oil, and many people could not afford to use it, but with kerosene, the situation was different.

Kerosene can bring light to people's nights, and although the power technology of Daming is developing rapidly, it will take a lot of time to popularize lighting.

In addition, kerosene can be sold all over the world, and those backward countries do not have any power facilities.

Immediately, Zhu Youxiao immediately set up an oil refining experimental team and asked them to rush to the Yumenguan Oilfield to study the oil refining process.

The oil industry has already taken the lead, and this thing is still very important.

After the establishment of this industry, it is very simple to obtain low-cost oil in the future, and it is easy to occupy a place in the Middle East, and the oil fields in the Middle East are relatively easy to exploit, and the quality of the oil is very high, and some can even be burned directly into the engine.

"With oil, get kerosene out first. Maybe Daming can jump directly to the era of internal combustion engines. However, one step ahead of technology is an artifact, and too advanced technology can be sealed first, and then taken out to popularize it in the future. These steam engines alone can put the Ming Dynasty ahead for hundreds of years. Zhu Youxiao thought to himself, in fact, the binding of capital and technological development is not completely close, but when backward technology can make money, capitalists are reluctant to use new technology.

Now as the emperor, Zhu Youxiao has also become a capitalist. (To be continued.) )