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In fact, slave hunting and slave trading are not a new industry originating in the New World, for hundreds of years, the northern nomads have been constantly harassing the farming nations, and the phenomenon of captive civilians and selling them as slaves is very prominent, and one of the concubines of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Empire, Di Rena, was taken into slavery by the Chidi people in the north and sold to the Eastern Continent before she met His Majesty the Emperor, but after all, it was a challenge of the barbarian peoples to the civilized world, and could not become the mainstream of history, while the trend of slave hunting and slave trading in the New World was wave after wave, and soon became the most lucrative in the New WorldAlmost all the countries that had colonies in the New World were involved in it to one greater or lesser extent, and even officials in some countries openly defended and justified this activity in the name of saving the barbaric indigenous peoples from ignorance and darkness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

There are two ways to hunt slaves, one is to recruit mercenaries to form a slave hunting team, hire local indigenous guides, attack the weaker indigenous tribes, and plunder the entire tribe of young and middle-aged people and old and weak women and children as slaves, this way requires a certain amount of force, and there is a certain risk, so it gradually tends to be large-scale, some mercenaries gradually began to grow in the New World, they updated their equipment to recruit people to expand their strength, and established their own liaison agencies in various colonies in the New World, becoming a professional slave hunting team, and there are fixed slave traders to buy their prey, which is quite profitable。

In the other way, the shadow of the official forces of the Raya continent is obviously involved, and they provoke wars between various tribes and tribes in the New World, often giving the tribal leaders and nobles some fancy and worthless gadgets, such as glass balls, metal knives, utensils and other items, to win the favor and "friendship" of the tribal leaders , and then they will make a request to buy slaves, and then provide the tribes they support with new types of cash weapons and equipment, which will be used in exchange for prisoners of war and civilians captured in the war.

This method is often more subtle and effective, and the attacked tribes often seek outside help out of revenge, and this provides an opportunity for those who are secretly manipulating the forces to fight left and right, sometimes supporting one side to attack the other, and sometimes supporting the other side to attack this side, the scale of the war is getting bigger and more brutal, and a large number of indigenous people are taken into slavery, which also provides an ample source of slaves for these organizations and forces, and these countries and forces can also take advantage of this opportunity to extend their power into the interior of the New World step by step。

Brightly coloured Jinpeng flags fluttered on the piers of the port of Sabana, and most of the buildings in the entire harbor were low-class houses that had not been in the interior of the empire at all, scattered around, and black people accounted for a considerable proportion of the pedestrians. Nominally a port, but in fact it is more appropriate to describe it as a large fishing village or a small market town, with only three streets in the town of no more than 5,000 people, distributed in a Y-shape on this prominent headland along the coast of the Southern Latin Ocean, which was one of the three major colonial strongholds of the Tang Empire in the New World, and also a bridgehead for the empire to explore southward along the coastline of the New World.

Qalyub, Mangadishu and Sabana constitute the Golden Triangle of the Tang Empire's colonization in the New World, Qalyub is located in the northeast corner of the New World, and the largest colonial stronghold of the West Oran Kingdom is only 220 kilometers away from Xishakula, and Mangadishu was originally an island formed by a volcanic eruption, about 350 nautical miles away from Qalyub in the northwest, 370 nautical miles away from Sabana in the south, although the area is only more than 300 square kilometers, but the location is wonderful, because it is surrounded by a series of coral reefs, so some explorers and colonists in the original Western Continent arrived in this area after being confused by the dense coral reefs, thinking that this area is a coral reef of little value, so he sailed north. Later, the folk explorers of the South Seas of the empire discovered the island from a large group of coral reefs and drew a detailed chart, and this became the first step of the empire to the New World, Mangadishu in the local language of the South Seas means pearl of hope, the empire also followed the transliteration name, and the surname Suo named the first colonial stronghold of the empire Mangadishu.

Although Mangadishu is the first stop on the Empire's colonial path, it is still hundreds of nautical miles away from the New World and one hundred and sixty nautical miles from the nearest land, and Qalyub has become the first colonial stronghold established by the Empire on the land of the New World. When the expedition team landed in the New World, it did not dare to go deep into the land, so it could only slowly move north along the coastline, and a week later when it arrived at the colonial stronghold of the West Oran Kingdom, Xishakula, it was realized that this area had been listed as their sphere of influence by the West Oran Kingdom, and the expedition had no choice but to return and set up a real camp at the landing site, and send back the news to the mainland, and when the local people received the news, it was when the empire was about to be established, many things were delayed, and the expedition activities came to a standstillThe expedition was able to leave less than thirty men behind to defend Qalyub, and the rest returned to Eastern Samoa by boat to await confirmation from the Empire.

After the establishment of the empire, this news soon attracted the attention of the imperial officials, in view of the fact that all the countries of the Western Continent began to infiltrate the New World, and the Tang Dynasty could not lag behind, the empire soon instructed Nanhai County to send a follow-up expedition team as soon as possible, but the second expedition team formed by Nanhai County was wiped out by a storm during the expedition, and it was not until three months later that the third expedition team successfully completed the expedition and joined the more than 30 explorers left behind, and at this time, these expedition members had already died due to water and soil adaptation and disease, and the rest were already in distress。

Fortunately, the scale of this expedition sent by the empire was much larger, and the seven ships brought more than 200 people, and brought a considerable amount of weapons and medicines, so the situation was quickly stabilized, and the attitude was made clear to the West Oran expedition that tried to infiltrate in this direction, this area was already under the control of the Tang Empire, and belonged to the protectorate of the Tang Empire.

At this time, the empire had learned that in addition to the two countries of West Oran and Delta, the major powers of the Western Continent and some cities and urban republics in the south had begun to carry out comprehensive exploration and mapping in the northern and western regions of the New World, and began to plan and form joint expeditions to explore the interior of the New World and beyond, which aroused great attention from the Empire, and the intention of the Western Continent to exclude the Eastern Continent was self-evident, if they could not gain a foothold in the New World in time, The empire, which was already congenitally deficient in geographical location, might be in a more disadvantageous position on the issue of carving up the New World that might arise in the future, so the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the Imperial Ministry of Economic Development, the Imperial Ministry of Commerce, the Imperial Naval Surveying and Mapping Bureau, and the predecessor of the Naval Intelligence Bureau all began to form their own exploration forces and began to carry out exploration and colonization.

The Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the Imperial Economic Development Department and the Imperial Ministry of Commerce mainly cooperate with non-governmental maritime exploration associations to provide personnel and financial support to encourage them to actively explore the eastern coastal areas of the New World, while the Naval Surveying and Mapping Bureau and the Naval Intelligence Bureau, based on a military perspective, with the participation of the Marine Corps, are divided into multiple expedition forces to carry out rounding and reconnaissance along the New World in an all-round way, and even disguise themselves as civilian merchants to bypass the colonies of the Western Continent countries on the northern coast of the New World and advance to the west coast of the New World, intending to complete the all-round mapping and exploration of the New World before the countries of the Western Continent。

More than a year ago, the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Commerce were sponsoring an expedition of the Nanhai County Navigation Association to advance southwest along Golden Crown Island, but because of a hurricane, the expedition had to be suspended and hid in a bay. pearl gathering place", this sea area is the main source of pearls collected by the local indigenous people.

After a year of construction and development, Sabana became the base of the Tang Empire's southward expansion in the New World, and a large number of adventurers and expeditions used it as a base, either exploring inland or sailing south along the coastline by boat, hoping to make more discoveries. Merchants with a keen sense of smell also set up shops and warehouses here, buying local indigenous people's native products such as rhino horn, ivory, pearls, agate, amber, jade, gold sand, etc., and at the same time dumping cotton, glass, ceramics, silk, ironware, metal jewelry, weapons and other daily necessities to the local indigenous people, making sky-high profits. However, when it came time to make huge profits, the merchants also had to take considerable risks, the long sea routes made the voyage full of uncertainties, there were no reliable and authoritative charts, so that it still took some luck to reach the region accurately in addition to sea experience, and the unpredictable climate of the Latin Ocean is one of the main reasons why no shipping company has dared to operate regular flights on this route.

(To be continued)