The Dutchman Cohen nodded hurriedly, but hurriedly added: "There is no trade related to the trafficking of Han Chinese." ”

"It's good that there is no Han Chinese trafficking, but other slave trades can be done."

Zhang Gui nodded and said so.

Yes?!

Cohen raised his head in surprise, he didn't expect Zhang Gui to say that.

Zhang Gui always believed that in the primitive accumulation stage of the rise of a super empire, it was inevitable to use some less benevolent means.

It just depends on who the group to which this means corresponds and who should pay such a price.

Obviously, for the current Ming Dynasty, it is Waiyi who should pay the price for the original accumulation stage of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Gui continued: "The constitutional outline promulgated by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only stipulates that the Han people are respected exclusively, and the Han people are not allowed to be bought and sold, so you can sell the people of your own continent who are willing to sell themselves, and you can also sell the people of other continents who are willing to sell themselves. ”

Cohen understood, and said, "Your country doesn't seem to need slaves. ”

"That was before!"

Zhang Gui immediately replied, and said, "But it's needed now." ”

In the past, a large number of Han people were kept as slaves by Han landlords, and even many Han landlords who had no compatriot friendship would later collude with foreign landlords to enslave Han people.

But now the Ming court is not allowed to keep Han people as slaves, which naturally means that the Ming Dynasty suddenly generated a huge demand for slaves.

And this market demand will be dominated by the imperial court, that is, the state.

After all, this change, which no longer kept Han people as slaves and changed them to slaves, was led by the imperial court.

As mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty could not expect the civil landlords to carry out this kind of change spontaneously, and the landlords would only lie flat and want to further enslave their compatriots, so this kind of change could only be carried out by the imperial court using the power of the state.

Turning back to it, because of this kind of internal change, there will naturally be a large demand for slave market in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Gui had plans to use Haojing as a slave trade center.

"Don't you just want to sell goods for Da Ming, and don't want to make money from Da Ming?"

"Slave! It will be the next very important demand of Daming! You can bring more slaves here, and we will give you tax support, which will help you solve the problem of too many hungry people in your own country. ”

Zhang Guiyan said.

Most businessmen are profit-oriented, and Dutchmen like Cohen are no exception.

You must know that when the Anglo-Dutch War broke out in history, many Dutch businessmen directly chose to spend money to support Britain for their own interests.

It can be seen that in the face of interests, it is not difficult for people to sell their own country.

The Han gentry did it, and the European gentry naturally did it, and they would not sell their compatriots when they had profits.

Therefore, after Zhang Gui said this, Cohen was immediately moved: "We will consider your suggestion!" ”

"That's good!"

Zhang Gui said: "It is rare that you are the first batch of merchant ships to arrive after Haojing was officially managed by my Ming Imperial Court, and this governor has decided to entertain you." ”

So, Zhang Gui ordered a banquet for Cohen and others.

At the banquet, Zhang Gui also specially called a cadre of military generals to accompany him, and Cohen sat next to him.

Zhang Guixian asked Cohen: "My military operations in the Ming Dynasty when recovering Batavia City, you Hongmao must be very complaining, right?" ”

"Don't dare!"

Cohen replied.

Zhang Gui pretended to be annoyed and said: "Yes is yes, no is no, why bother to be such a mother-in-law!" Are you waiting for the red-haired fans to be so cowardly?! How do you do ocean trade like this?! ”

Cohen didn't expect Zhang Gui to be angry, afraid that this powerful and powerful overseer would cut himself in anger, so he had to tell the truth: "Yes." ”

Then, Cohen looked at Zhang Gui's expression with some trembling.

Zhang Gui was not angry, but motioned to Liu Zongmin to pour himself a glass of wine, and also poured a glass of wine for the Dutch general Cohen, and said: "But you provoked first, and first slaughtered many of our civilians." ”

There is no mistake

"Yes, we were wrong!"

Cohen replied honestly, not daring to say at all, we just killed more than a thousand of your civilians, but you slaughtered our entire city of Batavia, even the governor and other officials.

Zhang Gui suggested: "In this way, according to the rules of my Ming and Han people, you and I have dried up the glass of wine in front of us, and this grievance is over, and we are not allowed to mention it again in the future, how about it?" Nor will we look for you to accuse you of the account of the unlawful seizure of my city of Daminbavia. ”

When will the city of Batavia become your Ming Dynasty, and when will it become our illegal occupation?

Cohen wanted to ask, but he didn't dare to ask.

Seeing that he was stunned, Zhang Gui asked coldly, "What, don't you give face?" ”

Zhou Yuji, Man Gui and others, who are now the Ming warriors who are accompanied, stood up from around the round table, squeezed their fists as big as bowls, and looked at Cohen.

The Han people of this era have not been devastated by malnutrition for more than 200 years, so they are all tall.

Especially Zhou Yuji, a professional general, it is not an exaggeration to describe him as strong as a tower.

Therefore, when Cohen saw this situation, his face turned white with fright, and he hurriedly picked up the wine glass with trembling hands, drank it all first, and then coughed vigorously.

Seeing this, Zhang Gui shouted, "Okay!" Then he drank it all and smiled.

Cohen laughed too, cautiously, not daring to cough again.

"You should improve your ability to speak Chinese, and you should even advise your governor and others to improve their ability to speak Chinese, if you want to be the dog of the Ming Dynasty and want to get more benefits."

At the end of the banquet, Zhang Gui, with some drunkenness, lined up on Cohen's shoulder and said:

"My Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a benevolent and virtuous king, he can't bear to see the world in a state of war and disorder, and intends to establish a set of global order, and even establish a set of public laws as a standard for all states in the world to deal with problems between countries."

"And whoever abides by and executes this order the best, the more chance he will naturally have to become Da Ming's dog, so that in the future, when distributing global benefits, if my Da Ming can eat a bite of meat, he can at least get a share of a bone, and he may even eat a little meat, understand, my smart General Cohen?"

How could Cohen not understand, but he was a little reluctant to accept it emotionally, thinking why did this Eastern Empire start to have such great ambitions now?

How good is the empire that leased its own territory to foreign countries without asking about the situation, and how good it was that the eastern empire that was sold to the South Seas without even caring about the wanton enslavement and slaughter of its own colonists and natives!

After all, such an Eastern empire will not participate in the division of interests of the whole world, and will even be divided by our bureaucratic rich people who unite them.

Who doesn't love a sleeping male lion?

"The previous Daming really can't come back, and it's really hard to get started! The world has really changed. Whining! ”

Jingshi, Wu Weiye hid his face and cried on the spot after seeing that the southern puppet dynasty was completely pacified, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun were captured alive, and the puppet emperor also left a suicide note saying that I was not the real prince and that the great Confucian of science had killed me after throwing himself into a well and died.

"Liu Gong, why do you say this? Obviously, so many people ran to the south to support science, and the hearts of the people obviously went to the south, but why did they lose so badly? ”