After Gu Rui and Lu Frei left, Zhu Jingyuan sat in his chair and thought for a while.

What the two slave traders themselves did, as well as the delivery of female slaves to the Great Food Country this time, were actually not a big deal.

Zhu Jingyuan was slightly concerned about the degree of indulgence of the British in the Tianzhu slave trade.

From Tianzhu to the British colony of Southwest Mozhou, even if it is a ship that can only run ten knots, it only takes more than 20 days, and it takes less than 50 days to go back and forth.

I can run seven times a year.

A six-thousand-ton transport ship is capable of stuffing up to three thousand people.

Two hundred of the same ship can carry more than 40 million people in ten years.

In the South Tianzhu area controlled by the British, the people of Taixi, Taixi and Tianzhu are of mixed descent, pure-blooded Tianzhu people, and the total population of all ethnic groups is only about 70 million.

The transportation volume of 40 million people is enough to pull all the young and middle-aged people in Nantianzhu and the relatively healthy middle-aged people to Tianzhu.

If you don't want a woman, it will be shipped in less than five years.

Because the Tianzhu region has just experienced more than ten years of world war, it has lost millions of young and middle-aged men, and the ratio of men to women is relatively outrageous.

At the same time, it is of course not a problem to transport Tianzhu away and accumulate gold and silver wealth.

In five years, more than 20 million young and strong male Tianzhu people were transported to Mozhou in southwest China to rebuild a new Tianzhu.

No, it is possible to popularize English in the process and build a New England composed of Tianzhu people.

The young women were sold to the nearby Ming vassal states.

In the original southern part of Tianzhu, only the old, weak, sick and disabled remained, and most of them would die slowly, and eventually only a few remained.

In the end, Daming took over such a "wasteland" as Nantianzhu.

If it were other countries, it would be inevitable to win Nan Tianzhu, and what the British were doing now might anger the other party.

This is ...... for Da Ming That should be a good thing......

Even if Da Ming realized that his population was not enough, he would not ask for Tianzhu people.

If the British can really empty all the Nantianzhu people, then the Ming can coexist peacefully with the British for a longer time.

Can Daming also transport people from Tianzhu to Dongmozhou to open up wasteland?

It seems that there is no need, as before, just pull some servant soldiers from Tianzhu and go to East Mozhou to conquer the local indigenous regime.

However, it is possible to let single immigrants who go to East Mozhou take a concubine from the Tianzhu area to Mozhou, so as to prevent them from having bad thoughts about Mozhou.

When Gu Rui and Lu Frei returned to the dock, the Tianzhu orchid here had already begun to disembark.

Still the same as before, there were guards standing guard on the periphery, and the woman with Daming next to the boat first had her ears checked, and then triaged to the doctor to check it.

Gu and Lu didn't worry about anything when they saw this situation, the sailors on the ship were the henchmen of the two, and of course there was no problem with the points.

However, there are some goods that only two chieftains can mobilize.

After returning to the ship, the two men immediately went to two special cabins, took eight orchids held in solitary confinement, and handed them over to the officials in charge of receiving them.

The book of the Great Food Country also came to the scene.

The two of them went straight to find the book:

"Master of the Book, these orchids are carefully selected and superb, and they are a little bit of our heart for the king.

"When I went to see the king before, I was in a hurry, and I didn't have time to take it out, so I asked the master to help hand it over."

The book glanced at the orchids first.

The image is quite thoughtful, the age doesn't look big, and the body is relatively clean.

If it is an ordinary officialdom old oilman, there must be a more sleek way to deal with it.

But the original officials of the Great Food Country were all relatively axial, and after the book understood what was going on, they said very rigidly:

"Wait here, I'll have someone go to the king."

Then immediately called a handyman back to the palace to tell Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan waved his hand indifferently and said:

"Both

However, if it is a gift, it is not billed or counted, so it should be regarded as an additive, and let the book accept it."

Zhu Jingyuan knew in his heart that the careful selection that Gu Rui said might be true, but it might not be specially selected for himself.

Most of them, the slave traders, selected a few fine products in advance, and gave them to the lord wherever they went to sell ordinary slaves.

For themselves, it is better not to take it for nothing, and to accept it and give it to the workers together with ordinary female slaves than to let them take it back.

The point is that there will be no consequences if they accept it, and they don't dare to think that they have received a lot of gifts and owe them any favors.

The market price of high-quality orchids is estimated to be in the range of five or six hundred silver bills, which is almost half of that of Korean maids and Japanese women of the same grade.

Eight high-quality orchids, with a total value of more than 4,000 silver bills, are quite small in front of ordinary people.

But now the object is Zhu Jingyuan, and the transaction between the two sides is at the level of hundreds of thousands of silver bills, so this addition is not particularly conspicuous.

With the help of the immigrant women of the Ming Dynasty, the orchids transported by Gu Rui and the others were counted in the evening of the same day.

In addition to Zhu Jingyuan's eight gifts, there were 612 dry ears and 2,460 oily ears, for a total of 3,072 people.

According to the conditions that Zhu Jingyuan talked about, the grade of the individual is no longer subdivided, so the total price will come out after the count.

A total of 288,600 Ming silver banknotes.

Gu and Lu, the two slave traders, originally thought that they would have to spend a few days in the Great Food Country to ask for money.

As a result, as soon as the count was finished, the Great Food King's Mansion paid the cash directly, and it didn't delay for a night.

In the bright palace room, a box of banknotes was carefully counted, and the two slave traders carefully retired.

Although they knew that it was impossible for the big food country to eat black, the two of them were still quite nervous with this huge amount of money.

It was almost all the way back to his ship, surrounded by two of his own sailors, before he was completely relieved.

Walking into the captain's room, Gu Rui put the box on the table, and then spread it directly on the chair.

He took a few heavy breaths, lit a cigar, looked at Lufrey opposite and said:

"Although the king of the Great Food Country is domineering and ruthless in bargaining, he is bright and refreshing, and this business can be done."

Lufrey also said excitedly:

"That's right, this big food country is also really rich, three thousand female slaves ate it directly, and the cash is not dragged at all."

When Gu Rui heard this, he suddenly laughed:

"This king told us before that the land of the Great Food Country is barren and the products are scarce......

Luffrey also laughed:

"The land is indeed barren, and the royal capital is surrounded by sand, and there is nothing but oil."

Gu Rui took a hard puff on his cigar:

"Is it okay to have oil? If I had a piece of oily land, I wouldn't do it anymore, and who wouldn't be happy to make money lying down."

"I don't know where to get oil? Why don't you try to explore Mozhou?"

Lufrey thought about it, looked at the box in front of him again, and was still nervous about the money:

"Let's talk about this later, let's divide the money first, and when the two of us finish dividing it, we will share it with the brothers.

"Let's make all the money we have in this way first, and then we can think about other things."

Gu Ruigan reminded with a smile:

"Now that the New Year of the Ming Dynasty has just arrived, a new round of local immigrants from the Great Food Country will set off after the Spring Festival or even the 15th Day.

"It's been at least mid-February since I came to the Great Food Country.

"So the time when Da Shiguo asked us to send the next batch of goods was set for the end of February of the Ming calendar.

"Then the next batch of goods should be after April.

"It won't take you a month to prepare the supply in Nantianzhu.

"You can collect male and female slaves at the same time, you send *** to Mozhou at the end of January, and I will send female slaves to the Great Food Country in late February.

"When you come back in late March, you will immediately take in a batch of female slaves, and then let me go to the Great Food Country in late April.

"Your people have been busy, except for the two trips to the Great Food Country, a total of ten days, the rest of the time is idle.

"I can't do so many people to watch you make money!

"In this market now, everyone is making money, and if you don't make money, you're losing money!"

Lufrey suddenly realized, but still shook his head with a smile and said:

"Then don't think about oil, you can't take advantage of two months to go to Mozhou to find oil?

"You are a Ming person, it is better to directly invest and contract the farms in Yinzhou.

"It's really not okay to invest in shipyards, aren't you all industries that start construction and pay the full amount and make money when you start working?

"It's really too busy, you can also arrange for someone to buy stocks, and now Daming also buys it to make money."

"And it's all your own business, and it has nothing to do with our cooperation.

"Now let's divide the money first, so that the brothers can rest assured.

"The orchid trade in the Great Food Country has just begun, and the business will continue to grow in the future......

Gu Rui didn't delay any longer, there was no way to delay this matter:

"Okay, then let's divide the money first."

Although because of the Ottoman "peers" grabbing business, the money earned this time was not much.

But this kind of trade is originally a huge profit, and many Tianzhu female slaves are the same as those picked up for nothing in Nantianzhu, and they are earned by sending them to the Great Food Country.

All the personnel on the ship of Gu Lu and the two of them shared a sum of money according to their status, status and merit.

Then the ship stopped for three days in the Great Food Country, replenished coal, fresh water, and food, and left.

The two of their ships were overseas on the Dashi Peninsula and joined another small boat, and Gu Rui took his own people to change ships and return to Beitianzhu.

Gu Rui went to find out how to invest.

When Lufrey returned to his lair in Mumbai, he met the officers of the British Naval Intelligence in Nantianzhu - Li Bot and Wang Wei.

These were the two British "people of friendship" who were expelled from the port of Nagasaki in Toyohara Province.

After the two of them were sent to Tianzhu, they stayed directly in Tianzhu to work.

At this time, the famous MI6 had not yet been established, and the current British intelligence bureau was also in a relatively early stage.

Ruffrey himself was not a British intelligence officer, but he was a peripheral informant for British naval intelligence.

These transnational maritime merchants will report their discoveries to the intelligence bureau liaison officers from time to time.

It doesn't need to be a matter of secrecy, just what you see and hear in the course of the transaction, and all kinds of such public situations.

For example, how big is the dock in the big food country, how many berths of different classes there are, and how many oil storage tanks are on the dock.

The location and size of the palace at the docks, the number of oil wells around the palace, and so on.

In this exchange, both Li Bot and Wang Wei were taken aback by Lufrey's description.

"Their crude oil production is like pumping water from a well?"

Lufrey immediately shook his head and said:

"No, no, no, it's not pumping, they don't need a pump, the well is spraying itself.

"The Great Food Country is a natural fountain with a pipe on it, and there is a switch on the pipe, and when it is unscrewed, it gushes crude oil out."

Liebott said with some excitement:

"That's a high-pressure self-blowing well, how fast the fuel is spurring, have you had a chance to observe? How long does it take to fill a standard one-stone oil drum?"

Lufrey reflected on what he saw during those three days:

"Their oil well is not far from the dock, at least from the boats docked at the pier.

"If you get close to the palace, you can see it more clearly.

"But most of the crude oil is piped directly to the large storage tanks on the terminals.

"Only a small number of oil drums are directly filled, and a standard oil drum of one stone can be filled in just over 20 seconds.

"I've roughly counted how I can fill at least three barrels in a minute......

Both intelligence officers

Taken aback again:

"Three barrels ...... a minute"

"One barrel in twenty seconds, no four or five thousand barrels in this day......

Li Bot immediately continued to ask:

"How many of these wells do they have?"

Recalling the situation, Luffrey said:

"There are only 18 wells in production, but there are workers who continue to drill......

Hearing the news, Li Bot and Wang Wei seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and only eighteen wells were ......

But thinking about the production of these oil wells, the expressions of the two could not be relaxed again.

Then he was extra careful and carefully confirmed the authenticity of the message.

After asking for more details, he took his leave and returned to his office.

After discussing for a long time, the two wrote a simple report with their judgments:

"The large-scale increase in oil production by the Ming Dynasty, combined with the information that the Ming Dynasty has cut down coal stations and built oil storage facilities, indicates that the Ming Navy may be turning to fuel power."

It was then sent by telegram to the headquarters of the Naval Intelligence in London.