Chapter 195 Doing business can't just be a part-time job for a shipowner
Gu Rui, who "doesn't make money, loses money", sent a female slave to Da Shiguo back to Tianzhu.
I was going to look for new ways to make money after the New Year, but the business came before the end of the year.
Gu Rui received Huang Xin's message, read it three times, and then went to reply to Huang Xin:
"How does the slave business do in Yinzhou? We can cooperate, I can let you take a stake, or send these 100 female slaves to Yin Zhou for free."
Gu Rui knew that Huang Xin went to North Yinzhou, and the small factory in Jiangnan couldn't go on, so he directly sold it to other big owners in the same industry and went to Yinzhou with the money.
Huang Xin saw the reply, hesitated for a long time, and finally said the situation:
"The League of Nations forbade the sale of slaves, and the United Kingdom forbade the sale of slaves to the United States.
"A young and strong American slave is a 700 silver bill, and a boutique female slave is 2,000.
"It is estimated that middle- and upper-class Tianzhu female slaves can be sold for 3,000, but not in large quantities, and there is a risk of being banned on suspicion of smuggling.
"I want a hundred fine slave girls, send them to New Orleans to calculate the intelligence bill, and then sell each of them.
"Or let's run it together, and I'll use the news and channels and fifty thousand silver notes to buy shares.
"Sell a large number of ordinary *** together, and sell a small number of boutique female slaves.
"I'll take 30% of all the proceeds, and you take 70%."
Huang Xin knew that his strength could not be compared with Gu Rui, so he only needed three layers of income.
Gu Rui jumped up directly after reading it, and yelled a little hysterically:
"Fuck the grass! !"
Then he wrote a telegram with trembling hands and sent it to his collaborator Lufrey:
"Don't go to Mozhou, go and organize the supply of goods immediately, both ships are full, at least eight thousand, the ratio is nine men and one woman, let's go to Beiyinzhou together."
Lufrey in turn asked Gu Rui what kind of business it was and how to do it.
Gu Rui continued to scold and let Lu Frei start harvesting first, and then asked him to meet in the open sea.
Gu Rui told Lufrey about the business on the boat:
"A female slave, sent to Northern Yinzhou, can be multiplied tenfold.
"Ordinary *** Even if it is calculated according to the current sales price of the Mo slaves in Northern Yinzhou, it can be sold for more than three times the current price.
"At the same time, if there are more female slaves, they can't sell for a price, *** doesn't matter, so you can go a lot.
"Britain is not allowed to sell Tianzhu slaves to the United States, you can sell them directly to me in the open sea.
"The Ming Dynasty does not allow the large-scale export of Tianzhu slaves, I took the goods from Nantianzhu where you are.
"The British did not allow the British to transport Tianzhu slaves to the United States, but I am a Ming man.
"Before you prepare the goods for shipment, you must prepare the certificate issued by the Governor's Mansion of Nan Tianzhu.
"I'm going to prepare another contract for our slave trade at sea.
"There are also two two-way charter contracts for two vessels.
"Crossing the Xihai Canal and encountering the ban of the Ming Dynasty, even if you rented it to me.
"When you pass through Gibraltar and encounter a British ban, even if I rent it to you.
"This is a key document for us to cross the Western Sea Canal and Gibraltar.
"The two of us can work together to walk on the edge of the law, and theoretically everything we do is legal.
"As long as you do this, you can enjoy most of your life.
When Lufrey heard half of it, he burst into a rage, which was stimulated by profit.
A pair of eyes turned red directly, and then asked very nervously:
"How do you divide the money? Or five-five?"
Gu Rui shook his head directly and said:
"The brother who provided the information and channels was also our collaborator, and he was in New Orleans, Yinzhou.
"He wants 30% of the income, and I have the most to do, I want 40%, and you will also take 30%."
Luffrey is a little uncomfortable:
"How can it be three percent!"
Gu Rui slapped the table directly and said:
"Thirty percent is good, and thirty percent is better than you
Selling to Mozhou makes a lot of money.
"A Tianzhu slave, put it away and count it as eighty silver bills, and sell it for one hundred and sixteen in Mozhou, and you can earn eighty.
"If you can sell seven or eight hundred in Yinzhou, we can make six or seven hundred, and you will have two hundred in thirty percent.
"There are also boutique female slaves, one can earn more than two thousand, and three achievements are seven hundred!
"If you don't do it, if you don't do it, I'll organize the goods from Beitianzhu by myself.
"I only run my own ship, and only sell a small number of high-quality slave girls, making a little less but worry-free."
Lufrey also slapped the table:
"! How could it not be done! I'll organize the supply right away, within a month! Ten thousand!"
Gu Rui said with satisfaction:
"Okay, remember that you have to be fast, this road and business opportunities, we must not only see it, we can make money first!"
Lu Frei and Gu Rui immediately turned back to work.
And just as Huang Xin and Gu Rui expected, there are many people who find business opportunities.
A lot of people, unsure of who their opponents were, started this weird business race.
The businessman who reacted the fastest earned his first pot of gold not long after Huang Xin discovered the business opportunity.
The Antilles in the central part of the North and South Yinzhou, including Cuba, the bottom of the sea, Puerto Rico, Jamaica and other islands, were also transferred to the Ming by the British and Spanish.
The plantation economy was maintained on these islands for three hundred years, and the plantation labor force was mainly Mexican slaves.
There are more than two million ink people here, and about one-third of them are free people.
The number of remaining slaves was nearly one and a half million.
In the past, the land handover process basically did not affect the local plantation owners.
It was only the goal of their taxes that changed, and the slaves were certainly not affected.
But this time it was different, and Da Ming demanded that all the Tessie people must leave.
All free men must leave in their entirety, and after that time limit they are considered slaves.
Since the signing of the contract last year, the Tessie immigrants have begun to evacuate in a chaotic manner.
Of course, they wanted to leave with all the slaves and continue to use them in other colonies.
These are slaves who have been trained for generations, and even bred slaves themselves.
They can understand their own words, and some are even able to participate in low-level management work.
They are much easier to use than the generation of people who went to Mozhou to arrest.
It's just that they don't have much cash in their hands after losing the manor.
Therefore, their natural choice was to sell some of the low-level slaves, and take some of the funds with other slaves to invest elsewhere and establish new plantations.
But most people think so, and the Ming people don't want to see Mo Nu, so the price of these Mo Nu can only be described as a big sale by jumping off the building.
Sixty or seventy silver bills can be sold for one, and one hundred silver bills can be picked at will.
But when the first settlers left and arrived in the surrounding colonies, they found themselves at a loss.
Because the League of Nations forbade the Mexicans to make efforts to export the country, the price of slaves skyrocketed by two or even three times.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the United States and Canada.
Many people instinctively wanted to come back and buy slaves in large quantities, but unfortunately they couldn't go back.
They do not have residency in Cuba, undersea, Jamaica, etc.
Rushing in may be caught by the Ming officers and soldiers to castrate.
Luckily, they also took some of the slaves, and by selling a little, they could make a lot of money.
The one who ran back to Mozhou with the slave was the one who couldn't sleep.
The first to make money from this was a businessman from the Ming Dynasty.
Seven days after Huang Xin discovered the business opportunity, it was the eighth day of the first month of the first year of Ankang.
A transport ship carrying 5,000 Ink slaves docked in Charleston, South Carolina.
The owner of the transport ship is named Cao Zhennan, and the transport ship is under the banner of the Ming Dynasty, and the navies of other countries cannot manage it.
The Ming Navy boarded the ship for inspection, and Cao Zhennan had an official certificate of exit from the Haitian Island occupation authorities.
It was confirmed that the slaves were not transported from Mozhou, but were transferred within Yinzhou, and that it was currently completely legal.
South Carolina also does not prohibit the slave trade, nor does it prohibit the importation of slaves, even if they are undesirable.
Cao Zhennan's 5,000 slaves were sold out in just ten days.
At first, the price was more than six hundred silver bills.
But soon some people began to wait and see, because many merchants took it for granted that Cao Zhennan could get slaves, and others could also get them.
The point is that many people guessed the source of Cao Zhennan's slaves through the previously evacuated immigrants.
Although American businessmen cannot participate in this transaction, it is conceivable that more and more Ming businessmen will participate.
After Cao Zhennan found that the sales rate had slowed down, he immediately sold at a very decisive price.
It was directly reduced to five hundred silver bills, and a large number of them were immediately sold.
But before Cao Zhennan's slaves were sold, the slave ships of the second wave of Ming merchants arrived.
And this time not just one, but also from Cuba, Haiti and other places, a total of five ships arrived one after another.
After Cao Zhennan received the news, he immediately lowered the price directly to four hundred silver bills and threw off all the remaining slaves.
Eventually, the average price of five thousand slaves fell to about five hundred.
Cao Zhennan directly harvested 2.5 million silver bills, and the total cost of this transaction was only 1 million
It netted nearly 1.5 million.
It took less than two months in total, and the average was nearly one million a month.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Daming Ankang, on the big ship on the dock in Charleston, Cao Zhennan gave his sailors and guys a cigar in his mouth:
"You brothers have been fighting together for a month, and we have made such a big profit.
"Take all the money, go out and have a good time for a few days, and I can think of some good business to do."
A young man in his twenties is naked, his bronzed muscles glistening in the sun.
He laughed and then rolled out a stack of tickets, very happy and a little incomprehensible and said:
"Boss, why don't we make another trip? Even if the price drops now, there will still be some money."
Cao Zhennan shook his head very dissatisfiedly and said:
"You kid forgot what I said, I can't make a profit on charter fees, and I won't do it.
"There were so many slaves being shipped from Cuba to America that we were the first to do so.
"If we come back on the next trip, the price is estimated to drop to three hundred, and the shipowner earns more than us, so isn't that just working for the shipowner?
"But don't worry, there may not be no good business in the future.
"I have an idea now, and I need to confirm it as soon as possible.
"You go play for a few days."
The young man was still very happy and said:
"When the time comes, you speak! Guaranteed to be on call!"
Cao Zhennan finished distributing the money, and the strong young men who had been holding back for more than a month immediately ran to Charleston City.