Two three-masted Galen ships sailed into Hue Bay one after another.

Knight Krivitz wiped his forehead sweat. Although he had been in the Congo River Basin for so long, he still could not adapt to the extremely humid and stuffy climate there. Many times he missed the cool Mitao City (the capital of the Principality of Kurland). Unfortunately, he could never go back. His wife and children, his fiefdom, and almost all his wealth was located in New Courland on the banks of the Congo River. He could not give up all this and could not give up his career here. Therefore, he could only continue to stay in this humid and stuffy place and continue to endure the torment of the environment.

"It would be great if I could buy some whipped oil and cooling oil in Rio de Janeiro. Well, there would be 108 medicinal wine, which are all scarce supplies, but it would probably be difficult. These products still have to be bought in Qingdao." Knight Krivitz thought silently when he got off the boat.

The wind oil essence, cooling oil, and axe-bar-driven wind oil produced on the east bank have been almost popular on both sides of the Congo River since Li Renjun's trading company staff brought it to New Courland, and a large number of New Courians wielded silver coins to buy essential medicines in these tropical regions. Unfortunately, the production of the east bank is limited now, and it is still insufficient to meet the domestic time, so there are naturally very few exports abroad.

This time, Governor Beverlen sent people to persuade them, raise the acquisition price, and talk about the traditional friendship between the two countries. Finally, he complained about how miserable the Kurish army was in the Luanda area. Finally, he successfully persuaded the East Coast Ministry of Health to issue some drug export quotas to them, and said that the South China Sea Transport Company could only transport drugs and other materials to Jacob Port on a fixed date each year, which slightly satisfies the wishes of the Kurish people.

However, whenever any Kurian ship goes to the east coast, whether for trade or other reasons, the captain and sailors are told to take advantage of the rare opportunity to go to the East Coast people to buy some medicines, especially the intimate wind oil essence, cooling oil, wind-repellent and other commodities. If there is really no (because most of the time these medicines are sold out as soon as they arrive in the store), try to buy more than ten medicines such as 108 medicinal wine (can treat infrared malaria), aspirin, opium wine, cod liver oil, aloe oil, senna, foxglove preparations, activate oil, safflower oil, etc., and then bring them back to New Courland to slightly alleviate the pain of the local people's shortage of medicines.

It can be said that the New Kurland colony has been able to persist and develop better and better. It is inseparable from all commodities such as medicines, food, weapons, tools, daily necessities produced by the East Coast people. What's more, the East Coast people are also helping the Kurlands transform urban infrastructure and establish water and drainage facilities and sewage treatment institutions. The East Coast people produce engineering and technical personnel. The Kurlands produce labor and materials (this also needs to be purchased from the East Coast) to reduce the outbreak rate of urban epidemics. It can be said that the New Kurland is an economic colony of the East Coast people and is not a country. The bilateral trade, cultural and military exchanges are quite frequent. This can be seen from the 100 New Kurland citizens who live in various ports on the East Coast today.

This time, Knight Krivitz brought two ships to the Port of Rio de Janeiro, which is already in the control area of ​​the East Coast. Well, now it is renamed "Huhua Port". Of course, it is for trade. Their two ships are filled with a large amount of tobacco, ivory, wood, cabinda bark and Congolese slaves. In addition, there are a small amount of gold to balance trade (snatched from the natives, the quality is not very good). They intend to buy a lot of goods from the East Coast people, such as weapons and ammunition, cloth, salt, sugar, tea, wine, spices, tools, metal products, paper, leather goods, etc. Some of them are purchased in the Port of Hue, while others need to buy in the Orient, Qingdao or even Yancheng.

Of course, many of the above-mentioned products were not bought for New Courland. A considerable number of daily necessities will be sold in the South African River area, and then replaced with salted fish, cured meat, cereals and other foods, and then brought back to New Courland for sale. The triangle trade is not only done by the East Coast people themselves, but the Kurs are still playing!

However, New Courland may not have to work so hard in the future, because under the joint care of the smart and capable Governor Beverren and the wise Prince Frederick, the New Courland colony, which roughly cleared the large area of ​​land on both sides of the Congo River, had introduced a lot of sugarcane from the Canary Islands and began to try to plant. Once the sugarcane plantation is successfully opened, I believe that the New Courland colony will launch the fourth largest commercial sugar after the three major products of tobacco, wood and black slaves, and the development of the entire colony will also take a new level.

"Mr. Krivitz, you finally came, more than half a month later than expected. I thought you and your ship would never appear again." He Yuan, who had been transferred from Hai'an Port in Nanshi to serve as the customs chief at Hue Harbour, said teasingly. In fact, he had contact with this Krivitz Krivitz before. At that time, the German Livornian bought some dried fruits, pottery and soap in Hai'an Port, and the amount was relatively large, so the two sides had a few conversations.

"Mr. He, I heard from the people from Renjun Trading Company that you have been promoted from Deputy Commissioner to Chief. I didn't expect to be transferred to Port Rio de Janeiro. This really surprised me." Knight Krivitz, who had temporarily changed into a refined dress, stepped forward and hugged He Yuan heavily, and said with a smile.

He Yuan smiled and said nothing, but the complacent ambition between his eyebrows could not be concealed. He thought that he had graduated from the Navy School and married Liu Wei, the daughter of the naval veteran Liu Dafa. How energetic was at that time? Unfortunately, he was later "god jealous of talents". He retired due to injuries and had to be transferred to the customs department. Although he served as the actual position of deputy chief of the newly established Hai'an Port under the care of his father-in-law, he could not be relieved of his depression.

Fortunately, after so many years, his mood has been somewhat adjusted. After working diligently as the deputy chief of the Customs of Hai'an Port for five or six years, last month, after the formal establishment of the Customs of Hue Port, he took off from a group of competitors and climbed to the throne of the Chief of Hue Customs. On the east coast today, he can't be considered a small official. Of course, his wife Liu Wei had to make trouble again and transferred from the Northwest Reclamation Bank Branch in the North Patagonia region to the newly established Brazilian Rural Financial Cooperative Branch in Hue Port. However, compared to her husband's promotion, all this is worth it.

"There will always be various meanings on the sea, and God will not always give me mercy on me. Maybe one day I will be swallowed up by the endless waves of the Atlantic Ocean." Krivitz shrugged and explained: "But the important thing is that I finally came, right? The goods are all in the cabin. You can send someone to unload and inspect the price. You can discuss the price with my subordinates in detail, but it cannot be too different from before."

"Very good, Mr. Krivitz." He Yuan nodded, and then called his deputy to negotiate with the officials of the Port Authority, intending to calculate the cargo as soon as possible. The cargo unloaded at Hue Port will be the more than 400 Congolese slaves on the ship. These people were specially approved by the Executive Committee to repair and expand the port (the original simple facilities of the Portuguese can no longer meet the docking of ships on the East Coast). You can't be careless.

"Have the wind oil essence or cooling oil arrived recently? Where is the hot oil and safflower oil? None? God, this is really bad!" Krivitz was a little disappointed after discovering that there were no such medicines in the tropical port of Hue Port. The South China Sea Transport Company of the East Coast people transported to Jacob Port to sell seriously insufficient amounts. Originally, he was looking forward to purchasing some locally on the East Coast to make up for the gap, but now it seems that there is no chance, but there are more or less other medicines. You can buy some and bring them back to New Courland, which is barely a comfort.

"The 'cargo' you want is in the dock barracks, with a total of 498 people, of which half of the Portuguese and Mameluko ​​each account for half, and they are all 'prisoners'. You can send people to check it, there should be no problem. After bringing back to New Courland, it is also a good labor force, and has professional skills, which is quite good. If we didn't want to keep these guys full of hatred, we wouldn't have cheap you, Mr. Krivitz." He Yuan took out a small notebook from his pocket and said while recording: "Including this group of Portuguese villagers who were transported from the old continent by our naval escort formation, you New Courses have already introduced a total of more than 2,500 Portuguese and their mixed-race descendants. Tsk tsk, it's such a big deal."

"The Kingdom of Portugal declared war on us, and of course we have to express our attitude to them." Knight Krivitz said indifferently, "Besides, these people are really a relatively easy-to-use labor force. Many of them have experience in operating orchards, sugarcane plantations, logging farms and sugar-pressing workshops. Some of them (referring to the new Christians, Jews ordered by the King of Portugal, and the proportion of these people in the early white immigrants in Brazil once accounted for 60%) are still very good handicraftsmen and financial consultants, and they have a lot of professional knowledge. You must know that before these people arrived, only those German-speaking people in New Courland had some professional financial or management knowledge, and they were of high value and usefulness. If you don't want to use these people, then give them all to us. In fact, Governor Beverren has always been very interested in these people. Many people with professional skills have been forgiven for their slave status and settled their homes in New Courland."

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Of course, what Krivitz didn't mention is that the environment in the Congo River Basin is really too harsh. Many immigrants from Kurland or Poland died because of their unacceptable conditions. The causes of death are strange. In short, this greatly reduced the number of white people in the local area. Moreover, with the increasing intensity of the Polish-Russian war and the gradual expulsion of the Russian Empire's army from Lithuania, the Principality of Kurland has basically no immigrants. After all, the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was too rare. Poland has become the great power that made the Principality of Kurland look up to and trembled, at least on the surface.

And because of this, Grand Duke Jacob, Prince Frederick and Governor Beveren are now very concerned about replenishing new sources of white immigration and increasing the number of "civilized people" in Kurland. Later, when people from the East Coast privately sold the Portuguese and Mameluco to them, Kurland and the East Coast hit it off and quickly reached an agreement. But now it seems that the arrival of these Portuguese immigrants not only supplemented the number of white people in New Coast (although they are still contract slaves), but also improved the local professional technology and management level. This surprised He Yuan. Did he shout a little low when he was selling people to negotiate prices?

After talking about the general matter with Krivitz, the rest was that the members of both sides had their own bids and completed the transaction. The process lasted only one day. The next day (July 20), the Kurians replenished water at Hue Port, and then set sail in a hurry, heading south along the Brazilian warm current, heading straight towards Dongfang Port, the capital of the east coast.

After these Baltic people left, on July 25, two merchant ships from the Mediterranean also quietly sailed into Hue Port, which were ships from Genoa and Tuscany, loaded with old mainland goods (such as cheese, white wine, European clothing, livestock, mineral sand and many daily necessities lacking in the East Coast). At the same time, they were temporarily employed while passing through the Cape Verde Islands, and brought a batch of spoils seized in the battle against Portugal back to the East Coast.

The Italians' business instincts have always been admired by the East Coast, so the two merchant ships arrived at Hue Port for a reason. In fact, they had contacted the East Coast government last year. Later, after reaching an agreement, these Italians planned to come to the General District of Rio de Janeiro to inspect the feasibility of opening tropical economic crops such as sugarcane, coffee, and cocoa, just as they had previously invested in the East Coast Railway, opened forestry enterprises, and established sugarcane plantations.

Especially today, with the sharp rise in international sugar prices, opening sugarcane plantations and sugar-pressing workshops has become increasingly profitable, so Italian merchants with strong capital cannot help but intend to join this feast. Before, they were unable to colonize the Caribbean, and could only go to the New World to beat the side drums through investment and other means. The income was very limited, and sometimes they would even be hacked away by others, but in this way, they still failed to stop their determination to invest in tropical cash crops. This would have been a long-term cooperative and reputable partner of the East Coast. It would be strange if these Italians came up with a slut.

Therefore, now He Yuan saw these Italians, a group of greedy businessmen with golden light in their eyes.
Chapter completed!