Chapter 796 The Most Profitable Business
Outside the estuary of the Yangtze River, hundreds of giant ships, together covering the sky and the sun, lying across the sea, like a long dragon mixed with the river!
In this era, even if it is delayed for three hundred years, such powerful navy could not be assembled. These ships were just a drop in the ocean for the Great Zhou Dynasty. If the court was willing, it could assemble thousands of ships and send out 100,000 navy at any time.
But in Ye Hua's mind, this fleet is more important because they are dominated by merchants in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Merchants want to make money. It is said that rabbits do not eat grass beside their nests, but many merchants are born lazy rabbits.
They only like to take benefits that are within their fingertips. The more they are, the more unscrupulous they are. Ye Hua hopes that the merchants should be a group of evil wolves, a group of wolves who are desperately biting and swallowing outside, bringing the fat flesh and blood back to the Great Zhou and nourishing the people of the Great Zhou.
The merchants took only a small step, and Ye Hua encouraged him. Among the escorted fleet, there were two special warships. These two ships did not have necessary sails, but only black painted chimneys!
Armored ship!
There are only two ships, but they represent the power and majesty of the Great Zhou!
Especially the artillery on both sides and bows were even more terrifying, with strong ships and powerful guns. The navy of the Great Zhou began to march on a rampant journey. Two warships were shaking waves in front and moving forward.
The surging waves could not do anything to these two strong ships. The merchant ship following the iron-armored ship was very comfortable, and even said to be calm.
Perhaps this is the first time they have clearly felt that the Great Zhou is so powerful!
The fleet headed south, and the navy's young men were not idle. While passing by, they approached the port and fired more than twenty guns, and the flames burned down a forest.
For the Navy, this is just an ordinary exercise.
But for the natives living by the sea, the sky collapsed and the earth broke, the sun and the moon were gone, and the end of the world was simply the end of the world.
They knelt on the ground in panic, kowtowed constantly, begging Thunder for forgiveness.
When the artillery fire passed, they trembled and drove the deer to pay tribute to the country!
With every move, an island that is almost two-thirds the size of Zhejiang Road was included in the Dazhou territory.
The merchants were stunned. Is this the expansion of territory? It is easier than drinking cold water!
The fleet continued to sail south, and the fleet in the direction of Luzon had been waiting for them.
Liu Chuang was very generous and gave them ten ships of grain, fruit, rice wine, and various supplies.
The merchants were once again shocked by the wealth overseas... The precious southern pearls, precious spices, rare animal fur... Things worth a thousand gold in the Great Zhou are everywhere here, and they are piled up on the beach.
The pristine jungle, tall and straight wood, stands quietly there!
The giant wood that only three people can carry ten feet high can be brought by. When I take it back to Dazhou, I have all the best materials, ten thousand taels of each piece of wood! Not to mention gold, silver and copper ore, and endless paddy fields... Many merchants even want to stay in Luzon.
However, they also knew that Luzon was just a "small island" and could not be compared with Tianzhu! After a little exchange, they continued to set off.
Along the way, the navy fired fire everywhere, and they were like lions in the oath of territory. Every time they went, they would make noises to remind the natives that the heavens were coming!
Putting aside Annan, which has been included in the Great Zhou Dynasty, Chameng, Zhenla, and Nibo, all of them have never escaped the poison of the navy... Wherever they go, the natives who are still wearing tree leaves are frightened and crawl on the ground to welcome the arrival of the Shang Kingdom.
Occasionally, some people were blinded to open their eyes and organized an army of thousands of people, screaming and rushing towards the navy. Soon, they were swallowed up by artillery fire. There was only a line of words on the navy's log... A certain tribe, who was disobeyed by the kingdom, attacked with heavenly soldiers, was intimidated by military power, was willing to pay tribute and surrender, bathed in holy gratitude, and burst into tears.
As for the local people's small notebooks, it is written like this: The Great Zhou Dynasty was arrogant and unreasonable, destroyed countless countries along the way, cruel and easy to kill, and the heavens were angry and people resented...
No matter how both sides record it, the merchants in Jinling have opened their eyes. There are too many good things overseas. They even passed by an archipelago full of spices. Spice plants with incalculable value are spread all over the islands, and the merchants' eyes are green!
They also passed by some small islands hanging on the sea. These islands looked bare and had nothing. After they got close, they discovered that the island was covered with a thick layer of bird droppings!
This is a transit station during seabird migration. After thousands of years of accumulation, an island covered with bird droppings has been formed!
Where is bird droppings, it is the best fertilizer!
What a sum of money it would be if it was transported back to the Great Zhou Dynasty!
Several businessmen simply ignored the stench and used their hands and feet to climb up the island, erected a banner on it, stood in the wind, surrounded by bird droppings. At this moment, they smiled like a fat man with 200 pounds.
Leaving the Spice Island, leaving the Hot Island, and passing through the narrow strait, they finally entered the Indian Ocean, and India was so close.
Xu Shiling was eager to wait on the dock.
I thought the court had forgotten him!
It's a fleet of ships coming!
Wow!
There are really a lot!
Five hundred merchant ships and a large number of warships, not only filled the docks, but many ships were waiting outside the sea. Xu Shiling was overjoyed and shouted at his subordinates: "Come on, you useless lazy guys!"
In Xu Shiling's hand, he held a whip and whipped hard at the dark Indians. No one could escape his whip.
Xu Shiling also tried to change his management methods. He wanted to motivate people to let the Indians do more work.
But when he paid the reward salary, the next day, the damn guys stopped working. The money they earned was enough for a day's meal. It would be not too late to make money when they spent all the money!
Xu Shiling's nose was crooked!
After staying in Tianzhu for a long time, he also adapted.
It is too warm here and the products are abundant. Although life is not very good, many Indians do not understand what hunger and cold mean... They also have no idea of storage. Vegetables and fruits are growing all year round and do not have to work too much.
Moreover, the hot temperature made them confused and their minds were not clear.
So don't talk with money, the only useful thing is the whip!
smoke!
Throw hard!
The dense porters were like worker ants... unloading the goods brought by merchant ships to the dock.
Soon, you can see hills rising from the ground.
Silk, muslin, porcelain, tea, iron, building materials... Looking at these things, Xu Shiling was so happy that he couldn't stop talking!
"Very good!"
These are the things he has been waiting for!
"I've asked for all your goods!"
The merchants were shocked, "General Xu, can you eat it? This costs a lot of money!"
Xu Shiling smiled, "I don't have money!"
The businessman was shocked and had no money!
Does he want to rob?
Xu Shiling laughed and said, "But I have land, there are people!"
The merchants were puzzled, "What does the general mean?"
"This is not simple. With these supplies, I can provoke the battle. Those stupid Indians will attack each other! Look at it!"
When he arrived at his own territory, Xu Shiling ignored whether the merchants agreed or not. He took action directly... In the past few years, Xu Shiling has raised many eloquent lackeys, scattered them out, and carried heavy gifts to sow discord and incite the war.
The merchants didn't know what Xu Shiling did, so they could only drink and have a banquet every day and enjoy singing and dancing performances... Most of the women in India were very dark, but some of the higher castes were fair-like, which was more in line with the aesthetics of the Great Zhou Dynasty. The merchants basically lived a fairy life as grooms every day.
Almost a month later, the merchants were called outside the city...the simple fence was surrounded by black prisoners, and there were as many as tens of thousands.
Xu Shiling casually pointed to a bunch of prisoners, "See you, you got it for a hundred pieces of silk!"
How dare businessmen believe their ears!
How many?
One hundred horses!
There is no ten thousand, and there is also eight thousand!
This is a living person!
How can it be cheaper than cattle, horses and livestock?
Xu Shiling said it three times before they made sure, and immediately someone's mind became active, "That General Xu, how about I sell 500 pieces to me?"
Xu Shiling glanced at him, "Don't blame me for not reminding you that these things are in poor health and very lazy, so it's not very useful to transport them back!"
The merchant shook his head repeatedly, "General Xu, I won't hide it from you. It was not possible in the past, but now we have a steam engine ship!"
"Steamboat?"
"That's right!" the merchant said with great confidence: "It will take less than a month to transport these slaves back. Even if they are not strong enough, they will not die. In Liaodong, we have many large farms, all of which use tractors to turn over the ground, sell these people, and farming and harvesting are always fine. Think about it, a cow costs ten taels of silver! A living person only needs one tael, are you worried that no one will buy it?"
Xu Shiling was stunned for a moment and immediately smiled, "Okay, that's great!"
He said to his brothers: "Since someone wants it, even if they are blessed, why are they still standing there... waiting for these wastes to come on the road!"
The merchants were so scared that they changed their faces and colors. Going on the road? This is to use a knife!
They really guessed it right, and saw the soldiers arrest the prisoners one by one, tied them to the rack, pulled off the only piece of white cloth, and then suddenly!
The heart-wrenching scream made the merchants frightened their faces so gray that they couldn't help but cover their little brother.
"General Xu, isn't this a bit too cruel?"
Xu Shiling snorted and sneered: "What do you know? I have to thank me for being cut! Anyway, they can't afford to marry their wives in their lives. Being able to go to Liaodong can be considered as having escaped from the sea of suffering. What's wrong with you?"
Chapter completed!