Chapter 384 The Rising New Ming Empire!

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

  “It’s good that there is no trafficking of Han people, but other slave trades can be done.”

  Zhang Gui nodded and said this.

ah? !

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

  Zhang Gui always believes that in the primitive accumulation stage of the rise of a super empire, it is inevitable to use some inhuman methods.

   It just depends on who is the group that this method corresponds to, and who should pay the price.

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

Therefore, Zhang Gui continued to say: "The constitutional outline promulgated by His Majesty the Ming Emperor only stipulates that the Han people should be respected only, and the Han people are not allowed to be bought or sold. Therefore, you can sell those who are willing to sell yourself in your own mainland, or you can sell them." Trafficking other continents willing to sell their own people."

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

   "That was before!"

  Zhang Gui replied immediately, and said: "But it is very necessary 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 compatriots would later collude with foreign landlords to enslave Han people.

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

  And this market demand will be led by the imperial court, that is, the country.

   After all, this change of no longer raising Han people as slaves and changing foreigners as slaves was initiated by the imperial court.

   As mentioned earlier, it is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to expect the civil landlords to carry out this kind of change spontaneously. The landlords will just lie flat and want to further enslave their compatriots. Therefore, this kind of change can only be carried out by the court using state power.

  Turning back, because of this major internal change in Daming, there will naturally be a great demand for slaves in the market.

  Therefore, Zhang Gui planned to use Haojing as a slave trading center.

   "You don't want to just sell goods for Daming, but don't want to make money from him?"

   "Slaves! It will be a very important demand of Ming Dynasty! You can bring more slaves here, and we will provide tax support. This can be regarded as helping you solve the problem of too many hungry people in your own country."

   Zhang Gui said.

  Most businessmen only value profit, and the Dutch like Cohen are no exception.

   You must know that the Anglo-Dutch war broke out in history. For their own interests, many Dutch businessmen directly chose to spend money to support the United Kingdom.

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

  If the Han gentry can do it, the European gentry will naturally do it too, and they will not stop selling their compatriots when they can benefit.

  So, after Zhang Gui said that, Cohen was immediately moved: "We will consider your suggestion!"

   "That's good!"

   Zhang Gui said: "It's rare that you are the first batch of merchant ships that arrived after Haojing was officially managed by the Ming court. This supervisor decided to entertain you."

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

  At the banquet, Zhang Gui specially invited a group of civil servants and generals to accompany him, and Cohen sat beside him.

  Zhang Guixian asked Cohen: "You Hongmao fans must have complained about our military operations when we regained Batavia City in Ming Dynasty?"

   "Dare not!"

  Cohen replied.

   Zhang Gui pretended to be annoyed and said: "If you have it, you have it, if you don't, you don't have it. Why are you so mother-in-law! Are you all so cowardly?! How do you do ocean trade?!"

  Cohen didn't expect Zhang Gui to be angry, and was afraid that the powerful supervisor of Ming Dynasty would cut himself off in a fit of anger, so he had to tell the truth: "Yes."

   Then, Cohen looked at Zhang Gui's expression tremblingly.

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

   "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: "Well, according to the rules of my Ming Han people, if you and I drink up the glass of wine in front of us, this grievance will be settled, and we are not allowed to mention it again. How about it? We won't find you again as illegal." Seize the account of my Daming Batavia City."

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

  Cohen wanted to ask this question very much, but he didn't dare to ask.

  Seeing him in a daze, Zhang Gui asked coldly, "Why, don't you give me face?"

   Accompanied by today's giants of the Ming Dynasty, Zhou Yuji, Man Gui and others, they stood up from around the round table in cooperation, squeezed their fists as big as bowls, and looked at Cohen.

  The Han people in this era have not been devastated by the malnutrition environment for more than two hundred years, so they are all very tall.

   Especially professional generals like Zhou Yuji, it is not an exaggeration to describe them as strong as a tower.

  So, when Cohen saw this situation, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly picked up the wine glass with trembling hands, drank it down first, and then coughed violently.

  Seeing this, Zhang Gui yelled "Okay!" Then he drank it down and smiled.

  Cohen also laughed, cautiously, not even daring to cough again.

   "You should improve your ability to speak Chinese, and you should even suggest that your governor and others improve their ability to speak Chinese, if you want to become Ming's dog and get more benefits."

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

"My Emperor Ming is a benevolent king! He couldn't bear to see the world in a state of war and chaos, but he deliberately established a set of global order, and even established a set of public laws as a way for all states in the world to deal with state-to-state relations. guidelines for inter-problem."

"And whoever observes and implements this order the best will naturally have a better chance of becoming Da Ming's dog. In this way, when we distribute global interests in the future, if my Da Ming can eat a bite of meat, he can at least get a bone." , and maybe even some meat along with it, understand, my clever General Cohen?"

  How could Cohen not understand, it’s just that he was a little reluctant to accept it emotionally, wondering why the Eastern Empire has started to have such big ambitions now?

How good was the empire in the past that even its own officials leased their territories to foreign countries without asking about the situation? In the past, their own citizens were sold to Nanyang without asking, and they were even enslaved and massacred by their own colonists and aboriginals. No matter how good the Eastern Empire is!

  After all, such an eastern empire will not participate in the division of interests in the entire world, and will even be divided by the rich bureaucrats we unite with them.

  Who doesn't like a sleeping lion?

   "The former Daming really can't come back, Neo Confucianism is really hard to thrive! The world has really changed a lot. Woohoo!"

In the capital, Wu Weiye saw that the puppet dynasty in the south 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 Confucianism and Confucianism harmed me and then threw himself into the well and died. , covered his face and wept on the spot, and asked Liu Hongxun, who is very important to him now:

   "Liu Gong, why do you think this is? So many people have gone to the south to support Confucianism, and the hearts of the people have gone to the south, but why are you still losing so badly?"

  (end of this chapter)