Ming Dynasty: My Brother-in-law is Zhu Youxiao

The Dutchman Cohen hurriedly nodded, but then 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 believed that in the primitive accumulation stage of the rise of a super empire, it was inevitable to use some inhuman methods.

It just depends on who is the group corresponding to this method, and who should pay such a price.

Obviously, for the current Ming Dynasty, it is the barbarians who should pay the price for the primitive accumulation stage of 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 immediately replied, 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 sense of fellowship would later collude with foreign landlords to enslave Han people.

But now the Ming court forbids raising 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 foreign barbarians as slaves was initiated by the imperial court.

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

Speaking of which, 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.

"Don't you just want to sell goods for Daming, and 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 will also help 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.

We 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.

The Han gentry can do it, and the European gentry can do it naturally, and they won't 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 formally managed by the Ming court. This supervisor decided to invite you to a banquet."

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, Daming?"

"Don't dare!"

Cohen replied.

Zhang Gui pretended to be angry and said: "If you have something, you have it, if you don't, you don't have it, why are you such a mother-in-law! Are you and the other red-haired fans so cowardly?! How do you do ocean trade like this?!"

Keen didn't expect Zhang Gui to be angry, fearing that the powerful supervisor of Ming Dynasty would chop himself off in a fit of anger, so he could only 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 also 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, but he didn't dare to ask.

Seeing him in a daze, Zhang Gui asked coldly, "Why, you don't want to save 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 had not experienced the malnutrition environment that lasted for more than two hundred years, so they were all very tall.

Especially for 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, 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 also drank it down and smiled slightly.

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 love 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 they still losing so badly?"