The two looked at each other for a long time, both seeing the glint in each other's eyes, and they understood each other tacitly.
"It depends on how much you need. I have business dealings with Xu Zhaochun, and there are as many Chinese workers as you need." Van Grunsoldo stroked his beard.
Xu Zhaochun is the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. He has been trading with Spanish colonists for many years.
"The more the merrier!"
Just four words express Ming's attitude.
In order to purchase Han labor, Zhu Zaiming prepared a lot of "rare treasures", which may be expensive in this era, but are very cheap in the system.
"In that case..." Van Grunsoldo paced the room, thinking about how to price it.
According to the current market price, 5 taels of silver can buy a laborer from Xu Zhaochun.
He bought it back and sold it to other colonists at a price increase of 3 to 5 taels, not including shipping costs.
After a long while, Van Grunsoldo gave a number.
"15 per person, shipping included!"
This price can be said to be quite fair, neither high nor low, but very fair.
But Van Grunsoldo changed the subject and whispered.
"But on the trade list, there are 13 people per person, and the population reaches a certain size. The Spanish royal family allows certain exemptions. Therefore, the labor you purchased is at least 50,000! As for the exemption, the royal family does not want me!"
"50,000?" Shen Yulong shook his head.
Van Grunsold thought that Shen Yulong couldn't ask for so much, and was thinking about how to make a fuss in the ledger without deductions. Who knew that Shen Yulong's next words would make him spit out the coffee.
"50,000 is too little, at least 200,000! It's best if there are 30,000 good men with broken families among them!"
As for the purpose of finding 30,000 dead strong men, it is naturally to prepare to form the 1st Standing Division of the Ming Dynasty.
This kind of person who has lost everything can easily regard the military camp as his home and go out to fight without any hesitation.
"How much? 200,000?"
Van Grunsold's eyes widened. Although Spain had many warships in Manila, they could only transport twenty to thirty thousand people at a time.
These 200,000 people have to be transported to the year of the monkey and the month of the horse.
Shen Yulong also investigated the Spanish colonists. It was indeed difficult for them to transport 200,000 yuan at a time, but the delivery time in batches was too long.
Therefore, Shen Yulong gave him an idea.
"If you can't transport it yourself, you can outsource it... I can pay an extra 2 taels per person for shipping!"
After hearing more, Van Grunsold suddenly became enlightened.
Yes, you can outsource. There are so many colonists in Nanyang. If they can make extra money, they will definitely take orders like crazy.
In the end, the two sides made calculations and settled on a population trade of up to 300,000 people.
This trade costs about 5 million Ming silver coins. Even if the wealthy household has 15 million in deposits, it is not something that can be taken just as easily.
Therefore, Ming Dynasty only used 200,000 silver coins to increase the reputation of Ming Dynasty silver coins, and used "rare and rare treasures" to pay for other goods.
"The multi-treasure dragon ball contains various animal carvings..."
In fact, it is the marbles I played with when I was a child, but it is produced by the system and the internal carvings are lifelike.
"Crystal wine glasses, high purity goblets..."
In fact, it is just an ordinary goblet. Because the glass blown at this time is more variegated and basically not pure, it can be regarded as high-quality goods.
"Aluminum tableware..."
Before the French refined aluminum metal in the 1850s, aluminum products were more expensive than gold and were a symbol of European aristocracy. Anyone who did not have aluminum tableware would be impure to the aristocracy.
"Luxury Supreme Mechanical Pocket Watches and Watches!"
Mechanical watches actually already exist, but early mechanical watches were quite crude and lacked the sophistication of the system.
Some watches can even see the continuously rotating gears through the glass window, which is an eye-opener for Van Grunsold.
Therefore, when these products appeared in front of Van Grunsoldo, he picked out a golden watch and put it on without saying a word, grinning from the corners of his mouth to his ears.
"Beautiful, very beautiful!"
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More than ten days later, various colonial fleets arrived in Quanzhou. Xu Zhaochun looked at boxes of Spanish silver coins being moved into his house, with a smile on his face.
Because the Ming Dynasty silver coins were extremely exquisite and their purchasing power far exceeded those of Spanish silver coins, Van Grunsordo hid them after receiving the Ming Dynasty silver coins and replaced them with Spanish silver coins.
At this time, Xu Zhaochun was both happy and confused.
Happily, this time he earned 1.5 million taels, as well as various rare treasures presented by the Spaniards, and even two exquisite pocket watches, which he liked very much.
The troubling thing is that 300,000 people is not a small number, and the Qing court cannot detect the normal number of people buying and selling one or two thousand people.
But this time there are too many 300,000 people. How can we cover up the crowd?
So, he took out 500,000 Spanish silver coins, brought several sets of crystal goblets, and started looking for Shangguan to look around.
I heard that there is a flood in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and countless people have lost their homes in various places. This is an opportunity...
After Qianlong's death in 1799, the Qing Dynasty began to collapse.
Land annexation, natural disasters and famine, Qianlong's southern tour, the White Lotus Rebellion... the Manchu treasury was empty, social conflicts intensified, and disputes continued in various places.
It can be said that if Jiaqing had not killed Heshen and ransacked his house, the Manchu treasury would not have been able to get a single penny out.
As for the emperor’s internal funds?
Just kidding, that's the emperor's private money, how could it be used to fill the bottomless pit outside?
Therefore, in such an environment, Xu Zhaochun's up and down management was extremely smooth.
The Spanish also sent a large number of treasures to the Forbidden City. These multi-treasure dragon beads and crystal goblets are worth a lot of money at a glance.
After Jiaqing received internal funds, he turned a blind eye to the human trafficking in the south.
The Spaniards want the homeless.
It can not only sell money, but also eliminate unstable factors, and the emperor's pockets can also be bulging. It's like killing three birds with one stone!
As for the common people?
For the feudal rulers, they were just dispensable tools and common people.
As a result, at the beginning of spring, the entire Quanzhou port was overcrowded.
"Master Qingtian, please give me something to eat. My grandson has been hungry for several days..."
The old woman's clothes were in tatters, and she was holding a four- or five-year-old child in her arms. She squeezed forward as hard as she could, shedding muddy tears facing the luxurious sedan on the street.
She was surrounded by people in ragged clothes, all dirty and numb, raising their withered hands to beg from Xu Zhaochun.
They were all driven into Guangdong and Guangxi by the officials from various places. The officers and soldiers found moldy rice from nowhere and distributed this food along the way to prevent them from starving to death.
However, a large number of people still died from food poisoning.
In Quanzhou, Xu Zhaochun mobilized soldiers to guard the refugees near the dock.
He opened the curtain, took a disgusted look outside, and fanned his nose with his right hand, as if to blow away the "poor" breath.
Xu Zhaochun didn't say anything. These refugees were naturally recruited by the Spaniards. He brought the refugees to Quanzhou Port. Even if the transaction was completed, the rest was none of his business.
It is only necessary to guard the periphery of Quanzhou Port and prevent refugees from flowing around.
The servants who opened the way used big sticks to beat the refugees who were blocking the way, and soon many weak people died miserably on the streets.
But the refugees are like quails. A few days ago, a few people gathered to revolt, and their heads were hanging high on both sides of the street.
It's a hellscape here.
At the port, a group of Spaniards shouted loudly, speaking not very fluent Chinese.
“Nanyang is recruiting workers, and you’ll get food if you sign up!”
"The whole family will come, and the boss will divide the house and the fields and the seeds!"
“Give up the old life and embrace the new.”
"Hurry up and get on the boat to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"
Someone shouted something, which attracted the attention of several Qing soldiers.
