The entire peanut village is now a huge construction site.
The bastion built with sandbags and wood has now been completed, guarding the entrance to a peninsula. To the north of the fortress is a fairly flat peninsula. All the trees on the peninsula have been cut down, leaving only a large area of flat land. According to the plan, the first city of the United States of New Zealand will appear on this flat peninsula. The basic construction of the city has begun. Half of the embankment surrounding the peninsula has been built. A new pier has been put into use. Smoke is rising from a residential area built of logs. There is also a building between the pier and the residential area. Market, and a circular coastal defense fort was built on the top of the peninsula. Flat dirt roads were also built between the fort, dock, market, residential area and bastion.
Among the markets surrounded by wooden fences, the most impressive building is the store with the signboard "Xu Liuliang Hang" - the name of Xu Liuliang Hang is a bit difficult to pronounce, so people in Peanut Village don't use this name, but call it "Xu Liuliang Hang". "Human traffickers' firms" are firms that specialize in human trafficking!
It's quite an evil place!
Maeda Kiku, who arrived in Peanut Village with her infant son on Xu Liuliang's merchant ship, is now living in the "trafficker's row". At this time, she has put her son to sleep and started working again - because she has her son with her, And she didn’t know how to do farm work, so she became a “unsaleable product” that no one wanted. But Liu Liang, who was in charge of Xu Liuliang's business in the New World, was unwilling to sell her at a discount, so he temporarily kept her to help in the firm.
And Maeda Kiku was actually the daughter of a samurai who served in the Saga Domain’s Jinya in Nagasaki. She also grew up in Nagasaki, could speak fluent Chinese, and could keep accounts and have an abacus—the Saga Domain had long-term responsibilities. In order to maintain public security in Nagasaki, a battle house was set up in Nagasaki and samurai were stationed permanently.
In addition, the place where Saga Domain is located has long been an important center for trade between China, Japan and Japan and Korea. Therefore, there were many samurai who could speak Chinese and do business. Maeda Kiku's family has been samurai businessmen for generations. She has heard and seen it since she was a child, and she also has a business acumen.
So I quickly adapted to Xu Liuliangxing’s sinful business - human trafficking!
Of course, Xu Liuliangxing's "crime" was discovered only after more than two hundred years. At that time, no one thought that Xu Liuliangxing was sinful.
Even the girls who were sold did not think that Xu Liuliangxing was bad... Just look at the buildings of Xu Liuliangxing. There are no facilities for imprisonment here, and neither do the Japanese women who live here. Restricted freedom. They can wander around, find buyers by themselves, and then bring the buyers to pay for it!
It sounds incredible, but reality is sometimes so ridiculous!
Most of the people brought to Peanut Village by Xu Liuliangxing are farmers' daughters. In Japan, they are "excess" existence - because it is difficult for non-eldest men from farmers' families to get married, so the extra daughters from these farmers' families are not available. If you want a girl, you will be sold by your cruel parents when you grow up a little bit... The lucky one can become the concubine of a merchant or samurai, the unlucky one will become a wandering girl (prostitute), if If she looks any worse, she won’t even be considered a wandering girl and will have to work at home doing farm work, fearing that she won’t be able to eat enough until she dies!
In Peanut Village, these redundant people in the local area have suddenly become a hot commodity - as long as they go to the nearby construction site, they will soon grow tall and handsome, and own a large piece of land. The man came up to see the price. A man of this size who owns so much land is something that girls like them would never dare to think of in Japan!
The prices of these girls are fixed, written on the kimonos they wear, and they do not accept bargaining. If several men are interested in a girl at the same time, then the girl can choose a favorite buyer among them. .
Elopement with the buyer will not happen because there is nowhere to run... There are guards guarding the entrance and exit of the market!
Soon, a girl named Axiang pulled a big guy with tanned skin (the men in Peanut Village were all giants in Aju's opinion) into Xu Liuliangxing's shop.
"Sister Aju, these are ten mink pelts!" Axiang smiled and handed the stack of mink pelts to Aju, "You count them."
Aju smiled and took the mink skins, carefully inspecting them one by one, and then carefully wrapped them up and put them away. Then she took out a box containing the deed of betrayal, found the one that belonged to Axiang and put it on On the table, another ink pad box and another piece of white paper filled with handprints were taken out.
"Axiang, make a fingerprint, the thumb of your right hand."
"Hai." Axiang responded, and obediently made a fingerprint on the blank space of the white paper.
"Sir, please check." Ah Ju handed the white paper with A Xiang's handprint and the deed of sale that also had A Xiang's hand print to the big black man - this was to confirm that A Xiang was indeed owned by Xu Liuliangxing. .
"I've checked it...yes, that's right." After checking the bond of betrayal, the big black man was already smiling from ear to ear.
He was a bankrupt tenant farmer in the Ming Dynasty. Because he owed usury to the landlord, he was forced to sign a contract to work hard in the New World - it was all good things done by the large and small shareholders of the United States!
In order to get some people to develop the New World, all kinds of coercion and inducement were used!
This big black man originally thought that the New World would be as miserable as hell, but when he came here, he realized that wages here are extremely high, land is free, there is meat to eat every day, and there are cheap girls to marry as wives... .As long as you catch ten stupid minks in the forest and skin them, you can find a fair and tender woman of fourteen or fifteen years old to give birth to a son for you!
This place is simply heaven!
"This is the invoice, please keep it." Ah Ju has already issued the invoice - Xu Liuliang's human trafficking is a legal business! So if you have an invoice, you still need to pay taxes according to law, and the tax rate is 10%...that is, a mink skin or equivalent silver, gold, wheat, etc.
"Invoice? What's it for?" The big black man couldn't read. He took the invoice and looked at it, but he didn't understand it either.
Aju explained: "Sir, the guard outside the market will not let you take Axiang away until he has checked the invoice... In addition, the head of the village where you live will, after checking the invoice, Only then will Axiang be registered for naturalization and a household register will be issued."
The management of the American Mansion is still very strict!
Population, land, industry and commerce are all registered!
Strong men must perform military service and labor, land must pay in-kind taxes in accordance with the law, and various industrial and commercial operations must not only pay taxes in accordance with the law, but also serve the interests of the United States and accept the "guidance" of the American Government...such as Xu Liuliang's business , it was carried out under the "guidance" of the American Government!
This is to obtain strategic resources for the American Government!
According to information obtained by the American Government, every Japanese woman who can get married can have an average of seven to eight children in her lifetime.
In other words, if 10,000 people can be transported to America, 70,000 to 80,000 children will be born in America in the future! In the New World, this is a huge amount!
When Ah Ju was trafficking people for Xu Liuliang Hang, two of the three major shareholders of Xu Liuliang Hang, Liu Liang, who was in charge of the American government business, and Liang Youxin, who was in charge of shipping (he was originally a shiphead and was roped in by Xu Kan), were The Yazhong of the American Mansion in that bastion (American Mansion Bastion) reported to Wei Zhongcheng.
It is not to report how many more people have been successfully trafficked, but to report that the transport ship commanded by Liang Youxin encountered Spanish ships in the North Pacific.
It turns out that Liang Youxin's Pacific sailing ship (a large hard sailing ship) encountered a thousand-stone bird ship flying the Spanish red cross flag in the North Pacific near the Gulf of America!
Moreover, the sailors of the Pacific schooner also discovered that there were many Orientals on the Spanish Big Bird ship. Judging from their clothes, they seemed to be from Japan...
