The installment payment model has already appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and it has the same logic as borrowing.
Emperor Shizu did not specifically promote it, so many traditional scholars do not like this business model and think it is the commonly known method of eating and eating crops.
Only use it when you really have to.
Nowadays, the imperial court of the vassal state is taking the lead, not private loans, and not for obtaining any theory.
The job was to find women for bachelors, so it was natural that they could be used, so no officials came out to object.
Dianbo understood what Zhu Jingyuan meant and immediately went to inform and arrange relevant matters.
At the same time, the dock of Liusha City was also busy, and the Orchid slaves transported from the hometown of the Barbary pirates were disembarking.
More than a hundred soldiers maintained order around the area, and dozens of Ming women helped check Hu Ji's condition.
These women are all from immigrant families in Ming Dynasty. They are all relatively outgoing, eloquent, or able to write a few words.
Now that there are not enough officials in the kingdom, these women are often recruited to do odd jobs.
They shouted and asked the Orchids to file out. Each one held a box of cotton swabs and checked the Orchid's ears one by one.
What comes out of the cotton swab is dry debris, which is registered as "dry ears", which means that the person will not have body odor.
If it is oily yellow mucus, it is registered as "greasy ears", which indicates that the person will have body odor.
Apocrine sweat glands in other parts of the body can also secrete similar "oils", including proteins and fatty acids.
In fact, these things themselves have no smell, but there are bacteria on the surface of the human body, and they will decompose these things.
If you wait for a while after sweating, your body will feel like it has fermented, and there will be a rotten and sour smell.
People in different regions have slightly different body odors because of the different flora in their living environment.
Since the smell is caused by the decomposition of secretions by bacteria, the obvious logic is that the dirtier the surrounding secretions, that is, the surface of the body, are, the more bacteria are living there, the more obvious the fermentation effect will be, and the stronger the smell will be. .
In this era, the cleanliness of a person's body is directly related to his or her living standard.
If you can take a shower before going out in the morning, do not participate in physical labor, and do not sweat easily, then the symptoms of body odor will not be too bad.
If paired with the right perfume and medicine, it can have the effect of making people think it is odorless.
On the other hand, if it is the most ordinary worker, the living environment is already harsh, and there is no opportunity to take a bath every day, it may ferment repeatedly.
The effect is conceivable.
Therefore, in the slave market, the prices of the same slaves, whether they smell or not, are at least one third to one time different.
Therefore, checking whether there are oily ears or not has become the most important part when inspecting a slave.
Slaves who have been sold have long been used to it, and they all cooperate with the inspection very honestly.
Of course, this kind of inspection mainly targets the Hu and Taixi groups.
There is no need for Mo people to take a test. You can't find a single dry ear among hundreds of people. You may be able to find one or two among thousands of people.
Moreover, Mo slaves cannot be sold at a high price in the first place, and the price of a tasteless individual picked from a thousand miles away is often not as high as that of the most ordinary Hu Ji.
Even if the price is one-third higher than that of ordinary Mo slaves, the base number is too low to make sense, and careful inspection is a waste of energy.
The proportion of dry ears among various ethnic groups in Thailand is approximately between 2% and 10%.
Among Egyptians and Persians, the proportion of dry ears is about 10 to 20 percent.
The white slaves captured and raised by the Barbary pirates were mainly from ethnic groups around the Mediterranean. Overall, they had a tasteless rate of about 10%.
One out of ten can be tasteless, and the individual price of tasteless products can double, so it is still necessary to check them one by one.
Those with dry ears were taken away separately, grouped and managed separately, and the others with oily ears were individually
Start management.
This is just the first item of the examination, and doctors will check for common diseases later.
They are then sent for disinfection, bathing, changing clothes, and intensive observation for three days before being distributed to single workers.
While the doctors and women were busy at work, news suddenly came from the dock dispatch office:
Tianzhu's slave ship was about to dock. The other party reported that it was a 6,000-ton West Sea canal-type passenger ship with 3,000 female slaves from Tianzhu aboard.
This news shocked the doctors, sentry captains, and officials at the scene.
I originally thought they would arrive two or three days later, and they would most likely use an offshore passenger ship of one to two thousand tons, which usually only takes a few hundred to a thousand people.
Because starting from the beginning of the year, under the influence of Zhu Jingyuan, the Ming court began to tighten the slave trade policy.
Merchants of the Ming Dynasty invested less and less in the slave trade, and instead invested in the more promising immigration transportation.
Those still operating the slave trade were mostly old ships and small ships, as well as ships not suitable for ocean-going voyages.
Now this group of slave traders built a six thousand-ton ship, which was completely beyond the expectations of the relevant personnel.
The sentries maintaining order at the scene immediately detach themselves and arrange a flag to control the designated stopping point.
There is no place for the women who help the workers to move around, because the situation of the slave traders is obviously abnormal, and the palace must have arranged more people to help.
The relevant news was immediately reported to Dianbu and Changshi, and was also sent to Zhu Jingyuan.
Zhu Jingyuan was obviously surprised when he saw the news:
"Did these slave traders just buy a new big ship? And do you know that we have three thousand single workers here?"
Dianbo said rather confused:
"Slave traders are private businessmen. It is possible that their business plans have changed or they have new shareholders.
"It's no secret that there are 3,000 single workers here. Workers often joke that they are one of the 3,000 single workers."
The royal consortium has many industries, involving almost every aspect of the Ming Dynasty, and there are very few industries that it does not participate in at all.
One of the most typical industries is the slave trade.
Before the Ming Dynasty, slave trading was not prohibited, but it was not encouraged, and the royal consortium and the court did not operate it.
Zhu Jingyuan thought for a few seconds before making a decision:
"Send more guards over to maintain order, and invite more immigrant women from the Ming Dynasty to help check the female slaves.
"Don't let the female slaves disembark directly. Bring the leader of the slave traders to me first."
Dianbu immediately agreed and took the guards to the dock.
On the sea twenty kilometers away from Liusha City, a 6,000-ton passenger ship maintained a speed of fifteen knots and headed towards the port.
There were two groups of sailors on the bow deck, standing in two rows several meters apart.
The group on the left is mostly Ming people, with a small number of Japanese and Koreans in the middle.
The group on the right are obviously Thais.
In front of the two groups of sailors, there are two men who are obviously the leaders, one is from Ming Dynasty and the other is from Taixi.
The two of them chatted while keeping a distance of two meters from each other.
Gu Rui, a Ming slave merchant, was in a very high mood now and said to the Thai man two meters away:
"As long as this transaction can be completed, we will have found a good way to make a fortune.
"The Ming Dynasty will definitely continue to immigrate to areas around the food country, and there will definitely be a large number of bachelors among the immigrants.
"Officials of the Ming Dynasty especially like to find women for bachelors, so there is no need to worry about this market.
"Tianzhu, which just finished the war, already has a lot of women. The people you British transported from Tianzhu to Mozhou are mainly mature men, and the women are even more worthless. They can be sold here.
"It's not convenient for you British people to go to the Big Food Country, and it's not convenient for us to go to South India in the UK. It's just right for the two of us to cooperate.
"From now on, we will use two identical ships. Your people will go to Nantianzhu to pick up the goods, and my people will go to the big food country to deliver the goods.
"Every round, change one on the small western ocean.
Once the boat is shipped, there will be a steady stream of money from now on.
"The total is less than 3,000 kilometers, and one trip only takes five or six days..."
The British slave trader Ruifrey looked slightly uneasy:
"As long as this trade can be done, it will definitely have a future. I'm just worried about King Dashi's attitude.
"If we combine like this, will we inexplicably offend Prince Dashi, and then deal with us Westerners..."
Gu Rui sneered and said:
"Worried that you guys are still coming here? The key point is that they all stink like salted fish.
"We Ming people have been stuck on the boat for three months, and we are not as smelly as you for three days.
"You still didn't listen to me when I asked you to wait outside? It's too late to regret it now!
"When we get to the Big Food Country, I'll have you castrated with a single blow of a knife!"
Lu Frei was slightly embarrassed by Gu Rui's ridicule, but his original uneasiness weakened:
"If I don't come with you, I don't know whether the deal can be completed or how much you sold it for.
"Don't worry, I'll just follow you, and I won't follow you here again.
"It's just that if you want to make money, you have to continue to endure this stench.
"Even if we don't follow you, there will definitely be something interesting on our host country's ship.
"Those orchids also have a smell, and you will get used to it as time goes by.
"Who makes us barbarians? Satisfaction stinks..."
Gu Rui waved his hand and laughed:
"Get out of here, you said you're fat and you're breathless."
An hour later, Gu Rui and Lu Frei's boat docked at the dock of Liusha City.
A group of guards were already scattered around to control the scene. Ten guards quickly ran to the side of the ship and watched as the passenger ship lowered the gangway.
Then two soldiers shouted loudly below:
"Let the ship owner or boss come down! Our king wants to see them! Others stay on the ship and are not allowed to move!"
Gu Rui and Lu Frei were on the bow of the ship, and they quickly ran down the gangway when they heard the greeting.
Feeling uneasy and yet excited and curious all the way, I followed the guard outside.
Then they saw three other ships not far away, three passenger ships of about 6,000 tons.
There is no problem with the passenger ship appearing on the dock. The problem is that there are Orchids on the ship disembarking, and there are Ming women checking below.
In the open space under the three ships, rows of Orchids were already standing, waiting for the follow-up arrangements.
Seeing this scene, the hearts of the two slave traders suddenly became cold.
None of them could have imagined that the three 6,000-ton ships of the Ming Dynasty could only transport more than 1,200 people.
The ship basically arranged rooms for the female slaves to live in according to the standards of normal passengers, and had sufficient life-saving facilities.
Unlike the two slave traders, a six thousand ton ship held more than three thousand people, and it still felt a bit empty.
If it weren't for the fact that there were only three thousand bachelors in Ming Dynasty, they might have stuffed more female slaves into it.
Now, the two slave traders looked at each other with sad expressions, and the same thought came to their minds:
"Someone got there first!"
"Oh shit!"
