Chapter 384 The rising new Ming Empire!

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

"It's good if you don't sell 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 it is inevitable that the primitive accumulation stage of the rise of a super empire was used with some unkind methods.

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

It is obvious that for the current Ming Dynasty, the foreigners should pay the price for the original accumulation stage of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhang Gui continued: "The constitutional outline issued by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty only stipulates that Han people are respected and Han people are not allowed to be traded. Therefore, you can sell those who are willing to sell their own population in your own mainland, or those who are willing to sell their own population in other mainlands."

After hearing this, Cohen understood and said, "Your country does not seem to need slaves."

"That's before!"

Zhang Gui immediately replied, "But it's 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 friendship with compatriots would collude with foreign landlords to enslave Han people.

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

Moreover, this market demand will be dominated by the court, that is, the state.

After all, this reform that no longer fosters Han people to be slaves and changes foreigners to slaves was initiated by the imperial court.

As mentioned earlier, the Ming Dynasty could not expect the landlords of the people to spontaneously carry out such changes. The landlords would only lie flat on the ground and want to further enslave their compatriots, so this change could only be carried out by the court using state power.

Turning back, due to this great internal change in the Ming Dynasty, there will naturally be a huge demand for the slave market.

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

"You don't just want to sell goods for the Ming Dynasty, and don't want to make money from the Ming Dynasty?"

"Slaves! It will be an important need for the Ming Dynasty next! You can transport more slaves here, and we will provide tax support, which can help you solve the problem of excessive hungry people in your own country."

Zhang Gui said.

Most businessmen only value interests, and Dutch people like Cohen are no exception.

You should know that in history, the British-Dutch War broke out, and for their own interests, many Dutch merchants directly chose to spend money to support the UK.

It can be seen that it is not difficult for those who sell their own country in the face of interests.

The Han gentry made it, and the European gentry naturally made it too. They would not sell their compatriots when they had profits.

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

"That's good!"

Zhang Gui said, "It is rare that you are the first batch of merchant ships that arrived after Haojing was officially managed by our Ming Dynasty court. This supervisor decided to invite you."

So, Zhang Gui ordered a banquet to be given to Cohen and others.

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

Zhang Guixian asked Cohen: "You Hongmao Fan must be very complaining about the military operations of my Ming Dynasty when recapturing Batavia City?"

"Don't dare!"

Cohen replied.

Zhang Guize pretended to be angry and said, "It's true that there is, there is nothing, why bother mother-in-law and mother like this! Are you all the red-haired fans so cowardly? How can you do ocean trade like this?!"

Cohen didn't expect Zhang Gui to be angry, for fear that the powerful and powerful supervisor of the Ming Dynasty would slash him in anger, so he had to tell the truth: "Some."

Then, Cohen looked at Zhang Gui's expression with trembling.

Zhang Gui was not angry, but signaled Liu Zongmin to pour him a glass of wine, and also poured a glass of wine for the Dutch general Cohen, and said, "But you provoke first, and 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 civilians, but you slaughtered our entire city of Batavia, even the Governor and other officials were cut off.

Zhang Guize suggested: "This way, according to the rules of the Han people in the Ming Dynasty, you and I will kill the glass of wine in front of you. Even if this grudge is settled, you will not be allowed to raise it again in the future. What? We will no longer ask you to calculate the illegal occupation of my Daming Batavia City."

When did Batavia become your Ming Dynasty, and when did we illegally seize it?

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

Seeing that he was stunned, Zhang Gui asked coldly: "Why, don't you give me face?"

Zhou Yuji, Man Gui and others, who were accompanying him, cooperated to stand up from around the round table, pinched up fists as big as bowls, and looked at Cohen.

The Han people of this era have not yet been destroyed by the malnutrition environment for more than two hundred years, so they are 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. He quickly picked up the wine glass with trembling hands, drank it all, and then coughed suddenly.

Seeing this, Zhang Gui shouted "Okay!" and then drank it all and smiled slightly.

Cohen also smiled apologized, cautiously, and didn't even dare to cough again.

"You should improve your ability to speak Chinese, and you should even recommend that your governor and others improve your ability to speak Chinese, if you want to be a dog of the Ming Dynasty and want to gain more benefits."

When the banquet ended, Zhang Gui spoke with some intoxication, lined up Cohen's shoulders and said:

"My Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty is a benevolent king! He could not bear to see the world in a state of chaos and disorder, but he intended to establish a set of global order, and even establish a set of public laws as the norm for all states in the world to deal with issues between countries."

"Whoever obeys and implements this order best will naturally have the better chance of becoming the Ming Dynasty's dog. In this way, if I, Daming, can eat a bite of meat when distributing global interests in the future, he can at least get a bone, and may even eat a little meat. Do you understand, my smart General Cohen?"

How could Cohen not understand? It was just that he was a little unwilling to accept it in his emotions, thinking why is the Eastern Empire now beginning to have such great ambitions?

How good is the empire that even his officials rented his territory to the Gentiles without asking about the situation. How good is the Eastern empire that was wanted to sell his own citizens to the Southeast Asian countries without asking about it, and even the colonists and their natives were enslaved and slaughtered without caring about it!

After all, such an Eastern empire would not participate in the division of interests of the entire world, and would even be divided by our joint bureaucratic and wealthy people.

Who doesn't like sleeping lions?

"The Ming Dynasty in the past really couldn't come back, and Neo-Confucianism was really hard to prosper! The world has changed a lot. Woo woo!"

In the capital, Wu Weiye saw that the pseudo-dynasty in the south were completely pacified, Wang Wenkui and Zhao Shichun were both captured alive, and the pseudo-emperor also left a suicide note saying that I was not the real prince. The great Neo-Confucian scholars harmed me and then jumped into a well and died. After covering the contents of the newspapers and magazines, he covered his face and cried on the spot, and asked Liu Hongxun, who now values ​​him very much:

"Mr. Liu, why do you think this is? There are obviously so many people who have gone to the south to support Neo-Confucianism, and people's hearts have obviously gone to the south, but why are they still losing so badly?"
Chapter completed!