"Selasi Solomon, is your hometown in Africa?"

"Yes, sir, my hometown is in Africa near the Red Sea, where I am a white nobleman."

In this small restaurant located in the Jiangdu Canal Wharf District, our saint Emperor Chen Dexing and a black slave owner who sold white slaves seemed to have made friends with wine and meat, and started chatting while drinking.

This slave trader named Selasi Solomon is also very sharp-eyed and has realized that Chen Dexing's status is extraordinary. It is not the first time he has come to China to sell white slaves. A considerable number of his customers are emerging military nobles in the Ming Dynasty. Their dress is similar to Chen Dexing's current. Moreover, Chen Dexing also brought a white female slave, which is obviously a high-end product. Selasi Solomon has already professionally estimated the price for Baoyin. Although this woman is a little older (nearly thirty years old), most of her children. However, her appearance and temperament are much better than all the white female slaves Solomon has seen. What's more valuable is that this woman is still mixed with yellow and white. Such female slaves are several times more expensive than pure white female slaves in the Ming Dynasty...

Therefore, her master must be a wealthy Ming nobleman. These Ming Empire nobles are all good customers! The customer is God Selassi to the merchants. Solomon is still a black Jewish and believes in God rather than a true god. Therefore, he answered Chen Dexing's questions in detail as much as possible.

Africa, close to the Red Sea, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia? Oh, it should be Ethiopia!

Chen Dexing thought about it and finally found the correct answer. This black slave trader comes from the Ethiopian Plateau. This broken place now belongs to the Kingdom of Zagvi. In the current Black Africa, it is a powerful country. Maybe it can be called the two heroes of the Black Slag together with the Kingdom of Mali in West Africa?

"Your business... is just selling white slaves?" Chen Dexing glanced at the white slaves who were gnawing meat pies, all of them were white girls, and they couldn't tell whether they were beautiful or not, because they were all unkempt and dirty, dirty, their clothes were torn, and they were all very thin. I don't know how many days I haven't eaten enough, but now they are all greedy.

"I also sell black slaves." Serasi Solomon smiled bitterly, "Selling black slaves is the main business of our Solomon family, and the Zagvi Kingdom has a lot of black slaves. But now black slaves are not easy to sell, and the Arab empire collapsed. The Mamruks were busy fighting wars and had no money to buy black slaves. So I was sent to the East by my family to find a market because we heard that the East had an extremely wealthy and powerful empire! In the East, the sales of black slaves were not good, far from being as good as white female slaves, so I could only sell white female slaves instead."

In history, the Arabs were actually the ones who liked to use black slaves the most. They used black slaves as coolies, and castrated black slaves as slaves. The eunuchs in the Sultan and the Caliph’s court were also black. In the 9th century AD, a massive black slave uprising broke out on the Arabian Peninsula, which became the turning point for the Abbasid dynasty to decline from prosperity.

However, black slaves are not easy to sell in the East at present. On the one hand, because the transportation distance is too far and the transportation cost is too high, the selling price is naturally not cheap. On the other hand, the cost of driving black slaves to work is not low, and they need to be equipped with armed guards and build cells. There is also a closed manor, and it is better to use wage labor than to use them.

However, as a "luxury product", the young and beautiful white female slaves are now welcomed by the nobles of the Ming Dynasty. This is of course related to the provision of "Han people are not slaves". Since Han women cannot be slaves, it is not very convenient to be concubines, tricks, and maids. Who is willing to pay a lot of capital to cultivate a free brothel red head? Who is willing to raise a group of concubines and singers who will leave at any time at home? Although rich and powerful masters always have ways to break through the legal restrictions, this is also costly. Local officials have to settle the matter, and local Tiandaoism also has to donate money, and they have to be wary of reporting at all times. Instead of doing this, it is better to spend money to buy some white female slaves, which is legal private property!

After entering the white slave trade, the black slave trader Selasi Solomon found that selling white slaves was easier to make money than selling black slaves. The latter was a means of production. If the cost of using them was higher than that of serfs or employed labor, naturally no one paid for it. The former was a luxury goods. For the more and more wealthy merchants and nobles in the Ming Empire, as long as they fell in love with them, they didn't care about spending more money.

"Where do these white female slaves come from?" Chen Dexing asked with interest. The black slaves were captured, which is said in this history book. But what about the white slaves? The black slave trader went to the territory of the Mamruk Sultan to capture the white female slaves? Isn't this possible?

"Of course I bought it," Selassi Solomon shrugged, "Or what else can I do?"

"Where did you buy it?" Chen Dexing inquired further.

"Buy from the Mamruks, Mongols and the Great Cannibals." Selasi Solomon took a big sip of wine and smiled. "It's easy. There are slave markets in Egypt, the Great Cannibals, Persia and India, and there is also one in Palembang in Malacca. The business of buying and selling white female slaves was originally monopolized by the Arabs and Persians. After all, they have a source of goods... Every war will produce many pagan slaves, which are all goods that can be sold."

As if they had drunk too much wine, the black slave traders began to become talkative pointed at the white female slaves, "They all came from the Principality of Antioch, where the Mamruks captured it, turning all the women and children into slaves, and sold them publicly in Cairo and Alexandria. However, the business of those Tianfang scholars can only be done in Malacca now, unlike us Israel, who can go anywhere."

Israelites? It turns out that this guy is still a black Jew! No wonder he calls himself a white man and is also engaged in human trafficking.

When Selassi Solomon and Chen Dexing talked about the business story of the slave trade, a father and son who had been agricultural capitalists for several years in the restaurant, whose conscience had turned black, stretched their ears and listened carefully, and whispered to exchange opinions from time to time.

"This is a big deal!"

"Yes, this Kunlun slave can do it, what else can we not do?"

"The Tianfang Cult can still sell slaves in Maluojia. In a while, they will at most arrive in Tianzhu."

"We just need to buy a few white female slaves in Tianzhu and bring them back to Ming Dynasty and sell them, and then we will make a fortune."

“This is a good deal!”

"Yes, it's a good deal!"

"Dad, then we..."

"Okay, go to Chittagong in Tianzhu to make a fortune!"

This seems not a good thing! Chen Dexing frowned slightly. These rich people from the Ming Dynasty were also. They were not allowed to buy white slaves as slaves... They really became bad if they had money? I don’t know how much gold and silver flowed to the pockets of slave traders like Selassi and Solomon every year!

"Who is buying it?" Chen Dexing asked. "How many female slaves can be sold in the entire Ming Dynasty every year?"

"Rich businessmen, and noble masters like you! As for how many people can sell in the entire Ming Dynasty every year, I don't know, but I know that the supply of white female slaves is limited. After all, the Ming Dynasty market has high requirements for the appearance of white female slaves. It would be good to supply ten thousand people a year, and some people would die on the road. Only a few thousand people could be sold alive. However, for these white female slaves who can be sold, it is undoubtedly very lucky to be a noble master like you, and they dream of it. If you know how poor and chaotic their hometown is, you will believe that most of them are willing to accept the fate of being sold to the Ming Dynasty as slaves."

Selassi Solomon smiled and pointed at the white female slaves, "Justice Chen, as long as these girls are washed clean, they are all as beautiful as flowers. Do you want to buy two? I can give you a discount."

This is the salesperson, and it is indeed a black Jewish who knows how to do business!

Seeing Chen Dexing frowning slightly, Selassi Solomon said again, "Justice Chen, don't worry, these white female slaves have the identity certificate issued by the Governor's Office of the Strait of the Ming Dynasty. You will never be in trouble if you buy them. I can guarantee this, I am a law-abiding businessman."

Since the slave trade was legal in the Ming Empire, there was a special yamen responsible for management! Under the Governor's Office of the Strait of Daming, there was a slave trader specializing in certifying female slaves. All slaves transported from the West paid taxes and certificates in the Slave Trader's Office of the Strait of Daming before they could enter the territory of the Ming Empire.

In addition, in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, all slave transactions must be registered, transferred and taxed in the slave traders in each capital or province. Although the Ming Dynasty allowed slaves to exist, illegal slave transactions were strictly prohibited.

However, the slave trade is definitely a problem for the Ming Empire and the future Chinese world!

Chen Dexing's brows became tighter and tighter. He had the vision of later generations for hundreds of years, and of course he knew that the consequences of the large-scale slave trade in history were not a big deal for thousands or even tens of thousands of white female slaves to flow into the Ming Dynasty every year, even if it would cause 20 million or more silver coins to flow out.

After all, the Ming Dynasty had too great advantages in foreign trade. If all the gold and silver from the world were absorbed into China, international trade would not be able to continue. In a sense, the trade of white female slaves was a means to achieve trade balance. Moreover, there was a demand in the Ming Dynasty after all... One is willing to buy and the other is willing to sell, so it is not easy for the court to forcibly ban it, right?

Besides, a few thousand people a year are nothing to the Ming Dynasty, which has a population base of more than 100 million.
Chapter completed!