Chapter 654: Daming Jinyiwei
All night, Tian Yilun was there to convince himself, and wanted to convince himself, which was very simple. It mainly depends on what you want to choose.
As a businessman, the choice is always very simple, it is just four big words, profit-oriented. Until the next day, when the sky was clear, he finally made a decision and did not return to China immediately.
Instead, I went to the local city.
The so-called human market is actually a slave market, a place that specializes in selling people. If the empty ship does not return, what should the ship bring on the ship when it returns?
Of course, I have to bring some of the best-selling goods in Daming. Those goods are here.
After entering the human market, he immediately felt like entering the zoo - the zoo was only available in a few places such as Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty. Even if there were some animals in the cages, it was the same when people visited it. Rows of wooden cages were filled with men and women. Although the cages were only about five feet tall, it was just right for very short Japanese people. If they were tall, they would probably have to curl up and stay inside - but such people were almost impossible to see in Japan.
In fact, in ancient times, the Japanese had always had a tradition of fighting and looting people as slaves. It was common for them to plunder people in enemy territory during the Warring States Period to sell them as slaves. The Uesugi family plundered the population in Oda Castle was sold at only 2 or 30 coins. Even if it was a little more expensive, it was "two buns and three coins", which was very cheap anyway.
After the Qing Dynasty attacked Japan, of course, it inherited this fine tradition. It no longer massacred like it did on the mainland, but instead plundered a large number of people. The reason for this change was that most of the people who retreated to the horse were men, so they needed to plunder women and reproduce the tribes, and the other was driven by interests.
Few people in the Ming Dynasty sold themselves as slaves anymore, and the government strictly prohibited good families from selling themselves. Once discovered, both the master and slave families would search their homes and exil.
However, the Ming Dynasty's demand for domestic slaves did not decrease. With the market, there was a demand. In the past two years, marine merchants have been selling foreign maids from overseas and selling them as domestic slaves. Japan in the war has also become the main source of income. Now it has become the main source of wealth for the Qing Dynasty. Sometimes they even sell Japanese people who are unwilling to shave their hair into slaves in the whole city.
These Japanese slaves were sold to the Ming Dynasty, to Taiwan, Hekou, Nantianmen and other places, and became slaves of the Ming people.
This is a real Japanese slave.
As soon as Tian Yilun entered the market, a tooth came over and asked.
"What kind of slaves do you want? Should you sell them to the Celestial Empire? Or to Nanyang?"
"Oh? Is there anything different about this?"
Tian Yilun, who was doing this kind of business for the first time, said strangely.
"This is a big difference. Master, look, everyone here is strong laborers. What they are best at is doing farm work and growing paddy fields. What do the slaves they want in Nanyang do? Those who open land and farm can only sell such people there for a price. Look here again..."
Teeth pointed to the ragged Japanese girls behind another fence and said.
"What the Celestial Empire wants is to call girls, and let’s not do the farm work, and not do the tenants. You have to go to Celestial Empire, so that such Japanese girls can sell them at a good price..."
Businesses in the world have their own tricks. Even if the slave trade in the Qing Dynasty has only been going on for more than a year, the merchants have already figured out the tricks.
What are the coolies who work, what are the servants who serve, and what are the maids in brothels? In short, they will provide corresponding "goods" according to the needs of the buyer.
Don’t think that the service is meticulous or the service is not meticulous. People really won’t buy you. After all, the Qing Dynasty now has such a city in that city.
I wish I could sell it for thousands!
Why?
For the money!
If it weren't for the Qing Dynasty's ships that could not sail to the Ming Dynasty, they would probably have transported people to the Ming Dynasty as ships.
Half a day later, Tian Yilun bought more than fifty servants, which was as expensive as five or six taels of silver. The profit was at least twice as high as possible after transporting it back to the country...
How about such a round trip business?
Of course it is huge profits!
Since it was a huge profit, many speculators naturally gave birth to them. In Omori, Tian Yilun met several wise men dressed in the Heavenly Dynasty. Seeing their bargaining look, he muttered to himself.
"Anyway, it's just a deal. If I don't sell it, there will be others who sell it. Instead of letting others earn money, it's better to be cheaper for yourself. Maybe you can do something good..."
It was at this moment that Tian Yilun no longer felt any pressure in his heart.
It's just business.
A few days later, after Tian Yilun left Omori, when passing by Tsushima Strait, he saw a schooner in the Ming style. Looking at the sailors on the boat, he muttered in his heart.
"It's not just me who want to make this money!"
For a moment, I felt no burden in my heart.
Perhaps, in another world, the reason why he rushed to take the exam for the first time when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, probably was because of this.
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Half a month later, a carriage drove into an inconspicuous yamen outside Nanjing City. It was said that it was inconspicuous, but he didn't even have a sign. But in fact, this is where the Jinyiwei North Town Fushi Office is located, which is the former Inner Guard Office.
Although the Jinyiwei was restored to the Qiansheng Dynasty, the power and responsibilities of the North and South Dufu Division were adjusted. The former was responsible for military discipline and military laws across the country, and investigated cases involving military households. The "Tiqi" could maintain public order in the countryside and enforce the arrest of traitors. The latter was responsible for intelligence. In other words, the former was equivalent to picketing and military police, while the latter became a real intelligence agency specializing in intelligence collection. Both companies were nominally Jinyiwei, but in fact the power and responsibilities were very different. Even to a certain extent, the Beizhen Fu Division also used the Nanzhen Fu Division to cover up, so that the world now only knew the Nanzhen Fu Division but did not know the Beizhen Fu Division. This was completely contrary to the previous one.
However, Zhao Yunjie, who is a hundred households in the North Town Fushi, never felt that there was anything big. He was more willing to hide himself in the shadows, stare at the enemies inside and outside of the Ming Dynasty, and give them a fatal blow at any time. Just like a poisonous snake, when the enemy sees him, everything is over.
Just like now, the task he is performing is such a task.
To the outside world, Zhao Yunjie was a successful businessman. He had a ship specifically traveling between the Ming Dynasty and Japan to sell various goods, but in fact he was carrying out the order issued by the commander - smuggling arms, medicines and other goods to the Qing Dynasty.
According to the commander, instead of making money by those profiteers, it is better to make it by yourself, and by the way, you can also break into the enemy and obtain the information you need.
"…The round-trip profit for this transaction is about 75,000 taels."
Standing respectfully at the commander's table, Zhao Yunjie reported carefully.
"However, there is no accurate figure yet. After all, there are many goods that have not been taken yet, but the officials estimate that the profit is at least 75,000 taels, of which 50,000 taels have been transferred to the Punishment Department."
50,000 taels of silver say it’s too much, and it’s too little. In fact, there’s no shortage of this amount of silver in the yamen. But it’s too little to accumulate!
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There are several people here doing this business, which can bring millions of taels of return to the yamen a year.
In fact, there are quite a lot of trade targets here, and there are also people infiltrating in Mongolia. The purpose of infiltration is to obtain information. As for money, it is second.
Then Zhao Yunjie continued to report the information collected during his trip to Japan, and of course some of his views.
"So, those Jiannu have already gained a foothold there?"
"It's not just that I have stood firm. It seems that in the next four or five years, they will probably defeat the shogunate. In the local Daming, I hope to use the hand of Jiannu to severely damage the shogunate's strength, so that they will have a chance to gain more benefits."
Zhao Yunjie's words made Shi Lei sneer.
"It's just a killing of a knife. However, throughout the ages, people who have made this wishful thinking have never ended up being good."
Shi Lei was not worried about the short-sightedness of those people. In his opinion, the court would definitely send troops in the end. Let them bite the dog there first. After they kill both sides, it would not be too late for the court to send troops again, and then the time would be the first to annex the place.
Chapter completed!