White Slaves and the Black Death
Chapter 1497:White Slaves and the Black Death
A somewhat dilapidated slave ship arrived at the docks of New Yue Changdao City, and it was now the season best suited for sailing in the Atlantic, with the sky blue and the sea breeze warm.The hustle and bustle of the dock was full of white coolies waiting to load and unload the goods.The four-wheeled carriages that pick up passengers are crowded at the entrance of the pier.The Chinese greeting sounded, and the decent people in and out were basically Han Chinese from East Asia and their descendants.This is the most common morning in the summer in the city of Mayor Island, the largest commercial capital on the east coast of the United States of America.
Now, in terms of the Western calendar, it is the 1940s of the 14th century after Christmas, that is, after 1340.It has been more than two hundred years since the founding of the Republic of Great Weeks.North America has been around for more than 200 years.
But in the eyes of the people of North America, the real development here began 120 years later in the Republic.
At that time, suffering from the lack of labor, Zhixin Yuezhou Yue Chu material put forward a large number of suggestions for the purchase of white slaves to the East Coast's richest man Wu Guohao!
The proposal was made because, as the Great Mongolia invaded Europe, a large number of refugees fled to Western Europe and North Africa, which could not absorb them.At the same time, arms ships bound for Europe often could not find suitable cargo and could only return empty.
In this case, spontaneous human smuggling is actually difficult to curb - because for profit-emerit merchants, there is really nothing to make the trafficking of people from Europe to the Americas more profitably!
A strong male white slave can easily sell dozens of silver coins on the east coast of North America.A beautiful slave girl can be worth one or two hundred silver coins, and if she can still speak fluent Chinese, it is common to sell 500 silver coins in the population market - because the Han Chinese who have traveled to the Americas have always been more men, so the ratio of men to women in New World has always been relatively disordered.
Men who wanted to settle in the New World and didn’t have much money, in addition to marrying indigenous women, had to spend a lot of money on a white slave.
And the Han men who had emigrated to the Americas soon discovered that white female slaves were more industrious, stronger, wiser, and more obedient than the Yin women.
Yin women are born from primitive semi-primitive tribes, of course, can not be more labored than white European women.And they are easily infected, unlike European women who are more resistant.As for intelligence, I don’t have to say.In addition, white female slaves came from a well-stuttered society, most of them were serfs, accustomed to obedience, and naturally well commanded... So there were not many years when the indigenous women were eliminated from the marriage market of the Han Chinese in North America.
Since there is a shortage of supply, the two black-minded people, Ye Luchu and Wu Guohao, no matter what human rights, what equality, what fraternity, have promoted the passage of the White Slave Act!
Of course, the United States of America was not independent at this time, so it had to be legislated within the framework of the Constitution of the Great Zhou Republic.Therefore, the white slave in the White Slave Act is actually a signed slave.The situation is even better than the slaves in history.
A four-wheeled carriage with the license plate of the United States of America parked outside the slave docks of Little Long Island (Manhattan).There were two men standing around the car, one of whom, in uniforms of the United States of America, was not very old, and looked at the low- and middle-ranking officials of the United States.
Both were in great a hurry, watching the dilapidated slave ship leaned over the dock and quickly ushered in.
The springboard aboard a slave ship, and a man in his forties who was also wearing a uniform of the United States of America appeared in sight.He also found the officer who came to meet him and walked quickly down the springboard.
The officials on both sides saluted each other, and a young official who came to meet asked, “Your excellency, you have finally returned...what’s on the other side of Europe?”
The middle-age officer who came down from the ship looked at the young man and shook his head, “Not very good, but sure of the truce!”
No armistice or no truce!Everywhere there was a plague, and there were several other cities.The plague is raging, who still has the heart to fight?”
The middle-aged official surnamed Song, surnamed Yuanshan.The servant of the United States of America in the Golden Horde, and the young man he spoke of was his son, named Song Qingfeng.
Song Yuanshan's " Armistice" means that the "Mongolian War", which lasted for more than a hundred years, has stopped.
After more than a hundred years of war, the wildness of the Mongols has finally been fully vented.
The Western Song, Egypt, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ayyub-Eating Empire, which fought against Mongolia, were also exhausted.
To make matters worse, the terrible Great Plague (Black Death) began to spread across the vast expanse of land from Central Asia to the Atlantic, and thousands of lives were taken.The population of the countries participating in the war has suffered great losses, and it is impossible to continue the war.
So more than 20 years ago, after the death of Haidu Khan of the Great Mongolia, his daughter, the bright saint, suddenly Baruchan, began to mediate between Egypt, Shen Luo, Xisong, and Big Food.
Finally, a few months ago, in the autumn of 1339, the Western calendar, the final conditions for peace were reached.
The formal agreement was signed in Kiev, the capital of the Golden Horde, known as the Kiev Treaty.
The war, which lasted more than a hundred years, finally came to an end, and the treaty also laid down the territorial scope of Egypt, Mongolia, the Golden Account, Shen Luo, France, and the Great Food among Western countries.
It can be said that it laid the general pattern of the Western world in the future.
In the future, the Western world is really looking forward to, the leader of the country is actually Egypt!The Great Plains of Eastern Europe ruled by Kinhills.In the Balkans, Asia Minor and Persia dominated the Greater Mongol-Persian Empire.With a brilliant civilization, it is the Ayub-Great Food Empire that absorbs the essence of Eastern and Western culture.As for the backwardness of ignorance and the uncivilized hat, it undoubtedly belongs to the French, German, and English-speaking countries of the European barbarians.
Now such a strange ancient Western world has stopped a lot because of the Black Death and war-weary mood.This is not a good thing for the United States of America.
For the past hundred years, the East Coast of the United States of America has benefited from Western wars.A large amount of arms was exported here on the east coast of North America, gold and silver and slaves were imported into the West, and the subsidies given by the New Washington authorities on the west coast could be said to be a great war.
The Han population on the east coast has also grown from less than 100,000 before the start of the Mongol War to nearly 8 million today!The Han population of the entire United States of America has grown to nearly 18 million – and if the number of white slaves is taken into account, the population of the East Coast has now surpassed the West Coast!It is also because of the reversal of the population that the government of the United States of America has now made the decision to move the capital, choosing the banks of the Fury Water River (Bodommark River), a village called peanut canton (which produces peanuts) to build a new capital.The name of the new capital is chosen by the homophony of peanut Tun, named Washington, D.C.
Although the population of North America cannot be compared with the 100 million people in the big week (including Japan and Koroe), it can also be regarded as the most densely populated area in the world.
At the same time as the rapid population growth, the economic development of the United States of America is also very rapid.From the original single dependence on precious metal mining, to today's manufactures, agriculture, forestry, fishing and animal husbandry, urban service industry, the prosperity of the economy even exceeded the great consumption of the West and Song Dynasty in the Hundred Years War.It became the second largest in the Chinese world after the mainland of Da Zhou and the mainland of East Song.
But now, the good days of the United States of America are likely to come to an abrupt end with the end of the Great Mongolia War.
In fact, in the past two or three years, the number of arms exported to the West has declined year by year, and the number of people imported from the West has also been greatly reduced due to the outbreak of the Black Death.
Even the ships that sailed to and from both sides of the Atlantic were reduced because of the Black Death.
In New Yuezhou, the economic center on the east coast of North America, signs of economic depression have long been due to the decline of the Great Mongolia War and the spread of the European Black Death.
Song Yuanshan and Song Qingfeng father and son, together boarded the four-wheeled carriage that had been waiting for a long time and left the horny dock.
The carriage soon entered the downtown area of Little Long Island, about another time-space Manhattan.It is now the most prosperous part of the New World and the political center on the east coast of the United States of America.
Because New Washington, the capital of the United States, is so far from the east coast, the U.S. Congress passed a Vice Capital Act just thirty years ago, and set up a "sub-coast" in the small Long Island City of New Yuezhou, which is an administrative sub-center.The Deputy Commander and Deputy Secretary of State are also present, and there are some departmental offices that deal with some less important government affairs.
In addition, the new capital project of "Peanut Tun" is also supervised by the deputy commander and deputy secretary of state.
Song Qingfeng is now the opportune text of Deputy Secretary Wu Yuankai, that is, the secretary.
Song Yuanshan, on the other hand, served as deputy ambassador at the embassy of the Great Zhou Republic in the Golden Horde – now that the United States of America is not an independent country, so it is impossible to send ambassadors to foreign countries, but only to send officials in the missions abroad of the Great Zhou Republic.In general, in every large-week embassy, there will be a North American deputy and several North American opportunities.It deals specifically with matters related to the United States of America.
The carriage passed through the small Long Island city without the protection of the city walls, and was full of weekly buildings in the small Long Island city.It seems a little depressed here, at least a lot more depressed than Song Yuanshan when he left a year and a half ago.But the western cities of Kiev, Mughalburg, Alexandria, and Rome, which are shrouded in the shadow of the Black Death, are still much more prosperous.
The Black Death, which appeared in Central Asia about two decades ago, is a rapidly contagious and deadly plague.After its appearance, it spread to the East and West at the same time.
The transmission to the east is slower, while the speed of westward transmission is faster.
This is because the east of Central Asia is the territory of the West Song Dynasty, and now the West Song Dynasty, there has been a feudal state of division.There are many separatist forces in the country, and the land traffic line from west to east is very unblocked, which is naturally inconvenient to spread the plague.
The situation of secession in the West and Song countries actually has a lot to do with the 100-year-old Mongolian-Song War.
In order to support the war in Central Asia, the Western Song Dynasty had to set up a large number of kings in the western region, and successively sealed the kings of the four counties, such as the king of the broken leaf, the king of the county of Chachi, and the king of the Samarkandian county.At the same time, in order to encourage soldiers to join the army in the west, the amount of land awarded by the Western army was greatly increased.From one hundred acres, two hundred acres, increased to 600 acres a town!
Moreover, because the Western Song Dynasty is far from the Asia-Pacific region, the control ability of these "six hundred acres of military households" is not strong.The strength of the "six hundred acres" military households is also stronger than the 100 acres and 200 acres of military households in the Central Plains.
In addition, there is no gun doctor class in Central Asia that can contain the power of the military.
Therefore, the increasing strength of the Central Asian military households gradually and gradually colluded with the royal palaces of the four major counties such as Broken Leaf, Yili, Chachi, and Samargan to form the power of the town.
Later, Gao Chang, Shule, Yu Xuan, Qingtang, Tubo and other county royal forces also began to lose control, and gradually formed a division of the town!
If you count the western cool of the Fergana Basin, there will be ten towns in the western part of the Western Song Dynasty.Each town has at least tens of thousands of military households and can form an army of tens of thousands of people.
The Western Song Dynasty court was both appeasing and exploiting them.On the one hand, we must prevent them from annexing each other and form a powerful force that threatens the court enough.On the one hand, they must use their force to maintain the rule of the West and Central Asia.
The century-long war, although it diverted the internal contradictions of the Western Song Dynasty, also consumed the limited financial resources of the Western Song.Especially in the late part of the war, when there was no land in Central Asia, in order to maintain the war, the Western Song Dynasty had to issue copper coins and Shu Jin to pay for the army.Copper money and Shujin could not compensate for the military's efforts, so the national strength of the Western Song Dynasty fell significantly.
In this case, the nine great towns were a very necessary force for the Western and Song dynasties... Without them, the territory of Central Asia was taken away by the Khanate.
In short, the western Song Dynasty is now the division of warlords, but it can barely maintain a balanced situation.
The town, located on the trade channel, has a wide range of tax cards, which severely curbed commercial activities and slowed the spread of the plague.
The passage from Central Asia to the west was largely controlled by the Greater Mongol-Persian Empire and its genus Chatai Khanate.Although there are many severing forces within the two countries, the rulers of the two countries attach great importance to trade, so they can keep trade open.The plague also spread west along the trade route.
Of course, the route of the plague is not just overland.The sea trade line, like the terrible Black Death, can spread.
Therefore, the two world empires of Da Zhou and East Song are now full of fear of the Black Death, and are considering whether to interrupt trade with Europe, Central Asia, and West Asia to ensure that the mainland and colonies do not have the outbreak of the Black Death.
The profits from European trade are insignificant compared to the Black Death, which can wipe out half a city’s population in a single outbreak.
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