The Rise of the European Emperor

In fact, it is not a day or two for Marin to buy local slaves from Egypt. Before, in order to develop the saltpeter mine in Chile, Marin bought many slaves from Egypt. Right now, Chilean saltpeter mines have been initially developed. In order to expand the scale, Marin originally planned to continue to buy Egyptian slaves.

Speaking of it, the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt was a slave dynasty. Even the name Mamluk means slave. Most of the officers in the court were Circassian slaves. They were trafficked to Egypt and entered a cruel training camp. Only the strongest group of people can survive. Then, enter the Egyptian army to serve.

However, later, with the expansion of the scale of Mamluk slaves, many Mamluk slaves married wives and had children in Egypt, and had descendants of Mamluks, that is, native Mamluks. Then, many civil servants in the Egyptian court are basically descendants of these native Mamluk slaves. However, the most powerful guards of the Mamluk dynasty still insisted on selecting from the Circassian slaves in the western Caucasus. However, because the Turks blocked the Turkish Strait 40 years ago, the source of Mamluk slaves was cut off. Now Egypt can only rely on the native Mamluks for appearance.

The native Egyptians are more sad. Because, whether they were civil servants or generals in the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt, they were basically descendants of Circassian slaves and had nothing to do with the locals.

This is similar to India. The dark-skinned native Indians eventually became untouchables and were conquered and ruled by the descendants of the Aryans from Central Asia.

Egyptians and Indians can be regarded as a pair of suffering brothers. The same four ancient civilizations, but the natives eventually became slaves. However, the original foreign slave soldiers became Mamluk nobles...

Originally, Marin planned to continue to buy thousands of Egyptian slaves from Egypt to dig saltpeter in the Atacama Desert of Chile. However, since Mosingen opened up the trade route of the Songhai Empire, Marin changed his mind-he decided to buy local black slaves from the Songhai Empire to dig saltpeter in Chile.

why? Because black slaves in the Songhai Empire are really cheap!

How cheap are slaves in the Songhai Empire? According to Mosingen, one sack of salt (1 hundredweight, 112 pounds) for local black slaves can be exchanged for 10 strong and obedient black slaves. Can you believe it?

Based on the price of 2 pfennigs per pound of salt in the North Sea, a sack of salt is only worth 224 pfennigs, or 373 Gulden coins. 373 gold coins can buy 10 slaves, and each slave is worth 0373 gold coins on average. How cheap is this?

The black slaves that Marin bought from the Duke of Coimbra in Portugal cost as much as 40 gold coins each! There is no harm without comparison, 40 gold coins and 0373 gold coins...

Egyptian slaves are cheaper than black slaves, but they cost more than ten or twenty gold coins each, which is much more expensive than black slaves in the Songhai Empire.

What moved Marin the most was the black slaves bought from the Timbuktu market,

Also adapted to the harsh tropical desert climate. Because Timbuktu itself is a city on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert!

In other words, the slaves of the Songhai Empire purchased from Timbuktu worth 0373 gold coins can adapt to the climate of the northern desert of Chile just like the Egyptian slaves, and they are dozens of times cheaper!

In addition, the black slaves in Timbuktu could adapt not only to the desert climate, but also to the tropical rainforest climate. Because many black slaves in Timbuktu were captured by the Song Haidi team from the tropical rainforest of West Africa south of Timbuktu!

Therefore, Marin quickly adjusted the direction of buying black slaves. As for the Egyptian slaves, he changed the method of use—all trained as Mamluk cavalry to help him fight. The Egyptian slaves in the Chilean desert were also trained as overseers to supervise the black slaves of the Songhai Empire who were transported to Chile in the future to dig saltpeter.

In this way, Marin can also save a lot of troops to control Chile, just by sending officers. And Egyptians and blacks belong to different races, and it is impossible for them to collude together to rebel. In this way, using Egyptians to manage blacks can also prevent the Chilean saltpeter mine from getting out of control.

Of course, it was impossible for Marin to exchange only salt for black slaves in Timbuktu. Because, if he ships too much salt, it may suppress the price of salt in Timbuktu, resulting in insufficient gold. Therefore, Marin planned to use other commodities and go to Timbuktu with salt to exchange slaves.

According to Mosingen, in addition to the high price of salt in the Timbuktu market, sugar from North Africa is also very expensive. Mosingen saw with his own eyes that a bearded man from North Africa exchanged a small bag (about 5 pounds) of sucrose for a strong black slave.

In other words, exchanging sucrose for black slaves is also a way...

In the Timbuktu market, the goods from North Africa are mainly salt, weapons, horses, copper, glassware, sugar and handicraft products from North Africa, such as shoes and woolen fabrics, as well as European cloth. The merchants of the Songhai Empire exported gold, slaves, ivory, spices, kola fruit, and cotton.

Among them, the slave trade ranks ahead of the ivory trade, and is the second largest export "commodity" of the Songhai Empire. No wonder, it seems, the Arabs in North Africa had the bad habit of selling black slaves hundreds of years ago. If there is no demand, where will the supply come from?

And the most cruel thing about the Arabs is that they castrated all the black slaves they bought back... Castrated...

Many of the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty market were castrated black slaves brought by Arab merchants. They were strong and honest—could they be dishonest? all castrated...

If they hadn't been castrated, with the degree of openness of women in the Tang Dynasty, maybe there would be a scandal of giving birth to Xiao Hei in those wealthy families. But the Kunlun slaves in the Tang Dynasty did not leave Xiao Hei in the Central Plains. Therefore, before they were trafficked, they were castrated by cruel Arab slave traders...

Of course, Marin would not be so cruel. However, in order to control Uncle Hei's strong reproductive desire, he will send the black slaves to Grenada first, where there is a hospital dedicated to vasectomy, and Uncle Hei will be sterilized uniformly. In this way, it is not so cruel, and it also controls the lust of the black uncles well...

In addition to planning to exchange sugar for black slaves, Marin also planned to exchange weapons for black slaves. For example, the scimitar that Arabs like to use is very simple to produce in the Beihai factory.

There are also muskets, which can also be sold. However, what Marin intends to sell to the Songhai Empire is a Lumi gun imitated by the Turks. Moreover, when trading, it will be in the name of an Egyptian merchant, not in the name of the North Sea country. Anyway, it's time to find a few Egyptian slaves to pretend to be Egyptian businessmen. The Arabic language used by the Egyptians can communicate directly with the merchants of the Songhai Empire. Because the Songhai Empire is also a country of the Green Church, and many people can speak Arabic.

It is sad to say that Egypt, once the world's first ancient civilization, failed to keep its own language. After being conquered by the Arabs, they all switched to Arabic. The once ancient and glorious ancient Egyptian civilization was destroyed by a group of soil turtles from the desert. Although Persia was also conquered by the Arab Empire, they still retained the Persian language anyway. Of course, Persian has also been deeply influenced by Arabic, and even the letters have become Arabic letters.

Of course, the miserable Marlin of Egyptian civilization doesn't care. Moreover, Egyptians can speak Arabic, which saves Marin the trouble of hiring a translator. As long as the Egyptian slaves are taught German, this saves the trouble of hiring translators.

In the future, Marin plans to use the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry composed of thousands of Egyptians to open a trade channel from Aayoun to the Songhai Empire to transport black slaves. After all, escorting slaves requires a lot of manpower. Then, these black slaves will be boarded in Laayoune and shipped to America...

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