mtl008 Chapter 138
Chapter 138
Chapter 138: Obtaining the Maritime Silk Road!!
After more than twenty days of sailing across the Indian Ocean, there were constant storms at sea.
Thanks to the protection of purple qi, the intensity of wind and waves was reduced by 30%, and the strength of the ship increased by 30%.
The Daming fleet finally survived this difficult journey safely.
Zhu Xiongying’s fleet finally arrived in Africa and anchored in the port of Mukudushu, Mogadishu, Somalia, another historical one.
At this time, due to the garrisons in Temasek, Manraka and Colombo, the Daming fleet only had 12 sail battleships and 60 Galen ships left.
It carried 14,400 soldiers, 18,000 craftsmen and agricultural specialists.
At this time, the wooden bone bunches were one of the world’s trading centers for frankincense, myrrh, ivory, and leather.
Very prosperous.
However, at this time, several other ports around began to prosper, forming a competitive relationship with the wooden bones.
Therefore, the wooden bone bundle began to provide many preferential policies to merchants.
At this time, 72 large ships of Daming were seen on the shore.
The wooden bone is suddenly extremely hungry for the Sultan to bunch his eyes!
He quickly came to see Zhu Xiongying in person and invited Zhu Xiongying to do business here.
The Sultan sent 10 beautiful women with inky black bodies.
And he swore that as long as Zhu Xiongying came here to do business, he promised to provide free land and cheap slaves.
Zhu Xiongying left 10 beauties.
Then began to bargain with the Sultan.
“We want to build a ceramics market that brings in 1,000 ceramics a year.”
“What?”
“Give us only the land of ten woods?”
“The land of ten woods is equivalent to our 4 acres of land.”
“There is too little land, then forget it…”
“Twenty wood land, 16 acres of land?”
“Well, we simply ship 100,000 ceramics a year to establish the largest porcelain market in the nearby port.”
“Give us 300 wooden land, 3,600 acres of land… ～11.”
Finally, the two sides agreed to establish a comprehensive market covering an area of 10,000 acres of land in Daming.
The Sultan of Mugudushu provided a piece of land of about 20 square kilometers and about 30,000 acres of land free of charge.
Includes market and port land.
Then, Zhu Xiongying sold some ceramics, silk, tea, fire crystal, and bought 1,000 slaves from the Sultan at a low price with wooden bones.
Recently, the Sultan had just captured a large number of slaves in the war, and he was worried that he had no place to sell them.
Seeing that Zhu Xiongying had bought so much effort, he was even happier at the moment.
Zhu Xiongying did not intend to change the slavery system here at this time.
Do as the Romans do.
He intends to make a lot of money from here for a long time, buying large quantities of frankincense, myrrh, ivory, and leather.
After a week of rest, 2 sail battleships, 2,400 soldiers, 3,000 craftsmen and agricultural specialists were left here.
He intended to build the wooden bones into the most important port of the Ming Dynasty in East Africa.
At this time, due to the garrisons in Temasek, Manraka, Colombo, and Mukudu, the Daming fleet was left with only 10 sail battleships and 60 Galen ships.
It carried 12,000 soldiers, 15,000 craftsmen and agricultural specialists.
Soon, the Daming fleet reached the so-called Cape of Good Hope in another period of history.
At this time, Zhu Xiongying named Africa Xiniu He Zhou.
The so-called Cape of Good Hope was named, West Horn.
The West Bull Market, West Bull Harbor, was opened near West Bull Horn.
Here were left 2 sail battleships, 2400 soldiers, 3000 craftsmen and agricultural specialists.
The main industries they developed in West Bull Market are diamonds, gold, ostrich farming, abalone farming, winemaking…
Before the opening of the Suez Canal, the West Bull Port was a necessary place on the Maritime Silk Road.
At this time, due to the garrisons in Temasek, Manraka, Colombo, Mukudushu, and West Niu City, the Daming fleet only had 8 sail battleships and 60 Galen ships left.
It carried 9,600 soldiers, 12,000 craftsmen and agricultural specialists.
Soon, the Daming fleet continued to march non-stop.
After another 30-day voyage.
The fleet finally reached Europe.
The three countries of Castile, Aragon and Portugal were both afraid and interested in the arrival of the Daming fleet.
Zhu Xiongying quickly calmed the doubts of the Three Kingdoms with a friendly attitude.
Then, he used the auction method to sell out the remaining goods on the ship and made a huge profit.
In accordance with the principle of ‘the ship does not go empty’, Zhu Xiongying also purchased a large number of honey, fur, fish gelatin, cattle and sheep, beaver gum and other European specialties to put on 60 Galen ships.
In Europe at this time, there really is nothing good.
Few things, low value!
The gold and silver that Zhu Xiongying obtained from selling his goods in Europe filled the ship completely before using a tenth of it.
Soon, Zhu Xiongying returned with a full load.
In the West Bull Market, he laid down a batch of cattle and sheep, loaded it with some diamonds, gold in the wooden bones, and he put down another batch of cattle and sheep, loaded it with some frankincense, myrrh, leather.
He didn’t buy ivory.
He plans to start developing plastic products soon, and ivory doesn’t make much sense.
It is better to leave the elephants, Baote ecological balance.
Because after all, in the future, Xiniu Hezhou will also become the territory of Daming.
In Colombo, he laid down another batch of cattle and sheep and loaded it with rubies, sapphires, spices.
In Temasek, Manraka, he loaded a batch of spices, agarwood.
Soon, the fleet returned to Jinling.
During this trip, the Daming fleet gained a lot of strategic and economic benefits.
Strategically, Daming established five strategic locations in Temasek, Manchuka, Colombo, and Mukudu Shuxi Bull Market, stationed fleets and soldiers, and opened up different industries.
Economically, this trip, minus all expenses and rewards for all crew members, Daming received a total net profit of 5 million taels of silver!
At the same time that the Xiongying docked at the mouth of the Xinjiang, a mechanical prompt sounded in Zhu Xiongying’s ears again: “Congratulations, you have successfully opened up the Daming Maritime Silk Road.” ”
“Daming therefore extended the national honor for 15 years…”
Zhu Xiongying listened to it and couldn’t help but be delighted.
Another 15 years added?
In this way, the kingdom of Daming can be extended to 1820! It’s so cool!