"Hurry up! You idiots, hurry up and move, set your anchor, set sail, let's set sail!"

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"Go to the Indian Ocean now!!"

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Seeing that the opinions had been basically unified, Annie did not wait for the first mate to take action, but instead rushed outside first, and then shouted at the sailors who were resting or chatting on the deck.

Soon, as the five super battleships anchored in this sea area anchored one by one and raised nearly fifty sails, they gained sufficient power under the southeast wind, and then the slender and streamlined hull began to ride the wind and waves on the sea, constantly accelerating. In less than a few minutes, it was more than ten knots, which was a very terrifying speed compared to the wooden sailboats of this era, and it was galloping towards the northeast direction at a very terrifying speed.

...

However, when Anne and her Li family super battleship fleet, which was flagship with the "Xiang Feihu" battleship, had just set sail and rushed towards the Strait of Malacca and were about to enter the Indian Ocean, Li Huamei and her Li family fleet had already arrived in Africa and were slowly sailing into the dock of Sofara, a Dagang, Africa under the guidance of the small boat leading the front.

“Hmm?”

“That’s…”

Li Huamei, who suddenly stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the exotic style, suddenly felt a stern, and then looked in one direction of the dock.

"It's Kunlun slave..."

She saw that there were many Kunlun slaves there.

Both men and women, they stood naked in an unloading square on the dock, tied with their necks and arms tied with ropes, and were constantly scolded and yelled by the white cargo owners, and from time to time they used whips to whip them desperately on the disobedient or unsense words, trying to maintain order.

At the same time, she also saw that someone used a white powder that was unknown to them, until all the black slaves were sprinkled with a layer of white powder, and then they were loaded one by one onto a large three-masted square sailboat.

"Admiral, that is the profitable slave trade."

"In addition to gold, silver and gems, they are the most important specialties in Africa. If you trade between Africa and the New World without bringing a ship of black slaves on the return journey, it will basically be a loss-making deal."

At this time, Charlie Huisen walked to Li Huamei, looked at the special "goods" for a while, then suddenly chuckled and pointed and said.

"they?"

“Shouldn’t it be ‘they’?”

Li Huamei noticed that Charlie Huisen's words seemed to use an inappropriate noun?

"No!"

"It's them!"

"There is a New World here. In the eyes of us white people, all of their black slaves are not humans. They are just a group of goods that can walk on their own!"

Charlie Huisen said arrogantly.

"Besides, Admiral, do you know?"

"Their ship can hold hundreds of people, and those black slaves can only squeeze together in the dim and wet cabin. Half of those who can live to the New World are considered very good."

"And even if you can only live half or less, it will be huge profits!"

Charlie Huisen said with some emotion and regret.

It’s a pity that their Li family fleet does not do the slave trade, otherwise, he would think that their journey around the world would be able to earn more?

Now when the slave trade is most prosperous, they are the only purpose of large-scale trade in Europe and the New World against Africa.

In his opinion, the status of those slaves was very low, and it was not an exaggeration to say that they were goods and "them". Even many African chiefs and tribal leaders were arresting slaves on their whites, because they were the only "best-selling" and more accessible goods in Africa besides gold, silver and gems.

Charles Huisen remembers that at the beginning, only Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands were originally engaged in the slave trade. Now, Britain, France, Denmark, Sweden and others have also participated in the process, expanding the slave trading venues to the west coast of Africa and the inland of Africa, and the east coast of Africa. So it is not surprising to see the slave trade here in Sofara.

Because the planting industry in the New World is developing rapidly, and the New World is the main source of economic crops in major European countries. Therefore, goods that can walk by themselves, work without paying money have become the favorite goods of the New World planters.

Yes, Charles Huisen still stubbornly believed that those black slaves were just goods, things that could be bought, sold and measured, not people.

“…”

Li Huamei didn't say anything, but just frowned slightly.

She had known about Kunlun slaves for a long time. There were records in ancient books of the Han Dynasty, and there were more books from the Tang and Song dynasties. For example, the ancient book "Pingzhou Ketan" said: "The rich people in Guangzhou have many ghost slaves, which are extremely powerful and can bear hundreds of pounds... The color is as black as ink, the lips are red and the teeth are white, and the hair is curly and yellow." "The answer to the Ridge" says: "There are many savages on the island, the body is as black as lacquer, and the fists are... and they are captured and moved for tens of millions, and they are sold as ghost slaves."?

Therefore, Li Huamei actually did not have much resistance to the slave trade, and even did not think there was anything wrong with the Westerners' extensive ownership and trading Kunlun slaves. She just felt that the white people's practice of scrambling hundreds or thousands of people in a boat for the sake of profit seemed a bit harmful to the world?

"By the way!"

“What are those white powders?”

"Why do they paint them white? What's the point?"

Li Huamei, who had never been exposed to the slave trade, couldn't help feeling a little surprised when she looked at the Kunlun slaves who had been dyed white with white powder.

“That’s lime.”

"It is used to eliminate epidemics. Although I don't know why it can eliminate epidemics, the ship owners all know that as long as you sprinkle lime before loading the ship, the survival rate of the cargo can be greatly improved?"

"But who knows what exactly is..."

"Admiral, why don't we load a ship of black slaves before we go to the New World to verify?"

Thinking of the fact that there were still free ships in the fleet and that there seemed to be no valuable cargo in Africa, Charlie Huisen suddenly smiled and suggested to Li Huamei.

"No!"

"We don't do the slave trade, which was agreed at the beginning."

"You don't have to persuade you anymore."

Shaking his head gently, Li Huamei suddenly stopped talking.

At the same time, she also retracted her gaze and no longer looked at the slave ship loading with black slaves, because their ship was about to approach Sofara's dock, and she was still preparing to deal with the dock officials who were already waiting for tax collection on the pier.

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Chapter completed!