In fact, slave hunting and slave trading are not new industries that originated in the New World. For hundreds of years, northern nomads have continuously harassed farming nation-states, plundered civilians, and sold them into slavery. The phenomenon is very prominent. Di Di, a concubine of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, was one of the ancestors. Reina was kidnapped as a slave by the Red Di people in the north and sold to the Eastern Continent before she met His Majesty the Emperor. But after all, it was a challenge from barbaric peoples to the civilized world, and it could not become the mainstream of history. However, the trend of hunting and selling slaves in the New World was getting higher and higher, and it soon became the most profitable and promising industry in the New World. It is an industry in which almost all countries that have established colonies in the New World have been involved in this industry to a greater or lesser extent. Officials from some countries have even openly defended and justified this activity, euphemistically calling it Save the savage native peoples from ignorance and darkness.
There are two ways to hunt slaves. One is to recruit mercenaries to form a slave hunting team, hire local indigenous guides, attack relatively weak indigenous tribes, and rob the entire tribe of young adults, old women, and children into slaves. This method requires With a certain amount of force and risks, everything gradually tends to scale. Some mercenaries gradually began to grow in the New World. They updated their equipment and recruited personnel to expand their strength. They also established their own liaison agencies in various colonial points in the New World and became professional There are slave-catching teams, and there are regular slave traders who purchase their prey, and the profits are quite lucrative.
The other way is obviously the participation of the official forces of the countries in Raya. They provoke wars between various races and tribes in the new continent, often giving some fancy but worthless gadgets to the leaders and nobles of the tribes. Objects such as glass balls, metal knives, and utensils were used to win the goodwill and "friendship" of the tribal leaders before they made the request to purchase slaves. At this time, they can provide new weapons and equipment to the tribes they support, and these equipment can be traded in with prisoners of war and civilians captured in the war.
This method is often more covert and effective. Tribes under attack often seek outside help out of revenge, which in turn provides opportunities for those secretly manipulating forces. They can play both sides, sometimes supporting one side to attack the other side, and sometimes supporting the other side to attack the other side. The scale of the war is getting bigger and bigger, and it is becoming more and more cruel. A large number of indigenous people are taken into slavery and they also provide these organizations and forces with resources. sufficient source of slaves. These countries and forces can also use this opportunity to extend their power into the New World step by step.
The bright Golden Roc flag is flying on the pier of Sabana Port. The entire port may be barely worth seeing except for the buildings surrounding the port. Most of the other buildings are low-grade and not popular in the mainland of the empire. Houses are scattered around, and black people account for a large proportion of pedestrians. Sabana Port is a port in name, but in fact it is more suitable to describe it as a large fishing village or a small market town. The town with no more than 5,000 people has only three streets, which are distributed in a Y shape along the southern Latin Ocean coast. Protruding on the promontory, this is one of the three major colonial strongholds of the Tang Empire in the New World. It is also the bridgehead for the empire to explore southward along the New World coastline.
Qalyoub, Mangadisha and Sabana formed the Golden Triangle of the Tang Empire's colonization of the New World. Galeyoub is located in the northeastern corner of the New World, only 220 kilometers away from Sissakula, the largest colonial point of the West Oran Kingdom. Mangadishu was originally an island formed by the eruption of a volcano, and is about 200 miles northwest of Gallebu. Yubu is about 350 nautical miles away, and it is 370 nautical miles south of Sabana. Although it covers an area of only more than 300 square kilometers, its geographical location is extremely good. Because it is surrounded by a series of dense coral reefs, some explorers and colonists in the New World were confused by the dense coral reefs after arriving in this area. They thought that this area was full of coral reefs of little value, so they sailed back north. Later, civilian explorers of the Empire's Southeast Asia discovered this island from a large group of coral reefs and drew detailed charts. This became the first step for the Empire to travel to the New World. The local dialect of Mangadishu in Nanyang means Pearl of Hope, so the empire continued to use the transliterated name and simply named the empire's first colonial stronghold Mangadisha.
Qalyoub was the empire's first real colonial stronghold on the Western Continent. Although Mangadishu was the first stop on the empire's colonial road, it was still hundreds of nautical miles away from the New World and 160 nautical miles away from the nearest land. Qalyoub became the empire's first stop in the New World. The first colonial settlement established on land. Qalyoub was the first colonial point on land when an expedition team composed of officials and private merchants from Western Xinjiang arrived in the New World. At that time, the expedition team did not dare to go deep into the land after landing in the New World, and could only slowly go north along the coastline. A week later, when they arrived at Xisha Kula, the colonial stronghold of the West Oran Kingdom, they realized that this area had been listed as their sphere of influence by the West Oran Kingdom. In desperation, the expedition team had no choice but to return and establish a real settlement at the landing site. Camp and sent a message back to the mainland. When the mainland received the news, it was when the empire was about to be established. Many things were delayed, and the expedition activities came to a standstill. The expedition team could only leave less than thirty people. The men stayed behind at Qalyoub, while the rest returned to Eastern Samoa by ship to await confirmation from the Empire.
After the establishment of the empire, this news quickly attracted the attention of the imperial officials. In view of the fact that all the countries in the Western Continent began to penetrate into the New World, the Tang Dynasty could not lag behind. The empire soon instructed Nanhai County to send out a follow-up expedition team as soon as possible, and Nanhai The second expedition team formed by the county was completely wiped out by a storm during the expedition. It was not until three months later that the third expedition team successfully completed the expedition and reunited with the thirty or so expedition personnel who stayed behind. At this time, six of these expedition members had died due to acclimatization and disease, and the remaining people were already in dire straits.
Fortunately, the scale of the expedition sent by the empire was much larger. The seven ships brought more than 200 people and a considerable amount of weapons and medicines, so the situation was quickly stabilized and those who tried to infiltrate in this direction were The West Oran expedition stated its attitude that this area is already under the control of the Tang Empire and is a protected area of the Tang Empire. Galyoub is named after the local indigenous name "Moon Corner", which means that this is where the moon rises. place.
At this time, the empire had learned that in addition to West Orland and Jutland in the Central Continent, several major powers in the New World and some cities and city republics close to the water in the south had begun to conduct comprehensive explorations in the northern and western regions of the New World. and surveying and mapping, and began to plan a joint expedition to explore the interior of the New World and further areas. This attracted great attention from the empire. The intention of the countries in the Western Continent to exclude the Eastern Continent was self-evident. If not Being able to gain a foothold in the New World in time, the empire, which already has congenital deficiencies in terms of geographical location, may be in a more disadvantaged position in the issue of carving up the New World that may arise in the future. Therefore, the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Empire, the Ministry of Commerce of the Empire, The predecessors of the Imperial Naval Survey and Mapping Service and the Naval Intelligence Service began to form their own exploration forces and began to explore and colonize.
The Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Empire and the Ministry of Commerce of the Empire mainly cooperated with civilian sailing exploration societies to provide personnel and financial support to encourage them to actively explore the eastern coastal areas of the New World, while the Naval Survey and Mapping Bureau and the Naval Intelligence Bureau were based on the military perspective, in the Navy With the participation of the Marine Corps, the expedition forces were divided into multiple groups to carry out all-round reconnaissance along the New World. They even pretended to be private merchants and bypassed the colonial settlements of the Western Continent countries on the northern coast of the New World to advance to the west coast of the New World, intending to seize the opportunity of the Western Continent countries. Completed all-round surveying and exploration of the Western Continent before.
More than a year ago, the Surveying and Mapping Bureau of the Imperial Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Commerce were sponsoring an expedition team from the Nanhai County Navigation Association to advance southwest along the Golden Crown Island. Due to a hurricane, they had to suspend the expedition and take shelter in a bay. The crew who landed to check the terrain happened to meet the land expedition team who set out from the Qalyoub base to explore south. In the excitement, the bay was named Angel Bay after the empire by the expedition team of the celebration party. However, Sabana is named after the local aboriginal transliteration, but its original meaning is "Pearl Gathering Place". This sea area is the main source of pearls collected by local aborigines.
After a year of construction and development, Sabana became the base for the Tang Empire to expand southward in the New World. Adventurers and expedition teams came in droves to use this place as their base, either exploring inland or taking boats along the coast. Sailing south along the coastline, hoping to make more discoveries. Merchants with a keen sense of smell have also opened shops and warehouses here to purchase local specialties such as rhinoceros horns, ivory, pearls, agate, amber, jade, gold sand and other local products. At the same time, they dumped cotton, glass, and ceramics to local indigenous residents. , silk, ironware, metal jewelry, weapons and other daily necessities to make huge profits at sky-high prices. However, when making huge profits, businessmen also had to take considerable risks. The long sea route made the voyage full of uncertainty. There were no reliable and authoritative navigation charts, so to accurately reach this area, only sea navigation experience was required. It still requires some luck, and the unpredictable climate of the Latin Ocean is one of the main reasons why no shipping company dares to operate fixed flights on this voyage.