Wind Rises in North America 1625

Chapter 68 Marriageable Woman
"Manager Meng, I'm afraid you're not operating in Nanyang?"

Deng Ruilin, the boss of "Lishunhang", picked up the teacup, blew away the hot steam from the rim of the cup, then took a sip of tea gently, raised his head and looked at the "foreign merchant" opposite him who claimed to be from Southeast Asia.

"Why do you say that, Manager Deng?" Meng Shengxin calmly picked up a few lychees from the fruit plate, slowly peeled them, put them in his mouth, and felt the sweetness of the fruit.

"As far as I know, most people who go to Southeast Asia come from Fujian and Guangdong, but from what Shopkeeper Meng said, he doesn't have any Fujian or Guangdong accents at all." Deng Ruilin smiled. "Also, the various furs that Shopkeeper Meng entrusted me to sell at Lishunxing are not produced in Southeast Asia. They seem to come from the bitter cold north."

"Although those who went to Southeast Asia were mainly from Fujian and Guangdong, there were also people from the north who took the risk of crossing the sea to live and work in Southeast Asia in order to make a living." Meng Shengxin smiled.

"Haha..., Manager Meng is right." Deng Ruilin nodded. Although the other party was trying hard to conceal his identity, he did not take it as an offense.

Even if you are a group of pirates, so what?
As long as you can bring huge commercial benefits to my "Li Shunxing", your identity is actually not important.

In coastal areas such as Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang, there are countless businessmen who are in cahoots with pirates such as Li Dan, Zheng Yi Guan and Liu Xianglao. Who would care about official sanctions and suppression?

There were even many daring smugglers who, on the open sea or in secluded ports, resold various Chinese and foreign specialties with foreign merchants such as the Portuguese and the red-haired foreigners, making a lot of money and filling their pockets.

At first, some people in the brokerage business suspected that these people were Jiannu from Liaodong, who secretly sailed to Guangzhou to trade.

Because they all spoke with northern accents and had hundreds of high-quality furs.

And this kind of fur can only be produced in the north, in Liaodong.

But later, a shopkeeper who knew about the situation of the Jiannu denied this speculation.

Because the Jiannu people didn't know how to sail, let alone build such a huge sailboat.

People in the south use boats, and people in the north ride horses. This has been the case since ancient times.

It is impossible for the Jiannu to sail thousands of miles south and then reach Guangzhou!

In the past month, the shopkeeper Meng had fully entrusted the purchase of many goods to their "Li Shun Xing", and had invested a total of more than 60,000 taels of silver worth of "foreign cakes", filling up most of their large ship.

Their "Li Shun Xing" also earned nearly ten thousand taels of silver in agency fees and the difference in the value of the goods. It was very easy to make money.

In addition, the more than 300 furs of various colors they brought with them had fine hair, soft and smooth texture, and their quality was no worse than the furs produced in Liaodong and Korea. They were all of top quality and sold at a high price.

Moreover, at their suggestion, Lishunhang held a city-wide auction, which attracted many merchants to bid for the furs, resulting in a good price for these high-quality furs, making them a huge profit.

Seeing this, these "Nanyang merchants" were overjoyed and declared that next time they came to Guangzhou, they would bring more furs and hand them over to their "Li Shun Hang" for sale.

It has to be said that this "foreign merchant" is really the easiest customer for "Lishunhang" to deal with so far. He spends money lavishly and does not care much about the price of the goods he provides.

Well, to put it bluntly, they were like a group of "fools" and "idiots" who were easily controlled and had a lot of money swindled from them.

If so, they must keep it firmly in their hands the next time they go to Guangzhou and not let other brokers snatch it away.

"By the way, the women you requested have been found. Do you want to inspect the goods?" After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Deng Ruilin said with a smile, "They are all young women in their twenties, well-proportioned, gentle and graceful, and virgins. They are all good marriage partners."

"Uh..." Meng Shengxin was stunned for a moment, then his face tensed and he said awkwardly, "Twenty-eight years old? ... Only sixteen?"

"Yes! Didn't you ask me to handle this matter a few months ago? To purchase and select thirty women of marriageable age to bring back to Nanyang for marriage with your clansmen? Oh, of course, there are a few women who may be a little over 28." Seeing his expression, Deng Ruilin thought he had failed in some way, so he explained, "Although these women are not as stunning as flowers and the moon, they are well-proportioned and well-proportioned, and are definitely good matches for marriage. Shopkeeper Meng, do you think these women are too old?"

"No, no!..." Meng Shengxin gave a bitter laugh and said, "A sixteen-year-old girl is probably... a little young."

Who would have the nerve to lay hands on a woman of this age!
For a moment I forgot that women in ancient times got married at the age of fifteen or sixteen, or even thirteen or fourteen!
I'm afraid I'll be laughed at when I get back after doing this.
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Regarding women, it may be the most embarrassing and sensitive issue for all time travelers.

Except for the fifty cadets and two young navigation instructors who had never married and formed a family before coming to this time and space, the five instructors, including the captain and the political commissar, were all married and had children.

Unexpectedly, after arriving in this era, women, or family, have become important matters that everyone cannot avoid. It has been two years since I settled on Qiming Island and built Shixing Fort.

Although, by capturing the Spanish galleon and subduing several surrounding Indian tribes, this new force had a certain amount of human resources, and had carried out preliminary construction of the Shixing Fort base, the entire group was slightly freed from the precarious situation when they first arrived.

However, if we want to consolidate the foundation and achieve long-term development, we must gather more manpower.

Immigration, and it must be continuous immigration, has become the consensus and political correctness of all people in the world. All efforts, all plans, and all actions must be implemented around immigration and increasing the population.

Only with people can there be a foundation for development.

In addition, while striving to increase immigration, we must certainly encourage childbirth and increase endogenous strength, so as to form a large "native ethnic group" in a short period of time, so as to consolidate and stabilize the basic base of this new force.

Born here, grew up here, died here, and his inscriptions are kept here. His soul and spirit are everywhere here, and even after his death, nothing can be forgotten.

Then, the same country, the same language, and the same culture will naturally gradually form the same nation.

The time travelers believe that through their education and inheritance, these new forces born in North America will definitely have strong centripetal force and cohesion, thus building a strong country and giving birth to a new branch of China.

So, the problem arises.

Whether it is the current Indo-European mixed race or the large-scale reproduction of immigrants in the future, it is all to increase the population and enrich the basic strength of the future.

So, as the original "ruling class", should the time travelers start families early and produce the most reliable and trustworthy next generation as quickly as possible?

With the advanced ideas and comprehensive knowledge capabilities of the time travelers far beyond this era, I believe they will definitely have a strong influence on their children and family members. Even if they cannot inherit all of their knowledge, they will inevitably accept a more systematic and comprehensive knowledge system through daily interactions and subtle influence.

They may also become the most suitable successors to the careers of the time travelers. Following the long-term development goals set by their fathers, they will unswervingly continue to lead this new force to continue to grow and develop, so that it can stand tall among the nations of the world.

In this case, all personnel must complete their marriage and give birth to their own children as soon as possible in this time and space.

In this era, you do not have enough conditions to enjoy the so-called rights of "free love" or "free marriage".

The Indian tribes on Qiming Island were still in a primitive and ignorant state, almost like savages. Coupled with the influence of nutrition and living environment, these Indian women looked quite "crude" and "primitive", making it really difficult to kill them.

As for the Spanish Ocean Horse, it also disappointed many time travelers, and some even criticized it privately.

It’s important to remember that during this period, Europe was still over a century away from the Industrial Revolution and far from achieving material abundance. The average height of European men was just over 1.6 meters, and women were naturally not much taller.

With insufficient food, malnutrition and insufficient height, how could there be a big foreign horse with a thin waist, plump body and tall figure!
After looting two small towns in Spanish America, I met many Spanish women, but their looks were really not flattering and were definitely not in line with the aesthetic standards of the Chinese people.

Therefore, if you want to find a suitable partner to marry and have children with, you can only turn your attention to the Chinese mainland and choose a woman from the Ming Dynasty.

As a time traveler, it is impossible for him to marry a suitable woman in Guangzhou through a matchmaker and then bring her back to Qiming Island.

In this case, they can only spend money to buy some women of marriageable age and then introduce them to bachelors who want to get married and have children.

However, they never expected that Meng Shengxin, who was in charge of the matter, was constrained by ideological conflicts, so when he entrusted the matter to "Li Shunxing", he was hesitant and vague in his words, and only generally asked for the purchase of thirty women of marriageable age.

As a result, people actually bought him thirty "marriageable" women, with an average age of just sixteen. There were even four or five girls with childish faces, who were only thirteen or fourteen years old.

Seeing this, everyone looked at each other in surprise.

This seems a little... illegal, right?
Luo Zhenhui was also at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and asked people to take good care of these half-grown girls and not to scare them.

Forget it, I’ll take it back to Qiming Island and raise it for a few years.

(End of this chapter)