"The era of black slave trafficking is over."

On the busy and extremely noisy streets of Plymouth, Devon, England, a black double white carriage passed quickly. The old coachman in white shirt and stockings wore a wig and started the carriage and horses shouting loudly and opening the road ahead.

Next to the most conspicuous carriage is a shield badge with a tied black man printed.

The owner of the carriage was a member of the MP of England, Navy Finance Officer, and Navy Supply Officer John Hawkins, who was sitting in a carriage covered with red Ottoman carpet, leaning on the big velvet arm pillow, lifting the brown wool curtains and looking at the coast not far away, and expressing this emotion to his nephew Francis Drake, who was sitting opposite him: "The era of black slave trafficking is over."

When he said this, Drake was playing with a pack of kraft paper cigarette boxes in his hand. The small square bag of kraft paper was stained with square signs, with the words "Miyo Daming". The upper part of the cigarette box had been taken apart, revealing the cigarette coils that were not arranged neatly inside.

Several pieces of tobacco cut after baking are glued to the paper box. The paper used for each cigarette is the same length and thickness, and there is also a folded paper card at the mouth to ensure that the tobacco will not enter the mouth during use, and the workmanship is exquisite.

In fact, the workmanship from the inside out may not be really exquisite. The cigarette box is yellow and the cigarette paper is also yellow. Even the square white cigarette cards are irregularly raised due to the dry glue.

But in this era, just like a railway, no matter how rough it is, as long as it is done, it is the most exquisite.

Because only Italy can make decent paper in Europe, papermaking was introduced to Samarkand in the eighth century, and then the Arab region entered Italy in the 14th century to change the embarrassment of using sheepskin, but it was still far from the Ming Dynasty because they were still using the production process from the Han and Tang dynasties. In ancient China, they used hemp and rag as raw materials, and they generally used cotton fibers, which were not as soft, thin and tough as hemp paper.

It was already the seventeenth century when Britain learned to make paper.

So the Renaissance was indeed the Renaissance, and the papermaking industry flourished after that because there was no such thing as before.

Until the 14th century, Europe still used papyrus and parchment. Although both of these are called paper for easy understanding, they are not paper at all.

Papyrus is simply bark, and parchment is simply sheepskin. Similar to them are cloth, tortoise shells and bronze tripods. They are writing tools, how could it be paper?

For English people who can't even make such cigarette paper or kraft paper, many people actually start by wanting a piece of kraft paper.

These papers are indeed very good. Kraft paper was made of pine fibers grown in Quebec in the highlands, while cigarette paper was simple paddle paper. Li Yuxi originally wanted to make it just like pine paper, but later he tried it himself and found it was too choking.

Speaking of which, it is indeed not easy for Daheng Li to sell a cigarette. He has tried all kinds of paper cigarettes. He even rolled the cigarettes with Chen Mu's favorite magnetic blue paper. He was choked and cried when he smoked. The key cost made him feel like he was smoking money.

Drake clamped an unlit cigarette curl with his fingers in a daze, and came back to his senses and smiled: "For us, the slave trade is over long ago."

As the first Hawkins family in England to start a business with the ocean trade, John Hawkins and Francis Drake had enough confidence to say this.

England's maritime trade originated from Spain's pioneering of the New World, and the English ships were Spanish porters on the sea, transporting slaves from Africa to the New World. However, these porters occasionally turned into pirates and robbed Spanish ships until Hawkins was targeted by the Spanish royal family and the fleet was destroyed.

In revenge, the Queen of England seized a Spanish sailboat that was driven away by the French Huguenot armed civilian ship, which completely made the maritime dispute between the two countries clear.

After that, Hawkins and Drake, as any industry leader would often do, rose to the upstream industry, for them, the industry was robbing Spanish sailing ships.

In fact, it was precisely because it was the early time to leave the black slave trade that the Hawkins family did not fall into Yang Ce's cruel hands.

This is the supply chain of triangular trade. African tribes hate each other and countless prisoners were killed. The Spaniards and Portuguese in the New World need more manpower, so they sell them to English merchants as trophy. The English merchants sell these prisoners as slaves to the New World, and blood supports the flow of gold and silver into Europe. This industrial chain would have disappeared in the long river of history because the New World no longer needs more population in one or two hundred years later.

Yang Ce's joining changed this situation. No powerful fleet appeared on the west coast of Africa, which brought a catastrophe to the triangular trade and also led to a more temporary, new triangular trade.

However, this time the merchant ships from Europa became new prey, and the human resources gap in the development of the New World was also interrupted by Chen Mu's arrival... It was not that the immigrants who crossed the oceans of the Ming Dynasty blocked the human resources gap, but that they completely squeezed out the Europeans' power forces on that land, so naturally they no longer needed slaves.

"Plymouth's property is in short supply, and those merchants are robbed by robbers at sea, and hundreds of nobles' investments are wasted, and people turn to carry out more favorable business activities."

Hawkins pointed to his nephew's velvet pillow under his arm and said, "They are driving Congress to pass a bill called Plymouth Trade. The content of the bill is to make Plymouth a port dedicated to trade in the Ming Empire. Fortunately, the Queen still trusts me very much and has been delaying the date of the bill's entry into force."

Drake put down the hand of the cigarette roll, looked up at Hawkins and asked, "Uncle, isn't this good?"

"The goods sold in Daming are of good quality, cheap prices and limited quantity. Even if we sell these goods to the Mediterranean, we still make some profits."

"It's certainly good to be able to trade, so what have I been doing over the years since we were destroyed by the Spanish and only two ships left to return to Plymouth?"

Hawkins raised his hand and pointed out the carriage window, referring to the massacre of the Spanish in the Daxi Port of the Ming Dynasty, which happened twelve years ago in the Spanish Port of Veracruz.

Drake looked out the window with Hawkins' hand. The carriage was passing by the coast, and there were huge ships after huge ships parked tightly on the beach. Hawkins said: "Eight years ago, I entered Congress, three years ago, inherited the position of naval finance officer of my father-in-law, and this year I became the naval supply officer trusted by His Highness the Queen. I have been preparing for a naval battle with the Spanish."

"At that time, our country had no navy, and there was not even a decent warship. Now we have twelve warships over 100 tons, twelve fast ships that can sail near the sea, and more ships are still under construction, right in Plymouth."

"When the bay that is easily docked here becomes a port for trade with the Ming people, the Ming people's merchant ships will occupy this, what will we use to build ships?"

"Is it just the lamb who showed the queen's palmism?"

Lamb...Drake also felt helpless about the owner of this name. The man was a blind man named Yang Gao. It is said that he became a wanted criminal in the Eastern Military Palace of the Ming Empire because of his secrets. He came to England in a dirty and rotten stall in a merchant ship.

He shook his head and said, "Uncle, that lamb is not a good man. Although he does not support the establishment of a trading port in Plymouth, he obviously has other intentions."
Chapter completed!