Apart from Hani’s palace, there are only a few decent houses in the Dongcheng area. Those who can live in the Dongcheng are all the people with the heads of Shanshan. In other places, including Tuburo’s shops, they all look very good. Low and shabby, as for the city, it can’t be described as low and shabby.
In Liu Xin's eyes, the so-called people's market is simply a place surrounded by livestock sheds, but it is not livestock that are locked in these sheds, but people, living people, in fact, in these countries, the status of slaves and livestock Almost, and sometimes even worse than livestock, it’s normal to be locked in a shed. These people include men and women, old and young, Western Husbands, poisonous people, Huns, and even blondes and blue eyes. The Daqin people, but Liu Xin looked around and didn’t see any Han people.
There are many reasons why these people became slaves. Some were originally slaves or children of slaves, and they were destined to be slaves at birth. Some were family members of criminals who were sold as slaves by the government, and some were slaves. Because they owed huge debts and were unable to repay them, they were sold into slaves. These slaves for sale, whether men, women, old or young, were all yellow and thin, ***, filthy, and smelly.
Seeing this scene, Liu Xin felt a little disappointed. Liu Xin didn’t think there was anything inhumane about treating slaves in this way, because this is a powerful society, and the emperor can make life and death with a single word. How can human rights talk about it? There was also a slave market in the area under Liu Xin’s rule. One punishment for criminals was the sale of family officials as slaves. However, Liu Xin would make careful preparations when selling these slaves to dress up the women beautifully. Let men show their strong side so that they can sell for a good price,
The slaves in front of him made Liu Xin no choice at all. Even if he knew who was better at farming and would use those farm tools, Liu Xin would still worry about whether they would contract any diseases.
Tuburo seemed to see Liu Xin’s doubts, and said with a smile: "The adults don’t know, this is the cunning of the slave merchants. They have made all the slaves in this way, so they have the opportunity to make those frail and sickly. His slaves took the opportunity to sell, but it’s not completely impossible to tell."
Having said this, Tubro suddenly walked to a slave for sale, grabbed his hand and examined it carefully, then shook his head, and walked towards another slave. When Tububan finished inspecting the third slave , Turned to Liu Xin and said, "My lord, this slave often does farm work, but he is a little older."
"Older age also has benefits of being older, and you will have more experience in farming," Liu Xin nodded and said, "It's him."
What Liu Xin needs is people who know how to use these farm tools, so that the people in the research institute can get inspiration from these farm tools that are different from Zhongtu, and improve the existing farm tools, instead of letting them actually do farm work, even if they are old and infirm. It doesn't matter,
Tubruo showed his hand, but Liu Xin did not ask him how he saw it, because Liu Xin knew the method he used was nothing more than judging these slaves by looking at the characteristics of these slaves, such as where there were more calluses. Once engaged in a career,
However, seeing Liu Xin's indifferent appearance, Tuburo, who wanted to show off in front of Liu Xin, was still a little unwilling, and then walked to a "livestock shed" next to him. There were a few female slaves in the shed, and They are all naked female slaves,
Of course Liu Xin had no interest in these female slaves, and the white flowers and naked appearance was also a bit embarrassing. Liu Xin was about to stop Tuburo when she suddenly caught a glimpse of a female slave with long golden hair.
Seeing this slave girl, Liu Xin couldn't help but think of the black whirlwind, so he casually pointed and said, "Bring her here."
Tuburo originally wanted to show off his skill in choosing women, but when he saw the female slave pointed by Liu Xin, he was slightly startled. The female slave was not tall and looked very average, and she was not slim at all, I don’t know. Why did Liu Xin fall in love with her? However, Tuburo now wanted to please Liu Xin. He hesitated and followed Liu Xin's order to bring the slave girl over.
Although Liu Xin is not a Taoist master, he is still a little uncomfortable facing the naked woman in broad daylight. He can't help but raise his head and look at the sky, but asks: "Where are you from?"
The maidservant naturally didn't understand Liu Xin's words. After Tuburo translated it, she hurriedly replied, "The slave is a native of Shanshan,"
Liu Xin waved his hand and asked the slave girl to return to the "livestock shed", then turned to Tuburo and said, "I have one thing to leave to you. See if there are any Daqin people in these slaves. If there are any, buy them all. Come down, I will pay a big price,"
Because Yumen Pass has been closed for a long time, and there are no products from Dahan, those Daqin caravans that have traveled far and wide will not appear in the city, although new progress has been made with Liu Xin’s plan to restart the trade road. The Daqin caravan will come out again one day, but for Liu Xin, who desperately wants to understand the situation of the Daqin Empire, he does not have the patience to wait that long.
After seeing the blonde hair of the female slave, Liu Xin suddenly thought of a way. Since he could not find Daqin's caravan, it was the same to find a few slaves from Daqin, and the big price promised by Liu Xin was not straightforward. It is paid to the slave merchants, but to Tubro. The merchants are highly profitable. With this big price as a temptation, I believe Tubro will do his best.
Liu Xin did not directly ask the slave merchants. There is another reason. He did not want those slave merchants to know that they wanted to buy slaves from Daqin, because if those merchants knew their purpose, they would most likely force their subordinates. His slaves claimed to be from Daqin and made this business with a plan, but his goal was difficult to achieve. Therefore, Liu Xin gave the matter to Tuburo, who was good at identifying slaves, without even thinking about it.
However, it is not easy to select slaves from Daqin among so many slaves, because the status of slaves is too low, and their masters simply don’t bother to inquire about their past, and there is no way to know their origin. It takes Tuburuo to inquire one by one. In this way, it will take a lot of time, and Liu Xin can’t leave the city of mud in a hurry, but must wait patiently.
While Liu Xin was waiting for Tuburo to choose a suitable slave, Mi Fang arrived at Puyang City with his goods.
In fact, Puyang City is very close to the front line, and it is almost separated from the important town of Liyang by the Yellow River. Cao Cao regards this as the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty, which is quite a bit of the taste of the emperor's gate of the emperor in Beijing.
In fact, Cao Cao's doing this is also helpless. He has been short of money and food, so it is impossible to recruit a large number of troops and horses. As his turf expands, many places have to be divided and guarded. Second, some places need to be equipped with heavy troops, and some places can only be stationed with a small number of soldiers, but in any case, the front border must be deployed with heavy troops, and as the "capital" of the rear, the force cannot be too empty. Cao Cao was able to come up with such a bold idea, to set up the "capital city" directly in Puyang, which is near Jizhou, and immediately merge the two places that need heavy garrison into one, which immediately solved the dilemma of insufficient strength.
However, although the dilemma of insufficient strength was temporarily solved, it was too close to the front line. When the war broke out there, there was a panic here. From time to time, people walking in and out of the city could be seen in a hurry. The prices of food are also constantly moving up, and the price of food is even more ridiculously high.
Mi Fang swaggered into Puyang City holding the receipt issued by Liu Dai. The news that he had brought a large amount of grain went wild in Puyang City. Mi Fang and his party had just found an inn to settle down, and people came to visit one after another. ,
Among the people who came to visit were merchants with a keen sense of smell, and noble families in Puyang City. Of course, some officials who Cao Cao stayed here were indispensable, and even Xun Yu, Cao Cao’s number one adviser, came in person.
All these people had only one goal, and that was the batch of grain in Mi Fang's hands. When Mi Fang left Qiao County, he carried a total of 75,000 shi of grain. When he entered the city, he released 20,000 shi on the spot because of Puyang City. Each of the four gates has a grain requisition office, which is responsible for receiving military grains handed over from various places, which saves Mi Fang a lot of effort, but his remaining 55,000 shi grains are also exposed.
In troubled times, the profiteers wanted to hoard the odds, while the gentry family and the officials wanted to store more food in their homes so as not to worry. Xun Yu was all about Cao Cao’s sake and wanted to grab the food in Mi Fang’s hands before the others. Buy them all. Although everyone’s starting point is different, the goal is the same.
For these people's visits, Mi Fang's answer was only two words: "No,"
However, this batch of grain in Mi Fang's hand was too tempting. How could these people be easily dismissed by him? Many people were still there to ask why they were missing, and Mi Fang's reply was even more domineering: "I'm not familiar with you,"
Those merchants are nothing more. They didn't expect to be able to easily get food from Mi Fang, and they couldn't see Mi Fang as expected, but the others were all fascinating figures in Puyang City, and a foreign merchant dared to let them. When I touched my nose, I was naturally unhappy. Some people couldn’t help but wanted to attack on the spot. However, when they saw Xun Yu’s reaction, they had to put away their anger and leave obediently.
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I'm sorry, I had a drink last night, and I barely got up until I slept in the afternoon. I wrote this chapter in a hurry. I couldn't hold it anymore, so I went back and lay down quickly. Fight for two chapters tomorrow, but the release time will not be too early.