After Empress Dowager Xiao left with Yun'er, she went to other markets to wander around, Liaodu is the most prosperous city in Liao, and there are all kinds of businesses in it. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Yun'er is strange to see everywhere, he sees people performing dance knives and gravel these performances, and he also feels good-looking.

After Empress Dowager Xiao took Yun'er around the market, it was already afternoon. Empress Dowager Xiao took Yun'er to a quieter restaurant to eat to satisfy her hunger accompanied by Jin Ju, perhaps because Empress Dowager Xiao was tired of eating the delicacies of the mountains and seas in the palace, so she only needed a bowl of Yangchun white snow noodles to satisfy her hunger.

As for Yun'er, he is growing up at this age and has a good appetite, so he loves to eat big fish and meat, and Empress Dowager Xiao did not object, so she chose what Yun'er liked to eat.

Maybe it was because she had been walking all morning, and Empress Dowager Xiao was also a little hungry, so she felt that the white snow noodles here tasted very good, so she looked at the signboard and saw that this restaurant had four big characters written on it: "Fengwu Restaurant"; Next to this signboard are a few lines of relatively small words, and the characteristics of this restaurant are "Fengwu Wine" and "Yangchun White Snow Noodles".

When Empress Dowager Xiao saw it, she thought that the noodles in this restaurant were still good, as for the taste of this "Fengwu wine", Empress Dowager Xiao didn't have time to taste it now, so she could only ask the maid to quietly buy it back to the palace to taste it.

Empress Dowager Xiao took a short break in the restaurant after eating noodles, and then she took Yun'er to another market in Liaodu, that is, the slave market in Liaodu.

Now that the Liao army has just defeated the Chu State, the Liao army has occupied a large area of the Chu State territory, and has also captured a large number of Chu people, most of these Chu people who were captured by the Liao army have been reduced to slaves sold in the bazaar, so many Chu slaves who are sold can be seen in many bazaars in the Liao capital.

Of course, the slaves who can be transported to Liaodu to sell are all very young and excellent slaves, both men and women, after all, many of the people living in Liaodu are Liao nobles, and they have high requirements for slaves, and ordinary slaves are not eye-catching at all. In addition, transporting slaves from the occupied Chu land to Liaodu was a long journey, and it was necessary to provide food and clothing for these slaves, so the transportation cost was very high.

Therefore, we can only select some excellent slaves to be transported to Liaodu to sell, so that they can be sold at a good price, and there will be a huge profit; As for those ordinary or poor slaves, they were all reduced to hard slaves and sold to the nearby Liao people to work as coolies in the construction sites that needed to be built, just like the Pingnantai slaves in Fengting City.

The characteristics of these slaves sold to Liaodu are that female slaves are generally eight to sixteen years old, all of them are beautiful, slender, and some are even the daughters of the original big families of the Chu State, only because the country was ruined and was captured by the Liao army and sold as slaves. Therefore, female slaves in this way were very popular with the nobles of the Liao State.

As for male slaves, they are generally under twenty, over six years old, all of them are clear-eyed and healthy, because only good slaves in the Liao capital will be favored by the magnates of the Liao State and sold for a high price. As for the other almost slaves, they had long been sent by the Liao army to be sold elsewhere at a low price, or to be bitter slaves

The Liaodu slave market is divided into many categories, which can be divided into three categories: adults and teenagers, and children. Buying children is generally a family without a male in the family, so buying a child and returning it is generally raised as their own child, this kind of child slave has the best fate, as for the juvenile slave is second; The worst is of course the slave who is already an adult. Because it is difficult for the adult slaves who have been bought back to establish a deep relationship with their masters.

However, in addition to the age of the slaves in the slave market, they are generally mainly divided into men and women, of course, the more high-end the slave market, the more fine the slaves. As for some low-end slave markets, men, women, and children mixed together to sell. There were even slaves whose families were sold in small groups.

Slaves in the high-class slave market were not only divided into male and female, but also subdivided into female slaves according to different ages: for example, five to eight years old were called young slaves, eight to fourteen years old were called young slaves, fourteen to eighteen were called adult slaves, and eighteen to thirty were called mature slaves. Thirty or more can only be called old slaves.

Of course, the price of female slaves over thirty is very low, so it is generally said that the most sold in the high-end female slave market are young slaves between the ages of eight and fourteen, and in short, they are young slaves. Because at this age, male and female slaves are the most preferred.

At that time, in order to create the "Red Leaf Society", Han Jiangxue recruited a large number of boys and girls between the ages of eight and fourteen. Raise them to be great people, and now they are loyal to you. It's a child who chooses this age.

The children who choose this age mainly have these advantages, the first is very plastic, and they basically learn and learn well what you teach; Second, children at this age can basically take care of themselves, as long as you give them food, clothing, and other things, you can basically leave it alone, which is very worry-free.

Thirdly, children at this age are simple-minded and have limited abilities, and they still need others to help them, but they already know that Entu has repaid them, and if you help them, they will be loyal to you.

Fourth, children at their age live together and grow up together, they face difficulties together, and even face death, so after such a test, these children also have deep feelings with each other, simply put, these people are very united when they grow up, and they will join forces against the enemy when they encounter danger; It will not be like other armies that are recruited together after adulthood, and once they encounter danger, they will flee for their lives, so that the army will easily collapse and be defeated.

Now although Empress Dowager Xiao has four cronies and maids, (they are the second marshal of Meishuang in Yanzhou, Zizhu in the inspection capital of the inspection capital, and Jin Ju and Xianglan). However, Empress Dowager Xiao understands that these cronies and maids have too much power one day, and they will pose a serious threat to her son's imperial power like Han Jiangxue, so Empress Dowager Xiao has the idea of cultivating another group of cronies loyal to her.

Empress Dowager Xiao thought that she would cultivate a few more excellent cronies, with these benefits, first, these people could help them do things, and by the way, they could contain the original four maids, so that they would not have too much power, and they would do things without worry;

The second is in case the original four maids die in an accident, or even rebel against themselves, so that they also have alternative manpower, so that there will be no special circumstances, and they will be in a hurry and helpless. Anyway, today is idle, and Empress Dowager Xiao also went to the slave market to select excellent slaves.

Empress Dowager Xiao thought to herself that Han Jiangxue had founded the "Red Leaf Society" by adopting a large number of wandering orphans and buying juvenile slaves. Of course, Empress Dowager Xiao was still Princess Xiao at that time, although Princess Xiao secretly gave Han Jiangxue strong support. However, at that time, Princess Xiao was busy fighting for the throne for her husband, and she had no time to personally manage and train these homeless orphans and young slaves.

Even Empress Dowager Xiao did not have as much influence on them as Xianglan and Meishuang, because Xianglan and Meishuang had helped Han Jiangxue manage these people. So in the hearts of these people, they are only grateful to Han Jiangxue and Meishuang, Xianglan and others. They didn't have any feelings for the Empress Dowager Xiao, so they were just perfunctory about the Empress Dowager Xiao's orders. (To be continued.) )