The counter lady of the other bank flattered to no avail, and Yang Yanfeng couldn't show any interest in her at all, so she left directly after exchanging the currency.

As soon as he walked out of the bank, he saw the flow of people gathering in one place, and out of curiosity, Yang Yanfeng also followed the crowd, ready to see the excitement.

Surrounded by the crowd is a square, the area of the square is not large, about thirty square meters, equivalent to the size of a bedroom, the back and left and right sides of the square are guarded by soldiers, five on each side.

What's going on?

Yang Yanfeng couldn't help but wonder a little, so he casually found a passer-by around him to ask.

As soon as he asked about this, the identity of the stranger was instantly recognized, and according to the passer-by, the next thing to take place in this square was the quarterly slave trade.

The so-called slave trade, as the name suggests, is the activity of the slave trade.

Ten slaves will be escorted to the square by the soldiers, and if the crowd of onlookers takes a fancy to any slave, they can directly bid the price below, and the final price will be the highest one, similar to an open-air auction.

It is said that it is an open-air auction, but it is not as formal as the auction, there is no official auctioneer, and the witnesses are all present, after someone shouts out a price, if no one bids within half a minute, it is regarded as a successful bid, which replaces the original three-word final word.

If anyone wins the auction and then regrets it, it is estimated that his reputation in the town will become very bad in the future, so there has been no pigeon since the slave trade was held.

Slave trade......

The rotten system of slavery did not penetrate very seriously in the feudal socialism in Chinese history, and it is estimated that only ancient Rome had such an extremely unfair system.

Slaves are different from domestic servants in that their relationship with their holders is not that of master and servant, and the holders can treat them as objects, tools, and even tools for venting.

This is a great violation of human rights, Yang Yanfeng did not expect that there would be such a system in the other world.

The "lots" in the slave trade were both men and women.

If it was a little bit of a man, he would be bought home and work day and night without anyone caring until he died of exhaustion.

If it is a woman with a little bit of beauty, she may be bought back by some molesters to do unscrupulous things, and no one cares about what kind of ** they will suffer in the home of the holder.

All in all, these slaves are unlikely to end well in the hands of the bidders.

In a corner of the square, several people were surrounded by soldiers, all handcuffed and hinged, presumably the protagonists of the slave trade.

It can be seen from the way they look like dead ashes that they more or less anticipated their fate.

Yang Yanfeng couldn't help but ask the passerby, "Isn't it a very inhumane thing to sell a fresh person as a commodity, isn't there anyone who opposes this slave trade from the beginning to the present?"

The passer-by pondered for a while, and then replied, "Actually, brother, don't say it, I think the same as you, who would voluntarily be traded as a commodity?" ”

"If there are many people who oppose it, why?"

Passers-by shook their heads helplessly, "Although there are many people who oppose it, most of us ordinary people, and most of the really rich landlords and rich people in the town have expressed their support, and this event is held once a quarter, which is not too frequent, not to mention that the slave trade is ......."

Before the passers-by finished speaking, there was a new movement in the square.

The slaves who had been escorted to the square stood in a row at the orders of the soldiers, who untied them from the handcuffs and hinges that bound their hands and feet, and then tied them to wooden crosses.

In Western culture, those who violated the doctrine or canon were tied to the cross by the bishop, and they were all condemned by the church for unpardonable sins and then burned at the stake.

Does the scene in front of you suggest something?

There were ten slaves, each of whom was bound to ten crosses.

The ten crosses are written with the numbers from one to ten and ten respectively, and these ten numbers represent the numbers of the ten slaves, and the bidder must attach the numbers when bidding, otherwise it will be considered invalid.

"Bidding begins!"

As the words of the leading soldier fell, the crowd instantly became noisy.

"Fifty silver coins, number three!"

"Eighty silver coins, number five!"

"One gold coin and thirty silver coins, number nine!"

One after another, the bidding began in a few dozen silver coins, and the final bidding price basically did not exceed five gold coins.

Is a big living person worth so much money? Or is it that the people in this town generally don't have a lot of financial means?

Maybe it's because the latter factor is bigger, from the fact that he took out ten gold coins in the bank before, which attracted the counter lady to constantly flatter him, it is not difficult to see.

Almost an hour has passed,

The sound of bidding gradually decreased, and the ten slaves on the stage were basically sold, but there was only one left.

The slave number 2 left in the square was a woman, not only slender and weak, but also mediocre in appearance, and her gray face and ragged appearance were even more shabby, no wonder no gold lord took a fancy to her.

"No one is bidding, there's still a slave here. The leading soldier glanced around at the crowd on the side of the square, but no one responded.

The slave's face turned even paler.

Yang Yanfeng was puzzled, "Since no one buys her, it means that she doesn't have to go to her master's house to work and be tired, why do you still look unhappy when you see her?"

The passer-by sighed, "You don't know! Every slave trade is renewed, and the remaining slaves from the auction will not be put into the next slave trade to make up the number, but will be disposed of directly." ”

"Dispose of it directly!?" Yang Yanfeng was stunned, "What does it mean to deal with it?"

"It is to kill them, and to burn them in the form of cremation until there are no bones left. ”

Yang Yanfeng smacked his tongue, he really guessed correctly, cremation and the burning of sinners in religion have the same meaning.

After another moment, the leading soldier said again, "Since there is no one to bid, then I declare that this slave trade is over!"

Immediately, he nodded to the other soldiers behind him, "You can start." ”

The other two guards took the straw prepared in advance and spread it on the soles of the slave's feet, while the other soldier lit the torch in his hand.

Step by step, the soldier approached the slave, and the light of the fire grew brighter and brighter in the slave's eyes, and this bright light seemed to indicate that her life was about to burn out.

The slave did not cry out, nor did she wail, she hung her head silently, as if she had accepted her miserable fate.

The passers-by beside Yang Yanfeng shook their heads helplessly, they couldn't bear to look directly at the next scene, it was rare for there to be redundant slaves left behind in the slave trade, and it was really ominous to put people to death in this way.

"Wait a minute!"

There was a shout from the crowd, and the soldier with the torch stopped, his torch less than a foot away from the pile of straw at the slave's feet.

"Who is it?"

The soldiers led by followed the prestige, their eyes were facing Yang Yanfeng, and the people around the latter all dispersed at once, leaving him a small circle, including the passerby who explained the slave trade to Yang Yanfeng just now.

Although it can be seen from a few small words of casual conversation that the passerby is kind-hearted, his identity is still a common man after all, and like most other civilians, he is unwilling to cause trouble and participate in right and wrong.

He didn't care about any of this, he cared about the life of the slave in the square.

"One gold coin, I bought the number two. ”

Yang Yanfeng pointed to the slave in the square, the slave's head was still slightly drooping, his expression was indifferent, and there was no joy in his eyes because of the glimmer of life that fell from the sky.

The leading soldier looked at Yang Yanfeng for a moment, and said with a smile, "This friend, I'm sorry, I already made it clear just now, this slave trade has ended. ”

"Can't you be accommodating all of a sudden?" Yang Yanfeng said, "It's not just a few minutes. ”

"In any case, the slave trade is also an official event in the town, and if it is over, it is over, and it is impossible to make an exception because of your sudden idea. If you really want this slave, you can take it down at a low price just now, and I'm sure no one here is interested in competing with you. ”

"That means, I can't photograph her no matter what?"

"It's not impossible, as long as it's ......"

"Just what?"

Yang Yanfeng raised his eyebrows, "If you have something to say, you might as well say it directly, I don't like to beat around the bush with people." ”

The soldier stretched out his index fingers in each hand, and then merged the two index fingers vertically together in a "ten" shape, "Didn't you just say a gold coin, as long as you pay ten times the price of this, you can shoot her." ”

As soon as this remark came out, the audience was in an uproar.

Ten times as many as one gold coin is ten gold coins, and ten gold coins is a huge amount of money, which is equivalent to the price of a small private house in Golden Town, how can it be said that it can be taken out? Not to mention that it is used to buy such a lowly slave with no characteristics!

In the eyes of the onlookers, the soldier at the head was clearly embarrassment for Yang Yanfeng, and wanted him to retreat in the face of difficulties and give up the idea of buying this slave.

Just when everyone thought that Yang Yanfeng was definitely going to give up, he took out ten golden coins out of nowhere and threw them in front of the eyes of the soldiers in charge.

Not to mention that this scene stunned the onlookers, and the mouth of the leading soldier almost fell to the ground.

Ten gold coins! He actually took out such a huge sum of money so easily, and what was even more surprising was that Yang Yanfeng actually threw this huge amount of money on the ground lightly, as if he had thrown a pile of worthless copper coins.