Chapter 679: Race and Female Slaves (Part II)
As native residents, the status enjoyed by the white people in the Northern Han was not low.
In fact, the status of white people was not high at first, but with the global slave hunt of the Northern Han Dynasty, especially the entry of a large number of slaves into the North Han Dynasty in the Americas and the South Seas, the status of the white people also rose, and they became the second type of race under the racial system of the Northern Han Dynasty, and they could intermarry with the Han people and run farms and estates.
The imperial law decreed that whites could also enter officialdom at this time, and it can be seen that the Northern Han and Western Qin, in general, were constantly improving racial contradictions, so that this contradiction did not need to be too sharpened.
The third class of the Northern Han was the American race, and the Americas were the first continents conquered by the Northern Han, and the population flowed into the Northern Han in large numbers.
With the continuous conquest of the Americas by the Northern Han Dynasty, the American race also enjoyed a certain status in the Northern Han Dynasty, called free people, which was also an effort made by the Northern Han Dynasty to alleviate racial contradictions.
Of course, in fact, there were still a huge number of American slaves, and there were not many Americans who obtained the status of free people, but because of the huge base, there were many of them on the surface.
And the law of empire, the American race belongs to the third class of the empire.
In the long history of the empire, racial integration, there were naturally a large number of mixed races, mixed people belonged to the fourth class of the Northern Han Dynasty, of course, no matter what mixed race, there must be a mixed race of the first and second castes to become the fourth class of people.
The proportion of mixed-race people in the Northern Han Dynasty was rising every year, and most of them belonged to free people, and of course, there were also a large number of slaves.
In the Northern Han Dynasty, except for these four people, there were a huge number of slaves, and slaves were not human beings in the Northern Han Dynasty.
There is no doubt that the rights of these slaves are that they have no rights, and if they kill a slave, even if they are killed by a fourth-class half-blood, they only need to compensate the slave owner with money. It's like killing someone else's pig or dog in the future, just lose money.
This is the racial system of the Northern Han Dynasty, under which slaves were directly excluded from the racial system, which shows the low status of slaves in the Northern Han Dynasty.
Of course, there are always exceptions to everything, in fact, at this time in the Northern Han Dynasty, many Han people also did not live easily, like the sea people, they traveled to the sea for many years, and their lives were difficult enough.
And many mixed-race people are actually living well through hard work, especially mixed-race people with Han blood, and even many already have their own estates and slaves.
Overall, however, the Han Chinese still have an unrivalled status in the country.
Just like Chen Fang is a Han Chinese, Princess Jingnan can directly tell him that he will return to the imperial capital, let the imperial brother give him a marriage, and let him be his own concubine.
If it were another race, Princess Jingnan would not have said this. Imperial law, Han Chinese can freely intermarry, including the royal family. This was the cornerstone of the imperial law, and it was also the effort of the Northern Han to maintain the rule of the Han people.
At this time, Chen Fang held Liu Yi in his arms, looking at the herds of slaves outside, the sun was getting higher and higher, and the carriage had already entered the slave market, where the slaves were driven into different areas by different slave traders, like cattle, without human dignity at all.
Slaves are distinguished here mainly by skin color and ethnicity.
Chen Fangrang stopped the carriage, and Princess Jingnan naturally followed him.
The carriage was parked outside a facility dedicated to the sale of female slaves, who were light-skinned Indians.
In fact, the Indians are not a separate race, but a collective term for the Native Americans except the Inuit.
The Indians are mainly divided into three groups, the Mayans, the Aztecs, and the Incas.
This is the division of later generations, and in the Northern Han Dynasty, there is a distinction between the aborigines of North America and South America, and in general, the aborigines of North America have a higher status because they were conquered by the Northern Han Dynasty first.
At this time, the premises were dedicated to the sale of Indian slave girls, who were decorated with a bright feather in their hair and had fewer clothes on their bodies to hide the beauty of the women's curves.
Princess Jingnan and Chen Fang got out of the carriage, and the slave trader in charge there hurriedly visited Princess Jingnan, and let the princess and the man who did not know her, but was obviously Han, inside.
The slave market here is quite exquisite, it is a one-person high wooden platform, and the Indian female slaves on it are not bound by any kind, but just stand on the platform at will.
"Xiao Mo, fancy which palace will buy it for you."
Chen Fang looked at Liu Yi, this is really able to buy and sell at will.
"Your Royal Highness, the female slaves here are all royal slaves, which one does the princess like, she only needs to pass the hand order, and she can take it away, and she doesn't need to buy it."
Liu Yi smiled and looked at Chen Fang, Chen Fang actually came down, purely to see, and didn't want to buy any Indian slaves.
He was just curious about what the Indians looked like.
"Your Highness, I'm just taking a look at random!"
"Then Bengu chooses a few for you!"
Chen Fang looked at Princess Jingnan, this, forget it, the princess will choose, let her be.
At this time, Princess Jingnan went up to the high platform and looked at these slave girls, the nearest Indian woman twisted her waist, and Princess Jingnan pinched her cheek. Let her open her mouth, look at her teeth, and then stroke her body with his hand, which is considered to confirm the line of the woman's body.
"Xiao Mo, do you like it?"
Chen Fang sank and did not answer.
"The lines are not bad, but there are some drapes here."
"Your Highness, it's because it's a little too heavy."
"Let them take off their clothes, and the provincial palace will confirm them one by one."
"Take off your clothes and let Her Royal Highness the princess choose."
Leaving the virgin slave market, Princess Jingnan picked two light-skinned and virgin Indian women to Chen Fang.
Female slaves are for people to play with, in the Northern Han Dynasty, slaves don't look at people, Liu Yi naturally doesn't mind the men he likes to play with female slaves. In her eyes, these slave girls were indistinguishable from pigs and dogs.
"Xiao Mo, do you want to choose a few more white people, there are fewer white female slaves here, but there are still some."
"No, Your Highness, let's get out of here!"
Chen Fang looked out the window, a local manor owner was selecting a few sturdy male slaves, and after paying the silver, Chen Fang saw that the manor master commanded his men and burned the slave's face with a soldering iron.
Slaves do not belong to one of the four castes of the Northern Han Dynasty, and Chen Fang has seen what a slave is.
Passing through the slave market, Chen Fang also saw many scenes of buying and selling.
Look at the teeth and make the slaves do some jumping, that's all.
Some slave owners choose slaves and let each other do some extremely embarrassing actions,, do you buy slaves and watch chrysanthemums?
Coming out of here, Chen Fang's expression was not good, the northland in mid-April was still quite cold, although it was not ice and snow, in fact, it was only the early spring climate.
However, in the slave market, there was a large area of bare-assed, defenseless slaves.