Chapter 747, Slave Market

"Tsk, Erhu, it's really lively."

Liu Jin looked at the lively streets of Crescent City, there were many pedestrians on the streets, and there were not only Ming people, but also Japanese people, Koreans, merchants from Nanyang countries, and even merchants from the Middle East and Persia.

All kinds of accents come together, and all kinds of clothes gather, making people feel like they are in a museum of civilized races.

The expressions of the Ming people are generally more arrogant, even if it is the shopkeeper in the restaurant and teahouse.

The Ming Dynasty is extremely powerful, and it has fought in all directions one after another, especially here in Nanyang, sweeping the countries of the Nanyangs, so that everyone knows that the Ming Dynasty is powerful and terrifying, and naturally the waist of the Ming people is straighter.

In addition, in the concept of the Ming people, everything is good for the Ming Dynasty, and those outside the Ming Dynasty are barbarians, and they are all backward and uneducated barbarians, so they are naturally disdainful of the foreigners here in Crescent City, and their demeanor is arrogant.

In addition to the Ming people, the Japanese and Koreans also have their nostrils facing the sky.

With the signing of the agreement between the Wa State and the Joseon of the Ming Dynasty, they became the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, according to the agreement, the Korean and the Wa people must learn Chinese characters, speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty, and can freely travel to and from all parts of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, they have always been deeply influenced by Chinese civilization, and they claim to be the descendants of Chinese civilization, and they are no different from the Ming people in appearance.

Therefore, these Koreans and Japanese people are naturally higher than other foreigners, they are as noble as the Ming people, and these nostrils are naturally high.

Only when he met the Ming people, he immediately changed his smile and nodded his head.

In addition, the people of Luzon are also nostrils to the sky, they are also vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and now the people of Luzon are doing their best to learn Chinese characters and the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and everyone has changed their Han surnames, respecting Confucius and Mencius, and wearing Hanfu.

Liu Jindu had already seen the Luzon people who seemed to be wearing Hanfu and shouting lamely, although they felt inferior when facing the Ming people, but when facing the Siamese, Sulu, Persians, etc., it was a different scene.

As for the merchants from the countries of the South Seas, they are cautious one by one.

Daming is too powerful!

The army of the Ming Dynasty went from north to south and then from west to east, and Annam, Champang, Siam, Malacca, Jinzhou, Java, and Bo Ni fought the entire Nanyang.

Annan, who has always liked to jump, was wiped out, Siam was beaten all over the ground, Malacca was accounted for half, and several countries above Jinzhou were beaten and paid compensation.

Java, which dared to loot the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty and kill the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, was almost wiped out by Liu Jin, and several countries above Java were wiped out, and a large number of people were sold as slaves to plantations all over the South Seas.

Several countries on Bonizhou were all ploughed by Liu Jin and others, and they became honest one by one to cut land and pay compensation.

The entire Nanyang countries were conquered by the powerful military force of the Ming Dynasty, and they all became honest.

In the past, these Nanyang countries also levied heavy taxes on the merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty, and their merchants dared to deceive the Ming merchants and bully the Ming merchants, and now, who dares to offend the Ming people?

It is even more honest to come to Daming's side to do business, for fear of offending the Ming people and then being attacked by Daming.

As for those merchants from the Middle East and Persia, they are even more honest, and when they came, they had already heard about the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and their power on the island of Ceylon was wiped out by the Western United Trading House, which made them know that the Ming people seem to be gentle and easy to talk, but when they really move, they will definitely make you want to cry without tears.

"Brother Jin, it's a slave market over there, do you want to go and see it together?"

The second tiger also looked around, and soon saw a place, and suddenly said with a slight light in his eyes.

"Take it, I just want to see the slave market here in the South Seas."

Liu Jin thought for a while and nodded, and walked towards the slave market.

The slave issue is a big problem, and Liu Jin naturally needs to understand it well first, so that he can formulate better policies.

The slave market is very lively.

It is said to be a market, but in fact it is a very large open space, where many people gather to watch the excitement, buy and sell slaves, and so on.

Slave traders occupied a place to buy and sell slaves, because the demand for slaves was very strong, and many slaves did not flow to this market at all, and were already predetermined to be bought.

The slaves who were exiled here were also very competitive, and they were all purchased by competitive bidding.

Slave traders gather a lot of people here, and the slave traders will auction the slaves one by one, and the one with the highest price will get the money, and hand over the slaves.

"The following slave is a slave caught by the Western United Trading Company from this side of the West Ocean Ceylon Island, you see, this slave is tall, strong, and very young, and he is definitely a good hand when he buys it back to work."

Zhang Qu, a slave trader, pointed to the newly pulled out strong slave and shouted very loudly.

"I'm not a slave~ I'm not a slave~ I'm a Persian, I'm a Persian~"

As for the slave, his hair was shaved, his beard was also white, his blue eyes were exposed, the bridge of his nose was high, and the word slave was branded on the left chest of his shirtless upper body.

Seeing that he was going to be auctioned, he couldn't help shouting loudly, he was a Middle Eastern merchant who settled here on the island of Ceylon, who knew that the Ming people swept across the island of Ceylon, captured them all, and sold them here as slaves.

But what he said was not understood by anyone at all, and he was yelling, which caused the displeasure of the slave traders, who soon jerked him violently.

Buyers want slaves who work honestly and hard, not the yelling, restless slaves.

Under Zhang Qu's jerk, the slave finally stood honestly, and his eyes became dull.

"It's a rare white slave, it should be a Middle Easterner~"

"Although he is strong and strong, he seems to be full of ambition, and it is easy to have an accident when he buys it back."

"Yes, yes, last time there was an accident on the plantation of the old Li family, and the slaves rebelled, and I heard that it was also caused by white slaves."

"Well, you can't buy it, it's better to have those dwarf slaves and black slaves."

When many buyers next to them saw it, they immediately talked about it and shook their heads constantly.

"Thirty taels of silver to start a business, do you want anything?"

When Zhang Qu heard this, he immediately became anxious, this slave was bought by him for twenty taels of silver, if no one wanted it, wouldn't he lose money?

"Lao Zhang, you slave is full of wildness, it's better to go back and train it first, otherwise who would dare to buy it back."

Some people know Zhang Qu, and they are also blunt.

"Don't worry, what can happen if you wear ankle cuffs and bracelets?"

"Let's see, how strong you are, you must be very powerful, and it must be good to buy it back and work."

When Zhang Qu heard this, he also began to say again and again.

"Don't, don't~ I don't want to give it for nothing."

Everyone shook their heads, buying slaves to go back to work, not buying unstable explosives.

"Damn slave~"

Seeing that no one wanted it, Zhang Qu immediately couldn't help but pick up the whip and slammed the slave again, hitting the other party's skin and flesh, and then stopped.

Soon another slave stepped forward, this is the Sinhalese from the island of Ceylon, dark-skinned, short-stated, and low-caste, so they are very docile, and there seems to be no much resistance to their slave status.

"Thirty taels of silver starting price~"

Zhang Qu shouted.

"Thirty-two taels~"

"Thirty-three taels~"

"Thirty-five taels~"

As soon as the words fell, soon there were people bidding, these low-caste Sinhalese people on the island of Ceylon were very good slaves, they worked more diligently, and there were few people who made trouble, so everyone liked it, and the competition was fierce.

Soon the price reached a high price of more than forty taels of silver, and finally it was bought by a plantation owner.

"It's funny, it's the same as the slave trade I watched on TV before the time travel."

Liu Jin watched the slave trade with interest, and some Western movies he had seen before the crossing also came to mind, but the ones who were bought and sold in the movies were black slaves, and there were many types of slaves that were bought and sold here.

There were indigenous slaves from Java, Siam, Jinzhou, and Bo Ni, some of whom were captured by Liu Jin's army, but now it is more people from within these countries themselves who are capturing slaves and selling them.

A slave is worth dozens of taels of silver, which also gave birth to a lot of slave traders and slave hunting teams, among these countries in the South Seas, some people specialize in capturing slaves and selling them to slave traders in the Ming Dynasty, forming an industrial chain.

There were also slaves from the Western island of Ceylon, and the Western United Trading House swept across the island and sold the Middle Easterners, Persians, Sinhalese and Tamils on the island on a large scale, which also added a lot of white slaves.

"Oh~oh~"

At this time, a burst of cheers came, and when Liu Jin heard it, he immediately hurriedly looked over, it turned out that in the middle of the slave market, there were slave merchants who were auctioning NV slaves.

These slaves were from the Middle East and Persians on the island of Ceylon, as well as the Sinhalese of the high castes, they were white-skinned and plump, and these slave traders also stripped them naked in order to sell them for more money, and immediately attracted a lot of attention and cheers.

The Ming people like white and take white as beauty, so these fair-skinned slaves are the most expensive slaves in the slave market, and their treatment is much better than that of other slaves, and the same price is also very high.

"Everyone, everyone, this is the latest arrival of the top white slave~ Everyone has seen it."

"This fair skin, this body, and this ass... Hehe, you will be blessed if you buy it back, and keep you drunk and dreaming of death. ”

A slave merchant pulled a slave out and introduced it to everyone with a smile on his face.