Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road... Although Chang'an City is the largest metropolis in the world, there are also unknown slums in such cities.

Yanzuofang is the place where the poor people gather in Chang'an City, where the sanitary conditions are poor, mosquitoes and flies are scattered, and the residents can eat enough, but the living conditions are very poor.

There were five people hiding here, and these five people were the ones who tried to kidnap Li Qi at noon.

These five people are specialized in human trafficking, and they have a very nice name called flower patter, what is flower shooting, that is, abducting and selling children, and these people have a very special medicinal powder in their hands, which is also a kind of unique skill.

As long as these people pat the child's head with their hands (it is also said that they blow it with a kind of drug powder), the child will be fascinated, and his eyes will be "flowered", and the left, right and back are full of lions, tigers and mountain streams, and only the person in front of him has a road, so he will only follow this person, so he will be abducted. Because it was patted on the eye, it was spent, so it was called "flower patter".

However, these medicinal powders can only be effective for young children, Li Qian is ten years old, and the medicinal powders are useless, so these people are obviously robbing.

Many people will definitely ask, the ancients still need to abduct and sell children in such a living environment, there are too many children, there is no need for abduction and trafficking, because in ancient times, it was human trafficking, indeed... There's some truth to that.

For example, in the early days of the Western Han Dynasty, due to war and famine, the Central Plains and Guanzhong generation lacked food and clothing, starvation was everywhere, and many poor people could not afford to raise their children at all, so Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, had to encourage and advocate the folk "selling sons and daughters", and regarded it as a means to save the famine, because in this way the children of poor families could go to the rich families to eat. ”

However, life was better later, especially in Chang'an, even if the slums could be fed, so why sell children, but this human trafficking is too profitable, and there will be many people who take risks, so this extends the law.

It is okay for you to sell people, but "sloppy selling" and "plundering" are regarded as illegal acts, and "skimming" refers to buying and selling ordinary civilians or their children through various deceptive means such as threats and inducements, which is the same as human trafficking today; And "plundering" is what we usually call kidnapping, plundering the population, changing hands and then selling, and the nature of this criminal act is even more serious.

Since ancient times, human trafficking has been a serious crime, and the laws written on paper in successive dynasties have punished "sloppy human trafficking" quite severely.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the law has clearly stated that this is a major crime, and the act of abduction and trafficking is mentioned alongside major crimes such as group robbery, theft and killing of people, and theft of graves, and is punishable by stumbling (beheading and splitting the body). The legislation of later dynasties basically followed these provisions, but the severity of the punishment varied.

Among them, the legislation of the Tang Dynasty was the most severe, and during the Li Shimin period, there were special human traffickers, that is, flower auctioneers, who even established a lot of industry rules.

is that the interests in it are too great, which makes Li Shimin a headache.

Therefore, unlike the modern law on human traffickers, which is very light, the law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates: "Those who are slightly sold as slaves and maids shall be hanged; For those who are tribal, flow three thousand miles; and three years' imprisonment for those who are wives and concubines. ”

To hang you is to hang you... Not only is you guilty of selling, but you are also guilty of buying, which is called the same crime in Tang law.

I feel that this is a very human law, there is no killing without buying and selling, and abducting and selling children is harmful, not only for sale, but also for bought, so there is nothing wrong with the same sin.

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"It's really bad luck today... I dragged that little girl's hand, if it wasn't for the girl who suddenly popped out, we would have been rich, and that person said he would give a hundred times. ”

In the dark room, an oil lamp flickered.

There were a few jars of rice wine on the table in the room, and some food, and one of the small-eyed men took a bite of a duck leg and said regretfully.

"yes... It's really unlucky, a hundred guan just ran away like this, if this little girl can be arrested, the brothers can at least get twenty each. The other person also regretted it.

"I remember the girl who popped up... Don't let me see it in Chang'an next time, or I will definitely sell her to Pingkangfang, that kind of goods, I think it should be worth a hundred yuan. ”

"Yes . . . Right... Right... That girl is very beautiful, next time we will catch this girl and sell it to Pingkangfang. ”

After all... The five men clinked glasses again, and then showed a comfortable smile, as if it was okay to snatch the child at noon today, but what the five men would never have dreamed of was when the five of them were full of food and drink.

The door to their house was kicked open with a 'bang'.

"Who...!" The eldest of the five snorted very refreshedly.

Then a panting young man, dressed in sackcloth, looked at the five people and said anxiously: "Oh no, boss, we have been blocked by officers and soldiers here, saying that we are looking for flowers."

There are already ruffians with officers and soldiers. ”

"What...!" The five patters immediately sobered up more than half of the wine.

"How can there be officers and soldiers who come to look for Huazi?" The five patted flowers panicked, and followed one of them to shoot flowers: "Then let's hurry up, it's a big deal to change places." ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, the young man said again: "I can't go, this time the officers and soldiers don't know what the situation is, and they have been surrounding the nine squares, and they don't want to escape anywhere." ”

"Uh... How could it be so strict this time? It can't be because of what we did at noon, right? The small slap of the flower in the eyes showed a frightened expression.

"No... We've already checked that little girl, isn't that the sister of the soap shop? ”

"yes... I went to check, their home is still outside the city, they have no background, how can they attract so many officers and soldiers? ”

The five patters were completely panicked, they didn't expect that there would be such a situation as now, and they had also caught patting the flowers in the past, but at that time, it was basically almost enough to close a workshop.

As long as you escape from this workshop and go to other workshops, you can easily escape.

But this time it was extremely weird, Jiufang was sealed, could it be that bastard kidnapped the princess, if he didn't kidnap the princess, how could there be such a thing, thinking of this, the five bosses who patted the flowers were also bitter.

However, fortunately, he has another trick in addition to the three holes of the cunning rabbit, that is, he still hides this hole in the house, and now in this situation, there is no way to escape outside, so he can only hide in the hole.

Then he gave the boy some money, and then explained to the boy that he would come every other day to deliver food, and by the way, he inquired about the news outside, and the head of the flower was still very smart, and he thought that such a blockade would not last more than three days.

After the young man saw the money, he also smiled, nodded again and again, and said that he promised to deliver food on time, and followed the five flower children to hide in the hole, and they successfully escaped the first round of arrest because of this.

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