"Go in yourself?" Sima Yuyi was stunned.

"My king, as the king of a country, how noble your status is, why do you go to the places where these people are?"

Wang Guo waved his hand and said, "The private visit of the widow is to observe the people's feelings. At this point, if you don't even go in, won't there be no one who has nothing to talk about and no determination to act? ”

Sima Wanyi had to obey the order and led a few people to accompany Wang Guo.

As soon as I walked in, I heard someone in charge shouting, "Hey, who's who?" ”

"Let's buy some slaves." Sima Wanyi said vaguely.

In this day and age, these slaves are like commodities and can be bought and sold freely. He came in to pick and choose, which can well cover up the real purpose of Wang Guo's group.

Although he is a eunuch, after all, he is older, he can hear a lot, and he knows stupidity.

It's a little weird to be in charge. Because there is no shortage of slave markets in Yong'an City, why do you have to come to their countryside to buy a slave?

But these transactions are also common, so they didn't continue to stop them. just found a subordinate and said in a low voice: "Go and invite the second son." ”

……

Wang Guo and a group of people easily passed the interrogation of the steward and officially walked into the village.

Wang Guo couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Father-in-law Sima, I didn't expect you to be quite good." ”

Although Wang Guo can also come up with a way to come to the village by going past this steward, it is estimated that he can't come out like Sima Wanyi, so he can easily come in.

Sima Yuyi smiled, and his praise for the king seemed very useful.

But he thought so, and he couldn't bring it out on the surface, so he just smiled with a smile on his face, bowed slightly, and said, "Where will the old slave?" This is all the good education of the king. ”

Wang Guo: ???

Isn't it, why does this thing have anything to do with the widow again?

Why do you want to praise the widow with sincerity and sincerity, and you have to praise the widow with false feelings?

Wang Guo couldn't figure it out.

Anyway, he didn't know why, he always felt that no matter what he ordered, Sima Wanyi would be able to find a very appropriate angle to blow a wave of his own credit......

Hey, forget it. Let's go find the runaway slave.

Perhaps only this kind of person who is obsessed with the demeanor of a great country will disdain the widow.

……

Wang Guo took Sima Yuyi and continued to walk towards the village.

Although, according to Yasuko, she has not yet reached the place where the slave lived and worked. But the more he walked now, the more shocking he felt when he looked at the slaves around him.

Now this is the season when the autumn harvest is completed, and the slave owners have to collect the stored grain.

This time is not the kind of time that can be harvested in one afternoon, but it will last for more than a month.

Because all of these slave owners had big families, the collection of grain became a huge project.

In addition to the abundance of grain, different grains have different processing processes, including drying, sorting, and warehouse collection, so the whole process requires a period of busyness.

These slaves are doing exactly this kind of work today.

"Father-in-law Sima, why do these slaves look so thin and thin? The sacks of grain they carried were taller than their height. Wang Guo looked at a panting slave walking by and couldn't help asking.

Really, if Wang Guo hadn't taken a closer look and saw a rao under the grain, he really felt that it was a big bag of grain walking by himself......

There is a feeling of entering the human country, and their group of people is generally more than one head taller than these slaves.

"There's no way, they have been working in the slave owner's house since they started, and they usually don't have enough to eat, so their bodies can't grow at all, and they are naturally thin and thin." Sima Wanyi sighed and continued, "It's better in normal times, but this year, before catching up with the Qi State, I fought with the Lu State, and I collected a lot of extra taxes. The slave owners would not pay this money themselves, so they naturally deducted it from the slaves' rations. ”

"Later, the Qi State fought with us again, although they did not collect grain, but delayed the process of collecting their grain, so the slave owners asked the slaves to work twice as hard and get back the time wasted."

Sima Wanyi finally came to a summary: "In short, at this time of this year, they eat the least, and the workload is greater than usual, so they are basically all, and the bag of food is bigger than their own." ”

Wang Guo is a relative in his heart. Looking around, you can see some well-dressed people everywhere, with whips in their hands, and they can't stop scolding. Apparently the overseer here.

Needless to say, this is to prevent those slaves from slacking off or stealing food to eat.

Wang Guo had no doubt that if they dared to steal a grain of grain in the course of their work, the overseers would be able to beat the slave to death.

These slaves deal with food on a daily basis, but they are always in a state of lack of food...

It has to be a kind of irony.

But Wang Guo still had a doubt. "The slaves didn't have enough to eat, and they had to do such a heavy job. Aren't these lords afraid that their slaves will get sick or die? In the long run, it won't be a good deal. ”

Sima Yiyi smiled and said, "My king, you are not among them, not counting the price." How much does it cost to buy a slave these days? If you are sick and die, just throw it away. If you eat and drink enough to entertain for a few years, I am afraid that the money for food will be more expensive than the money for buying slaves. ”

Wang Guo sighed, with some pity.

Also, when a thing is reduced to a commodity, it is only cost-effective to make the best use of the thing and buy and sell.

Although he knew that these were just in-game data, he felt very cruel when he saw it with his own eyes. Even more cruel than the previous counterattack of the Sea Kingdom in Pingcheng, it was a silent bloodshed.

Wang Guo asked: "Father-in-law Sima, is the widowed territory also like this?" ”

"My king treats people leniently, and the slaves of the royal family will naturally not be so miserable, at least they can have enough food and clothing." Sima Wanyi replied.

Seeing that Wang Guo's heart was a little unhappy, Sima Wanyi continued to comfort: "My king, in today's troubled times, everyone is doing this. If it is a time of war, it is normal to eat and eat, and there is not much else to take care of. ”

Wang Guo nodded and said, "Hmm." Let's get in there quickly and find the slave. ”

Indeed, the competition among nations is to see who consumes less and who can develop. So slaves are naturally the best victims.

Now that I think about it, if I can appoint this fugitive slave as a big official, in addition to helping Wang survive the country, it seems that I can also put the lowest position in this society a little too high?