The slave trade is a lucrative business, and for those who do it, there is a lot of money to be made.

For those who used these slaves, this solved a huge problem, such as Ganqi, he wanted to develop Quanzhou, and he even wanted to develop Quanzhou into his future base camp, whether it was fighting wars or making money to develop the economy in the future, Quanzhou would be his base camp.

To develop the productive forces, it is necessary to have a huge labor force, and the local population of Quanzhou is obviously not enough, but Quanzhou is an isolated place surrounded by lofty mountains and mountains, where does the huge labor gap come from? Slavery is the quick fix.

After that night's customs, everything became extremely smooth, fifty or sixty large and small ships were prepared in a few days, and Gan Ba took hundreds of ironclad soldiers on board and went down to the South Seas.

It's the annual Chinese New Year's Eve again, and Quanzhou in this season has no cold, and there is no need for any thick clothes, which is also a long insight for northerners like Zhou Dong.

The locals of Quanzhou have never seen snow in their lives, and they don't know what the snow looks like. This also made Zhou Tong amazed.

At this time, Bianliang City should be very lively, and when the fifteenth yuan festival of the first lunar month arrives, it is a carnival of more than one million people.

Here in Quanzhou, the atmosphere is obviously much worse, and it cannot be compared with Bianliang. It's not that Quanzhou people don't pay attention to the New Year and New Year's Eve, but because Bianliang is too prosperous, too many laborers, too many middle class and upper class, so that the whole city can carnival and enjoy.

A measure of the degree of social progress is how many people in the society are real manual workers, and the fewer manual workers, the more developed the society, which is a common measurement method in ancient and modern times. Just like the large-scale urbanization process in later generations, more and more people are separated from basic manual labor, that is, the society is becoming more and more developed.

During the Chinese New Year, the landlords began to collect rents and force debts, and even if the poor borrowed usury, they had to repay the rent they owed, and in the coming year, they might have to borrow money to go to spring ploughing, and when the grain was harvested, they would repay the debts again.

Such a cycle, even such a vicious circle, was prevalent in the Great Song Dynasty. This is also the reason why when Wang Anshi changed the law, he specifically stipulated that the government yamen should issue low-interest loans to ordinary people. So that the people will not fall into a kind of usury cycle, and then sell their sons and daughters, or rise up.

But Wang Anshi's method actually didn't really solve the problem. The government's yamen lending money to the people is not an easy thing to implement, nor is it a thing that conforms to the laws of the market. This brings to mind the importance of professional financial institutions.

But to solve this problem, it is not possible to solve it with low-interest loans. Increasing people's incomes is the most fundamental way.

The Great Song Dynasty really had many characteristics of capitalist society. The rich are too rich to spend a lot of money. The poor are too poor to be any different from the poor of previous dynasties, and many people still eat in other people's acres and thirds of land.

It seems that the society has developed greatly, the society is extremely rich, and those rich and noble families are constantly concentrating capital, such as the annexation of land, such as the exploitation of the output of laborers in the prosperous commercial trade of the Song Dynasty.

For the poor who have land, the land will be remembered. The landless poor rented the land of a large family and used up all their physical strength for a year to barely feed a few members of the family.

Originally, Gan Qi only knew these things, what appeared in the book, and listened to what others said. Today's Ganqi is truly vivid and vivid, and I can see it with my own eyes.

At the end of the year, the human trafficking reaches its climax. The Song Dynasty had regulations on private slavery, which on the surface seemed to abolish private slavery and changed it to an employment relationship, that is, selling oneself into slavery and signing an employment contract with someone else. This contract can be terminated, for example, when the contract time is up, it will be terminated.

This is progress. But in fact, this is not a big improvement, but it is just a change of name. The deed of sale becomes a deed of employment, which is not much different at all, and the deed is protected by law.

The master still has the right to dispose of the so-called hired slaves, saying that he will send you to whomever he wants. Su Shi is like this, and so is Pan Jinlian in Li.

The word "selling the head" means to put a mark on the body and sell one's life.

On the streets of Quanzhou City, there were suddenly many people who sold their heads, mostly children, as long as they were girls. There are many rich and noble families in the city, and selling children is not necessarily the cruelty of the parents. More of the idea is to sell the child to a rich family, have a full meal, have a warm clothes, and grow up healthy. Even the leftovers of the rich and noble are much more hearty and delicious than the meals of the poor.

Thinking about it this way, the act of selling children in ancient times is not necessarily so despicable. There are also some helpless and sad touches.

Parents take the money from selling their children to spend a year, and if the children are beautiful and the price is high, they may be able to buy one or two acres of land.

But there are still sad things, if the master sells the child to a place like the Qinglou, it can't be helped, as a parent, I only hope that the master's family can be bodhisattva. As the owner's family, as long as the child is sensible and does not make mistakes, he will generally not sell people to the tooth shop or the green house.

But I can't stand the people who specialize in this business, so I look everywhere on the street, specially pick some beautiful little girls, buy them and send them directly to the Qinglou or the tooth shop.

If you have rich relatives, or have relatives who work as housekeepers in rich and noble homes, most of them will be sent directly to avoid being deceived.

Most of the maids that Gan Qi bought back from the tooth shop came from here.

This is the real social reality of the Great Song Dynasty.

Gan Qi really didn't see these naked realities at the bottom before, but now as long as he goes out, he is everywhere.

For ancient society, you really can't have too many good feelings. People eat people, it's not fake at all.

There is a huge difference between the year in Bianliang City and the year in Quanzhou City. It is no wonder that the emperor in Bianliang City will always feel that the people of this country are living and working in peace and contentment, and until the death of Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, he still feels that his country is prosperous.

It's the New Year, and the family banquet in the state government is also extremely rich, and Chunxi also bought some little girls and little maids on the street this year.

A large group of men who followed Gan Qi from Bianliang were all in the banquet, and there were enough people to serve.

Tonight is not drunk, they are all strangers, they will be homesick, get together, and only get drunk to rest.

At the table, Zhou Tong also said: "It's a pity this year, if it was in the past, the eldest brother was in Tokyo, and it should be a scene where talented people from all over the world came to worship, if the eldest brother filled in another word or something, it would definitely be popular in Bianliang City again." ”

Zhou Tong is also nostalgic for the days of Bianliang City.

Gan Qi waved his hand and smiled: "That's fine, it saves the trouble of socializing." ”

Zhou Tong said again: "Big brother, I don't know how many Oiran buildings are thinking about you." ”

Gan Qi smiled, without Gan Qi and Su Shi's Bianliang, this New Year's Festival would probably be much worse in taste, but there is also a fledgling Yan in the Beijing Happy Field, which is good, but his reputation has been ruined a lot by Gan Qi.

There is no scene in the capital, Gan Qi is not shabby here, there are still countless prayer posts, and the Pu family invited Gan Qi to go to the New Year's dinner on the second day of the Lunar New Year. The circle of literati in Quanzhou is not small, and those scholars who want to enter Beijing to take the exam also want to enter Quanzhou to raise their children, and naturally they also have to tie up with Gan Qi, the chief official, and they need Gan Qi to order one, two, or three when they take the exam.

Poetry clubs and the like are indispensable, and Gan Qi, a parent official, is indispensable.

You have to go to what you should go, you have to eat the Pu family's New Year's dinner, you have to eat the Cai family's New Year's dinner, you have to go and show your face if you have a poetry meeting or something.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Gan Qi cleaned himself up and went to Pu's house for New Year's dinner.

Chunxi waited for Ganqi, and before Ganqi went out, he also helped Ganqi pull the top and bottom of his clothes to make them straight and wrinkle-free.

After Gan Qi went out and left, Chunxi's expression was a little unsightly.

Back in the room, Chunxi pouted and said to Zhang Shuyuan: "I must have gone to that Hufan fox spirit again." ”

Zhang Shuyuan smiled slightly: "What? I'm not angry, but you're angry? ”

"Sister, I'm angry for you, what's so good about the Hu Fan woman? Every time an official comes back from the countryside, he has to go there...... "This thing can't be hidden after all."

"It's not that I won't come back." Zhang Shuyuan said with a smile.

"When I return to Beijing, I will definitely go and tell the master mother, and I will also tell Mrs. Qiao that the official is fascinated by a fox spirit." Chunxi's temperament is a bit big.

"Don't make a mess, the housewife is fine, Mrs. Qiao can't afford to mess with her, she will definitely be a chicken and a dog when the time comes, and the officials will turn their heads and blame you. You just think that the official has raised an outer room, where is there no such thing? Zhang Shuyuan, who was born in Qinglou, even if she has something in her heart, she also knows how to face it.

But the little girl Chunxi is not so mature, and she still has the temperament of a child, so she said unrelentingly: "Sister, in the past, in the building, I listened to others, only heard the newcomer laugh, and didn't ask the old person to cry." The official may forget about his sister at some point. ”

"Nonsense, every time the officials come back, they spend the night there at most, and they are not in the yamen at other times?" Zhang Shuyuan is trying to stop Chunxi from talking nonsense. After looking at Chunxi, Zhang Shuyuan immediately smiled again: "Giggles...... Is that the way it is? also kept saying that it was for my sister, but the original way was that you couldn't be angry. The angry officials ignored a good girl like you at home, and went outside...... Haha......"

Chunxi seemed to be in her mind, and her ears turned red, and she hurriedly retorted: "Sister is talking nonsense, I'm all angry for my sister......"

"Haha...... Okay, when the official comes back tomorrow, my sister will tell the official at night, saying that spring is happy and spring, and I want the official to have mercy. Zhang Shuyuan was smiling.

"I ...... I...... Sister...... I don't know the hearts of good people, huh! With that, the little girl turned and ran.

Gan Qi didn't know these at home, and he didn't know that there was a little girl who wanted to be loved by Sichun, and after eating the Pu family, the spring breeze overnight, and then the Cai family.

On the banquet of the Cai family this year, there is a new face, a thirteen or fourteen-year-old half-grown child, dressed in a blue Confucian shirt, and still has clear eyebrows.

Cai Huangyi also had an embarrassed expression, brought the young man to Gan Qi, and introduced: "Xianggong, this son is a distant relative of my Cai family, a native of Xianyou County, Xinghua Army, named Cai Jing, thirteen years old this year, quite literate, and has practiced a good handwriting. ”

After saying these words, Cai Huangyi turned his head and said to the young Cai Jing: "Don't hurry up and meet Xianggong." ”

The young man Cai Jing hurriedly bowed and saluted: "Student Cai Jing, meet Gan Xianggong Wan'an." ”

Cai Huangyi on the side actually had embarrassment and embarrassment on his face, he was unwilling to do this kind of thing, but there was no way.

The Xinghua Army is actually Putian, next door to Quanzhou, and the road is not far, one or two hundred miles away. The Cai family in Quanzhou and the Cai family in Putian are still related to each other above the clan. But the previous Putian Cai family was richer than the Quanzhou Cai family, and every year during the Chinese New Year, Cai Huangyi took his son to Putian to visit relatives, give some gifts and the like, and also received a lot of help from the Putian Cai family.

Now ten years in Hedong and ten years in Hexi, the Cai family in Quanzhou has been mixed, and the family is not only out of Jinshi, but also has a great relationship with Zhizhou. This year, the Putian Cai family took the initiative to go to the Cai family in Quanzhou to visit relatives, of course, there is also a request for Cai Huangyi.

Cai Huangyi had received a lot of help from others in the past, so he couldn't refuse, so he had to recommend it to Gan Qi.

Even if there is no Ganqi, Cai Jing will go to the capital to seek refuge with Cai Qu in the future.

To say that Cai Jing is a famous person in history, one of the six thieves in the late Northern Song Dynasty. The real court boss, one person and a scholar, a scholar and a servant, a scholar and a servant, a servant under the door, the three provinces are under his control, and the real hand of Huizong covers the sky. It is also one of the four major calligraphers of the Northern Song Dynasty, Su Huang Mi Cai, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fu, and the last one is Cai Jing.

It was only later that Cai Jing was saddled with the name of the Six Thieves because of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, so the world changed this Cai to Cai Xiang. Cai Xiang is dozens of years older than Cai Jing, and is now serving as the prefect of Hangzhou. Cai Xiang is also the Putian Cai family, which is why the Putian Cai family mixes better than the Quanzhou Cai family. It's just that Cai Xiang will die in a few years, and when Cai Jing comes out to mix, he will have to take refuge in Cai Qu.

If you want to say that Cai Jing in history, corruption is really serious, and one of the six thieves is not a lie, but a real person who has brought disaster to the country and the people. But the ability is also really there, at least the ability to whitewash the peace is unmatched, the means of forming a party for personal gain are also extremely high, and the level of fooling the emperor is also extremely high.

This clear-eyed teenager turned out to be Cai Jing? Gan Qi really looked up and down solemnly, and then spoke: "There is a Yuanxi poetry meeting in Quanzhou this year, you can go and see it." ”

Gan Qi didn't say anything, only said this sentence.

But Cai Jing was already overjoyed, and bowed again and again: "The student must behave well." ”

Gan Qi waved his hand: "Sit down on the side and eat wine first." ”

Cai Huangyi completed the task and returned the favor of the Cai family in Putian, Gan Qi did not show any unhappiness, his mind also settled down, and he began to pour wine for Gan Qi himself.

The Cai family's New Year's dinner was over, and within a few days, the poetry meeting in Quanzhou began again.

Gan Qi naturally wanted to go, and there were countless young scholars in the audience, all of whom were full of strength to shine in front of Gan Qi.

There are countless poems and articles, but Gan Qi can't look at any of them, but he still nods his head and smiles, this is good, that is good, but it is also tormenting.

It's also that Gan Qi's vision is too high, and now Gan Qi is sleek, but it can't be said to be sleek, it can only be said that he has a little elder mentality, and it is not necessary to fight these young scholars here in Quanzhou, so it's better to encourage it. So Ganchi didn't hesitate to praise him.

However, Cai Jing's poetry is really good, although it is not top-notch, but it is really the best in the audience, and Cai Jing's writing is even better, much better than Gan Qi's own words.

Such a young man, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, good literary talent, good handwriting, and extremely knowledgeable etiquette, politeness, not arrogant or impatient. No wonder Cai Jing can mix to the point of covering the sky with one hand.

Who wouldn't like such a teenager?

If you want to talk about people, can you judge right and wrong by what has not happened?

Gan Qi also fell into some thoughts.

To say that the young man Cai Jing in front of him, Gan Qi has some love for talent.

But Gan Qi couldn't help but think of the Pu family again, can it be regarded as a sin at this time after a few generations?

Thinking about it, Gan Qi is still ruthless, and this Pu family still can't be spared! It still has to be suppressed, beaten when it should be beaten, and killed when it should be killed. This Pu clan must not let them rise.

Perhaps there is a saying of the ancients that there is a certain truth, if it is not my race, its heart will be different.

But Gan Qi still had some looseness in his heart, and Gan Qi's original idea was to exterminate the Pu family, and this idea was somewhat loosened.

Thinking of this, Gan Qi was inexplicably more transparent, and raised his hand with a move: "Cai Jing, come to the end." ”

Cai Jing was excited, rushed forward, and bowed again.

"No need to be polite, today's poetry meeting, point you first."

"Xie Xianggong! Thank you! The students thanked Xianggong again. ”

Then Cai Jing turned his head and saluted, and said: "The little brother is young and shallow, he doesn't read much, he can't compare to all the talents present, today is a pure fluke, thank you for your talents, the little brother is afraid, thank you again!" ”

This young man is really a delicate character.

Gan Qi's impression of Cai Jing today is really good, and he said again: "Where did you go to school?" ”

"Back to the public talk, students learn at home."

"Come to Quanzhou, study with me for a few days first." Talents, you have to get into your own hands. No matter what kind of talent it is, Ganchi needs it. This is also Gan Qi's growing self-confidence, confident that no matter what kind of person, Gan Qi can control it.

How can a person who can cover the sky with one hand not have the ability? How can there be no extraordinary?

At this time, Cai Jing had already knelt down directly: "Xianggong's great kindness, students must remember it, and never dare to insult Xianggong's reputation!" ”

Ganchi smiled, as if enjoying the sense of control that one word could change one's fate.

The thrill of power is probably this sense of control.