Zong Yi is Zhao Nan's eldest brother, and he can't do the slave trade with the Zong family's capital alone, at least it is impossible to get a piece of the pie from this gluttonous feast. He came to Temasek with the bulk of his capital coming from his brother-in-law.

Therefore, among the entourage behind him, there are inevitably Zhao Nan's people.

The leader is a man less than thirty years old, with thick eyebrows and small eyes, a high nose and a round face, and two big mustaches. He is a confidant of Zhao Yu's disciple, and his status seems to be equivalent to the previous Han Gong.

This person also has the surname Han, and his single name is a Cantonese character.

There is also a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young servant behind Han Guang, named Huang San, not another person, it is his long-term entourage, a little servant from the palace.

At this time, Huang Sanyi was playing a fan for Han Guang, and said with a smile: "Han Guanren, this Temasek has just suffered a disaster, and people are panicking, is there really any business to do?" Don't come for nothing. ”

It is true that Zong Yi is the eldest brother of the county king, but the friendship between the two sides is really not too close. The main thing is that Zong Yi is not Zong Ying, he is just a very ordinary country gentry. This kind of business of letting the eldest brother come to Zhang Luo at his own expense, it is the same as human affection, and the miscarriage will be thin once.

Han Guang smiled: "What's the point of coming for nothing? It would be a pity if you missed the opportunity to make a fortune. Besides, this is Temasek! ”

There are some things that Huang San doesn't understand, but Han Guang does.

Temasek is nominally the property of the King of Yue, but in fact it is controlled by the imperial court. This place is in the hinterland of the South Seas, and it can control the sea traffic, in his opinion, the official family will definitely not make any more moves.

In the future, King Yue, King Yun and so on have come to Nanyang to build a country and seal the territory, and it may be an important stronghold for the imperial court to balance overseas vassal states!

The little guy didn't say a word.

"By the way, Huang San, how did you learn the Nanyang vernacular?"

There is already a Tongwen Museum in China. This Nanyang vernacular, that is, the ancient Malay language mixed with a lot of Sanskrit words, of course, there are also people who preach.

This language is not the native language of the indigenous people of Nanyang, but it is a widely used commercial language in Nanyang.

After all, they have had close contacts with Tianzhu for a long time.

"Mr. Wechaye said that I am very talented in languages, I am a good learner and fluent. It is completely possible to communicate with the natives smoothly. ”

Wechaye was a failed Sriwijaya in business, but he was gifted with languages, proficient in Chinese, and able to write a decent hand of Chinese characters. When the business failed, he was promoted to the Tongwen Museum by the director of the city of Mingzhou, and while teaching with classes, he also participated in the compilation of the history of the Three Buddhas.

After Zhao Yang had the intention to mix in Temasek, he invited Wei Chaye to teach a group of young people selected in the house, and now this Huang San is the best person in the house.

Han Guang nodded: "That's good, when this business is opened, your Nanyang dialect will come in handy." ”

Compared with other brothers, Zhao Nan has a light weight and a small capital, and the only way to avoid being thrown off three streets is to seize the lead. Before anyone else has reached the Temasek slave market, go ahead and get a head start.

That's why Zong Yi came so fast.

However, although this slave collection has been rapidly developed in the country, there is still no conclusive account of the extremely important 'process' of how slaves evolved into free people.

Zhao Gou watched coldly, and the government and the opposition discussed in unison, and the gossip failed to make a charter at all. But this is just a process, and things have to come to a conclusion after all.

After all, the old beauty of the original time and space all had an 'upward channel' for black slaves, how could the Great Song Dynasty not have it?

When the Beacon Kingdom fought the Great War, not to mention the North, there were a large number of black freedmen in the southern provinces. It is said that about 20 percent of all free black families were still black slave owners, or mixed-race slave owners. They were a social class between whites and slaves. They would also be troubled by the escape of slaves, and even more cruel and harsh with slaves.

Although Zhao Gou didn't know if this was true or not, he thought it was true, even if there were a lot of errors in the data. After all, "Twelve Years a Slave" or something, he still has a little impression.

And he remembered that the patriarch (matrilineal) of Naoba Hei was said to be the first black slave in the United States, and after intermarriage with white people, his descendants had the status of free people.

His attitude directly affected the enthusiasm of everyone, and after getting Zhao Gou's affirmation, the government and the opposition all started to talk about it. The debates in the newspapers, the letters of the ministers, and the disputes and discussions on the streets of the market are really lively.

Some people in the court apply the historical slavery system to the current slaves, as long as they can buy out the deed of life (or get the deed of life in other ways, such as the master taking the initiative to release the slave), they can restore their free body.

As soon as this idea was proposed, it was immediately sprayed black by many people. The Fanzi of Hengshan, the barbarians of Jinghu and Lingnan, and the wild people in the deep mountains and dense forests of the Northeast all need to work hard for the Great Song Dynasty, and under this premise, only those who are outstanding can be changed to Han nationality. How can slaves be so easy to become Chinese?

If so, some people mentioned Tianzhu and mentioned Tianzhu's caste system. It is recommended to learn from the third brother's marriage system!

According to the system of the three brothers, if a low-caste person wants to be promoted to the class, he must marry a beautiful girl to a high-caste man as a concubine, and also bring a large amount of money as a dowry.

For several generations, such a low-caste family could be promoted.

This may sound like a good idea at first glance, but when you think about it, it still doesn't work.

Because the slaves here in the Great Song Dynasty are different from the low-caste people in Tianzhu. The latter has a certain sense of freedom of life, is part of the social environment of Tianzhu Continent, and is a separate individual. And what about the slaves of the Great Song Dynasty? It's more like the Black Shu Li that was sold to the Americas in the original plane.

Whether it is the freedom of life or the means of production that belong to themselves, they have none of them.

Perhaps after a period of evolution, slave owners will require slaves to combine work and rest, be healthy, work well, hello, hello, everyone. Slaves could work during their breaks to earn money for later redemption, and the slave owners would promise and ensure the safety of the slaves' property, because the money could be used to buy a young slave......

But that's by no means now.

And this is also the biggest difference between them and the slaves of the Han and Tang dynasties.

The happier they discussed, the greater the momentum, the more the meaning of the word "slave" could be invented and explained to the people all over the world, and the importance of the lord of the people could be popularized again.

That's all about "profit". Every hair smells of money......