The slave trade in the Tang Dynasty was all in the cattle and horse market, but the slave trade was more profitable than the cattle and horse trade. The Tang people have a great demand for slaves, especially in a capital city like Chang'an, but anyone who has a little family business must have slaves and maids at home.

Slavery and slavery, this is a way of life of the Tang people.

There were even various classifications of slaves of the Tang people, some specialized in serving, and some specialized in production.

Slaves and maids are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the prices of slaves are different according to the needs of the market, some of the valuable slaves are as valuable as BMWs, while some of the old and weak slaves are surprisingly cheap. In general, slaves with skill, or with grace, or strong and powerful slaves are more valuable. And some young slaves with good conditions are also more popular.

Slavery was cruel and treated people like cattle and horses.

As the most powerful and open dynasty in ancient Chinese history, the Tang Dynasty was also the dynasty with the most animal slaves, and I have to say that it is also somewhat related.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this is the law of the jungle of red fruit, the law of the jungle. The Tang people are martial, just like lions and tigers, they eat meat.

No one thinks that there is anything wrong with owning slaves, in everyone's cognition, people are never born fair, and they are born with three, six, nine, and so on. If you are born in the emperor's family, you will be born as a king, and if you are born in the family of a prince, you will definitely be able to be shadowed into the government as an official in the future, and if you are born in a slave family, you can only be a lowly slave and maid when you are young.

The slaves of the Tang people came from a variety of sources, including defeated enemy captives, rebellious soldiers, criminal officials' families, and foreigners who were trafficked.

Even in Lingnan, southwest and other places, there are many Han people who like to do the most, which is to catch the southwest barbarians as slaves and sell them to the Central Plains. For example, the Feng family, who had been the emperor of the soil in Lingnan for several generations, although they were Han Chinese, they married with the Slang people to form a powerful local powerful force, and they liked to attack some disobedient small Slang tribes, and after defeat, they sold everyone else into slavery.

When it was about to dawn, Zhao Zhiman came back.

The squad that had set out came back intact, rowing only three small boats when they went, and returning with a dozen boats, and when the boats docked, they found that the cabin was full of trophies.

"Looks like you've gained a lot?" Li Xiao stepped forward with a smile.

Zhao Zhiman was also very excited, "We ransacked three fishing villages along the way, and one of them was not small, so the harvest was okay." ”

He's okay, in fact, it's already very modest.

After some counting, Zhao Zhiman robbed thirteen of the bare boats, some large and some small, including ten fishing boats, and three merchant ships, the fishing boats are not big, but the merchant ships are not small, this is the Goguryeo people's own merchant ships. When he returned to Pyongyang from Baekje, he was led by Zhao Jiman when he was resting and replenishing supplies in a fishing village at the mouth of the Hunjiang River.

More than 300 captives were captured, all young women.

"There were a lot of arresters, and I couldn't bring too many, so I only kept the young woman. Although these women were Goguryeo women, they were sent back to the Central Plains and could be sold as Silla maidservants, and they could be sold for a good price. ”

Silla maid is a very popular slave brand in the Tang Dynasty, more popular than the Filipino maids in later generations, and the rich and noble families in Chang'an City all have a face for owning Silla maids.

It is said that a good Silla maid can be sold for 40,000 to 50,000 yuan for more than a horse. And an ordinary Lingnan barbarian slave is only worth less than 10,000 yuan, and this has to be a young and strong young male slave.

Compare the two and you will know the gap.

Zhao Zhiman used to have a lot of Silla maids and Kunlun slaves in his family, so he was very clear about these. When he set out, he only had a reconnaissance team of 50 people, and he couldn't take too many prisoners, so he simply left only the young Goguryeo women, and the rest of the old and weak and men were not brought.

More than 300 young female slaves, even if they are fake Silla maids, but under simple packaging, they can be sold for at least 20,000 yuan each, and even if a reserve price of 20 yuan, 300 can be sold for 6,000 yuan.

In just one night's work, a reconnaissance team of 50 people reaped 6,000 yuan worth of booty, no wonder it was a huge profit.

In addition to these Goguryeo women, Zhao Zhiman also brought back a lot of booty, including cloth and copper coins seized from the sacking of the village, as well as the full load of goods on the three merchant ships, as well as some gold and silver.

"Those fishing villages are quite poor, except for the tattered houses, that is, some livestock, except for some tattered clothes, only a little cloth or a few copper coins, nothing of value."

Li Xiao thought it was normal, the Goguryeo people could not be richer than the Tang people, after all, these were only a few small fishing villages, and the fishermen had always been poorer than the people who farmed the land.

A poor fisherman's family, in addition to a fishing boat, is estimated to be only a few fishing nets, right?

They don't even have an iron pot at home, so how can they have gold and silver?

Zhao Zhiman came back with some dried fish.

In comparison, it is the population that is valuable.

"Second brother, do you think this trip is going well? I had a preliminary idea of staying here for a while, and letting our men take a boat to plunder and loot along the coast. ”

Li Xiao planned to use the kind of routine of the Japanese to raid and plunder along the coast by boat, and raid some small villages and small markets instead of attacking big cities, and those Goguryeo people were also poor.

"As long as the population is not to be old, but to be sick and old, all boys and girls are all wanted."

Goguryeo women were sent back to sell as Silla maids, and Goguryeo men could also be sold as strong laborers.

After all, the means of communication are backward in these years, and Li Xiao has a ship, and he can raid villages and market towns along the coast, so he can do a good job. Before the Goguryeo people reacted, they had enough time to do a few big votes.

Zhao Zhiman didn't think it was bad to rob people, he had robbed more than 300 people on this trip. He not only robbed people but also killed people, attacked three village markets, and killed the rest except for the more than 300 women he brought back.

He didn't think it was wrong to kill people, anyway, he killed people from enemy countries.

It's better to kill it than to let it go.

I think that at the beginning, the Sui and Tang dynasties conquered Liaodong several times, and I don't know how many Central Plains men died in Goguryeo, let alone the hundreds of years since the establishment of the state of Goguryeo, from the annexation of the four counties of the Han Dynasty to the invasion of both sides of the Liao River, I don't know how many Han people have been killed.

"If only there were more people." Zhao Zhiman lamented that the Goguryeo people were completely defenseless, and it was too easy to rob, but unfortunately there were not many people and they couldn't grab it, and he felt very disappointed when he saw so many Goguryeo people waiting to grab it but couldn't grab it.

Li Xiao smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this, you brought back more than 300 Goguryeo female slaves today, and the people on those two boats don't know how envious they are, we don't mention it, they probably want to follow suit." ”

Watching others make a lot of money easily, who doesn't envy it.

Sure enough, more than 300 Goguryeo slave girls came to the island, and Xue Chengliu, Liu Cuilu, and many other representatives on the Chengfeng and Breaking Waves came to the door.

They also want to go ashore.

"Yes." Li Xiao agreed, "But I have one condition, I have to act in unison and obey the command." You can't just swarm like a swarm, otherwise something goes wrong and someone loses their lives, and it's not worth it. ”

Unified action, unified command, and even the final unified distribution of the loot grabbed, this is Li Xiao's condition. They promised, Li Xiao took them to play, if they didn't agree, Li Xiao didn't care about them, how they liked to play was their own business, and Li Xiao didn't care if something happened to them.

Although there are nearly a thousand people in each family, there are not many real guards with knives, and they are still counting on Zhao Zhiman, a ruthless man, to lead the team, so they naturally agreed.

So in the end, Li Xiao and Zhao Zhiman counted and sorted out the people on the three boats, and finally formed a team of 800 people, divided into a group of 200 people.

Originally, it was going to be a thousand, or a thousand two, but in the end, Li Xiao still felt that it was not good to have too many people, and it was not much more expensive, eight hundred people and four regiments, one regiment stayed behind as a reserve to support at any time, and the remaining three regiments were divided into three ways just right.

Li Xiao personally sat on the island to stay, while Zhao Zhiman led 200 people as the middle road, and Xue Cheng and Xue Cheng each chose a guard captain as the head of the regiment to lead the left and right roads.

"Don't think about making big things, only raid villages and market towns along the coast, if there is a city defense, don't storm it, and after you succeed, you must withdraw quickly, and you must not stay or delay."

A regiment of four teams, a team of fifty people, organized these guards according to the organizational form of the government soldiers.

In order to make these people braver, Li Xiao also made an agreement to share the spoils early.

Each family divided the spoils according to the hands of the people, and all the spoils were returned to the public first, and then 30% was taken out as a reward for those slave hunters, and the remaining 70% was distributed to each family according to the agreed proportion.

This article was agreed upon.

Li Xiao also agreed with everyone that if there is a disability in action, they will receive a standard bereavement allowance. For example, if you are dead, you will be given a hundred pensions. If it is injured, it will be subsidized according to the severity of the injury.

In short, everyone can rest assured to grab it, and there is no need to worry about it.

Even these people who stay on the island will still have a share of profits, but they will definitely not have as many people as those who go to war.

"Development and seizure must be returned to the public, and actions must be under command, if anyone dares to act privately without obeying the command and hiding the spoils of war privately, don't blame me for being unkind at that time."

On the ships of Xue Cheng's two families, there are a total of thirteen people from the noble family, and these families are all ranked first in Chang'an City, but this time they have few people, and Li Xiao's family has 800 people, even if they only occupy 400 of the 800 people in the four regiments in action, they account for half of them.

The more people there are, the greater the right to speak.

Li Xiaoke doesn't care what kind of Jingzhao Du clan or Hedong Xue clan they are, or Qinghe Cui clan or something, since you want to play with me, you have to follow my rules.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let me repeat again, this is a battlefield, you are going to fight, don't be a child's play!"

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