After leaving the big market, Orman took him to the slave market at Li Xiang's request.

The two went to the slave trading market in the north of the city, which was the largest place in Rome specializing in the sale and exchange of slaves, and because Rome was at the end of the slave society, the sale and exchange of slaves was very active.

Li Xiang visited the slave market for the first time in his life, and when he really got closer, he felt that everything in front of him was still very different from what he once looked like.

The size of the slave market was large enough to accommodate nearly 10,000 people, and slaves of all colors were sold like commodities.

Slave traders are shouting for their slaves like shouting goods, in the hope of attracting the attention of buyers, of course, if they want to really make a business, just knowing that shouting is far from enough, the professional knowledge of the slave trade is absolutely not lacking, at least to have an accurate grasp of the breed, age, height, weight, food and skills of their own slaves, if the "homework" is not enough, if you don't know three questions, then the slave trade will become a high-risk business, Because slaves are also human beings, but human beings need to eat, drink, and Lazar, and eating and drinking Lazar cost money; In addition, due to long-term malnutrition, the slaves naturally have very poor physical fitness, and if they are not careful, they will get sick, and it costs money to treat the disease; If the disease is not cured and the slave dies, then there will be no return, so the only way is to pass on the risk and make a profit, and the only way to do it is to sell your slave to others as soon as possible.

In Rome at that time, it was the real "Iron and Blood Age", and "the barrel of the gun" was not only out of the regime, but also a large number of slaves, so the largest source of slaves at that time was prisoners of war, because, once the gates of a country were breached, it either meant a bloody massacre, and there was no one left to kill; Either the men of the city were first sold to slave traders, while the women were carefully sorted, the young and beautiful were sold to brothels, and the rest were sold to slave traders.

However, slave traders have the most headache for the purchase of prisoner of war slaves, because, under normal circumstances, downstream buyers will only be interested in young and middle-aged slaves, and avoid middle-aged and elderly slaves, but in order to protect their own interests, "suppliers" often adopt the model of "bundled sales", that is, "buy one with one", or even "buy one with two", that is, to buy a young and middle-aged slave, must buy one or more middle-aged and elderly slaves at the same time, but there are some preferential prices. Although the slave traders had a lot of opinions and felt that the "suppliers" did not follow the principles of the market economy at all, they also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak out, who allowed the "suppliers" to have a government background!

In addition to captive slaves, the second is that because of the years of war, many people have been displaced, losing their relatives, wealth and land, and in order to survive, they either fall into the grass (and becoming a grass slave also requires guts, courage and skills, not just anyone can do it), or sell themselves into slavery.

Although the price is relatively cheap, the supply of goods is really unstable, and there are often "out of stock", so some large slave traders do not count on this "channel" at all, and even less disdain to deal with the so-called "ninth-rate" traffickers.

Of course, there are also slave merchants who exchanged slaves for slaves from slave markets in various places.

***

After Li Xiang learned about the slave from Auman, he couldn't calm down for a long time, and said indignantly: "I really don't understand, slaves are also human beings, and they can tolerate others buying and selling them as commodities like cattle, horses and sheep. ”

"It has been like this for thousands of years," said Auman, "and no one has ever treated slaves as human beings. ”

"I have to change the status quo."

Orman thought for a moment and said, "'Change the status quo'? I feel like it's going to be hard. ”

"'Hard'?"

Auman nodded and said, "Because, the number of slaves in the country has reached hundreds or even tens of millions, and slaves have always been regarded as private 'property' by slave owners, and now you let the slave owners of the whole country give up their 'property' overnight?" Do you think this is possible? ”

Li Xiang nodded and said, "Your analysis is not unreasonable!" But I'd love to do something for these people who are called 'slaves'? ”

"I thought about it, maybe I should retract what I just said."

"Why? You're right! ”

Orman smiled and said, "Because you are sent by God, maybe you have the ability to change everything that is currently unfair, just like the original unfair household registration system in Rome, isn't it easy for you to change?" ”

Li Xiang thought to himself: But it's a pity! I'm just an ordinary man, and I'm not a god, 'How can a knife cut a tree?' The history books say that it is clear that the Roman Empire is a state under the dictatorship of slave owners, so should I also learn from Spartak and have another slave revolt? So he entered into Hamlet contemplation, and echoed in his mind the world's most famous self-talk, "To be or not to be?" that is the question.”。

"Huh! Han!? Out of nowhere, a question with a slight Shaanxi accent pulled Li Xiang back to reality from his contemplation.

Li Xiang looked around, and there was no surprise in his discovery, and he thought: Could it be that I was dreaming just now? But I seem to have heard a Chinese dialect, as if it was still a dialect somewhere, and I remember that it was similar to the accent of our company's finance from Xi'an. Huh? Could it be the Han Dynasty people who 'smuggled' with the 'Silk Road'? So, keep your eyes open and 'scan' every face you can see.

Not far away, I saw a yellow-skinned female slave jumping and jumping excitedly, waving to Li Xiang non-stop.

"It's really not a dream." Li Xiang muttered quietly, and then said to Aoman, "Let's go, go over and have a look." ”

The two walked towards the slave girl.

Li Xiang approached the slave girl, only to see that she was about sixteen or seventeen years old, only about one meter six tall, and her appearance was quite handsome.

The slave girl looked very excited, "I really didn't guess wrong, you are really Han." ”

"'Han Chinese'?" Li Xiang thought for a moment and said, "Oh! Yes, I am indeed Han Chinese. ”

The slave girl hurriedly said, "I'm also a Han!" ”

"I've heard it a long time ago, you Xi'an people, right?"

The slave girl thought for a moment and said, "'Xi'an'? Then he smiled and said, "You guessed wrong, I'm from Chang'an." ”