Slave market? To be precise, there was no such thing as a slave in the Great Song Dynasty, which violated at least traditional Chinese morality, and no one wanted to be treated as a slave. When Wuzong re-implemented this system in the Hai Song Dynasty, there was quite strong opposition between the government and the opposition, and it was criticized by countless traditional Confucian defenders.

These people even scolded Wu Zong as a faint monarch like a ruined monarch because of this, thinking that this was a serious retrogression and stirred up a lot of turmoil.

But later, to everyone's surprise, the slavery system was not only not opposed by the ordinary people, but the Han people who followed the court to the sea at that time accepted slaves very much.

These defenders didn't know that in the early days of the Hai Song Dynasty, the population was extremely lacking, and if it were not for the supplement of the slave system, the Hai Song Dynasty, which lacked labor in their eyes, would not have developed so quickly as in reality.

At that time, Wuzong also had to do it as a last resort, and it turned out that slavery was indeed very suitable for this era.

At that time, no country in the whole world had rejected slavery, but only the Song Dynasty was so maverick.

The Song people, who were driven overseas by the Mongols, had to admit that sometimes the so-called high morality did not prove anything.

Therefore, slavery with the characteristics of the Great Song Dynasty has been passed down from generation to generation.

Facts have also proved that in this era, slavery is indeed very suitable for the social productive forces of this era.

For hundreds of years, the slave market of the Great Song Dynasty has been very hot, which also proves from the side that the entire economic and social development of the giant of the Great Song Dynasty is still in its heyday, and only the society that has maintained rapid development needs a large number of new labor and can effectively digest these slaves.

Especially as a large overseas port of Dinghai, the slave market here has always been a local characteristic, Li Zhe stood on the edge of the square, as far as the eye could see, there were thousands of slaves of all kinds on the stage, according to the practice of trading, most of them only had a few wisps of ugly rags on their bodies.

The field was crowded and the scene was hot.

Especially when Wang Ming came over and whispered, "All the goods here are just ordinary goods, and the number of real special needs is far above here", Li Zhe was really shocked in his heart.

Damn, the thousands of people here are still just ordinary, so isn't the number of slaves in the entire slave market in Dinghai going to more than 10,000?

"What?"

Wang Ming looked at Li Zhe with strange eyes, and then explained to him:

"Don't you know that the stock of the major slave traders in Dinghai is maintained at about 30,000 to 50,000 all year round."

What the? This number really surprised Li Zhe!

The stock of 30,000 to 50,000 means that the total number of about 6,700,000 inhabitants maintained in Dinghai City all year round, of which slaves alone account for nearly a dozen?

Of course, since they are slaves, they cannot be counted in the total number of inhabitants.

But such a ratio still surprised Li Zhe, he really underestimated the popularity of the slave trade in this era. Looking at it this way, I am afraid that the proportion of this slave economy in the overall economy of Dinghai City is probably really not small, and the future governance of Dinghai City cannot be ignored.

Especially next, Wang Ming took Li Zhe around the market, explaining the sayings in the various slave trades, among which there are dozens of kinds of girls alone, what thin horses, what schools, what fragrant tea, especially the unique product types of the overseas Fuso Islands, Ji Samurai, can go on the horse to fight, can be bodyguards to protect themselves, and can also take care of the warm bed at night, which is really a man's gift, which makes people feel pity.

This kind of Li Zhe opened his eyes, he was an ordinary modern person in the previous life, and he really didn't expect that the slave merchants of this era had played so many tricks in the slave trade.

The variety of these slave traders is also a testament to the enthusiasm of these slave traders to develop according to the different needs of their users.

From this point of view, these merchants of the old era were not much worse in business sense than the modern merchants of later generations.

Wang Ming took Li Zhe around the field a few times, although he did not end up trading. But as an important figure in the Shunfeng dart game, Wang Ming's reputation here will never be small. The relationship between these slave traders and the Downwind Dart Board must have always preserved.

Compared with a global level big name like Shunfeng Dart Bureau, the slave trader is still a little bit worse, and specifically the relationship between the two should be a relationship of attachment and dependence.

Now the successor appointed by the next generation of the chief helmsman of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau has come to the market in person, and the merchants here have not yet come up to the pole to stammer. In a short time, there were seven or eight more girls of all kinds around Wang Ming, and this was the result of Wang Ming's every effort to shirk it, otherwise, I am afraid that there would not be enough of a group of people around the two at this moment.

As for Li Zhe coming here, it is impossible to play any business of buying and selling beautiful slaves.

There will be no shortage of women around any person to the point where he is, and it is not so easy for any woman to occupy a position by his side.

These slaves of the slave market, it is even more unlikely. Not to mention them, even the princesses and daughters of those overseas princes, it is not so simple to share a man with the dignified Queen of Tianzhu.

So when those businessmen immediately thought from Wang Ming that Li Zhe should be a big man, and began to turn to Li Zhe to sell their goods, Li Zhe simply turned around and left, leaving them no chance.

At this time, Wang Ming, who didn't know what news he had just gotten, came to Li Zhe's side again and whispered a few words softly.

Li Zhe looked up:

"Huh? And this kind of thing? ”

Wang Ming nodded,

"That's right, the goods just arrived from the dock a few days ago, because of the arrival of our army, there is no chance to ship, otherwise, this kind of goods is very easy to sell in the market."

Li Zhe admits that it is conceivable that in this world, compared to most barbarians in this era, the Great Song Dynasty and Europe are the only remaining birthplaces of civilization, so for the Great Song Dynasty, the Baiyi from Europe are indeed relatively favorable, after all, they can barely be regarded as civilized people compared to the Hu people on the grassland.

Therefore, the Baiyi slaves that appeared in the Great Song Dynasty market were still in short supply.

Wang Ming saw Li Zheyi's move,

"Governor! Why don't you go over and have a look? ”

That's right, what this guy recommended to Li Zhe just now was a batch of Baiyi slaves in the market, and it was said that it was a group of Baiyi slaves transported from the New World on the fleet of the Shunfeng Dart Bureau.

Well, the New World? If Li Zhe guessed correctly, these Bai Yi should have come from the Viceroyalty of Spain and Mexico, which bordered the Great Song colonies in the New World.