Yarikun is just a shopkeeper invited by others, and it is better to bargain with these greedy dogs than to pay bribes directly. Yalikun was satisfied with the mutton fat jade given by Chen Cang, and immediately played with it with pleasure.

"Yes, it's the best mutton fat jade...... Well, your green salt is good, then one pound of green salt and ten pounds of grain, this is the highest price, or sir, for your sensible sake. ”

"Thank you, Master Yarikun."

Yun Mo has always been a cold observer of all this, and now that the Han people have no status in the Western Regions, it is too normal to be enslaved and exploited.

After Yalikun first called a few guys to move Yun Mo and their green salt, he asked people to carry grain for Yun Mo and them, and Yun Mo took a look at the sacks that were brought out, and they were all millet with good condition.

Money can make ghosts grind, and it is really a wise saying, after receiving the benefits, Yalikun not only gave the best millet seeds, but also let people use a carriage to transport 3,000 catties of grain to the inn where Yun Mo and they lived.

The market in Jiaohe City is not small, and all kinds of things can be bought here, such as fine silk from the Song Dynasty, Uzi steel knives from Dashi, and livestock from Qingtang and Mongolia.

Hu people of all colors were shouting hard, and the market was crowded, but Yun Mo never saw any Han people appearing in the bazaar, and he couldn't help but whisper to Chen Cang beside him:

"Uncle Chen, why are there no Han people here, have all the Han people in the Western Regions been killed?"

Chen Cang looked around first, and then explained to Yun Mo in a low voice:

"Chief, there are Han people in the Western Regions, and there are quite a few, but they are all imprisoned in the mines, and there are also many Han slaves for sale in the slave market in this Jiaohe City."

"Then let's go to the slave market and have a look, if there are Han Chinese, we will buy them all."

Chen Cang immediately said worriedly:

"Chief, the Han slaves here are very cheap, and the gold and silver we scavenged from the horse thieves are enough to buy thousands of slaves, but our food is not enough!"

"Don't we have green salt?"

"O Chief! This green salt can't be exchanged casually, otherwise it will easily attract the peeps of others. ”

Chen Cang's worries are not unreasonable, but they don't understand the truth of everything that has talents. Now there are more than 100 old and weak women and children in the tribe, and if you don't try to gather enough Han people, it will be a matter of time before they are exterminated.

"Uncle Chen, bring all the gold, silver and jewelry we scavenged from the horse thieves, and then go to the slave market to buy people."

Yun Mo has an upright personality and doesn't like nonsense, as long as he thinks it's right, he will do it without hesitation.

Chen Cang saw that Yun Mo had made up his mind, so he didn't insist, after all, Yun Mo was now the leader, and this green salt was also made by him to teach everyone.

The thirty people who stayed in the inn to guard the food, and the rest of the female soldiers all took weapons and followed Yun Mo to the slave market to buy people.

The slave market in Jiaohe City is not in the market, but next to the livestock market, a slave is not as good as a better animal, in this place in the Western Regions, human life is not valuable.

All the slaves were kept in wooden cages like cattle, and some people from the Western Regions dressed in silk and satin, with fierce dog legs, walked through the slave market with great force.

If there is a beautiful female slave, these people from the Western Regions will always stop, hold the female slave's chin, look at the face first, look at the teeth, and touch the female slave's chest and buttocks.

"It's too thin, it's too thin, and you have to add ingredients when you buy it back."

"Boss, my female slave is only fifteen years old, and she has lost a little weight, but she is still in one place!"

"That's not bad, how much."

"Ten taels of silver, take it."

Slaves are livestock, there are not only Han slaves here, but also slaves of other nationalities, most of these slaves are very thin, and the sturdy ones are prisoners of war, but the prisoners of war are generally not dared to buy.

Because the force value of the prisoners of war is not low, and if they are not good, they will be counterattacked, so those sturdy prisoners of war are rarely cared for.

Of course, Yunmo will not buy those prisoners of war now, not because he is reluctant to pay, but because Yunmo's current strength is too weak, and if his own strength is not enough, buying prisoners of war at this time is tantamount to luring a wolf into the house.

"Those who are not of my race will have different hearts." Even if this sentence is not completely correct, it has been verified by the Han nation for thousands of years, and it definitely has its truth.

Yunmo walked in the slave market with twenty ragged female soldiers, of course, which caused some people's side eyes, but Yunmo The steel knife in their hands and the crossbow on their backs made these people from the Western Regions dare not think anything wrong about Yunmo and them.

"Guest, guest, are you buying slaves? I can introduce you, I grew up here, I am familiar with this place, as long as I Hanik is here, no one can deceive you, and my fee is very low, two pennies per slave. ”

A fifteen or sixteen-year-old, thin as a monkey, a little boy from the Western Regions blocked Yunmo's way, and the female soldiers behind Yunmo had been highly nervous since they came to this slave market, and the appearance of the little boy made them involuntarily put their hands on the handle of the knife.

Yunmo was not familiar with this slave market in the first place, but now that someone is willing to come and be this person's tooth, he just can't ask for it.

"Little friend, I want to buy Han slaves, can you help?"

"No problem, but the price of Han slaves here is the most expensive, because the Han people are ingenious, ploughing, weaving, working, etc., almost all the work, Han people can do, so the Han people are so sought-after."

"Money is not an issue, lead the way!"

"Guest, look ......"

Hanik's little black hands reached out in front of Yunmo, this kid is also a master who doesn't see rabbits and doesn't scatter eagles, but Yunmo doesn't care about the little reward given to him.

He took out a silver ingot of five taels from his bosom and put it in Hannick's dirty hand:

"Guest officer, there are too many, I don't have any change to find you."

"Take your reward!"

"Uncle Xie."

Hanic led Yunmo and his party to a large sheepfold, and in the sheepfold sat or stood some dull-eyed slaves, about three hundred men and women, these slaves were like walking corpses.

Judging from their appearance, they are definitely Han people, and there are obvious differences between the facial features of people of various ethnic groups in the Western Regions and Han people, and Yunmo is confident that he will not admit mistakes.

These Han slaves are so miserable, many of them still have whip marks and knife wounds, it seems that these Han people were looted, they did not resist, but they were still caught after resisting.

Hanik whispered in Yunmo's ear:

"Guest officer, these slaves are all Han Chinese, they were sent only the day before yesterday, and I heard that some horse thieves got it from the grass valley in the area of the Hexi Corridor."

Fighting the grass valley is looting, Yunmo has also heard of it in later generations, in the Western Regions, where the weak eat the strong, it is normal for horse thieves to rob.

It's just that the Hexi Corridor in Hanic's mouth makes Yunmo can't help but move in his heart, since the horse thief can rob the Han people in the Hexi Corridor, this shows that there should be many Han people there!

If Yunmo wants to develop and grow, population is the first element, and it is the population of the Han people, as long as there are Han people of a certain scale in the four counties of Hexi, then there is a lot to be done.

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