After the initial solution to the problem of lack of manpower, I was able to relax and rest for a few days, but it seemed that God could not see me being idle.

An unexpected situation required me to go to Xiawei City, one of the dozen or so sea markets in Canton, because it is the largest population trading center in Canton.

As the first port to open the sea to communicate with China and foreign countries since the Han Dynasty, one of the biggest features of Guangzhou since ancient times is undoubtedly a city and domain with a wide variety of names and complete classifications.

Up to now, it has traveled to the eastern, western and southern cities of Guangfu, as well as more than a dozen affiliated sea markets, with dozens of different seasons and seasons of morning and evening markets, small markets, wild markets, and private markets.

Because more than 100 years ago, the Liang family opened the dynasty to Dingding Guangfu, re-planned the construction of the capital, and deliberately imitated the pattern of the two capitals, so the five cities of Guangfu have each demarcated different areas and functions.

For example, the old city of Panyu or the middle city located in the center is the gathering area of the imperial city and the hundred official offices, the government offices, the official residences, and the courtyards of the national pavilion.

The upper city is the residence of the shogunate, the residence of the clan, all kinds of wealthy and powerful people, gardens and villas, and all kinds of official offices and houses for supporting ancillary services.

Therefore, most people can only settle in the right city, where the nobles of the sea domain, rich businessmen, and wealthy families gather, so the right city is also called your city.

It is also the first choice for those who can't enter the inner circle of the ruling upper echelons and lack enough historical background, but have the corresponding status, and settle down to buy a home.

Then on the outskirts of these urban areas, the so-called satellite sub-cities of the twelve districts were derived, each with its own expertise and characteristics.

The three major cities are one of the oldest remnants of this kind of Canton historical change.

For example, the East City mainly deals in traditional products from the mainland of Lingnai, the West Market deals in foreign products from the West Sea countries other than the Little Kunlun Ocean ("Indian Ocean"), and the South City was born the latest, and the main business is the special local products from the South China Sea Prefecture archipelago and the Haifan Mountains.

Compared with the Xiacheng, which is known as the most close to the people, the nobles and the good and the lowly are mixed, Zuocheng is the most commercially developed urban area among the five cities of Guangzhou, and its predecessor is the suburbs outside the ancient Guangzhou Prefecture.

Most of the cities, including the West Market and the South Market, as well as Baoquan Old Street, where money and goods are gathered, and departments related to the commercial and trade markets are all included.

It also includes the cities in addition to the city, the formation of the local characteristics of the local characteristics of the city, yes, is the city of people, since the Liang family sealed the South China Sea, began to flourish in the market transactions, but also the Nanhai Governor's Mansion one of the largest industries and sources of income.

In the heyday of Datang

As far north as Andong, and even the tundra wasteland in the far north, or the land on the other side of the sea full of ice floes, as far west as Tianzhu, Persia, and the homeland of Great Food, and even as far as the Kunlun Nu countries in Shanzhou in the south, as far as the Great and Small Ao Zhuhaizhou in the south, and as far east as the land of Xinzhou, they are all one of the sources of slave trade outside the mountains and even in the entire Southern Dynasties.

Before the Southern Dynasty and the Liang Dynasty were estranged, every year, with the congratulatory envoys of the two great powers, thousands of them came and went as gifts, and the various heterogeneous feudal slaves from the Great Qin and Taixi and Western Barbarian countries from Xiniu Hezhou were also an important scenery in the local area.

At some point, a large number of cheap feudal slaves imported from overseas became the fuel and power to support the revival of the Tang Dynasty several times, and also became the main culprit for the unemployment and loss of land by the people in their later years.

At the same time, it was also these feudal slaves, and the Tang people supported many overseas feudal clans and unique economic systems in the most difficult initial stage of overcoming obstacles.

Although the old view is no longer the same, the number of feudal slaves imported into the dynasty every year as a large number of high-risk and high-intensity labor and hard labor consumables is still a particularly considerable number, not to mention the need for the development and operation of various sea domains.

Among them, these cities are divided into li cities and other cities, mainly according to the social hierarchy of the sea domain, the first class is the countrymen, that is, the descendants of the Tang people born locally or overseas, and the second class is the naturalized people, mainly immigrants of various ethnic groups who came to the vassal countries, and the most common people in the early years were the people from Silla and the Wa kingdom.

The third class is the native households, that is, the tame indigenous households, they are also a supplementary source of naturalized people, and the fourth class at the bottom is undoubtedly the feudal slaves bought by each family or captured by themselves.

In fact, there is also a hidden class - the aliens, that is, the savages outside the civilization and civilization, which is also one of the sources of feudal slaves.

For example, the city mainly operates the identity deeds of the countrymen and naturalized people, and is more of a semi-intermediary nature of the human tooth business, handling all kinds of slaves and maids from long-term employees, to tenant departments, and even selling off the slaves and servants of three generations after their deaths.

On the other hand, the business scope and sources of the foreign markets specializing in natives and feudal slaves were much more extensive, and the social status of the business objects was only "law than livestock", that is, to kill and maim them, it was only a matter of damaging their own livestock or belongings.

However, as a major feature of traditional Chinese feudal society, unless it is at the end of the dynasty, even if you are at the bottom of the society, it is not without the opportunity to change your fate and raise your identity.

After the naturalized person has a certain amount of property and land, he can declare to become a countryman, and the naturalized person can engage in most occupations, and even serve as some small officials, and the countryman can even obtain fame and fame, and then enter politics and officials.

And for these outsiders, joining the army is undoubtedly a shortcut, like the sequence of the feudal army under the Southern Dynasty, there is also no lack of Yaksha battalion composed of the descendants of Kunlun Nu, or the Sai battalion composed of Baiyi, or the Persian and Tianzhu people who served in the Tutuo army.

Or as a scout attached to the navy, a Japanese in the Hayato team, and even an auxiliary servant composed of various miscellaneous Tuyi in the garrison armies of other provinces.

Even in Fuyuan Prefecture, where my family is a feudal domain, there are some, these auxiliary weapons called native barbarians, although they can't take them to the surface, far away from the familiar environment, they don't know how to fight, but they can still be barely competent when used as land defense and maintenance.

Shimoo City is a typical outer city,

Among them, the object of operation is divided into two kinds, raw and cooked, which is very easy to understand, and raw mouth is not trained and trained, and needs to be bought back and domesticated by themselves, and generally belongs to the cheapest feudal slaves, and can only be used to do the simplest heavy labor.

Familiar mouth is trained and trained by merchants, with simple language communication skills and obedience, can be directly used as a slave to call the taming of the mature species, compared to the raw mouth of the value to double, sometimes will master one or two skills, the value is higher, if it is a more unique skill, it will even be regarded as a living heirloom, and sold at a sky-high price.

It is also a temporary secret point of contact. Because of the secret channel leading to the guò sea route, Chen Zihe sent me a final message, a somewhat heavy one, because at this time, he had been surrounded by officials and troops on the seashore somewhere.

Walking in the sparse street market, there is a certain smell of sweat mixed with the smell of sweat, but there is still some distance from my impression of the slave market where the sewage flows, and the streets seem to be quite clean and tidy, behind the rows of large fences, surrounded by slaves of all colors and faces.

But at least there was nothing filthy on them, and there were rudimentary tarpaulins to cover the roof, so that they would not be burned to death by the sun, but they just rolled their eyes and looked at the passers-by weakly.

Someone checked and asked, and they were reluctantly driven to make all kinds of gestures to show their healthy and strong side.

I even saw ostriches, zebras, creatures that were obviously only found in Africa, and even a little rhinoceros, behind a fence with the dark-skinned Kunlun slaves, but with more space and a more comfortable environment, but it looked a little sluggish.

Of course, because of geographical relations, the most common in this human market are Kunlun Nu and Tianzhu Nu, which belong to the race with a relatively heavy body odor.

Compared with the weak offensive in the north, the expedition of the West Sea Road was quite fruitful, not only from the five directions of Tianzhu to transport back a large amount of valuable goods and special products and captives, even the farther south of the Chazhou, also achieved a corresponding foothold, these flooding the city of all kinds of Kunlun slaves, is one of the results of many years of westward expansion.

I suddenly remembered that the Red Tiger VII and the Grizzly Panda III were brought back, and although they persisted in surviving for a long time under my aura of bad luck, they eventually died in the stables of the Meishan Hotel, and it is estimated that they have become barbecue ingredients for the rebels.

Why don't you buy a zebra and go back and play with the two in the house? Thinking so crankily,

Then I finally saw a unique sign, a symbol of several large horns.

I stopped, signaled, and a few men in civilian clothes scattered around, and then slowly out of the street came a man dressed as a man with a leather bag and selling water, and walked up to me and walked around.

I begged for a bowl of mint-flavored water, and listened to him whisper as I drank it

"Brothers have seen it, nothing out of the ordinary ......"

"There are not many places in and out of the city where people gather"

"There are several offices nearby, and there are no new faces......"

I nodded and handed him two coins.

Despite this, I still went around a few more times, pretended to look at the goods of a few stores, and returned the price, and then I went down with some regrets and slowly approached the place.

Like most of the buildings in Shimoo, there are only a few large shacks enclosed by wooden fences, except that the four tabernacles are lowered so that you can't see inside.

"My mother, what are you doing here......"

At this time, a somewhat familiar voice came into my ears.

"Put things down, it's not fun......"

"I promise what you have, and I won't regret it......"

"It's just a small accident......"

"Really......"

Zheng Zhou?

It was as if I saw a fat, oily figure, dancing there in panic.