In the entire mud city, in addition to Hani's palace, only there are a few decent houses in the area of Dongcheng, and those who can live in Dongcheng are all Shanshan country's leading figures. Elsewhere, including the shops in Tublo, they are very low and dilapidated. As for the human market, it can't be described as low and dilapidated.

In Liu Xin's eyes, the so-called human market is simply a place where livestock sheds are enclosed, but it is not livestock that are locked up in these sheds, but people, living people. In fact, in these countries, the status of slaves is similar to that of livestock, and sometimes even worse than that of livestock, and it is normal to be locked up in a barn. These people are men and women, old and young, Hu people from the Western Regions, poisonous people, Huns, and even golden-haired and blue-eyed Daqin people. However, Liu Xin looked around and did not see the Han people.

There are many reasons why these people became slaves. Some people are originally slaves or the children of slaves, and they are destined to be slaves by birth. There are also those who are the families of criminals and have been sold into slavery by the government. Others were sold into slavery because they owed huge debts and were unable to pay them. These slaves for sale, young and old, were yellow-skinned, defenseless, filthy, and smelly.

Seeing this scene, Liu Xin was slightly disappointed. Liu Xin doesn't think there is anything inhumane about treating slaves like this, because this is a powerful society, and the emperor can decide life and death with a word, so how can you talk about it? There was also a slave market in the area under Liu Xin's rule, and one of the punishments for criminals was that the family officials sold them into slavery. But when Liu Xin sells these slaves, he will make some careful preparations, dress the women up beautifully, and let the men show their strong side, so that they can be sold for a good price.

And these slaves in front of him made Liu Xin have no choice at all. Even if he knew who was good at farm work and would use those farm tools, Liu Xin still had to worry about whether they would catch any diseases.

Tubro seemed to see Liu Xin's doubts, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency doesn't know, this is exactly the cunning of slave traders. They made all the slaves look like this, so that they had the opportunity to sell the sick and sick slaves. However, it's not entirely impossible to tell. ”

With that, Tubro suddenly walked up to a slave for sale, grabbed his hand and examined it carefully, then shook his head and walked over to another slave. When the Tubu Office inspected the third slave, he turned to Liu Xin and said, "My lord, this slave often does farm work, but he is a little older. ”

"Being older also has the advantage of being older, and you will have more experience in farm work." Liu Xin nodded and said, "It's him." ”

What Liu Xin needs is someone who knows how to use these farm tools, so that the people of the research institute can be inspired by these farm tools that are different from those in Middle-earth, and improve the agricultural tools that are available now, instead of letting them actually do farm work, even if they are old and infirm.

Tubro showed his hand, but Liu Xin didn't ask him how he saw it, because Liu Xin knew very well that the method he used was nothing more than to judge the occupations of these slaves by looking at the characteristics on their bodies, such as where there were more calluses.

However, seeing Liu Xin's indifferent look, Tubro, who wanted to show off in front of Liu Xin, was still a little unwilling, and walked to a "livestock shed" next to him, but there were some female slaves in the shed, and they were all naked female slaves.

Of course, Liu Xin has no interest in these female slaves, and the appearance of the white flowers and red stripes is also a little embarrassing. Liu Xin was about to stop Tuburo when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a slave girl with long golden hair.

Seeing this slave girl, Liu Xin couldn't help but think of the black whirlwind, so she pointed casually and said, "Bring her here." ”

Tubro originally wanted to show his skills in choosing women again, but when he saw the female slave pointed by Liu Xin, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned. This female slave is not tall, her appearance is very ordinary, and her figure is not slim at all, I don't know why Liu Xin fell in love with her. However, Tubro was now bent on currying favor with Liu Xin, so he hesitated for a moment, but still followed Liu Xin's order to bring the female slave over.

Although Liu Xin is not a Taoist gentleman, he is still a little uncomfortable facing a naked woman in broad daylight, and he can't help but raise his head to look at the sky, but he asks, "Where are you from?" ”

The foreign slave girl naturally couldn't understand Liu Xin's words, and when Tubro translated, she hurriedly replied: "The slave maid is a native of Shanshan." ”

Liu Xin waved his hand, asked the slave girl to return to the "livestock shed", turned to Tubro and said: "I have something to hand over to you, see if there are any Great Qin people among these slaves, if there are any, buy them all, I will pay a big price!" ”

Because the Yumen Pass has been closed for a long time, there are no goods from the Great Han, and those Great Qin caravans that have come from thousands of miles away will not appear in the mud city. Although as Liu Xin's plan to restart the trade route continued to make new progress, these Great Qin caravans would eventually come out here again one day, but for Liu Xin, who was eager to understand the situation of the Great Qin Empire, he did not have the patience to wait that long.

After seeing the blonde hair of the slave girl, Liu Xin suddenly thought of a way, since he couldn't find Daqin's caravan, it was the same to be able to find a few slaves from Daqin. And the large price that Liu Xin promised was not paid directly to the slave traders, but to Tubro. The merchant is very profitable, and with this large price as a temptation, I believe that Tubro will definitely do his best.

Liu Xin didn't ask those slave traders directly, and there was another reason, he didn't want those slave traders to know that they wanted to buy slaves from Great Qin. Because, if those merchants knew their purpose, they were very likely to force their slaves to claim to be from Great Qin, in order to make this business, but it would be difficult to achieve their goal. Therefore, Liu Xin handed over the matter to Tubro, who was good at identifying slaves, without thinking about it.

However, it was not easy to select slaves from Great Qin among so many slaves, because the status of slaves was too low, and their masters did not bother to inquire about their past, so they had no way of knowing their origins, and Tubro had to inquire about them one by one. In this way, it will take a lot of time, and Liu Xin cannot leave Mud City in a hurry, but must wait patiently.

While Liu Xin was waiting for Tubro to choose a suitable slave, Mi Fang arrived in Puyang City with his goods.

In fact, Puyang City is very close to the front line, and the important town of Liyang is almost only separated by a Yellow River, Cao Cao used this place as the temporary capital of the Han Dynasty, quite a bit of the later Ming Dynasty Chengzu set the capital of Beijing that the Son of Heaven guarded the country's taste.

In fact, Cao Cao did this out of necessity. He had been short of money and food, so it was impossible for him to recruit a large number of troops. With the increasing expansion of his territory, many places had to be guarded by troops, but because there were too few men and horses, he could only try to distinguish the priorities, some places had to set up heavy troops, and some places could only send a small number of soldiers to garrison. But in any case, the forward border must be deployed with heavy troops, and as the "capital" of the rear, the troops must not be too empty. And Cao Cao was able to come up with such a bold idea, and set the "capital" directly in Puyang, near Jizhou, and immediately merged the two places that needed to be garrisoned by heavy troops, and immediately solved the dilemma of insufficient troops.

However, although the dilemma of insufficient troops was temporarily solved, because it was too close to the front line, as soon as the war started there, there was a panic here, and people in a hurry could be seen outside the city from time to time, and the prices in the city were also soaring, and the price of food was even higher than ever.

Mi Fang swaggered into Puyang City with the slip issued by Liu Dai, and the news that he brought a large amount of grain spread in Puyang City. As soon as Mi Fang and his entourage found an inn and settled down, they came to visit one after another.

Among the people who came to visit, there were not only businessmen with a keen sense of smell, but also scholars in Puyang City, of course, some officials left by Cao Cao here, and even Cao Cao's number one adviser, Xun Yu, came in person.

All these people have only one goal, and that is the batch of grain in Mi Fang's hands. When Mi Fang left Qian County, he carried a total of 75,000 stone of grain, and when he entered the city, he handed over 20,000 stone on the spot. Because the four gates of Puyang City have grain collection offices, which are responsible for receiving military rations from all over the country, it also saves Mi Fang a lot of effort, but his remaining 55,000 stone grain is also exposed.

In troubled times, those profiteers wanted to hoard Juqi, while the scholar families and those officials wanted to save more food at home to be safe, and Xun Yu was bent on Cao Cao's sake, and wanted to buy all the grain in Mi Fang's hands before the others. Although each person's starting point is different, the goal is the same.

For these people's visits, Mi Fang's answer was only two words: "No! ”

However, the batch of grain in Mi Fang's hand is too tempting, how can these people be easily dismissed by him with two words, many people are still there stubbornly asking for reasons for not seeing, and Mi Fang's reply is even more domineering: "I am not familiar with you!" ”

Those merchants are just that, they didn't expect to be able to easily get grain from Mi Fang, and it was expected that they wouldn't be able to see Mi Fang. But the others are all well-known figures in Puyang City, and a foreign businessman dares to let them touch a nose of ash, naturally they are not angry, and some people can't hold back and want to attack on the spot. However, when they saw Xun Yu's reaction, they had to put away their anger and leave obediently.