Chapter 99: The Inside Story of the Slave Trade

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Two full of copper, 1,500 yuan.

This is the price of the boys and girls in the cabin, this money is just a fishtail in the fan building in Tokyo, but here, it is the price of the poor people outside selling their children and daughters.

Rao is like this, half of it still needs to be handed over to Shangguan, and the parents who sell their children can only get half of it.

This kind of price is ten times worse than the regular price in the official government, and those who get half of the money to get the water division generals are not as cost-effective as the tooth shops that send people to the capital city of Dengzhou, and there must be cats in them.

Sure enough, under the interrogation of the Zhu brothers, the Goryeo businessmen confided the truth. For each boy in the transaction, he has to pay 15 yuan to buy the road when he goes to sea, and for girls, it is double this amount. If the huge profit is a little higher than the price of the tooth shop, it is no wonder that a group of sailor generals dare to put their hands on such a deal.

Due to the existence of slavery in Goryeo at this time, these young men and women were trafficked to various high-gate mansions in Goryeo, and their lives and deaths were all in the hands of the powerful, with the men as prostitutes and the women as playthings. The reason why the Goryeo magnates were willing to spend a lot of money to buy these slaves of the Great Song Dynasty was only because the current Wang Goryeo adopted Chinese as the official language, and the daily language of the people had sounds but no words, which was used by the inferior people, and all the high-ranking magnates and royal families spoke Chinese.

If it is said that among the countries around the Great Song Dynasty, the most sinicization is undoubtedly Wang's Goryeo.

If these Song slaves were transported to Goryeo, they would be at least three or four times profitable, but ordinary family magnates could not do such transactions, and were monopolized by the Hanyang Li clan where the current Goryeo uncle Li Ziqian lived. These merchants are indeed from the Li family of Hanyang, but they are the last descendants of the side branches, and they are just running for the clan to take care of the business.

"Damn it!"

Ximenqing, who knew the inside story, almost gritted his back molars and spit out this sentence, which obviously crossed his bottom line.

Dengzhou Navy Division is the establishment of the Xiang Army, but it is the highest level of the review of the Xiang Army, as the general Wang Jie has great authority, all the subordinate soldiers, life and death can be decided. Of course, Ximen Qing, who is the deputy envoy of the regimental training, is not among them.

Perhaps it is precisely because of such a large autonomy that this Wang Jie is so unscrupulous, in Ximenqing's view, in order to loot money from the hands of the sergeants, this person can no longer satisfy his greed by drinking the blood of soldiers and eating empty salaries, and even dare to get involved in things such as buying and selling slaves.

"Let the people down there come to the boat and have a look!"

Ximenqing led a group of subordinates to retreat to a corner of the deck of the ship, and let the poor people on the shore rush onto the ship, and after a while, there were countless tearing and heart-rending wails from the cabin, and even several women fainted on the spot and were carried out of the cabin.

Although the male and female slaves on this ship are not the children of these people, these Goryeo and Goryeo merchants have been doing this kind of business for more than a year, and this Dengju Sailor Wharf has also been back and forth several times.

The more repressed it is, the more terrifying it will be when it erupts.

Enraged by the purgatory-like scene, all the Koreans were slaughtered by this group of red-eyed poor people on the two large ships docked at the dock, and the scene was much more tragic than the fight between Bian Xiang and others just now, and the most terrifying thing was that the Goryeo merchants led by them were torn to pieces by life, and even many women rushed forward and ripped off the whole piece of flesh and blood from their bodies with their teeth.

Eat its flesh and sleep its skin!

Today, Ximenqing can be regarded as truly insightful.

Thirty-seven young girls, one hundred and seventy-two teenagers, and nine corpses. Looking at the group of young men and women in front of him, shivering in the cold wind, Ximenqing only felt a mouth full of bitterness, this is the prosperous era of "Fengheng Yuda" in the mouth of the official?

"Teacher Luan, you lead people back to Dengzhou City, find the central manager of the mansion to support five thousand guan in advance, settle these people first, and tell Ye Chun by the way, let him come here quickly!"

"Benefactor, it's almost Shen Shi now, and if you don't return to the city, I'm afraid that the city gate will be closed!"

Ma Xun on the side glanced at the low and gloomy sky, and said that another heavy snow was coming, and it was inconvenient to sleep outside the city.

"I'll sleep on this boat today, go!"

Seeing that Luan Tingyu seemed to hesitate, Ximen Qing made a decision, and then walked into the cabin alone, closed the hatch casually, and the Ma brothers immediately guarded the door, as for the poor people, they were also silently descending from the boat at this time, completely lacking the crazy energy just now, and it seemed that from a group of wolves to a lamb that could be narrowly cut.

Just when the last ray of sunlight disappeared at the intersection of the sea and the sky, a convoy loaded with all kinds of materials appeared on the dock, Luan Tingyu not only brought Ye Chun, but also brought the Zhuang Ding of Zhujiazhuang who had served under Ximen Qing. Since his own benefactor mainly spends the night in bed, as a subordinate, his safety is naturally his first priority. The situation of those poor people when they "went crazy" hovered in Luan Tingyu's mind and lingered. This night is a night of sleep, but also to control the dock in the hands, and never allow those emotionally unstable poor people to get close to half a minute.

The rescued young men and women had food and clothing, and they rested in peace, but Ximen Qing asked his subordinates to call a few old people who could speak among the relatives of the sailors and soldiers to the boat and sat with Ye Chun.

"I want to build a new warship and restore the old appearance of the Dengzhou Naval Division, but now there is only a shortage of manpower!"

Ximenqing had already made a plan with Ye Chun before, and planned to build a real ocean-going sailor within a year, at least able to protect the entire Bohai Bay, if he had the ability to control the trade sea route between Fusang and the Great Song Dynasty in Goryeo, the wealth obtained during the period would be incalculable.

"Shangguan, the work of building a warship is an ancestral craft, but the original drawings of the sea ship are all stored in the Privy Council of the Imperial Court, and the copies have long been scattered."

The old man who had talked to Ximenqing during the day replied very respectfully.

"The ship supervisor has his own Governor Ye by my side, and you only need to provide enough skilled manpower, and if there is a shortage, you can hire a man to supplement it."

"Hire?"

"Yes, it's hire! As long as you participate in the construction and repair of the sailor's warship, you will have 30 yuan a day in the prime of life, and the old and weak women and children will be halved. ”

As soon as Ximenqing's words fell, several old men sitting opposite were shocked, and immediately knelt on the ground after confirming it again and again, and thanked him again and again.

In the military system of the Great Song Dynasty, the Xiang army is equivalent to cheap service, responsible for all logistics affairs, and cannot be on the real battle array, which can be said to be a prisoner who serves hard labor all year round.

"Shangguan, I don't know where Wang Tuanlian is?"

An old man forced his excitement and asked with some trepidation. After all, Wang Jie is the chief general of the water master, but such a major event cannot bypass him.

"Wang Jie, hehe!"

Ximen Qing only laughed gloomily, but there was no follow-up.