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In Lekang City, or in the counties west of Longxi, Jiuyuan, and Pingyi, the further west you go, the more various races you can see. It is also the region with the strongest cultural, economic, commercial and even gunpowder smell in Daqin and the distant Western countries.

Arabs, Persians, Thracians, Phoenicians, Aramaic, Medes, West Asians, Macedonians, black Africans, Jews, etc., you can see them in Ankang, Anle, Anbei, Dongzhou, Zhongzhou, and Xizhou counties in the western border of Great Qin, as well as monks in India.

And Lekang City, for various reasons, although it has only been 20 years since its establishment, it is already one of the most prosperous cities in the western part of Great Qin.

With wide streets, rows of houses and buildings, and a stream of people, Lekang City, which is nearly 10,000 miles away from Xianyang, is not much worse than some big cities in the heartland of Daqin.

In the bustling flow of people, Hu Hai, who had gray temples but the face of a young man with long clothes, and Long Xuan and Long Hong, who followed him with gray hair, looked particularly dazzling.

There are a lot of people, but whenever the three of them walk by, the crowd will be cleverly separated by the guards of the Longwei Mansion disguised as ordinary people in front and back, and no pedestrians can directly approach Hu Hai's body within three zhangs.

However, the methods of the guards of the Longwei Mansion were obviously extremely clever, and although the pedestrians were constantly separated and diverted, no one found that they were deliberately divided.

When the train arrived at Lekang City, Hu Hai quietly left the station under the escort of the Longwei Mansion's personal guards. Enter the Lekang Palace in Lekang City. Hu Hai had just asked Long Jiao, Long Mei and Qi Yi to go down to rest, and Long Xuan, who had already changed into civilian clothes, had already arrived at Lekang Palace.

As for the 20,000 cavalry of the Suzaku Army, they entered the large camp outside Lekang City and temporarily stationed.

When Long Xuan arrived, Hu Hai ignored the pleading eyes of Long Hong, who had a bitter face, but went directly out of Lekang Palace.

"You, as the commander of the First Army, how can you leave your post without permission? Still pretending to be pitiful there? It really deserves to be punished severely. ”

Hu Hai looked at the bustling flow of people around him, turned around abruptly and nodded at Long Xuan, who had been following behind him with his head down, and said with a smile. Although the mouth said severe punishment, the smile in the eyebrows and eyes had the slightest meaning of blame.

Long Xuan, whose eyes were red, heard Hu Hai's scolding, but he just smirked. If there were Suzaku soldiers nearby at this moment, if I saw the commander who had always been decisive in killing actually showing such a stupid look to a half-sized man. I'm afraid that my frightened eyes will pop out.

Seeing Long Xuan, Hu Hai said that he was unhappy in his heart, it was obviously fake.

The twelve guards when they first came to Great Qin. Long Jiaolong, Mei Longbing, Long Xue are already the concubines of the harem, and the rest of the heaven and earth Xuanhuang and the universe are desolate, and after decades of getting along, the relationship between Hu Hai and them has long been beyond the simple master and servant. A lot of times they're more like friends when they're about the same age. Brothers. Or a teacher.

One by one, the important ministers are getting old. One by one, the deceased passed away, and even the youngest Long Huang was already the commander of the Guilin Army. Commanded an army of 100,000 to defend Ahsan County.

They are not only Hu Hai's servants, but also the most solid pillars of Daqin today.

"Look at your smirk, how do you look like a general?" Looking at Long Xuan, whose eyes were red, Hu Hai was moved in his heart, but he scolded with a straight face.

"Apricot is still in Ankang City?"

Hu Hai scolded on his lips, but the words turned around and asked casually.

Long Xing'er, the daughter of Long Xuan and Fan Yu. Obviously, Long Xing'er inherited the best genes of Long Xuan and Fan Yu, and she loved to dance with guns and sticks since she was a child.

Now she is a twenty-seven or eighteen-year-old girl, but she still has not married, and at this moment the orthodox soldiers are stationed in Ankang County, the westernmost county in the western Xinjiang of Great Qin.

"Back to Your Majesty, the subordinates will send a message to Xing'er to see Your Majesty."

"You, go back and forth thousands of miles, and I will have already left when Xing'er comes back." Hu Hai glared at Long Xuan, "You, the father, haven't found a good husband for Xing'er yet?" ”

Long Xuan glanced at Hu Hai resentfully when he heard Hu Hai's words, lowered his head and did not speak.

If it weren't for the fact that you were distressed and Xing'er promised her that no one could force her to marry unless she had a fancy to the man she fancied, I would still be wild with her temperament?

Xing'er said that she had to find a man who was as strong as the emperor's father to marry. Just imagine, is there anyone in the world who can compare to your old man? Now it's good that you still say it's my problem.

"Your Majesty, why don't you choose a good person to marry Xing'er?"

After a short period of resentment, Long Xuan immediately climbed up to Hu Hai's words, licking his face and saying.

"You ......"

"Killed, killed!"

"Didi!"

Hu Hai nodded at Long Xuan, who looked tired, and was about to speak, and there was a sudden commotion on the street in front of him. A shrill whistle followed. The noisy voices were instantly suppressed.

It was the criminal officials who were now all over the cities of Daqin, that is, the police officers similar to later generations.

The front of the street was already blocked by people watching the bustle, and the noisy voices were interspersed with the sound of whipping and the constant screams.

"Check it out."

Seeing Long Hong's inquiring eyes, Hu Hai spoke up.

The guards of the Longwei Mansion in front of them quietly separated the crowd gathered in the center of the street after a while, and inevitably attracted the surrounding people to shout and curse. After all, there are too many people watching the excitement, and if the guards of Longwei Mansion want to show Hu Hai a way, they must squeeze down the people who originally occupied a good position.

However, the scolding disappeared immediately, and obviously in the face of the guards of the Longwei Mansion, who were tall and difficult to mess with, those who figured out the situation could only consider themselves unlucky.

In the middle of the field was a young man in a brocade robe, and six or seven strong men who could tell at a glance that they were the young man's servants. On the ground lay seven men with disheveled hair, ragged clothes, and shackles.

From the occasional wisps of snow-white spring color in the tattered clothes with fresh bloodstains, Hu Hai knew. The seven people lying on their stomachs on the ground should all be women.

The brocade-robed boy with an angry face and a bloodstained horsewhip in his hand was obviously a Qin man, and he was whispering something to a few people in official uniforms who were patrolling the streets at the moment.

After a while, as the brocade-robed boy beckoned, a servant standing beside him hurriedly handed over a small bag, and a crisp sound came from the bag, which was obviously full of coins.

The brocade-robed boy blatantly stuffed the money bag in his hand into the hands of the chief officer. The middle-aged official weighed the weight of the money bag, showed a look of satisfaction on his face, stretched out his hand to beckon a few companions, and turned to leave.

None of the servants had ever looked at the seven women who had been scourged and lay on the ground.

And the crowd of onlookers did not seem surprised by such a scene.

"This son, can you let me take a look at the seven meats?" A half-hundred-year-old man who was watching saw the official leave. Out of the air.

Hear the old man's words. The brocade-robed boy, who was about to whip the woman on the ground again, stopped.

"You want to see it?" Squinting his eyes, the brocade-robed boy looked the old man up and down.

"Exactly!"

Hu Hai looked at it, but it was a half-hundred-year-old man who was also wearing a brocade robe and playing with two huge jade beads in his hands, and this old man was obviously also a Qin person.

to the meat in their mouths. Hu Hai naturally knew what it meant. In fact, as early as when I saw a bright white nameplate on the ankles of the seven women. Hu Hai already understood. All seven women on the earth were slaves.

The slave trade has always existed, all over the world. It's just in Great Qin a few decades ago. But it didn't flourish very much. At that time, Daqin, the most existed was to sell women in various color art fields. Later, after Hu Hai abolished all the slaves of Daqin, the word slave had gradually disappeared in Daqin.

It wasn't until later that Hu Hai instigated the nobles of various families in Guanzhong to plunder the surrounding alien races everywhere, and Great Qin began to have the word slave again. However, the slaves were basically all Xiongnu, Yue, Qiang and other tribes who were captured in battle.

In the following decades, with the continuous expansion of Great Qin, especially after Hu Hai destroyed the two major empires of Anxi and Seleucid entrenched in Central Asia more than ten years ago, and directly advanced the frontier of Great Qin to the Persian Gulf, the Caspian Sea coast and overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, merchants from Rome, Macedonia and other countries in Europe could finally trade directly with Great Qin, and the appendages produced by the war, in addition to the vast land and endless wealth, the most of them were homeless ordinary people.

With the fall of the Anxi Empire and the Seleucid Empire at the hands of Great Qin, a developed slave trade began to rise within Great Qin. However, in more than ten years, it has become the most profitable industry in this era.

Up to now, in every big city in Daqin, there are basically places dedicated to auctioning slaves, and the nobles of various families in Daqin are chasing the footsteps of the Son of Heaven, and they have all made a lot of money in wars. They have now become the largest slave traders in the Great Qin and even the world.

Although Hu Hai did not agree with the rise of the slave trade, in such an era, occasional compassion was acceptable, but if it went against the general trend, it was obviously not in the interests of Daqin at all. Therefore, Hu Hai has always held an attitude of neither supporting nor denying the slave trade.

However, the Cabinet Office enacted a series of laws regulating the slave trade. One of the most important is that any slave trader who dares to sell the Qin people will be punished immediately.

Hu Hai knew very well that such a lucrative trade of slaves would inevitably lead to some profit-hungry people, including the Qin people, taking risks. Therefore, they can only use the strictest laws to kill them, and they dare not make up their minds.

As for the slave traders from Europe, especially Rome, in the face of the strict border defense of the Great Qin, so far no merchant dared to take the Qin people out and sell them. Due to the rapid development of Great Qin in the past few decades, the growth of population and economy, the largest number of slave buyers are also the wealthy nobles of Great Qin.

Black slaves from Africa, blondes from Europe, Macedonian warriors, Jewish women, and even monk slaves from India were sold.

The advent of trains and the completion of the construction of a large number of railways greatly promoted the various trades of Daqin. Distance is no longer a major constraint on economic development.

Of course, the slave trade also brought rich taxes to Great Qin, especially the construction of various important railway tracks in Great Qin. It would not have been built so quickly without slaves from Africa, Europe, Sabbat, and the Seleucid Empire.

The reason why the officials who patrolled the streets did not take care of the seven women on the ground was obviously because they knew that they were slaves, and the slaves had no one to protect them in Daqin. Great Qin only protected the private property that belonged to the Qin people, and for slaves, although there was no clear certainty in the law, everyone agreed that they belonged to private property.

Of course, the most prosperous place for the slave trade was the vast land in the western part of Great Qin, which had recently been incorporated into the territory of Great Qin.

Obviously, the young man and the half-hundred-year-old man were both wealthy or noble people from Great Qin. Of course. Today, the ordinary people of Daqin. It is not a strange thing that there were a few rest or Seleucian, African or even European slaves.

The brocade-robed young man here spoke again.

"I'm afraid you can't afford it. These women are no ordinary meatmen. "The brocade-robed boy is obviously a master who thinks very highly of himself.

"I bought it. A hundred gold coins for a woman. ”

At this time, the brocade-robed strong man who had been watching coldly at the resting women who were lying on the ground crying suddenly spoke.

Although he was wearing the standard clothes of Great Qin and spoke a standard and even a bit of Qin with a bit of a Guanzhong accent, the strong man's golden hair and exposed thick black arms told everyone that he was not from Qin. To be precise. Maybe he has the household registration of Daqin. But he is not an authentic Qin person.

The most likely is the resting nobles or Seleucid nobles who belong to Great Qin.

"You? Get out of the way. This son's meat, even if it is chopped up and fed to the dogs, will not be given to you savages. Don't think that if you wear my Great Qin's clothes, you are really my Qin people. Phew! ”

Glancing at the strong man who spoke, the brocade-robed boy opened his mouth and scolded without hesitation.

Apparently. The reason why he didn't get dirty with the old man before was only because the old man was a Qin person.

The strong man in the brocade robe didn't expect that this young man, who seemed a little polite just now, scolded himself directly, and even called himself a savage.

A burst of blue and red flashed on his face, and the blue eyes of the strong man in the brocade robe were a little red. Whoever has a head and a face is insulted on the street in front of so many people, no matter how good his temper is, he will be angry, not to mention being scolded as a wild man.

Hearing the young man's words, the Qin people who were watching around let out a burst of laughter, but there were more people around who were different skin colors from the Qin people, or even if they had the same skin color, they had the mark that they were obviously not Qin people, but they all had anger on their faces.

The laughter of the surrounding Qin people was more like a slap on the face of the blonde man. At this time, the strong blond man quieted down, took a deep look at the young man who looked at him defiantly, and then looked at the several teams of servants wandering near the street, and turned to leave. More than a dozen strong men around him who were also wearing Daqin costumes also lowered their heads and followed the strong men away.

"Something!"

The brocade-robed boy spat disdainfully at the departing strong man.

The surrounding Qin people saw that the strong man was humiliated and left, but they broke out into even more laughter.

Hu Hai just watched everything that happened silently from beginning to end, and even those officials who patrolled the streets accepted bribes openly and honestly, and did not show any abnormal color.

Long Xuan and Long Hong, who were standing behind him, were apprehensive in their hearts.

"Let you sluts sprinkle, thinking that someone will come to save you? I'll let you scream. The brocade-robed boy looked at the seven women who were sobbing quietly on the ground, and suddenly raised his whip fiercely and whipped it again.

With the crisp sound of the whip, tattered clothes continued to fly, stains of blood splashed out, and terrible screams continued to sound on the streets of Lekang City.

"Scream! Scream! ”

The brocade-robed boy seemed to enjoy the almost cruel whipping so much that he would roar excitedly without a whip.

The pedestrians on the side of the road, especially the people who were not Qin, watched the brocade-robed boy whip with a look of unbearability. But no one stood up to stop it, or they didn't dare.

I didn't see it, Daqin's officials were all watching it with relish not far away.

The screams of the thinnest girl among the seven gradually subsided, and next to her, an older woman with some of her clothes torn from the back of the whip, found this scene crawling forward with difficulty, as if trying to block the whip for the girl with her own body.

Under her. A bright red mark continued to extend as she climbed.

"Climb, climb!" As if discovering the woman's intentions, the brocade-robed young man was even more excited to whip the whip towards the girl who was almost out of breath.

There was silence on the street, and even the Qin people who laughed before seemed to be a little unbearable.

"Enough!"

Suddenly, two words with a little anger suddenly sounded in the somewhat silent street.

Long Xuan and Long Hong, who had been worried in their hearts, heard these two words, and their bodies trembled suddenly.

"Who? Who is it? ”

In a state of excitement, the young man in the brocade robe had extremely smart ears, and suddenly turned around and searched in the crowd of onlookers.

"Go, buy them."

"Whoa!"

When Long Xuan and Long Hong heard Hu Hai's words, they hurriedly bowed down and answered.

"Yo he, ......what do you think you are?"

The boy in the brocade robe also heard Hu Hai talking at this time. Looking at Hu Hai. The crimson eyes showed that he was still immersed in the pleasure he had just had, but his words were not as polite as when he had just woken up.

"Presumptuous!"

"Smack!"

A loud shout and a crisp and pleasant sound rang out at the same time, and he swallowed all the remaining words he had not spoken.

The blood flowers of the big tent shot out from the mouth of the flying brocade-robed boy with a few bits of white.

Long Xuan, who was originally standing behind Hu Hai with his hands bowed, was already standing where the flying brocade-robed boy had stood before.

"Bang!"

The brocade-robed boy who was slapped by Long Xuan slapped him slammed into several servants behind him who had not yet returned to his senses, and rolled down.

Long Hong, who had just had time to say that he was presumptuous, looked at Long Xuan, who was indifferently walking towards the brocade-robed boy who had fallen to the ground and was already a little unconscious. wiped a handful of cold sweat from his head.

Why didn't you make a move? But looking at that slap, it seems to be very cool.

"Didi!"

Not far away, more than a dozen officials who had been watching the play came back to their senses at this time. Hurriedly took out the whistle in his arms, and hurriedly ran over while blowing with full air.

Farther away, a whistle was heard. More street patrols are emerging.

Regardless of these officials, at least in response to the crisis, it seems that they are relatively timely.

Glancing at the dozen or so officials who were rushing over, Long Xuan walked up to the brocade-robed boy who had been slapped in a daze, reached out and took out a money bag from his arms and threw it in front of him, saying, "People, this ...... I bought it. ”

A few clouds of golden light rolled out of the pocket of the money bag disobediently, and finally stopped after a few turns.

The dazzling golden light told everyone that it was a bag full of gold coins? There are more than 100 pieces!

The crowd of onlookers suddenly burst into an uproar.

Even if it is a silver coin, I am afraid that it will not be worth one of the several gold coins that have rolled out.

The eyes of everyone looking at Hu Hai also changed suddenly.

Everyone knows that this half-hundred-year-old man has been standing on those temples with his hands down before, and he doesn't know why he is pale but looks extremely young...... Behind the noble son.

There is no way for them not to notice Hu Hai, but they can't describe how Hu Hai feels for them. After abdicating for ten years, although Hu Hai's appearance, which does not care about the world, has not changed, the momentum on his body that burst out because of the short-term anger just now made everyone feel a trace of palpitations from the bottom of their hearts.

At this moment, he simply stood there indifferently, but it seemed that he had naturally become the center of this world.

This is the big guy!

I can't figure it out, I can't see it thoroughly, and I can only explain it with big people.

The brocade-robed boy seemed to have been stunned by Long Xuan's slap, and the servants beside him didn't dare to move in the face of Long Xuan, who was commanding 100,000 troops and showing a little bit of murderous aura.

Long Hong looked at the officials who were getting closer and closer, and there were already dozens of people, and turned around to gesture to one of the guards of the Longwei Mansion beside him, but the two guards of the Longwei Mansion had already come out of the line to greet the officials who were rushing there.

It's not once or twice that the Longwei Mansion has dealt with such a thing, in addition to the Longwei Mansion waist card that must be carried, they also have another identity, that is, the patrol identity of the Criminal Department.

Although the position is not high, it is enough to deal with these ordinary officials who patrol the streets.

More than a dozen guards from the Dragon Guard Mansion had already taken off their coats and put them on the seven female slaves who could no longer cover their bodies at all, and then walked out with all of them fainting.

Hu Hai could clearly feel the complicated and incomprehensible eyes of the non-Qin people around him looking at him, which were complex emotions of distrust, jealousy, and even a little hatred.

He knew that the deepening chasm between these people and the Qin people was quietly changing towards something he least wanted to see.

Looking at the blood-soaked seven female slaves, Hu Hai was silent for a while, using only meat to describe people, even if they were slaves? Has it reached such a point?

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