Chapter 8 Buying Li Dingguo
Walking on the streets of Baishui County, thinking back to the previous qiē, Zhang Hongbin also felt that he was indeed too arrogant.
Dad is a serious Ming landlord, although he is not as bitter as the literati, but I am afraid that he will not be able to look down on the behavior of rebellion. Not to mention, this person who committed the troublemaker is actually his own son. If it is some extremists, I am afraid that Zhang Hongbin's ass will be broken, and even directly sent to the government to completely sever the father-son relationship with him or something. Well, just like Hai Rui.
It's a pity that Hai Rui is the only one after all, otherwise he wouldn't be the only Hai Rui.
He is still young, but time does not allow him to develop slowly, which means that in the case of rapid development, his every move will be under the supervision of his father. Isn't it hard to sneak around when you're known about it? Therefore, he simply opened his words and said that Zhang Hongbin's bet was on Master Zhang's love for him. In fact, he was right.
Master Zhang may not be enlightened, but being such a big landlord is naturally not a fool. Zhang Hongbin is also reasonable, now that the eunuchs are in power, the scholars are suffering, and the local corrupt officials are rampantly expropriating and expropriating, the most terrible thing is the natural and man-made disasters in Shaanxi in the past two years, and the people are not able to make a living.
If in the past, the government levied a little more ruthlessly, and the harvest was acceptable, so it would have endured. But now that the harvest is bound to be cut off, if you still have to pay enough taxes, it will completely close the people to a dead end. There is no one in this world who is slashed, and when someone slashes at his head, he will stand and let others cut it.
If you resist, you may die, or you may even cause your family to die. But if you don't resist, your family will die just like yourself. In that case, why not resist?
**, and even a large-scale uprising is inevitable, and if such days continue for three or four years, then there will be no good people even in the whole territory of Shaanxi. Master Zhang even began to wonder if he should take precautions.
When Zhang Hongbin took Wang Er out, Old Man Zhang was also handing over the housekeeper. There is only one thing to explain, that is, to buy a big house in the same state capital, and the Zhang family will move there next year. As for the world here, leave a steward here to watch. Steward Zhang is the chief steward of Zhang's mansion, so he naturally doesn't have to stay.
Steward Zhang may also feel strange, why does a good person want to live in the same state capital? Or why did Master Zhang drive the third young master to Xishan before?
It can be seen that the master still loves the third young master very much, even much stronger than before, so it is incomprehensible to do such a thing. But it is incomprehensible, since the main family has explained, Steward Zhang also began to go down and arrange.
As for the other side, Zhang Hongbin also quickened his pace at this moment and walked towards the location of the human market.
I was going to visit the county seat of Daming, but I found that the health situation here may be okay, and the streets are very few sundries, and the people of Daming have handled their own health situation very well, which is much better than the situation of the sanitary environment that regressed to the Western Middle Ages after the Qing Dynasty.
But the people here look at themselves as if they saw the plague god. The woman from a good family has long been gone, even if she sees one by chance, she ran back home as soon as possible, and closed the door tightly without saying a word...... Sure enough, is he already notorious here in Whitewater?
It doesn't seem exactly, at least the vendors have no intention of leaving, on the contrary, they are very kind to sell him all kinds of things. It seems that the ex should be a master who buys things without bargaining...... The inherited memory is still too fragmented, and there is no such one.
Zhang Hongbin of the human market didn't know where it was, but Wang Er, as a local native, would not be too difficult to find the human market. This time, he came out with himself, firstly as a guard, and secondly, as a local native, to pick people for Zhang Hongbin in the human market.
"Third Young Master, why do you have time to hang out here?" When I came to the entrance of the human market, someone from the tooth shop came over.
It is said to be a human market, but it is actually the entrance to a slum. Rents are the cheapest, but they are the most suitable for housekeeping people who have been sold into slavery. However, because of this, it is destined not only to be lawless and lawless, but also to be the worst place in terms of sanitation.
Ordinary people rarely come to buy people in person, or those who can afford to buy people are rich and noble, so they will naturally not do this kind of small thing themselves.
It's just that Zhang Hongbin is rarely independent, and he also hopes to select some teams, so he naturally has to check it himself.
"Can't I come and have a look?" Zhang Hongbin tilted his head.
"The third young master is coming, naturally he is very welcome, but do you want a little help? The villain has been a tooth man for more than ten years, what kind of subordinate the third young master will say a word, and ensure that the villain will choose a satisfactory one for you! The tooth man immediately enthusiastically trumpeted his abilities.
"Shi Yanzi, if you are really so capable, can you still end up with a share that can only solicit customers at the mouth of the alley?" Wang Er is an insider, and he directly exposed him.
"Yo, isn't this Second Brother Wang? What's the matter, check the third young master? Shi Lingzi obviously recognized Wang Er and asked cordially.
"I'm now the Third Young Master's guard." Wang Er said expressionlessly.
In fact, everyone could see that he was very unhappy as a guard. But even if you are not happy, you have to be in front of this guard.
Shi Lingzi is the master of watching people eat, and when he saw Wang Er's appearance, he knew that it was best not to mix this matter. He simply smiled, then moved out of the way.
Entering the human market, the environment here is really different from the outside, and there is a strong smell in the air, which makes people very uncomfortable.
"Young master, if you are not used to it, the villain is willing to help select people." Wang Er also saw Zhang Hongbin's watch, and stepped forward and asked in a low voice.
"It's okay, keep going...... By the way, what's there to note here? Zhang Hongbin was not familiar with this place either, so he asked.
"To put it simply, if you want to buy it, you have to buy it from the people who have reported it to the government, and you must not buy the kind of people who sell themselves into slavery. This kind of person can't be trusted, and there is no guarantee. One is not good, and will even escape after murdering the master's house. Wang Er thought about it and said.
"For example, those types who sell their own bids, or sell their bodies to bury their fathers?" Zhang Hongbin was stunned.
"There are real and false things that sell yourself to bury your father, what tests your eyesight, if it is not necessary, it is best not to buy it. Even if the other party's life experience is indeed worthy of sympathy. Wang Er sighed.
In the following time, I really encountered a lot of situations where Wang Er said that he sold himself. These are all displaced people from other places, who can't survive in their hometowns and have to go to other places. However, they also could not survive in a foreign country, and had to sell themselves to get a chance to live.
Such people occupy the majority in the human market, and many people just stick a straw mark in their heads and stand aside waiting for someone to buy it.
Looking at their yellow and thin faces, Zhang Hongbin was indeed moved with compassion, but according to Wang Er's statement, he found a special person.
"Third Young Master, it's rare to come once! It just so happened that not long ago, a batch of new goods were purchased, all of whom were serious and innocent children of good families. They have suffered a war disaster, and their original home is gone, and if we hadn't kindly taken them in, I'm afraid they would have starved to death on the streets. Ren Yazi kindly introduced.
In fact, Zhang Hongbin knew that these people organized people to buy their children when others were helpless when they were in a disaster, and of course they also accepted young and young women. These refugees may also have a glimmer of hope that their children can be bought by good families, so they have to get rid of them.
No matter what the source is, it is recognized by the government, so Zhang Hongbin has nothing to worry about.
At least, following yourself will not be much worse than other buyers.
Renyazi expressed his intention to buy, and Renyazi quickly walked out with more than 30 children. The oldest of these children was less than seven years old, and the youngest was only three years old. No matter how small it is, it will not be there, and it doesn't make much sense to buy it, and it takes more energy to take care of it.
These thirty children are obviously malnourished, and the human tooth will naturally not provide good food and drink, and they are also worried that they will flee if they have the strength. However, human teeth at least know how to package, and know that if it is too miserable, it will affect the customer's desire to buy, so at least he can eat half full. So the children Zhang Hongbin saw were not healthy, but at least they were mental.
"If I want it all, how much?" Zhang Hongbin didn't bother to look at it, at first glance, there were more men and fewer women, so he simply had a good time.
"All of them?" Ren Yazi was stunned for a moment, and then showed an excited expression.
"Give me a good price!" Zhang Hongbin said impatiently.
"It's not expensive, it can be sold for five hundred taels of silver!" Ren Yazi's eyes rolled, and he immediately quoted a price.
"Three hundred taels, if you don't agree, let's change it!" Zhang Hongbin turned around and left.
"Eh, Third Young Master, you can't kill so badly!" Renyazi cried, didn't he say that the third young master wouldn't bargain?
In fact, the cost of thirty people is less than three taels of silver, including the cost of the fare is less than ten taels of silver. If it weren't for such huge profits, who would do this unreasonable industry? But the price of three hundred taels is about to be bought, which is obviously a little bit broken.
"Three hundred and twenty taels, how about giving you twenty taels of errands?" Zhang Hongbin said with great certainty.
"This ......" Ren Yazi hesitated.
"Come on, you should have fun with twenty taels more. Recently, there is a great drought, and everyone is short of food, who has the spare money to buy manpower? And if the child is not raised, he will not be able to be used at all, and he will be completely at a loss now. Again...... This purchase ...... "Wang Er knows the way better, after all, he was originally a lower riba person.
"Okay, deal!" Renyazi gritted his teeth, and he had to admit that Wang Er was very reasonable.
The most important thing is that Wang Er's family seems to be planning to spread out the matter of the purchase price. This is a very taboo thing, but if Wang Er really wants to do it, he will not do it. What really made him scruple was the Zhang family behind the third young master, in Baishui County, one acre and three points of land, the Zhang family's words were more useful than the county master, but he couldn't offend alone. Besides, three hundred and twenty taels is also a double earning.
Take out the contract of sale of these thirty children, it is obvious that it is a death contract, which means that the children's children, even for generations, are their own private property. And the transfer part, only the hand of the human tooth, can be said to be a first-hand goods. If someone else buys it or changes hands, it will be marked on the back of the contract. After all, even if it's a simple contract of sale, it's proof of identity. Without the contract, these children are black households, and that is called miserable.
After taking the contract, Zhang Hongbin followed Renyazi to the government to register, and since then these thirty people have been in his name.
However, he cares a lot about the name on a contract.
Yulin Li Dingguo, what an energetic name. Zhang Hongbin even wondered if he had read it wrong, or if it was Cun Zài with the same name and surname.
He finally called Li Dingguo out, a six-year-old baby, but he has perseverance and calmness that others don't have.
is a potential stock...... It's worth cultivating!