Chapter 50: Human Traffickers
It is precisely for this reason that although the quality of life of immigrants on the island of Taiwan is not bad, there are too many singles, many people have saved money, but they can't marry a wife, so they can only be a masturbation party at night and eat themselves, and because the number of marriageable women is small, the value of the dowry has risen sharply, and if you don't take out a considerable dowry, it is even more difficult to marry a wife than to ascend to the sky.
Therefore, in Tamsui, Keelung, Kaohsiung and other places on the island of Taiwan, the most prosperous industry today is probably the brothel, many onshore brothels have found this business opportunity, and have run to these places to open brothels, and even some free prostitutes who run the single gang have also taken the initiative to take a boat to rent a house to do skin and meat trading.
In this way, although the problem of malaria is not very serious, it is estimated that it will not be long before the problem of venereal diseases will become a headache for sea wolves.
What's more, there are a lot of soldiers in the sea wolf, and these soldiers are also treated very well, and after working with the sea wolf for a few years, they all have considerable savings, and when people have money, they naturally want to ask for a wife, but it is also difficult to find a wife when they are soldiers.
Yu Xiaotian didn't want his soldiers in his army to become betrayals, so he has been racking his brains to find ways to buy or use other methods from all over the world to collect women, in order to solve the problem of the imbalance between men and women on the island of Taiwan.
And now Denglai, the proportion of school-age women among the hungry people is relatively high, because Liaodong has been fighting all year round, men have died one after another, and there are more and more women, and now Dongjiang Town has also begun to be in chaos, so many refugees have fled to Denglai, among which naturally a large number of school-age women are indispensable.
So Liu Bu saw this opportunity and decided to be a trafficker for a period of time, so he went to Ninghai Prefecture to dredge up and down.
The profession of human trafficker is not illegal in this era, although it is not good to say, but as long as no one complains, the government has always turned a blind eye to it.
As long as the relationship is in place and the traffickers are traded, the government is too lazy to care, so since the end of October, Liu Wei has been inquiring about Guò and has established contact with some adult traffickers within a radius of 100 miles in the surrounding area.
He claimed that in Fujian, there was a large industry, among which there were naturally brothels, which required a large number of young women, and there was no restriction on the young ones, and the big ones in their thirties could be charged, and the price was good, as long as they sent people to Xishan Village.
And in this era, it is not very difficult to buy women, since it is a human trafficker, there are many means, whether explicit or covert, cheating, robbing, and spending money to buy it are not a problem.
In addition, now the hungry people are everywhere, many women in order to survive, they are weak, among the hungry people, can not rob those strong men, either can only find a strong man to rely on, or rely on the family to maintain, it is really impossible to survive, some women are willing to sell themselves, in addition to finding a way to live for themselves, but also for the family to exchange some food.
So at this time, it is very easy to buy a woman, and you can even exchange it for a good woman without spending money, or just by giving a bag of food.
As soon as Liu's different request was put forward, it was undoubtedly good news for those local traffickers, who had previously gotten women, and it was generally difficult to sell them locally, and even if they were sold, the quantity was very small, and most of them were bought back by some large families to be used as maids, but they couldn't absorb much.
Therefore, after they get a woman, they often have to be transferred to the mainland of Shandong, or even to the south of Zhili, before they can make a move, and they have to take a lot of risks along the way, some people may escape, and some women may die of illness on the road, although the profits are quite large, but the risk is not small.
Now there is a local buyer who is willing to buy women in large quantities, although the price is certainly not too high, but it can be sold on the spot, eliminating the trouble of long-distance transportation, and the realization is fast enough, and it can be repaid in a few days, and then continue to find the source of goods.
Therefore, these adult traffickers have agreed to Liu's different requests, and negotiated the price with Liu, dividing the women into several grades, and the prices are differentiated, girls under the age of thirteen can buy one for only two taels of silver, and women between the ages of fourteen and eighteen are the most expensive, asking for eight taels of silver, and the rest are also divided into two grades, and the price is not high, generally the average is less than five taels of silver to buy a woman of the right age to have children.
This kind of price is much lower than the price of the sea wolf buying women on the southern land in the past, and the lowest price is at least ten taels of silver to buy women from the human market, and the lowest is at least ten taels of silver, and a young girl like this kind of teenager is generally more than twenty taels of silver, and the beautiful ones will be more expensive and even reach fifty taels of silver.
But here, the girl only needs two taels of silver, and the girl only needs eight taels of silver, which can be said to be low enough.
But Liu Wei put forward an incredible request, that is, the woman he wants must be Tianzu, that is, he can't wrap his feet, but he doesn't want anyone who binds his feet!
This requirement is really incomprehensible, to say that any woman with a natural foot, the family background will definitely not be too good, because the labor in the family is limited, and they are reluctant to let their own women wrap their feet, so they will lose a strong labor force, so as long as they are bound feet, they are basically families with better family backgrounds and worry-free food and clothing, so they will let their women bind their feet.
Liu Wei said that he wanted women to go to the south to work as prostitutes, and they should definitely be foot-bound women, with finer skin and tender meat, which would be more attractive, but Liu Wei didn't want foot-bound women, as long as those rough-handed Tianzu women, this makes people wonder why.
But this kind of thing traffickers don't bother to care, Liu is a customer, the customer is God, of course, there is no such saying in this era, but they also know that to meet the requirements of customers, Liu Wei wants something, just give him something, don't do it, these women with bound feet, you can stay and continue to transport them to the south to sell, and the price is estimated to be better.
In addition to buying women from these traffickers, Liu Wei simply bought women himself directly in Xishan Village, which would be cheaper, like some girls under the age of thirteen, and even only needed a bucket of beans or heterozygous noodles or brown rice to exchange one.
Like some school-age girls, it is slightly more expensive, but it is one stone of grain, which can almost be exchanged for one, and a beautiful figure can be exchanged for two stones of grain at most, which is much cheaper than buying from human traffickers.
For some women who are left with orphans, widows and children, they don't even need to spend a little money or food, they only need to eat, and they can be put into his pocket.
In just half a month, Liu Wei bought hundreds of women in Xishan Village, loaded them on a ship and transferred them, temporarily transported them to Shidao Bay, and then recuperated there, and then changed to a big ship and transferred them to the south in batches.
At the same time as Liu Wei bought women, he found that among the hungry people, there were also many orphans who had no home, and for these orphans, regardless of men and women, Liu Wei also took them all in and transferred them together, as much as possible before the sea froze and froze.
Just when Liu was busy buying the population, suddenly a shocking news came back from the Dengzhou Mansion, Kong Youde, who was sent to Guanning by Sun Yuanhua to help, suddenly erected a counter-flag on the Cangzhou Mansion for some reason, and led the soldiers under his command to suddenly burst out, slaughtering several large villages in Cangzhou, and after robbing them on a large scale, he turned around and pounced back on the Dengzhou Mansion.
Along the way, Kong Youde also gathered Li Jiucheng and others, who were also old generals of the Dongjiang River, and constantly gathered the Liaodong people scattered in Shandong or the old Dongjiang Army to join them, and now the strength of the army has suddenly swelled to more than 4,000 people, like a storm swept through the places they passed, conquered several county towns in a row, slaughtered and looted, and waved the soldiers towards Dengzhou Mansion.
This news shocked everyone at once, although Liu Wei and the sea wolf tribesmen were already mentally prepared, but when they got the news, they were still dizzy one by one, and they only felt that there were stars in front of them, of course, this is a star of worship, and they all admired their lord Yu Xiaotian to the sky.
Liu Wei even secretly shouted in his heart, God! Who the hell is the lord? It is really capable of reaching the sky, and it is possible to be so far away in the south that such a big chaos will occur on the side of Denglai.
How could this be done if we didn't have the ability to reach the sky? This is simply comparable to immortals, no wonder there were many brothers in the past, always saying that their lord is not a mortal, but a person with great magical powers that penetrates the heavens and the earth, and those so-called immortals believed in by demon thieves like the White Lotus Sect and Maitreya Sect, their lord is the real great supernatural power!
So even if they were a little bit dissentful before, but after hearing the news, they were completely shaken away, where do they still have the slightest thought, dare to have bad intentions!
Since their lord has such magical powers, if they dare to have two ambitions, it will not be the same as being discovered immediately, and they will definitely not end up well, so since they are on this boat, then they can only follow it, no matter where they go, they can only have one heart with their lord.
The news spread to Ninghai Prefecture, and immediately caused a big chaos in the Ninghai Prefecture government, Kong Youde made such a fuss, things must not be good, you must know that Denglai here, there are a large number of Liao people who fled back from Liaodong, between Shandong and Liao, the relationship between Shandong and Liao, these years have been very tense, Shandong people everywhere bullied these Liao people who fled back, and Liao people have long been resentful.