Chapter 803: The Slave Trade

Qi Jingtong was ready to retreat.

Qi Jingtong has been assisting Zhu Houhuang in the Privy Council for several years, and with Zhu Houhuang's regularization of the army below, power has become more and more concentrated in the Privy Council. The Privy Council has become an important position after the Prime Minister. Although Qi Jingtong is old, he can still handle it, but for the sake of Qi Jiguang, he decided to retire.

Not why.

Dongyong is still too young, the father and son live in a high position together, and they will inevitably be feared by the superiors, if he retreats, King Yong will naturally compensate, and it won't be long before Qi Jiguang can stand out and become the general of Yongguo.

As soon as Qi Jingtong retreated, he began to sort out the affairs of his fiefdom.

The land that Zhu Houhuang gave several titles was in Luzon, and he also referred to the uneven arrangement of the dogs' teeth, and arranged the prefectures and counties directly under the Yongguo in key places, and the fiefs of each family were divided by the prefectures and counties of the Yongguo. Obviously, it is to limit the strength of the princes of all walks of life.

However, Qi Jingtong didn't care about this. He didn't think about rebelling anyway.

However, Qi Jingtong scratched his head about the land fiefdom, and he had already sent the old servants of the family to visit it.

The land is good land, although it is all wasteland, but the terrain is flat, although there are some mountains around, but the slope is not big, you can also plant some fruit trees and tea trees or something, it is not useless. And if nothing else, the place is big. Although Qi Jingtong is just an uncle, this piece of land that belongs to him has been reclaimed and tens of thousands of acres, after all, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and he has a big stroke. I don't know how much to circle out. Even better than some small counties.

But Qi Jingtong was very annoyed.

It's nothing else that troubles people. Lack of people.

As a high-ranking official in Dongyong, Qi Jingtong has tried to find a way because of the lack of people.

If nothing else, just in the Privy Council in which he is in charge, many plans have been shelved due to a lack of personnel. And now he is not in charge of business, and he is still worried about the lack of people.

There is a point of Tuntian here, it is a small village, there are about more than 100 families, and it has to resist the infestation of wild people from all over the world, if it is not for the Qi family here, the above feels that there is no foundation left, and this point of Tuntian will not be located here.

"Sir." An old slave of the Qi family came over. He held a pot of tea and said, "Is the master worried about the young master?" ”

Qi Jingtong smiled lightly and said: "What kind of person my son is, how can I not know, I will definitely emerge in the future, don't worry, I'm worried about the fiefdom, this fief is the foundation of my Qi family for hundreds of years, and even from now on, my vein will be rooted in the fief, even if the fief is removed in the future, I will not leave." But how to run the fiefdom, I don't know how to start, lack of people, do you want to get a group of people from your hometown in Shandong? ”

Although Qi Jingtong's ancestral home is Dingyuan, he has been in Shandong for a long time and has no relatives in Dingyuan, but he has a lot of old days in Shandong.

"Sir." The old housekeeper said: "Finding someone from my hometown is full of twists and turns, and there are not many people who can come over, such a big fiefdom, only relying on so many people, when will it be reclaimed?" The old slave has a strategy, and he doesn't know what to talk about, and he shouldn't talk about it. ”

Qi Jingtong said: "Is there anything that should not be said, do you still come to me to sell Guanzi?" Speak. ”

"Yes." The old butler said, "Can the master sell slaves?" ”

Qi Jingtong said: "Sell slaves." ”

To be honest, Qi Jingtong is not short of money.

Zhu Houhuang is still very generous to officials, especially upper-level officials, such as prime ministers, young ministers, privy envoys, imperial historians and other first-level officials, all of whom are ten thousand two years. Even if there is merit, there is also a reward, so in Dongyong, the official's salary is also a huge expense, this time it is the military expenditure. Even now, Dongyongfu County can only support administrative expenses, and most of the other expenses are other financial support, such as the income of Shaofu, such as the tax revenue of various ports.

Qi Jingtong himself counted carefully, and had at least 100,000 savings. In Dongyong, there are still a lot of fields in Luzon, which were all rewarded by Zhu Houhuang. Of course, the harvest of the fields was not very good, because there was not enough labor, and he did not have the heart to spend time on the fields, but only rented them to others. Even so, it's not too easy to rent.

Without him, Dongyong lacks labor, and everyone who has arms and legs has been divided into land, and who still has the heart to plant other people's land, so this land is rented out, but it is not barren, as for what to plant, what to harvest, it never cares. If it weren't for the Dongyong law, there was a clause against abandonment, once someone abandoned the wasteland, a few years later, the land would be put into the government.

Qi Jingtong was ready to sell all these fields and concentrate on reclaiming the fiefdom.

So after all, I was interested in selling slaves.

The old slave of the Qi family said: "Master, His Royal Highness ordered the sea utility to go to Java to plunder, and Java is not a rich place, this comes and goes several times, and there is nothing to rob, but the old slave found that they all brought some dingkou over, very cheap, almost a few taels of silver There is a person, it is said that there are not many others in Java, there are many people, although the black and thin ones seem to be monkeys, but the good and bad are people." If the lord sells some of them, plus the old people in the family, it is enough to open a Zhuangzi in the fiefdom, and after that, you can take your time. ”

Qi Jingtong asked: "These are easy to use, they don't understand official language, can they communicate?" ”

The old slave of the Qi family said: "Master, it's a fuss, it's just a dog, and they know what's going on after a lot of whips, let alone a person, as long as they teach a good lesson, it's enough for them to understand what to do." There was a cold cruelty in his words.

Qi Jingtong was still not at ease, and said, "Where to sell, I'll take a look." ”

The old slave of the Qi family said: "Nandu is the capital no matter what, and it is not good to do this business in the capital, it is all on the side of Star City." ”

Star City is located on the island opposite Nandu, which is the location of what was later Singapore, but now it is Seung Cheng County, which exists as an auxiliary port of Nandu.

Qi Jingtong decided to take a look, and the old slave of the Qi family immediately went to arrange the boat.

Qi Jingtong is also a hereditary commander no matter what, and there is no shortage of money in the family, at least pomp and circumstance are indispensable, even if Qi Jingtong left the support given by the official family that belonged to the privy envoy, he traveled by himself, brought several servants, three or five carriages, crossed the sea by boat, and came to Star City.

Star City is still relatively prosperous.

First of all, it was developed early, before the south was built, there was already a county here, if it wasn't for the upper echelons of Dongyong who thought that it would be too uncomfortable to set up the capital on an island, and it would be impossible to say that the later south capital was expanded on the basis of Star City. Even so, this county has made great efforts to build the south because tens of thousands of people, and many things are produced here, and the household registration is almost tens of thousands. It is a rare large county with nearly 10,000 households near the southern capital.

Of course, the proportion of Han people in this county is relatively small, and it is also a matter of course.

However, as soon as Qi Jingtong entered Xingcheng County, he felt the atmosphere of the human market. Countless people were tied by a rope and pulled by several people, not daring to go to the middle of the road, but walking on both sides, in rags, men and women, with green grass stuck in their heads. The scale is very large, and it seems that Xingcheng County is not a big county, but a special people's city.

This feeling, after he entered the West Market, felt even deeper.

This is an open-air bazaar, countless people are circled together, some are selling, some are pulling business, all kinds of people have it, these people who want to sell, there are also differences, some are just strong men, some are women, of course, the most high-end seller, should be orchids. But there are very few of them, blonde and blue-eyed, and I don't know where I got them.

There are also some children, none of them are too young, the youngest is seven or eight years old, no matter how young they are, they can't survive, and there are no old people, because the old man was killed at all, and if he brought it here alive, it means that several times as many people have been killed, even if Qi Jingtong has led soldiers, he also feels a deep chill. Slammed on the armrest of the wheelchair.