Zhou Qingfeng rode his goat mount into the city of Ehekulun. In front of him, Ucha, the head of the Kulun department, was talking to Chu Yinggao. The two didn't know what they were talking about, anyway, they were elated to see that their son had just died. Abahai was also looking at the dilapidated buildings in the city, and occasionally glanced at Zhou Qingfeng and couldn't help but smile.

Your sister is a 'goat shell', and I curse you that all the people in the Kulen tribe are goats.

Zhou Qingfeng had a straight face, obviously he had just arrived at Ehekulun and became the 'Beizi' of the Venerable People, but he was not in a good mood at all. As Abahai said, the people of the city of Ekhkuren were a bunch of savages. The people here live in shacks, ragged and unkempt, as if they have rolled out of the mud.

The city was built at the confluence of three rivers and lived entirely on fishing, hunting and gathering. The social structure was a system of slavery, with a tribe of more than 10,000 people and only about 1,000 freemen fighters. In addition, there are more than a hundred aristocratic classes.

The head of the department, Ucha, had more than twenty sons, and the adult son could be called 'Belle', and his strength depended on his own ability. The underage is 'Beizi', and the strength depends on the degree of favoring. The Gu Na who was just slaughtered by Zhou Qingfeng seems to be quite favored, but the rule of the Kulun Department is 'whoever is more powerful will be in the position', and Zhou Qingfeng is more powerful, so he replaced Gu Na's position.

The further you go into the city, the higher the terrain rises, and the buildings change from underground shacks to wooden houses. The layout of the city was also encircled by slaves, warriors, and nobles. Wucha set up a banquet to invite Chu Ying, but deliberately ignored Zhou Qingfeng.

Zhou Qingfeng had just slaughtered someone's son, and he didn't bother to join in the fun. Inheriting the status of Gunna's bezin, he naturally inherited all of Gunna's property, and he was waiting to take over the windfall he had earned by fighting for his life.

However, Abahai was unwilling to follow Chu Ying, and the woman told Chu Ying plainly, 'If you don't become the lord of Jianzhou, don't think about me, otherwise I'd rather die'. Chu Ying actually went with her, and easily pushed Abahai to Zhou Qingfeng to take care of - if Abahai escaped, he would kill Zhou Qingfeng; Zhou Qingfeng was watched by the Kulen people in the city, and it was difficult to escape.

Zhou Qingfeng and Abahai are now friends in distress with the same disease, so they took her over to take care of her. Ucha sent an old housekeeper to settle Zhou Qingfeng and led him to the original Guna mansion - Uncle Zhou was originally full of expectations, but when he arrived at the ground, he found that it was just a small courtyard, a few dilapidated houses, three or five servants, and two Guna women.

"How many slaves does Guna have? Is there a field? Is there a manor? Don't tell me it's just such a small dirt yard! There's nothing fucking here, it's completely a family with four walls, and it can also be called 'Beizi', or it can be called a nobleman? Facing the slave kneeling in front of him, Zhou Qingfeng immediately went crazy. Such a poor shell has lost the face of the nobles! ”

"These are the only minions you drive. Fields and manors or something, don't think about it, you kid. The Kulens don't farm, they don't have any estates. Abahai dismounted and looked at the yard and said, "It's good that a wild girl like Ekhkulun can really have a yard to live in, which shows that Guna is really favored, and this is already better than I expected." ”

"Is this still called being favored? What would it be like to be unfavored? Zhou Qingfeng asked.

"The favored shells, the slaves, and the yard were all given by the father. The unfavored ones don't even have a title, so they can only support themselves. If you look at the warriors in the city, many of them are actually bred by the sons and nephews of the previous masters. They work in peacetime, go out on wartime, and if they are lucky, they can be canonized again. If you're unlucky enough to make a mistake, you'll have to be a slave. ”

Abahai revealed the cruelty of the slave society in a few words, which made Zhou Qingfeng feel that his next life would not be easy. He inspected the inside and outside of his small courtyard, but he couldn't find anything of value—the cotton wool on the bed was rotten and black, the kitchen utensils were all wood, there were no dishes and chopsticks for eating, and the most valuable thing was an iron pot.

"I can't live this day." Zhou Qingfeng felt that if he didn't take the living materials from the isolated island of time and space, he was afraid that he would not be able to guarantee three meals a day. But the things in the space-time island are not endless, and if they are consumed, they can only drink the northwest wind.

Abahai loved cleanliness, and when he entered the courtyard, he regarded himself as a hostess, and began to direct several servants to clean up. Zhou Qingfeng naturally didn't stop it, after all, he didn't understand Manchu and couldn't command at all. When he was at a loss, the old butler sent by Ucha asked inarticulately, "Master Pei is from the Ming Kingdom, right?" ”

The old butler had been speaking Manchu all the time, and this time it was changed to Chinese. He spoke very influently, and his accent was not clear, as if he had not spoken Chinese for many years.

Zhou Qingfeng was a little surprised, nodded and said, "Yes, my name is Zhou Qingfeng, and I am a Han." I'm a ......, and I was caught by that bastard Chu Ying. ”

The old butler was quite old, his face was wrinkled, and he walked slowly hunched over. He trembled slightly, stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Qingfeng's hand and said, "Old slave, I am also from the Ming Kingdom, and I haven't heard anyone speak Chinese for many years." ”

Saying this, the old housekeeper's tears fell. Zhou Qingfeng hurriedly helped him to sit on a stone and listened to him tell a story. It turned out that more than 30 years ago, Wang Gao of the Jianzhou Department rebelled, attacked the border cities of the Ming Dynasty, and captured a large number of people. The old housekeeper in front of him was surnamed Sun, who was originally a promising talent, but he became a slave in the war.

Wang Gao's rebellion was quelled, but Old Man Sun failed to return to his hometown, but was repeatedly resold by the Jurchens, and he became farther and farther away from his hometown. Because of his knowledge and calculation, he became the steward of Ucha, the head of the Kulen tribe, and now more than thirty years have passed.

Hearing Old Man Sun talk about sad things, Zhou Qingfeng was also sad. He asked, "The old man calls me Zhou Xiaozi, do you still have relatives at home?" ”

The old man shook his head, "My whole family of more than a dozen died more than thirty years ago. ”

"Does the old man still want to go back to his hometown?" Zhou Qingfeng asked again.

The old man shook his head again, "When I was first taken captive and enslaved, I escaped many times and suffered many punishments. Eventually, they turned me into a eunuch, and I gave up trying to run away. Because he fled back, he had no face to see his ancestors and ancestors. ”

After speaking, the old man cried bitterly, and Zhou Qingfeng was sad with him, only saying that he would invite the old man to come to chat often in the future, talk to him, and take care of him. Old Man Sun nodded in response and got up to leave. Zhou Qingfeng remembered another key and asked, "Old man, how should I live in the city?" ”

yes, I don't have enough food or clothing.

"It's up to you." Old Man Sun said, "You have to feed not only yourself, but also your slaves. In the past, when Guna lived, Utza would also send something to his son. Now you don't expect to go out hunting yourself.

In addition, if Ucha wants to fight against other tribes, you must also go with it, and you must bring your own weapons, armor, and dry food. If the preparation is not complete, Utcha will also punish you and take away your title, and then it will be even more painful. ”

Damn, slave society is dark!

Zhou Qingfeng was one head and two big, he looked left and right at his broken yard, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked Old Man Sun: "The kid is new to the school, he doesn't understand anything, and he asks the old man to show him a way out." ”

Old Man Sun said: "Although Brother Zhou is young, he is a monk, and his martial arts are not bad. When you get to the territory of this wild girl, don't think about the Han people, just grab whatever you want. Everything you grab is yours. ”

Everything depends on robbery?!

This really activated a new world view for Zhou Qingfeng, but how to grab it is also knowledge. He immediately touched his body, took out a small packet of sugar, handed it to Old Man Sun, and said, "You have suffered here for many years, I have nothing to honor, this is some white sugar, you can taste it." ”

The white sugar wrapped in straw paper is only about ten grams in it. Old Man Sun stretched out his finger and licked it in his mouth, and immediately smiled and said, "It's so sweet, it's a good thing." ”

Carefully accepting Zhou Qingfeng's 'heavy gift', Old Man Sun said again: "You killed Guna, but you don't have to worry too much. The customs of this wild girl are different from those of our Han people, and Uca will be a little unhappy, but Guna's brother is only afraid that he will be happy to have one less to compete for favor.

If you want to live well in Ekhkulen, you still need to get more slaves under your hands. After all, you can't rely on you alone when you go out to loot and fight, so you have to have a dozen or so young people who can fight. You are a monk, if you have a little stone into gold to refine the sugar you just had, you can also exchange some slaves with others. ”

Zhou Qingfeng nodded slightly, "How many Han slaves are there in this Hekulun?" I don't know Manchu, but I still have to be able to speak Chinese. ”

"There are very few slaves in the Han family, at most a few dozen. However, they are not good at warfare, and the Kulun people do not like farming, and they have a low status in this Hekulun. If you want to change, I can find a few for you. But you'd better get some Jurchen slaves who can fight, this Ehekulun is a place where there is no king's law. Old Man Sun suggested.

"How do you change slaves?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.

"Ekhkuren lacks everything, such as a pound of salt can be exchanged for a good young and strong slave, an iron pot can be exchanged for two, and a good horse can be exchanged for three or four. Cloth, liquor, herbs, anything can be exchanged. After Old Man Sun finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Qingfeng, who was empty-handed, and said, "It depends on what you can get?" ”

There are a lot of things in the space-time island, but Zhou Qingfeng is unwilling to exchange them easily. He hopes to improve the value of the raw materials based on Ehekulen's raw materials, and then exchange them for everything he needs - after all, blood transfusion is not as good as hematopoiesis, and the islands of time and space will always be emptied, and he has to find his own way.

"Old man, what is produced by this Hekulen?"

"There's a fart in this place, and there's nowhere to plant if you want to. Just pick some wild fruits, catch some wild beasts, and nothing else. These ways to make money by digging ginseng and pearl diving are all the only things that can be done by the head of the Wucha Department, and no one else is allowed. ”

"And will we have any merchants here?"

"Vendors? Nope. We're too remote here, and the tribesmen like to rob everywhere, so dare that trader come? ”

After asking around and couldn't think of any good way to make a fortune, Zhou Qingfeng scratched his head and felt that this Ehekulun was really a terrible place.