After a night, the dead soldiers had already changed into guard clothes, and skillfully called Jiajing the viscount, and Jiajing also wore the runes of the Pansenmont family, pretending to be a descendant of the Pansenmont family, this identity was used by him as a way to enter the field, even if he was found to be an imposter afterwards, it would not cause any problems to his Badaling.

The auction was held as scheduled at the Colosseum in Ethiopia.

This is different from gladiatorial competitions, where nobles and people with official positions do not need tickets to enter the arena.

As for the wealthy merchants and commoners, if they want to enter the market to buy slaves, they need to spend an additional gold coin to buy tickets.

Jiajing showed the viscount rune and was allowed to enter by the guards. In some remote places, the viscount is a relatively rare nobleman, but in the imperial capital, the viscount is everywhere, and the warriors guarding the gladiatorial arena in Esabion did not even send anyone to guide Jiajing.

Of course, Jiajing didn't get angry with them, and gave Potter and another spy who were outside, and took thirty dead soldiers into the audience on the second floor without publicity, and sat down in a relatively sparsely populated place. On the first day of the auction, it was ordinary slaves, and Jiajing was looking for a remote corner, just waiting for an opportunity to observe the environment and not attract the attention of others. According to their plan, they will only start drilling into crowded places tomorrow, when it will be relatively easier to cause chaos.

The auction also provided a great opportunity for the nobles to woo each other and tie up with each other, and many familiar nobles sat together in twos and threes, showing off to each other which foreign beauty they had recently fallen in love with, and which famous master had bought weapons and armor.

However, on the first day of the auction, ordinary labor slaves were auctioned, and the real nobles would not attend, and even if they needed to buy slaves, they would send their subordinates to come, let alone those imperial officials. As a result, the first and second rows are much empty.

Soon after Jiajing and the others sat down, the auction officially began.

Jiajing looked around and found that there were indeed more than 200 samurai guarding the outermost layer of the auditorium, and there were also 200 crossbow archers, a group of ten people, scattered on the periphery of the gladiatorial arena under the protection of the samurai.

The number of people in the two floors of the audience outside was about seven or eight hundred, most of them were civilians and merchants who were fashionably dressed and looked quite wealthy, obviously planning to come and pick up the leaks and buy a few slaves to go back.

A little further inside is the noble seating area. Although there are not many nobles who come, and they are basically some small nobles and declining nobles, but the nobles still have to have the pomp of the aristocracy, basically every nobleman has a large number of guards or private soldiers, like Jiajing, which only has thirty guards, it is more shameful among these nobles, after all, the average nobleman has forty or fifty guards as bodyguards.

The official area closest to the performance platform of the gladiatorial arena is basically not crowded today, and there are just a few guys dressed as butlers and guards.

In the separation zone between the performance stage and the official's seat, there were fifty warriors in black armor, scattered, guarding the performance stage, most of them were carrying weapons, and the aura of fierce courage emanated from them, which made Jiajing's heart move slightly: It seems that this is the fifty silver warrior in the mouth of the samurai who brought us into the gladiatorial arena that day, but the other three golden knights did not appear, and I don't know if they were hidden in the audience or somewhere else.

Four middle-aged magicians of similar ages sat next to the magic pillar outside the stage.

These magic pillars are engraved with magic arrays underneath, which are filled with magic power, and magic crystals are placed, which can be activated at any time to form a magic barrier.

Before gladiatorial performances, the magic barrier was opened, but now there is a slave auction, and many buyers will come on the field to inspect the slaves, so they are not opened beforehand.

Fifty young men ranging in age from their teens to their forties, bound hand and foot with thick hemp ropes, strung together, walked out of the backstage gate under the escort of six heavily armed warriors, and stood side by side on the stage.

The auction of these slaves was presided over by an obese middle-aged man in his forties and fifties.

I saw him babble a few words, and then immediately cut to the chase: "There are a total of 1,933 slaves in today's auction, and now the auction is fifty slave groups, all of them are young and able-bodied slaves, as usual, the reserve price is two hundred and fifty gold, and each bid must not be less than ten gold. The auction takes place twenty minutes later, and those who wish to buy can enter the room from the first aisle to inspect the slaves. ”

Anyone who has participated in the auction knows that there are too many slaves in the auction on the first day, and they are basically auctioned in groups, first in a group of fifty slaves, then in a group of 100 people, or even in a group of 200 people.

In the end, it was a decentralized auction for those who needed but could not afford to buy too many slaves.

However, in the end, the physical fitness is often the worst, the elderly, children or scarred, or even some disabled slaves who do not affect their daily work.

Although the silver warriors are nothing in Jiajing's eyes, in the minds of most people, they are so powerful that they are invincible.

Under the cover of these silver warriors, the people who came to buy slaves were naturally not afraid of slave rebellion, and walked up to the performance stage from the No. 1 passage with confidence, observed these auctioned slaves up close, and even opened the slaves' mouths with their hands, and checked the slaves' teeth and other parts like buying livestock. Experienced slave owners can roughly judge the health of a slave by looking at his teeth, and whether he has a certain amount of labor.

The slaves were lifeless, standing on the stage like dead people, to be observed, to be touched. They already knew their fate in the future, and they didn't have the slightest idea of resisting. As the first slaves to be auctioned, they were the more docile of the many slaves.

Those who are unwilling to become slaves and desperately resist have become the best demonstrators for the auctioneer, either beaten to death or crippled, in order to achieve the effect of killing chickens and monkeys.

The slave trade was extremely profitable.

There are not many places to sell slaves in the imperial capital, most of them are collected outside and sold in the imperial capital, among which the Essebion Gladiatorial Colosseum slave auction is the largest and the cheapest.

These slaves were often purchased by merchants and farm slave owners. After they had carefully examined it, everyone made bids, usually in increments of ten gold and ten gold, and finally a small farm slave owner brought them back to his farm at the cost of 1,300 gold, and on average it was only 26 gold a slave.