Many prefectures and counties in the Great Zhou Dynasty followed the example of Chang'an and set up the East City and the West City.

Not to mention Longcheng County, the throat of Jiangzhou, where trade from all directions is endless, and the east and west markets are naturally lively.

Most of the East Market was run by Han Chinese merchants, and it was close to the local wealthy streets, including Luming Street, and was biased towards serving the wealthy officials and families of Longcheng County.

The West Market is more open, close to the Penglang Ferry, gathering visitors from all over the world, more international, and there are many Hu merchants stationed in the city. The prosperity of the West Market has always surpassed that of the East Market.

Therefore, in the Great Week, there is also a saying of "buying things" when buying goods.

Like Chang'an, Luoyang, and many other prefectures and counties, the slave trading market in Longcheng County, in the mouth of the horse shop in the west market, specializes in trading slaves, horses, and other domestic animals, which shows that the legal status of the two is actually the same, and it is regarded as private property for people to choose and buy at will.

Ouyang Rong set foot here for the first time, and unexpectedly found that it was not chaotic and dirty, scolding and rudeness as expected, but... Be in apple-pie order.

On both sides of the street, slaves were placed separately from horses and livestock, and not all slaves were tied hand and foot in cages, which was the treatment of ordinary slaves, and many high-ranking slaves were dressed up with clothes and even jewelry by Hu merchants to attract high rollers at the door.

On the bulletin board at the entrance of Koumahang Street, there is even a standard slave price list, such as the prices of ordinary slaves, high-ranking slaves, good horses, famous horses, female slaves, and fine maids, which are divided into Hanhu.

However, the announcement only gives a reference price, which is naturally not a price ceiling.

The upper limit depends on the degree of scarcity, such as foreign curiosities, rare slaves, young and beautiful female slaves who can sing and dance, etc., and the price is definitely taking off.

Hu Shang, who can do business for his family all over the world, is naturally shrewd and philistine, and knows the habits and aesthetics of the dignitaries and nobles of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, Mei Ji and the steed are the two most expensive things in the horse dealership, and they will never go out of style.

However, the only thing that is slightly more relieved is that the procedures and systems of the slave trade in the Great Zhou Dynasty are very strict, after all, they can be sold with horses, and the latter is a strategic material.

At the end of this street was a city ordinance to assist in the management, and every slave trade had to be issued by a city order, otherwise both buyers and sellers would be whipped, and the city officials would be punished.

This is to prevent the good from being cheap, and in this dynasty, the boundary between good and low is extremely clear, and the system is strict in this regard.

At the same time, it is also for the purpose of taxation. The taxes extracted from the slave trade were the source of military funds for the Great Zhou, so the local city orders and other officials were not all under the management of the local county government, and there were special affairs offices in Liangjing and Zhudao.

The influence of the local government is not great.

Looking at it all the way, Ouyang Rong's eyes were opened.

Stepping into this street, he felt a strange sense of order, that is, civilized and barbaric, that is, gentle and violent, and most importantly, everyone involved in it took it for granted, even if it was the object of trafficking, slaves, the grief and anger was not why slaves existed, but why they fell into lowly status.

If you want to set foot in or even shake this barbaric order, a small county order is absolutely not enough, unless you can hold some of the imperial authority of the two capital centers.

Regarding things related to Tan Lang, Zhen was very arrogant, so he just took Ouyang Rong and his party to look at the bulletin board at the entrance of the street for a while, and walked directly to the largest Hu merchant store in Koumahang.

Before entering the door, Ouyang Rong glanced at the embroidered cloth sign above:

Jin Xiaokou horse line.

They were greeted by a large food merchant, of medium height, with a bushy beard, dark hair, and a large, hooked nose.

The big food merchant was followed by two Kunlun slaves, curly hair and black skin, strong as cattle, most of these Kunlun slaves came from Nanyang, because they were down-to-earth and upright, hard-working, they were old coolies, and the dignitaries of the Great Zhou Dynasty liked to store, but most of them were not used to work, but to show financial resources.

As soon as Ouyang Rong and Zhen's group entered the door, a pair of shrewd eyes under the hat of the big food merchant stared straight at them, as if they wanted to see the visitors through.

Look at these familiar Central Asian characteristics, and the cloth on the head...... Ouyang Rong was a little surprised, looking up and down.

Listening to the whispered explanations of Zhen and others, I realized that almost all of these big food and Persian Hu merchants came from the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion in Lingnan Road, which was the most prosperous place in Lingnan Road.

Although Lingnan Province, which is further south than Jiangnan Province, many areas have not been thoroughly developed, and it belongs to the barbarian land in the traditional impression of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is a place of exile for degraded officials that will never return.

But there is an exception to this wild 'south', that is, Guangzhou, the only big city in Lingnan Province, which is the largest port of the Great Zhou Dynasty, with a prosperous economy, a large number of foreign merchants, and a large number of merchant ships.

These all originate from a prosperous trade road famous at home and abroad, Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road.

Ouyang Rong estimated that it should be a maritime silk road that was beginning to take shape, but he didn't expect that the maritime trade of the Great Zhou Dynasty would be so developed and spread all over the country, and these big food and Persian merchants with exotic goods and slaves were so active in front of him.

I thought that the exchange would need to be translated or something, or I heard a lame voice, but I didn't expect that this big food merchant's Da Zhou Yayan was more fluent than Ouyang Rong, and even when he introduced himself, he also had an authentic name "Li Yan".

If you throw away your appearance, you really are no different from the Great Zhou people.

Zhen didn't seem surprised by this, and he didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered:

"Shopkeeper Li, bring out your best maid and Mei Ji here, and let my family Tan Lang choose, the age must not be more than twenty, and Hu Nu must be able to speak elegant words. It can't be a babbling barbarian language, the slave family can't stand this anymore. ”

"Big lady, please rest assured, the beauty that we Jinxiao selected and cultivated is naturally already king, skillful in elegant words, well-behaved and pleasing."

Li Yan touched his beard, his rich experience in seeing people made him very confident and even proud, and chuckled:

"And each has its own style, and it will please Xiaolangjun and return with his beautiful family."

Zhen was noncommittal, "It's better to be like this." After a pause, he added: "But my Tanlang's requirements may be a little too high." ”

The big food merchant smiled slightly, unimpressed.

The young man who has just reached the crown has a strong blood, how high can the requirements be?

Besides, the lady in front of her has a strong personality at first glance, and if this handsome gentleman is better than a woman's hand, the taste is easy to guess:

If you don't like the well-behaved, docile and clingy little jasper, you can get a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that is difficult to get from a noble lady;

If you don't like the lively and cheerful, spicy and straightforward charming sister, she can soothe the withdrawn character of the captivity in the deep house compound, and she has no resistance to the enthusiastic and empathetic royal sister who will take care of people.

However, Li Yan's face was still a little more serious.

First of all, he invited the noble lady and the handsome Langjun who looked around as if he had never seen much of the world to the elegant room for tea, leaving two Kunlun slaves to take care of the tea, and he went to the rear to personally pick people.

Ouyang Rong looked everywhere not because he hadn't seen a crooked fruit person, but because the painting style in front of him was too fucking weird. Perhaps in the eyes of Zhen and Liu Ashan, these are "monstrous and unenlightened feudal hus", they look no different, they are all ugly. But in his eyes......

Just imagine, in an antique shop, a short Arab with two black strong men, dressed in Han-style costumes, speaking fluent Chinese, released slaves of all races from foreign lands from their cages, and respectfully introduced them to you in Confucian shirts, hair tied and crowned......

It's a little weird, take another look.