"Is there anything to say about June 18?"

Fang Lan was confused.

Qin Zhen said meaningfully.

"You'll know when the time comes."

After briefly discussing the matters related to transportation, Fang Lan left in a hurry.

And Qin Zhen returned to the inn with people.

"Zhao Ming, there is something you need to run." Qin Zhen simply told everyone about Fang Lan's cooperation with him, and then handwritten a letter and enveloped it and handed it to Zhao Ming: "Later, you take a few people to the Fang family, follow the Fang family back to the small fishing village, and give this letter to Liu Juan, she will know how to do it." ”

"Gotcha!" Zhao Ming immediately ordered a few people, brought enough dry food and water and prepared to leave.

"Wait, bring the crossbow with you." Qin Zhen reminded: "There are many bandits in the mountains and forests, and it never hurts to be careful." ”

Last time, he had a fight with the mourning biao of Mao'er Mountain, it is said that this kid is narrow-minded, coupled with the matter of Brother Scar, Qin Zhen is worried that this gang of bandits will retaliate.

Just take the opportunity to see the Fang family's ability.

After all, the importance of transportation and logistics is self-evident, if the Fang family can't even walk comfortably, they will be intercepted by bandits from time to time, and the matter of cooperation will have to be discussed again.

"Zhen'er, the poems you wrote are also too good, don't you see those young ladies and girls, they are all crying, we have heard many girls say that you are the first affectionate in Jiangnan!" Li Han gave Qin Zhen a thumbs up.

They all grew up in a village, so why can't they export themselves?

"Don't be poor, there's still something to do."

Qin Zhen looked at Chen Shu.

"Uncle Chen, do you know where you can buy people in this city?"

"You're talking about the bitter kiln, right?" Chen Shu hesitated: "I haven't been to Offshore City, you wait, I'll go out and ask you." ”

Human trafficking is sparse and common in this world.

Before talking about bitter kilns, we have to talk about the class system of this world.

To put it simply, it is Shinong Industry and Commerce.

Ordinary people with household registration are considered to be normal people, with basic human rights, and the local government has the responsibility to protect their safety, but they can be upright people.

Those who lose their household registration will be separated from the status of normal people and become inferior slaves.

There are many reasons for losing your household registration, such as a friend of the Nine Clans who you don't know at all has committed a crime, which leads to you being implicated; Or maybe because he fled to another place, he lost his household registration certificate and became a homeless person, and if he couldn't get the certificate, he would be treated as a mountain bandit and take a good job, or he would be reduced to a black household and sold into a bitter kiln.

Etcetera.

Of course, the majority are trafficked by traffickers and forced into slavery because they cannot survive.

And the bitter kiln has become the last place of hope for these homeless people, or the abyss of bones.

"Zhen'er, what are you buying people for?" Li Han's face was puzzled: "Aren't there dozens of people here?" Why bother buying those bitter slaves? ”

In his opinion, the people in the bitter kiln were either rogues who were arrested by the government or refugees who were beaten to death, thin as skin and bones, with no strength, no brains, no brains, no roots, proper rice buckets.

What is the use of buying?

"We're short of people." Qin Zhen said slowly.

What he's going to do next will take a lot of people!

"Lack of people?" Li Han looked puzzled: "Dozens of people are not enough for you to make?" What are you going to do? ”

At this time, Chen Shu ran in: "Ask clearly, there is a bitter kiln five or six streets away from us, I heard that there are still a lot of people, and many big families pick slaves to go there." ”

Qin Zhen waved his hand and led people towards the bitter kiln.

"The best Linzhou skinny horse is sold cheaply!"

"Strong laborers, slave animals, take a look at the masters!"

"The clean little eunuch, who just ran out of the palace, don't miss the master who likes the boy."

From a distance, I saw a messy street, which was incompatible with the bustling coastal city, like the extreme black hidden in the sun.

Swaggering traffickers hawk unscrupulously in the streets, and scrawny slaves huddle in ragged corners, reduced to goods to be picked up for.

The few slaves still looked around expectantly, fantasizing about being rescued from the fire, but most of them were already desperate, and there was a palpitating numbness in their gray eyes.

They are slaves here, and they are still slaves when they are bought.

For them, there is no hope, nothing more than moving from one hell to another.

From the moment they were branded as slaves, no matter what their previous status was, this moment was no longer human, but a commodity to be trampled on.

"Yo, this master looks at the face student, it should be the first time to come to us, right?"

A shrewd middle-aged man took the initiative to greet him.

There was a sparkle of ill intent in those filthy eyes, and he rubbed his hands, cracked a mouthful of yellow teeth, and asked very enthusiastically.

"I don't know what the little brother is called?"

"The surname is Qin." Qin Zhen's face was expressionless.

"Qin Ye!" The middle-aged man grinned and said: "Just call me a knife face, I am the "shopkeeper" of this piece, whether it is old or young, male or female, or mutilated signs, we all have them in our hands, and I don't know what object Qin Ye wants?" ”

Being called a master by a forty-year-old obscene uncle, Qin Zhen felt a little absurd in his heart.

"Knife face? You don't have a knife on your face, do you? Li Han blurted out.

"Zhang Mazi has to have pockmarks on his face?" Knifeface asked rhetorically.

"How many able-bodied people do you have in your hands?" Qin Zhen asked straight to the point.

Dao was stunned for a moment, and looked at the young man in front of him again, as if he was thinking about the potential meaning of Qin Zhen's words.

There was a silence for a while, and he asked tentatively.

"Dare to ask Qin Ye, what do you want so many people for?"

Without waiting for Qin Zhen to speak, Chen Shu said impatiently.

"Do you know the rules? The buyer does not ask about the origin of the goods, the seller does not ask the buyer about the usefulness of the buyer, and your shopkeeper should know this truth better! Just ask how many people you have, if you are willing to sell, just say, if you don't want to sell, get out of the way! ”

"Don't be angry, I'm slacking!" The knife face glanced deeply at Chen Shu, the iron-blooded killing intent in the latter's eyebrows, he had only seen it from the thugs who crawled out of the pile of dead.

Such a ruthless person actually followed behind this young man surnamed Qin as a small servant, this Qin Ye's identity, I am afraid that it is very expensive!

Thinking of this, the knife face didn't dare to slack off, and squeezed out a smile: "Goods, of course!" But I always have to ask Qin Ye what kind of goods he wants, right? There are thousands of able-bodied people in my alley, is it possible that Qin Ye can pull them away? ”

Chen Shu was silent.

Qin Zhen groaned: "I want some honest and obedient people, fifty men and fifty women, and the younger ones are the best." Speaking of this, he paused and added: "In a few days, I am ready to open a store and do business, and I need to take care of it." ”

"It turned out to be a guy and a servant girl who was going to do business!" Dao Yan breathed a sigh of relief, he still thought that this Qin Zhen was looking for a dead man to make a big deal! Isn't such a person a big handful in this bitter kiln?

"Don't get dirty!" Chen Shu said coldly: "Don't have a thorn on your face!" It has to be clean! ”