Chapter 602: The Slave Market
"You are a Liang person, how can He De make money in most of us, you should be dragged out of the city to work as coolies!"
Hu Han didn't pretend anymore, and each showed a sinister face:
"This is our Hu people's territory, if the Liang people want to open a store here, they must pay a protection fee, fifty taels a month, one less child, you don't want to open this store!"
"Who said this is the Liang people's shop, are you blind and don't see that I am a Hu person?" Tuya stepped forward.
"Shut up! You shameless woman, there are so many men in the Hu clan, you just want to marry a little white face from Liang, it's really shameful! ”
"Yes, the children you will have in the coming day are all little bastards!"
"I'll kill you!"
Tuya was furious, picked up the broom next to the door and was about to fight, but Song Che held her hand, shook his head and said, "Hitting them will only dirty our hands, and someone will come to clean them up later." ”
At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves sounded from outside the crowd.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"
A column of soldiers pushed through the crowd, and Chachai rode in on horseback, and the servant who was waiting beside him was the shopkeeper whom Song Che had whispered earlier.
Chachai condescendingly glanced at the situation at the door of the store, and finally set his eyes on Song Che, "Mr. Song is really capable, he opened the store after only a few days of not seeing him." ”
The troublesome Hu Han, who heard Chachai Zun call Song Che "sir", suddenly began to become nervous.
Song Che smiled: "Anyway, I'm idle at home, I might as well do some small business and spend some time," he guessed again:
"I asked General Chachai to come today, I want to do business with you."
"Oh? Looking for me to do business? Chachai wondered, "What business can we do between us?" ”
Song Che slowly raised his hand and pointed at the five troublemakers: "These people came to me to ask for protection money, and they openly insulted me and the princess, I can't beat them, so I want to ask General Chachai to help fight on my behalf." ”
Chachai only glanced at a few Hu Hans, and then they were so frightened that they fell to their knees, and kowtowed again and again to complain: "The general is clearly inspecting, it is clear that there is a problem with the milk tea they sell......
Chachai was already dissatisfied with Song Che, and when he learned that several Hu people were looking for trouble with Song Che, he was happier than anyone else, so he prevaricated:
"Mr. Song, I really want to help you out of this bad breath, but I'm just a general who leads troops to fight, and it's not my turn to take care of civil disputes, so you better go and report to the official, right?"
"General Chachai, you can handle it."
"Dear Mr. Song, I can't take care of it."
"You can manage it, and I can manage it."
"What can you do?"
"I can handle your five slaps."
Song Che rolled up his sleeves and strode towards Chachai, "If I'm not mistaken, General Chachai still owes me five slaps, right?" There happen to be five hooligans here, do you want to take care of them, or do you want me to take care of you? Of course, it's better for me to call you a better deal, after all, five slaps are just mosquito bites for you. ”
"Wait a minute!" Chachai stopped Song Che and pointed at the five Hu Hans and said, "You mean that I helped you manage these five people, and you didn't care about my five slaps?" ”
"That's the business I'm going to do with you, my esteemed General Chachai." Song Che smiled and saluted.
"Okay, I'll help you clean up these five guys, and the five slaps you owe will be written off!" Chachai turned his head and looked at the five Hu men fiercely.
Hu Han was so frightened that he hurriedly moved out of the behind-the-scenes command: "The general spares his life, is it ...... It was Lord Turdan who instructed us to do this, and he wanted us to teach this Liang man a lesson! ”
Turdan? Song Che searched in his mind before he remembered who it was, wasn't it the slave owner who had been slapped by him at the gate before?
"Are you from Turdan?" Chachai asked, looking at the Huhans.
Hu Han nodded yes again and again.
Chachai asked, "Are you his relatives?" ”
Hu Han was stunned and shook his head.
Chachai said "oh", his eyes turned to a ruthless sound, and he pulled out the big knife on his waist with a "swish", and "puff puff...... "five knives in one second were quick and accurate, and all the heads of the five Hu men were cut off.
"Murder!"
The crowd of onlookers dispersed.
Song Che was stunned in place, he never thought that the "tidying" in his mouth sounded murderous to Chachai's ears.
This Hu man is really an executioner!
"Now that we've written it off, if you slap me again in the future, you'll blame me for being rude." Chachai Yun is light and light, retracts the knife and returns to the sheath, as if nothing has happened.
Song Che wiped the blood on his face with a smile, "It's ......"
"I'm sorry Mr. Song, I soiled the door of your store, and I have to trouble you to wash it yourself." Tsachai Lerma turned around, took two steps, and then turned back:
"By the way, Lord Arhan asked me to tell you that the fifteenth day of this month is the birthday of the Great Khan, and you must also attend on time, and the location is on the hunting ground ten miles east of the capital, and Her Royal Highness the princess will also go with you."
With that, he rode away, leaving behind five decapitated corpses and a blanket of blood.
"Husband......" Tuya trembled with fright by this scene.
Song Che looked at the corpse on the ground, and suddenly had a plan, he smiled and said: "It's okay, these people are innocent, and no one will disturb our business from now on." ”
He then beckoned his servants to load all the corpses into carts, and he himself sent them to the slave market.
Let's see how he is a white wolf with empty gloves!
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Slaves were the most important labor force in the Hu state, not only among the Liang people, but also many poor Hu people, criminals, and Turkic, Xiqiang, Dijon and others who had been conquered by the Hu people in recent years.
Male slaves were usually used for hard work, while female slaves were used as maids and prostitutes for their amusement.
For the nobles of the Hu State, except for the masters, all the others were slaves and could be traded freely, which also created the prosperity of the slave market in Dadu.
Many nobles brought their slaves and sold them on the streets, as if they were livestock.
"Whoever wants this old man, twenty taels of silver can be taken home!"
"My lord, these Turkic women can not only do laundry and cook, but also accompany the bed to warm the bed, and you can pack it and take it home for a hundred taels of silver!"
"Who wants such an ugly thing? My are better looking than them! ”
"Take a walk, take a look, the newly acquired Xizhou blacks, look at this physique, one person can do the work of three people, three taels of silver to start the auction, the highest price will win!"
Selling, selling, auctioning, the entire slave market is full of human distortions and moral degradation.
Slave is a very general term, and the interpretation of it is vague in every era, and there are still "slaves" even in the modern age of democracy.
Slavery never went away, but in a more subtle form.