Xu Ling did not rush to Yazhou, but took a short rest in Quanzhou and asked Lou Qiaosheng to buy him a lot of things.

Some of them are iron tools for farming, some are items for daily life, and some are grains from different places.

Since he wants to buy land in Quanzhou, it is impossible to take out the rice seeds from the space in front of everyone, and there must be a legitimate source. Bringing so many people at a time requires a lot of food just to meet the rations of these people.

Xu Ling now has about two thousand taels of silver on his body, which sounds like a lot, but when he actually has to spend it, this money is not enough to see.

It takes a part to buy the population, a part to buy materials, and a part to be left for the purchase of fields, Xu Ling is eager to break a penny in half and spend it.

He used to accumulate wealth on space, and he could only be a freight truck, and once he was not running around doing business, the speed of money would slow down.

Xu Ling thought about it for a while, and decided that he still had to make some new things to sell for money, and set up the stall as soon as possible. You can't always rely on him to run a business to make money.

Buying people is the bulk of the cost. The Yong Dynasty government did not completely prohibit human trafficking, and there were still slaves and untouchables, and every time there was a natural disaster, a large number of people in the market would become untouchable.

Once it is reduced to a lowly status, it will affect future generations. Unless the landlord has a good heart and gives people the opportunity to redeem themselves, they are really slaves for generations.

Therefore, most people do not want to become slaves unless they are cornered.

It is also because slavery has not been abolished, and there is still a phenomenon at this time, and even men are not exempt from this fate.

Therefore, the more chaotic the world, the more bitter the people become.

Xu Ling also entered the slave market for the first time, at first glance it was not as clean as the place next door to buy and sell livestock, the slaves were all dressed in tatters, dirty, with grass ropes tied to their hands and feet, half-kneeling on the hay, waiting for someone to ask for the price, they were pulled up to make sure that their bodies were not disabled, and they had to open their mouths for people to see their teeth.

Women's hygiene is better than men's, everyone can dress cleanly, regardless of whether the body is dirty or not, at least the face is clean.

Slaves ranged in age from five or six to fifty, and there were more young girls than boys, more adult men than women, and older people, but they were too old to sell for a good price, and they were not sold in the market.

Xu Ling walked around the slave market, and every time like this, the Yong Dynasty government would open a special slave market for the tooth shop to trade, even if these people were reduced to slavery, they would have something to eat. The people at the bottom are so simple, as long as they have something to eat, they will not embark on the road of rebellion and uprising.

Perhaps this is the reason why the government does not ban slave status.

But Xu Ling walked down in a circle, and his heart was surprisingly angry and sad.

This is the ancient times, the ancient times when human life was like a mustard, and life and freedom could be bought and sold at will.

However, after the anger, Xu Ling quickly calmed down.

He can't save these people now, so he can only slowly figure them out.

Buying a slave also needs to be considered, the price is one thing, the cost performance is another thing, since he has to do things, he can't blindly be a woman's kindness, look at this pitiful buy, look at that pitiful buy, buy back can not work, but delay the right thing.

Therefore, Xu Lingmai gives priority to young and middle-aged people, regardless of men and women, and only considers physique; The second is the middle-aged and elderly, although these people's physical fitness is reduced, but the price is relatively low, and if they live for so many years, they should have more life experience and skills; This is followed by sick or disabled children.

Xu Ling didn't want to buy these children, but seeing the young children lying on the hay with a fever, or unfortunately disabled on the way to escape the famine, no one bought these children, and most of them may not be able to grow up alive.

However, the price of these sick or disabled children is also relatively low, and a bucket of rice can buy them back.

Xu Ling spent three hundred taels of silver to buy back eleven young and middle-aged men, three women and eight men; six middle-aged and elderly people, one woman and five men; There are three children who are given away cheaply, and all three of them are girls.

The most expensive of them was a man, with a strong physique, and when he saw Xu Ling buying a large number of slaves, Mao Sui recommended himself, claiming to know how to do carpenter's skills, and after getting the affirmation of the tooth man, Xu Ling bought him for eleven taels.

The price of the three women followed closely, and they also took the initiative to beg Xu Ling to buy them, these three women are in their twenties, they seem to have been married, and their appearance is naturally not good-looking, knowing that Xu Ling is going back to work, they were still silent, and suddenly they all took the initiative to ask Xu Ling to buy them.

To tell the truth, it is impossible for a really beautiful female slave to appear here, and the same is true for men, who were bought by some people at a high price early.

Those that can be put on the market like livestock are basically selected for a few rounds.

That's it, we have to wait for three, six, nine and so on, so that we can sell it at a higher price.

Xu Ling paid the money with one hand, received the deed of sale of twenty people from the little official, and asked the three women to hold the sick child, Xu Ling was going to leave here and go back to see the child first.

He was halfway through when he suddenly heard a terrible shout from in front of him: "Ahhhh My ears! ”

Then there was the sound of whipping and whipping, mixed with unintelligible dialects, all the time scolding.

Xu Ling asked Nie Peng and Bao Li to be optimistic about the people who bought them, and sent them to the shop to arrange them first, and then went forward to find out the situation.

It was familiar to him when he heard it.

The flow of people was shoulder to shoulder, and when they heard that there was excitement to see, they all came up, Xu Ling couldn't squeeze in at all, so he stood on someone else's board car and looked at it.

I saw a woman in a strange dress lying in the sewage, curled up to protect her head, whipped by someone, and couldn't see her appearance clearly.

A man who looked like a merchant covered his half-bitten ear, and his palms oozed bright red blood, and he screamed and scolded angrily: "Kill this animal, she dares to bite Lao Tzu!" ”

The tooth man on the side smiled and persuaded: "Wu Daguan, I reminded you that this woman is very fierce!" It's not something you can tame! I'll give you back the money, and go and look at your ears." ”

"She dares to bite, are you going to sell her to others? Don't kill her yet! ”

The tooth man was also very embarrassed, telling the truth, this woman was originally sold to the Qinglou, but she was strong, and she was replaced by another woman, she was hungry and hungry, and she might give in if she was scared, and the most disobedient person would be docile with a whip a few times.

Only this woman, who was beaten with her skin open, endured all the hardships, and finally learned to be docile, who knew that she would bite off the root of her life as soon as she received the customer.

When such a thing happened, it took a lot of money for the bustard's mother to suppress the matter. was reluctant to spend his hard work on her, and tied her up and sold her, and now it is almost gone, thinking of making another profit, so he sold her to the tooth shop.