Chapter XIII: The Slave Trade
In the port of Guankou City, three huge merchant ships approached the wind and anchored at the predetermined location, and then someone built a wooden bridge from the ship, and a pair of unarmed slaves stepped out of the ship.
A total of three ships and a procession of nearly 300 slaves, men and women, old and young, marched to the last stop of the voyage, the slave market, to the whipping and cursing of the guards.
The slave market was located to the west of the port, and at the moment there were already buyers from all over the country.
Li Jing and Ji Wuyan were also mixed in after putting on makeup.
"There's still a slave trade in this world? Oh my God. This is a slave society? It doesn't feel like it" Li Jing looked at those naked slaves, and couldn't help but feel sympathy, in his previous life, he grew up in an orphanage, and he was already strange and pitiful, let alone these people.
These slaves are all members of the fifth bloodline family, they have very little arable land, and they have no rights, and if they encounter some natural and man-made disasters, their families will be ruined, they will not have enough food and clothing every day, and their husbands will sell their wives and children, and fathers will sell their children, and this kind of thing is normal.
Those who are sold will also be willing! Becoming a slave of a big family will solve the basic problem of food and clothing, and at least they can survive.
Ji Wuyan whispered: "Jing'er, this time we spend a lot of money to buy more slaves, it will be of great use in the future?"
"What's the use?"
Ji Wuyan said: "Don't ask more, you will naturally know in the future, now, I will buy 150, and you will buy the rest! ”
Li Jingdao: "Buy so much, what should others do?"
Ji Wuyan smiled slightly and said: "You still care about others, let's buy these slaves back is a gift from God to them, wait a minute, you can learn from me, take this, and think of something for yourself." ”
Li Jing opened it and saw that it was a large slave trade pass for a landlord named Ma Hao of Lingzhou, with the official seal of Lingzhou on it.
By this time, the slave market was already full of slaves, and with the end of the slave owner's speech, the slave trade began in earnest.
This group of slaves came from a small overseas island under the jurisdiction of Guankou City, called Zhengding Island, they were the villagers on the island, although they lived in poverty, but they had a small amount of land, which could solve the problem of food and clothing.
Who knows that the recent volcanic eruption on the island, a lot of people died, the village chief of the island took advantage of the fire to rob, did a lot of things that hurt the heavens and reason, the villagers could not bear it, the village chief beat to death with a stick, attracted the suppression of the officers and soldiers of Guankou City, a very small number of villagers who coagulated the blood pill jumped into the sea with the help of the ability of the blood pill to escape, most of them were reduced to slaves, and could not escape the fate of being slaves for a lifetime.
The slave owner is a person under the Gukou City Lord, and the Gukou City Lord does not need so many slaves, so he naturally converts them into money.
Ji Wuyan walked on the high platform of the slave market, and said loudly, "In Jiang Bingkun, Xiatian Prefecture, after the end of the year, a new mansion needs to be built, and there is a shortage of labor, so you can buy 150 slaves, and half of the slaves in the prime of life are good, and the price is negotiable." ”
As soon as these words came out, the audience was in an uproar.
"Where did you come from, Tianzhou old chicken, you bought it in your prime, what should we do. ”
"If there is any adult who can come forward to raise the price, and not let a foreigner spread the wilderness in our irrigation territory. ”
The slave owner's name is Wang Bao, a member of the Guan Kou Wang clan, he got up from his seat and said politely to Ji Wuyan: "Mr. Jiang, buying and selling 150 people at one time is considered a big customer, I don't know if Mr. Jiang can be registered?"
Ji Wuyan took out the slave trading pass from his arms and handed it to Wang Bao, Wang Bao only glanced at it, then handed it to Ji Wuyan, nodded to him, and then said loudly: "Tianzhou Jiang Bingkun, there is a pass registered by the government, and you can buy and sell large slaves. Prices start at 10 taels. ”
10 taels is the standard price of slaves in this world, except for some slaves with special abilities, these slaves are just ordinary peasants, and this price is already very high.
There was a curse in the audience, but no one dared to come out to make trouble, if the slave trade wants to bid, it needs to be the same number of people as the other party, and it also requires a large number of slave trade passes, of course, there are many people with this qualification in the audience, but they don't need so many slaves, in order to teach a foreigner, they can't do this.
Ji Wuyan laughed in his heart, he got off the field, and every time he selected a slave, he was taken away by the guards, marked with a red-hot iron tongs, and taken to the place where the slaves that had been sold were held, waiting for the master to collect them.
For a while, the smell of burnt human skin and the screams of slaves echoed in the sky until 150 people were selected, Ji Wuyan sweated, and his face was a little pale.
Li Jing looked at the slave market like hell, he settled down, suppressed the disgust in his heart, indifferently walked up to the high platform, and saluted Wang Bao, it was the previous set of procedures, Li Jing bought up the remaining slaves, so there was no need to choose, he walked alone to the place where the slaves were printed, and watched every men, women, old and young being tattooed.
The smell of burnt flesh and the desperate look made him want to vomit a little, but he held back.
The idea in Li Jing's heart was that for every slave he bought, he had to look at their eyes and the marks on their bodies, so that he could remind him that he had come to another world.
There were nearly 300 slaves, and the entire slave market was overcrowded, and the bulk slave trade was like this, and the buyers generally deposited the slaves in the slave market first, and then found a time to take them away, and the transfer of slaves was a very troublesome problem.
Ji Wuyan temporarily stored the slave for one and a half months, and Li Jing for one month, which had the advantage of saving unnecessary expenses.
Because, when the slaves arrived on their own territory, it was different, they had to provide food, shelter.
And in the slave market, they had a special place for slaves, and that place was no different from a pigsty!
There is food that is specially served, and if that is also called food, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that the cost here is cheap.
When the end of the year is approaching, these slaves will be transported back, and by the way, they will buy some low-priced goods from Guankou, let these slaves be transported, and then sell them at a high price when they arrive in Lingzhou and Tianzhou, so that they will make a lot of money.
Li Jing and Ji Wuyan made a very smart decision to do this, and it was very common sense, so naturally no one doubted their intentions.
Finally, the two of them got it all done.
Afterwards, the two went to their respective inn rooms, which was done to hide their eyes, and after changing into a different appearance, they went home.
"Master, there is news from the killer of the Zhang clan in Jiangzhou. The butler handed a secret letter to Thursday Lang.
The secret letter was written with the information of the mysterious master of the Li Mansion, and now it can be determined that the master did exist, and he entered the other courtyard of the Li Mansion.
Thursday Lang burned the secret letter and instructed: "Inform them, temporarily relax the surveillance of the Li Mansion, so as not to startle the snake, and stay away from that master." ”
Li Jing meditated alone on the bed, feeling the increasingly powerful blood pill in his body, and in a few days, he believed that he would reach the fourth layer realm, and at that time, his body would make a qualitative leap.
He picked up the booklet left by Li Lao Er and read it carefully, each set of exercises that the Li family called a stunt had a corresponding method for using the blood pill.
According to the record in the booklet, Li Jing controlled the operation of the power of the blood pill, and when it was penetrated into the exercises, the power would increase greatly.
After reaching the fourth level, it can also apply the animal abilities it has acquired to the exercises.
Li Jing kept using the exercises he had mastered with the power of the Blood Pill, and he was proficient over and over again, which was a long process, but he couldn't feel the passage of time.
The day was soon dawning, Li Jing was already sweating, Qin Wanru was very understanding and prepared a bucket of steaming bath water for him, when Li Jing got into the bucket, he felt comfortable, he found that through such exercise, many impurities in the body were excreted through sweat, although only a very small part.
But in a moment, the bucket of water was already black, Li Jing was curious, he called Qin Wanru, changed the bath water, and washed it again, so several times, before he completely washed his body.
Although he didn't sleep all night, Li Jing didn't feel tired, and he felt like he was reborn.
Qin Wan was really tired, and now, the weather is cold, the little girl is carrying water and pouring water back and forth, her hands are red from the cold, and her clothes are slightly thin.
Li Jing saw it in his eyes, he got dressed, pulled Qin Wanru over, ignored her objections, took out a rope ruler, measured the size of Qin Wanru's whole body, made a record, and then left.
It's a new day.
Ji Wuyan said: "Jing'er, what we have to do today is to buy a large number of various commodities from Wang's shop, the list of goods is here, you buy yours, I buy mine." Remember, you are a landlord in Lingzhou, and I am a businessman in Tianzhou. ”
Li Jing said suspiciously: "Why do you buy these?"
Ji Wuyan revealed his trademark mysterious smile and said, "Mountain people have their own tricks. ”
Li Jing really wanted to knock the young uncle to the ground with a punch.
After a busy day, the task was successfully completed, and the goods were temporarily stored in the Wang's shop, where they could be transported while they were escorting the slaves.
After returning to the Li Mansion, Li Jing first went to visit his mother Lin Yulian, Lin Yulian has also been extremely busy recently, and only let him out after taking pity on Li Jing.
After returning to the other hospital, Li Jing had the same training as yesterday.
Such days lasted for a few days, and Li Jing traveled all over the streets and alleys of Guankou City with Ji Wuyan in various capacities, and did many unsightly things.
One night, his cultivation finally broke through to the fourth layer realm, and the process of breaking through was accompanied by indescribable pain, the pain did not last long, and he only heard the sound of his bones clicking.
When it was all over, he gained his senses, as well as a significant increase in his flexibility and flexibility.
The so-called perception ability is that when Li Jing locks on to a target with the power of the blood pill, no matter what kind of environment it is, Li Jing can perceive the specific location of the other party, which is the first ability he obtains, and every time he adds two layers of realm in the future, he will gain an ability.
With the strengthening of flexibility, Li Jing can now make a lot of weird movements that humans can't do, his bones are flexible and seem to be broken, but they are unimaginably strong, and he can even curl his body into a circle, just like a dragon!
The flexibility has also been qualitatively improved, and the response is several times faster than before.
Now, it can be called reborn.
Some of the exercises that were difficult to perform in the past can now be easily done, and these exercises themselves require the body to achieve flexibility and flexibility beyond ordinary people.
Li Jing put together a hodgepodge of various martial arts in his previous life, and groped out a set of simple exercises, which were never successful when paired with the blood pill, and ended in failure several times, which made him a little frustrated.