When Kong Ming left the Duan Mansion, he looked back at this mansion that was not like a wealthy family!

The Duan family's reputation is extremely great, and its prestige in Yunxia City is also high, and it is indeed a high-profile force.\\ However, the Duan family's power and achievements are only like this.

The rise of the Duan family is due to the sacrifice of "Renjun", but the name of "Renjun" also restricts the development of the Duan family. Because anyone who thinks of the descendants of the Duan family is equated with the word "humble gentleman", and it also firmly pastes the Duan family's children with a landmark of Yunxia City!

No matter how beautiful the Duan family is, they can't do without Yunxia City, and it is impossible to develop their potential outside Yunxia City. Take Duan Xingchao as an example, even if he became the chief staff of the Prince's East Palace, when people talked about him, they would only say: "Oh, it turned out to be the descendant of 'Renjun'!"

As a child of the Duan family, it is almost impossible to erase the traces of "Renjun". This also makes the Duan family's status high, but it is just a "mascot" that has been kept in captivity, even if it has great prestige, the real real power is limited.

Of course, among the descendants of the Duan family, there must be many people of insight who can see such a situation clearly, but unless they have the ability to defy the sky, how can they make changes? For example, Duan Kaiyu, the head of the Duan family, although Kong Ming did not have a chance to meet him, he could also guess that he was such a smart person. Otherwise, Duan Kaiyu would not let Duan Yuanyi act as the head of the city, and he would not pay attention to the outside affairs under the pretext of retreat.

How to say that Duan Kaiyu is also a marshal-level powerhouse, he is definitely not interested in the identity of "mascot", so he is naturally unwilling to show his head in front of people.

As long as he maintains a superficial politeness to the Duan family, Kong Mingda can rest assured and boldly compete with other powerful forces, anyway, the "mascot" of the Duan family will not affect the actual interests of all parties, and everyone is willing to put the Duan family high on it!

After bidding farewell to the Duan family, Kong Ming still has one place to go, and that is the market in Yunxia City.

I just settled in Yunxia City, and there are a lot of things that need to be added to the house. It is also necessary to buy some slaves and slaves. Otherwise, with less than ten subordinates with Moyue and Tie Suxin alone, they can't take care of the entire Confucian Mansion.

Yunxia City is close to the border, and there are not a few people who have been displaced by the Sand Pirates and sold themselves as servants, and those captives caught on the border line will be enslaved. This makes the market full of slaves. There is no lack of some good overall quality.

The market in Yunxia City is in Nancheng District, not too far from Dongcheng District, Kong Ming and the others walked slowly, while watching the customs of Yunxia City. While heading towards the market in Nancheng District, in less than half an hour, he was already in Nanshi.

Kong Ming arranged for Moyue and Tie Suxin to take a few guards of the Demon Clan to buy the home decorations needed in the mansion, while he took Eugene, Lei Ming, Locke and others to the trafficker's market to select slaves and slaves.

The trafficker market in Nanshi is very prosperous, occupying almost one-third of Nanshi's territory. Among them, there are several relatively large slave traders, all of which bear the mark of the Yunxia City Chamber of Commerce Alliance, and from this point of view, the Chamber of Commerce Alliance can be regarded as having completed the monopoly of the Yunxia City market.

In addition to the slave trading center, in the middle of the traffickers' market, there is also an open booth, and if there are good quality slaves, most of them will be dragged to the booth and sold at open bidding. Of course. If you choose a servant, you won't go to this booth, because the servant is only a subordinate, not a slave, and no one wants to be embarrassed in public.

Kong Ming entered one of the largest slave trading houses. Dozens of subordinates, including cooks, maids, gardeners, etc., were selected, paid for their deeds of sale, and asked the slave dealer to arrange for them to report to the Confucian Mansion by themselves, and then took Eugene and others with them. Wandered around the slave market.

At this time, on the booth in the middle of the market, there was a group of slaves for auction. All of them are sturdy young men, and they have sturdy figures, and they look powerful. According to the slave owners, these people were all captives of the sand bandits, and all of them were considered excellent laborers, although the price was more expensive, but they were worth the penny.

Kong Ming glanced at Lei Ming, who nodded knowingly, and squeezed forward with Locke, preparing to buy this batch of slaves.

Kong Ming took a fancy to these slaves, not because they were excellent laborers, but because these people had once had the identity of sand thieves, and from them, some news related to Shazhou could be found more or less. Moreover, these slaves are all from Shazhou, as long as there are materials that can be made in them, they can be trained properly and can return to Shazhou and become the eyes of Kong Ming's intelligence network.

Lei Ming is quite talented in collecting intelligence, but Shazhou is in a special situation, and he has not been able to find any effective manpower there, so he can only collect information through caravans, and now the two sides are in a state of combat readiness, and as soon as the commercial connection is broken, he basically loses the source of information, if he does not make up his mind on these sand thief slaves, Kong Ming is really blind to the intelligence of Shazhou.

The price of these sand thief slaves is not low, each of them is more than dozens of gold coins, but such a small amount of money is nothing to Kong Ming, so naturally he quickly negotiated the price and bought all the sand thief slaves. Kong Ming and the others were escorting these slaves and were about to return, but they saw a commotion from the crowd around them, and then a relatively large iron cage was pushed to the booth.

Kong Ming looked back and couldn't help but be stunned, because what was being held in the iron cage was a tall half-orc with a tiger head and a human body!

This kind of half-orc is not a humanoid demonic beast, but a hybrid of orcs and humans, belonging to the ranks of unnaturalized barbarians, most of whom are scattered in the southwestern barbarian states.

The half-orcs can be regarded as a relatively powerful race, they have a half-blood body, in addition to the strong body of the beast race, there is also the wisdom of human beings, and they have a lot of outside the barbarian state, and the half-orc army under the command of the barbarian king can also be regarded as an ace army of the barbarian king.

At the junction of Barbarian Prefecture and Karasuma County, there have been constant wars for many years, and the Cao family iron cavalry of Karasuma County is famous all over the world, and the barbarian half-orc army is one of the few military branches that can fight with the Cao family iron cavalry, which shows the strength of these half-orcs.

There are also bloodlines strong and weak among half-orcs, like this tiger-headed human body is called tiger people, which is definitely the strongest and most powerful one among half-orcs, and it is the upper clan among half-orcs, which is extremely rare in ordinary times.

Normally, it's rare to see orcs in Izumo County, let alone the tiger people among them, but this time, a tiger man was pushed into the slave market, which is really a rare thing. However, this tiger man was put in a cage and pushed to power, which shows that he has not been completely domesticated, if you are really interested in him, at least you must have the strength to subdue him.

At this time, listening to the introduction of the slave owner, this tiger man was also captured on the border line of Izumo County, and as for why a tiger man would join the sand thieves, no one knows the reason for this. But such a tiger slave is placed on the market, even if it has not been domesticated, the value will never be low.

Sure enough, the slave owner offered a reserve price of three hundred gold coins, and if anyone was interested in this tiger man, it would naturally be the one with the highest price.

Ordinary slaves are definitely not worth the price of three hundred gold coins, but this tiger slave is different, if you really want to buy it, even if it is to carry a sedan chair, drive a carriage, and walk outside, it is very tight, and many people are very interested in bidding, and the price quickly rises to five hundred gold coins.

Kong Ming was also very interested in this tiger slave, and was about to join the bidding as well, when suddenly an arrogant voice sounded outside the crowd: "There is actually a tiger slave appearing in the market? It's really a rare thing, isn't it more majestic than anything else to use this tiger man to guard the door? A thousand gold coins! This tiger man is asking for it!"

As soon as the words fell, I saw the crowd split to both sides, and the four sturgering servants walked in front, squeezing the crowded crowd to both sides and vacating a passage.

Seeing these four healthy servants, Kong Ming's brows furrowed slightly, because these four healthy servants all had Yuan cultivation, although they were only entry-level cultivators, but they played the role of servants, which showed that their masters should have a certain amount of power.

As the crowd separated, I saw a young man dressed in oily hair and powder, holding a bird cage in his left hand and a folding fan in his right hand, Shi Shiran walked over.

It was already late autumn, and the young man was still shaking a folding fan in his hand, could there be any other reason than that it was pretending to be elegant? As for the birdcage that the young man was holding, it was not an ordinary thrush, a parrot, or the like, but a strange bird with a black body and a long pointed beak.

Eugene took a step forward and leaned into Kong Ming's ear and said: "Second-order demonic beast carrion carving, this kid's taste is very unique, and he is not afraid of being unlucky with this kind of demonic beast that likes to eat carrion as a pet!"

Kong Ming smiled slightly, and said, "People have the ability, the means, and the extreme self-confidence, what's the great deal about raising a second-order demonic beast as a pet?

As soon as this young man appeared, he could see that this person had the cultivation of a middle-level Yuan Master, which was not bad among young people, and he was indeed qualified to raise a second-order demonic beast as a pet.

However, looking at his style and arrogant style, I am afraid that this young man's state of mind cultivation is very limited, and he is more like a gentleman!

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