For most slaves, working like cattle and horses is already a gift from the nobles, and once the nobles are unhappy, such as the time for intercourse is suddenly shortened by half a pillar of incense, or the work is not finished, they will take the slave to relieve their anger.

Slaves can decide life and death in minutes, and as for punishment, it is just a means of disciplining slaves.

Chopping hands, cutting feet, gouging eyes, countless, among which gouging eyes is very thoughtful, put a large stone hat on the slave's head, and then hit the stone cap with a stone, the slave's eyeballs will protrude, and then use a sharp knife to gouge out the eyeballs.

Not to mention, they can also peel off the skin of slaves, which was not the first invention of Zhu Baba.

As for the punishment of these slaves who were harsher and crueler than the new laws of the Great Shang, the nobles didn't care at all, what was this?

On the contrary, they will in turn denounce that the punishment of the great merchants is too heavy, and it is natural to give heavy punishment to slaves, and there is no need to list crimes, and heavy punishment to nobles is a big mistake, even if they really commit a crime, it cannot be punished.

Slaves, that's it.

Shi Bufan slowly opened his eyes, the first half of his life was like this, hovering between life and death, witnessing death countless times and even touching death, how could he not be afraid of death?

Every soldier who dares to be a soldier is afraid of death, and he is afraid of death.

But there is something more fearful of them.

As a slave, the child born is still a slave, a slave for one lifetime, a slave for the next, and cannot stand up for the rest of his life.

Now, they don't have to be afraid of that.

They are merchant soldiers, soldiers who dare to be soldiers.

Probably didn't have a chance to give birth to a child, but the identity of "slave" was terminated in their place.

"Lone asks you again, are you willing to surrender?"

Ji Fa has no head to cut off, and if he cuts it down, the remaining prisoners will not be enough to disgust the main force of the Shang army's westward expedition.

Shi Bufan hung his head and made a humming sound, as if he had no strength.

Ji Fa didn't take much precautions, just when he was exhausted and exhausted.

Shi Bufan shook his body, as if he was about to fall, his broad back was stiffened, and he seemed to kneel.

This action, in Ji Fa's view, undoubtedly represents surrender, at the moment he also expressed his sincerity, a few steps closer, although the process is very tortuous, these people's behavior of swearing to the death is also difficult to understand, fortunately, in the end they still gave in, with the surrender of the main general, the follow-up will be better.

Suddenly, Shi Bufan's breath sank.

In this short silence, no one knew where he got the strength to break free from the rope on his body, and suddenly burst out and attacked Ji Fa.

Maybe he just wanted to change the tragic fate of the slaves, and he had already seen too much when he was in the Xibohou Mansion.

The uprising was naturally a failure, Ji Fa was not completely defenseless, and when Shi Bufan suddenly broke out, he retreated as soon as possible, and Shi Bufan was pierced through his chest by two spears.

"Why?"

Ji Fa was puzzled, he couldn't understand the mentality of a slave at all, and he couldn't understand Shi Bufan's thoughts.

Shi Bufan just smirked, and with the last bit of strength, he smashed his head forward, as if he wanted to smash everything in front of him with a slap.

Unfortunately, he didn't do anything, but he did everything.

His body, and even the body of every soldier who dared to be a soldier, was upright until death.

The kindness of the king of Xuan for letting them become soldiers from slaves, when Xiao Yin rebelled, he repaid most of them with the king of Qin who spared his life, and the rest of the kindness and favor were also consumed in the rapid march and the many operations of the king of Zhou.

Now they are fighting and dying as a "person", and as a "person", they stand in front of the biggest nobles in the world, without groveling, without bowing their eyebrows, and their bones are terrible.

When the faint sunlight pierced through the morning mist and sprinkled the corpses in the mountains, Ji Fa was stunned.

He was stunned for a long time.

These dead merchant soldiers were all engraved with words.

Felling, Xi, Tun, Hanging, Servant, Cutting, And....

These are not the scripts that have been unified by the great Shang ministers, but have long since the abolition of slavery by the great merchants, and have long been out of circulation in the territory of the great merchants, and only within the territory of the princes.

Because these words represent slaves.

Felling was selected from slaves and used to be beheaded by Ge and used as a preparation for the martyrdom of special people.

Xi is a slave who is grabbed with braids, that is, a slave who is unwilling to be a slave and martyr, and who has resisted or has a hidden danger of resisting.

Tun is a slave who is shackled with his arms, and the act of rebellion or rebellion is more serious than that of Xi.

Hanging, chosen from among the slaves, was martyred by the hangers.

The servant is a more obedient slave, but he is also a slave who is often tortured and trained by the nobles.

It is not a good job to mow grass for livestock, and it is the most common example of a fugitive slave.

And in the case, it's not a slave directly, it's just a head, and it doesn't even need a complete body.

These characters identifying slaves, depending on the region, have some slight differences, and Ji Fa recognized them at a glance, this is the text of Xiqi identifying slaves.

He only knew that Shi Bufan was leading a slave army, but he didn't expect that these slaves turned out to be fugitive slaves from Xiqi, no wonder they were unwilling to surrender no matter what.

For a while, Ji Fa didn't know what he was thinking, and almost subconsciously walked up to Shi Bufan's corpse and glanced at his forehead.

There was a scar on his forehead, and he vaguely remembered that his father had smashed a slave's head into the flower with a stone.

Ji Fa recalled the previous battles of these people, their eyes flashed with a brilliance different from that of slaves, and even the struggle of Shi Bufan in the end, and there was a sudden touch in the depths of his heart.

Ji Fa opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of a warning drum and horn in the distance, Ji Fa immediately came back to his senses, and the guards around him also said in time: "King, there is an enemy coming!"

With the continuous sound of the drums and horns of the warning, the soldiers who were preparing to clean up the battlefield for a while were all moved, and their actions were paused, and Ji Fa had already reached a peak.

As far as the eye could see, he could only see groups of merchant troops rushing wildly, Ji Fa looked at the black and oppressive people, and looked at the banner of the herald who came in a hurry, and his heart was shocked.

Then the earth trembled faintly, and finally it shook violently, it seemed that at the same time, countless merchant troops rushed wildly, the black pressure was boundless, and even the ships with the banner of the merchant army on the quicksand river could be seen, and the four sides shook, only the hearts of the soldiers of the Zhou army trembled faintly.

Ji Fa couldn't help but take a breath, looking at this style, there are a lot of soldiers and horses, it is impossible to be the soldiers and horses of Gao Jineng's department, where did this merchant army come from?

(End of chapter)