Gumo Kingdom, located in the northwest of the Mingwu Empire.

As an old neighbor of the Mingwu Empire, Gumo also has a long history.

Gumo was founded 500 years ago, and he was at most a small country in the Western Regions at that time.

But later, the Gumo Kingdom accumulated a lot of money, and two hundred years ago, it annihilated the seven great powers of the Western Regions in one fell swoop and unified the Western Regions.

The total land area of Gumo is also more than that of the three princes of Ye, Qi and Jin combined, but because many places in the country have become deserts, there are not many places to live, and the population is small, and the population is only 10 million in the heyday of the population, and now it is only more than 9 million.

Perhaps because the system here has developed slowly, the Gumo Kingdom is still in the slave class, and the country is divided into five classes, namely the royal class, the aristocratic class, the official class, the commoner class, and the slave class......

The commoners and slaves may not be as valuable as their own livestock in the eyes of the aristocracy and the eunuchs.

On the streets, there were slave traders everywhere, and when they saw passers-by, they came forward to greet passers-by and introduce their slaves.

What kind of appearance is exactly the same as those traders in the Mingwu Empire who sell their goods.

It's just that one is selling real goods, while the other is buying and selling living people.

The vast majority of these slave and commoner classes were the people of the other six nations that had been conquered at that time.

If a man of the aristocratic class and a woman of the commoner class or the slave class have a child, then their descendants are not even comparable to the slave class, and are directly regarded as mongrels, and even worse, they will be strangled to death by the elders of the family when the child is born.

And if a woman of the aristocratic class and a man of the slave class have a child, the woman will not only lose her noble status, but will even be killed by the family as a rebel.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking and rules that in the eyes of the nobles, the commoners and slaves are inferior to their own gold bracelets, or even to their own livestock.

To put it bluntly, civilians and slaves are the same level of existence as pigs and dogs.

What is really sad is that the common class and the slave class make up seventy percent of the country's population.

In other words, more than 6.5 million people out of 9 million people in Gumo were civilians and slaves.

But more than 6.5 million people have been squeezed for 200 years.

But in the history of Gumo, they have never seen these civilians and slaves rebel.

It seems that they have decided from their bones that they are pariahs, and they are not as good as pigs and dogs.

From the beginning to the end, no one rebelled against the upper echelons.

What's even more ridiculous is that among the several large-scale conflicts in the history of Gumo, it turned out to be a war between the civilian class and the slave class.

And those high-level people just looked at each other from afar, watching these two inferior nations kill each other, it really makes people wonder what these people have in their heads.

Chu Yujia also has some superficial understanding of Gumo Country, and he also made up for Gumo language for nearly half a year before he came.

Although he can't speak as fluently as Gumo people, it is no longer a problem to communicate with people normally.

When he saw Chu Yujia and his group of three strange faces approaching, a slave owner came forward enthusiastically and said, "May I ask if a few of them are from the far east?"

The slave owner waved his hand behind him and said, "Do you want to take a look at my goods, these are all recently shipped, and you can definitely make money by buying them back." ”

In their eyes, the people of the Mingwu Empire from the east are all rich and shrewd businessmen.

He himself had done business with the people of the Mingwu Empire many times, and each time he emptied all his 'goods', making him make a lot of money.

Although the Mingwu Empire had already abolished slavery, after all, large families still had to use slaves, but it was just a different model.

The model of the Mingwu Empire is generally divided into two types, one is that parents sell their children to human traffickers, and then the traffickers spread it to various places.

Of course, the vast majority of these traffickers sold these slaves to large families as if they were serious businessmen.

It is then up to the slave to decide whether to sign a 'death contract' or a 'living contract'.

The so-called living deed is naturally the kind that comes and goes freely, as long as you earn enough silver and give the silver to the master's family, the master's family will release people.

If the master's family is a good family, he will also arrange blind dates and other things for the slaves, and after they get married, the servants can choose to bring the family into the house to do things for the master's family, or they can choose to leave the master's house to live by themselves.

The death deed is the opposite, unless it catches up with the amnesty of the world, or it is the grace of the lord's family, otherwise it will never be allowed to go out until the age limit.

Whether it is a slave who has signed a 'living deed' or a 'death deed', the master will give some silver money and rewards, and some servants of high-ranking officials and dignitaries are even more decent than the merchants outside.

So a slave and a slave are two different things entirely.

Traffickers who do this kind of business are called human teeth in the rivers and lakes.

Of course, there are other traffickers who do a different kind of business.

This kind of human trafficker is different from human tooth, although human tooth is also engaged in human trafficking, but no matter how it is said to be serious, it is also a serious purchase, while this kind of human trafficker is to do everything by cheating.

Their main target is the women, who are deceived or kidnapped and taken to other places.

As for the ending, there is no way to know, but there are two main ones, one is sold to a large family as a concubine, and the other is sold to the Qinglou Chu Pavilion as a prostitute.

The former is an existence that is tacitly approved by the government, and the latter is a real crime.

Once upon a time, when Chu Yujia first arrived in Shuiyun County, he vigorously cleaned up the illegal traffickers in Shuiyun County, and caught all of them without exception, no matter who they were, no matter what the background was, even if it was Beijing Tongtian, they were all beheaded for public display.

To get back to the point, in addition to these two types of human traffickers, there is another type of slave trader.

These slave traders bought the population from their slave owners from neighboring countries and sold them to the country at high prices.

Slaves are much better than slaves in many cases.

There is no need to give them money, and even if they are killed, they can find a place to bury them, and even the people from the government can't help it, after all, this person is not from the Mingwu Empire, and the government doesn't know how to pronounce the sentence.

Even if you are unlucky enough to get burned, you can probably do it with some silver.

Chu Yujia glanced at the slaves brought by the slave owner.

This slave owner should be considered a medium-sized slave owner.

He alone owned nearly forty slaves, both male and female.

These people sat in the corner one by one, looking at Chu Yujia with obvious panic and fear in their eyes.

After glancing at it, Chu Yujia asked casually, "How did you sell it?"