After a while, He Jiahao didn't know where to wash it and came back.

Now a table of five people is sitting together, this restaurant is still being renovated and has not hired a chef, at this time Ming Hao took out a few side dishes and a few pots of sake from the mysterious ring, and everyone was talking and laughing.

Especially Zhang Bing and He Jiahao, almost most of the time the two of them are looking at the future, telling their goals, and even Zhang Bing is already talking about what kind of business empire he wants to build in the future, and what industries he wants to monopolize with his wine.

If according to her assumptions, Ming Hao can only be sure of one thing, that is, the Zhang family must be the first to appear and bring her back to the family to serve, because many of Zhang Bing's ideas are based on the strong family business, especially the cooperation with the Tianyan Empire, there are some ways to buy low and sell high, Zhang Bing is very familiar with it since he was a child, and he has no scruples to say it with the strength of wine at this moment.

"Come, I wish you a successful start and a lot of money. ”

As Ming Hao finished speaking, everyone raised their glasses and drank it all, at this time it was already three rounds of wine, and only Ming Hao and Li Kexin, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, were still sober on the table.

"But let's discuss the matter of Bingbing's family first. Ming Hao looked at this small building with an extremely advantageous geographical location, that is, the future restaurant, and made up his mind.

And Zhang Bing didn't react when he heard Ming Hao's words: "Cousin, what is my family, your family, aren't we a family." ”

"Yes, it's a family, but how much silver is this small building worth estimated?" Ming Hao didn't continue to struggle with her when he saw that Zhang Bing was already on top, but agreed to her words, and asked a question that Ming Hao had always wanted to know.

When it comes to money, the first person to react is He Fatzi, I saw him look at Ming Hao suspiciously and said: "This small building is a priceless treasure, just this area, this territory, such a good location, the entire holy capital can't find a few, and each of them is in the hands of the major families as a treasure, if you really release it to sell the small building, I'm afraid that other families will do their best, I estimate that it will cost more than two million taels of silver." ”

"What, two million taels?"

It's not that Ming Hao hasn't seen money, and two million taels Ming Hao can take it out with him, but just such a small building covering an area of less than two thousand square meters is worth two million taels, which is incredible, even the Yongfeng Garden, where Ming Hao lives now, is definitely not more than 200,000 taels in such a big garden.

"Ming Hao" saw that Ming Hao didn't believe it, and Li Kexin, who was still sober on the side, called him: "He Jiahao is right, with such a geographical location, two million may be more than two, if you want to sell it, I should be able to sell at least two and a half million taels within a month of giving it to me." ”

"Two hundred and five, although it seems to be scolding, but what does two million taels represent, I'm afraid that the Gongsun family won't be able to take this money for a while, and even if it is taken out, it will hurt the muscles and bones. ”

Ming Hao still believed Li Kexin and He Jiahao's words, but at this time it made Ming Hao even more headache.

Why did this Zhang family give such a big gift to himself, and the entire northern Zhang family's industrial forces were under Zhang Bing's hands, isn't this just a temporary gift for himself, even Ming Hao had to face this gift.

"Ming Hao, this matter is very understandable, Zhang ................" Li Kexin just wanted to explain, but he couldn't help but stop when he looked at Zhang Bing, who was a little intoxicated on the side.

And He Jiahao saw that Li Kexin wanted to avoid Zhang Bing, and immediately proposed to go out for a walk, just now, it just started, and a large number of personnel and materials needed to be prepared.

And Ming Hao had no objection, and said hello to Yao Lingling and asked her to take care of Zhang Bing, and then left a team of blood guards for the two of them, so Ming Hao and the three of them walked out with another team of blood guards.

"Where are we going first?" Ming Hao, looking at the people coming and going on the street, turned to He Jiahao and asked.

Hearing Ming Hao's words, He Jiahao shook his head and let himself go to drink, and did not forget to curse quietly, Ming Hao vaguely heard that it seemed to say that the Liu family's wine was poisonous, and his own alcohol consumption has become worse and worse since that birthday banquet, and he was a little embarrassed to hear this Ming Hao, but He Jiahao still opened his mouth and said: "It's a little early now, let's go buy some coolies first." ”

"Buy some coolies?"

What is coolie, it refers to people, in this world Ming Hao has heard of the existence of slaves, but he has never seen it, at this moment I heard He Jiahao say this and I was curious to go and see, as for Li Kexin, I didn't have the slightest opinion on Ming Hao's decision.

He Jiahao was very familiar with the holy capital, and at this time he took Ming Hao and others to a very lively place, which was the place where slaves were sold.

However, unlike what Ming Hao imagined, there was no dirty smell here, and there were no slaves with numb and scarred faces, some were just people who looked like merchants, introducing their coolies to buyers who passed by, and these coolies who were sold as commodities were also sitting in the back with indifferent faces, and even after Ming Hao's eyes swept away, some people smiled at Ming Hao, and their smiles were so sincere.

"He Jiahao, are you sure that this is a slave sale?" Ming Hao has a feeling now, a feeling of the talent market in his previous life, these people who are called coolies or slaves are just people waiting for interviews and applying for jobs.

"That's right, this is the largest slave trading market in the Holy Capital, and the boss here has a very ambiguous relationship with the third prince Long Ke, so we can lower the price at will for a while, hahahaha. ”

"But..."At this moment, not far in front of Ming Hao, a merchant and a buyer negotiated the price, and this buyer led several slaves he bought to leave, but what made Ming Hao incomprehensible was that these slaves not only did not have any restrictions on them, but also talked and laughed with the buyer all the way as if they were friends.

Is that called a slave?

He Jiahao and Li Kexin looked at Ming Hao's expression and guessed: "Ming Hao, you won't have never been to this kind of place, right?"

Listening to He Jiahao's words, Ming Hao nodded, the previous grandson Lin Jie was almost at home to such a boring place as how to come back after retreat, and although Ming Hao came to the Xuantian Continent for almost two years, he had not been in the city for too long, and of course he had not been here, but he knew that there were slaves here through some books or some people's descriptions.

"No wonder, Ming Hao, our empire has different restrictions on slaves, and not all slaves will live an inhuman life. ”

Hey, Ming Hao was a little puzzled when he heard He Jiahao's words, but the sentence that not all slaves will live an inhuman life made Ming Hao understand that there must be that kind of slave in his own understanding on the Xuantian Continent, and He Jiahao's words did not stop, and at this moment he continued to talk to Ming Hao:" There are three kinds of slaves in our empire, the first is what we see, they are all people who are forced to live, or who are in urgent need of money, sell themselves to various chambers of commerce or slave traders, they will be registered in the yamen of various villages and counties in the empire, and then the chamber of commerce and slave traders will give a sum of money, and then provide them with food and shelter on the premise that they work for free to the master, and this time is also calculated according to the time signed before, but the maximum period of time stipulated by the imperial law is thirty years, and during this period, no slaves can be arbitrarily beaten and scolded, of course, the relative slaves can go to the local yamen to report what mistakes are made by the yamen, and because of the registrationIf there is a slave who secretly escapes, then the yamen will return it to the buyer according to the amount of money registered before minus the year of use, and each yamen can also be arrested in a short time with detailed information, and if he encounters such a slave, then he is not a third-class slave after being caught, such a third-class slave slave we generally call coolies. ”

Isn't this the kind of worker who gets paid in advance?

For this system, Ming Hao also nodded again and again, looking at the same salary as usual, there is no difference, but this can ensure the protection of many people.

Who will not encounter some disasters or accidents in this life, this kind of slavery at least if there are various accidents or serious illness in the family, etc., you can have a way to raise money during this time, although the money needs to be repaid by you in the future, but it is not for life, then at least you still have a hope, whether it is ten years, twenty years or thirty years, as long as there is a hope, there is the motivation to live.

With He Jiahao's narration, Ming Hao and his party did not stop, and still walked towards the depths, as if He Jiahao didn't look down on these peripheral slaves at all, and the more he went inside, the more these slaves and coolies became, and even Ming Hao felt a trace of murder in several slaves, and many of these people were full of fighting spirit, not all ordinary people.

"Are these the second kind of slaves?" Seeing the more sturdy slaves and coolies here, Ming Hao asked with a puzzled face, after all, these slaves were very different from the ones he had just seen.

"There are also coolies here, but the further you go, the more expensive they are, and of course each coolie has his own strengths, which is different from the ordinary coolies outside. ”

"Hey, is this also coolie?" said Ming Hao, who stopped and pointed to his left, where sat a man of about thirty years old, with long hair, messy stubble, and dirty clothes, who now mustered all the strength to show off his strength to the buyers who walked by.

Ming Hao only felt the strength of the seventh order in his body after a cursory feeling, Ming Hao is only a seventh-order master now, but he is also a small master in the Xuantian Continent, and he can even be powerful in some remote places, such as Wang Wei, Li Qing and others in the Misty Island, but they didn't expect that the legendary coolies and slaves here still have such strength.