HCB Chapter 126 Buying Slaves
Chapter 126 Buying Slaves
After washing up, Yu Chaosheng asked the waiter for a lot of information under the pretext of asking him to deliver food.
It's a rare occasion to have such a generous guest, so the waiter naturally told him everything he knew.
??After Funing City was separated, the city lord became General Tu Su. The civilians in the city were beaten into slaves and bought and sold at will. Various shops were still open, but the owner was replaced by him, and the prices of various commodities increased more than ten times at his instruction.
??买人需要去城主别庄，青壮25两、妇人20两，45岁以上的老人和14岁以下的孩子统一12两。
??If you buy for more than 100 people at one time, each person can get a discount of 2 taels.
??At present, there are still some slaves in the whole of Funing, and almost half of them are mixed-race, children born after the Tongguan War.
??The waiter was talking until his mouth was dry, so Yu Chaosheng threw him two taels of silver and asked him to prepare a few special dishes of the inn.
??The waiter left happily, but Pan Yingying's face fell.
??Disasters frequently occur in Dayu, and human life is the cheapest. It is good enough if a young and strong man can be sold for 10 taels, but here it costs more than twice as much.
"It's too expensive." Pan Yingying frowned. It's not that she didn't take human life seriously, but she had to adapt to the local customs. She didn't want to spend so much here.
??When he heard that we wanted to buy 4000 slaves, the manager of the villa, with a deep-eyed look, was suspicious, but he still took us back to select people.
??After dinner, they called Daqi to clear the dishes, and the two of them lay down on the bed to rest before rinsing their mouths.
??Pan Yingying quickly glanced at Yu Chaosheng, then straightened her back and glared at the manager, "Women should be weak, these weak and strong ones are only used to do farm work, they are..."
??Yu Chaosheng also felt it was expensive, so he sat down at the table and began to think about the feasibility of taking the person back with less money or even for free.
Pan Yingying suddenly realized that at that point, I still maintained a modern mindset and felt that younger people learned less culture.
??Yu Chaosheng wanted to say something, but he didn’t cross out the number I added.
You know, if we take those 500 people back, the wall will be destroyed in a month.
??After we left, Yu Chaosheng took out a silver hairpin from the space and poked them one by one. To see if the hairpin changed color, he picked them up one by one and smelled them.
??The most important thing for us now is to bring the people back. It is really worthwhile to do charity by specially picking those with bad bodies to speed up their return journey.
??Pan Yingying shook her head, 500 people were not too few.
??The house was built like a pigsty. Outside the fence, there were people lying or sitting, all huddled together.
??“The man over there is a little unattractive.” The steward said, giving Zuo Xionggang a look that said “he understands”.
??Daqi brought down a tray with another girl who was about seventeen or eighteen years old.
The manager was also annoyed and took us to the woman's side.
??Zuo Xionggang uttered a loud “hmm”.
??Yu Chaosheng: …
??The manager smiled awkwardly and did not dare to make any recommendations. He just let Zuo Xionggang choose.
??There was a lot of talk that night.
??The dishes were simple, but the portions were generous, especially the small pancake, which was smaller than Yu Chaosheng’s head.
??Dian Daqi said that there were about 7,000 or 8,000 Tartars guarding the other village. They were all strong but weak, and their armor and weapons were also top-notch. The possibility of taking them away by paying money was almost zero.
Pan Yingying calculated the cost of building the wall and said, "First, buy 500 young men."
After a long while without any idea, he stood up and said, "Get some rest tonight and we'll talk about it tomorrow."
??In order to choose the bad guy, the two were invited to a large hall to negotiate the price. As soon as they sat down, they heard a man coming to report that there was no slave and they were making trouble.
"Outside that area, there are young and strong people everywhere." The middle-aged manager pointed to a group of tall and short houses and spoke in poor Xiaoyu language.
"It's better for Xu people to retreat from the city. Even if no slaves pass by, at least half of them will be taken care of. You just need to stop these spies." I paused, "Besides, 500 young and strong men will definitely be trained. If you attack Xiayao City again, you will not be able to protect yourselves."
??Early in the morning of the seventh day, before having breakfast at the inn, Pan Yingying hired Daqi to drive a horse-drawn carriage to take us to the villa.
You rolled your eyes and wrote down in your notebook, "Young men 1500, women 300, old people and children 100 each."
Pan Yingying seemed to feel something was wrong, and she made up a story that sounded like the truth, "My father bought a thousand acres of good farmland in Jiangnan, and our family business is small, so we are really short of manpower."
"When the time comes, build the wall as slowly as possible, and then finish the training to defend our homeland." Yu Chaosheng tapped the bottom of the notebook with his pen.
??Yu Chaosheng and Pan Yingying did not cover their noses, but just glanced at the young men outside.
??Pan Yingying raised her eyebrows in surprise, thinking that the man was finally so stingy.
??The only way is not to spend silver notes to buy the person back first.
??Pan Yingying came over to sit with you and pointed at the old man written at the bottom of your notebook, "Where is this old man? The old man is of little use to Taoyuan Village."
The manager said "Oh", rolled his eyes, and pointed to the fenced houses on the far left. "The people here are all weak, so they are suitable for farming."
Yu Chaosheng: ???
"Do you know what the seven of you are going to do with so few slaves?" The steward Reshiding spoke with a slightly warm look in his eyes.
??“Is there any problem?” You breathed a sigh of relief, then took out a clean cloth, wrapped a few pancakes and put them back in the space, then took out a plate of cold buns.
The manager's face darkened instantly. He avoided the two of them and asked directly the reason.
??Zuo Xionggang was talking and expressing his opinions the whole time. Although you were wearing women's clothes, anyone with a discerning eye could tell that you were a man dressed as a woman.
??Old people and children, Pan Yingying was a restrained man and woman, and she picked out some of the sick ones.
??Yu Chaosheng squinted his eyes, "A family without an old person is like a family without a treasure. In such a backward era, few technologies were passed down by word of mouth." You reached out and touched Pan Yingying's head, "You are after our labor force, but you want the knowledge outside our heads."
"How much should we buy? How should we buy it?" Yu Chaosheng took out a large notebook and a ballpoint pen from outside the space, looked up and asked.
Pan Yingying didn't ask me to recommend anyone, but seemed to randomly point out a few houses, all of which I had just found bad. Most of them were between 15 and 30 years old, and most of them were mixed-race.
??He was wearing tattered clothes and was dirty, but the smell was so slight that people dared to breathe.
??Out there, no one dares to make fun of us.
The military strength of Yaocheng is at most 2, and if they gather together, it is said that the number can be close to 500. How can people protect themselves? Is it even a dream?
??I took the ballpoint pen from Yu Chaosheng's hand and wrote "x2" in front of the total number of people at the bottom of the big notebook. "Since we are here, we might as well bring fewer people back at once."
?? "Is 500 too little? Moreover, the target is so small, it is hard to guarantee that people will believe it. We have to pass through Ningyuan on the way." You are determined. That is already 1000 taels less, not to mention that you have to take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation when you go back.