The Human Market is a special market that has existed in all dynasties. The goods in it are the population!
During times of famine, parents put a straw in their children's heads. This is called a straw. As long as you have this straw in your head, you are no longer a human being, but a commodity that can be bought and sold!
What’s more, those who can’t survive will put a straw stick in their heads, and anyone who wants to have enough to eat will be sold to you as a slave!
This is a common occurrence. Not to mention the year of disaster, even the year of good harvest, there are always those country people in the capital who have trouble coming to the city to find someone to sell their sons and daughters!
However, the scale of this kind of private market is not large, and the quality of the goods is not high. When the official market appears, it will be a carnival for the people and the rich!
Confiscation of homes and extermination of families is the most severe crime in ancient times. Immediate family members should be beheaded and exiled. So do you think the servants of these families can be cured?
Generally speaking, there are generally two types of servants serving in large families in ancient times. One is the normal employment system, such as teachers in private schools, skilled chefs in large kitchens, gardeners and actors hired with high salaries, and even Some large families can even hire their own doctors!
As long as this type of people are not directly related to the lawsuit, the court will not embarrass them, and most of them will be dismissed!
However, purely hired servants account for a minority, and the majority are lifelong slaves who have signed a contract of sale. Some even have children at home, and the children of slaves are still slaves!
This type of people basically integrates with the master's family, and both suffer losses and gain prosperity!
Once their homes are confiscated and their families are exterminated, the punishment these people suffer is second only to direct blood relatives!
Today is the day when the imperial court publicly sells the domestic slaves from the three palaces. After all, the case has been closed, so we can’t just keep them in vain. We can just take them to Caishikou and Zhushikou where there are many people and sell them!
The men were sent to Zhushikou for auction, and the women were auctioned directly near Caishikou. The news was released in the capital three days in advance!
How could Prince Dun know the news in the market? But everyone around him knew it and told him in a low voice immediately!
Yi Pei still has a chivalrous spirit in his heart. Seeing such a miserable scene, he felt very uncomfortable. At this moment, the men had already set off early and were almost at Zhushikou, and the women were the second batch!
Taken out from various prisons, these former charming ladies, as well as Yi Xin, Zai Cheng, the concubines and maids in charge of their affairs, and other women in the palace were all driven like animals towards the difficult journey of Nancheng. Go on foot!
The wealthy life in the palace is three points better than the Grand View Garden in Dream of Red Mansions. How can these pampered and frail women endure such hardships?
Some of them fell to the ground halfway through the walk. The guards who were guarding them smiled hideously and whipped them with leather whips. Some even smiled obscenely and stretched out their hands to support them, but their hands were immature and they were groping around in sensitive places!
The women's tears had long since dried up. They were all frightened like little chicks who had left their mothers, and allowed themselves to be raped by these evil minions!
I don’t know what Yi Pei was thinking. He suddenly changed his attention and took a detour to Nancheng to meet this large group of slaves for sale in the distance!
Zhushikou and Caishikou have long been in chaos. Human traffickers from the capital, including Zhili and even Shanxi, have gathered here. From the founding of the Qing Dynasty to the present, slaves born from the families of three princes are sold in one day. How big is this? The scale is simply unprecedented!
The servants of the palace are all treasures, and the knowledge gained through years of training is not something ordinary people can have. If a big family supports a steward who once served Prince Gong, this person can help you take care of many business transactions!
In particular, many of the slaves have connections in the capital, and the people they know are also wealth!
Women are better. Can a woman who has served the prince be ugly? Not only is she beautiful, but she also understands etiquette, is proficient in needlework, and her knitting and embroidery skills are not seen in the market!
Buy it and use it as a concubine at home, that is, you have to have as much face as possible. After you have had enough fun, you may be able to make another fortune by selling it to a brothel!
When the long queue of slaves appeared on the street outside Xuanwumen, there was a huge crowd at Caishikou. There were more than three thousand people watching the excitement alone!
All the old madams in the Bada Hutong were out, taking the busters from the kilns to occupy their positions, preparing to snatch back a few stunning ladies from these country rich men, and put them as front cards in the shop!
The shops along the street around Caishikou are no longer doing business today. They are all renting out single rooms or benches, and the money they make selling tea is too much to count!
"It's coming... look... it's coming!" Several Beggar Clan disciples in the crowd were as excited as if they were getting a wife.
The crowd was pushing and shoving, and the Beijing policemen who were maintaining law and order were so crowded that they even dropped their hats without even bothering to pick them up. They managed to maintain a one-person alley, and the frightened women walked out of this alley shivering. Squeezed over.
Some women were numb, with empty expressions on their faces, some were so frightened that they were shaking and about to faint, and more of them were three or five holding hands and rubbing forward together, their long hair The iron chains rattled, and the hemp rope tightened into the flesh.
"Young and old gentlemen! It's time to open your eyes... They are all good products, and the one with the highest price will get them!"
"Drag them up..." The officer suddenly pushed, and a string of five maids tied with a hemp rope was pushed to the entrance of the street like a long string of grasshoppers!
One girl failed to stand firm and fell to the ground, and the other four fell down together!
Hahaha... the people around burst into laughter, "Throw one more... It would be better if you break your pants... Drop one more..."
The official salesperson Yazi smiled and said, "These five are the girls who serve the study in Prince Gong's palace, Mo Ju, Hong Mei'er, Huang Que... take a closer look, these are all stunning girls who serve Prince Gong and Cheng Beile!" "
"Look at the bones in this body? Look at the mouth..." Human Yazi was like picking an animal. He took the maid's arm to roll up her sleeves, and even opened her cotton-padded clothes to let people around her see the tenderness of her waist and belly. Meat!
He even pinched the girl's mouth open to show those around her those healthy white teeth!
"Take a look... Take a look... Can a small family raise such a thing with such fine skin and tender flesh? These white teeth are the result of eating fine grains since childhood and brushing teeth with fine salt. !”
"This girl is qualified to be your eldest wife if she is bought back to the countryside! If the mother of that brothel is willing to accept her, she will be the top one!"
With a bang, the crowd all went crazy. Humanity in that era was very repressed. How could ordinary people have ever seen such a beautiful scene? The tender meat between the waist and abdomen, and the snow-white arms like lotus roots, they didn't even think about it. Got it!
Many old bachelors have bulging eyes. If they were to measure their blood pressure at this time, the mercury would probably burst through the roof!
"A bunch of five... not just for sale! When the market opens, I will pick up an auspicious word, and the price will start at 880 taels... Is there anyone who wants to make an offer?"
The five stunning girls were only eight hundred and eighty, not even one thousand taels, and the surroundings suddenly started shouting about the price.
"One thousand, I will give you one thousand..."
"One thousand two... one thousand two..."
"I'll give you a thousand and a half... Who dares to rob me... If you dare to raise a price, you three bald man, I will bear you a mortal grudge!"
"Bah... I have to take revenge from you... a thousand and eighty dollars!"
