Although there are no slaves in Arabia, they are at war with other countries. Anyway, the Tang Dynasty bought slaves, and those they captured who did not surrender and were difficult to deal with could naturally be sold.
War can actually catalyze many things sometimes, because during war times, the most precious things in peacetime are not so precious, such as life.
Once life is no longer so precious, not many people care about other things.
In particular, the war between these three countries has almost become a fire and water, and it is impossible to reconcile. Under such circumstances, as the Tang Dynasty trades with three countries at the same time, no one can offend it.
Especially after Sasanian Persia learned that even the Western Turks had completely become a member of the Tang Dynasty, they were even less likely to offend.
In fact, although these trades were negotiated directly with the officials of the three countries, they were also negotiated directly among the people. After all, the various nobles among the people would not think so much. As long as they could get items from the Tang Dynasty, It doesn’t matter what you’re buying or selling.
It’s not them who are selling anyway.
But the officials of these three countries need arrows, weapons, armor, food, spices and other materials from the Tang Dynasty.
Only the Tang Dynasty could provide these materials such as arrows quickly and in large quantities, and what the Tang Dynasty provided were iron arrows.
That's right, the arrows provided to them were naturally made of iron. The steel arrows were only used by Datang itself and could not be sold to outsiders.
The iron arrowheads sold to them are also graded. The highest grade is naturally the iron arrowheads cast directly from pig iron, and then there are the arrowheads covered with a layer of iron sheet.
Or provide them with arrow shafts directly, and they install the arrows themselves, etc.
No matter what method they use, it will consume a lot of their resources.
In the past few years of trade, Datang had actually earned a large amount of silver from them. For example, in places such as Persia, which originally had more silver, the ratio of gold to silver was originally 1:10.
But due to the outflow of a large amount of silver, the current exchange ratio of gold and silver in Persia has become the same as that of the Tang Dynasty, 1:5. There is no way, they also lack silver, and they trade with the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty only needs these two things .
Moreover, the gold settlement will only be settled according to Datang's own ratio, so they themselves had to use domestic gold to exchange silver with ordinary people in the country.
The purpose is to earn this profit, and Datang doesn't care, but after they have almost exchanged their domestic silver, they can only accept gold at this price.
Or don't buy it.
And now Datang has finally begun to acquire another thing. Although it is a slave, it is good news for them.
As for the prices for skin color levels given by the Tang Dynasty, they didn't care. Although they knew that there were black people on the other side of Byzantium, the Tang Dynasty didn't want them. Moreover, those black people were primitive people and couldn't understand the language. They had to bring them back. Datang definitely doesn't want it.
Who cares about worthless things? Maybe when they need people to work one day in the future, they will capture them to work. They are always better than animals and can be consumed as consumables.
But Li Ke didn't expect that the slave trade between the Tang Dynasty and these countries would happen much faster than he imagined. In Li Ke's view, it would have to wait until the 27th year of the Tang Dynasty for the first slave trade to happen. A batch of slave trade was born.
But time went much faster than he imagined. The first batch of slave trade was actually completed in less than ten days after Datang exchanged with three countries.
And the number of the first batch of slaves was as high as more than 5,000.
The first trade with them was the Arabs.
This group of slaves came from the four thousand Persian soldiers who were captured by them, as well as all the Persians in a Persian village that they had just conquered.
If it were in the past, they would keep these people and gradually assimilate them into their own people, but now they lack funds, and they can exchange money and vacate their land.
So these Arabs simply sold them for more logistical supplies, and it was easier to do so, because after they stayed, they would need to send some soldiers to take care of them.
Now, it's easy and quick, and there's no need to keep an eye on it.
Historically, because the war between Arabia and Persia was fought all the way, many Persians surrendered directly. But now, because of the intervention of the Tang Dynasty, Persia has received unprecedented support.
After the Arab momentum was curbed, the faith they relied on to promote was no longer so powerful.
Religious beliefs can brainwash people because they need to constantly tell these people that belief in these gods can give them powerful power, allow them to live a better life, and allow them to defeat their enemies.
But when they are unable to defeat the enemy, or are even defeated by the enemy, this belief will be shaken instantly.
Li Ke understands this very well. Although religion is different from his brainwashing, in fact, some aspects of the principles are the same, especially the new religions! Early brainwashing is very critical.
Does Li Ke know this? This is also the reason why Li Ke directly interrupted the Arab offensive momentum at all costs in the past few years.
Cutting off their momentum is not just a defeat for them once, but it directly cuts off their foundation and cuts off the soul that they rely on for survival. This is the most important thing.
After their momentum is cut off, their combat effectiveness will drop rapidly. The Arabs themselves do not feel it, but from a third-party perspective, if the Arabs who quickly captured the entire peninsula in the early stage had a combat effectiveness of one hundred during that period .
After the Tang Dynasty curbed their momentum to attack and destroy Persia, their combat effectiveness was only fifty, and so far, this fifty has not recovered, and is even declining.
The reason why they don't feel it is because their opponents are worse. After all, both Persia and Byzantium are countries that have been inherited for many years. The internal system has long been eroded, all classes are corrupt, and the army has no fighting capacity.
The enemies are worse, and of course they don't notice that their combat effectiveness has dropped.
But in Datang's assessment, their threat has dropped several levels.
Under such circumstances, the first batch of Persians boarded the ships of the Tang Dynasty wearing ragged clothes.
It was in this situation that Joshua and his family boarded the ship. Joshua was desperate for his future, but he only wanted one thing, that is, his daughter Celie could survive.
Even if you become a slave, you just need to survive. Before boarding the Tang Dynasty ship, they had been taught a lesson by the Arabs, who told them that they were going to the Tang Dynasty to be slaves and told them to be obedient!
They did not resist, but the latter said that they had no right to resist. Going to that powerful country, Tang Dynasty, was much better than staying in the devil-like Arabia!
I just hope that their future master can be a little kinder, Joshua kept praying in his heart.
