Xu Ling did not go to Yazhou rashly, but took a short break in Quanzhou and asked Lou Qiaosheng to buy him a lot of things.
Some are iron farm tools for cultivating the land, some are items needed for daily life, and some are grains from different places.
Since he wants to buy land in Quanzhou, he cannot take out the rice seeds from space in front of everyone. He must have a legitimate source. Bringing so many people at once would require a lot of food just to feed them.
Xu Ling now has more than two thousand taels of silver, which sounds like a lot, but in fact, when it comes to spending it, the money is not enough.
He needed part to buy people, part to buy supplies, and part to buy fields. Xu Ling wanted to break a penny in half and spend it.
He used to rely on space to accumulate wealth and could only work as a freight truck. Once he stopped running around doing business, the money coming in would slow down.
Xu Ling thought for a while and decided to come up with some new things to sell and set up the stall as soon as possible. You can't always rely on him to make money by running a business.
Buying people is the bulk of the cost. The Yong Dynasty government did not completely prohibit the sale of human beings. There were still slaves and low-class people. Every time there was a natural disaster, a large number of people on the market would become low-class people.
Once reduced to a lowly status, it will affect future generations. Unless the landlord is kind-hearted and gives people a chance to redeem themselves, they will really be slaves for generations.
Therefore, most people do not want to become slaves unless they are desperate.
Also because slavery had not been abolished, there was still a phenomenon at this time of trafficking women and children, and occasionally even men were not exempt from this fate.
Therefore, the more chaotic the world is, the more miserable the people will be.
Xu Ling also entered the slave market for the first time. At first glance, it was not as clean as the livestock trading place next door. The slaves were all dressed in rags and dirty. They had straw ropes tied to their hands and feet. They were half-kneeling on the hay, waiting for someone to ask the price. Then he was pulled to stand up, made sure that his body was not disabled, and he was asked to open his mouth so that his teeth could be inspected.
Women's hygiene is better than men's. Everyone can dress cleanly. Regardless of whether they are dirty or not, at least their face is clean.
The age of slaves ranges from five or six to fifty years old. There are more young girls than boys, more adult men than women, and there are also older people. However, they are old and cannot be sold for a good price. No one is interested in it in the market.
Xu Ling walked around the slave market. At times like this, the Yong Dynasty government would open a special slave market for teeth trading. Even if these people were reduced to slavery, they would still have something to eat. The people at the bottom are that simple. As long as they have food to eat, they will not embark on the road of rebellion.
Perhaps this is the reason why the government did not outlaw slave status and low status.
But as Xu Ling walked around, he felt surprisingly angry and sad.
This is the ancient times, the ancient times when human life was like a piece of grass, the feudal dynasty where life and freedom could be bought and sold at will.
But after the anger passed, Xu Ling quickly calmed down.
He can't save these people now, so he can only try to save them slowly.
Buying a slave also needs to be considered. Price is one thing, and cost-effectiveness is another. Since he wants to do things, he cannot blindly be benevolent as a woman. He buys this one because he is pitiful, and buys that one because he is pitiful. If he buys it back, he will not be able to work. On the contrary, it delays the business.
Therefore, Xu Ling gives priority to young adults when buying people, regardless of gender, and only considers physical fitness; followed by middle-aged and elderly people. Although these people have reduced physical fitness, the price is relatively low, and they have lived for so many more years, and they should have more life experience and skills; Next are children who are sick or disabled.
Xu Ling originally didn't want to buy these children, but seeing the young children lying on the hay with fever, or being disabled while fleeing the famine, no one bought these children, and most of them might not live to grow up.
However, the price of these sick or disabled children is relatively low, and you can buy them back for a bucket of rice.
Xu Ling spent three hundred taels of silver to buy back eleven young and middle-aged people, three girls and eight boys; six middle-aged and elderly people, one girl and five boys; and three children were given away cheaply, and all three were girls.
The most expensive among them was a man with a strong physique. When he saw Xu Ling buying a large number of slaves, he recommended himself. He claimed to be a carpenter. After getting the Yaren's approval, Xu Ling spent eleven taels to buy him.
The prices of the three women followed closely behind, and they also actively begged Xu Ling to buy them. These three women were in their twenties and seemed to have been married before. Naturally, they were not good-looking. They knew that Xu Ling wanted to buy them. When they went back to work, they were still silent at first, but suddenly they all took the initiative to ask Xu Ling to buy them.
To be honest, it is impossible for a really beautiful female slave to appear here. The same is true for men, who have been bought by some people at high prices early on.
Those that can be put on the market like livestock have basically been selected for several rounds.
We still need to wait for it to be divided into three, six or nine, so that we can sell it at a higher price.
Xu Ling paid the money with one hand and received the deeds of sale of twenty people from the petty officials. He asked three women to hold the sick children. Xu Ling left here and went back to see the children first.
Unexpectedly, he was halfway through when he suddenly heard a shrill cry in front of him: "Ahhh! My ears!"
Then there was the sharp sound of whipping one whip after another, mixed with curses in an incomprehensible dialect.
Xu Ling asked Nie Peng and Bao Li to be optimistic about the people who bought them, and sent them to the shop to make arrangements before going forward to inquire about the situation.
That dialect always seemed familiar to him.
There was a huge crowd of people, and when they heard that there was something fun to see, they all came together. Xu Ling couldn't squeeze in at all, so he stood on someone else's cart and looked around.
I saw a woman in different clothes lying in the sewage, curled up and protecting her head, being whipped with a whip, and her appearance could not be seen clearly.
A man who looked like a businessman covered his half-bitten ear, and bright red blood oozed from his palms. He screamed and cursed: "Kill this beast, she dares to bite me!"
The tooth man on the side smiled and persuaded: "Master Wu, I warned you, this woman is very fierce! You can't tame her! I will return the money to you, you go and have a look at her ears!"
"She dares to bite people, but you still want to sell her to others? Why don't you kill her!"
Yaren was also very embarrassed and told the truth. This woman was originally sold to a brothel, but she had a strong temper. If it were another woman, she might have succumbed if she was hungry or frightened. The one who was the most disobedient would be whipped. After a few puffs, it becomes docile.
This woman was the only one who finally learned to be more docile after being beaten to bruises and suffered a lot. However, she was bitten off the lifeblood as soon as she received a guest.
When something like this happened, the madam spent an unknown amount of money to suppress it. Unwilling to spend all the effort on her, he tied her up and sold her. Now that she was dying, he wanted to make another fortune, so he sold her to a dental shop.
