In April of the 14th year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, at the southern end of the Kanto Plain in the central and southern part of the Honshu Island in Japan, it was originally a sea-facing wetland, surrounded by mountains and sea, and a bay in the southeast direction. There are many natural ports around the bay, which is an excellent location for establishing a port.

The Guanzhong Plain is located in the middle of Japan, connecting the north and south, and is a relatively critical place. Although Li Yan has just occupied Japan for a few months, he has already built a large construction here to prepare for the construction of a huge port, which is not only for commercial use, but also one of the main navy stations in the future.

I saw that in the sea, teams of short slaves returned to carry stones and sent them to the front to lay a solid foundation for the port. Half of the wharf was built, and many slaves built warehouses, canals and other facilities under the command of Han supervisors. Next to this busy construction site, a simple temporary wharf was built, and many large ships were parked in the bay, waiting for the owner to load and unload the cargo.

On the land not far from this temporary pier, there is a man-made open space surrounded by fences made of huge logs, as if to prevent someone from escaping.

In the open space in the fence, there was a scene of people heading like ants. These people were divided into dozens of areas, and the center of these areas was a group of Japanese slaves with hands and feet tied up. There were many slave merchants coming from the Tang Dynasty around. They discussed the slaves in the field. Just looking at the way these people shook their heads repeatedly, they seemed not satisfied with these slaves.

After Li Yan defeated the Japanese Kingdom, Wang An temporarily took charge of Japan on his behalf. In just a few months, all the military powers of all the wealthy families in Japan had been brought to the central government. Of course, not all the wealthy families were willing to hand over their military powers. This forced Wang An to use some violent means to open the way with the two thugs of Ishikami and Suwo clans, and were cleaning up the uncooperative tyrants from all over the country. Together with their subordinates, they were all demoted to slaves. This is also the main source of Japanese slaves now.

The southern end of the Guanzhong Plain is located in the middle section of Japan. It is very convenient to go to the north and south, and it is very suitable for building a port, so it soon became a trading distribution center for slaves. Even the name of the port has been decided, so it is called "Su Port". The close-up bay is named after it and is named Nu Port Bay.

Although the slave port is still under construction, it has become a trading distribution center for Japanese slaves. The slave traders of the Tang Dynasty want to buy slaves. It would be fine if they were from the south of Japan, either to Bu Zi Island or Iyu Island. But if they want to buy slaves from the north, they must come to Nu Port and then buy Japanese slaves provided by the government or privately.

However, most of these Japanese people, both men and women, are short-sized, and the others are not the same as others. Of course, there are also some taller ones, but there are not many, and they are all ferry people. The so-called ferry people are actually immigrating to Japan from the outside world. Most of them are Baekje people, and there are also a small number of Han people. However, they have lived in Japan for several generations and have long been assimilated into Japanese people, but they still have a trace of their ancestral characteristics in height.

Japanese men are generally not tall, so naturally they are not as strong as they are. In addition, the land of Japan is poor and the wealthy tribes are plundering their subordinates, which makes the poor tribes unable to even eat. The result is conceivable. Most of these slaves look pale and thin, and they stand there as if a gust of wind can be blown. Only some slaves from wealthy tribes look quite personal, but unfortunately there are few people. Even if such slaves are bought, it is not easy to find a next home.

However, compared with the unsalable sales of male slaves, the business of Japanese female slaves is very popular. These Japanese women are petite, gentle in character, and good-looking, so they are quite popular in the Tang Dynasty. Whether it is brothels or wealthy families, they like to buy a few Japanese girls to enjoy. Therefore, those young girls, and even some girls under the age of ten, are surrounded by many slave merchants. They are more beautiful in appearance and can be sold to precious families as concubines. It doesn’t matter if they are ugly. They are cheaper and they are sold to girls. Anyway, they will definitely not be in their hands.

Most of the slave traders who came here were from Dengzhou, a small number of them were colleagues from other places, and they generally knew each other. Therefore, in addition to buying and selling, they also greeted acquaintances around them from time to time, and then collected the slave markets in various places to see if they could find business opportunities that suit them.

"Oh, the tiger boss and the second brother Shark are here!" At this moment, someone suddenly greeted a group of slave traders who had just come in, and the other party nodded and smiled.

The group of slave traders came in a large number, with fifty or sixty people alone, and three people led by the guards. The fat man on the left was full of harmony and wealth, and he smiled three times when he saw him, which made people feel good at seeing him. On the right was a burly one-eyed man. Although his face was full of fierceness, he also smiled at the people around him like the fat man next to him. However, his appearance was very fierce. Under this smile, not only did he not look kind, but he made people feel that his appearance was extremely ferocious. Among the two, there was a young man with a slightly dark face and three beards.

The fat businessman is born with a smiley face, so he is called a smiley tiger, and the one-eyed man surnamed Sha, so he gets the reputation of a one-eyed shark. These two were the first among the slave hunting team in Dengzhou. Now the slave hunting industry is booming, and their slave hunting career is getting bigger and bigger. Others say that for every ten slaves sold in the Tang Dynasty, at least one of them passes through the hands of these two brothers. There are rumors that they have the support of the Qi Palace behind them, otherwise it would be impossible to make the slave hunting business so big. However, the two brothers denied this rumor, and the Qi Palace did not seem to have taken special care of them.

As one of the largest slave merchants in the Tang Dynasty, the smiley tiger and the one-eyed shark knew many people. They greeted the people around them from time to time, but the people who knew them were a little strange. They guessed the identity of the young man among them. After all, the current status of the smiley tiger and the one-eyed shark must be the one who can accompany them in person.

Li Yan looked at the slave-catching merchants around him who were greeting Tiger Shark, and occasionally met one or two familiar faces. After all, when the slave-catching team was integrated, many slave-catching merchants had seen him, but he had expected this situation long ago. So when he asked Tiger Shark to accompany him, he dressed up in advance. Not only did he put on a fake beard, but his skin was also blackened. As a result, his appearance changed drastically. If he had not been a very familiar person, he would definitely not recognize that the young man in the middle of the tiger Shark was His Royal Highness of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Yan arrived at the slave port yesterday afternoon. After resting for a night, he happened to know that the tiger sharks he supported were also here, so he just disguised himself and planned to live with them the addiction of slave merchants.

After Wu Meiniang became pregnant, she had been sent to Siqi by Li Yan using the King of Qi. Although the last time she discussed the apology with Wen Xin, Li Yan knew that there must be a misunderstanding. In addition, Wu Meiniang's body is important, so she and Wen'er were asked to go back to recuperate first. As for him, he would need to stay in Japan for a while.

As Wang An took back the military powers from the various Japanese families, Li Yan's rule over Japan further strengthened. Other places cannot guarantee that at least the Feiniao area and the surrounding areas were peaceful, and there was no soldier in the hands of the surrounding families, and the government orders of the Qi Palace became smooth.

It was in this situation that Li Yan left Ishimi Castle and first went to the Japanese Palace in Asuka area to take a look. Unfortunately, the place was burned to white land by Emperor Huangji. However, the famous Prince Shengtoku Palace in Japanese history was well preserved, but his descendants asked Ishimi to kill me. Now the turtle dove palace is under renovation and will become Li Yan's palace in Japan in the future.

Speaking of which, although Li Yan brought war and suffering to Japan, and countless Japanese were demoted to slaves and sold to all directions, he also brought a gift to the land of Japan, and it was definitely a good thing. This gift was the cherry blossom tree in Siqi City. In this era, the cherry blossoms had not been spread to Japan, and Li Yan was the first to bring cherry blossoms to the four islands of Japan. I believe that in the future, there will be records like this: In the winter of the 13th year of Zhenguan, King Qi of the Tang Dynasty traveled to Japan with a cherry blossom tree symbolizing peace, and spread the seeds of civilization from human society throughout this barbaric land. Thousands of years later, civilization and cherry blossoms bloom together on this land!

Li Yan, who had planted the cherry blossom trees, did not go back immediately, but went around in Japan. For example, he went to Mount Fuji, which was deified by Japan in later generations. In later generations, Li Yan felt uncomfortable no matter how he looked at this mountain, but now it is his own property, so after taking a look from a distance, it felt much more comfortable than before.

After leaving Mount Fuji, Li Yan went to the location of Tokyo in later generations, but now it has a new name, that is, the under construction of the Nugang. Compared with the world's largest city in later generations, the Nugang is still deserted, and there is no reason to attract people to come here except slaves.

Looking at the prosperous slave trading ground in front of him, Li Yan was also secretly proud. According to him, from the tiger shark, the daily slave trading volume here is about 3,000 or 4,000 people. Although this situation will not last long, it is estimated that tens of thousands of Japanese slaves may be sold overseas. Even if the annual transaction volume does not reach this year's number, it will not be a small number, so Japan is a good slave production base.
Chapter completed!