In Lekang City, or in the counties west of Longxi, Jiuyuan, and Pingyi, the more you go west, the more people you can see. It is also the culture and economy of the Great Qin and the distant Western countries.
Commercial activities and even the areas with the strongest smell of gunpowder.
Arabs, Persians, Thracians, Phoenicians, Aramis, Medes, West Asians, Macedonians, African blacks, and Jews, etc., you
All of them can be seen in Ankang, Anle, Anbei, Dongzhou, Zhongzhou and Xizhou counties in the western border of the Great Qin Dynasty, and Indian monks can also be seen.
For various reasons, although Lekang City has only been built for twenty years, it has become one of the most prosperous cities in the western border of the Qin Dynasty.
The vast streets, rows of houses and buildings, and the crowds are one after another. Lekang City, which is nearly ten thousand miles away from Xianyang, is no less than some of the big cities in the inner Qin Dynasty.
Among the bustling crowds, Hu Hai, who had gray hair but had long clothes, and Long Xuan and Long Hong, who were gray-bearded behind him, looked particularly dazzling.
There are many people, but whenever the three of them pass by, the crowd will be cleverly separated by the guards of Longwei Mansion, who disguised as ordinary people, and no pedestrian can directly approach Hu Hai within three feet of three feet of three feet of body.
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However, the methods of the Longwei Mansion's personal guards are obviously extremely clever. Although pedestrians are constantly separated and diverted, no one finds that they are deliberately divided.
The train arrived at Lekang City. Hu Hai quietly left the station under the escort of the Longwei Mansion's personal guards and entered the Lekang Palace in Lekang City. Hu Hai just asked Long Jiaolong Mei and Qi Yi's three daughters to go down to rest, and this place has changed.
Long Xuan, who was dressed in casual clothes, had already arrived at Lekang Palace.
As for the 20,000 cavalry of the Vermilion Bird Army, they entered the camp outside Lekang City for temporary residence.
When Long Xuan arrived, Hu Hai ignored Long Hong's pleading eyes, but directly left Lekang Palace.
"You, as the commander of the First Army, how could you leave your post without permission? You are still pretending to be pitiful? You deserve severe punishment."
Hu Hai looked at the bustling crowd around him, suddenly turned around and nodded Long Xuan who had been following him with his head down, and said with a smile. Although he said severe punishment in his mouth, the smile in his eyebrows and eyes did not mean any blame.
Long Xuan, whose eyes were red, just smiled foolishly when he heard Hu Hai's scolding. If there were soldiers from the Vermilion Bird Army nearby at this moment, if he saw the head coach who had always been decisive in killing and showing such a stupid look to a young man, he would be afraid that
The eyes will pop out of frightened.
If you say you are unhappy when you see Long Xuan and Hu Hai, it is obviously fake.
When he first arrived at the Great Qin Dynasty, Long Jiaolong Meilong Binglong Xue was already the concubines in the harem, and the rest of the world was mysterious and yellow, and the eight people in the universe were born and wild. After decades of getting along, the relationship between Hu Hai and them had long been transcended.
They are simple masters and servants. Many times, who are about the same age, are more like friends, brothers, or teachers.
One by one, one by one, one by one, one by one, was already the commander of the Guilin Army, commanding a 100,000 army to guard Ashan County.
They are not only Hu Hai's servants, but also the most solid pillars of the Qin Dynasty today.
"Looking at your silly smile, how could you look like a general in command?" Looking at Long Xuan with red eyes, Hu Hai was moved, but he shouted with a stern face.
"Xinger is still in Ankang City?"
Hu Hai shouted and scolded, but asked casually.
Long Xing'er, the daughter of Long Xuan and Fan Yu. Obviously, Long Xing'er inherited the best genes of Long Xuan and Fan Yu. She has loved to dance with guns and sticks since she was a child. She followed Long Xuan and Fan at the age of fourteen or five
Yu and the others fought in the east and west, but by the time they were about to be in the throne, they had already been promoted to the lieutenant.
The young girl who is now twenty-seven or eight years old is still not married. At this moment, the orthodox soldiers are stationed in Ankang County, the westernmost county in the western border of the Great Qin Dynasty.
"Return to Your Majesty, I will send a message to Xing'er to see Your Majesty."
"You, you're going back and forth a thousand miles. I'll leave long ago when Xing'er comes back." Hu Hai glared at Long Xuan, "You father hasn't found a good husband for Xing'er yet?"
Long Xuan looked at Hu Hai resentfully when he heard Hu Hai's words, and lowered his head and refused to speak.
If you hadn't always felt sorry for Xing'er and promised her that unless the man she liked, no one could force her to get married, I would have let her be stubborn?
Xing'er said she would find a man who was as strong as the emperor's father to get married. Just imagine, is there anyone in the world who can compare with you? It's better now, you still say it's my problem.
"Your Majesty, why don't you choose a good man to marry Xing'er?"
After a brief resentment, Long Xuan immediately crawled up as Hu Hai's words and licked his face.
"you……"
"I beat people to death, I beat people to death!"
"Ding!"
Hu Hai lit up Long Xuan, who looked tired, and was about to speak out and suddenly riots were rioting on the street in front of him. A sharp whistle sounded immediately, instantly suppressing the noisy voice.
The whistle was the yamen runners of the Ministry of Justice, which are now spread all over the cities of Daqin, which are similar to police officers in later generations.
In front of the street, it was already blocked by the people watching the fun. There were whipping sounds and constant screams of terrifying sounds in the noisy people.
"Go and have a look."
Seeing Long Hong's inquiring eyes, Hu Hai spoke out.
In a short while, the Longwei Mansion's personal guards quietly separated the crowds of people gathered together in the middle of the street, inevitably attracted people around to shout and scold them. After all, there were too many people watching the fun.
If the guards of the Longwei Mansion want to see a way for Hu Hai, they must squeeze out the person who originally occupied a good position.
However, the shouts of scolding disappeared immediately. Obviously, facing the tall and hard-earned guards of the Longwei Mansion, who could not mess with him, those who understood the situation could only admit that they were unlucky.
On the ground in the center was a young man in brocade robe and six or seven strong men who could tell at a glance were the young man's servants. On the ground were seven people with disheveled hair, ragged clothes, shackles and handcuffs.
From the few wisps of snow-white spring colors that occasionally appeared in the torn clothes with fresh blood stains, Hu Hai knew that the seven people lying on the ground should all be women.
The young man with an angry look in his hand, holding a blood-stained whip in his hand, was obviously a Qin man. At this moment, he was following several men in yamen runner uniforms who were patrolling the streets and whispering something.
After a while, as the young man in brocade robe waved, a servant standing beside him quickly handed a small bag, and a crisp sound came from the bag. Obviously, the inside should be filled with coins.
The young master of Jinbo blatantly stuffed the purse in his hand into the hands of the head yamen runner. The middle-aged yamen runner weighed the weight of the purse, showed satisfaction on his face, reached out to wave a few companions, turned around and left.
From beginning to end, none of these yamen runners looked at the seven women who were beaten and lying on the ground.
The onlookers seemed not surprised by this scene.
"Young Master, can you let the seven meat products be seen?" A half-bian watching said when he saw the yamen runner leave.
Hearing the old man's words, the young man in brocade robe who was about to whip the woman on the ground again stopped.
"Do you want to see?" With his eyes slanted, the young man from the brocade robe looked up and down at the old man who was talking.
“That’s right!”
Hu Hai looked at it, but he was a half-bian wearing a brocade robe and playing with two huge jade beads in his hand. The old man was obviously also a Qin man.
Hu Hai naturally knew what the meat they said. In fact, when he saw a bright white nameplate at the ankles of the seven women, Hu Hai already understood that the seven women on the ground were all slaves.
The slave trade has always existed, all over the world. However, it was not very prosperous in the Qin Dynasty decades ago. At that time, the Qin Dynasty had the most existence, which was to sell women in various sex art markets. Later, in Hu Hai
After all slaves from Daqin were abolished, the word slaves had gradually disappeared in Daqin.
It was not until Hu Hai instigated the nobles of various aristocrats in Guanzhong to plunder the surrounding foreign races that the Qin Dynasty began to have the term slaves again. However, basically all the slaves were the people captured by the Huns, Yuezhi and Qiang tribes because of the war.
In the following decades, with the Qin Dynasty, it continued to expand outward. Especially more than ten years ago, Hu Hai destroyed the two empires of Anxi and Seleucid, which were entrenched in Central Asia, and directly pushed the Qin Dynasty's borders to the Persian Gulf and along the Caspian Sea coast.
After overlooking the Mediterranean, merchants from Europe, Rome, Macedonia and other countries could finally trade directly with the Qin Dynasty, and the accessories produced by the war were homeless, except for the vast land and endless wealth.
Ordinary people.
With the demise of the Silence Empire and the Seleucid Empire successively demise at the hands of the Great Qin, the developed slave trade began to emerge in the territory of the Great Qin. In just over a decade, it has become the most profitable industry in this era.
To this day, there are basically places for auctioning slaves in all major cities within the Qin Dynasty. The nobles of various aristocrats in the Qin Dynasty were chasing the footsteps of the Holy Emperor, and they all earned a full pot of pots in repeated wars. Today,
He has become the largest slave trader in the Qin Dynasty and even the world.
Although Hu Hai did not agree with the rise of the slave trade, in such an era, it was acceptable to occasionally be compassionate, but if he went against the general trend, it would obviously not be in line with the interests of the Qin Dynasty. Therefore, Hu Hai has always been aware of the slave trade.
An attitude of neither support nor denial.
However, the Cabinet Office formulated a series of laws to regulate slave trade. The most important one is to find that any slave merchant who dared to sell Qin people would immediately kill the nine clans.
Hu Hai knew very well that such a profit-making transaction would inevitably lead to some people who were obsessed with profit, including the Qin people, who would take risks. Therefore, they could only use the most stringent laws to kill them and dare not make any decisions.
As for slave merchants from Europe, especially Rome, in the face of the harsh border defense of the Qin Dynasty, no merchant has dared to plunder the Qin people and sell them. Due to the rapid development of the Qin Dynasty over the past few decades, the population and economic growth
The one who bought the most slaves was also the rich nobles of the Qin Dynasty.
Black slaves from Africa, blonde beauties from Europe, Macedonian warriors, Jewish women, and even Indian monk slaves were sold.
The emergence of trains and the completion of a large number of railways greatly promoted various trades in the Qin Dynasty. Distance is no longer the main reason for restricting economic development.
Of course, the slave trade also brought generous taxes to the Qin Dynasty, especially the construction of various important railway tracks. Without slaves from Africa, Europe, the Serena and the Seleucid Empire, they would not have been built so quickly.
The reason why those yamen runners who patrol the streets did not care about the seven women on the ground was obviously that they knew that they were slaves, and slaves were not protected by anyone in Daqin. What the Qin Dynasty protected was only the private property belonging to the Qin people.
Although slaves are not clear in law, they all agree that they are considered private property.
Of course, the most prosperous place in the slave trade is the vast land in the western border of the Great Qin Dynasty that was recently incorporated into the territory of the Great Qin Dynasty.
Obviously, the young man and the fifty-five-brother were both wealthy families or nobles from the Qin Dynasty. Of course, it is not a strange thing for ordinary families in the Qin Dynasty to have a few silences or Seleucids, and African and even European slaves.
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The young man in brocade robe spoke again.
"I'm afraid you can't afford it. These women in peace are not ordinary meat." The young man from the brocade robe was obviously a very high-profile man.
"I bought one hundred gold coins for a woman."
At this time, the strong men in brocade robes who had been by the side before, who had been watching the resting women who were lying on the ground crying suddenly spoke.
Although wearing the standard Qin clothing and speaking a standard Qin language with a little Guanzhong accent, the strong man's golden hair and his exposed thick black arms told everyone that he was not a Qin person.
To be precise, maybe he has a household registration in the Qin Dynasty, but he is not a real Qin man.
The greatest possibility is the Anxi nobles who surrendered to the Qin Dynasty or the Seleucid nobles.
"You? Get out of here. This young master's meat product. Even if it is chopped and fed to the dog, it will not be given to you savages. Don't think that you are really a Qin person in my Daqin clothes. I'm gonna be!"
He glanced at the strong man talking, but the young man from the brocade robe opened his mouth and cursed without hesitation.
Obviously, the reason why he had not given the old man the dirty before was simply because the old man was a Qin man.
The strong man in the brocade robe did not expect that the young man who seemed a little polite just now cursed himself and even called him a savage.
A blue color flashed across his face, and a little red appeared in the blue eyes of the strong man in brocade robe. Anyone with a strong reputation was insulted on the street in front of so many people, even his good temper was still
They will be so angry that they are all over. What's more, they are scolded as savages.
Hearing the young master's words, the Qin people watching around laughed, but there were more people around who were different in skin colors than Qin people, or even the same in skin colors, but they were obviously not the marks of Qin people, but they were all angry.
meaning.
The laughter of the Qin people around him was even more like a slap on the face of the strong blonde man. At this time, the strong blonde man became quiet and looked deeply at the young man who was provocatively looking at him.
, he looked at the teams of yamen runners wandering near the street, and turned around and left. More than a dozen strong men wearing Daqin costumes around him also lowered their heads and followed the strong man away.
"What's it!"
The young man in brocade robe spat at the departing strong man disdainfully.
When the Qin people around him saw the strong man being humiliated and left, they burst into laughter.
Hu Hai just watched everything happening silently from beginning to end, and even the yamen runners who were patrolling the streets accepted bribes openly without showing any abnormality.
Long Xuan and Long Hong, who were standing behind him, were nervous.
"Let you bitches make a fuss. I thought someone would come to save you? I'll let you call." The young man from the brocade robe looked at the seven women sobbing quietly on the ground, and suddenly raised his whip and whipped it up again.
With the crisp sound of the whip, tattered clothes kept flying, blood splashed out, and shrill screams kept ringing on the streets of Lekang City.
"Call it! Cell it!"
The young man in brocade robe seemed to enjoy the almost cruel whip and would roar excitedly without whip.
The pedestrians on the roadside, especially those who were not Qin, looked at the brocade-robed young man with a whip. However, no one stood up to stop him, or they did not dare.
Didn't you see that the yamen runners of the Qin Dynasty were watching from a distance with relish?
The screams of the thinnest girl among the seven gradually lowered, and an older woman next to her who had been beaten and had all her clothes broken behind her found that this scene was difficult to watch.
He crawled forward, as if he wanted to use his body to block the whip for the girl.
Under her, a bright red mark continued to extend with her climb.
"Climb, climb quickly!" As if he had discovered the woman's intention, the young man in brocade robe was even more excited to whip the whip at the girl who was almost gone.
The streets were silent, and even the Qin people who had laughed before seemed a little reluctant.
"Enough!"
Suddenly, two words with a little anger suddenly rang out on the somewhat quiet street.
Long Xuan and Long Hong, who had been worried in their hearts, suddenly trembled when they heard these two words.
"Who? Who is it?"
In an excited state, the young man in Jinlang had extremely intelligent ears and suddenly turned around and searched among the onlookers.
"Go and buy them."
"Here!"
When Long Xuan and Long Hong heard Hu Hai's words, they bowed and responded.
"Oh, what do you think you are..."
At this time, the young master of Jinlang also heard that it was Hu Hai talking. Looking at Hu Hai, his bloody eyes showed that he was still immersed in the pleasure just now, but his words were not as polite as when he was awake.
"presumptuous!"
"Bang!"
A loud shout and a crisp and pleasant sound rang out at the same time. He swallowed all the remaining words he had never said again.
The big bunch's bloody flowers shot out from the flying young master of brocade robe with a few white spots.
Long Xuan, who was standing behind Hu Hai, was already standing where the flying young man in brocade robe had been standing before.
"Bang!"
The young man with brocade robe who was slapped by Long Xuan and hit the body of several servants behind him who had not yet come to his senses, and rolled down.
Long Hong, who had just had time to speak out, looked at Long Xuan, who was walking towards the young man with a cold face, who was already unconscious on the ground, and wiped the cold sweat from his head.
Why didn't I take action? But the slap seemed to be very pleasant.
"Didi!"
The dozen or so yamen runners who had been watching the show not far away came to their senses at this time and quickly took out the whistle in their arms. They blew the air and rushed over.
Further away, when you hear the whistle, more street patrol runners are emerging.
No matter what these yamen runners do, at least when dealing with the crisis, it seems to be relatively timely.
After looking at the dozen or so yamen runs over, Long Xuan walked to the young man with a little confused who had been slapped by a slap, reached out and took out a purse from his arms and threw it in front of him, said:
I bought it.”
Several golden lights rolled out of the pocket of the purse in disobedience, and after a few turns, they finally stopped.
The dazzling golden light told everyone that it was a bag of gold coins full of? No less than a hundred!
The crowd suddenly burst into noise.
The money that the young master of brocade robe just now gave to the street patrol yamen runners was probably not as good as one of the few gold coins that had fallen out.
Everyone's eyes at Hu Hai also changed suddenly.
Everyone knows that this 50-year-old man has been standing with his hands down before, and his temples are gray but also look extremely young... behind the noble man.
They had no choice but to not pay attention to Hu Hai, but they could not describe the feelings Hu Hai gave them. Although Hu Hai's appearance, who had been abdicated for ten years and did not care about the world, had not changed at all, but the momentum that burst out from his short anger just now made everyone
People feel that from the bottom of their hearts a little palpitations.
At this moment, he was standing there simply and calmly, but it seemed as if he had naturally become the center of the world.
This is the big shot!
I can't figure it out or see it thoroughly. I can only explain it with a big shot.
The young man in the brocade robe seemed to have been stunned by Long Xuan's slap, and the servants around him were facing Long Xuan, who had a little bit of murderous aura, but they didn't even dare to move.
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Long Hong looked at the yamen runners who were getting closer and closer, and turned around and made a gesture to a Longwei Mansion guard beside him, but the two Longwei Mansion guards had already come out to welcome the yamen runners.
Go up.
Longwei Mansion has dealt with such things once or twice. In addition to the Longwei Mansion waist card that must be carried, they have another identity, that is, the inspection identity of the Ministry of Justice.
Although the location is not high, it is enough to deal with these ordinary yamen runners who patrol the streets.
There were more than a dozen personal guards from the Dragon Guard Mansion here who had taken off their outer shirts and criticized them on the seven female slaves who could not hide their bodies at all, and then walked out with them all fainted.
Hu Hai could clearly feel the complex and unexplainable eyes of those non-Qin people around him looking at him, which was a complex emotion of distrust, jealousy and even a little hatred.
He knew that the deeper and deeper gap between these people and the Qin people was quietly changing toward a situation he least wanted to see.
Looking at the seven female slaves in blood, Hu Hai was silent for a while, using only meat to describe people as slaves? Has it reached this point?
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