The slave market in Jinling is outside the city. After all, slave trading is not a glorious matter, so the chief officials of local governments do not allow slave trading to be carried out in the city, which affects their reputation. Officials of the Qin Dynasty care about their reputation very much.

Men and women can be thieves behind their backs and prostitutes. On the surface, they all do a good job, which is also the way for most officials of the Qin Dynasty to be officials.

As one of the three major capitals of the Qin Dynasty, Jinling had no less than 30,000 soldiers stationed outside the city. One was to defend Jinling, the other was to defend the entire Jiangnan, and could send troops to other counties at any time. The third was to use the criminals who guarded the surrounding areas.

Therefore, the soldiers in Jinling City are many times more powerful than those stationed in ordinary county cities. In order to increase the deterrence, slave camps are generally built next to the barracks, and soldiers are also sent by the barracks to take care of them.

Before being sold, slaves could only live in slave camps, and all slave transactions could only be carried out in slave camps.

Under the leadership of Xu Donghai, Qin Mu came to the slave camp located outside the northwest of Jinling City. Originally, Qin Mu wanted Hongxiu to come to the slave camp to see it, but then he thought about it and let it go. After all, he and Hongxiu were not familiar with the slave camp, so he was sold after he went there. It was called Tiantian and the earth was not effective.

So Qin Mu left Hongxiu in the mansion and asked Xu Donghai, the local snake of the Xu family, to bring him to this slave camp. Xu Donghai often came to the slave camp. The soldiers and soldiers in charge of the slave camp knew him, so they let him go without stopping him.

The slave camp is not large, mainly because slaves do not need to live in too good places. Except for a few single houses for slave merchants to live in, all slaves live in a large shop with twenty people. Not only is it so hot in summer, but it is also so cold that people are frozen in winter. Fortunately, the slaves do not stay in the slave camp for too long, so that they will not cause major patients.

Seeing someone entering the slave camp, although the slaves didn't do anything, the slave merchants quickly ran over and said to Xu Donghai with a smile: "The villain has seen Lord Xu."

Xu Donghai served as a seventh-rank chief commander in the Jinling Metropolitan Commander Office, so he was considered a small official. It was nothing wrong for this slave merchant to call him Lord.

From this we can see that Xu Donghai often comes to this slave camp, and Qin Mu doesn't know what he comes to do.

In the Great Qin State, slave merchants are not a franchise project. As long as they can obtain slaves according to the court's regulations and sell them in limited places, such as slave camps.

"This is Mr. Qin, and he wants to buy some slaves from you."

Xu Donghai ignored the slave merchant and pointed at Qin Mu and said, although Xu Donghai often came to the slave camp, Xu Donghai looked down on these slave merchants from the bottom of his heart. Xu Donghai usually came to the slave camp to see if there were any beautiful female slaves. After all, such beautiful female slaves may have had a prominent identity in the past, and may have been confiscated for various reasons or captured during wars.

For people like Xu Donghai, their favorite is to play with such a woman who was arrogant before, which gave Xu Donghai a special sense of accomplishment. There are many people like Xu Donghai who are unique among the officials in Jinling, and they often come to the slave camp to play together.

"Little Huang Yue, I have met Mr. Qin."

When the slave merchant heard that Qin Mu was the seller, he immediately nodded and bowed to Qin Mu. As long as the slave merchant could make money, no dignity was important, otherwise he would not be such a slave merchant who was scolded.

You should know that in the Great Qin State, there are only two types of people who can afford slaves, one is a wealthy businessman and the other is an official. Although slave merchants are also merchants, they are never taken seriously by other merchants, and they can't raise their heads in front of many officials.

This does not mean that officials look down on slave merchants, but that with the power in hand, officials can remove slave status for slaves at any time, so that slave merchants will lose all their money.

If it weren't for slave merchants, there was still a need for existence. If it weren't for slave merchants, the slave merchants under the pressure of various officials would have died long ago.

This was the first time Qin Mu saw slaves and slave merchants. When slave merchants began to flatter Qin Mu, Qin Mu also looked at this slave merchant that was absolutely unseen in modern society.

The slave merchant was very short, about 1.6 meters tall. Not only did he have a fat face with garlic nose, but his two balls of cheeks were as ugly as two doughs stuck to his face. He was wearing a dirty short jacket, his small eyes narrowed into a slit shape, and his body was round and like a groundhog.

It's not ugly, but extremely vulgar.

Since the threshold for being a slave merchant is not high, Qin Mu was too lazy to show kindness to the ugly slave merchant, and asked casually: "Where did you get these slaves? Do you know what errands they have done before?"

Qin Mu wanted to know the origin of these slaves so as not to be unsuitable for use in the future.

"When Mr. Qin said, these slaves were brought back by villains from Beishan County. They were all those who couldn't eat and voluntarily sold themselves as slaves. Their life experiences were very innocent. Master, you want to buy a few. If there were too many, the younger ones would be discounted." The slave merchant was afraid that Qin Mu was worried that these slaves were not of clear origin, so he quickly explained.

"How many slaves do you have here?" Qin Mu asked.

"There are more than a hundred slaves here now." The slave merchant replied.

"Take everyone under the age of eight and over fifty, and take everyone out for me to see." Qin Mu said after thinking for a while.

Beishan County is a large county near the border northwest of the Great Qin Kingdom. It is not only vast inland and has a large population. However, since the drought in the past few years, Beishan County has been unable to recover for three consecutive years, and the people in the county are displaced and sold as slaves.

"Master Qin, these people were selected according to your requirements. There are thirty men, twenty women, and fifteen children over the age of eight and underage. These people are slaves collected in Beishan County. There is no problem and they are all registered in the government."

After selecting the slaves that Qin Mu asked for, the slave merchant said to Qin Mu with a calm face, after all, the slave business is not easy to do now, and there are wars everywhere and famine everywhere. There are too many slaves, so there are fewer people buying, so Huang Yue attaches great importance to this business.

Sitting upright on the Grand Master's chair, Qin Mu looked at the slave standing in front of him as if nothing had happened.

Although Beishan County was affected by drought and famine, many people sold themselves as slaves, Huang Yue obviously did not abuse them too much in order to make the slaves in his hands easy to sell.

Even though these people have a little bit of food on their faces, they look quite energetic. At least in front of Qin Mu, the buyer, both adults and children are trying their best to show themselves.

Not only did all of those male slaves have a strong physical foundation, but the female slaves also looked very upright, and some young girls even looked quite awesome.

As for the more than ten children, each of them had a shrewd face. Obviously, most of them knew how to grasp their own destiny. After all, the days they were bought were better than being locked up in the house by slave merchants every day.

After looking around, Qin Mu said, "Does any of you have a family member? If you have one, stand up first, and take care of the children."

"Master, can you brother?" suddenly one of the slaves said.

Qin Mu's request was a little vague, but Qin Mu was even more surprised that someone responded so quickly. Looking at a strong man in his thirties who took the initiative to raise his hand, Qin Mu was a little unsure of his errand before selling himself as a slave. He thought about it and said, "If there are underage brothers and sisters here, you can stand up with your children first."

As soon as Qin Mu's voice fell, the strong man stopped talking, which obviously did not meet Qin Mu's requirements.

Then, under the loud urging of slave merchant Huang Yue, a couple soon came out and brought a twelve- and three-year-old girl.

Without the need for slaves to speak, the slave merchant Huang Yue said with a flattering look on his face: "Master Qin, do you want to buy this family?"

Qin Mu ignored the slave merchants and continued to look at the slaves waiting for fate to decide and said, "Those who have practiced martial arts can stand up first, regardless of men or women."

"Crash!"

No one argued anymore, and a large group of people quickly crowded out of the slaves, not only the strong man who spoke before, but also four or five strong women.

Practicing martial arts in the Qin Dynasty was a trend. In the rural areas of the Qin Dynasty, many ordinary people practiced martial arts during the slack farming period. One was to strengthen their bodies and protect their own villages. After all, in the northwest of the Qin Dynasty, bandits often attacked villages, plundered property and women, and murdered and set fire.

Seeing that half of the slaves had already come out, Qin Mu didn't care and continued to say calmly: "Whether there are literate people, some can stand up, regardless of men or women."

Unlike the previous noisy, the slaves quickly calmed down this time. After all, in the Qin Dynasty, reading was a very luxurious act. Ordinary people even had a problem with eating. Where can I have any spare money to read and read? According to incomplete statistics, only one-third of the people in the Qin Dynasty have read books and can recognize a few words. The others are basically Bai Ding who doesn’t know a single word.

I wonder if it was influenced by the strong man before, but after a beautiful woman came forward and walked forward slightly and said, "Sir, do you have any requirements for literacy? Do you require literacy and clarification?"

"Although it is very good to understand the scriptures and scriptures, I will not ask you to use this to ask you. As long as you understand the text and write your own words, you can read and write your own letters. Men don't want it."
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