Liu Pei was full of joy when he heard this, and said, "Borrow your auspicious words!" But after a while, I will have to bother with the help of the shopkeeper, I don't know what a hundred years of ginseng is like! ”

Manager Li said: "Don't worry, Childe, wrap it up on me!" As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a gong sound, and the grass market opened!

Shopkeeper Li accompanied Liu Pei and directly began to choose ginseng. In fact, there are not many varieties of goods in the grass market. But there are a lot of ginseng in a pile. That's right, it's the heap!

As early as the early Ming Dynasty, the Jianzhou Jurchens were still in a primitive tribal state, living in the wild forests, and making a living by hunting, fishing, and herding. Some necessities such as grain, silk, cloth, porcelain, ironware, tea, salt and other materials had to be obtained through border trade with the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the Jurchens in the state of barbarians could not trade any valuable goods with the Ming Dynasty, and all they had in their hands were furs, cattle and horses, and ginseng, which was a specialty of the Northeast, obtained from hunting and animal husbandry.

The primeval forests of Northeast China produce high-quality ginseng, which is the trump card commodity of the Jurchen people to export to the Ming Dynasty. Without ginseng, the Jurchens, who were growing in population, could hardly survive. Don't even have the luxury of developing your own growing armament.

In fact, Da Ming is not stupid, when Da Ming perceives that the Jurchen is becoming more and more threatening, Da Ming must find a way to limit the lifeblood of the rise of the Jurchen. That is undoubtedly to cut off the ginseng trade! Because the Ming Dynasty doesn't want ginseng, it doesn't matter, but the Jurchens can't do without the ginseng trade.

Therefore, whenever the Ming Dynasty wanted to knock on the Jurchens, the Ming government deliberately closed the border trade in Liaodong. In particular, the import of ginseng from Jurchen is eliminated. During the Wanli years, the tribute market was stopped for two years, and the Jurchen ginseng was not allowed to be imported, and as a result, the best ginseng that the Jurchens had worked so hard to pick was rotten by more than 100,000 catties! Based on the calculation of 5 taels of silver per catty of ginseng at that time, this time the Jurchens lost more than 500,000 taels of silver!

The Jurchens did not expect to be able to conquer the Ming Dynasty at first, and their original intention was nothing more than to enter the customs and rob to compensate for the loss of trade. Later, the Ming Dynasty Liaodong was invaded by the Jurchens for many years, according to statistics, the Qing army plundered the Ming Dynasty five times before the Jiashen Incident, and looted 4,039 taels of gold and more than 970,000 taels of silver from Liaodong in 1636 alone. And a large number of people were taken captive to the Jurchen region.

Although there are few ginsengs for a hundred years, there are really a few in the entire grass market. The 8 ginseng were all taken by Liu Pei at a high price. The so-called high price is 10 taels of silver each! 8 ginsengs, the shortest year is 110 years, the longest is 140 years! One tael in the Ming Dynasty was about 31.2 grams, and modern industrial silver was 3.5 yuan per gram, and Liu Pei bought these 8 ginseng for 9,000 yuan! Liu Pei is about to laugh like crazy! This is more profitable than inverted antique calligraphy and painting! Liu Pei threw out a small gold ingot and it was done! And the Jurchens who sold ginseng were very satisfied!

In the evening, the grass market is almost over. Liu Pei and Shopkeeper Li left a few men to finish, and the two walked towards the camp first, talking about whether there would be Jurchens to bring ginseng to sell tomorrow.

As soon as they came out of the grass market, they saw two Jurchens arguing, one of them twisting one leg and walking on crutches, obviously a lame. Next to her stood a tatteredly dressed and emaciated woman holding a child about two years old. Look at the dress of the women is the costume of the Ming people. It was supposed to be a slave captured by the Jurchens. The child was dressed in tatters, and his hair was scattered and he couldn't see the man or woman clearly, but he could tell how thin he was. The hand that grabbed the skirt of his mother's clothes was as thin as a reed stick.

Liu Pei couldn't understand the Jurchen words, so he quietly asked Shopkeeper Li what the two were arguing about? Manager Li listened for a moment and whispered, "That lame man went to war a while ago and borrowed a sum of money from another person in order to buy clothes and armor. But when he came back from the war, he didn't grab anything and couldn't pay the money. And he also broke his leg, and he can't go to war and steal things in the future, let alone pay back the money. So he wanted to use the slave girl and the child to pay the bill. The one who could collect the account would not. said that the woman was too thin and weak, and had a small child to raise, and he did not have so much food, and refused to accept the employment of people. ”

Liu Pei nodded to indicate that he understood. He looked at the frightened woman and the child, and he couldn't think about it for a while. At this moment, the two men suddenly quarreled violently. After a few words, the lame man pushed the woman around and left. The collector pointed at his back and seemed to curse. Then he pointed at the woman and yelled. The woman also knew that she had been given to others as goods, but she couldn't help it, she could only shrink her body with a humble and frightened face, and hugged the child tightly.

When Liu Pei was thinking about whether he could help, the Jurchen suddenly snatched the child in the woman's arms, grabbed one of the child's legs, and slammed the child to the ground! The boy only cried half a way and then was silent!

The woman stood there stunned! After blinking, the woman let out a shocking scream, knelt on the ground and picked up the child, desperately trying to cover the wound on the child's head! But the child was smashed on the ground and his brain burst out, and blood and brain plasma flowed everywhere, and he couldn't stop it!

The Jurchen pounced on the woman, knocked the woman to the ground with two punches, snatched the child's body from the woman's arms, and threw it far away in the grass. He dragged the woman into the village. The woman who was dragged away also desperately stretched out her hand in the direction of the child's corpse, as if she wanted to grab her child again! There were also screams and cries from his mouth. But her desperate struggle was gradually dragged into the village.

Liu Pei was already stunned at this time! Liu Pei, who lives in today's society, has never seen such a bloody scene! His stimulated hands and feet stiffened and he was unable to respond. He didn't react until the woman disappeared, but found that he had been dragged a long distance by Manager Li.

Liu Pei stretched out his hand to pull out his gun, but was hugged by Mr. Li's arm. hurriedly whispered: "Childe, don't be impulsive!" You can't escape if your identity is exposed! ”

Liu Pei only felt a burst of colic in his heart and brain. As soon as I bent over, I threw up. At this time, he also knew that he really couldn't save that woman, even if he had two pistols, he couldn't fight the Jurchens in a village!

He subconsciously said, "Why did he kill that child?" Why did he kill that child? ”

Manager Li sighed and said, "The life of the Jurchens is not easy either! In the past few years, the weather has been bad, and there has been little food. He doesn't want to keep an extra mouth. ”

Liu Pei grabbed the shopkeeper Li's hand and squeezed out a voice from between his teeth and roared: "But that's just a child!" And that damn Jurchen killed the child in front of his mother! ”

Shopkeeper Li's arm was pinched by Liu Pei in pain, and his facial features were about to come together. But he could understand Liu Pei's feelings. Holding back the pain, he whispered: "Liu Gongzi, but that woman and child are slaves!" ”

Liu Pei gradually came to his senses at this time, let go of his hand, and let Shopkeeper Li drag him back to the caravan camp. At night, Liu Pei couldn't sleep at all. As long as he closed his eyes, there was the bloody corpse of the child and the desperate face of the mother in front of him! So he sat by the fire all night, and did not fall asleep until dawn.

In the following time, Liu Peihun followed the shopkeeper Li back to North Korea, and then crossed the sea to Shandong. Until he passed through the space-time gate, his ears seemed to be surrounded by the woman's terrible scream! There is also a bright color of blood in front of me!