Lü Qing took a few guards and followed this Hun named Yizhi out of the city.

Wuwei City is a very small city, so many "goods" are not in the city.

Standing on the city wall and looking out, you can see that there are many makeshift camps outside the city wall.

If the scene in the city is a noisy grocery market, then the camps outside the city are veritable slums, perhaps even worse than them.

Dirty water is running sideways, feces of all kinds of excrement are filling people's eyes, and there are huge cages everywhere, and in the cages are people with dull eyes.

Not far from the cage, many fierce-looking cavalrymen sat or stood, talking and laughing loudly, and from their accents, it could be heard that they were from the Xiongnu, Yiqu, Wusun, Qiang and many other tribes.

Behind the cavalry there were several tents, from which the screams of women and the laughter of men could be heard from time to time.

Lu Qing looked at all this, and his face was very calm.

This is the current situation of the active slave hunting group on the border of Zhao State, and it is not the first time that Lu Qing has come, so it is naturally commonplace to do so.

Lu Qing walked into this camp, suddenly stopped in front of a cage, and sighed: "You actually dare to detain Zhao Ren?" ”

There were obviously several black-haired and dark-skinned people in the cage in front of Lu Qing.

Yizhi's body trembled, and he hurriedly smiled: "The master is joking, we are also the king's obedient people, how dare we treat the people of Zhao as slaves?" These people are all from Longxi, Qin State, and they are preparing to escape to the Western Regions, and then they are captured by our slave hunting team. ”

"The people of Qin." Lu Qing's face looked a little better, and then said: "You may not know, the Qin State has been conquered by the king recently, and there will be no Qin people from now on, and all the people of the Qin State will be from the Zhao State from now on, can you understand what I mean?" ”

Yizhi smiled: "Understand, I will send them to the main officer later." ”

Lu Qing snorted and continued to move forward.

With the continuous development of the Zhao state, the demand for young and middle-aged labor began to gradually increase, but due to the low proportion of young and middle-aged men in the Central Plains due to years of war, slaves became a very good choice.

So on the border of Zhao, all kinds of slave hunting groups began to prevail.

Most of these groups came from various nomadic barbarian tribes outside the borders of Zhao, and their targets were usually other steppe nomadic tribes as well as the many small states of the Western Regions further west.

However, everyone in these slave hunting groups knows that there are two iron laws that cannot be violated, the first is "If you die a Zhao person, you need to pay for it with the life of a hundred Hu", and the second is "Zhao people cannot be slaves".

Generally speaking, once it is discovered that a Zhao person has been killed or captured as a slave, then the cavalry troops stationed in Wuwei City will be dispatched to hunt down the tribes that dare to break the precepts.

If Captain Wu Wei felt that his army was not enough to succeed, then he could also apply to his superiors to transfer more troops.

After the northern frontier cavalry regiment of Zhao State attacked several times in a row and killed several large tribes that did not obey the order in one fell swoop, the bloody fact that tens of thousands of heads made all the slave capture groups consciously abide by these two orders.

This is why Lu Qing obviously didn't know this Yizhi, but he dared to swagger into the camp of Yizhi with a few guards.

Because Lu Qingke is an out-and-out authentic Zhao countryman.

Since Zhao Dan had announced the fact that the Qin people would become the subjects of Zhao in the future, then the Qin people naturally became a member of the Zhao people, so these lucky Qin people would naturally be able to get free from the hands of the slave traders.

Of course, if these Qin people are still unwilling to become the subjects of Zhao State, then this freedom will still be lost at any time, but that is up to Captain Wuwei to decide, and it will not be the turn of Yizhi, a slave trader, to dictate his ways.

Lu Qing continued to follow Yizhi forward, until he walked to a cage that looked quite remote, and then Yizhi smiled and stretched out his hand to Lu Qing: "Lord, please see, this is the envoy of the Seleucid Kingdom that I said." ”

Lu Qing walked in front of the cage and looked at the situation in the cage.

In fact, there were more than a dozen people in the cage, all of whom had blonde or brown hair, deep eye sockets, and a high nose bridge, somewhat similar to some of the Yueshi people Lu Qing had seen.

Among the dozen or so slaves, there is obviously an old man who is respected, which can be seen from the fact that all the slaves surround this old man and protect the old man in the middle.

It seems that these people have been tortured very miserably, all of them are tied together, and they all hang their heads weakly, even if they have heard the footsteps of Lu Qing and his party, no one looks up.

Lu Qing nodded and said to Yizhi, "Can they speak Zhao language?" ”

Yizhi smiled, and suddenly shouted a few times into the cage in Hun dialect.

These words finally attracted the attention of the people in the cage, and several people raised their heads at the same time.

One of the caged men spoke.

Yizhi chattered again.

Then the cage man's body shook, looked at Lu Qing with an incredible gaze, and then said a word.

This time, Lu Qing understood what he said.

"Are you an official of the Zhao State?"

This sentence is not Zhao language, but Ya language, that is, the "Zhou Dynasty version of Mandarin" used in the countries under the rule of the Zhou Dynasty since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty.

Compared with Yayu, Zhao Yu, which was born from Jin, is more like a local dialect, and although there are similarities between the two, there are also many differences.

Of course, with the unification of the Zhao state, the Zhao language will become the official language of the future, and the Ya language will disappear in the long river of history.

As a businessman who walks the world, Yayu can be said to be a necessary skill, so Lu Qing understands it as a matter of course.

Lu Qing nodded and said, "I am not an official of the Zhao State, but if you and the others are really an envoy, then I can take you and the others out of here." ”

When the guy translated this sentence to the other cage people, all the cage people were visibly in a commotion.

The old man, who was surrounded by the others, spoke a few words in a hurried tone, and then took out a piece of parchment from somewhere in his bosom.

Then the man in the cage, who could translate, held up the parchment and said in a somewhat proud tone: "We are indeed from the Seleucid Empire, and we hope to go to Handan, the capital of Zhao, to make an alliance with the great king of Zhao to jointly resist the invasion from the Huns. ”

"Huns?" Lu Qing was stunned for a moment.