Slaves and maids are sluts, and the law is better than livestock.

In the Great Sui Dynasty, the status of slaves and maids was the same as that of livestock, so the trading of slaves and maids was with cattle and horses, and there was not even a special slave and maid trading market, but with cattle and horses in the cattle and horse market.

Zhang Yichen directly drove the more than 3,000 fugitives who had been arrested from the pioneer camp to the Cattle and Horse Market and put them up for sale on the public list.

The number of slaves in the Sui Dynasty was huge, and it is said that three or four percent of the population of Jingshi Daxing were slaves and maids, and these slaves and maids came from a wide range of sources, including former slaves and maids, children born to former slaves and maids, prisoners of war, and criminals.

For the Sui people with Hu Feng, the biggest place for prisoners of war was Niuma Market, and eventually most of them would become slaves.

Early in the morning, Luo Cheng took a few brothers to the cattle and horse market in Zhangqiu Market.

Zhang Yichen gave Zhangqiu County officials and powerful landlords a privilege to buy slaves in advance. The one who chooses first will naturally escape to a better slave.

Luo Cheng was the hero of this quelling the turmoil, and Zhang Yichen naturally asked him to choose the first batch of people.

"Slaves are traded in this shop, and a number of them have been sent here, the strongest men, and the youngest and most beautiful maids."

Accompanying Luo Cheng was the Zhangqiu City Order.

Although Zhangqiu is only a small county town, there is also a specially set up market, where all the buying and selling transactions are located, and there are no storefronts on the streets, let alone vendors setting up stalls along the streets.

There is also a special market order.

This city order is also a non-grade Xu official, and Da Sui calls these people miscellaneous officials, the same as Luo Cheng. It's just that now Luo Cheng is the acting county lieutenant, he is naturally Luo Cheng's subordinate.

After all, in Dasui, the county lieutenant is a judge, responsible for various practical affairs in the county, which is similar to the errand of the executive deputy county magistrate.

More than 3,000 captive fugitives, including men, women, and children, were selected by the city order for Luo Cheng.

As a result, Luo Cheng said, "Are there any of those people who can read and write, who can write and count, who know some craftsman skills, and who are among the women who can weave silk weavers and know how to cook?" ”

The city order was also newly replaced, he didn't expect Luo Cheng to ask like this, and thought about it, "There must be, the little one will ask immediately." ”

The fourth child was puzzled and asked, "To buy slaves, you naturally have to buy those young and strong, so that we can plow the fields and farm the land for us, what do you do if you can write and calculate?" ”

"Those who can write and calculate can be accountants, those who understand human accidents can be housekeepers, those who can cook can be cooks, those who can wait can be maids, those who can fight can be nurses, those who can drive cars can be coachmen, and those who know craftsmanship are also useful."

Dad nodded while listening, "What Xiao Wu said makes sense, in fact, you can't just pick strong slaves, and those who really have skills are actually the most valuable." ”

There are many slaves in large families, they study and become officials but do not produce, clothes come to stretch their hands, food comes to open their mouths, everything is inseparable from slaves and maids.

The Luo family is now considered to have entered the ranks of the local small and powerful people, the family has 600 acres of land, and Luo Cheng has an official status, as long as he has money, he is qualified to buy more land.

With so many fields, it is naturally impossible for the Luo family to cultivate all of them by themselves.

Buying slaves to farm the land is a top priority, not to mention that in the future, when the family business is large, it is necessary to build a house and buy a house, which requires a gatekeeper, a housekeeper in charge, a money and grain account, a housekeeper in the courtyard, a charioteer, a horseman who feeds the horses, etc.

There must even be a cook in the kitchen, and a maid ring in the room.

When conditions permit, it is natural to improve life.

Luo Cheng's family took a turn in the mouth and horse shop, and did not take a fancy to a few slaves and maids.

The slaves here were all sturdy men and young women, and such slaves and maids were actually quite common, and he went around and bought twenty young and sturdy men, and ten unmarried young women.

"Don't you buy more from the county lieutenant, these slaves are very cheap." The market order flattered Luo Cheng to buy it today, it was an internal preferential price, and the discount was still very strong. Luo Cheng can buy more, and if he turns around and resells it, he can immediately make a lot of money, which can be regarded as a benefit to the officials.

But Luo Cheng shook his head, "I still need some skills, who can write, calculate, fight, ride, etc., right?" ”

"Then I'll take the county lieutenant to the prisoner camp outside the city to pick it up, there must be."

The family then went to the prisoner camp again.

The groups of fugitives stayed there in panic, looking at Luo Cheng's family with very complicated eyes.

The city commander stood in the middle and said loudly, "County Lieutenant Luo wants to pick some people, are there people who can write, calculate, ride and fight, be a female worker, and know how to cook?" Those who can drive cars, feed horses, and veterinarians are also counted, as long as the county lieutenant picks them, they will have a good life in the future. ”

Father Luo said on the side, "If there are ironsmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, or even farming skills." ”

The fugitives were just staring at this side, and no one said anything.

Luo Cheng said, "As long as you are selected by my family and come to my Luo family to do things, then I won't say much else, you can eat two meals a day, and if you do well, you will be matched with a slave and maid to marry in the future, and you will even have a reward and monthly money, as long as you can save enough money, I can even give you a free release and return freedom." ”

As soon as these words came out, someone's eyes lit up.

Finally, a middle-aged man stepped forward.

"I have read books, I can settle accounts, I once worked as a partner in a pharmacy in Lu County, and I know a little about the compatibility of prescriptions."

Luo Cheng looked at this person unexpectedly, there was still such a talent.

He inquired carefully for a while, and found that this person could really write and calculate, and he knew some simple methods of curing diseases and grasping medicine, and even understood some veterinarians, he was simply a talent.

"Okay, you've been picked."

"I have a request, I hope Lieutenant Luo can agree." The middle-aged man who claimed to be Zhao Huaixian said.

"You say."

"I wish I could bring my wife and children with me."

After inquiry, it turned out that this Zhao Huaixian was indeed a guy from a pharmacy in Lu County next door, who had been in the pharmacy for many years and had learned some medical skills, but later he hooked up with the concubine of the pharmacy owner, and then the two eloped and escaped.

In the end, he hid in Tibet and fled to Changbai Mountain in Qi County to be a fugitive, because he knew a little medical skills, he lived well in that mountain, and he had children, and he was very happy to live in seclusion, but Luo Cheng suppressed bandits and arrested their family.

After Luo Cheng asked, he asked people to find Zhao Huaixian's wives and children.

It turned out that Zhao Huaixian's wife and children were his childhood sweethearts, but unfortunately his wife's father later saw the money given by the owner of the Chinese medicine shop, so he promised his daughter to be a concubine to the owner of the medicine shop.

The proprietor of the pharmacy in his seventies took twenty-eight beautiful women as concubines, although Zhao Huaixian was heartbroken, but he was helpless.

Not long after the girl entered, the owner died of illness, and then the merchant's son wanted to sell this concubine who had just started for a long time and had no way out, Zhao Huaixian gritted his teeth, and stole someone out and eloped with him.

It's still a pretty good story, but it's not tolerated by the world.

"Okay, I want all of you." Luo Cheng felt that Zhao Huaixian was not the kind of villain, and there was a reason why people stole the master's concubine.

"Xie Dongjia." Zhao Huaixian was grateful, although he was reduced to a slave, at least when he arrived at the Luo family, he could be reunited as a family, which was already a blessing in misfortune.