Zheng Peng finally experienced what it was like to get rich overnight: excited, excited, or excited.

Lu Shu is like a little money fan, looking at the copper coins for a while, touching the gold leaves for a while, and having a lot of fun, even Zheng Peng, who was born in a big family, also threw the money around, and occasionally laughed a few times.

Although he was from a big family, Zheng Peng couldn't get close to the treasury, and he always felt an inexplicable excitement when he saw so much cash for the first time.

It's a bit like paying wages in later generations, if you send a pay slip and say that the money has been paid to the account, it feels like a number, and when you hold a wad of banknotes in your hand, it feels very thick.

Zheng Peng saw so much cash, and his little heart was really a little uneasy.

Tossed until sunset, both of them were tired, Zheng Peng carried the cash box into the bedroom and put it away, and Lu Shu made a fire to cook.

When eating, Lu Shu couldn't help but ask, "Young Master, how are you going to spend this money?" ”

One thousand is not a small amount, and Lu Shu wants to be curious about how her young master is going to use it.

"I haven't thought about it yet, Lu Shu, in your opinion, what to do with this money?"

Lu Shu thought for a while, and quickly said: "If you have money, you must buy a field, it is best to buy a village that is connected together, whether it is rented to others, or buy slaves and maids to farm by yourself, that is, money makes money, and you will have no worries about food and clothing in the future." ”

"Oh, how big can you buy a Zhuangzi?"

Lu Shu wrenched her fingers and calculated: "Ordinary mountain land is about fifteen guan one acre, a good paddy field costs twenty-three guan one acre, the young master's money, the maid calculates, if you buy it well, ten acres will cost two hundred and three guan, well, to buy a field, you have to hire people, buy cattle, pay deed tax, if you save some money, you can buy a thirty or forty acres of Zhuangzi." ”

In times of peace, the price of land also rose, and some good land was even more valuable.

Zheng Peng froze when he heard this: I thought I was very rich, and I had a taste of buying whatever I wanted, but after Lu Shuyi's analysis, I found that this Qianguan really bought things, but he really couldn't buy anything.

Only 34 acres of land, in Datang, at most, is a small landlord, and those who have thousands of acres and acres of fertile land at home, they are simply poor, that is, they bought a small village, and the money is almost spent, there is no decent house, there is no carriage for transportation, and there is no nursing home to protect safety, you can't expect Xiao Lushu to do everything, and it takes a lot of money to buy a few clever maidservants.

After calculating it, Zheng Peng realized that this thousand times could not achieve his ideal well-off life.

"Young Master, what are you thinking?" Seeing that Zheng Peng didn't express his opinion, Lu Shu asked in a low voice.

Zheng Peng said helplessly: "I thought it was a lot of money, but when I heard you say this, compared with Guo Fu, I am like being poor." ”

Lu Shu covered her mouth and smiled, comforting Zheng Peng and said: "Young master, how can you think like this, those big families have so many properties, and they are not blown by the wind, but from generation to generation, this generation saves a sum of money, the next generation buys two acres of land, accumulates from generation to generation, and passes it on from generation to generation, and the young master is self-made, how can the two be compared?" ”

After speaking, Lu Shu looked at Zheng Peng with some admiration, and said softly, "Young Master, you are already very powerful. ”

Zheng Peng's mood is much better.

As for what to do after having money, Zheng Peng had already thought about it, and said while eating: "We won't take care of the fields, and besides, the capital is not much, let's buy a house first, and when the braised meat makes more money, then buy it, and then buy it, this young master either doesn't buy it, if you want to buy it, you can buy a big Zhuangzi." ”

There is a reason that Zheng Peng did not say, now the land is expensive and cheap, the profit from farming is very low, and the investment and harvest are not proportional, so it is better to invest this money in other aspects, and the return is higher.

"Young master, the servant listens to you."

"Hurry up, get up early tomorrow, and we'll go to the market."

"Young master, are you going to buy spices?"

Zheng Peng said: "The announcement said that tomorrow there will be a market in the market, and Miss Guo will deliver all the money, and we must also seize the time to make preparations." ”

The production process of lo-mei is very simple, the most important thing is the recipe, Datang does not have laws related to intellectual copyright, there are good things to pay attention to confidentiality, Zheng Peng has considered, the cost of hiring people is not high, but it is easy to leak secrets, it is better to buy some slaves to work, no need to pay wages, and I am not afraid that they will be poached.

The Tang Dynasty was an unprecedentedly open country, not only were Qinglou all over the corner, the imperial court turned a blind eye to prostitution, and it also enacted a slave law to protect the interests of the upper classes, making the slave trade legal.

The slaves and maids of the Tang Dynasty can be divided into two categories, official and private, according to different affiliations, but the official and private subordinates of slaves and maids can be transformed into each other. Most of the official slaves and maids came from those who were reduced to slaves because of breaking the law, and most of the private slaves and maids came from buying and selling.

Like Lushu, it belongs to private slaves.

For the management of slaves and maids, the rulers of the Tang Dynasty are very strict, and the criminal department of Shangshu Province is responsible for supervising them, such as "Duguan Lang Zhongren Wailang, the palm is not subordinate, Bo Lu prisoner, has given him food and clothing and medicine treatment, and is exempted from the lawsuit", most of the official slaves and maids are assigned to Sinong Temple, which is supervised by the Duguan, and the slaves and maids needed by the supervision and pastoral departments of the Zhuxing Palace are allocated by Sinong Temple. In addition, institutions such as the Xi Official Bureau and the Prince Jialing Temple in the Ministry of Internal Service are also places where officials and slaves are not matched.

In cities with more than 3,000 households in prefectures and counties, officials such as city decrees and histories are ordered to manage, buy and sell, and there will also be some floating human markets that buy and sell in some places where there are no human markets.

It has to be said that Datang turned the slave trade into a business.

Guixiang County is not a big place, but there are many celebrities and gentry, so there are less than 3,000 households here.

Zheng Peng doesn't like to buy and sell people like animals, but he can't change it at this time, at least he doesn't have the ability to do it now.

"Well, the young master is right, he must be trustworthy by his own people, and Lu Shu will accompany the young master tomorrow." Lu Shu whispered.

"Let's be together, then." Zheng Peng immediately agreed.

The next day, Zheng Peng and Lu Shu had breakfast, and then hired Uncle Qian's carriage to head in the direction of the market.

As soon as she got out of the car, Lu Shu covered her nose and said, "Young master, it stinks here." ”

The human market was located next to the cattle market, and there was an unbearable smell in the air, and the voices of loud reprimands could be faintly heard.

Zheng Peng smiled and began to walk towards the market with Lu Shu.

The market is usually opened on the market day, the market day is regarded as the festival of the market, on this day the vendors will take a large number of goods to the market to sell, the people around the county also like to go to the market to shop on this day, compared to weekdays, the market day is much more lively.

The Tang Dynasty stipulates that the children born to slaves and maids are called "slaves" or "domestic slaves", which are part of the master's property, and are "tied to the master", and everything is disposed of by the master or disposed of in accordance with the "slave law", so that many people make a living by selling slaves.

There are sales, there are buying, many people in demand, with various purposes to buy slaves in the market, before they arrive in the market, they see people coming and going, some people talk about buying and selling at the door, some look at the "goods", some bargain, a small Guixiang County's human trafficking is also so prosperous, Zheng Peng can't help but feel: behind the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty, there is also a huge slave trading market.

"Hey, Xiao Langjun, you are a good servant, whether you sell it or not, you will pay a high price." As soon as he walked to the market, a short and fat middle-aged man stopped in front of him, and his little mung bean eyes looked Lu Shu up and down, almost drooling.

If you use one word to describe the gaze of this obscene middle-aged man, Zheng Peng thinks of one word: yin is radiant.

"Young Master" Lu Shu was startled, and hid in Zheng Peng's body a little nervously, pulling the corners of his clothes tightly, and speaking a little panicked.

I was afraid that Zheng Peng would be tempted by the high price and sell himself.

Zheng Peng patted Lu Shu's hand lightly, signaling her not to be afraid, then turned his head, glared, and said with a sinister face: "Get out!" ”

I didn't want to talk to this person even if I was polite, so I just used it.

The middle-aged lewd man was intimidated by Zheng Peng's momentum, and without saying a word, he turned around and ran away in embarrassment, and he didn't dare to say a word about the scene.