"I can't bear this price."

"If you can't bear it, you have to carry it, the price of 'Cape Slave' will also rise next year, if you don't buy it now, you will buy it next year!" Xinzhuang is now recruiting workers, and the maximum amount a day has reached 400 Wen, can this still be used? It's not as cost-effective as buying an official slave! ”

"But the price of this Wuhan has risen so high, there was a plague yesterday, and I took 400 yuan to buy a slave and maid, and this one has increased eight times. What a dead! ”

"In this market now, the profits are still high."

Wuhan has not banned human trade, and although the tooth shop is suppressed, the reason for the suppression is to target human trafficking. Today's "slave market", the main source of goods from the East China Sea, from the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, has gradually replaced the Goryeo slaves, become the main force in the market.

How lucrative was the slave trade in the East China Sea?

The minimum profit is 100 percent, that is to say, if you invest a penny in it, you can guarantee a round trip, and this penny becomes two pennies.

The reason for such a terrible profit is the mutual influence of multiple aspects.

The first is naturally China's thirsty demand for precious metals, and there is no upper limit to the demand for gold, silver and copper, even if a large number of "Iyu Copper Mountain" and "East China Sea Gold" return to China, the Tang Dynasty is still a "money shortage" at the national level. Among the auxiliary means of payment, silk cloth and linen cloth not only did not withdraw from the stage of history, but added a cotton cloth.

The second is the formation of Fusang's primary consumer market, and its main force is divided into three parts: first, Wang Wansui, Shan Daozhen and other civilian armed forces; the second is the aristocracy and samurai class of the Fuso countries; Third, most of the remnants of the country who once remained in the Korean Province have fled to Fuso.

The third is the extreme demand for labor in the major seaports and inland ports within the Tang Dynasty.

These three main reasons influenced and promoted each other, and finally formed the current profiteering trade.

And the addition of royal sea hooligans such as "His Majesty's Seven Martial Seas" makes people clearly realize that the profits in this sea area have made Emperor Lao Tzu excited.

Originally, ten years ago, the landing price of slaves in Denglai Prefecture was about 50 yuan, but as the Tang Dynasty further squeezed the living space of the Liaodong tribes, this landing price increased by between 5 and 20 percent every year.

Up to now, the purchase price of slaves in the Fusang countries and the guaranteed purchase price of the Tang Dynasty have become fifty guan.

And the slave crossed the ocean and arrived at Denglai or Huaiyang, and its price was at most 100 yuan. If it is directly connected to Hangzhou or Wuhan, this price is likely to be doubled, that is, 200 yuan.

Prices are inflated, but in today's frenzied market, the number of slaves is basically equal to the strength of the merchants.

Not all cities are able to make the most of machinery as much as Wuhan does, and even Wuhan is only a fraction of it.

In fact, from the design to the production to the processing, and even to the operation and maintenance of machinery, a certain amount of educated labor is required. Wuhan, under Zhang De's influence, is not so extravagant that it fills the small number of "educated" people with this senseless consumption.

Although in Lao Zhang's eyes, this kind of "educated" population is not even as good as a single hair of industrial workers on the repetitive labor assembly line before the illegal crossing, but at the moment of Zhenguan for 20 years, this kind of person is "talent"!

Therefore, in Wuhan, only a certain number of professionals can be used on a regular basis to basically meet the local production of new farms in Wuhan.

When the farming season is busy, whether it is replanting or harvesting rice and threshing, hired temporary farmers have become a feature of Wuhan.

The concept of "part-time work" in Wuhan, 17 years after Zhenguan, was not in the urban workshops that went to Hanyang and Jiangxia. Instead, he went to the new farm and did the work of a single unified command.

When the "Harvest Order" was issued, there were more or less young men and women from various places and occupations who went to work on the farms indicated in the notice. Because they are temporary workers, they are often paid "expensive", which is basically more than double the daily wage in urban workshops.

Similarly, in the farmland developed by China Resources in the northern part of the country, such as the Xihetao, the number of "wheat customers" gathered during the autumn harvest can reach 6,000 at the highest time. Just one day's wage settlement is more than 900 guan, because the market of Xihetao has to include food and accommodation in the eleventh or twelfth year of Zhenguan.

Zhang De did not intervene in this kind of market behavior, so the market naturally made the powerful businessmen ponder how to "open up sources and reduce expenditures".

And their luck is so good, backed by an empire that has never been more powerful than ever, that they are constantly agitating for plunder on different levels, including human resources, of course.

Those royal sea hooligans who went to sea to open their eyes used every means they could think of. Coercion, inducement, bribery, blackmail, and everything is done. To be gentle, they bribed the magnates of the Fusang countries, and the local magnates did not hesitate to betray the "people" under their rule for the sake of profit. Of course, it is more important to plunder the enemies of neighboring countries by exporting wars.

As a result, the entire East China Sea Route was filled with a large number of Fuso aristocrats who were vying to sell their fellow people as slaves. Before the second wave of the sea was set off by the "Seven Martial Seas of the King", the Japanese slaves often hated not the Tang people, but their own people.

Every ship bound for Fusang in the Tang Dynasty brought with it silk, cotton and linen, ceramics, lacquerware, furniture, farm tools and other consumer goods, which were traded to the local Tang people, Tang army, Fusang nobles, and savage tribal leaders, and then exchanged for a large amount of precious metals, timber, grain, seafood, pearls, and people.

Some of the ships loaded with these materials sailed to Liaodong and went directly to Shicheng Iron and Steel Plant; Some went to Denglai and turned to Cangzhou and Youzhou; Some went to Suzhou and diverted to Changzhou; Some drove to Yangzhou and eventually to Luoyang......

As for the newer routes, such as the voyage to Liuqiu, where slaves were traded twice, the price of a slave could be doubled to a hundred taels on the spot, and then they would be classified as slave laborers on the plantation. The equivalent items traded were gold, gray sugar, lacquer, preserved fruits, seafood, and grain.

These gold, gray sugar, lacquer, and grain will be transported to Wuhan, Xiangfan, and Chang'an.

The huge network of trade routes, in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, has been quite mature, because of the geographical location, many people at the time called it "East China Sea Wealth Road".

However, this could not satisfy the appetite within the Tang Dynasty at all, Guangzhou, Jiaozhou, Aizhou, and Huanzhou had good news again and again, Du Zhenglun announced the success of the South China Sea, and the "Cape Slave" officially appeared on the stage of history.

The South China Sea has changed from the original "place of exile" to a national dynasty confinement in an instant, with private baths. The hundreds of islands and sandbars of all sizes are not only the embellishment of the sea, but also the coordinates of the South China Sea route.

Originally, because of the development of the "East China Sea Route", the South China Sea seems to be still calm.

However, with the sudden outbreak of short-term labor shortages in the past 20 years of Zhenguan, the clouds over the entire South China Sea seem to converge into two words.

"Price increase! The price must go up! ”

"Fifty slaves, cape slaves also want this price!"

"Du Nanhai is so hard, you Guangzhou will give such a little money? Don't you look down on Du Nanhai, the court, and the saint?! ”

"Presumptuous! When it comes to price increases, it is said that price increases, what to climb Du Nanhai, the imperial court, and the Japanese slaves are familiar with it, this is the experience of Jianghuai Jiangnan. When did the cape slave have this reputation, don't say that you will give fifty times according to the Japanese slave, and then post you ten times? ”

"Humph! You're ramming goods when we are?! What is the price of Wuhan now, can you hide it from others, from us? Who is in charge of Jiaozhou? That's Li Gong! Royal family members, can the news be worse than you Cantonese people?! ”

"Hey! Wuhan is Wuhan, Jiaozhou is Jiaozhou, Wuhan is your Abba, the price increase is your business?! ”

"That's right, Wuhan is my father, my lord is in Wuhan to create a bureau-"

"Big brother, just speak, and do it loudly. Fifty times is fifty times, harmony produces wealth, harmony produces wealth. When I came, I brought two boxes of Hepu pearls, one of which is my filial piety to Wuhan Abba, and the other is my younger brother's admiration for my eldest brother......"

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In the 20 years of Zhenguan, the Yangtze River is recruiting and employing people everywhere, but it is not only the officials and businessmen in Wuhan and Huaiyang who are worried, but also the distant South China Sea, and I don't know how many people are happy and how many people are worried.

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