Chapter 665: Prince Touman
"Your Majesty, is today's move a little abrupt?" Boya filled the incense burner with new incense, and couldn't help but say when he saw that Lu Di was holding the small hand stove to read the latest recital.
Lu Di glanced at Boya and said with a smile: "What you mean is understandable, but what the widow wants is to be abrupt, and this is the result." ”
"The monarch doesn't understand" Boya was very confused, because once Lu Di's actions this time came out, his reputation would be hit.
Lu Di looked at the confused boya and didn't explain, but said: "Don't worry, the widow is not confused, and the widow will not do anything that damages the Qi country." ”
Boya stopped talking.
"Oh, by the way, tomorrow you will accompany the widow to a trip to the field" Lu Di suddenly remembered another serious matter and said to Boya.
Boya didn't know what Lu Di was doing in the field, but he didn't ask much. I just went down to arrange for tomorrow's escort work.
Now there are many things to do in the country of Qi, and the most lacking thing is labor, so Lu Di came to the capital of the Son of Heaven for another purpose, which is to buy slaves from the country of the Son of Heaven.
Why do you have to get the kingdom of the Son of Heaven?
The reason is that the country of the Son of Heaven is located in the south of the Sanjin Dynasty, and now the Sanjin Dynasty is inseparable, and the slaves captured by each other will naturally not be less, but it is impossible for the slaves of each other to buy and sell in the other country, so the country of the Son of Heaven has become the best trading slave market.
It was precisely when Lu Di saw this that he planned to go to the field to see if he could buy some slaves.
The source of slaves in this era, in addition to natural birth, was war.
Although Lu Di led the troops to destroy the Wu State, defeated the Chu State, and swallowed the Wei State, according to common sense, there should be no shortage of slaves, but the fact is that due to the high expansion of all strata of the Qi State, more and more slaves are needed, such as the aristocratic gentry class, a large amount of their farmland reclamation, and such as the construction of large-scale water conservancy projects led by local governments, etc., which is not a huge gap?
And the nobles of the Qi State were determined that Lu Di would launch a foreign war and not pull his hind legs, so why didn't they hope that the war would bring them huge slave gains? Although this is twenty years, twenty years is better than the cost of hiring a ronin.
The royal capital was in the west of the city, and at this time, Lu Di and his party disguised themselves as ordinary merchants and came to the slave market.
Slaves were tied with ropes and stood on high earthen platforms, allowing buyers to come and go to pick and choose.
It wasn't the first time Lu Di had come to this kind of place, he was not surprised, but Dongmen Wuze couldn't stand the smell and walked with his nose covered.
Most of the slaves were very emaciated, and many of them were covered with skin and bones, which was very scary to look at.
Lu Di asked one of the slave traders how to sell slaves.
The slave trader saw that Lu Di was dressed gorgeously and imposingly, and knew that he was a great master, so he asked for it.
As a result, Lu Di turned around and left, and the slave traders were suddenly in a hurry, begging their grandfather to tell their grandmother before coaxing Lu Di back.
The result was a large Qi silver dollar of three young slaves. Lu Di was not too surprised that the slave traders used the Great Qi silver dollar to settle the settlement, because the most popular currency in the Great Zhou world now is the Great Qi Tongbao, the Great Qi Silver Dollar, and the Great Qi Ingot.
Because these three kinds of gold, silver and copper coins are not only sufficient in weight and pure in texture, but also beautiful and easy to carry.
After Lu Di finished buying the slaves of the slave traders, he visited a few more houses and bought their slaves as well. Just as he was leaving, he saw a group of tall slaves being brought into the yard by the new slave traders.
Lu Di looked at the costumes of those slaves, and some memories were familiar.
He hurriedly walked over, and the people behind him saw this and hurried to chase after him.
Lu Di looked at the tall slaves, his brows furrowed, because the door of his memory was opened.
Lu Di shouted at the group of slaves, and what he said couldn't be understood by Dongmen Wuze, Hua Bao, Xiong Yiyi, Boya and others.
But they didn't understand, but the slaves understood, and they purred in response.
Lu Di's face was extremely gloomy after hearing this, and he pulled out his sword with a sigh, about to cut off the shackles on these tall slaves.
The slave trader was furious and hurriedly brought people to stop it.
However, as soon as they moved, they were uniformed by the plainclothes guards led by Xiong Yiyi and made them lie on the ground.
"Who are you? You are so bold that you dare to rob my Wei slaves" The slave dealer was cured, but his mouth was still shouting.
"Damn, shout to Lao Tzu again?" Xiong Yiyi was furious, and the slave trader who was beaten in one ear spat blood from his mouth and lost his temper.
At this time, because of this sudden change, everyone quickly gathered here to watch.
Hua Bao asked the army to protect Lu Di in the middle in case of accidents, but Boya immediately disappeared into the crowd, obviously moving the rescue troops.
Lu Di freed all the tall slaves and talked to one of the tallest of them.
There were many people in the crowd who were talking, wondering why this nobleman in front of him stood up for these Bai Di slaves.
The group of slaves rescued by Lu Di were the Bai Di people, and the tall slave who had a deep conversation with Lu Di was the little fat man who bit his hand when Lu Di was in the Bai Di tribe, which is now the owner of the four big black dog grandfathers around him.
Lu Di will never forget everything that happened to the Bai Di tribe, let alone the ferry parting.
"Cutting the mountain, what the hell is going on? Why were you taken captive as a slave? Lu Di asked the old friend.
Kiyama sighed and told the truth of the matter.
It turned out that the Bai Di tribe, under the leadership of Bai Long Legs, finally established their own country, Bai Guo, with great difficulty.
On the day of the establishment ceremony, Bai Longleg asked the Wei family, the Zhao family, the Han family, and the envoys of the Qin State and Yiqu in the west to come to watch the ceremony.
But I didn't expect that it was not the envoy who was waiting for him, but the encirclement of Qin, Wei, Han and Zhao.
Bai Longleg was defeated by the alliance of the four major forces, and finally fled back to the mountains. And it was also from that battle that he was captured by the Wei clan and became a slave.
Lu Di was extremely angry when he heard this, he could understand that Qin and Wei attacked Bai Guo, after all, Bai Guo was located between Qin and Wei, and they both wanted to destroy it and relieve the trouble.
But Zhao Wuxian of the Zhao clan obviously knew the relationship between Bai Changjiao and himself, and he actually did such an attack on Bai Guo? What is he trying to do?
There is also Zhao Yi, the crown prince of Qin, he is his own disciple, doesn't he know his relationship with Bai Longleg? Or are you deliberately pretending to be confused?
Made, a pack of white-eyed wolves, white-eyed wolves!
Lu Di was angry and scolded his mother, no wonder Zhao Wuxian had the grace to save him, Zhao Yi had the status of master and apprentice, these two actually stabbed themselves, do you think Lu Di can not be angry?
But the next words to cut down the mountain made Lu Di's stunned whole person stupid.
Not only is he stupid, but the nobles who can understand Bai Di's language are also stupid.
Because there is a person mentioned in the cutting mountain, that person is called Touman, he is the son of Lu Di and Bai Longleg, the prince of Touman.