The weather in June became really fast, it was still gloomy in the morning, and there were a few drops of light rain, but just after breakfast, the sun was revealed, and after a while, the clouds in the sky disappeared without a trace, and the hot sun hung in the sky, and the ground that had just been wet was hot, and the moisture flew into the sky in the blink of an eye, and the ground became hard and bare.

Because of the hot weather, Mr. Zuo slept late yesterday, and only had breakfast when the sun came out, and walked out of the hall with a toothpick and a fat belly, and looked up at the big sun, and his heart was happy and anxious.

Mr. Zuo's real name is Zuo Feng, he was originally a wealthy family outside Dengzhou City, and his family employs dozens of long-term workers to cook salt, plus some other industries, and he can also have a lot of income every year, although he is not as good as those top rich businessmen, but he is also a moderately rich family. However, a few days ago, Qi Wangfu promoted the new method of drying salt, he was stained with the light close to the salt factory of Qi Wangfu, and was the first to see the benefits of this salt, so he took out one-half of his family property in one go, acquired a lot of beaches, and made salt pans with cement, at that time many people thought he was crazy, but when his salt pans produced the first batch of salt, everyone was dumbfounded, these low-cost dried salt had just been transported to the salt market, and was immediately looted, and he also took advantage of the salt to become one of the famous rich businessmen in Dengzhou.

The more poisonous the sun in the sky, the faster the seawater in the salt pan evaporates, and the shorter the days of salt will be, and Master Zuo should have been happier, but recently he has also had his own troubles.

"Master, the carriages and horses are ready, do you want to go now?" I saw the obese old man Zuo come out. The old and shrewd housekeeper Zuo hurriedly stepped forward and bowed down to ask for instructions.

"Nonsense, naturally I'm going to go soon, and I won't be able to grab good goods when it's late!" Old Man Zuo reprimanded, he was fat, but his voice was very high-pitched, coupled with his dark eyes and white lips. Those who are familiar with Chinese medicine can easily tell that this is an overweight of wine.

Hearing the master's reprimand, Steward Zuo was in a state of scolding. I wonder if you hadn't tossed too late with that Silla concubine last night, and you didn't get up until now, we would have arrived at the place a long time ago. Although dissatisfied. But the left steward did not dare to delay on the surface, and hurriedly carried his master into the newly bought carriage, and there were several big ox carts behind him, driven by the coachman, all the way to Dengzhou City.

Because the weather was too hot, Master Zuo opened the curtains on the carriage, while enjoying the oncoming wind, while looking at the pedestrians on the road with pride, his carriage was custom-made with a lot of money, and the gold leaf on the top of the bare cost a lot of money. The horses pulling the cart in front are also good horses from Hui dealers, and there are only a few people in the entire Dengzhou who can sit on this kind of luxurious carriage together.

"Yo, isn't this Master Zuo?" At this moment, I suddenly rode from the back of the car. There was a red-faced man sitting immediately, and when he saw Zuo Feng in the car, he immediately showed a smile and said.

Seeing the person on the horse, Zuo Feng's originally triumphant face immediately fell, and he said with a gloomy face: "Phew, I said how to eat a bed bug at dinner this morning." It turned out that he was going to meet the villain on the road. ”

"Hahaha~, Master Zuo, insulting others is going to be a lawsuit, but seeing that Huo has eaten porridge under you for so many years before, I won't pursue it this time." Hearing the other party's insults, the red-faced man was not angry at all, and even looked proud, as if it was a very happy thing to be scolded.

"The surname Huo, don't be complacent, let's find a way to repay the loan from His Royal Highness King Qi first!" Seeing the other party's appearance, Zuo Feng was itching with hatred, but he couldn't do anything about the other party.

Immediately, this man's name was Huo Qiu, he read a few books when he was a child, and then his family fell into the middle of the road, and he only got Zuo Feng's subordinates to work as salt workers. Huo Qiu was usually loyal, courageous and knowledgeable, so he had a high prestige among the salt workers. And Zuo Feng is usually very harsh on salt workers, which has already aroused Huo Qiu's dissatisfaction.

Some time ago, Huo Qiu saw the benefits of drying salt, and heard that the salt factory in the Qi Wangfu could be loaned to private individuals to build a salt factory, so he discussed with a few familiar Zuo salt workers, and went to build a large-scale salt factory with a loan, and the other salt workers of the Zuo family have long been dissatisfied with the main family, and when they saw the independent door of Huoqiu, which is usually quite popular, they also quit their jobs and ran to Huoqiu, now Zuofeng's salt factory is large, but there is a great shortage of manpower, and even salt production has been greatly affected, so he saw Huo Qiu digging his own corner, will be so angry.

"Hahaha~, I don't have to worry about this old man." Huo Qiu also laughed and said, "Look at the appearance of Master Zuo, it should be to buy workers in the market, I heard that yesterday the slave hunting team caught another batch, which was specially allocated to our salt merchants as workers, if you go late, you won't be able to get people, no = embarrassed, Huo Mou is one step ahead." After speaking, he didn't look at Old Man Zuo's angry white fat face, and beat the horse away.

Looking at the dust raised by the other party's horses' hooves, Zuo Fengqi's whole body trembled, pointed to Huo Qiu's background, jumped on the car and scolded, and at the same time told the Zuo butler who was driving the car to speed up and not fall behind Huo Qiu. After hearing this, Steward Zuo felt helpless for a while, no matter how fast their carriage was, they couldn't catch up with each other's horses.

Sure enough, as Steward Zuo expected, when they hurried to the people market in Dengzhou City, they happened to see Huo Qiu pulling a string of more than a dozen middle-aged men out, and when he saw Zuo Fengshi, he smiled at them, and negotiated the price with the car dealer who rented a car at the door, and the two big cars were stuffed with more than a dozen slaves, and then sent to his own salt factory.

"Hmph, I haven't made much money yet, but it's quite ruthless to spend money, what an explosive person!" Zuo Feng got out of his golden carriage and said with a cold snort as he walked past Huo Qiu. Steward Zhao beside him pouted, yesterday he persuaded Zuo Feng to buy slaves and rent two cars to pull them over, but in order to save that little money, Zuo Feng had to prepare his own ox cart, but he couldn't get up fast on the road, but now he is still stubborn.

Zuo Feng took Zuo Steward into the market, and immediately a heat wave came to his face, the people inside rubbed shoulders and flowed endlessly, all kinds of buyers and sellers bargained loudly, and the slaves to be sold were tied into strings of ropes, sitting behind the seller with a numb face, allowing the buyers to look themselves up and down with critical eyes, and then give a reasonable price.

Dengzhou's current human market is different from other places, the sellers here are the agents of each slave catching team, and the slaves caught by each slave catching team are generally given priority to the slave transport fleet in Yanbei, and the slaves are sent to the coal mine to be miners, and the rest will be handled by the slave catching team themselves, as a result, the slave trade in Dengzhou City has fallen sharply some time ago, and some traffickers can't get by, fortunately, during this time, because of the construction of various local factories in Dengzhou, the manpower gap is getting bigger and bigger, so Li Su had to order, The reduction of the slave quota on the coal mine made the slave trade in Dengzhou revitalize again.

Zuo Feng's master and servant looked while walking, and found that most of the slaves next to them were women. The coal mine needs some strong labor, and the shortage of people here in Dengzhou is mainly in the food factory, and there is no heavy work, so all that is left behind are some women.

If it was usual, Zuo Feng would still be in the mood to pick a few looks to take home from the past, but today he has something serious, so he is not in the mood, and walked straight to the door of the headquarters of the Slave Hunting Association in the innermost, and sure enough, he saw a group of male slaves waiting to be sold, but these slaves were obviously picked and left, not only were they older, but their bodies were not very strong.

"Brother, how do you sell your slaves here?" Zuo Feng gasped and asked, although it was not far from the door to here, but the crowding around made him very tired, and he kept wiping his sweat with a sweat towel in his hand.

The slave merchant was a small old man, and he lazily stretched out a finger and said, "Consistent one." ”

"Black-hearted slave, why don't you rob it!" As soon as Zuo Feng heard this price, he immediately jumped up and pointed at the other party like a fat cat whose tail had been stepped on. In fact, it is no wonder that Zuo Feng reacted like this, Dengzhou was originally a transit station for the slave trade, so the slaves were very cheap, even if they were the top Silla beauties, they were only three or four at most, and like the Silla women he saw just now, the most expensive was only this price, and these old and weak men in front of him were even at such a high price, isn't this a robbery?

"Hey, don't pull it down, some people want it, you go and look for the entire Dengzhou City, and see how you can find so many strong laborers besides me?" The old man was also a violent temper, and roared on the spot, and when he spoke of strong labor, he struck the chest of the slave next to him twice with his fist, and as a result, the 'strong labor' in his mouth was almost knocked down by his fist like a chicken claw.

Seeing the other party's shameless appearance, Zuo Fengqi's nose was crooked, and he wanted to turn around and leave, but he was stopped by Steward Zuo.

"Master, don't miss your business for the sake of a momentary anger, the salt pans at home are still waiting for someone to use." Steward Zuo persuaded hard.

Hearing the housekeeper mention this, Zuo Feng also hesitated for a while, he wanted to take a breath and buy some slaves at a loss, but when he looked back and saw the old man's sneering expression, the anger in his heart came up again, and he turned to the housekeeper and yelled: "Go, isn't it a slave, master, I'll buy more sturdy women to go back, and the work will definitely be stronger than this black-hearted slave." ”

"Hehe, then you can buy it!" The little old man gloated with a look of schadenfreude, although the slave behind him was a little worse, but as long as he went back to raise it for a while, he would definitely be better than a woman, but since the other party was angry, he was also happy to watch the excitement, anyway, the current slave was not worried about selling.

"Hehe, old killer, do you think that without your slave, I can't do anything, master? Lao Tzu, I not only want to buy women, but also buy more, and then post a recruitment notice, who will go to work in my salt field, I will give him a woman when he is done, I still don't believe it, there is such a good thing and I am afraid that I will not be able to recruit people? "Although Zuo Feng is greedy for money and lustful, and he is also very harsh on people, he has a very good brain, otherwise he would not have seized the opportunity of drying salt to make a fortune, and in the blink of an eye, he thought of a good idea from the angry words just now.

"Huh? The old man is wise, and many of those poor salt workers are singles! When Steward Zuo heard this, his eyes lit up, and with his understanding of the salt workers, this method was absolutely feasible, so he immediately slapped it over.

Zuo Feng also admired his eagerness very much, and when he heard the butler's ass, he immediately laughed proudly, and then the master and servant turned around to buy those cheap and large number of female slaves in the stunned eyes of the little old man. (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )