In April of the 14th year of the Tang Dynasty, at the southern end of the Kanto Plain in the south-central part of the main island of the Japanese Kingdom, it was originally a wetland near the sea, surrounded by mountains and the sea, and a bay in the southeast, and there were many natural harbors around the bay, which was an excellent location for establishing a port.

The Guanzhong Plain is located in the middle of the Wa Kingdom, connecting the north and the south, which is a relatively critical place, and although Li Yu has only occupied the Wa Kingdom for a few months, he has already built a huge port here, not only for commercial use, but also as one of the main garrisons of the navy in the future.

I saw that in the position near the sea, a group of short slaves carried back and carried stones, sent to the front to lay a solid foundation for the port, half of the wharf has been built, and many slaves under the command of the Han overseer, building warehouses, canals and other facilities, and next to this busy construction site, a simple temporary wharf was built, and many large ships were moored in the bay, waiting for the owner to load and unload goods.

Not far from the temporary pier, there was an artificially carved open space, surrounded by a fence made of huge logs, as if to prevent anyone from escaping.

In the open space in the fence, there is a scene of people like ants, these people are in groups of east and west, divided into dozens of areas, and the center of these areas is a group of Japanese slaves who are tied hand and foot, surrounded by many slave traders who came from the Tang Dynasty, and they are full of slave products in the field, just looking at these people shaking their heads again and again, it seems that they are not satisfied with these slaves.

After Li Su defeated the Wa State, Wang An temporarily took charge of the Wa State on his behalf for just a few months. It has already taken all the military power in the hands of the big and small wealthy families in all parts of the Wa Kingdom to the central government, of course. Not all wealthy families were willing to hand over their military power, which made Wang An have to use some violent means. With the two thugs of the Ishigami clan and the Soga clan, they are purging those uncooperative local wealthy clans, and together with the tribesmen below them, they are all reduced to slavery, which is also the main source of slaves in the Japanese kingdom now.

The southern end of the Guanzhong Plain is located in the middle of the Wa Kingdom, which is very convenient to the north and south, and it is very suitable for building a port, so it soon became a trading center for slaves, and even the name of the port has been decided. It was called 'Nu Harbor', and the adjacent bay was named Nu Harbor Bay.

Although the slave port is still under construction, it has become a trading and distribution center for slaves from the Japanese state, and the slave traders of the Tang Dynasty want to buy slaves, if it is from the south of the Japanese country, it is okay to go to Zhuzi Island or Iyo Island, but if you want to buy slaves from the north, you must come to the slave port. Then buy and sell Japanese slaves provided by the government or private individuals.

It's just that most of these widows, both male and female, are short in stature, and the others don't matter for the time being, just this appearance is a little different. Of course, there are also taller ones. But there are not many of them, and they are all ferrymen, the so-called ferryers. In fact, they immigrated to the Wa Kingdom from the outside world, and most of them were Baekje people. In addition, there are a small number of Han Chinese, but they have lived in the Wa Kingdom for several generations. He has long been assimilated into the Japanese people, but he still retains a trace of ancestral characteristics in height.

The Japanese men are generally not tall, and their strength is naturally not great, coupled with the poverty of the Japanese country, the Hao clan has seriously looted the people under them, so that those poor tribesmen can't even eat, the result can be imagined, most of these slaves are yellow-skinned and thin, standing there as if a gust of wind can blow, only some slaves from the Hao family still have a personal appearance, but unfortunately the number is scarce, even if such slaves are bought back, it is not easy to find a home.

However, compared with the unsalable male slaves, the business of the female slaves of the Japanese country is very hot, these Japanese women are petite and supple, and they are also good-looking, so they are quite sought-after in the Tang Dynasty, whether it is a brothel or a rich and powerful family, they all like to buy a few Japanese women to enjoy, so those young girls, and even some girls under the age of ten, are around a lot of slave traders in the picking, beautiful can be sold to precious people as concubines, ugly doesn't matter, the price is cheaper to sell to be a girl or something, Anyway, it will definitely not be smashed in the hand.

Most of the slave traders who came here were from Dengzhou, and a small number of them were peers from other places, and they generally knew each other, so in addition to buying and selling, they also greeted acquaintances around them from time to time, and by the way, they collected slave quotes from all over the world to see if they could find business opportunities that suited them.

"Yo, Tiger Boss and Second Brother Shark are here!" At this moment, someone suddenly greeted a group of slave traders who had just entered, and they also nodded and smiled.

There are a lot of slave traders in this group of slave traders, and the guards alone bring fifty or sixty people, led by three people, among which the fat man on the left is full of the taste of harmony and wealth, and he smiles when he sees people, which makes people feel good at first sight, and the one on the right is a burly one-eyed man, although his face is full of fierce appearance, but at this time he also learns to smile at the fat man next to him, but in his appearance is very vicious, under this smile, not only does it not appear kind, but it makes people feel that his appearance is extremely hideous. And between the two, there was a young man with a slightly dark face and a three-strand beard.

The fat businessman was born with a smiling face, so he was called the smiling tiger, and the one-eyed man was surnamed Sha, so he got the reputation of a one-eyed shark, these two people were second to none in the slave hunting team in Dengzhou, and now the slave hunting industry is booming, and the slave hunting business of the two of them is getting bigger and bigger, others say that for every ten slaves sold in the Tang Dynasty, at least one of them passed through the hands of these two brothers, and there are rumors that they still have the support of the Qi Wangfu behind them, otherwise it is impossible to make the slave hunting business so big, However, the two brothers flatly denied this rumor, and the Qi Wangfu did not seem to have taken special care of them.

As one of the largest slave traders in Datang, the smiling tiger and the one-eyed shark know a lot of people, and they greet the people around them from time to time, but the people who know them are also a little strange, guessing the identity of the young man among the two of them, after all, with the current status of the smiling tiger and the one-eyed shark, the person who can let the two of them accompany each other in person is definitely not a simple person!

Li Su looked at the slave catchers around him who greeted the tiger shark two, and occasionally met one or two familiar faces, after all, when he first integrated the slave hunting team, many slave catchers had seen him, but he had already expected this situation, so when he asked the tiger shark two to accompany him out, he put on makeup in advance, not only pasted a fake beard, but also painted his skin black, and as a result, under the great change in appearance, if he was not a particularly familiar person, he would definitely not recognize the young man in the middle of the tiger shark as His Royal Highness King Qi of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Su arrived in Nugang yesterday afternoon, and after resting for the night, he happened to know that the tiger shark he supported was also here, so he simply disguised himself and planned to follow them through the addiction of slave traders.

After Wu Meiniang became pregnant, she had been sent to Si by Li Su with the King of Qi, although the last time she discussed with Wen Xin about the matter of establishing a person was opposed by the other party, Li Su knew that there must be a misunderstanding in this, and Wu Meiniang's body was important, so she and Wen Er went back to recuperate first, and as for himself, he needed to stay in the country for a while.

With Wang An taking back the military power in the hands of the wealthy clans of the Wa Kingdom, which made Li Su's dominance over the Wa Kingdom further strengthened, and other places did not dare to guarantee that at least the Flying Bird area and the surrounding areas were peaceful, and there was no soldier in the hands of the surrounding Hao clans, and the decrees of the Qi Wangfu were also smooth.

It was in this situation that Li Su left Iwami Castle, and first went to the Wa Palace in the Asuka area to see, but unfortunately it was burned to the ground by Emperor Huanggoku, but it was the Ikaruga Palace of the famous Prince Shotoku in the history of the Wa Kingdom, which was well preserved, but his descendants let Ishigami Shou I kill it cleanly, and now the Ikaruga Palace is being rebuilt, and it will become Li Su's palace in the Wa Kingdom in the future.

Speaking of which, although Li Su brought war and suffering to the Wa Kingdom, countless Wa people were reduced to slaves and sold to the Quartet, but he also brought a gift to the land of the Wa Kingdom, and it is definitely a good thing, this gift is the cherry blossom tree in Si Yu City, in this era, the cherry blossoms have not yet reached the Wa Kingdom, and Li Su is the first person to bring the cherry blossoms to the four islands of the Wa Kingdom, presumably in the future annals, it will definitely be recorded like this: In the winter of the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty Qi Wang Su, carrying the cherry blossom tree symbolizing peace, crossed the Wa Kingdom to the east, The seeds of civilization of human society were sown all over this wild land, and thousands of years later, civilization and cherry blossoms bloomed together on this land!

After planting the cherry blossom trees, Li Su did not go back immediately, but walked around the country of Wa, such as going to Mount Fuji, which was deified by Japan in later generations, in later generations, Li Su felt awkward no matter how he looked at this mountain, but now this is his own property, so after taking a look at it from a distance, he feels much more comfortable than back then.

After leaving Mt. Fuji, Li Su went to the location of Tokyo in later generations, but now it has a new name, that is, Nu Port, which is under construction, and compared to the world's largest city in later generations, Nu Port is still a barren place, and there is no reason to attract people here except for slaves.

Looking at the thriving slave trading ground in front of him, Li Su was also secretly proud in his heart, according to what he learned from the tiger shark and the two, the daily slave trading volume here is around three or four thousand, although this situation does not last long, but in the end, it is estimated that there may be hundreds of thousands of Japanese slaves sold overseas, and even if the annual trading volume in the future does not reach this year's number, but it is not a small number, so the Japanese country is a good slave production base.

Just when Li Su was thinking about his future positioning of the Wa Kingdom, he suddenly saw a commotion in front of him, and there was a faint sound of pleading, it seemed that something had happened? (To be continued.) )