Chapter 4-105 Slave Market
On the outskirts of Xinluo, Qixing Town.
"Su Guiqing, please ......"
Su chose the airship and was greeted by the slave traders into a compound.
This courtyard covers an area of about 3,000 square meters, and its appearance is very ordinary, similar to the surrounding courtyard. They are all buildings that resemble small neighborhoods, surrounded by a fence on the outside, and there are more than a dozen buildings inside, ranging from two to five floors. It looks like a very ordinary medium-sized house.
Of course, in China, to be able to live in such a spacious house, I am afraid that it is only possible to have a net worth of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.
However, in the vast and sparsely populated Han Empire, this level of housing is really nothing. According to the Imperial Law on the Granting and Acceptance of Homesteads, each household of the commoners, soldiers, and commoners could be allocated 3 houses, that is, about 600 square meters of residential land. Therefore, as long as there are a few big families of "scholars" and nobles, it is easy to build a house of three to five thousand square meters. This is still a suburb of the capital, and it is even easier if it is in a remote area.
The stone walls of this courtyard are already mottled and damaged, some stones have fallen off, and a lot of moss and vines have grown on them. The buildings within the walls are also relatively old, and they look to be at least a few decades old. There are dozens of such yards in this town, which is really very ordinary.
Su Ze looked at it casually, but he didn't take it seriously. However, out of his usual caution, he let the two guards stay outside. After all, this kind of gray transaction, the fewer people who know about it, the better. Although the government does not prohibit the sale of foreign slaves, this kind of behavior of taking advantage of legal loopholes and evading taxes is still not very honorable.
Of course, Su Xue opened a restaurant on Earth and has been doing business for more than ten years, so he also understands this behavior. Although the market in Xinluo City is safe and legal, it is very strictly censored and the taxes are a bit high. Especially for special goods like slaves, the tax is 20 percent.
But in such suburban towns, the censorship is not so strict. Slave traders were allowed to sell dog meat under the banner of "servant intermediaries". The tax on "servant intermediaries" was much lower than on the slave trade, at only five percent.
This Qixing Town is the largest slave black market in the Xinluo area. In this town, there are no less than 100 small and medium-sized slave merchant groups like the one patronized by Su Ze, and there are even more slave traders who are not even considered merchant groups.
However, this is basically a group of low-to-mid slaves. If it is a high-end item, most of them will be sent to the big auction house in Xinju City by the merchants to auction it.
The prices of those high-priced goods are not comparable to ordinary goods at all, and it is normal for the prices to differ dozens or hundreds of times. For the slave traders, as long as they helped, the little taxes were nothing. The buyers who can afford the high-end goods, the ones who don't have the deep pockets, don't care about paying a fifth more in taxes.
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The compound was a slave shopping mall that belonged to a medium-sized slave trade group called the Asuka Business Association.
As soon as Su Ze entered the door, he saw four room-sized cages in the open space in the middle. Around the cage stood a dozen guards dressed as samurai, as well as a few guests who were picking up goods.
The bars of these cages are engraved with runes, and if you look at them with the spiritual eye, these cages all emit spell fluctuations, which are obviously enchanted items.
Su Xue took a look, and there were "Shock and Deterrence Law Seal", "Fear Law Seal", "Force Field Cage" and other limitation, weakening, early warning and other magic circles, and even the "Skeleton Trap" This kind of lethal magic circle.
There are four creatures in the cage, each with dozens of them. Although these creatures are all humanoids, they all belong to a relatively primitive low-civilization race.
There is no need for Su Xue to look up information, there is a sign hanging on the outside of each cage, which reads the introduction and price of these creatures.
Inside cage number one is a group of very strange creatures. It's like a group of sweet potatoes that are half a human tall, with long limbs, can run, jump, and chirp. This creature that resembles a "sweet potato essence" is a caveman, a lowly intelligent creature that lives in the underworld.
Their civilization is so primitive that they can't even smelt and haven't developed magic. In this world, it is basically the lowest level of intelligent beings.
The creature inside cage number two is the green-skinned goblin. Su Ze was too familiar with this kind of thing, and when he was earning points in the Seven Rivers Plain, he didn't know how much he had slaughtered.
The creature of the third cage, Su Ze saw the real thing for the first time, this is a half-human, half-bird creature, the name is "Crow Di".
They have bird claws instead of hands and feet, and their head is exactly what resembles an enlarged crow's head, black eyes like glass beads, and a long black beak. The head and torso are covered by short dark gray feathers, but the thin limbs are still bare.
According to scholars, the "crows" evolved from a species of bird, but their wings have completely degenerated and are no longer capable of flying.
Selfish and secretive by nature, they mainly congregate in forests and mountains, and love to lurk in the shadows. Due to their strong interest in stealthy operations, tengu are often hired as thugs, thieves, spies, and assassins.
Inside the fourth cage is a creature called the "Forest Servant". It was a small-sized humanoid, at its core, it looked like some kind of ape, only half a man tall, with forelimbs longer than hind limbs, and its whole body was covered with black and hard hair, and its appearance was ugly, full of ferocity and wildness.
Also known as "Keith", these are powerful creatures that are disproportionate to their short size. Perhaps because their forelimbs are longer than their hind limbs, and although they can easily stand upright, forest servants prefer to use their limbs to run or walk like monkeys. Their mouths are full of sharp teeth, their hands and feet are particularly large, and their curved claws are particularly suitable for climbing. They spend most of their lives in trees.
Servants hunt most of the weaker creatures that pass through their territory. When food is scarce, Servant will often plan and raid the frontier areas of the humanoid biome, usually evacuating after looting some children.
"Well, the price is more affordable...... Su Xue looked at it, thinking about whether to buy a batch.
Although these four creatures belong to the intelligent race, their intelligence is relatively underground, and they don't even have their own civilizations, so they can only be regarded as low-level slaves. Of course, correspondingly, their prices are very low, adult individuals are 10 to 20 golden five plants, the most expensive is only 30 golden five plants, as for the old and young women and children, each is only about 5 golden five plants.
Seeing that Su Xue stopped, the director of the "Flying Bird Business Association" was a little anxious, so he hurriedly said: "Hehe, Su Guiqing, these batches of raw mouths are all legal, but they are too low, you definitely can't look down on them......"
This principal claimed to be called Jin Prayer, but Su Ze always felt that his temperament was not like that of a businessman, and that he was closer to a samurai. There is always a faint murderous aura around this guy, which is difficult for ordinary people to feel. However, with Su Zejindan's physical fitness, he has a perception far beyond ordinary people, and he himself has killed tens of thousands, so he is very sensitive to this kind of aura.
However, he didn't take it seriously, because it would be strange if the slave traders didn't see blood on their hands.
Because in this world, slave traders, mercenaries, and adventurers are all the same kind of people in a sense, and the difference between them is not so clear. Many of them are engaged in all three professions, adventurers today, mercenaries tomorrow, slave traders the day after tomorrow.
"Well, okay, these goods will come out later, let's go and see those Huangyi first......" Su Xue nodded, these low-intelligence races are really useless, they are small in size, low IQ, and the work they can do is really limited.
When Su Xue left the first courtyard and entered the courtyard, the chief of the golden prayer put his hand behind him and quietly made a gesture.
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Huangyi slaves were obviously much more advanced, and they were not displayed like animals in the courtyard.
The slaves were all in the room.
In the hall of the second courtyard, there are hundreds of "Huangyi".
These yellows are similar in appearance to the Aryans of the earth, either blond or blue-eyed.
Director Jin Qi smiled and introduced: "Su Guiqing, these barbarians are all first-class goods. You can rest assured, the origin is absolutely reliable, this is all bought by our boss from the Governor's Mansion of the Northern Governor through a relationship......"
"Oh, the Northern Governor's Mansion?" Su Xue was slightly stunned before reacting.
This is the so-called "grass valley", and the army earns extra money.
Huangyi's countries are all in the north of the Han Dynasty, so the Zhengbei Governor's Mansion, which is responsible for the northern conquest, is the strongest of the eight Governorships of the Han Empire. Most of the officers and soldiers who conquered the Northern Governor's Mansion were local "good families in the border areas".
However, these "good families" are not the kind of sons and daughters who are lustful, and these guys are more ruthless than the other. Due to the long years of war, the folk customs on the northern border are extremely strong, and as for the quality of "gentleness, courtesy, and frugality", it is Fuyun.
The relationship between the Han Dynasty and the Huangyi States was extremely bad, so the officers and soldiers of the Northern Governor's Mansion had to go to each other from time to time to carry out activities, and "fighting the grass valley" almost became a common practice. The captives were naturally sold to the slave traders. Moreover, there are many mercenaries and adventurers who spontaneously organize themselves and work part-time slave hunting teams.
As for the imperial court, it is completely acquiesced in this and does not care at all.
However, the Huangyi slaves are considered a high-level intelligent race in this world, and they are the race closest to the earthlings, and their IQ will not be low. Therefore, they are all high-end goods, and under normal circumstances, it is difficult to get out of a place like Seven Star Town.
However, Su Xue didn't think too much about it now, because he was not too familiar with the slave trade, so he also found something strange.
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