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Chapter 54
Many prefectures and counties in the Great Zhou Dynasty imitated Chang'an and established Dongshi and Xishi.

Not to mention Longcheng County, the throat of Jiangzhou, where there is an endless stream of trade from all directions, and the business in the east and west markets is naturally lively.

Dongshi is mostly run by Han merchants, close to local wealthy streets, including Luming Street, and tends to serve rich officials and households in Longcheng County.

West Market is more open. It is close to Penglang Ferry, attracts visitors from all over the world, and is more internationalized. There are many Hu merchants operating in the city.The prosperity of the West Market has always surpassed that of the East Market.

Therefore, in Dazhou, buying goods is also called "buying things".

Like Chang'an, Luoyang and many other prefectures and counties, the slave trading market in Longcheng County and the horse shop in Xishi specializes in trading slaves, horses and other domestic animals. It can be seen that the legal status of the two is actually the same, and they are regarded as private property. People choose and buy at will.

It was the first time for Ouyang Rong to set foot here, and he unexpectedly found that it was not as chaotic, dirty, and rude as expected, but...in order.

On both sides of the street, slaves are placed separately from horses and livestock. Not all slaves are bound hand and foot and locked in cages. This is the treatment of ordinary slaves. Many high-level slaves are decorated with clothes and even jewelry by barbarian merchants to attract high-value customers at the door. .

On the bulletin board at the entrance of Kou Ma Xing Street, there is even a public standard slave price list, such as the prices of ordinary slaves, high-class slaves, good horses, famous horses, female slaves, and maidservants, which are divided into Han and Hu.

However, the announcement is only a reference price, not a price ceiling.

The upper limit depends on the degree of scarcity, such as foreign rare treasures, rare slaves, young and beautiful slaves or female slaves who can sing and dance, etc., the price will definitely take off.

Hu merchants who can do business for their families all over the world are naturally shrewd philistines, and they know the aesthetic preferences of the dignitaries of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Therefore, Meiji and Junma are the two most expensive items in Kou Ma Xing, and they will never be out of date.

However, the only relief is that the procedures and systems of the Great Zhou slave trade are very strict. After all, they can be sold together with horses, which are strategic materials.

There is also a market order at the end of this horse trading street to assist in management. Every slave transaction must be issued a market certificate by the market order, otherwise both buyers and sellers will be flogged, and the city order officials will be punished.

This is to prevent the good from being inferior. In this dynasty, the boundaries between good and low are extremely clear, and the system in this regard is strict.

It's also for tax purposes.The taxes extracted from the slave trade were the source of Da Zhou’s military funds, so the local city magistrates and other officials were not all under the management of the local county government, and there were special affairs offices in the two capitals and various provinces.

Local governments can exert little influence.

Looking all the way down, Ouyang Rong's eyes widened.

Stepping into this street, he felt a strange sense of order, that is, civilized and barbaric, that is, gentle and violent, and most importantly, everyone who participated in it took it for granted, even the objects of trafficking, slaves , the grief and indignation is not why there are slaves, but why they fell into low status.

If you want to get involved or even shake this barbaric order, a small order of one county is absolutely not enough, unless you can hold part of the imperial power in the center of the two capitals.

Regarding the matters related to Tan Lang, Mrs. Zhen was very proud, but took Ouyang Rong and his party to look at the bulletin board at the street entrance for a while, and then walked directly to the largest Hu merchant shop in Kou Ma Xing.

Before entering the door, Ouyang Rong glanced at the embroidered cloth plaque above:
Jin Xiao mouthed the horse.

The one who took the lead to greet them was a big food merchant, with a medium height, bushy beard, black hair and deep pupils, and a big and hooked nose.

The Dashi businessman was followed by two Kunlun slaves, with curly hair, black skin, and a strong body like a cow. Most of these Kunlun slaves came from Nanyang. But most of them are not used for work, but to show financial resources.

As soon as Ouyang Rong and Zhen's group entered the door, a pair of shrewd eyes under the Dashi businessman's hat stared straight at them, as if they wanted to see through the visitors.

Seeing these familiar Central Asian features, and the piece of cloth on the head... Ouyang Rong was a little surprised, and looked up and down.

After listening to Zhen's and others' explanation in a low voice, I realized that almost all of these big food merchants and Persian Hu merchants came from the Guangzhou Governor's Mansion on Lingnan Road in the south, which is the most prosperous place in Lingnan Road.

Although Lingnan Road, which is further south than Jiangnan Road, many areas have not been fully developed, it belongs to the barbarian land in the traditional impression of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and it is a place where officials were demoted and exiled forever.

But there is one exception in this wild 'south', which is Guangzhou, the only big city in Lingnan Road, which was the largest port in the Great Zhou Dynasty. .

All of these originate from a prosperous commercial route known at home and abroad, Guangzhou Tonghaiyi Road.

Ouyang Rong reckoned that it should be a sea silk road that had begun to take shape, but he didn't expect that the sea trade in the Great Zhou Dynasty was so developed and spread all over the country. These big food and Persian merchants brought exotic goods and slaves so active In front of him.

I thought that the exchange meeting would require translation, or that I heard a crappy voice, but I didn't expect that this big food businessman's Da Zhou Yayan was more fluent than Ouyang Rong, and even when he introduced himself, he had an authentic name "" Li Yan".

If the appearance is discarded, it is really no different from the Great Zhou Renshi.

Mrs. Zhen didn't seem to be surprised by this, and didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered:
"Treasurer Li, bring out your best maidservant, Mei Ji, and let Tan Lang choose her. The age cannot be more than twenty, and the Hu girl must be able to speak elegant words. It can't be barbaric language. Can't take this anymore."

"Ma'am, don't worry, the Meiji we Jin Xiao selected and cultivated is naturally a king, skilled in elegant speech, well-behaved and lovable."

Li Yan stroked his beard. His rich experience in seeing people made him very confident and even proud. He chuckled lightly:
"And each has its own style, and I will definitely please the little man, and return with his beautiful family."

Mrs. Zhen was noncommittal, "It's better to be like this." After a pause, he added: "However, my Tan Lang's requirements may be a little bit high."

The big food businessman smiled slightly and didn't take it seriously.

The young man who has just reached the crown, is full of blood, how high can the requirements be?
Besides, the lady in front of me has a strong character at first glance. If this handsome gentleman is good at the hands of a woman, his taste will be easy to guess:

If you don't like Xiaojiabiyu, who is well-behaved, exquisite, docile and clingy, you can get a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction that is hard to get from a lady;

If you don't like the lively, cheerful, pungent and straightforward charming sister, who can soothe the withdrawn character raised in the deep house compound, you have no resistance to the passionate, understanding and caring sister Yu.

However, Li Yan still looked a little more serious.

First, the noble lady and the handsome gentleman who looked around as if he hadn't seen much of the world were invited to the elegant room for tea, and two Kunlun slaves were left to take care of the tea, and he went to the rear to pick someone up himself.

Ouyang Rong looked around not because he had never seen a Waiguo person, but because the painting style in front of him was too fucking weird.Perhaps in the eyes of Zhen Shi and Liu Ashan, these are all "barbaric and unwise fanhus", and they look the same, they are all ugly.But in his eyes...

Just imagine, in an antique shop, a small Arab man leads two strong black men, wearing Chinese-style Chinese clothes and speaking fluent Chinese, releasing slaves of various races from foreign countries from their cages , and respectfully introduce you one by one in a Confucian shirt, hair and crown...

It's a bit weird, take another look.

(End of this chapter)