Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1560, Capital Slave Market

The slave market in the capital city is located next to the most prosperous and bustling Empire Square in the southern district. Every day, there are huge crowds of people here, and the flow of people is surging, and it is extremely busy.

Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin, Zhang Mao and others also came to the slave market. Looking at the crowded slave market in front of them, they were also shocked by the hot scene here.

There are too many people here.

The slave market is a very long street, with a large number of slave shops on both sides, but these shops are open, and each shop has a similar booth here. The slaves stand on the booth, and the people who want to buy slaves below It's a show of hands bid.

Of course, these are ordinary slave trading areas. There is also an auction area in the slave market, and the auctions are naturally high-quality goods.

At this moment, the slave shops on both sides of the entire slave market are doing brisk business, and these slave traders can be seen displaying slaves from all over the world on their booths.

This kind of display is often very naked, and many of them don't even wear clothes, so as to show the graceful figure of the slaves, so as to attract the following guests to compete to buy female slaves.

"Your Majesty, such a dirty place is really unsightly, why don't we stop looking at it?"

Seeing such a scene, Liu Jian hurriedly talked to Emperor Hongzhi.

Emperor Hongzhi is the son of heaven, so it seems a bit inappropriate to see this.

"That's right, Your Majesty, this slave market is indeed unsightly, or else I'd rather not watch it."

Li Dongyang also followed the suggestion.

"Your Majesty, everyone is here, so it's okay to take a look."

“We have to look beyond the surface to see the essence of things.”

"In this slave market, more than [-] slaves can be traded every year. These [-] slaves are all female slaves, and they are sold to various parts of our Ming Dynasty, and most of them are often concubines for others. At least they can be given to our Ming Dynasty every year. Tens of thousands more will be born.”

"Many people in my Ming Dynasty who were never able to marry a wife at all, relied on such a market to finally continue their incense."

Liu Jin was talking about the slave market with Emperor Hongzhi with a smile on his face.

Slaves were not allowed in Daming, except for one situation, that is, female slaves were allowed, because Daming needed to increase the population, and it was difficult for many poor people at the bottom to marry wives, and they could spread their branches and leaves by buying and selling slaves.

In addition, the existence of a large number of female slaves can also greatly increase the working population of Daming.

Now in the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, if you see blond people, you must not be surprised, because they are very common and can be seen almost everywhere.

People in Beijing and Tianjin are rich, so it is more common to buy slaves as concubines. Many people have more than one or two concubines in their homes, and there are many concubines from all over the world.

"That's it~"

Emperor Hongzhi nodded slightly, and then took the lead to walk inside.

When Liu Jian and Li Dongyang saw it, they immediately followed up helplessly. If this matter gets out, everyone will inevitably be hacked.

"Dangdang~dangdang~"

"My lords, the new arrivals in our store are slaves from Tianzhu~"

In a slave shop, the slave merchants beat drums and gongs, and soon attracted a large crowd of onlookers.

Then with his wave, two plump Tianzhu women with fair skin, wearing sari, and red dots on their foreheads were brought up.

At a glance, Liu Jin knew that these two people must be people of high caste in Tianzhu mainland, because their skin is very fair, and they have deep eyes, they are undoubtedly of high caste, and it seems that they are only in their twenties look.

"These two slaves are a pair of sisters. They are from the Tianzhu continent. It is said that they belong to some Brahmin family. Now they start at 80 taels of silver~"

The slave merchants didn't talk nonsense, and started asking prices directly.

"I'm eighty~"

As soon as the words fell, a thin man who looked wretched shouted.

"Okay, this master will give you eighty taels of silver~"

"I pay eighty-two taels~"

"Eighty-three taels~"

"Eighty-five taels of silver~"

There were a lot of bidders, and in a blink of an eye, the price reached nearly one hundred taels of silver.

"Ninety-eight taels of silver, is there anything higher?"

"Clang~"

"Congratulations to this master, happy to be beautiful!"

Seeing that there were no more bids, the slave trader knocked on the gong, and the deal was considered immediately.

The wretched skinny man who bought two slaves happily went to the side to pay the money, and then left with the two female slaves. Seeing his anxious look, everyone couldn't help laughing.

"Hey, what I have been learning all along is the way of benevolence and righteousness. I am going to conquer the world with virtue and conquer people with virtue."

"But looking at the current slave market, I really don't know if it's right or wrong."

Seeing the helpless and sad expressions of the two female slaves, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help sighing.

For a long time, Emperor Hongzhi grew up under the education of Confucianism. He learned the way of the king, which is to govern the country with benevolence and righteousness, and to convince people with virtue.

But looking at the people of Ming Dynasty wantonly buying and selling people from other countries, and thinking about the origin of these slaves, what is the difference between the behavior in front of them and the robbers, and the whole Ming Dynasty has become a country of robbers.

"Your Majesty, this matter must be viewed from two sides."

"For those countries and regions that have been plundered, they are suffering and living in dire straits, but for us Ming Dynasty."

"The wealth from all directions makes our Ming Dynasty richer, and the women from all directions spread branches and leaves for our Daming people."

"As long as we persist for decades or hundreds of years, our Ming Dynasty will have a population of one billion or two billion. Then our Ming Dynasty will be truly invincible in the world and will be incomparably prosperous."

"As an emperor, as a decision-maker, you should focus on the future and serve the interests of the entire country. The interests of the country are above all else."

"In the past, the poor people in my Ming Dynasty had a saying that they were poor for three generations. This so-called poverty does not mean that they can become rich after three generations, but that they will not be able to marry a wife after three generations. cut off the incense."

"But now, no matter how poor my Ming family is, I can afford slaves to continue the incense. Naturally, everyone in my Ming Dynasty praises the strength of my Ming Dynasty, and every family can prosper. Naturally, how can my Ming Dynasty Is there any reason why it is not strong?"

Liu Jin was very troubled by such a statement.

What kind of benevolence, righteousness and morality, you say that a person is okay, but it is nonsense to rise to the national level.

Since ancient times, my Huaxia has been very benevolent and moral to my neighbors in all directions, and then the story of the farmer and the snake has been staged many times.

If you give your good things to others, they will turn around and bite you back, calling you an idiot.

It is still true in the textbooks of later generations that there are only eternal interests between countries, and there are no permanent friends.

In an era like this, even more so.

We must try our best to plunder all the resources that can be plundered, whether it is land, wealth or women, and use them as much as possible to develop and strengthen Da Ming and strengthen ourselves.

Only in this way can the advantages of Ming Dynasty be continuously consolidated and expanded, and Ming Dynasty's dominance over the world can be gradually established.

If it is limited to the so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality, and it is necessary to convince people with virtue, that is not nonsense.

If morality can convince people, what else does the army need?
Even if you want to convince people with virtue, you have to beat them hard with your fists first. The other party hurts from the beating. Knowing that you are strong, you will be willing to listen to you beeping about a lot of so-called benevolence and righteousness. Morality.

The Europeans and Americans of the later generations prevailed all over the world. Are they really right?

This is not necessarily the case, it is just because they are strong enough to beat the whole world, so everyone has to listen to them and learn from them.

"I know that's the case, but I still feel sad for those innocent women who are being bought and sold like this."

Hong Zhi nodded after listening.

He had heard Liu Jin's bandit theory a long time ago, and he agreed with it.

If Daming did not have the huge wealth continuously imported from the outside and the huge land and resources plundered from the outside, it would be impossible to have the prosperous Daming now.

The input of huge external wealth, the input of vast land and resources is tantamount to allowing Daming to have more wealth and resources that can be distributed to every Daming person.

The original sharp land conflict was alleviated all of a sudden, and the huge wealth paid dividends to every Daming person from top to bottom.

Otherwise, even if there were sweet potatoes and corn in the land close to the original two capitals and thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, it would be the same as Chiqing, just to let everyone have enough food and support more people. Being poor, there is still no way to be as rich as you are now.

Without the huge wealth continuously imported from the outside, these ruling classes in Daming would still have to suck blood from the poor people of Daming, aggravating internal conflicts, causing wars to erupt immediately after any disaster.

Without the vast land obtained from outside, these landlords and gentlemen in Daming would not be able to reduce the rent. Even the fields in the valleys would still be reclaimed and cultivated, just to be able to produce a little more food to fill their stomachs.

Without all of these, the so-called prosperous age of Hongzhi in Ming Dynasty is nothing more than self-deception.

The prosperity of at least a few upper-class gentry and the ruling class is still poor for the people at the bottom, and a disaster will tear the fig leaf of this so-called prosperity.

"It's their blessing that they can be sold to our Daming~"

Zhang Mao thought for a while and said.

"Yes, it's their blessing~"

Liu Jin also nodded and said, and then his eyes saw the old Li who he saw just now.

"Isn't that person named Lao Li among the two old men I saw at the gate of the community just now?"

Liu Jin said to Zhang Mao, Li Dongyang and others beside him.

"It seems that it is really him. The person next to him should be his son. They look very similar."

"Come to the slave market now, is it to buy slaves?"

"Go, go, follow and have a look."

PS: The robber's theory~~ What do you think?
(End of this chapter)