Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2161, people are like piglets

territory of the Holy Roman Empire.

A group of soldiers like wolves and tigers rushed into a village quickly, and immediately the whole village started to jump around. There were countless cries and curses, one after another, and there was a scream from time to time.

But the whole process did not last too long. In less than 10 minutes, hundreds of men, women and children in the village were all tied up with ropes and queued up to be escorted out.

"Old and old, kill them all!"

The leading officer carefully looked at the goods in front of him, and gave the order expressionlessly.

Old people and those who are too senior are worthless to Daming people. They can't be sold for a tael of silver, and they have to subsidize food, so it's better to kill them directly from the beginning. Anyway, it's a time of war. All kinds of bandits, robbers, refugees, and defeated troops are like cow hair, and some people who died are nothing at all, nothing happened.

"Yes!"

As soon as the soldiers under him heard this, they immediately dealt with these matters, separated the elderly from the elderly, and then shot a volley of arrows, killing dozens of elderly people in a blink of an eye.

"grandparents!"

"Dad, Mom!"

Seeing such a scene, the remaining young people and children couldn't help shouting loudly and crying bitterly.

It's just that what greeted them was a whip, and each one's skin was torn apart, which was extremely painful.

Soon the rest of the young adults, women and children were escorted to the wagon of the prisoner, and gradually left their hometown with the creaking sound of the wagon. The future fate is unknown. .

In a marching camp here, tens of thousands of soldiers are constantly practicing, and at the same time, we can also see teams coming back one after another from all directions, and each team is escorting a large number of slaves.

These slaves are also called piggies now, and the piggies sold to the Ming people are also very valuable piggies.

A piglet can be sold for about 20 taels of silver to a Daming person. Women are more valuable and can be sold for 30 taels of silver. Children are not worth much, but they can also be sold for a few taels of silver.

Compared with working hard to do business or farming, taxation and so on, there is nothing faster than catching people and selling them to make money, especially in this war-torn era, it is too fast to do this business up.

Earl Lawrence is well versed in this. In less than a year, Earl Lawrence's strength has rapidly expanded by capturing slaves and trafficking people.

In a very short period of time, an army of 10 people has been armed. Among the army of 10 people, 5 are new-style riflemen who are all armed with weapons from the Ming Dynasty. Performance, strong combat effectiveness.

In addition, Earl Lawrence also armed a 2-man cavalry and 3 old-fashioned musket infantry.

With such a powerful army, Earl Lawrence directly became one of the most powerful people among the many states of the Holy Roman Empire. Even though his territory has been occupied by the Spaniards, it still does not prevent him from doing anything wrong in other people's territories .

"My lord, just now the Duke of Aleman sent us another warning and rule, asking us to leave his principality immediately."

In Earl Lawrence's marching camp, Gade, an official under Earl Lawrence, smiled and talked to Earl Lawrence about being driven away.

The current Earl Lawrence is doves occupying the magpie's nest, Lai will not leave in the territory of the Duke of Aleman, neither go to the front line to fight the Spaniards, but also leave the territory, and arrest them wantonly in the territory of the Duke of Aleman Slaves, constantly training soldiers, made the whole principality into a miasma, and the people were in dire straits.

The Duke of Aleman has nothing to do with the Earl of Lawrence, because the current Earl of Lawrence holds a powerful army of [-] in his hands, and he can destroy the Duke of Aleman anytime and anywhere.

"Haha, this is the seventh warning issued this month, right?"

When Earl Lawrence heard this, he immediately laughed.

He is not afraid of anything now. In the past, he was an earl who could not say anything in front of these dukes. Now, these dukes of the Holy Roman Empire are begging him to send troops to the front.

Even though everyone now knows that they are doing something wrong here, they can't help themselves, and they can only let themselves be allowed to do so.

Now Earl Lawrence has tasted the benefits and taste of having an army in the hands of troubled times, and this taste is quack.

"Yes, Lord Count."

Gade nodded with a smile.

"Don't pay attention to him, the most important thing for us now is to make ourselves stronger."

"We need more troops, more weapons."

Earl Lawrence smiled, not paying attention to Duke Alleman's warning.

"Let's go, take a look at our goods, count the time, it's about time for the people of Daming to come to receive the goods, and at the same time, they will bring over the arms and weapons I need."

Earl Lawrence walked outside with a smile on his face, and soon came to a place dedicated to keeping slaves. There were a large number of slaves held here, tens of thousands of them.

These people were all captured by Earl Lawrence's army, and they were called goods by Earl Lawrence, also known as piglets.

The camp where the slaves were held was very dirty and messy, no different from the place where the livestock were held, and all kinds of pungent smells could be smelled from a distance.

At this time, the camp here is also busy.

According to the requirements of the Ming people, all slaves, regardless of gender, should shave their heads and beards. The slaves who have just been captured are all shaving their beards and shaving their heads.

The men are constantly struggling and refuse to shave off their beards. For them, not having beards is more difficult to accept than killing them, but their resistance has no effect at all.

The only thing he got in return was the severe beating with the whip, but nothing else.

As for the women and children, they kept crying. It would be ugly to shave their hair off. The women were unwilling, but they were also afraid of the whip, so they could only line up obediently to wait for their hair to be bald.

"This Daming man is really strange. He insisted on shaving off his hair and beard."

Seeing how busy the camp was, Earl Lawrence also said with a smile.

"My lord, I heard that people in Daming shave their hair and beard because they think that beard and hair are easy to breed lice and fleas, which is not good for health."

"People in Daming generally seldom grow beards, and their hair is cut very short."

Gade quickly explained.

"Ok!"

Earl Lawrence nodded, then looked at the slaves held in the camp, and said with some dissatisfaction: "Recently, the number of slaves captured has become less and less. I will support it."

"My lord, we have almost caught all the slaves nearby. I guess we are about to change places."

Gade said quickly.

"It's almost time to change places."

While the two were talking, there were bursts of horns coming from the camp outside.

"Haha, the Daming people are here!"

Upon hearing this, Earl Lawrence regained his energy and hurried outside.

Soon, when Earl Lawrence came outside, there were hundreds of large cars exhausting a long queue outside. On the leading car, Wang Xiyang jumped out of the car with a smile on his face and walked towards Earl Lawrence.

"Haha, Lord Earl!"

"Mr. Wang!"

When the two met, they were very happy with each other.

Wang Xiyang is here because there is business to do, relying on the slave seller and the sale of arms and weapons with Earl Lawrence, Nanyang Wang's Escort has made a lot of money.

Earl Lawrence, on the other hand, took the route of Wang's Escort, and grew rapidly by relying on the slave trade. His strength expanded rapidly, and his ambition also rapidly expanded.

"Mr. Wang, have you brought everything I want?"

"Master Earl, please rest assured, we Daming people always pay attention to reputation in business, as long as the money is in place, you will be satisfied."

Wang Xiyang clapped his hands, and the bodyguards behind him quickly opened the carts, which were full of ammunition, weapons, various military supplies, and food.

"Haha, good, good!"

"Doing business with Mr. Wang is really comforting. Let's go and see the piglets you want."

Earl Lawrence insisted on these munitions and weapons, and nodded in satisfaction. They are all high-quality and famous products, and they are good in everything, but they are expensive.

After finishing speaking, he also took Wang Xiyang to see the slaves being imprisoned.

Following Earl Lawrence to the camp where the slaves were held, Wang Xiyang couldn't help but frown slightly when he saw the dirty and messy camp. These Europeans just don't pay attention to hygiene. After a few baths, this is even more so for ordinary people.

Now tens of thousands of slaves are held in small camps, and there are all kinds of unpleasant smells, which are similar to pigsty, which is also the reason for the piglets.

"At Ni's request, all the piggies shaved off their beards and hair, including the women."

"Is the price still the same as before?"

Earl Lawrence said with a smile.

"Of course, the price will still be based on the previous price. This is what we agreed on."

Wang Xiyang nodded.

Although the price of slaves has dropped, there is no way because there are many nobles selling slaves in Europe, and Earl Lawrence is just one of them.

Everyone is trying to get money to buy arms and weapons to strengthen their own strength, but if they want arms and weapons, they must have money, and there are not many goods that can be sold to the Ming people, among which the fastest money come is these piggies.

The men will be sent to Africa to mine and farm during the Golden Week, and the women will be sent to the Daming people as servants, maidservants, and if they are lucky, they can even be concubines for the Ming people.

Daming has a large land and a large population, and the market demand is very strong. This has always been the main export commodity of the European team Daming.

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