Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 88 Slave

All the way through wind and rain, in late February, Xu Yue's family finally crossed Bohai County and arrived at Yijing, the easternmost port, on the premise of going the wrong way three times.

People here speak dialect very fast, sometimes even Xu Yue can't understand what the other party is saying.

Fortunately, the family's learning ability is good, and basic communication is still no problem.

With Xu Erniang's fake household registration book, the family successfully passed several checkpoints one after another. When people asked what they were going to do, they all replied with the same caliber: We are going to the funeral.

Traveling thousands of miles to attend a funeral these days is a good deed worthy of praise, and the guards will basically not continue to interrogate them.

Yijing is a bustling seaside city. There is a port here, but there are very few boats parked on it.

What can be seen at a glance is not an official ship, but a private ship, most of which are cargo ships used by local powerful families to transport goods.

The largest boat is 60 steps long (one step for two feet, 1.3 meters for one step, about 78 meters), ten steps (13 meters) wide, and has three floors. There is a bright red flag on it with the word "Gongsun" written on it.

Xu Yue remembered that during the Three Kingdoms period, Wu State had the largest warships and thousands of small boats alone. The largest warship had five floors, was 120 steps long, had four doors, could carry a carriage on board, and could carry more than 2000 people.

This scale is comparable to the capacity of modern small warships, which shows the wisdom of the ancients.

A group of people found an official inn in Yijing to stay, and then divided into three groups to act.

Xu Da took Xu Erniang out to inquire about the information of the big ship, while Wang stayed at the inn to tidy up and look after Wang's siblings, while inquiring about the situation at sea with the merchants in the inn.

Xu Dalang and Xu Yue, brothers and sisters, followed Wang Dayou, led the ox cart that was not yet in the heat, and went to the East Market to prepare for sale.

Yijing is close to the sea, and animal husbandry is a shortcoming. Cattle and horses are very popular in the market. The ox cart that Wang spent nearly [-] yuan before, in the Yijing market, anyone who asks the price starts at [-] yuan.

Especially the big green cattle of the Xu family, they are clean and tidy, and they look strong and have a good appearance.

A housekeeper from a big family who came to purchase offered eight bolts of silk cloth in exchange for oxen and carts.

Silk is a finer and more colorful fabric than silk, and it is better than silk. A piece of silk is about 1500 yuan, and eight pieces of silk are equivalent to [-] yuan, so Xu Yue decided to sell it.

On the way, Xu Erniang fed some fodder to the big green cattle, which was not worth a lot of money. After such a calculation, not to mention sitting in the ox cart for so long, she could earn another three thousand yuan, which is not too good a deal.

Wang Dayou's intestines are dark, he only regrets that he didn't follow the Wang family before, so he gritted his teeth and bought one.

It's a pity that money is hard to buy, I knew it earlier, and it's too late to say anything now.

Holding the eight pieces of fresh and warm silk cloth, Xu Yue finally understood why ancient merchants would venture to various places to do business.

Because this is simply huge profits!
However, the premise of making huge profits is to avoid layers of exploitation by the government, beat the robbers, and avoid unlucky events such as rainstorms and landslides, in order to get the huge profits.

Speaking of which, no line is easy.

"Shall we go shopping again?" Xu Yue asked Wang Dayou for his opinion.

She didn't want to just go back, she finally came to Yijing, where there are many merchants, she also wanted to see more.

Wang Dayou knew that everyone in the Xu family was different, so he nodded and signaled her to go shopping casually, and it would be fine for a day.

Xu Yue handed the silk cloth in her hand to her elder brother, and walked along the busiest places, looking around while walking, seeing many things that she hadn't seen in the inland area before.

From this, we can see the current business situation.

The more popular goods in the market are divided into two categories, one is the daily necessities of the general public, such as rice noodles, oil and grain, cloth needlework, pigs, cattle and sheep.

There is also a kind of high-end luxury items with extremely low cost performance, such as spices, exquisite porcelain, jewelry and jade, sugar, paper and other items with high industrial demand.

Especially sugar and paper, many people need it, but few can afford it.

Because of the high price, those who come to purchase are basically local powerful families or wealthy households.

A real businessman has always known that only earning money from the rich is real money, compared with the small profits squeezed out by ordinary people, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Xu Yue secretly wrote down sugar, paper, porcelain, colored glaze and other objects in her heart, thinking that if she wanted to make a fortune in the future, she would start with these aspects first.

As long as she settles down and gives her a private space, she can make sugar, paper, and glazed porcelain at a lower cost and higher quality than the current ones.

However, under the premise of no background, these things that will touch the interests of high-level people can only be carried out secretly.

So, it's time to push Dad to a higher level!
Regardless of the big ones, it is better to be a small official first than to be a commoner.

Looking at the bustling street in front of her, Xu Yue has already made up her mind to work hard to make money and buy an official for her father.

After all, selling officials and nobles is also the main theme of this era!

Seeing that the shopping was almost over and nothing new appeared, Xu Yue was going to go back home.

But at this moment, there was a commotion in the crowd.

Xu Dalang was afraid that Xu Yue would be squeezed by passers-by, so he stuffed the cloth in his hand to Wang Dayou, and immediately put Xu Yue on his neck, and retreated to the side.

Sitting up high, Xu Yue saw the center of the commotion at a glance, the bullock carts that filed in one after another.

The bullock cart is different from the general ones, with wooden cages sandwiched on it, and in the cages, there are people in rags, including adults and children.

More than a dozen of them crowded into a bullock cart, and they couldn't sit on the cart, so they tied up and stood outside the cage, with numb eyes, as if they had succumbed to the arrangement of fate.

This is a large slave trader convoy full of slaves!

They collected these desperate refugees from all over the country at low prices, or even without spending a penny, and could only sell themselves into slavery, and then sent them to the hands of powerful families all over the country to make huge profits.

This was the first time that Xu Yue saw so many slaves, connected to dozens of ox carts, and besides the slaves on the carts, there were countless slaves behind the cart.

The traffickers tied their hands with hemp rope and strung them into a long string, and sent guards to watch them all the time, and those who moved slowly were just whipped.

The cruel scene made pedestrians on both sides of the street frown.

Xu Yue heard the middle-aged man next to him say in Yi Jing's accent, "These slaves have gone through many hands before they got into the hands of these traders."

"See, those who can take a car will be sold to rich families as slaves, and those who walk will be sent to the salt mines to do salt digging."

"In this world, people live worse than animals."

While listening to others muttering, Xu Yue suddenly saw a familiar face.

"God! Isn't that Wang Dahai's family has food?!" Wang Dayou took a step ahead of Xu Yue and exclaimed.

After all, he and Wang Dahai and his son escaped from the same village. They grew up together and are very familiar with each other. Naturally, they reacted more quickly than Xu Yue, who came later.

(End of this chapter)