The Slave Exchange in Dacheng is very large, and there are four or five half-open houses at the main entrance of the Exchange, which is where the Exchange branded slaves. Because some slaves resisted the branding, there were a dozen soldiers with weapons outside the branding house. The branding house also has another function, which is to charge a fee, for branding a slave, the buyer has to pay a tax to the Slave Exchange in Dacheng. After the buyer buys a slave and brands it here, the branded slave will be officially recognized by Dacheng, and the buyer's right to slavery will be defended by Dacheng's rulers.
Chu Chao Hui purchased slaves, all of them are stragglers in order to live voluntarily sell their bodies, these stragglers branded at the branding place, will become the private property of Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming in the future, life and death are made by them, the slaves, if they dare to defy their masters, the official Dacheng City, soldiers will be deployed to suppress, and the local civilians will not help the slaves, because the Great Qin decree clearly stipulates that the civilians to help the slaves to escape the person of the felony, the whole family relegated to slavery.
This group of slaves who were about to have masters, escorted by Chu Chao Hui, Zheng Yuming, Wu Da and Rat, obediently walked towards the branding place, although these slaves did not have personal freedom after being branded, they had a way of life, they could get food from their masters, and they could break free from the situation of starvation.
Branding is to put an iron block on the furnace fire to burn red and press it on the slave's face to make a mark, there are several shapes of iron blocks, there are those so big that half of the slave's face has a mark on it, and there are also those that are as small as a plum blossom shape. When Zheng Yuming saw that the buyer in front of him chose to brand his slave with a large iron block, and the branded slave howled loudly in pain, he couldn't help but feel numbness in his scalp, knowing that the pain of a large area of skin burns is a small matter, and the slaves are likely to die due to the infection of the sores.
"Two governors! What kind of iron to choose to brand." The management official of the trading office bowed to Zheng Mingyu and Chu Chaohui, every buyer entering the trading market had to register with him first, the official had learned from Wu Da that the two were the newly appointed governors of Ulsan Jun, the governors and the officials in charge of managing the slave farms had similar grades, they were both sesame seed petty officials.
"Use that kind of plum blossom seal." Zheng Yuming's eyes searched through the iron blocks and pointed to the smallest block of branding to request it.
"All branded with this kind of seal?" The official repeated in surprise, and while asking he took his eyes and scanned all twenty-one slaves, realizing that none of these slaves were clean-looking except for the more robust ones, and there was even a crippled middle-aged slave among them.
"Well, all with these brandings." Zheng Yuming nodded in affirmation.
The official was surprised at Zheng Yuming's heavy tastes, but he had seen a lot of various buyers at the trading office, and although Zheng Yuming's tastes were a bit special, they were not out of the ordinary, so he immediately had his men brand the twenty-one slaves with their hands.
Zheng Yuming felt that the officials at the slave trading office were looking at him differently, and seeing that Wu Da was talking to him, he quietly approached Wu Da's side.
"Brother Wu, is there anything to this branding?"
"A slave's face is strikingly marked with a large iron brand, and the master's family basically chooses that kind of mark. The plum blossom seal, on the other hand, is usually for favored slaves." Wu Da knows that his two sworn brothers do not understand the trick, and quickly told Zheng Yuming about the various uses of branding, if the slaves are bought back to do hard labor, the buyer will not care about the slaves disfigurement or not, only those who are relatively clean looking, the buyer to buy back to warm the bed of the slaves, the buyer can't afford to leave a big scar on their face, will choose to use the smallest of the plum blossom branding, that kind of plum blossom branding is generally branded on the eyebrow, and so on, when branding injuries recuperate, only a small plum blossom imprint left on the eyebrow. The branding injury is usually branded on the eyebrow, and when the branding injury is well healed, the eyebrow will only leave a small plum blossom mark, the scar is well healed, but will add to the color of the show.
Zheng Yuming only did not want to leave a big scar on the face of the slave, did not want the slave to suffer more pain, but did not think of the meaning of the seal represented by the plum blossom branding, remembered to preside over the branding official's astonished look, Zheng Yuming's face is red.
"You watch here, I'll go to the market to buy another slave." Chu Chao Hui frowned and looked at the buyer who was branding in front of them in line, that buyer was using a whip to beat the slaves who had just been branded, those few slaves who were being beaten had hatred in their eyes, if there were no soldiers around gawking, Chu Chao Hui estimated that that buyer might have to be rebelled against by slaves for a painful beating.
"Oh, go ahead." Zheng Yuming was in a state of embarrassment and didn't ask Chu Chao Hui in detail why he still wanted to buy a slave.
When the twenty-one slaves finished branding at the trading place, Chu Chao Hui came with Rat escorting a burly and strong man, the burly and strong man was the slave who caused a commotion at the trading market.
The lanky slave was 1 meter 76 in height, and was the tallest Ancient that Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui had seen when they teleported to this world. The burly slave had a face full of horizontal meat, the left half of his face was branded with a large slave character, his eyes showed a fierce light, and just by looking at it, he looked like he was not easy to deal with.
The official in charge of branding took one look at this cross-faced slave and realized that this slave had already been branded, so he only charged one gold tax and did not brand this slave with an additional plum seal.
"What did you buy this slave for? It looks hard to tame." Zheng Yuming stared at the stout slave who stood out among the slaves and could not help but frown. There were only two adults in the valley, him and Chu Chao Hui, but they had to take care of twenty one slaves, although there were laws and regulations in this era to restrain those slaves, if the slaves were not docile and tame in temperament, he and Chu Chao Hui would not dare to buy so many at once. The last slave bought by Chu Chao Hui is a dangerous molecule, such a dangerous molecule is put into the valley, he and Chu Chao Hui have no peace of mind in the future?
"Don't you worry, with me here, he can't jump up." Chu Chao Hui narrowed his eyes at the lanky slave who was godly in the slave group.
"You..." Zheng Yuming looked at the lanky slave and then at Chu Chaohui, his mouth wanted to say something but held back without opening his mouth.
The twenty-two slaves were taken to the Dacheng Inn, where Wu Da had already booked rooms from his last visit to Dacheng, and these slaves would shave and bathe at the inn and change into the linen clothes that Wu Da had purchased.
Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming two hands have sold glass beads obtained from the fifteen pairs of Dacheng cloth, Wu Mu thanks to the one hundred gold, Xu healer to buy medicine of four hundred and fifty gold, these money and silk are stored in the Wu Mu House in the middle of the two people, in addition to take a Pi Dacheng cloth into the Wu coins for spare parts, left five hundred gold in full, the other are let Wu Da to buy the slaves have to wear the linen clothes, food and some essential supplies, these things are now also stored in the inn, and so on. These things are now stored in the inn, and when the purchased slaves are recuperated for the night in the inn, the mule carts that were hired early tomorrow morning will transport the slaves and supplies back together.
When the slaves' heads were shaved at the inn, there was a commotion among the slaves. At this time, although Confucian ethics had not yet been formed, and the love of hair had not been incorporated into the Confucian norms of filial piety, and the saying, 'the body's hair and skin are received by one's parents, and one does not dare to destroy or harm them, and filial piety is the beginning of filial piety,' had not yet appeared, however, because the Chinese nation had been created in the Yellow River Valley, it gradually developed its own national characteristic, which was the love and care of hair. However, because the Chinese nation was created in the Yellow River Valley, it gradually formed its own national characteristics, that is, the love and care for hair. Therefore, although the people at this time did not resist with death, they were not willing to accept it emotionally. In the face of the slaves' commotion, Chu Zhaohui without saying anything, only the most fierce resistance to the stout slave violently beaten, that stout slave although the body is strong and healthy, but was sent to the slave market auction by the former owner, has been starved for two days, Chu Zhaohui itself is tall, fighting skills first-class, stout slaves in the Chu Zhaohui's fists, like a three-year-old child, as powerless to resist.
The stout slave gave a beating to the nose and face, was hard pressed by Chu Chao Hui the first shaved head, the other slaves saw the stout slave's fate, one by one did not dare to resist, obediently lined up and waited for Rat to cut hair and shave for them, even if Rat's craftsmanship was not high, leaving a few bloody cuts on their heads did not say a word.
The shaved hair, along with the clothes taken off from the slaves were burned, and the slaves whose bodies were so dirty that they were driven into the wooden barrels of the inn and washed twice, and one by one, they cleaned up and put on the coarse hemp clothes and hemp shoes that Wu Da had purchased beforehand in Dacheng City, and these slaves at last looked like human beings, and were no longer humanoid animals in the slave trading market.
The slaves cleaned up, the sky is already dark, the inn mate carry up three buckets of corn porridge (corn is a kind of millet), each slave share two bowls, these long in the half-starvation of the slaves, in the master of the first night, finally let their own stomach bulging once. Although the beginning of the shaving let the slaves resisted for a while, but the next treatment let the slaves flattered, these people just want to have a mouth of food not to starve to death, I did not expect their own masters to give such a good treatment, not only to give a change of new clothes, but also to eat a full stomach. After their stomachs and bodies were warmed up, some slaves began to have expectations for their own slave careers, and became more and more obedient to their masters' instructions. A dinner and clothes caused the slaves to yearn for life, but the slaves who yearned for it did not include the lanky slave that Chu Chao Hui finally purchased.
Stout slaves in eating corn porridge, has not eaten their share, they snatched the side of the two skinny slaves of the rice porridge, was snatched by the two skinny slaves is that pair of father and son, looking at the nose and face swollen stout slaves of the ferocious look, standing next to the Chu Chaohui and do not go forward to stop, has been starved to the arms and legs of the father and son of the two where is the stout slaves of the rivals, was stout slaves to snatch away two bowls of corn porridge after the father and son do not care about the porridge hot, and the two are in a hurry to pour the only remaining bowl into the mouth. The only remaining bowl was poured into the mouth.
The stout slave drank four bowls of corn porridge, touched his round bulging stomach, and found that Chu Chao Hui, who was watching over him, did not put out a lesson, his guts could not help but recover, and when he slept at night, he himself took up the best position in the pass-through bunk, and the slaves who slept on either side of him were all kept away by a beating of his hands and feet.
"Wise Brother Zheng! Why does Chu Xian Di prefer to buy that restless slave? When that slave was in the hands of the previous owner, he was so contentious that he beat the slave he lived with to death before being resold."
Wu Da after Chu Chao Hui bought the kui slave, went to find the seller to understand the situation of this slave, the seller goods have been out of the seller, this kui slave is good or bad has nothing to do with him, immediately refreshing to the kui slave things in detail.
Kuiwu slave was originally a civilian, because of the fight out of human life was relegated to slavery by the government, the results of the master's home, still the nature of unchanged, the master's slaves bullied all over the last few days, but also killed and maimed two, the master would have liked to execute Kuiwu slaves, but think of the loss of two slaves, and then execute a loss of three, the heart is not willing to, decided to Kuiwu slaves resale to regain some of the losses.
"Brother Wu don't mind this." Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui had been together for more than a month, and he vaguely understood Chu Chao Hui's temperament and character, and now that he heard Wu Da explaining about the lanky slave's past, his heart faintly had a guess.
"Ai! My brother is also worried, afraid that the virtuous brothers can't control this killing embryo, since you guys insist on using it, why don't you give this slave a torture device."
"Well, let's talk about it in the valley." Zheng Yuming was vague and perfunctory, if the heartland guess was right, that lanky slave didn't need torture control at all.