Chapter 632: Cui Gan goes to school
When it comes to slave trade, perhaps most people will find it inhumane or difficult to speak of.
But I have to say that this is the genes of the times. Whether it is backward or colonization, 90% of the countries in this era are still in slave society. The reason why the Tang Dynasty was called the Supreme Kingdom of the Celestial Empire was due to the sublimation of social forms.
Even feudal society is a little more advanced than slave society, which made Xi Yunfei a little helpless for a while, because in the eyes of him, a time traveler, both slave society and feudal society were equally backward and undesirable.
The reason why Xi Yunfei was able to accept slavery so calmly was due to the rapid development of Shuofang. Xi Yunfei lacked people, whether it was a prisoner of war from the Turks or the slaves brought by various aristocratic families, he accepted them one by one.
After receiving these people who were slaves to others, Xi Yunfei did not beat, scold and enslave them like others. Instead, he gave fair treatment in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, and even provided free educational resources for the offspring of these people.
Perhaps in the eyes of Li Yuan, Li Jing, Cui Shang, Pei Ji... these Tang people, Xi Yunfei's approach was a bit complicated and meant to steal the bell, but a few years later, more than ten years later, the difference between education and slavery would definitely surprise them.
"Master Cui, you misunderstood what I mean. What I want is not just Silla Bi, or what I want is not those delicate Silla Bi, but the young and craftsmen who can do things."
Xi Yunfei smiled and took the teapot and poured a cup of hot tea for Cui Gan and Cui Hu himself. At this time, he truly accepted the arrival of these two people.
The Cui brothers looked at each other. Although Cui Gan didn't appreciate the slave trade, he also knew that Silla Bi's transactions could not only bring a large amount of revenue to the family, but also use them to make friends with powerful people from all over the country. It was a rare "treasure fun".
As for Cui Hu, after hearing Xi Yunfei's words, his eyes lit up and he said seriously: "Young man is joking. The time for cultivation of Silla Bi is long and slow. If it is an ordinary young and strong man, I can bring you dozens of ships and thousands of people at any time."
Seeing that he was not bragging, Xi Yunfei was secretly happy, but his face was calm and said: "Master Cui underestimated Xi, just a few thousand people...too few!"
"Too young?" The Cui brothers were stunned.
Xi Yunfei nodded slowly, raised his lips lightly, and said with a smile: "Three months ago, my man went to Turkic."
Cui Gan frowned slightly, but Cui Hu looked surprised and hurriedly said, "I know this. The Tang public is in a modest manner and cooperates with Asuna Tulili. With the help of Xiaolangjun's guard team, the Turkic royal court has already spread to Hebei Road, and our aristocratic families have already learned about it."
Xi Yunfei was stunned for a moment and looked at Cui Gan with an awkward look on his face. Seeing that his eyes dodged, he knew that the Cui family's county lord had blocked the real news.
Xi Yunfei smiled and was too lazy to explain the power of the special forces in the Turks. He just looked at Cui Hu in a narrow way and said slowly: "You only know that my people have made great contributions in the battle of the Turks' change of ownership, but you don't know how much Turkic spirit I have gathered for my own use this time when I went north."
"Oh?" Cui Hu's expression stagnated and he turned his head to look at his elder brother Cui Gan.
Cui Gan knew that he could not cover it up, so he picked up the teacup and took a sip helplessly, and sighed: "I didn't tell you this, I'm afraid that you would brag everywhere... In fact, Ashinatuli was able to take down the Turkic Khan Court because of the strange tricks of the young man. As for the 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners who had deceived the Turkic... they conquered the 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners who were conquered..."
"70,000 to 80,000 prisoners?" Before Cui Gan finished speaking, Cui Hu stood up uneasy and looked at Xi Yunfei in disbelief.
After a long time, he suddenly said to Xi Yunfei with a flattering look on his face: "Hehe, little, uh, no, my husband, I don't know when you will send troops north next time. Let me, Mr. Cui, follow me, and get some benefits!"
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Xi Yunfei has a new understanding of these two brothers, but compared to the meticulous Cui Gan, Cui Hu is easy to communicate with, and at least he can use his interests effectively.
"My God, 70,000 to 80,000 Turkic prisoners, how much is this? Do you know what the price of a Turkic man in Hebei Road is? Not to mention our Tang Dynasty, we can sell it to Goguryeo, Silla and Baekje, which are hundreds of coins of copper."
Xi Yunfei was holding a teacup and slowly savoring the fragrance of tea. Hearing this, he almost choked on the tea.
"What did you say... how many hundred cents of a young man are there?"
It’s not that Xi Yunfei was surprised, but that buying a person with hundreds of cents was too outrageous. You should know that when he asked Wang Dahui to buy slaves everywhere, the price of an ordinary young man in the Tang Dynasty was only two cents of copper coins.
Seeing Xi Yunfei's disobedience, Cui Gan and Cui Hu looked at each other and then burst into laughter.
Cui Gan smiled happily and said, "My husband is afraid that he doesn't know that the three kingdoms on this peninsula are like my Tang Dynasty. Over the years, they have been angry with the Turks. My Tang Dynasty can still be called a brother country, but the Goguryeo people dare not. When they bullied the most, the princesses and concubines of the Goguryeo royal family once became the toys for the Turkic princes and nobles. Do you think they were so angry with the Turkic people that they gritted their teeth?"
After hearing the elder brother's explanation, Cui Hu nodded repeatedly and said to Xi Yunfei: "So, whenever there are Turkic slaves on the market, Goguryeo, Silla, Baekje merchants and nobles will buy them at a high price regardless of the price. As for what to buy them back? Haha, as far as I know, crushing bones and ashes is just a small path, and even more, they kill and drink blood and eat meat. Anyway, the deeper the injury, the more terrible it will rebound."
Guru! Xi Yunfei couldn't help swallowing. He didn't expect that there would be such a complicated relationship, but if you think about it carefully, it's all human nature. Since you can't beat it, then buy a villain to curse you.
The Goguryeo people knew that they could not beat the Turks who bullied them, so they bought a few Turks behind their backs to carry out the so-called "revenge". Although they seemed a bit cowardly, they had to say that they could at least tell those Goguryeo who were insulted by the Turks with peace of mind: Look, I'm avenging you!
As soon as he thought about this, Xi Yunfei became even more disdainful of these people. After thinking for a while, he gradually became aware of it.
Looking up at Cui Gan and Cui Hu, Xi Yunfei said, "You two are here to look for me, probably not just telling me these things, right?"
When Cui Gan saw Xi Yunfei's expression calm, he smiled and replied, "Yes, since the husband talked about his purpose here, I am not shy. I heard that husband has built a huge library in Shuofang, which not only has historical books and classics that have been passed down for thousands of years, but also has the world, covering astronomy, geography, different ambitions, and even books from distant Europa... I am honest and wanted to ask my husband for a hundred places to enter the museum. As long as the disciples enter the museum for three months, I promise that they only read books and do not copy books. What conditions can I have to raise? But I can do my best?"
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Chapter completed!