Go east from Lintan County, Taozhou, about fifty miles away is Xinhong City. Guanlu is winding in the valley on the north bank of the Tao River, connecting the two cities.

Xinhong City is located between the Lintan County of Taozhou and the Minzhou County of the past. The Tao River circles southeast near Xinhong. From Weizhou along Tao River, you can directly take Xinhong to Lintan here without even having to pass Minxian. If you go to Minxian, you must pass here, and even from Minxian to Longxi, Weizhou, you must pass here.

It is precisely because of this unique geography that Xinhongcheng was a relatively important rural collection in Taozhou in the past.

Zhang Chao guarded Taozhou, and the four prefectures were integrated into one. Taozhou developed border trade. Xinhong City was on the only way for Han merchants to come to Jiangxin City of Taozhou. It became more and more prosperous and lively.

Because it is located in the center of Tao, Min and Wei, and is also a major transportation route, Zhang Chao set up a cavalry mansion here early, with 1,000 troops stationed in the palace, and many more dormitories were built around it, and the family members of the government were placed in the villages and villages.

After expansion and reinforcement, Xinhong City was much larger than before. It was called Xincheng by immigrants, also known as Xincheng Town. Xinhong Township Ji and Xinhong Cavalry Mansion are both together, but they are separated. One is Xiangji and the other is Junfu Town Fort.

The town hall is also called Hongcheng or the old Hongcheng, while the military government is stationed as Xinhongcheng or Xincheng.

The old city has a circumference of about two miles, while the new city has an circumference of eight miles, which is not smaller than Lintan City, and there are even inner and outer cities. Although it is relatively empty now, it will slowly purchase barracks, treasurys, etc. in the future, becoming an important fortress city in Longxi.

Although the new city is larger, only the soldiers of the palace can enter and exit.

Ordinary people go to the market in the old town and rural markets less than two miles away from the new city.

The new city is more magnificent, while the old city is more lively.

There is a shop on the East Gate Street in the old city, and the business has been very popular recently.

There is an old man with a girl in the backyard of a front shop with a thatched roof, and two mastiffs are also raised.

The shop opened by this old man does not do ordinary business, they only do the same thing, just tattoos.

Tattoo is similar to tattoos, also called Mo Xing.

Generally, criminals and slaves would tattoo their faces and think they would remember them. In the past, they would use a knife to carve their faces and then apply ink charcoal to keep the words forever.

But later it became a needle prick, which could make the prisoner suffer less and would not easily die unexpectedly.

The shop manager's surname is Wang, but everyone here calls him Tattoo. The young girl is his granddaughter, who was adopted by him since childhood. I don't know what his original surname was. Everyone usually calls him Tattoo.

The business of Tingtou is normal, and there are mixed people here. There are very few prisoners who are sent to the slaughter. Occasionally, all the criminals who are sent to the slaughter have already been sent to the slaughter.

Local people use slaves in a simpler way, burning red iron directly on their hands and a mark on their foreheads is as simple as baking a beef and a horse.

Tattoo often doesn’t receive a few tattoo businesses a year, so he usually does something else.

He can even prescribe medicine for treatment and delivery of cattle and horses. In short, he can make all kinds of messy things, and he can just live a life of a mess.

But recently, Tatto took out his tattoo needle again.

Last time, Envoy Zhang captured many Tuyuhun prisoners, and then sold all of them into slavery, and more than 20,000 slaves were sold to the soldiers of the palace.

The thousand soldiers of the Cavalry Mansion in Xincheng bought more than 3,000 slaves.

Zhang Envoy issued a government decree, stating many regulations on how to treat slaves, such as not to abuse them. If they are abused, they will be punished by the government. If the slaves are killed for no reason, the punishment will be very high.

There are many specific regulations, one of which is related to tattooing is that every slave must be tattooed and must not be stamped at will. He must not be carved with ink without any intention. He must not be tattooed without any intention of carving ink without any intention of suffocating the ink without any intention of suffocating the ink without any intention of suffocating the tattoo.

In order to distinguish it from the prisoners who are compatible with the sting, Taozhou Prefecture even stipulates the specific style of the sting.

For example, for the crime of theft, their ink thorns are behind their ears, and the robbery prisoner is stabbed with the word robbery.

The sin of sacrificial sin and the sin of sacrificial sin are pricked on the forehead, and the words that are pricked are arranged in a square.

And if it is a sin of a staff, the character "thorn" is arranged in a circle.

The sinful one is stabbed on the face.

The three places where the tattoos are all criminals on the cheeks, foreheads, and ears are also marked by their crimes. The arrangement and shape of the characters can also be seen.

Zhang Chao ordered that all slaves should be different from those of criminals.

All slaves are tattooed on the right back of the neck, without the face and ears.

If the slave escapes and is caught, he will tattoo his arm again. The first time the right arm is pierced, the second time the left arm is pierced, the third time the right side of the neck is pierced, and the fourth time the left side of the neck is pierced.

If you escape for the fifth time, you will be executed if you catch it.

The position, size, color, arrangement, shape, and content of the thorn are strictly specified.

What Zhang Chao stipulates is actually an identity sign for slaves. This conspicuous sign that cannot be removed can allow officers, soldiers and the people to clearly know the identity of slaves.

At the same time, the Taozhou government also stipulated that slaves cannot leave their master's village privately, unless they follow their masters. If they travel alone, the people and officials are obliged to capture them and send them to the government or to their masters, and the slave owners are also obliged to give them rewards.

If slaves resist, officers, soldiers and the people have the right to execute them directly.

Taozhou has a population of only 80,000, and there are more than 20,000 slaves all at once. If there is no strict management system, it will be messy.

While strengthening the management of slaves, Zhang Chao also required the slave owners to treat these slaves well, so that they could provide accommodation, food and clothing, and not deliberately abuse and beating, etc. The government will send people to inspect regularly, and the local people in the villages also have the right to supervise.

If they are too harsh or abused by slaves, the government has the right to impose fines on them or even confiscate their slaves.

Every slave must have a prescribed tattoo.

The tattoo point designated in Xinhong Township should be a tattoo shop.

More than three thousand slaves were busy for many days.

At the beginning, my tattoo was a little bit stingy. I haven’t had a tattoo for a long time, so I was given acupuncture. However, after a few piercings, I immediately regained my feel.

The tattooed granddaughter also held a needle to tattoo.

In fact, tattooing is much simpler than acupuncture. You have to pay attention to position, strength, etc. The tattooing is to take a big needle and prick it after the slave's strength.

After tying it, take a piece of cloth and wipe the blood, then apply ink, and it's over.

As for anesthesia and disinfection, these are simply impossible.

The soldiers of Xincheng Town came one by one with their slaves, lined up outside the store, squatting and chatting.

"Your slave is pretty good, thick and strong, one can be used as two!"

A soldier looked at the slave who was holding his companion next to him. The slave obviously turned out to be a tribal warrior. Although he was swept by a chain, his eyes were still very ferocious.

"Zhuang is strong, but he is disobedient. I regret it when I buy it. I envy you. Look at how honest he is. If you let him squat, he will squat. Damn, look at me again. I always make a fuss with me along the way, but I can't beat him anymore. I'm tired all the way."

"Actually, it's easy for you to make him obedient. You will be clear in rewards and punishments, and you will be in harmony with your strength and kindness. If you perform well, you will have food to eat. If you don't perform well, you will be whipped."

"But the court will not allow the fight."

"Who said he would not let him beat him, but he just said he would not let him abuse them. Don't you whip a few times when his cattle and horses are disobedient? As long as you don't deliberately abuse him, don't beat him to death, it's okay. I was not obedient at the beginning, but as soon as I got angry, I would beat him up. If he hungry for two more days, he would be honest immediately." The soldier in the mansion said proudly.

Another mansion said, "In fact, there is a better way to make them obedient."

"Appoint a way?"

"Hehe, I bought a Yeli woman last time. I told the male slave to work for me honestly and don't think about running away or something. Then in just one year, I will give the Yeli woman his wife and let them get together to live together."

"This is not too cheap for him." A young mansion soldier shouted.

"You boy have already brought your Yili woman to you?"

"No!" said the young man blushing, but his expression had betrayed him. Everyone smiled and didn't say much. In fact, many people bought young Yeli women and went back to do this.

"Actually, you don't suffer any loss. You promised the woman Yeli to him. If you want to go, you can go as usual? And if they have children in the future, you will have another slave."

The blushing soldier said irritably, "But what if that woman Yeli is pregnant with her own seed?"

A group of soldiers looked at each other.

"Will you be fine if you don't sow the seeds?" a young man replied after a long time.

"This is not controllable, so accurate."

At this time, the tattoo had another one and came over to rest. Hearing their chatter so happily, he said, "This is not a big deal. According to the Tang Dynasty, even if the woman who is pregnant with your seed, after birth, he will be born, and even follow her mother's identity. She is a low-class person. So, you young people still have to control it at critical moments."

"If you get pregnant by then, you can't be sure if it's yours. You can come to me and I'll give you some medicine and just abort it."

"this..."

The young soldiers were speechless, and these words were too cruel and cold.

"Why? I can't bear to give up, I think it's too cruel? Then don't be greedy for that moment of joy. You are not living well with Liu Jun now. You have land, houses, and dividends. Isn't it good to marry a good woman from a good family? Besides, you have good fortune on your body, so you can take a concubine. Although the concubine is a concubine, it's not as good as a traitor to a slave! "

The two slaves of a soldier had already stabbed them, and he carefully looked at the ink words on the back of his slave's neck.

"Tattoo, is there still blood?"

"It's okay, I've applied ink. Remember not to wash it with water these days, so I have to let it grow well."

"Okay, I'll go back first. My family is busy plowing and harrowing the ground, and I'm rushing to make more winter wheat at that time."

Several soldiers laughed and said, "What's the hurry? It's still early. You can't plant this winter wheat too early. When the seedlings grow too fast, it's not easy to survive the winter."

"Divid those wastelands, I don't want to reclaim a few more acres. I don't expect any harvest this year. I will turn over the land first and get some seeds. I will harvest as much as I can next summer. I can save the fields and then grow grass in the wilderness."

"Your family members will take slaves to grow the land. Anyway, there are cattle, slaves, and farm tools. There are no hurry. Our soldiers should take more time to practice their martial arts. Then the right way is to go to battle and kill the enemy and earn merits!"
Chapter completed!