Some Green Skins are very particular about face. If they don't agree with each other, they will fight each other with knives. They will not only cut off the meat on their thighs and drink alcohol for a while, but also risk their own lives for a promise. Most Green Skins like this have the title of "Xia"

” or titles like “righteous man”.

There are also some green-skinned people who don’t care about the so-called face at all. If they have money, they have father, breasts, and mother. For the sake of profit, they can give up their face, which is also said to be green-skinned. Such green-skinned children are usually called lower third rotten people.

"Gangster Story by the Swamp" vividly describes these two kinds of green skin.

Liu Ergou is a green man between the two, and is also a true portrayal of most green men in the Song Dynasty - he can give up his shame for profit, but at least he is a bit stubborn in his heart and knows what can and cannot be done.

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To put it simply, as long as Liu Ergou and Xu Baixiang are not allowed to work as dogs for foreigners, as long as the remaining things are profitable, there is basically nothing Liu Ergou dare not do.

For things like catching Japanese slaves, he is a typical capable person. Not only can he do it, but he can also do it in a big way. And as Mr. Wu said, selling Japanese girls, Liu Ergou did it without any psychological pressure.

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And the final result was indeed similar to what Mr. Wu expected——

Not to mention Penglai County, even if we add all the surrounding counties, we still cannot buy all the Japanese women. After all, the Japanese women are small in stature.

Women should be treated as men, and these Japanese women are not of much use in such physical work as building roads and building bridges.

Therefore, in order to prevent these Japanese female laborers from falling into their hands, Liu Ergou figured out the auction routine almost without any guidance, and then started working as a trafficker and auctioneer in Penglai.

"Um... I don't know how old she is, but she looks about the same as a twelve or thirteen year old. She doesn't speak human language, so she needs to be trained slowly. She starts with five guan, and the one with the highest price gets it."

"Six guans! Six guans, is there anything higher?"

"Seven guan! Mr. Chen bids seven guan! Is there any higher one? If not..."

"Eight passes! Mr. Li has made eight passes! Is there any higher one? It seems that there is none. Congratulations to Mr. Li..."

But what Liu Ergou and the scholars surnamed Liu and Wu didn't expect was that just as the business of Liu Ergou, a trafficker and auctioneer, had improved slightly, the Ministry of Revenue sent people over to urgently stop the auction, and they didn't even

Wait until the first batch of Japanese women are auctioned off.

"All Japanese women, as long as they are under 40 years old, will have five guan coins each. The same applies to the ones you get later."

After all, he controlled the money bag of the Song Dynasty, and the small official sent by the Ministry of Revenue showed a wealthy attitude as soon as he opened his mouth.

After thinking about it for a while, Liu Ergou asked tentatively: "Dare I ask the officials, are they all Japanese girls?"

Although a beautiful Japanese girl can often be auctioned for more than a dozen dollars, the quality of Japanese girls varies, and not all Japanese girls can fetch high prices.

This also means that many Japanese women are unlikely to be photographed and may end up being smashed into their hands.

If you let them go, your work will be in vain. If you kill them, it would be a pity. If you keep them, they will waste food.

In short, in Liu Ergou's eyes, those Japanese women who could not be sold were even more worthless than chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and a pity to throw away.

Now the Ministry of Household Affairs is willing to take over all the Japanese women, even if one only has five guan of money, but at least you don't have to worry about losing your money - Liu Ergou didn't want Japanese women over forty in the first place.

The clerk in the Ministry of Personnel nodded and said: "Yes, I will say it again, all the Japanese women who are no more than forty years old, one by one, the Ministry of Finance wants them all. Including the ones you got later.

, no matter how much you can get, the Ministry of Revenue will take it all."

Liu Ergou tentatively said: "I dare to ask the officials, what does this Japanese girl... have to say?"

"Tell me?"

The clerk laughed dumbly and said: "It's just a Japanese girl, what can I say? The Ministry of Household Affairs bought her as a concubine for the bachelors who moved to Gansu and Cochin."

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"Big money!"

After the people from the household department counted the number of Japanese women and agreed to continue purchasing them next time, Liu Ergou felt a little unsteady when he walked.

Three thousand Japanese girls acquired by the Ministry of Household Affairs, plus the more than two hundred Japanese girls who had been sold in advance, plus more than 4,000 laborers, Liu Ergou made three thousand dollars in this trip.

Eighteen thousand strings!

"Let's go! Let's go!"

After settling the wages of his green-skinned men who went to sea for the last time and rewarding them with some money, Liu Ergou couldn't wait to urge the green-skinned settlers to continue sailing to the Japanese country.

Liu Ergou calculated that as long as he made a few more trips to Japan, he would soon be able to make back all the money he spent on buying warships and ordnance, and by then he would no longer have to carry millions of dollars in debt.

Yes, Liu Ergou looks good on the surface now and is very generous with his purchases, but Liu Ergou is carrying millions of dollars in debt, basically buying Leizhou Navy and Quanzhou Navy warships and ordnance.

of debt.

Anyway, the Imperial City Secretary is not worried that Liu Ergou will run away - the world is so big, if you dare to run away, just give it a try?

Liu Ergou naturally knew this in his heart, so Liu Ergou never thought about running away or anything. He just wanted to capture more laborers so that he could pay off the debt as soon as possible.

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Who once said that every family has its own scriptures that are difficult to recite.

Liu Ergou had a headache because of the millions of dollars in debt he was carrying, and Zhao Huan, who was rich all over the world, also had a headache, but Zhao Huan's headache was not money, but immigration.

With the step-by-step restructuring of the imperial court and the official implementation of the stepped tax law, more and more landowners in the Song Dynasty chose to clear away part of their land.

As a result of the land clearing, many people who originally planned to move out chose to wait and see——

If the government has land, does it have to be sold?

You can own your own land without having to leave your hometown. Who the hell would think about running away when they are full?

Then Zhao Huan and the big guys in the court started to have a headache.

It is true that the land taken back must be sold, but how many people can the land taken back be sold to? Besides, there is not a tiny amount of vacant land in the Chief Envoy of Gansu and the Chief Envoy of Jiaozhi. It is not available now.

If we quickly move the people there to farm, do we still have to wait for the land to grow food on its own?

Then Zhao Huan gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, using his ultimate move.

Instead of forcibly expropriating millions of people and moving them there, they gave birth to concubines!

That's right, go to the Chief Envoy Department of Gansu and the Chief Envoy Department of Jiaozhi to get a concubine!

First of all, the Song Dynasty wanted those soldiers who were stationed in the Gansu Chief Envoy and Jiaozhi Chief Envoy to come, and then the ordinary people. As long as they are willing to go, a Japanese girl will be sent to them. As for whether it is a second-hand product or an original one.

Yes, it all depends on their luck.

Then the Jiaofangsi in Bianjing City had a headache.
Chapter completed!