The despicable villain Sima Ji was still wandering in Luoyang, and he really deserved the evaluation of King Zhao. After all, Youzhou is a season of mutual trading this month. With the deepening of trade, tribes close to the four Xianbei tribes could no longer meet the requirements. Any tribe seeks profit and avoids harm. Every year, the four Xianbei tribes are mowed grass, and no tribe can stand it.

Just like a consumer market, there are many suppliers, and there are competition between the four Xianbei peoples. Before coming, Sima Ji heard that the Duan Xianbei and the Tuoba family fought hard on the northern grasslands, and they wanted to rank some seats within the Xianbei, but it was a pity that they did not fight with all their might.

However, as the degree of mergers deepens, it seems that the conflict will intensify in the future. The strength of the Xianbei tribes is similar. The Duan family is a little stronger, but there is no saying that anyone is stronger than the other. If you want to avoid killing each other, you may have to go further north in the future. In the later Mongolian territory, you may be in trouble.

The tribe there was named Gaoche, of course, this was the name Sima Ji guessed. At the same time, they said it differently during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Southern Dynasties called them Dingling people. The Northern Wei was a country that liked the Northern Expeditions very much. It captured 600,000 to 700,000 people captured and moved inward. If this is the case, it would be considered a very powerful tribe, enough for the current four Xianbei to deal with it for a period of time.

In fact, there are already Gaoche people in the Jin Dynasty. Unlike the Han and Wei dynasties, the Jin Dynasty actually moved the Hu tribes very often, but the related trade is very developed, and Gaoche people are not surprised at all on the list of trafficking.

Sima Ji actually came here to buy people. Youzhou dare not say that the weather is good, but he has not suffered any disaster in recent years. Besides, he is located on the border and the slave transactions are very smooth. The King of Yan wanted to understand what it was like to sell himself to the people. Is there such a market in Luoyang?

Of course, this kind of market cannot be in Luoyang City. After asking Shi Chong for advice, Sima Ji came to a place twenty miles west of Luoyang. In fact, this is a manor with a comfortable environment, birds singing and flowers blooming, and it does not seem to be a place related to population trading.

"Your Excellency?" Sima Ji was blocked by cautious guards at the door of the manor. Sima Ji's pupils shrank. This was a private army. Although the Jin Dynasty, which had many gentry, the private army should not make a fuss, but the other party's waist knife was almost military equipment.

Withdrew his gaze and signaled the guards behind him not to make a fuss. Sima Ji stared at the other party's eyes and said, "Sima Ji, King of Yan."

"Is it Your Highness, King Yan? The villain is rude." When he heard such a righteous and self-reported name, the guards guarding at the door of the manor shivered and stuttered in his speech. He quickly knelt down and did not dare to move.

"What others come to do, I am here to do." Sima Ji sighed in his heart. In order to enfeoff the household registration of the country, he could actually take the initiative to buy a population, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The current population trend in Youzhou forced Sima Ji to do this. Youzhou itself has few household registrations, but the mutual market is getting bigger and bigger year by year. There are still five years left before the peak stage of the Eight Kings Rebellion. Every year, the proportion of ethnic groups in Youzhou will change. If Sima Ji does not get the population from some places, when he wants to compete for the Central Plains, Youzhou may become half and half of the Hu Han. In this way, the King of Yan will not even sleep soundly, so why should he compete for the Central Plains?

The problem is not big now, but he must prepare early so that he will not do useless work. After learning that Shi Chong bought refugees from Guanzhong, Sima Ji set his mind on the purchase population.

As a prince, he did not want to benefit the people, but he took the initiative to buy and sell the population. However, Sima Ji had no choice. He was keeping a close eye on Jizhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, and Xuzhou, and there was no disaster yet, and there was no room for fishing in troubled waters. In the past two years, there were only natural disasters or military disasters in the central region, and refugees appeared.

Anyway, Sima Ji has already interfered in population transactions. If he buys Hu people, he must buy Zhongyuan people. Both are indispensable. Just like taking drugs, he must continue as long as he starts, and he must swallow the human blood buns.

There is a different world inside the manor. Private soldiers can be seen everywhere, dressed like private soldiers at the entrance of the manor, but the number is larger. "Which manor is this?" Sima Ji asked himself at this time, and he should not block the situation of the gentry, but now he can't even guess.

However, using this kind of manor to buy and sell people is a big deal. The innermost environment is relatively ordinary, with wooden houses around, one after another, on the side of the dark yellow land, there are wooden frames, some ropes and other things on it.

"Is this a slave market?" Sima Ji, who followed the private soldiers in front of him, asked.

"Your Highness, how dare we do this? The people inside are selling their own people." The leading private soldiers quickly accused him, "The disaster has come, and the people have no food to eat and sell themselves. My head of the family just takes in such refugees. He dares not say that he does not ask for anything in return, but he serves three meals a day and waits for the buyer to appear. As for how to regulate these people after returning, it is not something we can manage."

It's like you're doing good things? Sima Ji shook his head secretly, but if he really wanted to make what the other party said, it was already considered kind enough. It was nothing more than the life of Sanhe and the master of pyramid schemes.

After passing through a bush, Sima Ji arrived at his destination. To be honest, the area of ​​this manor is really not small, but there are many idle places, but even so, it is half the size of the Yan Prince's Mansion. The most prominent position is a thatched house like the primitive society in the documentary, where dozens of people are imprisoned. There are men and women, most of them are young and middle-aged people of age.

However, these people were dressed neatly and had a good mental state. They didn't feel dying. They just lived in a relatively simple place. Sima Ji stood on tiptoe and looked at him and asked, "Is that the only one?"

"Your Highness, the major residences usually require dozens to hundreds of people to serve as slaves or tenants, which should be enough." The guards of the manor were a little embarrassed, "The villain dared not ask what your highness is for."

"Oh, my royal palace needs to change a new group of people. As for how many people the royal palace needs, it is about two thousand people." Sima Ji was shocked to the point of being unable to speak. He opened his mouth for a long time and couldn't close it. Then he bowed and said, "Can your highness come again tomorrow? The villain dare not deceive You. There are now five or six hundred people selling themselves in this manor, but it is far less than two thousand. The villain wants to report it to the head of the family."
Chapter completed!