Chapter 27 King Yan is seriously ill
"People!" Tiraga looked up in surprise, and the exotic words of Zhongyuan, which were very funny because of their emotional fluctuations.
Of course, Tiraga is far from a white lotus. He traveled thousands of miles to the Jin Dynasty. He knew what he had done along the way, but Sima Ji, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, was a big man who was not in a fireworks, who asked himself to sell humans? He always felt a little unbelievable, and asked awkwardly, "What does the prince mean?"
"It's what you think, you're right." Sima Ji looked straight into the other party's eyes and said in a sinister way, "Is there no one in the Kushan Empire selling people? Although I haven't visited the Kushan Empire with my own eyes, I have heard of it, what? Is your country so civilized that I don't know what slave trading is?"
Sima Ji, wearing a white garment, said condescendingly in a very tempting tone, "Think about it, people are a resource everywhere. After twelve years of reincarnation, a group of people have grown almost old. If someone has a need for people, this is a profitable deal. Those ordinary people are lambs to be slaughtered in front of you."
"Who will buy people?" Tiraga asked an idiot question blankly. He would definitely not ask this normally. Sima Ji was so obvious. Isn't it obvious who needs it?
But everything today is too impactful to him. His IQ, who should have been alive, showed no sign of recovery in a short period of time, was led by his nose every question and answer. From beginning to end, the initiative is in Sima Ji's hands.
"I only have two kinds of people, one is a glass craftsman, and it doesn't need many, just a few dozen, it's enough. The other is a woman, a beautiful woman." Sima Ji Xunshan tempted, "Of course I also want horses, a tall horse from the Western Regions. As long as you can get all of them, I guarantee you can get countless wealth in the Great Jin Dynasty. I can come forward to help you solve anything you encounter in the Great Jin Dynasty. Of course, it depends on whether you can accomplish my business."
"What do you want? Brocade silk? Lacquerware? Crafts? I can exchange it with you. There are thousands of Hu merchants in Luoyang City, but in my ban, I can do business with you alone. This kind of opportunity is rare. All of this is in your thoughts. All you need to pay is horses and people. Can you still think of a business with lower costs and fewer competitors than this?"
Sima Ji Yang's words were like a sharp sword inserted into Tiraga's heart. Do Hu merchants make money? Of course, there are many merchants who make money from the Jin Dynasty, and many countries have this demand. I heard that there is a country in mainland China that likes silk, and many nobles are proud of it.
Of course, Sima Ji knew that the country was Rome, and he also knew that the biggest beneficiary of the Silk Road was these middle-class countries between China and Rome. The reason why Rome later struggled to face West Asian countries was closely related to the long-term silk pricing power in the hands of Persians.
It seemed that a chance to reach the sky was right in front of him, "Did you figure it out?" Sima Ji's last sentence awakened Tiraga from his dream. The Buddha testified that this may be the most important opportunity in his life.
"Great Prince, I am willing to obey all your instructions." Tiraga felt that he did not surrender to Sima Ji, but surrendered in front of money.
This is better, and the relationship of interest is much more reliable than the relationship between master and servant. Taking each other's needs will make this relationship more reliable. Tiraga is happy for his time to operate, and why is Sima Ji happy to make up for his shortcomings?
In fact, he did not have much urgent needs for beautiful women, but if he only proposed to ask for glass craftsmen, the goal would be too obvious. In order to avoid giving the other party a good impression, he limited the number of glass craftsmen to one number, but did not limit the number of women.
He was sure that the people absolutely lacked women. Although the gentry of the Western Jin Dynasty was not as strong as the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the pattern across the country had basically been formed. In this high-pressure environment, although China traditionally emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce, in the Jin Dynasty, it was only a verbal suppression of commerce, and the gentry of the Jin Dynasty were all doing business.
What can reflect one's strength? For men, there are only two things, one is money and the other is a woman. Take the Yan Prince's Mansion as an example. The seven CDs of the Yan Prince's Mansion with a scale of thousands of people are women. Such princes are everywhere in the north, and the high families and gentry families in the country should be similar. It is impossible for the people to keep so many women in captivity, and it is impossible for the people to lack women.
"Li Shan, bring me one of the Hu Shangs you found a day from tomorrow." After Tiraga left, Sima Ji shook his sleeves and said, "I came to Dajin and didn't even change his name. No wonder I lost my pants. It's a slave trader that is more suitable for this Hu Shang."
"Yes, the prince!" Li Shan replied without hesitation, "The prince is far-sighted."
"Ha...good foresight? You always pick up good things." Sima Ji smiled. Eggs cannot be kept in one basket. The Silk Road is more than a thousand miles away. Who can guarantee smooth sailing in such a long journey? Sima Ji dare not overestimate the safety of ancient times. There are possibilities for Tiraga to die on the road back and forth.
Digging the Grand Canal is a long-term plan, but even if Sima Ji wanted to follow the example of Emperor Yang of Sui, there were not so many people in the Jin Dynasty who asked him to collect labor service now.
In the next few days, Sima Ji was saying the same thing with different Hu merchants. The common point of these Hu merchants was that they were all losers in the Hu merchant group and their business was struggling to survive. There were various reasons. Sima Ji was not a businessman, so he couldn't understand why this was the case.
If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. Now, the prince is as noble as God in front of these losers. Even if he gives them one, the devil will not take the initiative to propose it.
Using people can exchange brocade silk and handicraft cloth from the Jin Dynasty. The profit is more than 300%. Even if the gallows are in front of them, they all want to give it a try, not to mention that there is no gallows at all.
As for whether human trafficking will cause any adverse changes, Sima Ji was not worried. There were already many Hu people in the Jin Dynasty, and the longest migration to the Central Plains was three or four hundred years, and some of them were local indigenous people. The extra three melons could not change the overall situation.
Before we knew it, summer has passed, and people can feel a hint of coolness on their bodies in the morning and evening. The harvest season is coming. For the people, the hard work of the year is about to be revealed. People pray with a nervous mood to stop harvesting any natural disasters before.
The team from Youzhou hurried into Luoyang on horseback and came to Yong'anli anxiously. It was obvious that something big happened in Youzhou. Yan Yan, who was rushing into the door, knelt down and shouted, "Criminal, King Yan is seriously ill."
Sima Ji jumped up, and the books in his hand were thrown far away because of his trembling hands. What was your anxious expression still left on your face, but he said, "Yan Yan, what did you say, say it again."
Chapter completed!