Cai He is checking the reports sent by each ship. Fleet members consume a lot of food every day by eating, drinking, sleeping, and sleeping. Cai He must understand in real time and know which ships are empty and which ships are still full.
"It's Lu Ren. You actually submitted the report in person today? Is everything okay on your ship?" This guy is the most shameless among the fleet captains. He was the one who shamelessly asked Cai He for a female slave to be his maid.
Looking at his expression, Cai He knew that he couldn't wait to find a maid, but where was this? Cai He hadn't seen many local women so far, where could anyone be a maid?
"Sir..." Lu Ren wanted to remind Cai He to fulfill his agreement. Cai He promised to choose the maid after landing ashore.
Lu Ren is thirty years old. He has a wife and a half-year-old child at home. He was originally a pavilion chief under the rule of Songhai City, and his life was not bad. But when it came to catching young men, their village really couldn't recruit that many people.
, he, the pavilion chief, was so loyal that he left with the village laborers. Fortunately, he only went to Songhai City, and he still worked for Dulan.
Lu Ren was one of the five hundred selected brain-opening workers, and he was also the first group of workers that Dulan valued most. Most of these workers stayed in Songhai City to teach, but Lu Ren wanted to stay because he had helped Cai He make paper.
Act like a fool around Cai He.
Only then did Lu Ren go to sea. In front of Cai He, the man in his thirties became nervous: "Sir, do you still remember what you said when we were at sea?"
Cai He couldn't laugh or cry, he naturally remembered it, but he couldn't get angry when he saw Lu Ren like this. This Lu Ren was very talented and obedient, but he was lustful and liked to show off.
Lu Ren felt that he was now the captain of a ship, and he was as powerful as the captain of the pavilion. Since he was promoted, the maids must have all the delicacies. He was a complete hedonist.
"I don't remember." Lu Ren has been following Cai He from the beginning. Cai He is also very familiar with him, so he talks casually. In Cai He's heavy work, this guy is the only one who can make Cai He smile.
come out.
"How could this be so?" Lu Ren became unhappy for a moment: "Sir, how could you forget it? Didn't you agree that you could find a maid after you landed ashore? But you agreed personally and also sent a message to every captain.
"Well, do you want to find other captains to confront you?" As he spoke, he found Cai He looking at him all the time. Lu Ren felt guilty. Of course he knew that Cai He could not forget, but he was just afraid that Cai He would not admit his guilt. This is even worse than forgetting.
: "Sir, it's not me who wants to remind you, it was Lu Jiu who insisted on letting me come."
"What does it have to do with Lu Jiu? He is much more honest than you. Let's talk about mobile brothels. Every time we come to your boat, you are always there. How dare you leave your job as captain and follow the brothel to other boats. Lu Jiu goes to the brothel every time.
It was you who invited me, and you are leading an honest man."
Lu Ren didn't expect that both Cai He and Cai He knew about it. He knelt down and said in a low voice: "Why is Lu Jiu so honest? Sir, don't be deceived by him. Although I asked him to go, he didn't do anything when he arrived at the brothel."
Spend less money." Lu Ren betrayed his friend without hesitation.
Lu Jiu and Lu Ren were fellow villagers, and they boarded a ship together and became the captain. The two had a good relationship. However, Lu Jiu had made a fortune since his father and moved to Songhai City, so he was much richer than Lu Ren.
In fact, as a captain, before departure, Dulan gave each captain a settling-in allowance and an advance salary. If they wanted to buy some public goods on the ship, they could do so, and the price was still internal.
However, the salary is not a small amount, and the captain's food and daily life at sea are provided by the government, so there is no place to spend money. It was not until the emergence of brothels that the captain had the opportunity to show off his wealth.
"Okay, there are so many captains with the same rank, but you are dissatisfied and dissatisfied. You think the male servants and scouts are not good, but you still insist on maids." Cai He said angrily.
"I haven't enjoyed this before. Now that I have the opportunity, I can't treat myself badly." Lu Ren said bluntly.
"Okay, then go ahead and find them. If you have the ability, I won't object to finding ten of them." Cai He said.
"But sir." Lu Ren came to Cai He this time mainly because he couldn't communicate with the locals: "I can't speak the local dialect here, so can it be like the previous time, where the adults will choose, and then we ourselves
Distribution." "We believe in your judgment." This is true. The female slaves Cai He selected before were not crooked. They were all selected to meet the Qin people's aesthetics.
Cai He almost slammed the table in anger. Does he look like a human trafficker? "Do you think I am idle?"
"No, sir, we came to you because we really had no choice. We have actually contacted the aboriginal people, but it's just like chicken and duck." Lu Ren said with a sad face: "Isn't there nothing we can do, sir?
But you can’t be irresponsible for what you promised your subordinates.”
Cai He sighed, is this just a matter of hard work for those who can do it? Do you even have to do this kind of human trafficking thing yourself?
"Let's go!"
After receiving the promise, Lu Ren finally showed a smile: "Let's go, I'll wait for you, sir." In addition to Lu Ren, there were several captains who also wanted a maid, and some were even planning to marry a concubine.
Some captains thought it was too demeaning to go whoring with the crew, so they didn't have to have a maid with the crew. Some were afraid of getting dirty, even though female slaves had regular health checks.
When they saw Cai He, these people were not as presumptuous as Lu Ren. They were all respectful and did not go overboard in the slightest.
"If you want to find a maid, you can wait until the big city. Don't you think you can't wait at all?" You have to teach these people a lesson when you go out. You have no patience at all.
Everyone stopped talking. They knew it was done when they saw Lu Ren's expression when he left the house. Now it was appropriate for the leader to scold him a few times.
Is there a slave trade in this place? Obviously not. There are only a few dozen women in this tribe, and there are only a dozen or so unmarried ones. Most of them are famous women with owners.
Are you selling your daughter? Yes, as long as the price is right, she will definitely sell it.
Of course, Cai He also asked about the slave trade in large tribes, and even human traffickers who bought and sold people on the streets. After knowing this, Cai He could only say that this was an era of cannibalism, and that this kind of thing also happened in Da Qin.
Human trafficking is even more rampant in this barbaric land. Cai He himself sold himself to the palace.
Cai He still wanted to buy a girl from a trafficker instead of forcing her into prostitution. Some of the daughters from families were about the same age as Cai He, and Cai He couldn't bear it.
However, when the tribesmen learned that Cai He wanted to buy women, they all expressed their willingness to sell them, as long as the price was right. They could even sell boys.
Because they have been impressed by the "luxury" of Da Qin, in their opinion, they can earn a living by following the people of Da Qin. The servants of the people of Da Qin are also better-dressed and well-fed than them, so there is no harm in selling themselves to Da Qin.
Seeing their expressions of "I'll die if they don't buy my daughter," Cai He thought of himself in the past and thought it wouldn't be a bad thing to follow the fleet, so he agreed. However, when he saw what the captains took out, he thought
Angry.
Some captains only took out a porcelain vase and wanted to buy someone's daughter?
The captains were very aggrieved. Their price was already higher than the market price. In the New World, couldn't one porcelain vase be exchanged for five slaves?
But they were slaves, and these people were from good families. When Cai He said to increase the price, the captains could only increase the price with a grimace.
So more silver was added, and Cai He completed the transaction. The tribesmen were happy. With so much money, they could buy more people, they could also become slave owners, and the tribe became prosperous.