Chapter 140 – Chapter 28 (5)
“Sheesh. He’s a young boy from a well-to-do family somewhere.”
“Damn it. Get rid of it.”
The Sapa people, who normally would have to travel here and there to enjoy drinks and women, complained to a group.
Kwak! Jumulluck! Jumulluck!
“Aang~♥”
“Ah~ ♡ Don’t do this, Sang-gong ♡”
Haha! What do you think? It doesn’t wear out just by touching it!”
There were two female escorts with a neat atmosphere wearing a cotton thread over her face, and a young man who was hugging the bewitching beauty and innocent beauty by the shoulders, touching her breasts and laughing heartily.
The young man was Jincheon, on the left and right were Lim Ha-yeon and Cheon Hye-un, and the girls at the back were Baek Cheong-ha and Seo Yu-ran.
‘I… It really can be like this… ?’
Even so, Baek Cheong-ha, who participated in the war as a member of the Namgung family and stood out among the few female warriors, was remembered by quite a few Sapa people.
That’s why she couldn’t understand Jincheon’s impatient state of not attracting people’s attention when she came to Nanchang, a large city crowded with many Sapa people.
However, Jincheon’s method attracted people’s attention, but he avoided suspicion.
‘He’s someone I’ve played with before.’
‘Where are you staying at home? How are you? Did you set a female escort?’
‘Shit. My stomach hurts and I’m going crazy.’
The Sapa people regard Jincheon as the son of a powerful family or clan, seeing Jincheon naturally rubbing her breasts while leading the women.
Haha!
The promiscuity of walking around with women, the arrogance of talking out loud without the slightest fear at the sight of those blocking the road.
It was a typical ‘son of a wealthy family with poor education’.
The Sapa people had to get out of the way, saying that they were avoiding Jincheon because they were dirty with feces in the natural appearance of Jincheon, without any embellishment.
It was because he thought that if he quarreled with such people, the family would take revenge later.
-Wow, are they really split?-
-Right? Ah~ I think I’ll live~ As expected, I’m Sapha~
Unlike the political faction, this side took it for granted even if they acted like Parakho.
No, rather, there were more eyes that looked like envy.
That is the difference between the right and the left.
Jincheon was naturally excited by this promiscuous atmosphere, as if he had returned to his hometown.
The party enjoyed the atmosphere of Sapa while purchasing food and tools for the long-distance trip.
Except for Lim Ha-yeon, all of them had no memory of wandering around Sapa like this, so they were curious about the current atmosphere.
In any case, the Jincheon party confirmed that there was not much work to do because the power of the northern palace in Gangseo was strong, and prepared to leave for Guangdong.
Noisily noisily—
“Huh?”
Just as they were getting ready to go to Guangdong, Jincheon and his party, feeling the hustle and bustle on one side of the market, became interested in what was going on.
If it was just noisy, I wouldn’t have paid much attention to it, but there was a bit of screaming mixed in.
“Hey, let’s go forward a bit. Whoa whoo whoo.”
Jincheon pushed people and dug inward, and a shocking scene could be seen there.
“Here! Any more! Five seats left!”
Wagons made like prisons, and the men and women who are locked in them and speak incomprehensible words in this direction.
And a man dressed as a merchant spits out an obscure line saying that there are five seats left.
Just when I was wondering what the hell this situation was, a group of men with weapons appeared.
“Hey, there are five left? There are five guys to sell here as well, so that’s good.”
They dragged men of different ages tied with ropes.
No matter how you look at the clothes, they are not Han Chinese, and when they say something, it was impossible to understand whether it was Jungwon or not.
“Ohhh, this is pretty solid, isn’t it? Two silver coins.”
“What? Are you kidding me? You brought five stalwart men like this and only got two silver coins? Four!”
“Three coins!”
“Four pieces! This is a limited express! There is absolutely no children!”
“I’m going crazy! I see, four pieces of silver!”
The man dressed as a merchant took out four silver coins and handed them to the men, who said that they could eat and drink luxuriously today and disappeared with a smile.
“Okay then, I’ll come back next month!”
With that horse, the merchant pushed the men who had been brought into the carriage.
Of course, they stubbornly resisted, but the warriors escorting the merchants beat them with force and put them into the carriage.
So the merchant led the wagons made like a prison and headed out of the city.
“Five strong men for four pieces of silver.”
“Isn’t that pretty enough?”
“Arthur. Those guys are lucky. The barbarians in the neighborhood have already been wiped out.”
The Sapa people nearby seemed to have seen this quite a lot, and they were familiar with it and scattered.
Jincheon instinctively felt that this would be one of the important events, and grabbed Sapphire’s shoulder.
“Hey.”
“What?”
Sapain, who suddenly grabbed his shoulder, made a nervous expression, but when Jincheon threw a silver coin, his eyes widened.
“What is the identity of that merchant who was buying people over there earlier?”
“Uh… That’s… By a lot, if you give me one more silver coin…”
“Okay. Give it to me. I’ll ask the others.”
“No, I’ll tell you! I’ll tell you!”
At first, Sapain, who thought he had caught a hukou and almost lost his luck by trying to rip it off, answered in surprise.
“That trader is a slave trader.”
“A slave statue?”
“Nonsense. The slave trade in the country is only possible if the country permits it…!”
Seo Yu-ran, who was hiding her identity with cotton yarn and loose clothes, couldn’t believe that such an open slave trade was possible, even if she was a sapa.
“Of course it’s illegal. But, it doesn’t matter if they’re barbarians, right?”
“A barbarian?”
Sapain says that all the merchants buy are barbarians, that is, ethnic minorities, not Han Chinese, and they capture them and send them to Guangdong to sell on foreign ships.
For your reference, the Ming Dynasty strictly forbids Ming Dynasty people from going abroad while implementing the anti-shipping policy.
It might be a small country, but the huge Ming Dynasty was able to be self-sufficient internally, and the side effects caused by the ban on private trade could be treated as a regional problem.
The only trade that exists is the tribute trade, in which bountiful goods are delivered upon receipt of tribute, and the private foreign trade operated privately by the private sector, but the ‘official’ scale of this private foreign trade is not very large.
However, merchants who learned that trade with foreign countries made a lot of profit came to make their fortunes through smuggling.
In other words, the merchant just before had a transaction with a foreign country through the private foreign trade, or was a merchant belonging to a colossus that carried out smuggling trade.
“Even though traders from abroad trade in slaves. They also need rowers. That’s why they capture barbarians in the Yunnan and Guangxi directions and sell them as slaves.”
“The officials? The officials leave it alone?”
“Of course, ‘people’ can’t be sold. So, if you catch the barbarians and pay a suitable bribe, all the officials will pass on their own.”
Sapa warriors show the appearance of Chinese people who are well immersed in Sino-centralism in that they put people and barbarians into different categories.
‘Come to think of it, in this era, the world must be the Age of Exploration.’
Age of Discovery.
The beginning of true ‘world history’, a must-see for anyone learning history.
The Western powers of this period are eager to eat colonies, and it becomes the root of transitioning to the era of imperialism.
‘Why does it smell like money?’
Jincheon could sense a strange smell of money from this information.
‘I have to go to Guangdong soon.’
Guangdong is the place where foreign exchanges are most active in the Ming Dynasty.
It is said that there are many merchants and slave trades in such places, so of course there will be many incidents related to money.
Originally, where merchants gather and money gathers, countless incidents and accidents overflow.
“Next time, be greedy in moderation.”
Hehe.”
When Jincheon raised his head and signaled to go, Sapain cherished the silver coin and disappeared somewhere.
“No matter how foreign people are, buying and selling slaves…”
Seo Yu-ran still had an expression that she did not like that merchants were buying and selling slaves privately.
For reference, Jincheon, a modern man,
“Originally, a nation without power is like this. By the way, the slave trade makes money, right?”
Rather, he was smiling wickedly, wondering how he could make money from this slave trade.
‘What if I cut off the tongues of the Chinese and sell them as slaves?’
Of course, rather than catching minorities, he aimed at the slave trade targeting the Ming Dynasty.
First of all, they are aware that they are Koreans, and considering the problems the Chinese have caused to Korea, it is because it is considered internationally beneficial for the number of Chinese to be reduced by one more.
In any case, this was a problem that could only be understood by going to Guangdong and feeling the flow there.
After purchasing food and tools, the Jincheon group decided to rest in the city and head south.
At first, he just thought, ‘It’s a place where overseas trade is active, so there must be many requests worth money’, but Jincheon, feeling that the smell of money was stronger than he thought, was expecting an incident to happen in Guangdong.
Took-
In an instant, the young man shook his body as if he were staggering from the alcohol, and apologized by patting Jincheon on the shoulder.
“Oh, I’m sorry about this. Hiccup!”
“Hey, you.”
Jincheon tried to say something to the young man who stole the money bag by putting his hand into his chest.
Hurry up!
The man ran toward a nearby alley at a speed that made it hard to think he was drunk.
“Ha.”
“As expected, the safety of Sapa is bad.”
“Of course, there will be gangs following me.”
Jincheon’s party said one word and chased after the pickpocket.
As expected, as we entered the alleyway, Sapa, whom Jincheon had given us a silver coin, was walking toward us along with the pickpocket.
“Did we meet again?”
Suck- Suck-
As Sapphire greeted them, a group of tough men appeared in the alleyway.
“Well, I think I’ve been educated. That you shouldn’t spend your money so carelessly in this place.”
“And it’s even more dangerous when you’re wearing top-notch women.”
Sapain, who received a silver coin from Jincheon, confirmed that he had a lot of money, and quickly gathered his colleagues and started to ‘work’.
Background?
If you kill them anyway and bury them quietly, who knows?
Human trafficking and robbery threats in big cities.
It was certainly unimaginable within the political faction’s sphere of influence.
In a way, it is as if Jincheon and his party are going through a ceremony for the first time in an area where Sapa is gaining power.
“Did you call your colleagues quickly? Are you good at this?”
However, Jincheon showed a relaxed smile and confirmed the number of Sapa people.
“You can afford it? But what about this? The guards don’t come here even if you shout.”
The Sapa people said that the guards were not coming to distort Jincheon’s leisurely face, but
“Oh, really? Then it’s even better. You don’t have to clean up after yourself, right?”
Rather, Jincheon smiled as his face brightened.
“Does that bastard look at us like dicks?”
“I tried to kill him painlessly, but I couldn’t.”
Naturally, the Sapa people, who expected Jincheon to cry and scream or give orders to the escorts nervously, did not like Jincheon’s composure.
“It just went well. I’ve been spending a lot of money lately, so I started feeling inadequate. Ha Yeon-ah.”
Jincheon pushed Im Ha-yeon forward and directed him to the Sapa warriors.
“What? Were you a pimp by any chance?”
“Are you going to give me this year?”
“I’m definitely craving it.”
They approached Im Ha-yeon, who had crimson hair and exudes an exotic charm, with their lower legs upright.
“Oh my, are you lusting after me?”
“Keuk keuk keuk. Looking at you, you seem to have tasted the taste of men quite a bit.”
“I’ll taste your pussy first and sell it to the window at a high price.”
As if they already regarded Im Ha-yeon as their property, they were evaluating her body.
“I’m sorry. I’m sorry, but I swore to follow only one man from now on.”
“Hey, who’s going to get permission from you bitch? First of all, I’ll fix that arrogant head.”
The man who looked the most violent among Sapphire did not like this flow.
From their relaxed appearance even when they face each other, to Im Ha-yeon’s eyes as if she dares to evaluate them on the subject of being a prostitute.
He tried to grab her by the hair so that Ha-yeon Lim could punch her in the belly a few times, but
Hooked!
“Uh…Uh…?”
Sapain, who was trying to grab Im Ha-yeon’s hair, somehow felt weak and fell backwards.
“I told you. I swore to follow only one man. You dare touch me without permission?”
“Uh?”
“What?”
“This guy… Is he dead…?”
Seeing the image of her dead colleague with a hole in her forehead and the image of Im Ha-yeon raising her finger, the Sapa people felt that something was going on strangely.
“Well, I think I got an education.”
Jincheon followed the lines of the Sapa people she handed over the silver coin to.
“There is nothing as dangerous as a person who has time to spare in a crisis situation. I hope you will remember it in your next life.”
On that day, it was found that a group of sapas who had been feeding on the powerless warriors had been wiped out and were rotting in a corner.
With no witnesses, no physical evidence, and no background forces to find the culprit for them, they were quickly forgotten by the world as they were buried together in an appropriately roughly dug pit.
