Zhu Yunwen and the others changed their clothes, although it was not gorgeous, but it was also very conspicuous standing in this pile, not to mention that Zhu Yunwen also had a canary standing on his shoulder, which was too rare, and everyone who saw it thought that it was a child of a big family who came here to play.
"Let it, let it."
A voice disturbed Zhu Yunwen's thoughts, a person was carrying a very large and heavy wooden box to the cargo ship, it seemed that he was blocking the way of others, Zhu Yunwen said apologetically, "I'm sorry, just now...
As he spoke, Zhu Yunwen was stunned.
The person who asked him to let go turned out to be a woman, and just now, Zhu Yunwen didn't pay attention because he was thinking about things, he found that this woman was extremely thin, and her hands carrying the wooden box were trembling, Zhu Yunwen looked back, not only her, but also many such women were carrying things.
Zhu Yunwen frowned and said, "What's going on?"
Gu Xiao replied, "Childe, you have never been to such a port, so you don't understand, let me tell you."
"As the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, Gu Xiao often goes out to perform official duties, so he has seen a lot of things.
"These are generally women in the countryside, and some are the daughters of those poorer families in Fuzhou City, and in order to make a living, parents bring their daughters here and hand them over to those local snakes, so that they can sell their physical strength in exchange for silver taels."
"Because many people bring their daughters here every year, these laborers are very cheap, and the local snakes are happy to collect these women, and the cheapest one only needs five taels of silver, so that a woman can stay here forever to carry things."
"They have few shortcomings except for their small strength, and even if they die of exhaustion here, no one will take care of them, and the snakes will dispose of their corpses, and then give them a sum of money, so that there will be basically no trouble, because they sold their daughters for money."
Gu Xiao said this very plainly, he is the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, and his job is to assist the emperor in doing things, even if he is pitying these people, there is no way, he does not have the ability to change.
Zhu Yunwen frowned, these women reminded him of the people under Mu Ying's hands, but they were not so lucky, Mu Ying was kind-hearted, but these earth snakes were not kind.
"Hurry up, hurry up!"
A middle-aged man urged impatiently, "I bought you all with money, hurry up!"
The foreigner next to the middle-aged man also frowned, and he said in Huaxia that he was not very fluent, "Mr.
Liu, can they really carry such a heavy load?"
Why are they here?
” The man called Mr.
Liu sighed, and he said to the foreigner, "It's not something I can decide, I take the money, they contribute, it's as simple as that, as for whether they have that strength or not, I don't care." ” Mr.
Liu is not his honorific title, his name is Mr.
Liu, he was recommended to be the head of the snake when the Fuzhou Maritime Trade Bureau was just established, because the Ming Dynasty opened the sea ban, the sea trade rose sharply, the market is vacant, so many people want to come here to make a profit, Mr.
Liu first knew that he could buy these women to do coolies, he also struggled in his heart, but after a long time, he knew that a willing to fight and a willing to suffer, women can not decide their own fate, Mr.
Liu is not good.
The Westerner took a deep breath and said no more, he was only here to trade, and he was not qualified to dictate things from other countries.
"Ahh Bang, a wooden box smashed on the ground, countless tea leaves fell out, a woman knelt on the ground weakly, it could be seen that she had no strength, Mr.
Liu was angry, such a box of tea, but it was worth a hundred taels!
Now that it's broken, who will accompany it?
Mr.
Liu took out a whip from his arms and wanted to whip the woman, but the Westerner stopped him, "Forget it, I don't want this box of tea."
Mr.
Liu shook his head, this is the rule, if one person breaks the rules and is not punished, then what will others do?
The woman raised her head, Mr.
Liu was stunned, and he said helplessly, "You can only blame yourself for being careless."
The woman trembled and said to Mr.
Liu, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." ” Mr.
Liu was about to whip the woman with a whip in his hand, when a hand grabbed his wrist, and Mr.
Liu struggled hard to find that he couldn't break free at all.
Mr.
Liu raised his eyes and saw that a burly man was looking at him calmly, this person was Gu Xiao.
Under Gu Xiao's strong request, Zhu Meier no longer let Gu Xiao look like she was hollowed out by wine, but Gu Xiao was still a little unaccustomed to this burly body.
"Who are you?"
Seeing that this person was dressed extraordinarily, Mr.
Liu said word by word, "I advise you not to stop me, the rules of Fuzhou Port are not something you can control." ” Gu Xiao sneered, "If I have to take care of it."
Gu Xiao has always been hanging high on his own business, but this time, it was Zhu Yunwen who signaled, Gu Xiao was not used to this, but now that he has the opportunity to take care of it, he will choose to take action.
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While Gu Xiao was talking, there were already many people leaning towards Gu Xiao, although they were different snake heads, but their interests were indeed the same, now that someone wants to make trouble, what can be done, all the women carrying the box put down the box, and they looked at Gu Xiao quietly, as if they were expecting something.
What surprised Zhu Yunwen was that Liu Xin, who had always been cold, took the initiative to fly to the woman's shoulder, and the woman saw a canary docked on her shoulder, she was a little puzzled, but now she can't care so much about this situation.
Some people were sharp-eyed, and when they saw that the conflict was about to break out, they immediately ran to find the people from the Fuzhou Maritime Trade Bureau.
Just as those thugs under the snakehead were getting closer and closer to Gu Xiao, a voice sounded, "Stop!"
” Everyone looked at each other, Li Shen and Xu Qing walked over together, and there was another person beside them, Zhu Yunwen glanced at it, Zhong Liqing!
It's really hard to find a place to break through the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get there.
But now is not the time to look for Zhong Liqing, Zhu Yunwen just glanced at him and withdrew his gaze, as long as he confirmed that Zhong Liqing was still safe.
The snakeheads all saluted Li Shen and Xu Qing, and Li Shen pointed at Mr.
Liu, "What are you doing?"
"Li Shen knows the rules of Fuzhou Port, there are always these people in a port, this is an unspoken rule, although Li Shen is not used to it, he did not go out of his way to stop it.
"My lord, I am wronged."
Mr.
Liu pointed at Gu Xiao and said, "It's purely this person looking for trouble, my people have done something wrong, and he wants to intervene." ”