Chapter 563: Recruiting Slaves (1)

Qing County is under the jurisdiction of Bianzhou Prefecture, which is only more than 100 miles away from Bianzhou Prefecture. A mountain called Tianlun, which stretches for dozens of miles, separates Qing County from Liaodan and Lingbei.

Two hundred miles to the west, over Tianlun Mountain, is the border of Liaodan; more than 100 miles to the east, over the mountain, is Lingbei.

Lingbei was originally the territory of Dajin. It was occupied by a nomadic people called Mengnu more than 100 years ago. At that time, Dajin was just established, with external and internal troubles, and everything was in ruins. The emperor at that time had no time to care about a small state and county, so he allowed the invasion of Mengnu. When the world was settled many years later, the emperor of Dajin wanted to recover the lost Lingbei, but the Mengnu had become very powerful. Dajin mobilized many troops, conquered many people, and spent countless military funds, but finally returned without success. Dajin and Lingbei were separated by the high Tianlun Mountain, like a natural moat, which added a lot of inconvenience to the expedition to Lingbei.

Finally, the Emperor of Jin Dynasty had to give up the idea of ​​recovering Lingbei and let Lingbei become the world of Mengnu people. It has been like this for more than a hundred years.

Mengnu is a nomadic people with fierce and barbaric folk customs. However, because they are a small country and the territory seized by Jin Dynasty, they dare not do anything beyond the boundaries of Jin Dynasty. For a hundred years, they have been living in peace with Jin Dynasty.

Occasionally, Mengnu people will cross the vast Tianlun Mountain like Liaodan people and come to Qingxian to trade, or sell their beef, mutton, leather, and milk, or buy cotton, silk, cloth, tea, ceramics and medicine produced by Jin Dynasty. Therefore, in Qingxian County, you can not only see Liaodan people, but also occasionally see Mengnu people carrying leather, meat, or milk cans, but the number is less than that of Liaodan people.

At this moment, Caiwei was leisurely standing in the queue of selling buns, and suddenly saw two men wearing leather Mongolian slave robes, each carrying a large basket of beef, coming from the back of the queue, selling their beef to everyone in the stiff Dajin language.

In Dajin, cattle cannot be slaughtered casually. Anyone who privately slaughters a working cattle will be sentenced to a severe punishment by the government. Therefore, beef is definitely a rare thing for the people of Dajin. No matter how much money you have, there is no place to buy it.

When the people queuing to buy buns saw the beef seller coming, they immediately didn't care about queuing up, and swarmed around, vying to buy. After all, buns can be bought every day, but beef is not available every day.

"Don't worry, come one by one, two hundred coins per catty, no bargaining..."

A bearded Mongolian slave man shouted rudely.

"What? Two hundred coins per catty?"

"Why is it so expensive? It's almost as expensive as swan meat!"

When the people who were originally enthusiastic heard the price, most of them became depressed. Two hundred coins is definitely not a small amount of money for an ordinary Jin citizen. A catty of thin-skinned and thick-fleshed pork only costs twenty coins per catty, but this beef is sold at a price ten times that of pork. This is too scary!

Everyone was talking about it and expressed their dissatisfaction with the price.

A bearded Mongolian slave man shouted rudely: "Buy it if you want to, forget it if you don't want to. We carried this beef on our backs and climbed the mountain all night to get it here. How can it not be worth this price?"

After he shouted like this, the people around them were tangled up, looking at the bright red beef and struggling in their hearts.

Finally, someone spoke up: "Okay, this little money is not a big deal, give me a catty!"

"Hey, give me a catty too!"