043. Southern Barbarian Slaves
Baiyun City is much more magnificent than Qinghe County.
The city wall alone is as high as 100 meters. Even if a top-notch master with good light skills is not able to jump up to the city wall from the ground in one breath when he cannot find a point of leverage.
Unless he is a top master, the Gangqi has cultivated spirituality and can use Gangqi to transform into wings and conduct a short low-altitude flight.
A top-notch master is still very simple in the use of Gangqi and does not have such ability.
But there were teams of strong soldiers and soldiers fully armed on the city walls, and dozens of broken crossbows were equipped with the city walls on all sides.
The Breaking Crossbow is a powerful war weapon created by the Works Department of the Daxuan Dynasty. As long as ordinary crossbow arrows are protected by true qi, they are generally difficult to damage.
However, the Breaking Gang Crossbow can directly shoot through the Gang Qi.
Even the qi of the top master is the same. As long as it is hit by the Breaking Strength Crossbow, its body will definitely be penetrated.
If there is only one Breaking Crossbow, a top master can avoid it with his body light skills, but under dozens of volleys, the top master will only have a dead end.
Therefore, even if the top master can transform the qi into wings, he will not dare to fly up the city wall.
Above the Breaking Crossbow, among the several ace armies of the Daxuan Dynasty, there is a stronger Breaking Crossbow, which is enough to threaten the master-level powerhouses, but it is more used to break the formation.
Because the master-level strongman is not a wooden man, he will not stand and shoot for you, but the formation is trapped in one place. In front of the Sky-Breaking Crossbow, the formations arranged by the master-level strongman are vulnerable.
There are long queues at the gate of the city, and any person or caravan entering Baiyun City must pay the entry fee.
However, Zhou Shan is the Iron-card captain of Liusanmen. After the soldiers at the city gate confirmed their identity, they did not have to queue up and pay any entry fee. They took people into the city directly.
Baiyun City is worthy of being a prefecture, much more prosperous than Qinghe County.
The streets were filled with people, and the passing merchants and caravans came and went, bustling.
Many of these caravans came from other palaces to do business, carrying various goods.
To use the city on Blue Star in the previous life to make an analogy, it is like coming from a small city that is not famous in the seventh and eighth tier cities to a first-tier city in the province, with a very large gap in all aspects.
There are thirteen counties in Baiyun Prefecture.
There are only 40,000 to 50,000 in some poor counties, and Qinghe County only barely exceeds 100,000.
However, there are four or five million people living in Baiyun City, which is more than the counties and villages and towns in Baiyun Mansion. The city is the real core of a place of a mansion.
One-star forces, the mountain gate where Vajra Temple and Shuiyun Temple are located are also near the city.
The three major righteous families and most of the top-notch forces are in Baiyun City.
Zhou Shan did not rush to Liushemen, and stopped and felt the prosperity of Baiyun City like a quick glance.
Half an hour later, a noise suddenly came from the front.
The crowd suddenly became crowded.
"What's going on."
Zhou Shan was a little curious and looked forward.
I saw a huge convoy of motorcades coming from the street ahead.
All of them were black horses, pulling a special black carriage with very long shafts. The driver was a man wearing the armor of the army leader. The carriage had a cage made of iron bars with a thick finger.
In these cages, there are five young and beautiful women.
These young women are tall, wearing nearly transparent veils, showing a perfect concave and convex body. Although their skin is a bit dark, their facial features are three-dimensional and delicate, and there is a flame-like pattern on the center of their eyebrows, which makes them look even more gorgeous and charming.
In the first half of the convoy, there are young and beautiful women.
But in the second half of the convoy, tall and burly men were locked in the cage.
These men were all wearing animal skins, with flame-like patterns on their bodies and faces. They were basically over two meters tall, and some even reached two meters five meters. Standing with ordinary people, they were like little giants.
Unlike the young and beautiful women in front of them who were sober, these tall men seemed to have been drugged and were in a half-drown state, with a confused consciousness and difficulty in perceiving the situation outside.
"These people seem to be slaves!"
Zhou Shan followed the crowded flow of people to the front of the convoy.
At this time, he could see more clearly the figure of the beautiful woman locked in the iron cage of the convoy, wearing a nearly transparent veil, and only three wonderful things on his body were covered with black fabric.
But this half-folding and half-covering made them full of temptation, making the men around them more eager to explore the mystery of these women.
Most of these women have good faces. Although their skin is a little dark and their eyes are not black like the Daxuan Dynasty, but brown, for the people of the Daxuan Dynasty, this appearance has a kind of exotic style and temptation.
But their faces were filled with sadness and shame.
And to prevent them from committing suicide, these women had cloth strips stuffed in their mouths.
"Do these people come from the Southern Barbarians?"
Zhou Shan couldn't help but speak.
"It is indeed slaves from the Southern Barbarians. Our Jiangzhou is close to Chuzhou. Therefore, almost every six months, a group of slaves will be transported from Chuzhou to sell them. Whether it is female slaves or male slaves, they are quite popular."
Shen Gang, the broken door knife, spoke and explained.
Zhou Shan nodded slightly.
Chuzhou is the most marginal state in the southern part of the Daxuan Dynasty.
Chuzhou is heading south, and it is the southern barbarians, where barbarians live.
The barbarians coveted the fertile land of the Daxuan Dynasty and often entered Chuzhou to burn, kill and plunder, and the border troops of the Daxuan Dynasty often entered the southern barbarian territory to sweep.
It is precisely because it is approaching the southern barbarians that the Chuzhou area is more chaotic than the rest of the Daxuan Dynasty. It can be said that it is in wars all year round. A small-scale war is carried out every few days, and the court has to withdraw a large amount of military expenditure every year.
In addition to the military expenses extracted by the imperial court, another income of the Chuzhou army was the trafficking of barbarian slaves.
All men are hardworking coolies, and some powerful barbarian warriors will be sold to some forces as guards.
In Jiangzhou, barbarian guards are relatively rare, because powerful barbarian warriors will be bought first by Chuzhou forces as long as they are taken out for auction.
Women with good looks will be selected and trained, become female slaves, and be reborn as a Jiaofangsi to pick up customers.
This group of barbarian slaves should have just been transported from Chuzhou.
"Let's go!"
Chapter completed!