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   Chapter 595 592 [Slave Trade]

  The young patrolman named Liu Chuanzong was born in a Ming military family. His father is just a small general banner, and his family background has been ruined, except for his martial arts, nothing else has been passed on to him.

  He himself has a straightforward personality. In the Datong Army, he listened to the "Datong Collection" explained by the mission instructor, and his thoughts became more upright and bright.

  The next day, Liu Chuanzong was called by his boss to talk.

   Several of his superiors are mostly veterans. After chatting for a while, they quickly got closer, and then they reasoned. It was just that foreign slaves are not Chinese, so they don't have to abide by the set in "Da Tong Ji".

  Liu Chuanzong obeyed the order subconsciously, but returned to the patrol dormitory, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this should not be the case.

  When he went to find the rescued girl again, he found that the girl was missing and had been returned to the brothel. Liu Chuanzong was very angry about this, and went to his boss again to argue, but was angrily reprimanded, and he was also punished with a major demerit.

   In the muddle, Liu Chuanzong worked for half a month.

   "Take it." Fan Liang threw a bunch of copper coins over. Fan Liang was the senior patrolman that day, patrolling the streets with Liu Chuanzong for a long time.

  Looking at the copper coin, Liu Chuanzong wondered, "What is this?"

  Fan Liang explained with a smile: "We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and rely on water to eat water. We are patrolling the Qinhuai River, so we naturally want to eat the rouge money of the Qinhuai River."

   "Accepting... bribery?" Liu Chuanzong couldn't believe it.

Fan Liang said: "What do you mean by taking bribes? We didn't violate the law, and we didn't break the rules of the court. Don't worry, this is not black-hearted money. If those brothels dare to force the people of the country, they will definitely be brought to justice. They teach the women of the foreign countries. We don't care, just turn a blind eye and close it."

  Liu Chuanzong asked: "Is this money available every month?"

  Fan Liang said: "I have it every month, and it's not too much. I can only buy more than a dozen catties of rice. It's not bad for the water to flow down for a long time."

  Liu Chuanzong is silent, every patrolman has it, and those superiors must have it too, and the money they get must be more.

   Datong New Dynasty, it shouldn’t be like this!

   Moreover, if the money came from other places, Liu Chuanzong might be able to reluctantly accept it. But this is flesh and blood money from a brothel, and it was obtained from a poor woman. Liu Chuanzong would feel dirty if he took it!

Seeing his displeasure, Fan Liang comforted him with a smile and said, "Don't be confused, you have to live on. You are a veteran, am I not? I was a veteran of Chongzhen for 12 years. I was dismissed when I was too old. I went home and planted land for a few years. I heard that Nanjing was expanding its recruitment of police officers, so I went to the city to sign up the year before last. I was lucky, and I was assigned to be a patrol officer on the Qinhuai River, where the oil and water are thicker than other places.”

   "Didn't you learn "Da Tong Ji" when you were a soldier?" Liu Chuanzong asked.

   "I've learned it," Fan Liang said, "I've already told you that women from Fanbang are not citizens of the country, even if they don't have a household registration, they are considered citizens? Since they are not citizens, then we don't need to worry about it, and it is not considered a violation of "Datong Ji."

  Liu Chuanzong asked: "If the brothel didn't do anything wrong, why did they give money to the police?"

Fan Liang chuckled and said, "Whether it's a low-level Goulan cottage or a high-end brothel compound, doing this kind of business is always shameful. Although those foreign women are not citizens, they are still individuals. It is inevitable that there will be disobedience. They were beaten half to death, or even beaten to death by mistake. The government can take care of it or not. Whether it takes care of it or not depends on whether the money is given enough."

   "It's unreasonable, human life is a trifling matter!" Hearing this, Liu Chuanzong was filled with righteous indignation, clenched his fists and trembled all over.

Fan Liang had a headache and said depressedly: "Why can't you understand? Those are all foreign girls who bought them like piglets. The Han girls from the Qinhuai River immigrate dozens of them to the north every year, no matter how many prostitutes there are. I can't stand this. At least 60% of the prostitutes in the Qinhuai River today are bought from Fanbang. Your Majesty doesn't care, can you and I manage it?"

  Liu Chuanzong said: "It's not that your Majesty doesn't care, he must have been deceived by Xiaoxiao!" He threw the string of copper coins on the ground, "It's so dirty that my hands are dirty for nothing!"

   "Really don't want it?" Fan Liang asked.

   "No!" Liu Chuanzong was categorical.

  Fan Liang felt that something was going to happen, so he had to go to his boss again, saying that his new partner was an idiot.

   Before the boss can respond, something has happened.

  Jinling Mansion, Office of Integrity.

  The Metropolitan Procuratorate is the headquarters of the anti-corruption department, but the office is located in the imperial city, and Liu Chuanzong couldn't get in at all. He could only report to the anti-corruption department of Jinling Mansion.

  A civil official received the reception, took out a pen and paper and recorded according to the process: "Name, occupation."

  Liu Chuanzong said: "Liu Chuanzong, the willow of the willow tree, the lineage of the family. He used to be the commander of the cavalry division of the Datong Army, and he is currently the patrol police of the Qinhuai North Area in Shangyuan County, Jinling Prefecture."

  Nanjing city is divided into Shangyuan and Jiangning counties, Qinhuai Hebei is Shangyuan County, Qinhuai Henan is Jiangning County, and there are brothels on both sides of the Qinhuai River.

  The civil official continued to ask: "Who is reporting corruption and breaking the law?"

  Liu Chuanzong said: "Police officers on both sides of the Qinhuai River accept bribes from brothels. There are monthly bribes, which has become a rule."

  The clerk shook his hand holding the pen, and looked at Liu Chuanzong in surprise. This is the case at the feet of the emperor!

   After a while, the official said, "Tell me what you know in detail."

   After finishing the notes, the civil servants did not dare to be negligent, and even did not dare to let Liu Chuanzong go. They immediately went to inform the chief officer of the Integrity Office.

  This matter is too big. It involves the police teams of two counties in the capital. Most of those police officers are retired Datong soldiers. Maybe there is a former department of the Duke or Hou. The Anti-corruption Department of Jinling Mansion did not dare to act rashly, and immediately reported it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate almost came out to investigate.

   Yingmin Hall.

  Zhao Han flipped through the file and asked casually, "Have they all been arrested?"

Xiao Huan replied: "All of them have been arrested. The policemen on both sides of the Qinhuai River, except Liu Chuanzong, who reported the report, have all received money. The one who took the most bribes received two hundred silver dollars a month; the one who took the least bribes received one hundred copper coins a month." Ten words."

"The land of wind and moon is full of oil and water. This is not unusual." Zhao Han didn't get angry. Deal with it; those who accept bribes of less than 300 renminbi per month can be dismissed and recovered.”

   It seems that the punishment is measured by the amount of bribes, but it is actually handled by official power.

   Those who accept the most bribes must have real power, and the officials are relatively large.

  In this case, Zhao Han's focus is elsewhere, that is, there are a large number of foreign women in various brothels.

  How to deal with it?

  Zhao Han asked: "Where did you buy those foreign girls?"

  Xiao Huan replied: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate has asked the brothels in detail, and the foreign slaves are divided into these types."

   "The first type is black, Nanyang and Japanese mixed blood, mainly from Macau, and they are all descendants of slaves. More than a hundred years ago, the Jesuits began to raise, breed, and trade slaves in Macau;"

   "The second type is women from Japan and North Korea. Prostitutes from all over the country are transferred to the north every year, and the brothel cooperates with some sea merchants to buy women from Japan and North Korea to supplement;"

"The third type is women from Nanyang. Spain and the Netherlands captured Nanyang aboriginal women and sold them to China to earn gold and silver. These Nanyang women are not in good shape and appearance, and they are mainly sold to low-level Goulanwa Some of them were sold to big families as slaves. They even sold Nanyang men to big families as tenant farmers. Those Nanyang men..."

   "Say!" Zhao Han felt something was wrong.

Xiao Huan was silent for a few seconds: "In my dynasty, I allocated the land to the common people, and then continued to immigrate to the north. The gentry in the southern provinces actively cooperated with those who divided the land. Each family member can reserve 20 mu of land. If they can't recruit tenants, how can they cultivate it? ? There are nobles in the imperial court, who reward land for their achievements in battle, and they have more land. Although the natives of Nanyang are not good at farming, after all, they can do more than animals."

  Zhao Han understands that the nobles in the imperial court and the gentry in the former dynasty have too much land to recruit tenants, so they buy Nanyang aborigines to farm the land.

  Good guy, I immigrated to Nanyang to immigrate Han Chinese, but you actually bought aborigines from Nanyang to return to China.

   But it has to be said that this behavior did not violate the law.

  In ancient times, there was no distinction of nationality, and it was impossible for you to issue passports to foreign workers.

   "Continue to talk." Zhao Han said.

Xiao Huan said: "The fourth type is Persian women. The sources of Persian women are one from Batavia and the other from Banten. The Dutch transported Persian women to Batavia; other European merchants brought Persian women to Batavia. The women were transported to Banten. Chinese merchants set up shops in these two cities, bought Persian women, taught them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then shipped them back to my country for sale.”

  The Persian woman here is not purely from Persia.

  Some came from Ottomans, some from Persia, some from India. Since Chinese pleasure-seekers like fair skin and good looks, the ones sold are all white. Primarily prisoners of war, followed by religious prisoners, and thirdly relatives trafficked or kidnapped.

  Ottoman, Persia, and India's Mughals have always been at war, and they especially like to trade prisoners of war as slaves.

   In Ottoman and Persia, sectarian struggles are very cruel, and sometimes massacres are carried out, and the trafficking of women from rival sects is purely incidental.

  South India has not yet been occupied by the Mughals, and the Mughal Empire has continued to invade the south. Many of the native nobles in South India resisted fiercely. After the Mughals conquered the native states, the die-hard high-caste nobles were often killed. The British took the opportunity to do business, transporting high-caste white women to Banten and selling them to Chinese maritime merchants.

  Zhao Han's policy of dividing land, immigration, and rectifying brothels all stimulated the slave trade. As a result, the slave trade in East Asia has flourished countless times than in history, and China has become one of the main consumption places of the global slave trade.

  Britain has no colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia, but has a good relationship with the Mughal emperor of India. These guys even set their minds on the untouchables, and want to sell them to China to farm land for big families—anyway, untouchables are not human, and if they are caught, they will be a lot, and no matter how many they catch, they will not cause trouble.

   Zhao Han's original intention was to abolish slavery, but unknowingly, he created a large number of foreign slaves in China.

  It’s a bit worrying to be true.

  (end of this chapter)