Lu Qing took several guards and followed the Xiongnu people named Yizhi out of the city.

Wuwei City is a very small city, so many "goods" are not in the city.

Standing on the city wall and looking around, you can see that there are many temporary camps outside the city wall.

If the scene in the city is a noisy grocery market, then these camps outside the city are perfect slums, and may even be even worse than slums.

Dirty water flows over and all kinds of excrement are filled with feces in people's sight. There are huge cages everywhere, and the cages are locked in the cages with dull humans.

Not far from the cage, many ferocious cavalrymen sat or stood, talking and laughing loudly. From their accents, they could be heard that they were from many tribes such as the Xiongnu, Yiqu, Wusun, Qiang people, etc.

There were several tents behind the cavalry, and from time to time, screams from women and laughter from men came from inside.

Lu Qing looked at all this and his face was very calm.

This is the current situation of the active slave hunting group on the border of Zhao State. This is not the first time Lu Qing has come, so he is naturally commonplace for this.

Lu Qing walked into this camp and suddenly stopped in front of a cage, saying, "Do you actually dare to imprison Zhao?"

There were obviously several black-haired and dark-skinned people in the cage in front of Lu Qing.

Yizhi trembled and quickly smiled and said, "The chief is joking. We are also the king's Shunmin. How dare we use the people of Zhao as slaves? These people are all from Longxi, Qin, and are preparing to escape to the Western Regions and then be captured by our slave-catching team."

"Qin people." Lu Qing's face looked a little better, and then said, "You may not know that Qin has been conquered by the king recently. From now on, there will be no Qin people. All the Qin people will be Zhao people from now on. Do you understand what I mean?"

Yizhi smiled and said, "I understand, and I will send them to the head later."

Lu Qing nodded and continued to move forward.

With the continuous development of Zhao State, the demand for young and middle-aged labor began to gradually increase. However, due to years of war, the proportion of young and middle-aged men in the Central Plains countries was very low, so slaves became a very good choice.

So on the border of Zhao State, various slave hunting groups began to prevail.

Most of these teams came from various nomadic barbarian tribes outside the border of Zhao State, and their targets were usually other grassland nomadic tribes and many small countries in the Western Regions in the west.

However, everyone in these slave hunting groups knew that there were two iron laws that could not be violated. The first is "If a Zhao man dies, he will need to pay for his life." The second is "The Zhao man cannot be a slave.

Generally speaking, once a person in Zhao was found to have been killed or captured as slaves, the cavalry troops stationed in Wuwei City would be dispatched to hunt down tribes that dared to break the precepts.

If the Wuwei Captain feels that his army is not enough to succeed, then he can apply to his superiors to transfer more troops.

After the northern border cavalry army of Zhao State launched several consecutive attacks and killed several large tribes that did not obey orders in one fell swoop, the bloody faction composed of tens of thousands of heads made all slave hunting groups consciously abide by these two orders.

This is why Lu Qing clearly didn't know this Yizhisu, but he dared to walk into the Yizhi camp with a few guards.

Because Lu Qing is an authentic Zhao native.

Since Zhao Dan has announced the fact that the Qin people will become the people of Zhao in the future, the Qin people will naturally become a member of the Zhao people, so these lucky Qin people will naturally be able to gain freedom from the slave traders.

Of course, if these Qin people still do not want to become people of Zhao, then this freedom will be lost at any time. However, it is decided by the Wuwei Captain, and it is not the turn of Yizhi, the slave trader, to make a move.

Lu Qing continued to follow Yizhi and walked to a seemingly remote cage. Then Yizhi smiled and pointed at Lu Qing: "Please look at the chief, this is the envoy of the Seleucid Kingdom I'm talking about."

Lu Qing walked to the cage and looked at the situation in the cage.

In fact, there were more than a dozen people in the cage. All of these guys had golden or brown hair, deep eye sockets and high nose bridges, which were somewhat similar to some Yuezhi people Lu Qing had seen.

Among the dozen slaves, an old man was obviously respected. This can be seen from the fact that all the slaves surrounded the old man and protected the old man in the middle.

It seemed that these people had been tortured in a very miserable way, all tied together in big ties, and each of them had his head down weakly. Even if they had heard the footsteps of Lu Qing and his group, no one looked up.

Lu Qing nodded and said to Yizhi: "Can they say Zhao Yu?"

Yizhi smiled and suddenly shouted into the cage in the Huns' words.

These words finally attracted the attention of the people in the cage, and several people raised their heads at the same time.

A cage man spoke in a whisper.

Yizhi talked again.

Then the cage man was shocked, he looked at Lu Qing with an incredible gaze, and then spoke.

This time, Lu Qing understood what he said.

"Are you an official in Zhao State?"

This sentence is not Zhao's words, but Yayu, which is the "Zhou Dynasty version of Mandarin" used in various countries under the Zhou Dynasty since its founding.

Compared with the Chinese language, Zhao language, which was born from the Chinese language, is more like a local dialect. Although there are similarities between the two, there are many differences.

Of course, after the Zhao State unifies the world, Zhao's language will become the official language of the future, and elegant language will disappear in the long river of history.

As a businessman who travels all over the world, elegant language can be said to be a necessary skill, so Lu Qing naturally understood it.

Lu Qing nodded and said, "I am not an official of Zhao State, but if you and your group are really a mission, then I can take you out from here."

When this guy translated this sentence to other cage people, all the cage people became obviously in a state of turmoil.

The old man surrounded by others in the center said a few words in a hurry, and then took out a piece of parchment from his arms.

Then the cage man who could translate raised the parchment high and said in a tone with a little proud voice: "We are indeed from the Seleucid Empire, and we hope to go to Handan, the capital of Zhao, to enter into an alliance with the great king of Zhao, to fight the invasions from the Huns."
Chapter completed!