"Your Highness didn't say you were abducting people. If you are so anxious to clear them, there must be some." Green ivy served Xiao Ming's side and suddenly said at this time.

Xiao Ming glanced at this girl. It was rare for her to use her brain. Maybe she had experienced such things when she was a child. After all, her current identity is also a slave.

"Hmph, you can't even cheat me, and you're here to cheat me, what crime should you be punished!" Xiao Ming slapped the table and said angrily.

Liang Dahai was so scared that he lay on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, "Your Highness, your Highness, your Highness, you should be damned, Caomin, I was indeed greedy for cheap yesterday and bought a slave of unknown origin, but Caomin really did not abduct the good man."

Although the slave trade in Dayu Kingdom is legal, the normal people are collectively called good people and are protected. Anyone who traffics good people will be killed and executed immediately is an iron rule.

Xiao Ming just scared Liang Dahai, but unexpectedly he actually asked one by accident. He said, "Since that's the case, then you won't let the person go."

"Yes, Your Highness, Caomin will go back and release him now." Liang Dahai said as he got up immediately and was about to run out.

"Wait!" Xiao Ming called Liang Dahai. His purpose was not to investigate the case. He said, "The king will give you this account book. You can go back and release someone later. Now the king of Japan has something else to do."

Liang Dahai had been shocked and stared at Xiao Ming in a daze waiting for the following text.

Xiao Ming said: "This time I came to you because of slave sales. I want to cooperate with you to run the slave business together."

"What!" Liang Dahai couldn't believe his ears.

"You heard it right. I came to you just to discuss this matter. If you do it well, it would be okay to be promoted to a higher position in the future." Xiao Ming said.

Liang Dahai is shocked and is overjoyed. The merchant of Dayu Kingdom has the lowest status, while the slave trader has the lowest status among merchants and has always been looked down upon. Now the King of Qi not only wants to cooperate with him, but also promises to be promoted in the future.

This Liang Dahai is like a dream.

"Your Highness, this is what you said seriously." Liang Dahai asked again.

"I am not here to chat." Xiao Ming said: "This matter is very simple. You can know and I. In secret, I will support you and also give you silver. You need to provide slaves to me."

Liang Dahai nodded, "Your Highness, this is simple, as long as your Highness needs it, I still have this slave."

"What I want is not only ordinary slaves, but I will give higher prices for craftsmen, carpenters, blacksmiths and so on." Xiao Ming said.

"This type of people are all low-ranking households and there are many slaves, so it's not difficult." Liang Dahai analyzed.

"Well, since you are proficient in the slave trade, you will naturally have many ways to get slaves. However, in cooperation with me, you must not violate the law of abducting good people. Otherwise, I will not be allowed to kill people if I draw my sword. Moreover, from today on, I will strongly support you. You must do everything possible to obtain slaves from all over the place and transport them to Qingzhou." Xiao Ming said.

Liang Dahai said: "Your Highness, do you want Kunlun slaves?"

Xiao Ming's expression moved slightly. The Kunlun slaves in Liang Dahai's mouth were those indigenous people of South Asia with dark skin and low size. However, in the past two years, some of the Chang'an cities have also added black slaves from Africa. However, most of these black slaves came from the Western Regions and were favored by the Chang'an nobles and regarded as symbols of their status.

Now Liang Dahai takes the initiative to propose Kunlun slaves, and it seems that he has been exposed to the overseas slave trade.

"Of course, as long as you can get it," said Xiao Ming.

Liang Dahai said, "Your Highness, the grass people understand."

After talking about specific matters with Liang Dahai for a while, Xiao Ming bought twenty slaves from Liang Dahai to serve as servants in the royal palace. These were all high-quality slaves in his hands, one with an average of ten taels of silver, which was only half the price of plowing oxen.

Liang Dahai left, Luluo was unhappy. It seemed that Xiao Ming and Liang Dahai's dirty deal hurt the little girl's memory.

Luluo has always been a person who cannot hide it. Xiao Ming said: "Don't you think that I am mixed with slave traders, and I have the best share, but lack kindness?"

"I, I..." Luluo wanted to deny it, but she felt angry in her heart and seemed to want to burst out again.

Xiao Ming laughed and said, "I know what you are thinking. Although the legal slaves of the Great Yu Kingdom are legal, this is not glorious after all. Have you ever thought about it? The population of this king's fiefdom is only one million households. If only such a small population can it be achieved when and in what time will it take to achieve the revival of the fiefdom?"

"But..." Luluo suddenly didn't know what to say.

"And if this king doesn't buy these slaves, they will fall into the hands of others. How can you be sure that these slaves will not live a little easier in this king, or even get a free body?" Xiao Ming continued: "What the king needs is labor, not their slave identity."

Luluo held the corner of her clothes and nodded slightly, "I am wrong. I think your highness wants to sell slaves and earn silver."

When Xiao Ming mentioned the silver liang, he suddenly felt overwhelmed. He originally thought that the silver cost a lot of 4,000 taels a day, but he bought oxen and slaves, plus various materials, and built workshops. These silver was simply too short of money.

"Oh, I'm going to look at the bright moon, but the bright moon shines on the ditch." Xiao Ming sighed and shook his head, as if sad for the Green Ivy's incomprehension.

Luluo said anxiously: "Your Highness, Luluo misunderstood Your Highness."

"Forget it, I forgive you." Xiao Ming picked up the green ivy's little hand and rubbed it seriously, "I won't mention this anymore. Look at your hands being frozen. Come on, I will rub you."

The green ivy suddenly turned red.

At this moment, a chubby figure suddenly appeared at the gate of the main hall. Xiao Ming was startled and immediately stopped.

"Cough cough, Your Highness!" Qian Dafu coughed twice, "In addition to graphite, some of the limestone you explained have also been shipped back. Do you want to go and take a look?"

A few days after Li San went to Chang'an, Qian Dafu came back with graphite. The first batch of crucibles had been put into use in the Equipment Department.

It can be said that a small batch of steelmaking production line has been formed.

The steel output has increased, and the steel needed by the Equipment Department to produce lathes has been basically met. At present, the Equipment Department has produced two sets of lathes.

These lathes are all ready to be installed in the hydraulic lathe workshop under construction, but a problem arose at this time.

In order to use these lathes, Xiao Ming needed to train a group of skilled lathe workers, and the current craftsmen in the Equipment Department were not enough, so it was impossible to withdraw their hands.

So Xiao Ming then remembered the slave trade. In order to monopolize technology, it is imperative to cultivate a group of high-tech slaves.
Chapter completed!