Chapter 50 Human Trafficking
It is also for this reason that although the quality of life of immigrants on Taiwan Island is still good, there are too many bachelors. Many people have saved money but can't marry wives. They can only be a party at night and eat themselves. Moreover, because of the small number of marriageable women, the value of betrothal gifts has soared, no Taking out a considerable bride price, it is even more difficult to marry a wife than to ascend to heaven.
So the most prosperous industries in Danshui, Keelung, Kaohsiung and other places on the island of Taiwan are probably brothels. Many land brothels have found this business opportunity and have gone to these places to open brothels. Even some free single-handed people* have taken the initiative to take a boat to rent a house to do business.
If this goes on, although there is no serious outbreak of malaria, it is estimated that it will not be long before the problem of venereal diseases will become a headache for sea wolves.
What's more, there are a large number of soldiers of sea wolves, and these soldiers are also well treated. After working with sea wolves for several years, they have considerable savings. When people have money, they naturally want to ask for a wife, but it is also difficult for soldiers to find a wife.
It's really that there is no place to vent. It's difficult for people to start beingbei bei dang. Yu Xiaotian doesn't want the soldiers of his army to becomebei bei dang, so he has been racking his brains to buy from all over the world or use other methods to collect women in order to solve the problem of the imbalance between men and women in Taiwan Island. Question.
Now in Denglai, the proportion of women of suitable age among the hungry people is relatively high. Because Liaodong has been fighting all year round, men have died one after another, and there are more and more women. Now Dongjiang Town has also begun to be in chaos, so many refugees have fled to Denglai, among which there are naturally a large number of women of school age.
So Liu did not take this opportunity and decided to be a human trafficker for a period of time, so he ran to Ninghai Prefecture to dredge relations.
The profession of human trafficker is not illegal in this era. Although it sounds bad, as long as no one sues, the government has always turned a blind eye to it.
As long as the relationship is unblocked and the traffickers are in place, the government is too lazy to care about it. Therefore, since the end of October, Liu Yi has established contact with some adult traffickers within a hundred miles of the surrounding area.
He claimed that he has a large industry in Fujian, and naturally has a business such as brothels, which requires a large number of young women. There is no limit on the age. Anyone who is in their 30s can collect it. The price is good, as long as they send people to Xishan Village.
And it is not difficult to acquire women in this era. Since they are human traffickers, there are many means, either open or hidden means. It is not a problem to cheat, rob or buy them with money.
In addition, many women are weak in order to survive. Among the hungry, they can't beat those strong men. Either they can only find a strong man to cling to or rely on their families to maintain. When they really can't survive, some women are willing to sell themselves, except for themselves. In addition to finding a way to live, I also changed some food for my family.
So at this time, it is easy to buy a woman, and you can even change a good woman without spending money or just giving a bag of food.
As soon as Liu's different requests were put forward, it was undoubtedly good news for those local traffickers. They used to get women, and it was generally difficult to sell them locally. Even if they were sold, the number was very small, and most of them were bought by some large families to serve as maids, but But it can't absorb much.
So after getting women, they often have to be transferred to the mainland of Shandong, or even Nanzhili, before they can take action. They have to take a lot of risks along the way. Some people may escape, and some women may die of illness on the road. Although they are quite profitable, the risks are not small.
Now there is a local buyer who is willing to buy women in large quantities. Although the price is certainly not sold at a high price, it can be sold on the spot, which avoids the trouble of long-distance transportation. The realization is fast enough to return the cost in a few days, and then continue to find the source of goods.
So these adult vendors agreed to Liu's different requirements and negotiated the price with Liu. They divided the women into several grades and divided the prices. Girls under the age of 13 can buy one with only two taels of silver. Women aged 14 to 18 are the most expensive, eight taels of silver. The rest are also divided into two grades, and the price is not high. Generally, you can buy a fertile woman with an average of less than five taels of silver.
This price is much lower than the previous price of sea wolves buying women on the southern land. There, they generally buy women from the market, and the lowest price is at least ten taels of silver. Such a teenage young girl generally costs more than 20 taels of silver, and her beautiful appearance will even be more expensive. Ten taels of silver.
But here, girls only need two taels of silver, and girls only need eight taels of silver. This price can be said to be low enough.
But LiuDi made a strange request, that is, the woman he wants must be full of heaven, that is, he can't wrap his feet, but he doesn't want anything to wrap his feet!
This requirement is really incomprehensible. If you want to say, any woman with heavenly feet will certainly not have a good family background, because the labor in the family is limited, and you are reluctant to let your woman wrap your feet, which will lose a strong labor force. Therefore, as long as you are covered with feet, you are basically a better family and have no worries about food and clothing. Only in the court can the woman wrap her feet.
Liu Di said that he wanted women to go to the south to make a living. It must be a foot-wrapped woman, which is thinner and tender, which will be more attractive. However, Liu Di does not want foot-wrapped women. As long as those rough-handed women, people don't understand why.
But traffickers don't bother to care about this kind of thing. Liu is different from customers, and customers are God. Of course, there is no such saying in this era, but they also know that they need to meet the requirements of customers. Liu doesn't want to give him anything. It doesn't matter if they don't want foot-wrapped women. These foot-wrapped women can stay and continue to be shipped to the south. *, the price is expected to be better.
In addition to buying women from these traffickers, LiuDi simply buys women directly in Xishan Village, which will cost less, such as some girls under the age of 13, and even need a bucket of beans or mixed noodles or brown rice to change one.
Like some school-age girls, it is a little more expensive, but it is almost a stone grain, which can be exchanged for a beautiful and good figure, at most two stone grain can be exchanged, which is much cheaper than buying from human traffickers.
For some women with only orphans and widows with children, they don't even need to spend a little money or food. They just need to eat and can be put into his pocket.
In just half a month, LiuDi bought hundreds of women in Xishan Village, loaded them and transported them out, temporarily transported them to Shidao Bay, and then recuperated there. Then he would change into a big ship and transfer them to the south in batches.
While acquiring women, Liu Di found that there were also many orphans who had no home among the hungry people. For these orphans, both men and women, Liu Di also took them in and transferred them out together, and transported them as much as possible before freezing on the sea.
Just as Liu Di was busy buying the population, a shocking news suddenly came back from Dengzhou Prefecture. Kong Youde, who was sent by Sun Yuanhua to Guanning to help, somehow suddenly raised an anti-flag in Cangzhou Prefecture and led the soldiers under him suddenly and slaughtered several large soldiers in Cangzhou. Zhuang, after a lot of reckless *, turned around and rushed back to the side of Dengzhou Prefecture.
Along the way, Kong Youde also gathered Li Jiucheng and others, who were also the old generals of the Dongjiang River, and constantly gathered the Liaodong people or the old troops of the Dongjiang Army scattered around Shandong. Now the number has suddenly expanded to more than 4,000 people, sweeping through the places they passed like a storm and continuously conquering. Several counties were massacred and looted, and the soldiers waved straight to the side of Dengzhou Prefecture.
This news shocked everyone. Although Liu Di and other sea wolves were already psychologically prepared, when they got the news, they were still shocked one by one and only felt that there were stars in front of them. Of course, this is a star of worship, and each of them is their master to Xiaotian. I admire it to the sky.
LiuDi shouted secretly in his heart, God! Who the hell is the master? It's really the ability to get through the sky. It can be expected that such chaos will happen in Denglai in such a far south.
If you don't have the ability to do this, how can you do this? This is simply comparable to immortals. No wonder there were many brothers in the past who always said that their master was not a mortal, but a person with great powers, and the so-called immortals believed by those demons like the White Lotus Sect and Maitreya religion. Their master is the real great power!
So even if these people had a little different intentions before, they were completely dispelled after hearing the news. How can they have any thoughts and dare to be evil!
Since their master has such magical power, if they dare to have two ambitions, they will be found immediately, and they will definitely not have a good end at that time. Therefore, since they have boarded this ship, they can only follow. No matter where they go, they can only be the same as their master.
The news spread to Ninghai Prefecture, which immediately caused chaos in the government of Ninghai Prefecture. Kong Youde made such a disturbance, and the matter must not be good. You should know that Denglai's side is full of a large number of Liao people, Shandong people and Liao people who escaped from Liaodong. Over the years, the relationship has been very tense. Shandong people have bullied these fleeing Liao people everywhere, and the Liao people have long been resentful.