Sometimes even people from Western Jin and Dongxiang would come to the city of Jinling in Nanyue to buy slaves.
Because there are a wide variety of slaves here, many wealthy families who want to buy slaves for hard labor or to guard their homes will choose to come to this slave market.
The slave market in Jinling City not only sold slaves, but also had a fighting arena.
The arenas offered a wide variety of fighting styles, including one-on-one slave fights, one-on-one animal-human fights, and even one-animal-versus-a-group fights. Spectators could not only buy tickets to watch but also participate in gambling. As a result, business here was incredibly brisk.
The slaves in this slave market have some history, as most of them came from the Northern Wei Dynasty.
The Northern Wei Dynasty was located in the north of the Kyushu continent, where the climate was cold. In some places, there were only two or three months of spring throughout the year, and the rest of the time was in extremely cold and harsh weather.
The north is dry and rainy, and the first thing the Northern Wei authorities, that is, the triplets of the Baili family, did after regaining power was to expel the Shenjiao religion from the Northern Wei. Without the protection of the Shenjiao religion, the climate in the Northern Wei has become even worse in recent years.
Although the royal family treated the people well, and the people of the Northern Wei Dynasty were simple and honest, and most of the people only believed in their own emperor, it was well known that the Northern Wei Dynasty had poor land, scarce resources, and a stretched treasury.
This is also the biggest reason why the Northern Wei Dynasty, despite its fierce people, was unable to unify other countries. Because it had no money, it was more than enough to defend its territory, but it was unable to support large-scale battles.
The economy in the Central Plains during the Northern Wei Dynasty was slightly better. The poorest area was the grassland area north of the Central Plains, where people often starved to death.
Therefore, in order to earn money to support their families, many grassland men living in the Northern Wei Dynasty had no choice but to run to countries like Nanyue to make money.
Most grassland men were tall and strong, and when they arrived in places like South Vietnam, they could only earn money by selling their labor. The most convenient and quickest way was to voluntarily degrade themselves into slavery, enter the slave market, and wait for their masters to buy them.
In order to maximize their profits, the operators of the slave market raised the price of each slave.
At the beginning, many wealthy families were willing to spend money to buy slaves. However, as the number of slaves increased, the price of slaves did not decrease but increased. Even if those wealthy families had money, they would not be too stingy with their money.
The men on the grasslands were just taller and stronger, but their roles were similar to those of ordinary guards. So gradually, in order to save costs, people usually asked others to introduce them, or directly asked their servants to introduce relatives from the countryside to do these guarding jobs.
Therefore, there were not many big households that actually went to the slave market to buy slaves, which led to an oversupply in the entire slave trading market.
The slaves signed a contract to sell themselves with the slave market, and they could not leave even if they could not find an employer. The end result was that the operators of the slave market got what they wished and turned this place into the largest arena in the entire Kyushu continent, making more money for themselves.
The slaves could not leave or escape, so they could only accept their fate and stay in this cage. The unscrupulous operators only provided them with the most basic food and clothing.
No one wanted to participate in gladiatorial combat because it meant a high probability of death.
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