Chapter 595 592 [Slave Trade]

The young patrolman's name is Liu Chuanzong, who comes from a military family in the Ming Dynasty. His father was just a small general, and his family background was ruined. He had nothing else passed down to him except martial arts.

He himself has an upright personality. In the Datong Army, he listened to the missionary officer's explanation of the "Datong Collection" and his thoughts became more upright and bright.

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

Most of his bosses are veterans. After some small talk, the relationship quickly became closer, and then they started to reason. It was just that the foreign slaves were not Chinese and did not have to abide by the rules in "Datong Collection".

Liu Chuanzong subconsciously obeyed the order, but when he returned to the patrol dormitory, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this shouldn't be the case.

When he went to look for the rescued girl, he found that the girl was missing and had been returned to the brothel. Liu Chuanzong was very angry about this and went to argue with his boss again. As a result, he was angrily scolded and given a major demerit.

In confusion, Liu Chuanzong worked for another half month.

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

Liu Chuanzong looked at the copper coins and wondered, "What is this?"

Fan Liang explained with a smile: "We rely on mountains to eat mountains, and we rely on water to eat water. We work as patrol officers in the Qinhuai River, so naturally we have to eat the rouge money of the Qinhuai River."

"Accepting... taking bribes?" Liu Chuanzong couldn't believe it.

Fan Liang said: "What do you mean by taking bribes? We didn't break the law, and we didn't break the court rules. Don't worry, this is not some dirty money. If those brothels dare to force Chinese people, they will definitely be punished. They teach foreign women, this We have nothing to do with it, so we can just turn a blind eye."

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

Fan Liang said: "It's available every month. It's not too much. I can only buy a dozen kilograms of rice. It's good to see the water flowing down."

Liu Chuanzong was silent, every patrolman had one, and those superior officers must also have one, and the money they got must be more.

The new dynasty of Datong should not be like this!

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

Fan Liang saw his unhappy expression, smiled and consoled him: "Don't be confused, you have to live this life. You are a veteran, am I not? I am also a veteran of Chongzhen for 12 years. I was dismissed because I was too old. I went home and farmed for several 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 was assigned to be a patrol officer on the Qinhuai River. The oil and water here are thicker than elsewhere."

"Didn't you learn "Datong Collection" when you were a soldier?" Liu Chuanzong asked.

"I've learned it," Fan Liang said, "I've told you that women from foreign countries are not Chinese, and they don't even have a household registration, so they are considered citizens? Since they are not citizens, then we don't need to worry about it, and it doesn't violate the "Datong Collection"."

Liu Chuanzong asked: "If the brothel did not commit any crime, then why did it give money to the police?"

Fan Liang chuckled and said: "Whether it's a low-level hook-and-mortar house or a high-level brothel, this kind of business will always be in the dark. Although those women from foreign countries are not citizens, they are still human beings. It is inevitable that some will be disobedient. He was beaten half to death, or even beaten to death by mistake. The government can take care of it, or it can ignore it. Whether it takes care of it or not depends on whether the money is given enough. "

"This is unreasonable, human life is nothing but child's play!" Liu Chuanzong was filled with indignation and clenched his fists, trembling all over.

Fan Liang's head hurt, and he said depressedly: "Why can't you understand? Those are all women from foreign countries, bought like piglets. Dozens of Han women from the Qinhuai River immigrate to the north every year, no matter how many prostitutes there are, We can't stand this. Today, at least 60% of the prostitutes in the Qinhuai River are bought from foreign countries. Your Majesty doesn't care about it, how can you and I care about it?"

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

"Really?" Fan Liang asked.

"No!" Liu Chuanzong said firmly.

Fan Liang felt something was going to happen, so he had to go to his boss again and said that his new partner was a fool.

Before the boss even reacted, something had already 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. Liu Chuanzong cannot enter at all. He can only go to the Integrity Department of Jinling Prefecture to report.

A clerk 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, passes down the family line from generation to generation. He once served as the commander of the cavalry division of the Datong Army, and is currently the patrol officer of Qinhuai Hebei District, Shangyuan County, Jinling Prefecture."

The city of Nanjing is divided into Shangyuan County and Jiangning County. Shangyuan County is located to the north of the Qinhuai River, and Jiangning County is located to the south of the Qinhuai River. There are brothels on both sides of the Qinhuai River.

The clerk continued to ask: "Who are you reporting for corruption and perverting the law?"

Liu Chuanzong said: "Police officers on both sides of the Qinhuai River accept bribes from brothels. Every month, it has become a rule."

The hand holding the pen shook as the clerk trembled, and he looked at Liu Chuanzong in surprise. This was a case under the Emperor's feet!

After a while, the clerk said, "Tell me everything you know in detail."

After finishing the transcript, the clerk did not dare to neglect or even let Liu Chuanzong go, and immediately went to notify the chief official of the Integrity Department.

This matter is so big that it involves the police teams of two counties in the capital. Most of those policemen are retired Datong soldiers, and they may be the former subordinates of some of the princes and marquises. The Integrity Department of Jinling Prefecture did not dare to act rashly, and immediately reported it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which almost all came out to investigate.

Yingmin Hall.

Zhao Han flipped through the files and asked casually: "All arrested?"

Xiao Huan replied: "We have all been arrested. Except for Liu Chuanzong, the person who reported the report, all the police officers on both sides of the Qinhuai River have received money. The one who took the most bribes will receive two hundred silver dollars per month; the one who took the least bribe will receive one hundred copper coins per month." Ten articles.”

"In the land of Fengyue, there is a lot of oil and water. This matter is not unusual," Zhao Han was actually not angry and just ordered, "Those who accept bribes of more than one silver dollar per month will be dealt with severely; those who accept bribes of more than 300 silver dollars per month will be punished according to the regulations. Deal with it; those who accept bribes of less than 300 yuan per month will be dismissed from their posts and the stolen money will be recovered."

It seems that the severity of punishment is measured based on the amount of bribes accepted, but in fact it is handled based on official power.

Those who take the most bribes must have real power and have higher official positions.

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

How to deal with it?

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

Xiao Huan replied: "The Metropolitan Procuratorate has asked the brothels in detail, and there are these types of female slaves in Fanbang."

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

"The second type is women from Japan and North Korea. Prostitutes from all over the country are selected to immigrate to the north every year. The brothels work with some maritime merchants to purchase women from Japan and North Korea to supplement their numbers."

"The third type is women from Southeast Asia. Spain and the Netherlands capture indigenous women from Southeast Asia and sell them to our country to earn gold and silver. These Nanyang women are not in good shape and appearance, and they are mainly sold to low-class Goulanwa. There are also some who are sold to wealthy households as slaves. They even sell Nanyang men to serve as tenant farmers for wealthy households. Those Nanyang men..."

"Say!" Zhao Han felt something was wrong.

Xiao Huan was silent for a few seconds: "In my dynasty, we settled down and allocated land to the people, and continued to immigrate to the north. The gentry from the southern provinces actively cooperated with the allocation of land. Each family member could keep twenty acres of land. How could they farm it if they couldn't recruit tenants? ? There are also nobles in the court who are rewarded with land for their military exploits, so their fields will be more. Although the Nanyang natives are not good at farming, they can do more than animals after all."

Zhao Han understood clearly that the nobles in the court and the gentry of the previous dynasty had too much land to recruit tenants, so they bought Nanyang natives to farm the land.

Good guys, I went to Nanyang to immigrate the Han people, but you actually bought the natives from Nanyang back to China.

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

In ancient times, there was no distinction between nationality. You could not issue passports to foreign workers.

"Continue talking." Zhao Han said.

Xiao Huan said: "The fourth type is Persian women. One source of Persian women is from Batavia, and the other is 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 opened shops in these two cities, bought Persian women, taught them music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and then transported them back to our country for sale."

The Persian women here are not purely from Persia.

Some came from the Ottomans, some from Persia, and some from India. Since Chinese pleasure seekers like fair skin and good looks, all the women sold there are white. Mainly war prisoners, secondly religious prisoners, and thirdly, relatives trafficked or kidnapped.

The Ottomans, Persia, and Mughal India were always at war, and they especially liked to trade prisoners of war as slaves.

In Ottoman and Persia, sectarian struggles were very cruel, and sometimes massacres were carried out. The trafficking of women from rival sects was purely a side business.

South India had not yet been occupied by the Mughals, and the Mughal Empire continued to invade southward. Many of the princely nobles in South India resisted fiercely. After the Mughals conquered the princely states, the die-hard high-caste nobles often killed them. The British took the opportunity to do business and transported high-caste white women to Banten to resell them to Chinese merchants.

Zhao Han's land distribution policy, immigration policy, and brothel rectification policy all stimulated the slave trade. As a result, the slave trade in East Asia has flourished countless times more than in history, and China has become one of the major consumers of the global slave trade.

The British had no colonial strongholds in Southeast Asia, but they had good relations with the Mughal emperors of India. These guys even set their sights on untouchables, hoping to sell untouchables to China to farm land for big families. Anyway, untouchables are not human beings. They can be caught in large numbers, and no matter how many they catch, they will not cause trouble.

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

It's really a bit sad.