But human greed is endless, and there's no way that the border military leaders and the high officials who had received benefits would allow the highly lucrative trade of human trafficking to stop.
In the eyes of these officials and military leaders, civilians were merely tools for extorting wealth, expendable pawns in their schemes.
Soon, the military leaders colluded with landlords, local tyrants, and corrupt merchants near their garrisons, and began a series of shady operations.
They turned a blind eye or even supported landlords in annexing land, forcefully taking over peasants' fields, and driving the originally prosperous farmers into destitution, turning them into displaced peasants.
Then, they continued to sell these displaced individuals to the Great Tang Kingdom, earning profits to sustain their ever-growing desires.
