南齐时,都城广州经济发达,商业繁荣,海外贸易尤其红火。一些大商人,甚至包括南齐政府,常年派商船往来于现在的越南、印度、泰国、柬埔寨、叙利亚和印度尼西亚等国,将丝绸、瓷器运出去,再把香料、珍珠带回来,一进一出,利润高达二三十倍。不但商品贸易发达,奴隶贸易也繁盛,印尼酋长从马来半岛低价买进矮黑人,不法的中国军官也从澎 Nan Qi, the capital city of Guangzhou developed economy, commercial prosperity, especially booming overseas trade. Some large merchants, including even the Nancy government, have sent merchants and merchants perennial merchants to Vietnam, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Syria and Indonesia to carry silk and porcelain out and bring spices and pearl back into the country. Profit up to twenty or thirty times. Not only trade in goods developed, trade in slaves flourished, Indonesian chiefs bought dwarfs from the peninsula at low prices, and unruly Chinese officers also went from Peng