Law of the Devil Chapter 173: [Slave]

Chapter 173 [Slave]

Bring Set to return to his place of residence. Although this big-headed guy was still curious about Dewey, Deacon Clark had severely reminded him before leaving, letting him start today and everything after Everything must be obeyed by Master Dewey.

"It's like treating your teacher." Clark described it this way.

Of course, Seth has a teacher, and his teacher is quite good in the magic union. It was the guy who once entered the frozen forest with Gegewu at that time, but after encountering Medusa, he pitted Gegewu and ran away first.

But Seth had no status under Az, otherwise he would not be assigned to sell a wand. As an eighth-level magician of the magic union, Az has many magical apprentices, and there is no shortage of Sete.

So, from now on, Sete is considered to change the court and formally enters Du Wei's door.

"What's wrong, Seth." Dewey saw that this big-headed guy looked strange, and Wen Yan asked, "What are you thinking?"

"No, no, it's nothing, Dewey ... Miss Dewey." Seth honestly called Dewey a "teacher" in the tradition of the magic union. However, this title made Du Wei frown.

"Seth." Dewey stopped, watching this genius in magical research who abducted himself: "I don't need you to call my teacher."

"But this is the tradition ..." Seth whispered: "In the magic union, all magic apprentices must call their teachers" all teachers "to their allegiance.

"But I'm not your teacher." Du Wei shook his head: "You are not my student, I have nothing to teach you. I want you here, it requires your mind, even a little exaggeration Say. I need you to teach me something. Hehe ... "

Seth panicked.

Du Wei patted the wooden clog guy, looked at his head, and smiled: "Okay, you will understand later, what I fancy is your talent, I hope you can use your Talent, help me accomplish a lot of things. "

Then Dewey didn't care about Seth's expression either. Pointing to the front of the street: "Look, my place is here."

In front is Dewey's current temporary residence. This originally belonged to the court house of the great prince. It is said that it was used by the great prince to hide in the golden house. Of course, this is a rumor, and no one knows if it is true. Du Wei didn't care, he was leaving the capital anyway.

This house is not small. When Dewey moved in, the servants and the people who originally guarded the house. All have been demobilized following the downfall of the great prince. Du Wei didn't bother to find someone, and now there is only one old servant, Made, and two servants of the original Rowling family. The Rowling family moved back to the Rowling Plain. Unwilling to leave the imperial capital, he stayed for the time being still under Du Weidi.

In addition, there is also Vivian in the family. Mouse Gege Wu, and the **** beast QQ. However, the existence of the mouse Gegewu and qq is still a secret to everyone. Only Du Wei knows the existence of these two guys.

When returning, Du Wei unexpectedly saw that the girl Wei Weian was standing at the door of the house, so she was sitting quietly on the steps at the gate, holding her chin in her hands. Poorly looking at the end of the street, it was probably too long, the little silly girl was a little dazed and didn't even notice that Dewey was approaching.

"Why are you here?" Du Wei smiled, watching Vivian sitting in a daze on the steps.

Actually, he was very happy to see Vivian go out. Since bringing Vivian back from Brokeback Mountain that day, the little girl who was already weak by nature had suddenly learned the news of her teacher's death. After returning, he kept himself in the room. Unhappy every day.

Du Wei visits her several times a day, but every time. The little girl was silent, with a sad face, and Du Wei tried to talk to tease her, but every time she said something, the little girl suddenly burst into tears. In the end, Dewey had no choice but to let her rest in the room alone. If you want to wait for the day to pass, the pain in your heart will always dissipate.

Sure enough, today I saw Vivian finally going out, and she was still sitting at the gate of the house. Du Wei went up, reached out and tapped gently on her head, squinting and smiling: "Hey Are you in a daze? Didn't hear me? "

Vivian raised her eyelids, blinked twice, looked at Du Wei, gradually recovered, then stood up, rubbed his sour knees, and whispered: "You, you test, test Have you passed? "

Xiao Nizi is still a weak face, but the pain in her eyes is much lighter, and her tone is also concerned with Du Wei.

Du Wei laughed, and his tone softened a lot: "Are you sitting here waiting for me?"

"I ... I worry about you." Vivienne blushed and lowered her head: "Magic exam, assessment, it is difficult, I worry ..."

Du Wei patted his chest vigorously, with a magic pharmacist's badge hanging on it, and laughed: "Relax, look, this is my badge. Now I'm standing in front of you. Qualified magician! "

Vivien's eyes widened and looked at the potion badge of Du Wei's chest, but before waiting for the little girl to speak, Du Wei had pulled Vivian's hand and walked into the house. After taking two steps, I turned my head and looked at Sete: "What are you doing? Come in!"

Mad also quickly ran out of it, and Dewey ordered Mard to bring Sete in: "Let him pick a room by himself, anyway, there are so many rooms here, alas, it will be deserted at night, like a Haunted house. "

Mad nodded, was about to go down, suddenly remembered something, turned and said: "Master, Miss Ruolin has come, she said that there are some things in our shop, business is good recently. But some people Not enough. If you can, she wants you to take a look at the shop. Moreover, she seems not very satisfied with the two craftsmen in our shop now ... and the four quads you sent to the shop, It seems that Miss Ruo Lin is not very satisfied with them either. "

Du Wei nodded: "Mad, I know ... um. Also, remember one thing, don't say 'Miss Ruolin' anymore, remember, she is a knight, No matter what occasion she will mention her in the future, she will always say 'Honest Rinne Knight.' Remember? This is important. "

Ruolin is really upset.

Although she is following a boss now, and from the perspective of the trend, Du Wei's boss is rising step by step, and the future is bright. In addition, Du Wei also trusted Ruo Lin very much, and has decided to completely hand over such a business in Jinduli to Ruolin to manage.

But. Ruolin did not like the job.

In essence, she prefers to manage the group of pirates, at least with the fleet of galloping at sea and going through wind and rain. That kind of adventure life full of novelty and excitement, let Ruo Lin's heart be more than wearing a set of gorgeous or almost ridiculous armor every day, and hovering around a group of hypocritical aristocrats.

However, Ruolin still obeys Dewey's arrangement. She is a smart woman. She sees that Dewey currently has insufficient staff. Although the young master walked very quickly, he started too fast, had a weak foundation, and lacked available people. It is a deadly injury for Dewey at present. If this problem is not solved, it will cause great trouble for Dewey's development.

So, Ruolin still obeys.

She manages the business with all her heart and soul. She has fully demonstrated her ability. She circles around a group of nobles every day during the day. She does n’t need to sacrifice occasionally when she walks the rivers and lakes. A little hue ... thanks to Du Wei for packing her image, in fact. Now Ruo Lin just keeps her cold look deliberately. Instead, those nobles would come around like flies.

Ruolin felt that she was too busy. Although I know today is Master Du Wei's day to go to the magic union assessment. But this clever horsewoman is very confident in Dewey ... Just kidding, she knows all the ways of this young master. Is the assessment a piece of cake for this young master? Therefore, in the morning, she did not even make a gesture of concern to care about Du Wei's assessment results. Instead, she stayed in the store and dealt with some things.

At present, the business is very good. In just a few days, Du Wei has brought more than 1.5 million gold coins in income, deducting the cost of the initial investment, the cost of buying the store, and the personnel expenses. , The cost of goods, just these three days, Du Wei has net worth of millions of gold coins.

Without the exploitation of the black-hearted merchants in the middle, Dewey's fleet can continue to transport the merchandise that the mercenary adventure missions hunted from the frozen forest directly to the capital. The freshest cargo, coupled with a slightly lower price, and Du Wei's current reputation in the aristocratic circle, made it almost three days before the entire shipment of goods brought by Ruolin the last time, almost sold Mostly.

She has sent someone back in the morning to send the letter as fast as possible to the ship anchored in the port of Walker, so that people can continue to purchase in the north and deliver the goods to the capital.

And then she finally waited for Dewey.

Du Wei came with Vivian. Since this little Nizi is finally willing to leave the room door, then she can't let her stay at home alone, and take her out to go around, it will also be of great help to ease the mood.

Vivienne is very interested in all kinds of goods from the northern frozen forest in this industry run by Du Wei. From the perspective of a magician, Vivienne thinks that many things are very useful. .

With Vivian selected slowly there, Du Wei and Ruo Lin went to the room upstairs and talked for a while.

Rorin first explained the problems she was facing.

First, it ’s understaffed. Since it is a business oriented to the aristocratic group, then the store still needs some rigorously trained waiters ... Those aristocrats are not ordinary people. If you go to the slave market and buy a few people back, you will not be rigorously trained to make people talk. , And will lose Du Wei's face. Nobles are very particular about these.

Second, the issue of craftsmen. Most of the goods transported from the north are raw materials, although Du Wei had already hired a few good craftsmen at Emperor Capital before opening. There are blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, and several engravers. But it is still not enough.

The fur of Warcraft must be made into exquisite Chinese clothes and fur coats, but it is not necessary to sew up and sew them up. While the nobles pay attention to the materials, they also pay attention to the novelty of the style. This aspect is clearly insufficient.

Although most of the precious magic cores have been ordered by the magic union, some noble families will also purchase them to please the magicians in their family. And some weapons ...

When it comes to weapons, this is where Ruo Lin's headaches are greatest.

At present, the materials in the warehouse are all top-quality, but the two blacksmiths under their hands are too ordinary. And there are too few staff. Just last night, the two mediocre blacksmiths were forging a set of gear. The scales of two earth dragons were damaged, and when they were quenched, because of the lack of heat, a slender bayonet designed as the most popular noble for the nobles was destroyed because of the problems with the heat. Designed as a thin sword like chopsticks. In the trial, it was easily broken by a blacksmith's tongs.

The two blacksmiths have already worked very hard, but their talent is really insufficient. And although they had originally built weapons, they have never been exposed to so many fine materials.

These are only current issues. And the thing that made Ruo Lin's fire the most ... was the twins of the female magical apprentices from Du Weisai!

The four beautiful girls with twins are originally pets of men worth millions of gold coins, but Du Wei seems to have no interest in these four girls. After the store opened, he directly The four women were thrown into Ruo Lin's hands.

Du Weidi's idea is simple. He hopes to continue to develop the business. In the future, he can make some magic props! The magician group is not short of money. On the one hand, a large number of nobles pleased and donated countless wealth, on the other hand, the magician possessed a variety of precious gems. Such a group is the best consumer that Du Wei thinks.

The magic cores of Warcraft transported to the north can create a lot of things that attract magicians, and Du Wei also knows well. Sell ​​raw materials. Far better than selling finished products! Profits will also increase several times. However, the manufacture of magic items. No ordinary craftsman is competent.

On the Roland mainland, there is a special profession called "Magic Master". This profession group is small and the number is not large. It mainly specializes in manufacturing various items needed by magicians, such as magic wands, such as crystal balls. Such as various magic auxiliary props, and even someone can create magic scrolls!

But the group of this profession is also very weird. Some magic creators are themselves excellent magicians. The magic props they make are mainly for their own use. Occasionally, some props are also made on the market. Of course, there are very few such magicians, and only those who have both the status of magician and magician can have the ability to create magic scrolls.

Most of the magician's identity is from a magic apprenticeship, but he did not have the talent to become a magician. In the end, he had to become a magician, using his own knowledge of magic to create special needs for the magician. Various things.

But no magician can be recruited by Dewey at present. Because almost all wizards belong to the magic union. And those creators who are already magicians will not be randomly recruited by someone.

So, Du Wei has high hopes for the quadruplets, hoping that the four girls can use their magical knowledge and eventually become a money-making machine in their hands.

Obviously, Du Wei's perception of these four girls is different from most men.

If you change any other aristocracy, I am afraid that this rare four-bladed beauties will be imprisoned in the house.

"Master Duke, IMHO, I still ask you to take these four 'Miss Miss' back!" Ruolin said politely: "They are not here to help me at all! I return every day You have to split your hands to serve them! Huh ... "

Du Wei frowned: "Is this happening?"

Now, Ruolin tells Dewey what happened these days.

It turned out that not only Ruolin was depressed, but the twins were also depressed. They were beauties with four births from an early age. After being bought back by the Earl of Villa, they went through rigorous training and learned some magic knowledge. But Earl Villa expects them. Frankly: All the training they received was to please men in the future.

Even when they were trained in the Earl's Mansion, the four twins were being served. Apart from the training, their lives were almost comparable to those of some little noble families.

After being given to Dewey, the four girls are still very satisfied. After all, Dewey is young and handsome. Moreover, he has become a popular duke recently.

The four girls are thinking that if they can please the duke in the future, and after they are loved by him, they will fly to the branch and become a phoenix.

Unfortunately, wherever I thought, Du Wei was too lazy to touch one of their fingers. They also threw them into Ruo Lin's hands and went on a business trip!

The most annoying thing is, Ruolin! This rude woman, this cold woman. Even dare to call the noble self to work!

...

After listening to Ruo Lin's narration, Du Wei's face was gloomy. He glanced at Ruo Lin: "Can't you take them anymore? Ruo Lin Knight, I'm very disappointed in you! The pirates cleaned up, but now they ca n’t even help the four little girls? ”

If Ruolin's face is a little awkward: "My lord ... these four ladies. After all, they were sent from you, I ..."

Du Wei immediately understood Ruolin's care, and he smiled: "You can rest assured that they are not my women. I have no plans to make them my women! Are you assured now? I will send them Give it to you, you are in charge! If they are not obedient, then you can also do whatever you want! "

If Lin is relieved, then she can rest assured.

Looking at the female knight's face, Du Wei laughed secretly: Now, the quadrupeds may have had a hard time in the next few days.

After groaning for a while, Du Wei said, "There is a problem with manpower and land, and you can't wait. You can only find it slowly. Especially craftsmen, it is difficult to dig out good craftsmen. No one in Didu is willing to do a good job. The craftsmen let us. It ’s easy to offend people if you rob the land, especially if I am leaving the imperial capital in a few months. Even when I am offended, I do n’t have to be afraid of revenge. But after I left , It wo n’t work. So. Try not to do things that offend people. "

"But good artisans all have masters. Where can we find them?" Ruolin sighed.

"It's not working. The only stupid way is to cultivate it yourself." Du Wei also shook his head: "But this takes too much time, and it takes a long time, and the results are full. Let the craftsman's things go first, then I think slowly Method ... Well, it's still early, so let's go and see the slave market in the city together, maybe we can buy some suitable manpower. "

Roland's slave system has been firmly opposed by the temple, which has been so for hundreds of years.

Of course, in Dewey's view, this is not the nobleness of the temple, but the huge benefits of the temple to slavery, but he can't share his grievances.

For hundreds of years, although the mainland is generally peaceful, the expeditions in the South China Sea, and the frequent outbreaks of small-scale rebellions in the northwest, there will always be a lot of captives following the expeditions of the Empire ... It is the Nanyang Expeditionary Fleet. Every time the expedition returns, it will bring back a large number of loot. Many of them are indigenous people captured from a large area of ​​islands in Nanyang.

It's not that the empire's army likes to plunder the population ... To be honest, those generals who united the army expedition, who doesn't like to plunder more real money?

Unfortunately, as the expedition to the South Ocean is too frequent, the gains from each expedition are getting less and less. It is really impossible to grab something, so in order to obtain some income to supplement the military expenditure, so plundering the population, occupying the largest proportion of the trophies in recent expeditions!

The natives from the South Ocean that came with it have become the mainstream in the slave market. Du Wei has seen a statistic from the military. Now in the capital, it is estimated that there are more than 8,000 indigenous people from the South Ocean. Most of them have been plundered by the emperor for many years, even the previous generation. After returning, living in the Empire for many years, many are second-generation.

In addition, there are still many slaves who were originally free citizens, because they were unable to live in poverty, they had to sell themselves as slaves. Several small-scale rebellions in the northwest also spawned some slaves.

Other. There is also a kind of existence called "official slaves", which mainly comes from some declining giants. For example, after this coup, several giants were completely leveled, and many people in the family were convicted. After being tried, they lost their free land status and became slaves. Most of them were sold in the slave market.

Interestingly, the largest slave trader in the Empire. It's not someone else, it's an industry directly under the imperial central financial department! That place was located in the slave market southwest of the city of the imperial capital, where many "official slaves" were concentrated.

It can be said that the Empire ’s finances rely on the slave trade every year and also grab a large amount of fiscal revenue.

The reason why the temple is dissatisfied is because the cake is so big every year, but the temple cannot formally step in and divide it.

Most of the slave trade in the capital was concentrated in the west and south of the city. Backed by the southwestern city wall, there was originally a wide avenue. It was on this avenue that the most prosperous slave market in the entire continent was born.

The southwest of the imperial capital has always been close to the slums. The southwest of the entire city has more than 900,000 residents, accounting for almost half of the imperial capital.

This kilometer-long street. In addition to the slave trade, there are many places where ordinary people and strange people find jobs.

In other words, this is a kind of "labor market" similar to what Dewey has seen in his previous life.

The end of the long street rests against a square ground. The statue and pool in the center of the original square. It was demolished decades ago, and now there are several high platforms on the square, and several famous hawker slave groups in the imperial capital are doing lively slave trade on this high platform.

On the square, with a few high platforms as the center, a large number of crowds gathered, and many of them were business groups from other places. There are also some noble families in the imperial capital. The slave traders standing on the high platform, holding a leather whip in their hands, stood behind them with a few strong men with large waists and round bodyguards. On the platforms next to them, there were large iron cages. In the cages, people were kept like beasts. Most of the people in the cages were "newcomers" who had just become slaves. Only these captives had just plundered from the northwest or south ocean. Not willing to accept the fate of slaves. To resist, so be locked up.

And the other ones. Some slaves with wooden slugs had empty eyes, and there were no sluggish slaver bodyguards around them. Often dozens of people, tied with a thin rope, stood there with a blank expression, obediently motionless, leaving the surrounding Cast all kinds of eyes. It was an old slave who was numb.

Even the slave dealers kept walking to the slaves, pinching this face, knocking on that chest, or pulling their lips to let everyone see their teeth ... just like a beast. These people are also indifferent, already numb to their own destiny.

Du Wei and Ruo Lin walked in the crowd, both of them were in casual clothes. Ruo Lin would not wear a conspicuous magician's gown if Ruo Lin did not wear that gorgeous set of excessive armor.

With an ordinary coat, Du Wei squeezed along with Ruo Lin in the crowd.

On both sides of the road, in addition to the tables for slaves, there are also corners. Some indifferent people, male or female, old or young, will also stand quietly by the corners of the street with eyes in the crowd. Swipe back and forth. These people are without exception a piece of cloth on their body or arm.

These are not slaves, but free people of the empire, but many people have to sell themselves as slaves because of difficult life. Just go to the slave market and put a black cloth on your arm, it means you are willing to sell yourself.

Of course, there are some who are unwilling to be slaves. Standing here, putting a white cloth on their arms, it means that they are willing to find a loyal master, but not as slaves.

There are a lot of people like this, most of them are people who have a skill. Some artisans, grooms, or others are downcast warriors.

Du Wei looked all the way, and found that there were several people wearing military clothes, wearing almost shabby clothes, holding almost rusty swords in his hands, standing solemnly in the corner, shoulders The white cloth on it is unusually dazzling.

Samurai's survival is not easy in the capital. As the center of the empire, the emperor gathered too many masters here. Basically, an intermediate samurai was nothing more than a bodyguard for the nobles.

And the low-level samurai are too difficult to eat and eat. There are still many low-level warriors. Nobles are disdainful of solicitation. The horse's transportation team works as a bodyguard.

While those martial arts with low skill and only one or two ranks, they ca n’t even find food.

Magic is strong and martial arts are declining, which is the epitome of the whole continent.

"Master, look!" Du Wei was looking at the samurai in the corner, and suddenly heard Ruo Lin shouting to himself. Looking forward, you saw crowds at the end of the street. There is one of the largest slave-trading centers in the entire emperor's capital. It belongs to the official official slave-trafficking site of the Empire!

In terms of quality or price, official slaves are generally much higher than ordinary slaves. Most of the slaves from the tyrants who have been copied are mostly trained and can be used immediately after they are bought. So although the price is higher, it is still favored by many buyers.

"Look at it." Du Wei nodded.

It seems that he came quite a while, it seems that there is a batch of "new goods" on sale at the slave slavery site.