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Lichun said: "Miss, you are a noble person, and you don't know the dirty things in the slave trade. If you look at the official record, you will find that excluding the sources of slaves that are fully compliant with the Slave Act and the Bill of Rights, such as 'criminals and state criminals', 'financial compensation' and 'prisoners of war', the vast majority of the slaves on the record are registered as 'domestic slaves' or 'self-produced slaves', which together account for more than 90 percent of the total number of slaves on file. But in fact this is only a figure on paper, and at least one-fifth of the origins are actually fake, and even sometimes one-third of the forgeries are not impossible. ”

"The true origin of many slaves is invisible, that is to say, illegal. Although the fertility of slave ranches and individual families to raise private slaves was extremely vigorous throughout the year, supplemented by convicts, bankrupts, and prisoners of war, the market for the slave trade was never saturated, and the market of illicit sources was constantly flowing into the market, and the total market volume and profit cake of the slave trade were getting bigger and bigger. The population plundered by cosmic pirates, the prisoners of war who were privately plundered by the national army, the pledges and debts obtained by debt companies and loan sharks by illegal means, the hostages and broilers in the hands of various kidnappers and fraudsters, and even prisoners or bonded laborers who were resold from prisons, detention institutions, and factories...... Wait, wait. ”

"In order for these people of illicit origin to enter the slave trade in a grand manner, there must be a process of washing from freemen into slaves. It is very difficult to register the origin of 'criminals and state criminals', "financial compensation" or "prisoners of war", the convicts need a formal court or judicial decision, the financial compensator needs a complete formal contract and an arbitration letter from the slave trade office, and the prisoner of war needs to be issued an approval and number from the selling state, so that there may be a possible ransom, none of which is not cumbersome and costly. Therefore, in the beginning, slave laundering was carried out by slave ranches, slave trading companies and other slave business organizations to absorb these illegal people, and then the source was declared as 'self-produced slaves' at the time of registration. In any case, the long-term slave holdings of the ranch are huge, and the fertility output is staggering, and there will never be a standard record for daily management or medical treatment. The General Administration of the Slave Trade, its branches, and the Inspectorate were not able to verify it at all, and they reported it to the ranch. ”

But it didn't take long for this shortcut to the south to work. Under the repeated protests and interference of human rights organizations and some countries, the United Nations Slave Trade Agency had to amend the "Slave Law" in 3929 and promulgated a new version of the "Regulations on the Registration and Filing of Slaves in the Entente Countries of the Galactic Slave Trade", stipulating that all kinds of registered slave trading companies, slave ranches, slave raising institutions, slave wholesalers and retailers and other self-produced slaves used for trading must be filed before the age of three, and those whose biological age exceeds three years old will not be recorded, and they shall not be sold in the name of self-produced slaves. This is simply a slap in the face, and the traditional method of washing identity will not work, so we have to change course and find another way. ”

As a result, various intermediaries and intermediary companies came into being, and began to flourish in the cosmic slave trade. Whenever the slave population of illegal origin in the hands of the slave company wants to officially enter the channel of legal trade, the slave company will find a suitable intermediary through the intermediary company to come forward to file for the illegal person, and all of them will apply and register in the name of "domestic slaves". This is very easy to do, according to the Slavery Act and the Slave Filing Regulations, the time for the initial filing of domestic slaves is relaxed until the age of eighteen and before the official age of majority, and the time and age limit can be further relaxed as long as a valid reason is given at the time of application. It's very easy and almost as soon as you apply. The universe is so big, just from this section of the galaxy to that end, the subspace channel will take a year, if you don't pass through the subspace, you can't finish it for a lifetime, and it's normal to delay the filing for any reason. In fact, most slaves who entered the market illegally did not exceed the age of eighteen, and there was no need for special applications and late filings. [...... ~*Free Reading]

"An intermediary company generally has at least a few hundred to thousands of intermediaries, and some large intermediary companies can have more than 10,000 intermediaries. There are all kinds of nationalities and identities among these intermediaries. There are some real people, but there are also some middlemen who don't exist at all, just a bunch of identity cards forged by the agency - of course, these identity cards are real, real perjury. It can definitely be approved in the Slave Trade Agency's filing system, but you can never find him anywhere based on the information on the ID card, which means that there is no such person in the universe. In addition, there are independent intermediaries who work on their own. They often use the identity of a traveling merchant or a factory owner as a cover, or they are themselves a traveling merchant or factory owner, and work part-time as a middleman for slave washing. The characteristic of this kind of identity unity is that it is very common to record tens of thousands of domestic slaves at a time, and it does not attract anyone's attention in the slightest. ”

"Generally, slave trading companies will oil several long-term cooperative intermediary companies or independent intermediaries, and even some slave trading companies and intermediary companies are actually the same boss behind them, and each intermediary company and independent intermediary usually keep in touch and cooperate with multiple customers. ”

"In terms of fees, through intermediary companies and middlemen to launder a slave, the slave company generally costs about 3,000 to 5 cosmic coins as an intermediary fee. Usually it is three or seven open, the middleman takes thirty percent, the intermediary company takes seventy percent, if it is a card middleman, the intermediary company of course gets all. Throw away the cost, make a lot of money. In the case of independent intermediaries, the intermediary fee will be slightly lower, which can be two to three percent cheaper than the market price. But they don't have a commission from the intermediary company, and every time they have a large amount of money, they generally do it for a few years, as long as they are not too unfavorable to be caught by the slave trade agency, they can become a rich man. Of course, if you are not a rich man and have no background behind you, you can't be an independent middleman. ”

"Therefore, the price of black slaves in the trading house is always lower than that of white slaves, and this intermediary fee is also one of the reasons - oh, in our jargon, we call slaves with status from regular sources white slaves, and slaves from illegal sources who have not yet been cleared of their identities as black slaves - black slaves do not wash their identities when they trade between trading houses, and do not make sales records, so there is no need to issue tax bills. ”

"The specific method is this, after the trading houses collect these illegal black slaves through their own channels, they will buy and sell together with the white slaves in their hands, and the middle may have to go through various buyers, wholesalers, distributors and other intermediate trading houses to change hands, when these intermediate traders change hands, as long as there is no special request from the receiving party, it is in the form of black slave trade, and only before entering the various terminal sales links of the slave trade, will it be washed into a legal identity in order to trade-- The so-called sales terminal link refers to the distributors, wholesalers, slave headhunting companies, slave ranches and other correctional institutions at the regional level - the ranches are very cautious about collecting black slaves, and the Trade Department is very strict in checking them, and the slightest mishandling must be closed for inspection. Ordinary small slave ranches would also take over some black slaves, and then contact intermediaries to launder them. Because there is a considerable proportion of normal wear and tear in the work of the ranch, the cost of buying only white slaves is too high. But the more advanced pastures and correctional institutions are only willing to buy white slaves. Because they basically purchase through headhunters and acquisition companies, the loss rate is much lower, so the slave washing business is often handed over to the headhunting company or acquisition company to do, and they refuse to get fishy themselves. ”

"Let's say I, for example, the age of my first registration on the registration form was eleven years old, but in fact, more than a year ago, I entered the slave market as a black slave, and reversed hands between multiple slave traders and slave owners, until I was finally selected by the Green Grassland Slave Ranch, and the slave merchant contacted the middleman to officially clear my identity for the record. ”

Gu Hanhan nodded: "So, you weren't originally a slave, but an unknown population who illegally flowed into the slave market - so what about before?"

She asked, "Do you still have an impression of what you did before you were sold into the slave market, and how did you become a slave?"

"It's been too long to remember, miss. Lichun shook her head and said, "I only have a vague impression of what happened when I was a child, but now I only remember that it seems to be living on a planet called Na, and my room has a whole wall of cabinets with all kinds of stuffed animals. There was a woman with particularly bright lipstick, who was supposed to be my mom. There was also a man with a clip on his tie that was always shiny and would often pick me up and kiss my face and forehead, or my dad. ”

"One day, the sky outside the window suddenly went dark, and there were gunshots and explosions everywhere, and the buzzers were non-stop. War, piracy, coup d'état or whatever, I can't think of what really happened. The man rushed in the door and picked me up and ran out, the woman panting next to her and running away from her heels. Later, a lot of people ran together, rushing onto the spiral ladder of the spaceship. The cabins were so crowded that people had to sit on the ground. The man put me in his lap and hugged me tightly. The woman was gone, maybe she was separated, and I didn't find her in the room. It was dark outside the porthole, there was nothing, all the time. I don't know how much time passed, but suddenly a half-light flashed through the porthole, and then there were soldiers in gray clothes rushing in, or maybe the police, maybe pirates, I don't know what they were. They were all armed with guns. ”

The crowd was driven out of the cabin and gathered into a larger room. There was a tall man with a gun and walking around the crowd. As I walked next to us, he suddenly reached out and tore me off the man. He carried me a long way with one hand and threw me into a cage. A black cloth was covered, and it was dark all around. ”