"Of course, there are advanced machinery with high efficiency, but the question is that for businessmen who make a living in the mining industry, which is cheaper and can get more returns is the most important thing. Xiao Yichen said indifferently: "A fully automatic machine that can be worth a hundred slaves is worth hundreds of millions of dragon coins at the cheapest, and the service life is only a few decades according to the strength. But the problem is that if you look at these slaves, the strong labor force is only a few thousand dragon coins, and a hundred is only a few hundred thousand. Even if you only dig for a year and die, and you change it every year, what is the total cost? As for food, hehe, even the civilians refuse to synthesize food, so that they can starve to death. You say, will businessmen choose hundreds of millions of machinery, or these 'cheap and high-quality' manpower?"

Those damned merchants don't take them seriously at all. Yu Xiaoxiang said angrily.

"You're really right. No matter what status a person is, once he is confiscated into slavery, he is no longer considered a person. Xiao Yichen shook the folding fan, as if to fan the smell away, and said indifferently: "The empire does not have any laws to protect slaves, and slaves cannot be regarded as human beings, and their life and death are between the words of the slave owner." The vast majority of male slaves died of labor. If a female slave is okay for a long time, it is normal for them to be molested by the slave owner, and some are even tortured and killed. This is simply a normal thing among the aristocracy, or among the big merchants. ”

Gritting his teeth, looking at those slaves who looked like the living dead, Yu Xiaoxiang couldn't help but say, "Then these slaves don't know how to resist?"

"Resist, how to resist?" Xiao Yichen shook his head slightly, but he didn't laugh at the ignorance of the little girl next to him, "In the ancient times in the planetary circle, you picked up a stone to break the chains, even killed the slave owner, and then entangled a large number of people, maybe you could change the dynasty." But the question is, even if you occupy an entire planet now, what can you do? The Imperial Star Army will quickly quell the chaos, not to mention those elite assault marines wearing heavy armor can annihilate tens of thousands of unprotected ordinary people alone, even if ground warfare is not possible, the assault ship can enter the atmosphere and a burst of artillery bombardment can solve the problem. If it doesn't work anymore, the mothership-class will directly drop biological extermination bombs, atmospheric annihilation bombs, planetary destruction bombs, etc., all kinds of slaughter-level weapons, and everything can be ended in a few breaths. Resist, is it interesting?"

The little girl who refused to admit defeat thought about it and grabbed the back of Xiao Yichen's hand directly, and printed it regardless of the thirty-seven twenty-one.

"Little girl, why are you biting me?" Xiao Yichen, who was suddenly attacked, felt inexplicable.

"Hmph, you are the boss of the Star Army, the worst villain, people are helping them avenge!" Yu Xiaoxiang glared at her beautiful eyes angrily, refusing to flinch at all.

"Hehe-hee-......" followed behind Xing'er and Yue'er, who were also at a loss, and couldn't help laughing.

"......" looked at the stupid girl speechlessly for a long time, Xiao Yichen waved his hand and said: "The ancients said: Only women and villains are difficult to raise. In the past, my son didn't think so, but since I met you, I only have six words of feeling - the ancients didn't deceive me!"

"You're hard to raise, big villain!" Yu Xiaoxiang scolded coquettishly, but then she couldn't hold back her laughter, and giggled, as if she even felt that she was too much.

"Okay, that's what this official market is all about, let's go, let's go back to the inn first, and wait for Xiaosi to bring news, and I'll come back in the evening." After laughing with the little girl for a while, Xiao Yichen found that there was nothing to see here, and decided to leave this place, after all, even he felt that it was foul, and it was really not a pleasure.

The journey back was smooth, and the group soon returned to the inn where they had left in the morning. After drinking a few cups of tea in the backyard, Xiao Feixing also returned with Lin Fang.

"Third brother, the group of people in the Secret Mansion are just wrecks, and there is no news available at all. Drinking the tea in front of Xiao Yichen in one go, Xiao Feixing shouted with resentment on his face.

"This Liao Qiye is a bit interesting. After hastily reading the few words on a few pieces of paper, Xiao Yichen put down those few pieces of paper, and his fingertips tapped the desktop slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

Xiao Feixing was an anxious person, and when he heard it at this moment, he frowned and said: "Doesn't it mean that he is an aborigine, and he used to get some illegal hooks up to sell ores. Because the unfortunate ore is not particularly rare, and it will meet officials at all levels, so the mix is not bad. Then he suddenly started a slave business, although it can already be said that he monopolized the slave trade of several nearby planets, but he is low-key, and he usually does not have any particularly bad behavior, etc. It's all too commonplace, what's so strange?"

"The strange thing is that he started the slave trade exactly twenty years ago, and the family was going well. And you are looking at Nangong Jun, the Grand Governor of the Azure Star Domain, who committed suicide, and he was only transferred to the Azure Star Domain twenty-three years ago. Xiao Yichen pushed the paper in front of Xiao Feixing, and then said: "According to the normal Imperial Officials Control Act, a Star Domain Metropolitan Governor can serve for a maximum of thirty years, in other words, there are still seven years before Nangong Jun's term of office ends. Judging from the time between the two of them, this Liao Laoqi is very likely to be arranged by Nangong Jun to collect money for him, or a slave trader who cooperated to collect money. ”

"But if that's the case, after Nangong Jun killed himself, why did this Liao Laoqi still have nothing?" Xiao Feixing swept the paper, put it down again, and asked with some confusion.

"Nangong Jun's suicide is already very strange. Xiao Yichen stood up, put his hands behind his back, slowly paced back and forth in the center of the room, and said in a deep voice: "Think about it, the secret mansion has no information about Nangong Jun's involvement in the slave trade, which is enough to show that the eldest brother of the prince is not clear. And we, if it weren't for the appearance of Xiang'er, we would have returned to Shengjing by now, and we wouldn't have bothered about the affairs of this border star field at all. If this is the case, then Nangong Jun's self-suicide is definitely not afraid of the imperial court's investigation, and it can even be said that the imperial court did not find anything wrong with him at all. If that is the case, why should he kill himself?"

Frowning and thinking about it, before Xiao Feixing could speak, Yue'er, who was standing on the side, had already frowned and said, "What does Childe mean is that in fact, Nangong Jun did not commit suicide, but disguised himself after being killed?"

"Yes, in the opinion of this son, Nangong Jun is the most reasonable explanation only if he is killed. Xiao Yichen nodded, and then said: "If it is said that he committed suicide, it can make a star domain governor afraid of this matter, I am afraid that only the court will track it down, because once it is found out, it will be a disaster to raid the family and destroy the clan." Other than that, Ben Gongzi really can't think of any other reason. ”