"Chapter 47: The Slave Market"
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If it weren't for GLP's deliberate advice, maybe Bai Feng didn't care much about the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, and it was precisely because of GLP's deliberate advice that Bai Feng smelled a hint of intelligence organization, this Westminster Chamber of Commerce was too similar to the former tragic dead man.
Although Bai Feng himself has never specifically understood the operation of the Tragic Dead, the reports of Hades and Athena and others still describe the operation of the Tragic Dead, and the Westminster Chamber of Commerce gives Bai Feng the feeling that he is an otherworldly version of the Tragic Dead.
It's just that the existence of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce has not affected the vital interests of the Tianlong Empire, coupled with the interest relationship between a large number of imperial magnates and the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, which directly determines the special status of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce.
Dealing with a mysterious organization like the Westminster Chamber of Commerce is not necessarily a bad thing, especially since Bai Feng still has a number of precious treasures of the Yamato Empire to deal with, which are excellent lubricants for the development of relations between Bai Feng and the Westminster Chamber of Commerce.
After returning to the house to find Yue'er and Binglan to no avail, after taking Thales and Bai Sheng, he walked straight to the direction where Westminster Auction House was located;
In the imperial capital, where the laws of the imperial aristocracy were strictly enforced, the Westminster Auction House was even larger than the Bai family's mansion, and its scale was not much larger than that of the Duke of Kleist's mansion.
Next door to the Westminster Auction House is a commercial street belonging to the Westminster Chamber of Commerce; Bai Feng, who has no intention of shopping at all, does not plan to waste time in it, but the sudden appearance of a slave transport team from the Westminster Chamber of Commerce has attracted Bai Feng's attention.
The escort of this slave transport team was not ordinary slaves, but orc slaves from the orc empire, looking at those orcs with human bodies but beast heads, Bai Feng, who saw orcs for the first time, was obviously shocked.
Of course, Bai Feng was shocked not because he was afraid of these orcs with beast heads, but because he saw the terrifying war potential of this kind of orcs, their strong limbs and fierce momentum were even stronger than the barbarian warriors!
Bai Feng, who was attracted by the orcs, decisively took Thales and Bai Sheng behind him into the commercial street with the slave team after the slave team entered the commercial street;
The so-called slave market was actually a place where slaves were traded, especially the slave market of the Westminster Chamber of Commerce, which was the largest slave market in the imperial capital, and countless slaves of all kinds were transported here every day from all over the empire and sold to the nobles in need.
Bai Feng, who was wearing a black swordsman uniform, looked no different from ordinary civilians on the street, but the temperament on his body and Bai Sheng behind him could not be concealed, and the person who could have such a strong barbarian slave would not be an ordinary person.
Therefore, when Bai Feng just stepped into the slave market, a middle-aged man who looked like a steward greeted him, and led Bai Feng with a smile: "What kind of slaves does this son need when he comes to our slave market, different slaves here have different divisions. ”
The smiling steward and his tone of voice that was neither humble nor arrogant made Bai Feng very satisfied, and he pointed to the slave transport team in front of him who was escorting slaves and said, "I came from watching those orc slaves, do you have any good orc slaves here?"
"Childe wants orc slaves, then he has come to the right place, our Westminster Chamber of Commerce's slave market is the only place in the entire imperial capital that sells orc slaves, however, I have to warn Childe that the temper of orc slaves is very hot, and it is difficult to control it when you buy it back. ”
"Difficult to control?" Logically speaking, doesn't the slave market have special methods to make slaves docile? As soon as he thought of this, Bai Feng asked suspiciously, "Isn't there a way for your slave market to make these orcs more docile?"
"Childe, that's what you don't know. The way all our slave markets deal with slaves is to control them with magical contracts, but elves, orcs, dwarves and other aliens cannot be controlled by us with magical contracts. ”
Bai Feng, who was shocked by the steward's explanation, asked incredulously: "You mean, there are still elf slaves and dwarf slaves in your slave market?
"Elven slaves and dwarven slaves are indeed not easy to obtain, but they are not completely absent, if Childe has an invitation, there will be a pair of young and beautiful twin slaves of the Elf clan in the auction house of our Chamber of Commerce tonight, I guarantee that Childe can open his eyes!"
After speaking, the steward also gave Bai Feng a look that all men understand, and Bai Feng, who was covered in goosebumps, didn't say anything, just asked the steward to take him to the subdivision specializing in selling orc slaves.
After entering this sub-district specializing in the sale and sale of orc slaves, Bai Feng found that it was not as sloppy and dirty as he imagined, and those orcs who were imprisoned did not have meaningless yelling and scolding, but their hateful eyes remained the same.
The steward, who was extremely good at observing words and feelings, seemed to see Bai Feng's surprise, and explained in a timely manner: "In order to ensure the survival rate of slaves and a good trading environment, our slave market will invest tens of thousands of gold coins every year to improve the detention conditions of slaves. ”
Bai Feng, who nodded silently, didn't say anything more, but pointed to the orc warriors in the cage and asked the steward, "What is the selling price of these orcs? If I buy a lot at once, can you be responsible for helping me send them back to the mansion?"
In front of these orcs who had become slaves, Bai Feng deliberately did not use the word 'slave', and the steward directly quoted: "Ordinary orcs are two hundred gold coins each, and the minotaur is five hundred gold coins each, and we can be responsible for sending you back to the mansion." ”
"Are the prices of orcs so expensive?!" Bai Feng, who was a little shocked by the price, didn't expect the price of orc slaves to be so high, this is higher than the cost of forming a small team of imperial standing army soldiers, is the orc slaves really worth this price?
"Childe only saw these orc slaves who were imprisoned, but he didn't know how much our Westminster Chamber of Commerce paid to capture these orc slaves; ”
"Okay, so how many orcs do you have here now?"
"There are currently one hundred and twenty kobolds and one hundred and eighty wolf-headed people in our slave market, as well as fifty newly shipped minotaurs;
"Three hundred ordinary orcs and fifty minotaurs, right?Then send them all back to Baifu, where can I pay you eighty-five thousand gold coins?" Bai Feng, who had a million gold coins and millions of silver coins on his body, directly bought all the orc slaves in the slave market.
After hearing Bai Feng mention the White Mansion, he asked Bai Feng with a respectful face: "The White Mansion you are talking about, but the White Mansion of the Marquis of Llorent?" After receiving Bai Feng's affirmative answer, he immediately retreated to arrange the guards.