Gustav, who didn't have much hope, was stunned, and then he was so ecstatic that he didn't even bother to thank him, and immediately crashed into the crack in the door that Lin An had let go.

Gustav was followed by the middle-aged woman who was crying with joy, and the middle-aged and elderly nobles who were with Salin, all of whom looked at Lin An with a little friendliness or curiosity before entering the room.

Tomia and Anatoly also showed ecstasy, but they still remembered Lin An, their eyes turned to her side, and Lin An waved his hand:

"I'm a little tired, can you prepare a room for me first?" In addition, it is best not to visit too many people in the Grand Duke, soul damage requires a long time of recuperation, and it is best not to go in too often except for these people at present. ”

When Tomia heard this, he hurriedly entered the room and relayed Lin An's words, and Anatoly gave the middle-aged man who looked like a housekeeper next to him a look, and said to Lin An with gratitude: "There is a vacant room next door, I will immediately ask the slave to arrange it, and you will live temporarily if you are wronged." ”

He called a beautiful girl in a silk dress next to him, "Qilier is the daughter of Uncle Colby, and she is quite smart and sensible, please feel free to ask her if you have any requirements." ”

The maiden was not dressed like a lady-in-waiting, and with the weight of Gustav and the Grand Duke's reliance on the butler of Calby, it was impossible not to give the latter a title, in other words, Gillier was a noble lady.

But the girl did not resist Anatoly's explanation, lifted her skirt with joy on her face, squatted deeply and saluted, leading the way for Lin An.

Lin An didn't say anything and followed Qi Li'er.

Serving Lin An after a simple cleaning, Qi Li'er saw that the female mage didn't like too many people around, and led people out of the room.

A short time later, there was a knock on the door, and Saleen and Johnham flashed in, and through the gap behind the door they had entered, the people outside the hallway had left.

As soon as Saleen came in. Seeing a dim floor lamp on the sofa in the living room, Lin An, who was too tired and needed to rest, was sitting in a single seat, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Coming? Sit. ”

Lin An looked at the two. Unexpectedly, they would come over and watch Saleen pull out a serpentine statue for shielding and place it on the table. A clear and bright gaze swept over his and John's faces, and finally returned to Saleen, "Say, what have you all done?" ”

John immediately looked at Salin, who was smiling.

"I'm afraid that's a bit long."

Lin An was curious about John's attitude towards Saleen, and smiled quietly, "Then it's a long story short." ”

"Okay. So it starts when we just arrived in Ridge City and I went out to inquire about it. You know, usually the environment where the information circulates is more complicated, and I won't go into the details of the specific process. Anyway, in the process of inquiry, I came into contact with some of the people at the bottom of the Ridge City...... Oh, and do you know where the people at the bottom of Ridge City live? I'm afraid you wouldn't have guessed. ”

Salin looked at Lin An with an interesting face, Lin An didn't really pursue his problem seriously, but noticed that John's frown on the side was slightly frowned.

John's relationship with Saleen has always been bad. This time, it was a kind of Cheng dù, but it was equivalent to John's cooperation with Salin, which went against her original intention of keeping John's ......

Lin Anxin circled this doubt, and slowly replied as if thinking: "Ryan can't help but trade slaves. The people at the bottom of the Ridge City should be those slaves......" Speaking of this, she couldn't help but think faintly.

Ryan was a country with serfdom, and the lowest base of the ruling class was the serfs.

But although it was only the first time he came to Ridge City, most of the two or three days that Lin An stayed in Ridge City stayed in the mountainwall hotel and did not go out, but even if he just looked down from the window, the people Lin An saw on the streets and roads of Ridge City, although there were a few slaves, most of them were civilians dressed simply.

This can be roughly distinguished from the color of people's clothing, although the clothing of the common people is gray and gray, but it is still very different from the tattered and ragged clothes of slaves.

Lin An didn't pay much attention to it originally, but now that Salin mentioned it and thought about it deeply, Lin An realized that the ratio of slaves to civilians in Ridge City seemed to be reversed? And this is clearly unreasonable.

Lin An did not think that this was because the city of the ridge was the capital of the country and slaves were not allowed to live there.

There are many nobles gathered in the city, even if this is not the territory of the lords of various places, but it is the actual political center of Ryan, the place where Ryan's ruling class is most concentrated, the number of slaves needed will only be more, even if they can't live in the city, but the slaves that appear on the streets during the day should not be too few.

Therefore, Lin An saw that there were few slaves in the city, there must be some special reason.

Salin didn't sell it, and quickly uncovered the answer to Lin An's question.

“…… You don't know much about the people at the bottom, and you haven't had much contact with slaves, plus you can't reach them because you haven't gone out, in fact, when I inquired about the news on the first day, I had already noticed the problem of slaves - the city of Ridge City has not only a lot of slaves, but also a very large number, and it is the city with the most slaves in Ryan, at least 300,000, and it is not ruled out that it may be doubled. ”

This is undoubtedly a shocking number, and there is also a hint of shock in Lin An's eyes, this number is already twice the population of the ground in Ridge City, if it is as Salin said, it may actually be more than four times!

“…… You didn't see them in the city before, because they didn't live in the city, but underground, in the tunnels dug out of the mountain's belly in all directions - because of the neglect of slaves by Ryan's upper class, they probably didn't know before that there was such a large population under the ridge city, and how complicated the winding tunnels dug in the mountain's belly to accommodate so many people! ”

"There are so many people living underground, and the daily consumption of food alone is a huge number, especially since the city of the ridge is still the base camp of Oginets, it is impossible for Grand Duke Oginets to be as ignorant as you say!" Lin An frowned.

With a slave population several times larger than the commoners and nobles on the earth, Grand Duke Oginets would be in the name of his wisdom and wisdom if he did not even know these deposits.

Lin An listened to the situation described by Salin, and he could already imagine the situation under the Ridge City, for the nobles of the Ridge City, they were like sitting on an active volcano that erupted at some point, and it would be difficult for a slightly shrewd person to sleep at all, and the Oginets family would not have been able to inherit it for so many generations.

"Approximate figures, I think Grand Duke Oginets should have a rough number, after all, the city of the ridge has always been well governed, not to mention that as you said, the food consumption alone can be roughly calculated!"

"But it's one thing to know numbers, it's another thing to know exactly what they mean. It's like you understand how big a number is 400,000, but can you imagine how big an area the phalanx of 400,000 troops is? Can you imagine how much space needs to be carved out of the ground to accommodate 400,000 people? ”

Slaves had no names, no literacy, no property of their own, no unified thought and organization, they were born only to know how to work and get food, they did not know how vast the outside world was, and they did not even know that people of the same class as them had reached several times the number of commoners and nobles, enough to pose a threat to the people of the earth.

What's more, even if the slaves are in turmoil, as long as there are 10,000 fully armored infantry, it is enough to make these bare-handed and ideological slaves abandon their weapons and surrender, especially the nobles of this plane have mastered the powerful ruling forces such as vindictive spirits and materials, and the enslavement ideology of the low-level civilian slave class has long been deep-rooted, even if a large number of deaths, there are no slaves who dare to resist at all.

The status of the commoners was equal to that of cattle and sheep, or even lower than that of cattle and sheep, and the slaves were more than a pack of marmots, and Grand Duke Oginets' neglect of the slaves was not without reason if the marmots had not dug such a vast system of tunnels under the Ridge City.

"Well, judging from the scene since I entered the city, there has been no large-scale unrest in the city, and it seems that Grand Duke Ryan is quite normal, and he has not gone crazy enough to drive the low-level slaves and set himself on fire."

Lin An said this, and suddenly stopped, because he saw the surprised expressions of Salin and Johnmu on the other side, and only then did he remember that her social concept in her previous life was different from theirs.

Salin smiled with a surprised expression: "I thought that only a person like me would pay attention to the power of low-level civilians. These commoners, who were regarded as lambs by the aristocracy, were often inconspicuous, but no one was unified, but in some cases, when used well, they could still burst out with surprising power. It's just that few people can objectively look at these classes that they look down on, but I didn't expect Ann to be an exception, and more far-reaching than I thought-"

He said as he spoke, his face pondering, and then nodded slightly, "Although it's just a number, if it's planned and tightly choreographed and explodes at the right time, even a slave may be able to change the overall situation......"

With Salin's words, even John pondered, and showed a solemn expression, for the first time, he violated the long-standing concept of education to face up to this underclass, which had been ignored and despised for a long time.

If it weren't for the examples of the tunnels and slaves under the Ridge City, John might not have been touched, but he had already seen it to be believing, and he couldn't help but go deeper when he saw what he thought, so as to understand some of the more essential meanings that Lin An's words inadvertently revealed.

Lin An was sweating a little, she had no intention of being a revealer with some kind of budding thoughts, especially with Salin's character and ambition, let him notice that these were not good things for the civilian slaves and other classes, so he hurriedly changed the topic.

"So you keep mentioning that huge network of tunnels underground, and that's the problem?"

(To be continued)