In a word, we should learn from history, just after Sun Lao, on behalf of Australia, signed a cooperation document on the black slave trade with the Governor of Timor, Pimont, Zhu Beiguo, who was concerned about the matter on the Pride, immediately sent a telegram to ask Li Junming and Barrister Li on the Nicole to come forward, suggesting that the two jointly draft a legal document on the use of slaves. Emancipation Act of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The document was sent by telegram to the Pride and Mornington Island that night, and the people who received the telegram realized that it was likely to be a document that was going to enter the history textbooks, so the two ships and two places discussed it at the same time, and finally named the bill: "Federal Trade Labor Emancipation Act" and officially signed it all after the third reading, so the original manuscript of this document still has everyone's signatures---- it seems that everyone wants to leave their name in history.

The Act provides as follows:

"Trade labourers (a euphemism for trafficked slaves and slaves of other races) who work in enterprises, plantations, or other institutions and departments of the Commonwealth of Australia, as long as they and they are able to "faithfully and for fair remuneration for their labour" and give their employers "a reasonable return", will be granted personal liberty and the right to become citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia on a voluntary basis......"

The document also provided that the slaves enjoyed "limited citizenship" until they were freed, until they attained full personal freedom.

As for what is "reasonable remuneration" and what level of "reasonable return" is, the document does not specify it, after all, it is not easy to determine at that moment.

However, later generations of scholars have unanimously agreed that this is undoubtedly a legal document of historical progress, and in this era when slavery, which imposes lifelong slavery on people, is still a common phenomenon, slave owners can take the initiative to emancipate slaves, even if it is a precondition for liberation, it is also a historical precedent, and it is also a kind of civilization progress.

Soon after, under the chairmanship of lawyer Li Junming, a more specific provision of the Federal Trade Labor Emancipation Act was promulgated, first of all clarifying the level of "reasonable return": it refers to the "honest labor" that the employer has engaged in for eight years.

"Equitable remuneration" refers to the lump sum payment given by the employer to the slaves for food, clothing, and shelter that is not lower than the average level of society, and when they become freemen.

And the eight-year period has become a conversion standard in the actual implementation process, for example, many trade laborers later joined the federal army, and one year of service in the army is equivalent to one and a half years of labor on the plantation, so many people in good physical condition joined the Australian army from the beginning, and after four to five years of service, they were freed.

For another example, some trade laborers with special skills, or those who have made meritorious contributions in the labor process, have actually gained freedom much earlier, and some have even been promoted at the same time as they have been freed, such as becoming officers, engineers, managers, and officials......

Of course, that's another story.

Back in early June 1658, after knowing that Degus's slave fleet would soon arrive at the Xin'an Port wharf, Sun Lao took his brothers to work hard, and they made a lot of preparations for the arrival of the black slaves.

The first was the construction of housing for the "trade laborers".

Fortunately, now that the Governor's Palace has been completed, Hou Xianglin Teng finally came out of labor, just a few days before the black slaves arrived at the Xin'an Wharf, several simple buildings appeared in the southeast corner of the west bank of the Xin'an River, including a sturdy greenhouse building built on wooden walls, in order to hurry, the southern section of the wooden wall of this greenhouse is the wall of Xin'an City, and the other three sides are made of gravel and cement to form a 2.5-meter-high stone wall, and the huge wooden beams and columns support the hillside roof paved after thatching bundles, The stone walls under the roof are all made of hard concrete floors, and are divided into twenty-four small rooms with local red bricks, each twelve meters long and six meters wide, with two rows of cement masonry floors against the wall, one row can sleep six adults, and one room can accommodate twelve people.

To the west of the greenhouse is a row of stone-brick and cement buildings, inside which are rows of stone-built coal-fired stoves and several rows of long mahogany boards and benches.

There is also a smaller scale shed outside, built along the river embankment, it is also a typical Hou-style double-mountain zigzag greenhouse, the shed is divided into two halves by a red brick high wall, and is surrounded by a red brick wall, there are many large wooden barrels and bamboo pipes to divert water, judging from the furnishings here, it should be a place to bathe, because a local common waterwheel is set up on the edge of the greenhouse, once the waterwheel is started, the water in the sink can flow into the big wooden barrel along the bamboo pipe.

On the side of the bathhouse is a row of small thatched huts, each with two doorways, and next to the doorway are written in large Chinese characters in chalk - male and female, and there is no doubt that this is a public toilet.

The entire complex is surrounded on three sides, including the river embankment, by a high wooden fence, and there are wooden watchtowers at the four corners, the gate opens due north, and there is a watchtower outside the huge wooden fence gate.

After visiting these buildings, Gui Xianning said to Brother Hou, who accompanied him, that there seemed to be something missing, Hou Xianglin thought about it seriously and asked Xiao Guizi: So what is missing? Gui Xianning replied that if a railroad was built and a few more officers wearing SS armbands were standing on the railway platform, it would be a living Nazi concentration camp, and a rudimentary version of it......

Hou Xianglin: Get out!

…… On 5 June, the Degus ocean-going fleet of the company finally returned from India and arrived at the port of Xin'an.

These included two medium-sized galleons, five small Caravel galleons, and a two-masted heavy Caravel galleon called the New Susan, which was the ship of the Duchess Margaret.

After nearly three months of sailing, the fleet brought a large amount of cargo from various coastal ports of India, including saltpeter and silk thread from Masuli Patum, Indian calico and indigo from Calicut, Indian red and flannel from Cochin, goat hair, cotton and jute thread from Goa, and an entire shipload of fine graphite ore from Ceylon, and of course all kinds of copper and iron.

In addition, the ship carried the most crucial "cargo": three hundred black slaves of both sexes.

Under the agreement between DT and the Australians, all raw materials and semi-finished products in these goods were purchased by the Australians.

As for the more than 300 black slaves, 200 of them were to be sold to Australians, and the other 100 were to the Duchess and the estates of Pimont de Gus.

Because the Australians had gender balance requirements in the agreement, there were more women in this batch of black slaves, the number was close to 100.

The company will use this batch of black slaves and Australians in exchange for glassware and glass mirrors, the conversion price is very fair, than the direct sale of black slaves is a lot more cost-effective, Australian glassware and glass mirrors are now very popular in the market, once on the market will be immediately snapped up, obviously this is more convenient than pulling the black slaves to the market to sell slowly and greatly reduce operating costs, after all, glassware and glass mirrors do not need to eat, will not escape, and will not get sick and die.

Among the 300 black slaves, except for more than 200 Australians, the rest were bought by the Duchess of Margaret, these two are the big customers of this human trafficking, and most of the labor in Pimont's plantations are local aborigines, as the governor of Timor Island, he has the support of the surrounding tribes, so the demand for black slaves is not urgent.

As for Dergus, as the main operator of this business, he is simply making money, although he also has a plantation, but the scale is not large, so the demand for labor is not large.

Apparently for him and Pimont, although the mining areas of the Chagan Basin and Morro Bay also required labor, it would be much more difficult to manage if the slaves were to mine than it would be for the natives to mine for themselves, and the cost of feeding the slaves would be greater than the payment given to the natives.

So for a pure merchant like Dergus, he was more concerned about how much glassware and sugar these blacks could exchange.