Chapter 74: Reasons for Persuasion
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The use of special goods also requires careful and meticulous classification and arrangement.
So Gawain raised his hand, signaling that the "special goods" purchased by the three teams could be withdrawn, several garrison sailors and guards came over with weapons, and the girl with charcoal eyebrows in the queue of the Adigai people suddenly ran out in a burst of exclamation, and the shabby skirt was flying, Andreev and Wright immediately rushed forward, stopped her by the waist and hugged her, and did not let this daring girl get close to the great protector, the girl was strangled to her feet hanging in the air, and her snow-white complexion began to turn red, and she cried in broken Greek to Gawain, who was locking her brow, "Don't send me away, I can do whatever your Highness does, please don't send me back to my alcoholic father and brother!"
Hearing the girl's shout, the rest of the women in Adigai lowered their heads with painful faces.
"The status of the women in Adigai is very, very low, and their fathers, brothers and husbands can sell her for a bottle of wine." The boots were moving up and down on the steps, and Wright held the manual and followed behind the Grand Patron to explain the phenomenon just now, "The Grand Patron, there is also a statistical document of mine here, which is clear at a glance. ”
Gawain turned around briefly, quickly pulled out the loose-leaf from the manual, and then the spiral staircase came to the end - in front of the gate of the Acropolis Hall, several soldiers of the guards saw the Grand Patron coming towards them down the corridor, and immediately withdrew the halberd in his hand, and lowered the tassel on his hat and helmet in salute.
In the hall, all the members of the Six Divisions, the Brotherhood, and the Commander Dugaelius stood up to salute, and Starurachos and a group of attendants were shuttling through the service of wine and food.
Anna was already sitting behind the curtain, and the two Imperial Ink Officers stood at her side, and when she saw Gawain, she quickly made a gesture of consolation.
And Gawain also quickly replied with a gesture, signaling, "It's hard work to come from Tarsus. Then the Grand Patron breathed a sigh of relief and stood in the center of the hall.
Then he slowly raised the loose-leaf paper, "There is only one topic for this meeting, and that is to make up for the shortage of manpower in the mines, plantations and ordnance workshops of Tarsus, I need to buy saqaliba, a large amount of saqaliba. ”
"It's just an alien word to cover up shame, but those who believe in the Lord understand that Your Highness is engaged in the sinful trade of buying slaves." On the left seat, Patriarch Anselm stood up in anger with a rosary and took the lead in objecting, "My lord is above, and I will do my best to protest against such an act." In addition, the vast majority of the citizens of Tarsus, a country full of free men, would not allow such an act to happen. ”
Most of the members of the Six Divisions then agreed with the patriarch's remarks.
"Your Excellency Patriarch, I hope you will understand that you stand here and say that Tarsus is a 'free country' because of the bloody battles of my army, which is bathed in the light of the Lord's bounty, and which every day allows us to receive two thousand pilgrims in our pavilion; Now even the pagan Oghuz cavalry is willing to go to war for me. It is the spirit of which I have protected law and liberty with the sword that has taken root in this land, and before my army came here, what Christian was not enslaved on the whip of the infidels, groaning miserably? Gawain raised the loose-leaf paper and argued with reason, trying to express that the country of Tarsus was now under the protection of the army and money, and that the large purchase of slaves was to produce a better army and save more money.
The hall was engulfed in heated arguments and arguments, with some opposing Tarsus' involvement in such a trade, while others such as Andreev and Wright expressed understanding.
"What do you think?" When the little sunfish placed the soft earbuds on Anna's ear, ready to block out the rolling noise, Anna gently pushed them away and asked the two Ink Officers Hetomia and Agnes.
"I don't have a problem with that, soon the 'ladder' water wheel workshop on the Alalman River will be completed, and I know the inside story, and moral reasons aside, it does require a lot of manpower, and it doesn't make much difference to me whether the operator is a farmer or a slave." Agnes shrugged her shoulders, then half-knelt down, peeled a citrus fruit, and brought it to Anna's mouth.
"Aosen girl, what about you?" Anna continued to ask, eating the citrus comfortably.
To Anna's surprise, Hetomia also agreed, and she put her slender hands together with dignity and her expression was serious, "Your Highness Caesar, I must clarify that I am a pragmatic person. At short end you should ask what kind of benefit such trade would bring to our country, and how the great guarantor should deal with the balance between morality and profit. ”
"Ah, I forgot. You are an Orthodox Christian, and your husband is a Catholic in Germany, and you study the scriptures of Greek, but you are also a teacher of Massoud and Cia. The little sunfish took the opportunity to tease.
"I don't think there's anything strange about that, Agnes. Prani. The wind of this plateau comes from the three oceans, and it is only when I am raised that a person like me who is able to change power is naturally different from you who was born in the famous family of Rescopos, I hope you can understand. The girl of the Orson family continued to hang her eyes, neither humble nor arrogant.
The little sunfish suddenly felt bored, so she closed her mouth and stopped fighting, she and the girl of the Aosen family never fought for a long time, because the opposite direction was to retreat before the battle, and no Khitan fire could be blown up.
After the curtain was lowered, Anna, who had asked for good advice, immediately turned her face and shouted to everyone present, "Please be quiet, I don't want the pointless argument to last for an afternoon." ”
Everyone present immediately fell silent and retreated to their respective seats, but the mushroom-headed county magistrate Andodat, who had never spoken or moved, came out at this time and bowed to Anna, "Please excuse me, I still have fourteen matters and cases to be dealt with immediately in the County Circuit Court, and time is not enough to spend in such a meeting, please ask the Grand Patron and Caesar to reach an agreement as soon as possible, whether it will be successful or not." ”
"I now give the floor to the Lord Patron, and no one will be allowed to interrupt him while he is speaking, including me, who is opposed to this matter." Anna asked, raising her hand.
"Now we have three routes for the acquisition of slaves, the first of which is the city of Bari, on which we rely mainly on the sea transportation of the commercial allies, and we can arrange for people to go to the bazaar in Prague to buy them in large quantities, where most of them are Slavic slaves, and then transshipment through the Alpine passes through the port of Bari; the second was through the Egyptian market, where Black Moor slaves were purchased from the desert area, also by sea; The third route is to buy Adigai slaves from the Kexing Sea. ”
"I'm sorry my husband, I didn't let you talk about route planning, and now the threshold of 'reason' hasn't been crossed!" Anna interjected after the curtain was lowered, but of course she could, it was a matter of course......
On the other side of the seat, the magistrate of Androdat raised his forehead, rolled his eyes, rubbed the bridge of his nose with his fingers a few times, and smiled bitterly. (To be continued.) )