The establishment of the Republic of Suel has had an increasing impact on the current world, and the contradictions between the social classes of other empires in the world are becoming more and more serious. Slavery and aristocracy caused various social problems emerged one after another.

Although a country like the British Empire has already had the rudiments of a modern capitalist state power structure, after all, it is only similar in form but not in god, and the royal family and aristocracy still control the core resources of the entire country, and the cabinet and parliament are more like tools to serve the royal family and nobles.

After the establishment of the Republic of Suel, a powerful whirlwind of revolution blew rapidly in all parts of the world, especially in the Western world, and large and small revolutionary organizations sprung up everywhere.

As the Minister of State of the British Empire, the Duke of Jackson has been busy in recent times, and the traces of revolutionary activities in the empire itself and other dependent territories are becoming more and more obvious, and the suppression of the police and the army alone will only increase the bloodshed. He has been tactfully advised by a number of people that the empire needs a change.

But change is easier said than done. The interests of the royal family and nobles must not be touched, but if the interests of the royal family and nobles cannot be touched, then all changes are just a formalism. On second thought, it seems that there is only one way to try the reform of slavery.

To be precise, slavery should be a process that a country's external expansion must go through, because as long as it is external expansion, there will inevitably be wars, as long as there is war, there will inevitably be captives, refugees, in today's world where material conditions are relatively scarce and the social security system is relatively incomplete, so many refugees, captives are difficult to directly digest and convert into citizens of the country, without slavery, for these feudal empires, refugees and captives will be a rather heavy burden, and if there is a slave system, Then these slaves can not only be directly converted into labor, but the most important thing is that they will not occupy a certain amount of social resources like ordinary citizens, and will not have any impact on the existing social system, so slavery can be said to be the most important weapon in foreign expansion.

But slavery is indeed the darkest aspect of the development of human society, it embodies the dirty, cold-blooded, cruel, and selfish in human nature, so it will eventually be spurned by all mankind and will eventually be sealed in the dust to the corner of history.

As a well-read Duke Jackson who has traveled all over the world, he naturally understands these truths, but he needs to think about whether it is really time to abolish slavery.

Of course, the abolition of slavery will have a positive side to the entire imperial society, a large number of slaves who have turned over and become reborn will become a new supporting force for consolidating the rule of the royal family and nobles, and the momentum of various revolutions can also be greatly suppressed, but the abolition of slavery will also bring many negative sides, the loss of a large number of free labor will directly lead to a sharp increase in the costs of the entire imperial society, and the resources of the entire society will also face more population distribution.

It will be a very serious test for the vested interests of the empire, the royal family, the aristocracy, the bureaucracy, and even the ordinary citizens to cope with such a huge transformation. The former slave owners will no longer be able to use their slaves like cattle, and all master-servant relationships will be transformed into employment relationships, and the establishment of this new type of relationship may cause more social conflicts in a short period of time.

Duke Jackson had a hard time to choose, and he couldn't even make a choice at all, but time didn't wait for him. Not far from the British Empire, another empire had a horrific incident some time ago, a riot broke out in the home of a slave owner who ran a gladiator, and more than a dozen gladiator slaves took up arms to slaughter the slave owner's family, and the entire family of the slave owner was spared from the top and size, from the old to the young, this can be said to be a rebellion, or it can be said that the riot shocked the entire Western society.

After slaughtering the slave owner's family, the gladiator slaves attacked other slave owners in the vicinity, and as many as 100 slaves were freed in one night's operation.

However, these slaves had limited weapons, most of them were short axes and long knives in the cold weapon era, so when the army with rifles arrived, all their bravery was in vain, and the rebellion ended with all the slaves being shot.

Although the rebellion was finally put down, no one dared to guarantee that something similar would not happen in the future, and in the face of the regular army with hot weapons, although the slaves might not be able to make much of a storm like Spartacus, no matter how much they resisted, the social turmoil and unrest caused by it were still very terrible.

After consulting with many imperial thinkers, one of the suggestions caught the attention of Duke Jackson, even if slavery eventually had to be abolished, it did not mean that it needed to be abolished on a large scale immediately, so why not do small-scale experiments in some places?

Pick an empire's overseas territory, abolish slavery, and after three or five years, decide what to do next, depending on the final effect. In these three or five years, it is good to observe how much impact slavery will have on the local society after the abolition of slavery, even if it is finally found that the abolition of slavery is unrealistic, or at least it is unbearable for the empire at this stage, and therefore has many bad consequences in the local society, it does not matter, at least it will not have much impact on the empire itself, and at the same time, this small scale of promotion can also give some hope to those uneasy elements who are about to move. At the very least, it can act as a buffer against the surging revolutionary situation.

Duke Jackson is very optimistic about this proposal, the empire can be changed, but it needs to be gradual and steady change, so that both for the royal family and nobles, and for the ordinary citizen class, it may be easier to accept, and the impact can be minimized.

After careful deliberation and writing, Duke Jackson reported his idea to the queen, and after a heated discussion with a group of major imperial magnates, the queen finally chose to accept Duke Jackson's proposal, but the queen also made several clear requests to Jackson.

First of all, this experimental site must be far away from the empire itself, preferably as far away as possible, even if the situation is uncontrollable one day, the empire will not have much impact if it is abandoned, and secondly, the slavery at the experimental site can be abolished, but the legal system of the empire also needs to be strictly observed, once the emancipated slaves violate the laws of the empire, they need to be punished more severely than ordinary citizens. Finally, after the slaves at the test site have obtained a new status, they are never allowed to leave the location of the test site until slavery is abolished throughout the empire, and as soon as one slave leaves, the test site will be cancelled immediately.

After getting the queen's consent, Jackson immediately set about choosing a test site, he spread out the map of the empire's territory and saw Paradise Island at first glance, that place is far away from the empire mainland, there are no other countries within a short distance nearby, the population is not large at present, the governor and the commander of the convoy are still his own people, as a test site is very suitable.