In the next few days, there were basically no major events happening on Paradise Island, and even the Protestants, who had not been very peaceful before, relented a lot, and Paradise Island seemed to be thriving.

I basically split between the winery and the boulder camp. Rockefeller on the side of the distillery seems to have become the second boss, and he is responsible for the specific production arrangement and process control, although this child has always had the great dream of recovering the country in his head, but he is also meticulous in his work, and I have basically trusted him through a period of observation.

After the embarrassment of that night, Long Xin'er really slept in my room with a cover, I admit that I was also a bag, really when she fell asleep, what forced her to have a showdown with me and other ideas were all thrown out of the clouds, every night I obediently took the initiative to sleep on the floor, and I deliberately dangled outside until late, and only dared to enter the house when Long Xin'er almost fell asleep, Long Xin'er became generous and took the initiative, all kinds of good talk and persuasion to persuade me not to sleep on the ground, Even wiping my tears and asking me if I disliked her or if there was something unspeakable, after being asked by her several times, I wondered if there was really something wrong with me, and this obviously perverse ghost thing really happened to me.

On the side of the boulder camp, Uncle Wei and they were busy upgrading the camp again, after all, there were a few more students and small cards, and the original living space must be expanded.

Those students and Xiaoka are not citizens of the empire, strictly speaking, they are not even slaves, if they have to give a name, they can only be illegal immigrants, so they naturally cannot seal the land, of course, the area of Paradise Island is actually very large, and the reclaimed area only accounts for a small part of the area of Paradise Island, theoretically speaking, they can find a vacant land at will, and no one will pursue it for a while, but this is not legal after all, so I plan to take the initiative to talk to James after a while, Let's see if he can use his privilege to directly give them a few citizenship, no matter how bad they are, they can be considered our slaves, as long as they are not expelled.

Duke Jackson, who had been talking about coming to Paradise Island in person, finally came, and after getting off the boat, he went straight to the Governor's Palace, and then called a meeting of the members of the island's cabinet, Sandro and others.

The meeting ended in a state of astonishment, surprise, and incredulity, at which Duke Jackson announced that the Empire had officially decided to abolish slavery on Paradise Island, and that all island slaves would automatically receive Imperial citizenship, and that the island would no longer accept new slaves from the outside world until the trial was over.

Abolish slavery, this before Duke Jackson came to Paradise Island, in fact, some people had already guessed this possibility, but when the news was really in front of them, most people still felt incredible.

Although many magnates in the empire sometimes feel that slavery is indeed unreasonable, and sometimes they have compassion because they see all kinds of misery of slaves, but it is a moment that flashes in their minds, in the face of the interests and enjoyment of social classes, those things are not important, and many people will make themselves feel at ease with their existence that is reasonable, so the abolition of slavery seems to have never happened, but now it is happening.

After a period of development, the population of Paradise Island has expanded a lot, and the area of reclamation and construction has also increased several times, but compared to the other overseas territories of the empire, it is still in the embryonic stage, so it is suitable as a test field. Duke Jackson ordered Sandro to immediately arrange for men to participate in the daily patrols of the island police, and all kinds of ships entering and leaving the docks were subject to stricter procedures and inspections than before, and after everything was deployed, Governor James officially announced to the whole island that slavery would be abolished.

The news of the abolition of slavery was like a bomb causing an earth-shattering noise in the island, and the slaves in the island's plantation area thought it was an April Fool's joke, but after repeated confirmation, they threw away the tools they had worked on and poured into the streets to cheer, while the slave owners who had bought slaves on the island all rushed to the governor's palace to protest, and some even shouted that if the empire insisted on abolishing slavery, then he would immediately emigrate to other empires.

Of course, this is just a joke, in this world the immigration system is not perfect and not popular, the process and various procedures that citizens of one country want to emigrate to another country have to go through are far more complicated than in our time, and even many empires do not have a citizen acceptance system at all.

On the one hand, he asked the slaves who had obtained citizenship to register at the Governor's Mansion as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he also warned them not to do anything that violated the laws of the Empire, otherwise although Paradise Island had abolished slavery, there was no other place in the Empire, and anyone who violated the laws of the Empire would be immediately sent to other territories of the Empire as slaves. For the slave owners who seem to have suffered losses, the empire also promised various tax relief policies, and made a certain amount of monetary compensation according to the number of original slaves, and more importantly, Duke Jackson also brought a trade license, which will allow Paradise Island to trade with the Oprah Empire, and the range of trade commodities includes crops, tobacco and alcohol, and light industrial processing products, which means that although the slave owners will increase the cost of employment because of the hiring of slaves, the opportunities for trade have also increased, As long as you run it well, you can make money.

In the Boulder Camp, Uncle Song brought back the news of the abolition of slavery, and all of us were quite surprised, although we were not so shocked because we had thought of this possibility in our hearts, but after all, it was still very touching to witness this change that changed history in person.

After receiving the news, Da Xiong, who rushed back to the camp, took the lead and said: "Nima's, I knew that slavery would be abolished, and I also got a trade license with the Oprah Empire, so I won't go to those pirates." ”

Uncle Song shook his head and said, "You can't say that, doing business, it's not a bad thing to have one more sales channel, and as far as I know, although the Oprah Empire is closer than to the British Empire, it is not very close, even if you can conduct normal trade with them, you will face the problem of transportation costs." ”

"Hmm", Uncle Wei nodded while smoking a cigarette and said, "Besides, we don't know much about this Oprah Empire, although the trade license is obtained, but whether the business is good or not is another matter." ”

"Another point, after the abolition of slavery, with the increase in the cost of employment, it will inevitably lead to a rise in prices on the island in the short term, the survival pressure of citizens will definitely be great, how to ensure the smooth transition of the island will also be a challenge, in addition, whether the extra slaves can quickly adapt to their new role, can carry out production activities in a very short period of time is also a problem, after all, it is one thing to passively accept work arrangements, and it is another thing to take the initiative to think about life." Lin Ruyi added on the side.

After listening to everyone's discussions, I waved my hand and said to everyone, "If you want me to say, don't think so much about it, since it has been announced, let's try our best to adapt to the new rules of the game, at least the abolition of slavery will not have a particularly big impact on us, and it just so happens that a few students and small cards on our side don't have to worry about their identity, you will go to the Governor's Palace to register in a while, and from today onwards you are also citizens of the British Empire." ”