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Selms. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info As the westernmost important city of the Punjab tribe, Selmus's status has not been greatly affected after a period of drastic historical changes, and the special port has made it more and more prosperous, and the gold and slave trade has become the largest characteristic industry here, in addition to continuing to defend its position as the largest slave trading center in the Indean region, it has also become the fourth largest gold trading center in the Indean region after Reed, Goa and Blue Castle.

The slave trade has always been one of the most important pillar industries of Selmus, the Kingdom of Ind'an has always been the largest slave-producing area in the entire Raya continent, in addition to frequent small-scale wars between tribes, resulting in a large number of civilians becoming slaves, banditry robbery, usury debts and rich comparisons are also the main reasons for the prosperity of the slave trade in this region, and Selmus is famous for its long history of slave trade and even the entire Middle Continent.

Since there is such a large supply and demand market here, it proves that the slave trade is impossible to ban in a short period of time, and blindly using administrative means to ban it will only make slave smuggling rampant, which is not only not conducive to local economic development, but also bring huge losses to tax revenue. The adage that existence is reasonable, without a blade, was even cast in the three Chinese characters of Tang, Tianfang and Lania and hung at the entrance of the Selmus Slave Trading Center, which is quite interesting.

Therefore, with Wufeng's approval, the slave trade market in Selmus was not only not abandoned, but became more prosperous, and the owners of vineyards and cotton plantations in the Western Regions, coffee, tobacco, sugar cane, and gum plantations in Northern Luzon, the large landowners of Komini, and the spice plantations of the Principality of Merry, these people all flocked here, and the nomadic nobles in the Tengger steppe in the north and the large landowners and workshop owners in the interior of the empire also came here to buy.

Indean slaves are known for their diligence, docility and obedience to management, and Indean is also famous for producing beautiful women in the mainland for a long time, so male and female slaves are quite popular here, the huge human resources of up to 60 million people in the Indean Kingdom are its solid backing, coupled with the strict hierarchy of the kingdom, the class contradictions are fierce, and the gap between the rich and the poor is fierce, so it also creates a natural hotbed for the slave trade, resulting in a strong buyer and seller market for the slave trade throughout the Indean region.

The Selms Slave Trading Center is known for its fairness, justice, It is known that all slave traders who are registered here to operate the slave trade business must have considerable economic strength, and it is absolutely forbidden to take the free people in the empire control area into slavery and trade here, and at the same time, the slave trading center is also equipped with the necessary quarantine and epidemic prevention institutions to prevent the spread of plague and disease here, and the political axe also requires the slave traders to ensure that the slaves have good living conditions, prohibits the abuse of slaves, and once discovered, the political axe department will also give heavy financial fines.

Although the Western Xinjiang and even the Tang Empire did not explicitly prohibit the slave trade, it did not advocate and encourage the slave trade, and the local political axe also consciously wanted to support the mining and gold trade and the jewelry trade to replace the not-so-reputable slave trade industry, but they failed to achieve the goal, and the huge demand and output market made the industry internationalized, especially in the development process of Northern Luzon and Burmese County, a large number of plantation owners because of the urgent need for labor, and the free people could not meet the needs, so they had to resort to buying slaves to solve their immediate needs, which made the slave trade flourish in Selmus.

Driven by the slave trade and the gold trade, and the deliberate planning of the local political axe, Selmus was a sea change compared to a few years ago, with wide streets and smooth pavement, green streets lined with greenery, beautiful palm trees swaying, and tall phoenix trees, so much so that some people say that the development of Selms is undoubtedly a shameful contrast compared to the neighboring city of Hylum, and a city that has developed on the slave trade industry is more beautiful and attractive than a historical, cultural and artistic center, which does not shame the Indians？

The size of the Punjab Forces was formed and trained according to the 100,000 men at the time of training, but after completing the initial training of the first phase, Obola accepted Pauling's suggestion and formalized the most elite 50,000 men as the Punjab New Army, while the remaining 50,000 were deployed in the three cities of Punjab under the name of the Punjab Self-Defense Garrison, and the 50,000 Forces nouvelles became the regular army that the Punjab tribes hoped to be recognized by the empire.

In order for the Punjab New Army to be among the emperor [***] sequence, Obola has been tirelessly strengthening the training of the Punjab New Army, and is also looking for opportunities to participate in the military operations of the empire in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Punjab New Army, but when the Western Xinjiang launched a war against the Tiks, the Punjab New Army had not yet been formed, and then the Tiks collapsed, and the Punjab New Army never had the opportunity to exercise, which made Obola regretful. And this time, how can Obola not be excited that the Indean's all-out war was finally able to get the Punjab New Army to go on the expedition, and even step out of the Punjab's territory and into the territory of the Tiks?

In addition to the 30,000 Punjab new army main force to Lahore, the remaining 20,000 Punjab new army are all stationed in Selms, due to the change in the situation in eastern Luzon has made the relationship between Luzon and the Tang Dynasty tense, Selms's Punjab new army has also entered a state of alert, but after the Tang army launched an attack on the Hansen League, the relationship with Luzon seems to have eased, after all, the empire did not take the initiative to attack the Luzon in the Indean region, in the imagination, the Luzon seems unlikely to come to lightly brush the tiger's whiskers. However, many things do not seem to be as everyone thinks, and everything needs to change with the change of events.

At night, the city of Selms has gradually calmed down, but with the establishment of the status of the slave trading center and the gold trading center, it is accompanied by the developed entertainment industry in Selmus, especially the Fengyue industry, which has gradually become the third pillar industry after the slave trade and the gold trade. Businessmen from all over the mainland always need to relax after tea and dinner, and the south of Selms City is the area with the most concentrated entertainment industry, with all kinds of places to eat, drink, sleep, gamble, perform, gamble, and gamble, forming a city that never sleeps.

The Punjab garrison was stationed at the junction of the south and west of the city, but at this moment the entire garrison center had not been rested as usual, and the command post in the center of the barracks was still a building of people, showing that it did not seem to be very quiet here.

Since the Punjab Department was subordinated to the western Xinjiang, the Punjab New Army also selected a group of young officers to study at the Northwest Military Academy, and Radu and the two captains currently stationed in Selms are all cadets who graduated from the Northwest Military Academy, and Radu served as the deputy commander of the Punjab New Army. At this time, Radu was frowning, and the two officers in full military uniforms standing opposite him were also the same as Radu in terms of military rank, at least they should be characters with the identity of Captain Wan, and several pieces of information on the desk were scattered in front of the three of them.

"The situation is not good, it seems that our early estimates are a little different, originally thought that the Luzon were unlikely to attack our Punjab area, but it seems that this inference is not accurate, Lord Obola has sent news that the Empire may have a full-scale war with the Luzons, and the war with the Hansen League may not last long, maybe the Luzon will not wait for the day when the Empire will free up, which means that the Luzon may take action against the Empire before then, especially the targets in the Indean region. Tilting his head and pouring a large sip of black tea, as if trying to clear his mind, Radu frowned and pointed to the map with his thick fingers, moving little by little. "The Luzon people should be the first choice for Lahore, but now that the emperor [***] and the main force of our Punjab new army are stationed in Lahore, the Luzon people may not act rashly, but we Selms and Jaipudu don't have many troops, and if this gap is left, will the Luzon people be indifferent?"

"Lord Radu, looking at the current situation, this possibility should be very large, although there is not much news from the south, but the Luzon garrison in Comini is being mobilized at any time, and it is difficult for us to grasp its specific movements, perhaps this is the suspicious plan they have set up, so that we mistakenly think that they will not launch here, let us relax and launch a surprise attack. Another officer with a slightly darker complexion replied.

"Well, yes, I'm worried about that, too, for now that the annual Slave Trade Week is about to begin, and merchants from all over the country are beginning to enter, the Luzon people are coming at this time, but it will make Selmus lose a lot of color. Radu twisted a few strands of beard under his chin, "It seems that we have to make some preparations, in this way, pull all our two 10,000 troops out of the city, there is no city wall, and it doesn't make much sense to stay in the city, and let our people take over the garrison and enter a state of war, but don't announce it to the outside world for the time being, to avoid causing unnecessary confusion, the Luzon people are really coming, there is no way to do it, I believe that Cui Dashuai should always have a way to deal with it." ”

(To be continued)