Chapter 63: The Slave Market (I)
"Hello, the next auction is at eight o'clock tonight, and you can come and buy what you want, which will be put on sale tonight. The beautiful front desk handed a list in his hand directly in front of Lei Zhe.
Strangely took the list, which was full of textual descriptions, such as the reserve price of a certain item, how much it might be auctioned, and the origin, which was indeed a good list.
However, Lei Zhe didn't come to see this thing, and handed the list to Luo Lian, and Lei Zhe said, "I want to auction some items." ”
"You're going to auction something? Wait, I've already gone to inform the steward for you. ”
It didn't take long for a middle-aged uncle to come out of the auction house, and after seeing Lei Zhe, he hurriedly trotted to Lei Zhe's side.
"Dear Earl, I'm Klaus, may I ask if there's anything I can do for you?" Klaus bent down and gave a simple salute to Reich.
The earl's badge is really a good thing, and he looked down at the thing on his chest Lei Zhe was very happy in his heart.
"I want to auction off something, can the auction house sell it on my behalf?"
"Of course, we're happy to serve you, but what do you want to sell?"
"I have a lot of things for sale, and it seems inconvenient to talk about them here. ”
"Of course, come with me. Klaus smiled slightly, this is the living room, naturally not suitable for talking about those things, glancing at the knight carrying the box behind him, Klaus's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
There may not be less to help with the auction.
This is a VIP reception room, and the decoration facilities in it are very good, which is similar to the house in the holy city.
The knights placed all the boxes one by one, a total of five chests, which were only part of the inventory, almost all of them came from the fish-men, and were brought over by Lei Zhe after Luo Lian thought that there might be some value.
The box was opened, and Klaus's eyes lit up when he saw the things inside, some treasures really made his heart skip a beat, how much the treasure can be sold means how much money the auction house can make, of course he wants the value of the thing to be high.
"You're going to auction them all?"
"Well, I've heard that Aaron's auction house is the best auction house in Riva, and I wonder if I can sell all of these things. ”
"Of course, as long as you teach Aaron, you will definitely be given a satisfactory price, and Fia will immediately ask the group of appraisers to come and evaluate these things. ”
Klaus directly said to a woman next to him that in order to keep Lei Zhe from the idea of going to other auction houses, his means must be fast, even if the appraisers are in the bed at this time.
The appraisers carefully detected the items one by one, and almost each item passed through the hands of five appraisers, and then gave the final reserve price, which is not usually done by the auction house.
This was done entirely because of Lei Zhe's status as an earl.
The pricing process was extremely boring and boring, and Lei Zhe, who was sitting in the chair, wanted to follow Lilith and them out for a stroll together.
When the last item is counted, the price of all the items is fully determined.
"How's that?" asked softly, looking at Lilith Lezhe, who was carefully studying the price.
Lilith nodded, the price was above what she expected.
"There's a lot of stuff, and it might take some time to sell them all, you see?"
"How long will it take?"
"About ten days. ”
"It's too long, I'll probably only be in Riva for seven days. ”
"Seven days, seven days is fine, I will apply for your things to be auctioned continuously at tomorrow's auction, the price may be a little lower, but it will definitely not be lower than the reserve price, and it is guaranteed to be sold out within seven days, do you think this is okay?" Klaus thought about it and had a plan in mind.
"Yes, I can get the money in seven days, nothing else, right?"
"Wait a minute, you still need to fill out a contract, Aaron Auction House usually charges a fee of eight points, but because of you, it has been reduced to six points. ”
"Oh, thank you so much. "That's a good thing, two points don't sound like much, but they're actually a lot.
There are indeed a lot of things sold this time, just now I glanced at the list in Lilith's hand, and it can be sold for more than 300,000 gold coins at the reserve price, and the auction house naturally cannot sell all of them at the reserve price, so the gold coins that can be obtained in the end must be a huge amount, two points, and the auction house is enough to give face.
Lilith carefully read the contents of the contract and made sure that there was no problem, and then Lei Zhe stamped the official seal of the Wells family on it, and everything was confirmed Lei Zhe left Aaron's auction house, and when he entered, it was still dark, and the sun was rising when he came out, and the devil knows how long he stayed inside.
"Monkey, do you know where gunpowder is sold?"
"Gunpowder, my lord, it's contraband, and you can't buy it without the Empire's permission. The monkey explained.
"Empire, is the king's permission?" Lei Zhe frowned, now go to the king, the king is afraid that the king will not come to see him.
"No, as long as the Marquis of Gilbert agrees to sell you gunpowder, you can buy it. ”
"Marquis, I'm really going to visit the lord here. "As long as you don't go to see the king, gunpowder is sure to be obtained, and if you want to open stones and mine gunpowder is an indispensable item, there are not so many miners who dig Lei Zhe by manpower.
Naturally, the matter of going to see the marquis will have to wait until the next day, after all, he can't come to the door empty-handed, and the other party who comes to the door to petition him may not necessarily see him, so everything must be prepared to avoid embarrassing things happening.
Under the leadership of the monkey, Lei Zhe came to the largest slave market in Riva, the slave trade is always the most lively, after humans can not support themselves, they will sell themselves cheaply to rich masters, and when the master needs money, they will trade and sell in the slave trading market for a second time.
After signing the Imperial Slave Contract, the slaves basically lost their human rights, and survival was the only thing they could hope for.
It's a relatively large square, some like the Colosseum in ancient Rome, with cages everywhere, and there are nothing else in them, all of them are flesh and blood living people, and some even have chains around their necks.
It is difficult to get rid of the status of a slave, and once you get a tattoo of a slave, you will basically spend your life at the feet of your master, of course, there are exceptions, but that is only the exception.
As the largest slave market in Riva, the abundance of slaves sold here is breathtaking, and the slaves outside alone include all kinds of muscular adult men and beautiful topless slave girls.
Almost every cage was marked with a price, and the slaves could be taken away by giving them gold coins, and no one would sympathize with the poor slaves.