Chapter 260: The Slave Carrier
After doing these things, Chen Haoran took a few guards to hang around this port dock, although he couldn't wait to get the reward for the next task immediately, so that he could feel what Hailan said about the knight's combat skills.
However, this task obviously requires some work, and it feels like I am going to be on the side of the Business Alliance at this moment.
Isn't it? The mission requires him to become a merchant with a knighthood in the Business Alliance.
If you just ask for a merchant with a knighthood, with your current knighthood status of four knights, you have already fulfilled the request. But the system didn't respond, which means that the knighthood must be obtained in the Business Alliance.
Therefore, this is tantamount to forcing yourself to stand on the side of the business alliance in the future.
Although there is a stealth of systematic tasks that requires him to stand in line with the business alliance, Chen Haoran is unwilling to stand in line without understanding anything, and listens to the two guys who pull people to stand in line, that is, the two sides want to infiltrate each other's interests, so there is a contradiction.
What a joke, do you really think you don't understand anything?
Not to mention other places, on this Koya Island alone, the interests of the three forces of nobles, temples, and merchants should have been mixed with each other for many years, and then they had formed a stable circle of interests for many years ago, otherwise the port on Koya Island would not have been so prosperous, and the atmosphere on the island would not have been so peaceful.
When the circle of interests has not known how many years it has been stable, and you have me, I and you can't be separated, suddenly say that because of the conflict of interests, the three major forces have become two hostile alliances?
There must be a deeper reason for this, and there is definitely something special about it, so that Koya Island will be divided into two forces and ready to fight.
Without understanding this, Chen Haoran was reluctant to stand on the side of the business alliance so early.
That's right, it's not that I don't take sides, but I don't want to stand on the side of the business alliance so early.
No way, there is a reward for knights' combat skills that is systematically hanging, no matter what the reason, Chen Haoran can only develop in the business alliance, that is, he must stand on the side of the business alliance.
Thinking about the question of standing in line, Chen Haoran glanced at the four guards who followed, in Chen Haoran's feeling, these four guards are also young and strong types, and when it comes to combat effectiveness, I am afraid that they are not as good as the porters of their own chamber of commerce.
But it doesn't matter, this is a manor for delivery, including the housekeeper and the maid, they are all delivered.
They are not slaves, they are indentured laborers, but the contract is signed for a period of up to 100 years. The difference with slaves is that they have a monthly salary, and the children born belong to the free people. The other masters can beat and scold at will, and the sale is no different from that of slaves, but they can't beat people to death openly and are just blackout cloths for reselling contracts.
Since he knew that Koya Island would soon be divided into two forces to fight, he naturally had to form his own force.
The formation of private soldiers is not abrupt in this Koya Island, not to mention that the nobles have private soldiers, the temple has apologetic knights, and the merchants have guards, just you are a little ruffian cow, you can attract a vote of gangsters to follow and occupy the underground society of the city, then no one says anything about you, but admires them one by one.
And like Chen Haoran, who is both a big businessman and a territorial nobleman, it is naturally no problem to form a private army.
So Chen Haoran, who had already found out about the situation, came to the coolie field with four guards.
For the wool coolie field?
Not to mention whether the sailors are willing to change careers, the merchants, captains, and shipowners will have to die with the guys who dare to recruit sailors to be private soldiers! I really think that a sailor is so easy to train? How can such an outstanding talent be used as an army that can be used by all serfs?
Go to the tavern and hire mercenaries?Please, it's okay to let the mercenaries go out on a mission, and get the mercenaries to be private soldiers? How big a person would do this! Mercenaries betray their masters from time to time!
These unidentified mercenaries have done bad things and patted their butts and run away, and they can't find them even if they want to!
Excluding those who like to live a stable life and have a skill, only those who have only one strength in the coolie field are the most suitable candidates for private soldiers.
As for slaves?
There are very few merchants who trade slaves, because the population is insufficient, and there is no one to do a lot of work, such as farming, although there is an agricultural temple, the seeds germinate, flourish and grow and other problems do not exist, but someone must plant and harvest, this kind of low-end hard farm work, free people will not do it, just come to the port to do some transportation or something is more profitable than being a farmer.
In the same way, the nobles who controlled the land were accustomed to asking the priest of the temple to help them pluck out the seedlings to ensure a stable income from the farmland, and did they not need money to hire the priest? They didn't make much money by selling the grain, and a few nobles were willing to hire farmers? The former tenant farmers did not know that they had been hooked up with the prosperous ports and various temples many years ago, so the nobles were forced to use slaves to work.
may also be concerned that farmland is a major event to ensure the reproduction of the population, so all parties have a tacit understanding not to attack the serfs of the nobles, but once the serfs are transformed into free people, they will be seduced away immediately!
Therefore, the vast majority of slaves on the island were in the hands of the nobility, and they would not sell their slaves.
Just as Chen Haoran was about to ask the guards to find an intermediary, a few people suddenly ran past him with a shout: "Hurry! There is a slave ship on the other side of the port! It is said that all of them are defeated soldiers from Bavaria! All of them are sturdy men!"
Chen Haoran blinked his eyes, looking at the few yelling guys running back and forth in the coolie field like selling advertisements, and also specifically looking for people in gorgeous clothes to shout nearby, thinking that he was riding a tall horse and carrying a guard, and it was their target, and those people had already taken turns shouting near him several times.
I don't understand this, in fact, this is advertising!
Chen Haoran naturally beckoned, and a shouting man immediately smiled all over his face, stood three meters away, rubbed his hands and nodded and saluted.
"What's the matter with the slave ship you're talking about?" asked Chen Haoran.
"This lord, there has just stopped a slave ship from the outer island at Pier 3, and it is said that there are 100 prisoners of war from the Bavarian island, all of them strong men, and the owner of the ship wants to see if there are any buyers on our Koya Island, so the little one has received a cheering errand. The man said fluently.
"Take me to see it. Chen Haoran directly dropped a silver coin and said.
"Hey, thank you, master, please come with the little one. The man took the lead from the silver coin.