"By the way, Captain, are we going to continue to buy slaves?" said Jason, "according to your orders, Kodo has already sent us more than a hundred slaves, and the ship is almost full. ”

Ke Duo was meticulous in handling Donner's requests, and the slaves sent over were all carefully selected.

Downer insisted on buying only all kinds of craftsmen who had been enslaved, preferably those with families, and that Kodo did his best to complete them, without any deception or misuse.

Donner also specifically instructed that other skilled slaves could be purchased, such as those who had been merchants, mercenaries, scholars, painters, alchemists, and so on.

Only so far, apart from a few merchants and mercenaries, there is not a single one of the others, such as scholars.

According to the division of social classes in this world, this type of people is considered to be the middle class, and their ability to resist the wind is stronger than that of ordinary people, so this type of people will rarely become slaves.

"Moreover, it seems that more than two dozen have been sent today. I heard that they are all refugees from the Northland, and they just arrived at the dock today. Jason added.

"Another slave ship arrived at Manhill Harbor today?" asked Donner, frowning.

"Even today, several slave ships arrive at Manshire Harbor almost every day. Jason sighed, "Who knows how many refugees there are in the Northlands, and how many have been enslaved, but you may not know that there are thousands of refugees gathered around Manhill City today." ”

"So many?" exclaimed Donner.

"Yes! These are the first civilians from the Northland to flee. Jason said, "The city lord's mansion has ordered that refugees are not allowed to enter the city, and soldiers have been sent to guard them strictly, and if anyone enters the city, they will be killed on the spot."

So these refugees can only gather outside the city gates, and I heard that a large number of refugees are dying outside the city every day, and some people say that cannibalism has begun among refugees.

It's the end of October, winter is coming, and if the kingdom doesn't think of a way to settle the refugees, I'm afraid more refugees will die. ”

In fact, Jason didn't know that the refugees who fled south across the Onyx River had begun to despair, they gathered together, and the desire to survive made them begin to resist.

The war in the northern lands of the kingdom may cease, but another terrible crisis is about to sweep in.

Listening to Jason's words, Donner fell into deep thought.

Even if the Crescent Moon and Haihai No. 1 unload all the goods and load the maximum number of people, it will only be three or four hundred.

Saving a few people is just a drop in the bucket for the huge flow of refugees.

In addition to introducing a population to Cancer Island, the reason for Donner's purchase of slaves is actually to save some refugees.

This idea actually came from the moment I entered Manhill City. The miserable scene of the refugees made Donner, who has a modern mindset, feel extremely uncomfortable.

But Donner doesn't have the ability and the ability to save more lives, so recently, Donner has been reluctant to go out to the city, and chooses to stay in the shop and play chess with Diana.

He was running away, subconsciously choosing to turn a blind eye.

But today, Jason's words suddenly made him shudder.

Cannibalism, what a terrible word.

After a long time, Donner gritted his teeth and said, "Don't stop, keep buying." ”

"Captain, do you really want to continue buying?" Jason asked, "but our ship is running out of capacity, and I'm afraid we don't have that many silver coins." ”

"Keep buying. "It doesn't matter if our ship can't be loaded, let Hans go to the docks and hire a few boats to load the refugees, and when they are full, let the Sea One sail back to Cancer Island with them." ”

"What are the shipowners going to do? I'm afraid they won't dare to go to Cancer Island!" replied hesitantly.

"Hide it from them first, and when you get to the sea, you can't help them when you get to the area around Cancer Island. "In addition, we can raise the commission a little higher and give it double, but only pay half of it first, and wait until we return to Manhill Harbor to give the other half." For the sake of the silver coins of the white flowers, I believe they should not refuse. ”

"But we don't have the money. ”

"The money will be there. "There was also a lot of porcelain and glassware on the ship, and we brought it all to the shops." Glassware is sold in the store, and porcelain is ......."

Donner thought for a moment and said, "Find a few, pretend to be a foreign maritime merchant, secretly sell porcelain, and by the way, secretly reveal the location of Cancer Island, and tell them that the porcelain is sold there."

But remember, don't reveal that this batch of porcelain is sold by our Liberation Regiment, so as not to attract the attention of the Earl of Elinor. It doesn't matter if the price of this batch of porcelain is a little lower than that sold at Earl Elinor's Court. ”

"Captain, do you really want to do this?" asked Jason.

"Don't worry, it's okay. "It will cost us a lot of silver, but it's not an opportunity for us." ”

"Cancer Island is big enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, but there are only over 1,000 people on the island at the moment, which is far from enough. Porcelain kilns, glass kilns, paper mills, blacksmith shops, etc., all need population, especially in the land and wheat fields, and there is a shortage of population, so we take this opportunity to replenish the population. ”

"Besides, the silver coins were originally used to be spent, so what's the point of not spending them?" Don't you say?" After explaining, Donner asked the opinions of several people present, "If you have any opinions that you can put forward, we will discuss them together." ”

Hans and Matthew were silent, these things they had always looked at with Donald, Jason thought about it, he had no better way, and finally could only say: "Okay, then listen to the captain!"

"Alright, let's do it!" Downer said calmly, "and besides, I'd like to take a trip out of the city to see what the refugees are doing outside the city." ”

"Commander, this can't work, it's too chaotic outside. Hans and Matthew dissuaded.

Jason also said on the side: "Yes, Commander, it's too dangerous outside the city, and those refugees gather together, and it's easy to make trouble." Especially since they were very hungry at this time, and they were stopped outside the city by soldiers, and many of them were already occupied by hatred, and I heard that two merchants were killed by refugees outside the city yesterday, and their money and possessions were taken away. ”

"Don't worry, it's fine. Donner smiled and comforted, "I'll bring a few more guards." ”

Seeing Donner's resolute attitude, a few people didn't dissuade him, but privately arranged a few more guards to follow Donner, and told them to protect Donner carefully.

In the hearts of Hans and the others, Donner is their backbone, they can't live without Donner, and they believe that if people want to exchange Donner's life for their lives, several people will not hesitate to sacrifice their lives.