Chapter 392: Trivia (I)
A few days later, many rumors of Lelouch had already circulated in the Free City, such as members of the royal family of the Karls-Thamen Empire, descendants of a hermit family, merchants from another continent in the world, and so on.
The 1.5 billion rion deal was made in one day, and this huge amount of money made the intelligence network of various forces in the Free City active, and many spies and spies went around chasing information about the Lamperuki family. However, many people only get one bit of information now, that this Lulouch Lamperuki also has a sister named Buyani Lamperukchi, who is said to be a noble girl with a face more beautiful than an elf, both in temperament and etiquette.
Outside the hotel where Lelouch and his party stayed, attendants from various chambers of commerce kept sending invitations, inviting the 'two brothers and sisters' to dinner and parties.
Alyssa was busy helping Lelouch look through the large number of invitations and analyze which ones needed to be entertained, and which could be ignored. Today, this usually energetic business girl finds herself a little too busy, and the current situation reminds Alisa of the situation when she formed the Chamber of Commerce, but back then she had a henchman in the family to help deal with it, and now she has to do it all by herself.
"As for the formation of the Chamber of Commerce, the recruitment of personnel for each department will start tomorrow. ”
Lelouch is also as busy as Alyssa, although he knew from the beginning that he needed to start from scratch, but this is too 'white', he doesn't have too many professionals on hand, the trickster LeBlanc will be a secret card in the future, Lelouch didn't consider letting her appear in public in the newly built Chamber of Commerce, during this time, LeBlanc was always secretly doing his own business outside, and only came back occasionally to report.
Speaking of recruiting people, Alisa couldn't help but have a headache: "Your Excellency Lelousio, I have to remind you, now we have no trustworthy manpower at all, if you want to recruit people in the Free City, with all due respect, according to the influence you have caused before, nine out of ten people in the Chamber of Commerce we can recruit now, except for slaves, are spies and spies. ”
"What about the rest of us?" asked Lelouch with a smile.
"Fraudster!"
Buyani, who sat next to Lelouxiu and played the role of his sister, laughed, just as Alyssa said, it is probably impossible to recruit trustworthy people in the free city now. There were a lot of chambers of commerce and people of various forces out there who were eager to stuff a bunch of spies and spies here, but Elisa's worries were completely unexpected.
"It doesn't matter, the recruitment of personnel is still held as usual, but ┉┉" Lelouch inadvertently covered his left eye and said in a cold tone: "All the recruited personnel need me to see it personally!!"
Alisa's heart suddenly tightened and nodded subconsciously, and at that moment just now, Alisa felt that the mysterious young man in front of her exuded an extremely ominous aura, just like an extremely distorted obsession.
"I understand His Excellency Lelouch. Then the basic labor force in the chamber of commerce ┉┉ can use ordinary slaves, right?"
"Slave┉┉"
Hearing this word, Lelouch couldn't help but stop writing in his hand: "Isn't there no labor force other than slaves?"
"Most of the basic labor force in the Free City is made up of slaves, and if you use ordinary citizens other than slaves as labor, the cost will increase exponentially, and generally speaking, other chambers of commerce, including our Westphalian family, porters, coolies, and stevedores are made up of slaves,"
The words slavery and slavery are not unfamiliar to Lelouch, his homeland Britannia has enslaved the whole world by force in disguise, once set off a war with his homeland in District 11, and used the power of Geass to control many people in order to realize his dreams, and he did the same thing as Britannia, which he hated. But he never gave up on his dream of building a gentle and peaceful world. A world where his sister Nanali can live in peace. If you want to change the world, you need strength, and your hands will inevitably be covered with blood in the process.
In this case, I don't mind being cursed as a demon king by future generations!
In a moment's thought, Lelouch agreed with Elisa's proposal: "Then use slaves." ”
Early the next morning, Lelouch and Alyssa set off for the slave market in the outer city of the Free City, and when he learned that he was going to buy slaves, Kenjiro's expression in the world of "Hokuto Fist" became subtle, obviously the savior of the end of the world is sensitive to the word slave, Kenjiro almost unabashedly showed a look of opposition. Gus, on the other hand, was very calm, after all, Gus, who had been a mercenary, had been a slave for a while because of his defeat, and although he finally escaped by kidnapping the foolish son of a city lord, it was almost commonplace for Gus to call the vanquished, the poor, and the aliens as slaves.
For Kenjiro's over, Lu Lu Xiu only reluctantly explained a little. If you want to change the world, you must first integrate into this world, and without power, all dreams will be empty talk. And Kenjiro is not a martial artist who only knows how to be brave. I also agree with Lelouch's opinion, but I just hope that Lelouch will not enslave these people too much.
Kenjiro's request for this request Lelouch agreed.
On the way to the slave market, Lelouch once again felt that there were still people following him, and the number was much more than at the beginning, and the quality of the stalkers was also multiplied, but fortunately, this time the other party also seemed to have some scruples, and did not follow closely as before, but just watched from a distance. Although it is not a good thing to be followed, this is what Lelouch hopes for now, and the upper echelons of the Free City have been integrated into the city as quickly as possible.
The crystal dragon Buyani originally wanted to join in the fun with Yiqiē, but Lelouch seems to have decided to accept Buyani as his 'sister'. At first, Buyani appeared as an elegant and pure aristocratic lady, so Lelouch refused Buyani's request to accompany her, after all, a pure and beautiful aristocratic girl from a long-established and famous family who did not understand the sinister world should not appear in a dark place like the slave market.
'Buyani~ I want you to play the role of an aristocratic girl who doesn't eat the fireworks of the world like an angel!
After being ordered by Lelouch like this, the crystal dragon girl who was cocooning herself had no choice but to give up and continue to stay bored in the hotel. But when she thought of the role she was going to play in the future, Buyani couldn't help but secretly laugh.
Speaking of slave markets, in novels, this kind of place is always described as a wonderful scene of a large group of cute and helpless beautiful girls standing together, waiting for a certain protagonist to come to their rescue. But in fact it is a place where human beings are bought and sold like goods. Full of violence, barbarism and blood, it can be said to be the darkest side of the evolution of civilization.
The deformed prosperity of the free city can be said to be based on the corpses and blood of countless slaves, and every year the free city guò buys prisoners of war, buys and sells bankrupt people, and captures foreign peoples to obtain a large number of slaves, but this city built by enslavement and oppression is ironically named "free".
After the end of the era of the overlord Garseric, after the independence of the mainland regions, the continuous wars caused by the division of national borders and interests created countless displaced people and captives, and it was a common means to feed the war by war. The free city also sprung up in this turbulent era to form today's scale, but now because of the development of the Holy See, the war in the eastern part of the continent has ended, and the countries are in a period of relative peace, and the most recent war is also the battle between the Carl Cermen Empire and the Kingdom of Kreses for the disputed territory, which has ended with the victory of the Carl Sulmen Empire under the intervention and mediation of the Holy See, and the two sides have not broken out into a full-scale war.
The merchants, who had difficulty obtaining slaves in peacetime, originally wanted to take the opportunity to obtain supplies, but Augusta, the prince of the Karlssermen Empire, adopted a policy of softness, not only did not enslave the people in the occupied areas, but even gave amnesty to the prisoners of war, which not only allowed the Karlshamon Empire to quickly consolidate its control over the occupied areas, but was even highly affirmed and praised by the Holy See.
Speaking of the Holy See. If the holy capital in the western part of the continent opposed a qiē slavery, the constant rebellion of all kinds of slaves was the object of the most hatred of the slave merchants in the free city. Then the idea of human supremacy of the Holy See in the east also gave the slave traders a headache, under the concept of the Holy See, every human being is a child protected by the goddess, and they are all unique beings, born equal. The Holy See does not oppose the enslavement and exclusion of non-human alien peoples, but it will never allow any believer to enslave his fellow citizens. The Holy See, which almost monopolized the faith in the eastern part of the continent, has never lacked fanatics, and when the slave traders walked on the mainland, whenever they passed through a city with a church, they would always be surrounded by countless believers of the 'Lord', and when they found out that the slaves they were sold were humans, these merchants who did not go far would definitely be taught a lesson with sticks and then hung from a tree to watch, and those human slaves would be very lucky not to pay a rion to get free.
For this reason, the trade of human slaves can only take place in the Free City, a fallen city that seems to have been abandoned by the gods. In the eastern part of the continent, countries with papal beliefs do not dare to openly use humans as slaves, and even the Westphalian family of Alyssa only dares to play in the free city. In the kingdom of Bellama, the Westphalian family can only use legal alien slaves such as elves and dwarves at most.
With Elisa's explanation, the carriage finally arrived at the bloodiest and darkest part of the city, on the way Lelouch had seen through the curtains a number of prisoner carts escorting slaves, looking at the faces full of fear or completely numb, Lelouch couldn't help but turn his head and try not to see such a thing.
Upon arrival at the checkpoint, the group had to get out of the carriage and be checked, and the slave market was one of the most heavily guarded places in the Free City. In order to prevent spies from the Holy Capital from sneaking in, the inspection was quite severe. Luckily, however, the impact of Lelouch's previous big deal made the inspection much easier, at least in the eyes of the guards, no spy should be able to make a deal of 1.5 billion riens in one day.
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