Chapter 167: The Mysterious Southern Barbarian Realm
The Southern Barbarian Realm is a very mysterious place bordering the Central Plains Realm. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis place belongs to the obvious karst landform, the scenery is very beautiful, there are countless stone forests and stone mountains. It's just that there is not much land that can be cultivated, so most of the living conditions of the Nanban tribes are mainly based on raising livestock, hunting and doing business.
Due to the completely different living conditions of the inhabitants of the Central Plains Realm, the land of the Southern Barbarian Realm could not support too many people. Although the Southern Barbarian Realm is wide, it is sparsely populated. In normal times, most of the residents here have little contact, and only at the end of the month at the assembly do they gather. The assembly was organized by the Voodoo shamanism of the native Nanban. Most of the local residents of Nanban believe in voodoo shamanism, so the influence of shamanism is still large enough.
If this is such a sparsely populated place, why is the Church of the Holy Son able to plunder so many mortals here? I'm sure you'll have guessed the answer.
Such a plundering of mortals like a strong man is obviously a very laborious work, and the reason why the Holy Son Church can efficiently obtain mortal resources is of course inseparable from the local voodoo shamanism.
In fact, voodoo shamanism has been associated with many sects that have received Liangshan Hero posts. They give these sects a certain number of mortals, and then they receive a lot of valuable income.
This kind of trade is extremely dirty, and after all, it is about human ethics, because the mortals who are traded also have their relatives and friends. But why didn't the people of the Nanban tribes resist? Could it be that they were all hard-hearted?
The answer is no. Because they would never betray their friends and relatives. In fact, the leaders of the various Nanban tribes have already acquiesced in the existence of this kind of business, and this business has been turned into an industry.
Industry? Yes, it is industry.
Is human trafficking also a recyclable industry? Yes, it is. It's just that this is really bottomless, and only these uncivilized people in the Nanban tribe can do it.
In fact, in a sparsely populated place like the Nanban tribe, it is basically difficult to organize a usual pastime, even if you want to gamble for money, watch a play or something, it is very difficult to organize. As a result, they were left with only two pastimes. One is eating, and the other is a woman.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with eating, and what you eat is fine as long as you pull it out. But women are different. In an inter-tribal war, the losing side has to be the slave of the victorious tribe with all its women. Therefore, in the idle families of each of their large tribes, there would be a large number of female slaves.
In this way, the result can be imagined, because if you play with women, it will really kill people. If a female slave girl is pregnant, there is basically only a dead end waiting for them, because if you raise a child, it is really a big expense. So they chose to kill the pregnant woman with one sword, and they were all gone.
This is true of the vast majority of criminals in the world, and disrespect for life is their most common characteristic. Because he doesn't treat the other party as a human being, he can do such a dehumanizing thing to others. But if you look at how they look in the family, most of them are pretty good people.
However, about three hundred years ago, after the emergence of a group of sects that had already received the Liangshan Hero Post, this problem was solved. That is to have the slave girls give birth to the children, and then raise the children to the age of thirteen or fourteen, and finally sell them to the sects that need mortals.
In the eyes of all the monks, mortals are lowly and should not exist. However, when one day the monks learned that mortals also had value, they naturally squeezed the value out of it. It's just that this kind of exploitation has become a solid and fishing, and it has become unscrupulous.
Today, the industry has taken on a huge scale. Moreover, in the clan wars, it is no longer just women who are treated as slaves. Even some men who excelled in procreation were treated as slaves. Because all the tribes have tasted the sweetness in this chain of trade. This kind of life is too tiring to be lived, and it is not as practical as human trafficking.
They used the cheapest food to feed a mortal until he reached adulthood, but it only cost more than twenty taels of silver. But selling a mortal to those sects can get three lower-grade spirit stones.
Generally, a low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for five hundred taels of silver. Therefore, if you feed one person, you can get fifty or sixty times the profit.
It is often said that life is priceless, but that is for your own life. If life is someone else's, it really has a price. At least there are really people who calculate the value of human lives one by one like this. And, quite a few. Even, there are people around you who are engaged in such a business.
If you feel sad, then I'm sorry. Because that's the case, if you think about it, you can find a lot of similar things.
If you think you want to change that, I'm sorry too. Because throughout human history, this kind of thing has been used repeatedly by people, and until now, it is not uncommon. Before, you called this thing a slave. But now, they're just a big change of term. They're so smart that you don't even notice you're in the system.
Therefore, it is still a sentence, existence is reasonable. Whether you like it or not, it's still happening.
Anyway, things will change, but at most it's just a cycle. However, after three hundred years of unscrupulousness, it was their turn to transform.
Because the entire class of the Nanban tribe has been divided into two. One was the slave-owning class at the top of the clan, and the other was the slave class at the bottom of the clan.
The slave class is fixed, and once enslaved, it will never be able to turn over. However, the slave-owning class was not fixed. Because if the tribe is defeated, then they will naturally become a slave class.
For three hundred years, the Nanban tribes have had business dealings with various sects, so the tribes have also been harmonious. Because once people have money, then they will value their lives even more. The risk of inter-tribal wars is enormous, and if defeated, they become slaves. So none of them can afford to take that risk.
Although there are open and secret battles between various tribes, they all choose to maintain a superficial harmony and try not to choose to fight each other.
But there is a limit to human tolerance, and there is no shortage of fools in every era, especially when a class has been solidified for three hundred years, that is, more than ten generations of peace, and there will be more and more fools.
And the fool incident that happened this time became the fuse for the entire Southern Barbarian Realm to be poisoned by the flames of war.