Although it was the second time he had come here, Joseph couldn't help but look a little ugly when he saw these slaves:

Along the way, he saw that most of these slaves were young and strong, and there were also some old and weak and even parents and children. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Several of the children had childish faces, and they looked about the same age as Xiao Maoton, but their bodies were extremely thin, and their faces were even more panicked and uneasy.

"Alright, boss, come with me, these are just ordinary slaves, not the kind of slave warriors we want to buy!" Gould glanced at Joseph, apparently sensing that something was wrong with Joseph's face.

The fat man just sighed, and then patted the young boss on the shoulder: "Let's go, scenes like this, I don't know how much I have watched in the empire since I was a child." Alas, as long as there is a war or famine, such slaves will multiply, and they will get used to seeing too much, they are just civilians, and they cannot control or change anything......"

When Jose heard him say this, his face suddenly changed slightly, but he didn't say anything after all.

The two of them quickly walked inward along the high platform in the square, and on both sides of the road, in addition to the various high platforms for the slave trade, in some corners of the street, there would also be some people of other identities. The men were of all ages and genders, ranging from half-sized men who looked to be in their teens, to old men with gray hair. But without exception, they all tied a strip of cloth to their arms, and their expressions looked very indifferent, gathering together in twos and threes, and their eyes looked back and forth at the passers-by.

"These people are not slaves, they are all people who have come to the slave market to try their luck!" Gould looked at these people and explained to Joseph, "These people are not slaves themselves, but poor people who choose to sell themselves into slavery because of their poor life. Do you see that white cloth tied around their arms? It means that they are willing to sell themselves, and if the price is negotiated, they will make a pact with you to make themselves your slaves.

Of course, most people still don't want to be slaves, so they will tie a black cloth around their arms, which means that they are willing to give their labor and craft for you in exchange for money, but there is no fact of master and servant.

After all, compared to a free people, not many people want to be a slave without status. And once you become a slave, not only your own generation will be a slave, but your next generation will also be slaves, unless you are pardoned by your master. Slaves had almost no rights under imperial law, so few people were willing to become slaves unless they were cornered. ”

When Joseph heard him say this, he looked at the people on the side, and sure enough, most of them had black cloth tied to their arms, and only a few had conspicuous white cloth tied around their arms.

But looking at the men, José did find a few guys wearing samurai medals! Most of them were dressed in shabby shabby samurai uniforms, and they had a sword in their arms, and some of them had no sheath in their hands, and some of them were still rusty. However, these guys looked extremely serious, standing aside with their swords in their arms, and most of the samurai badges they wore on their chests were of one or two levels.

Gould couldn't help but sigh at this moment, it was obvious that in a place like the imperial capital, it was not easy for a warrior to survive. As the capital of the Bright Empire, a large number of high-level warriors and knights have gathered here, and some low-level warriors have a more stressful life.

A mid-level warrior can only be reduced to a noble protector and the like, and a low-level warrior can only make do with some chamber of commerce guards or perform hiring tasks to get some living expenses.

José saw a lot of warriors on both sides of the street, some young and some middle-aged, but all of them were low-ranking warriors.

"Since they are samurai, why did they get mixed up to such a down-and-out level? Even if they are all low-level martial artists, but at least they are martial artists with regular samurai status, and the martial arts of these people are at least much better than ordinary people, right?

If they are willing to join the army, the four major military regions in the Bright Empire are all in need of troops, especially the central fortress closest to the imperial capital. I heard Su Ya say that there are recruitment notices there almost every year, and these low-level martial artists in the imperial capital may not have the strength to be favored by the powerful, but with their martial arts, it must be quite easy to enter the military camp, right?"

When Gould heard Jose say this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head: "That's what I said, but that's not the case. You must know that the Bright Empire has a history of hundreds of years, but the samurai group has long been less valued than it was at the beginning of the founding of the country. Especially with the rise of the Magic Union, the magic civilization of the mainland flourished in the Bright Empire, and the spirit of the samurai declined.

In such a realistic situation, the survival and development of a samurai is even more difficult, and even the identity of a high-level martial artist is difficult to compare with a high-level magician. Some warriors even willingly become the subordinate samurai of the magician for the sake of profit, which is even more disdained by many warriors who believe in chivalry. ”

When Gould said this, his tone couldn't help but be a little more complicated.

After all, he is also a samurai himself, although he is now a sixth-level knight, relatively speaking, he has already stepped into the ranks of high-level martial artists. But when he said this, he shook his head, and said with some disdain in his eyes:

"There are also some samurai with extreme thoughts, who have the so-called 'dignity of a warrior', thinking that even a low-level warrior is a person with a samurai identity, and if they engage in those professions that ordinary people can do, how can there be any samurai status, and won't the samurai spirit decline even more?

Hmph, but this remark of being a master and a low master is regarded as a model by some low-level martial artists, who think that they are samurai, samurai with a formal rank!

They can't tolerate being in the army as such a warrior, but being called around by some small leaders from ordinary backgrounds, which is a loss of dignity and bearing of a warrior. Compared to this, they would rather stand on the streets here and try their luck, even if it is to follow a mercenary group or a samurai regiment, or even to be a lowest-level bodyguard in the Chamber of Commerce, that is the identity of a warrior!

If you really want to be a soldier, you must at least be a low-level officer!

But at present, the empire has almost no big war except for the northwest and Lingbei, even if he participates in the army, he may not be transferred to these two places, and the northwest and Lingbei have their own garrisoned legions, even if it is such a big thing as this northwest war, the main combat task is also undertaken by the Moxi Army, so it is difficult to be promoted in the war.

From a small soldier to a low-level commander, unless it is on the border where wars are fought all year round, but this is the imperial capital, even if it goes to the central fortress, the army is transferred once every three years, how long does it take to survive from a small soldier?

You know, I was in the Central Army for nearly eight years, and I had made a lot of achievements in Lingbei Province, but I only got a battalion officer and a flag commander......

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