Chapter 41: The Slave Traders
The tutorial in that book is not very difficult, after all, it is the most basic thing, Claire only took an hour or two to master a rough idea, there are so many Warcraft in her own world, although you can't use it now, it will definitely play a great role in the future.
For example, the mount used by the royal guards of neighboring countries is the griffon, which is one of the state secrets of the neighboring country, and few other kingdoms can master the method of controlling the griffin as a magical beast.
Claire pondered how she would have to get a few dragons for her knight team to ride in the future, it was impossible to ride a purebred dragon, that level of dragon would be a legendary creature of the Dharma Saint level once it became an adult, and there were no ashes left to blow Claire, who was now only an intermediate mage, with one breath, but it was still possible to get a few dragonborn, such as a two-headed dragon or something.
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Early in the morning, Claire woke up early in the morning, and generally speaking, mages don't need to sleep much, meditation can replace sleep.
After breakfast, led by Reagan, Claire walked to the construction sites, where the construction workers stopped their work and saluted Claire when they saw Claire coming.
"Lord Viscount Gui'an!"
Claire gave a friendly smile, "You're busy with you, I'm just here to take a look." ”
There are dedicated architects in the city, and Claire doesn't have to worry about that, just to see how the process is going.
The foundation has been laid, and the next step is to build a house on it, and Claire doesn't want a gorgeous building like in her previous life, as long as it can meet the needs of use, and it is estimated that these buildings can be built in a week at this pace.
The time is not outrageous, mainly because there are too many people, and as soon as the people in the territory heard that Claire was going to build a hospital and a school, they all ran over to help, and hundreds of people were busy in each building. If it weren't for the lack of light at night, they would have had to work two shifts.
Compared with the construction of hospitals and schools, underground sewage is much slower, after all, everyone has little experience in this area, and generally just throw sewage and garbage out of the door, where there is a pipeline system of sewage.
However, after Claire issued that announcement, the residents of Nafu City also spontaneously cleaned up the garbage and filth on the streets, at least Claire couldn't smell the pungent stench when she walked on the streets.
And under Claire's principle exposition and guidance, I don't know that those architects didn't understand it, they seem to have realized something, and these days they have been digging sewage pipes under the city of Nafjo, but they have made it look like Claire's impression.
Watching the city gradually change for the better in her own hands, a sense of pride rose in Claire's heart.
But before he could go shopping, Reagan reported something to Claire.
"Young Master! Slave traders came from outside the city. ”
This world is not only as simple as feudalism, there are many tribal orc gathering areas under the Western Orc Empire, and at the junction of the three central human kingdoms there is the Bright Empire based on religion, so although slaves are forbidden in some kingdoms, they are not forbidden in the kingdom where Claire is located, and even very openly, and some nobles have a lot of slaves in their homes for entertainment.
"Check it out." Claire said, confused.
Most of the slaves were taken from defeated countries, but Claire's kingdom was in the easternmost kingdom, and it was not as fierce as the border with some foreign kingdoms, so slave traders were rare, and even if they appeared, they were all in the prosperous royal capital or something, and it was even rarer to come to a remote place like their own viscountdom.
As soon as she left the city gates, Claire saw a long convoy of horses carrying rows of iron cages.
The iron cage is much larger than the iron cage in Claire's impression, and the slaves imprisoned in it are not the humans he imagined, they are some giants with horns over two meters tall, and their faces are not very ugly, but they are different from humans, more like ...... Cow face some.
"Minotaur?" Claire wondered.
When the slave trader on the side saw everyone Claire coming out, and a bunch of people were following him, they knew that this young man was the lord of this territory.
So he hurriedly put on a smile and stepped forward, "This young master is so personable, it must be Lord Viscount!" ”
"Hmm!" Claire replied casually, but her eyes were still looking at the minotaur in the iron cage, a creature he had only seen in anime.
As if he didn't feel Claire's perfunctory, the slave dealer pulled Claire to the side of the iron cage and introduced, "Is the Viscount interested in these minotaurs?" You can take one out of six gold coins, and I have twenty-three more here, so you can make one hundred and twenty gold coins! ”
Claire frowned, this price is not expensive, but he bought this group of minotaurs and didn't know what to do with it, could it be that he bought it for farming? Or increase biodiversity within Nafo City?
In the midst of hesitation, one of the people who came out behind Claire suddenly raised his hand and said, "Uncle! Do you have any beast ears for sale here? ”
Claire turned around suddenly, there was actually Furuikong among her people?
But then he still set his eyes on the face of the slave trader, and it was better to buy some beast-eared maids than to spend more than a hundred to buy a bunch of minotaurs.
"Uh......" The slave merchant scratched his head in embarrassment and explained, "Those orcs have already been sold when they were in the royal capital, so these minotaurs are kept." ”
His meaning is very clear, if it weren't for the fact that these minotaurs couldn't sell it, he wouldn't have pulled it to such a remote place to sell.
Originally, even if those nobles bought slaves for guards, they bought some wolf or cat warriors, and led a team of minotaurs out, which would be laughed at by other nobles.
Seeing the hesitation on Claire's face again, the slave merchant hurriedly said, "Don't worry, although there are no orcs...... That's what you call a beast-eared girl, but I have a half-elf in my hand, and you're not interested in it. ”
Hearing what the other party said, Claire became interested, "Take me to see." ”
The slave traders led Claire into an iron cage covered with sackcloth, much smaller than the cage where the minotaurs were kept.
The slave trader lifted the cage open, revealing the half-elves held inside, with fair skin, long, pointed ears, and delicate countenances that were exactly the same as Claire's impressions of elves.
The sackcloth was ripped open, and the sunlight pierced in, and the half-elf stretched out his hand to shield his eyes, so as not to be dazzled by the sun, and with a weak face, he glanced at the slave trader who uncovered the sackcloth, and then at Claire who was standing aside, and then curled up in the corner of the iron cage on the side, unable to care about the outside world at all.
"I'm right, this is the same as the elves in the Forest of Elves, do you think you're interested?"
"It stands to reason that a slave like a half-elf should have been sold in the royal capital a long time ago? How did you still ship here. Claire asked, looking directly into the other's eyes.
The slave merchant wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and said with a smile: "It seems that you can't hide anything from you, Lord Viscount, don't look at her weak posture, she has a very strong temperament, and she doesn't know the lingua franca, so those nobles in the royal capital didn't choose to buy her." But if you want to buy it, I'll give you a 50% discount, and you can buy it for 50 gold coins! ”
Claire glanced at the other party suspiciously: "What no one else buys, why do you think I will buy it?" ”
"Don't! I'll give you three discounts! Thirty gold coins, no matter how low it is, I won't be able to get it back! The slave trader pleaded, "And she knows a lot of things, elven magic, and healing......"
Hearing this, Claire's eyes flickered, and he secretly said in his heart: "Do you know how to heal?" It just so happens that his viscount is short of a doctor......"