Chapter 66: The Reality of Helplessness
For a stubborn Captain Cao who believes that if he does not eliminate any unfairness, he will not be a qualified security officer. ~.In the imperial and feudal worlds, there will always be something that makes his blood go.
Human merchants have always been seesaws, swaying goods at both ends. Selling the things of the human world to the Beamon Empire at sky-high prices is only one aspect. On the other hand, even when they returned, they would also purchase a large number of products unique to the Beamon Empire, and transfer them to the human world at a high price, and their own compatriots' money would be earned.
Captain Cao was very pleased with the Empire's decision to raise the prices of many of the Empire's bulk trade commodities. They deserve to be at the top of the empire, just a sprout, they already know how to take advantage of the situation. But after all, the old system has been maintained on the Pan-American continent for thousands of years, and it is impossible to leap into a high level of egalitarian civilization overnight.
This is completely understandable to Captain Cao, but when he comes into close contact with the dross of this backward civilization, he may not be able to maintain this objective mentality. No matter how scheming and the city government are, Captain Cao is just a young man of twenty years old, he fits the characteristics of a qiē hot-blooded, and has a certain leftist ideology.
The adjustments made by the empire did not cover all export trade. Among them, the most sad thing for Captain Cao was the slave trade that was popular on the Pan-American continent.
Not only did the human empire exist in the slave trade, but so did the Beamon Empire. Slaves come from many sources, from the Bimon orcs, who were deprived of their freedom and human rights because of their crimes, to those who had to sell themselves because of their families.
What makes Captain Cao even more incomprehensible is that some relatively weak intelligent races, they are often targeted by those who are crazy just because they are weak, and become the target of the slave hunting group, and they are captured and forced to become slaves.
The slaves most representative of this regard are the darlings of nature. Genie. Because elves are naturally handsome for men and beautiful for women, this makes them the most popular and popular in the slave market.
Because of the huge population base and strong strength, human beings also occupy a monopoly position in slave hunting, and the slave market is most prosperous in the human world. They need all kinds of slaves to serve them, and even use this to show their wealth and status, so that the slave trade is very hot in the human world.
This boom, in turn, continued to promote the slave trade, which made the slave hunt an irreversible black industry. The slave hunters were spurned by the vast majority of the intelligent races, but no one would deny that they were also favored by the ruling class of the human world. The people who need slaves the most are the powerful in these ruling classes. This tendency was the root cause of the slave hunt that intensified on the Pan-American continent.
The Beamon Empire also had the phenomenon of slave poaching, but no slave hunter in the Imperial City of Sri Lanka dared to be so rampant. Unless they feel that they have nothing to love and no motivation to live.
The military strength of the Bimon Empire was undoubtedly strong enough, but the empire continued the tradition of large tribes scattered around the main cities. Moreover, the tribes were often very scattered among themselves, which gave the slave traders a great opportunity to take advantage of the slave poachers.
No matter how strong the military strength of the Beamon Empire is, it is impossible to maintain uninterrupted patrols every day, and can only fight slave hunters as much as possible. Not to mention the orc tribes that have not yet returned to the arms of the Empire, they are the most poisoned by the slave movement.
Beamon slaves have always been the best-selling item in the slave market. There are also many races known for their beauty, and the women of many races in Bimon are very beautiful and very valuable. The price of slaves of many Beamon races is not even inferior to that of elves, and there are quite a few slaves who are worth more than elves.
The same goes for male orcs. For example, Captain Cao's Ace donkey people are the same race, and they are the favorite slaves of many human noblewomen. Their ability to get a bed is well received and the price is not low.
If Captain Cao depreciates himself as a slave, he will gain the reputation of "the master of the house" by virtue of his popularity at the hero's night banquet. It will definitely make countless noble ladies fight to the death at the slave auction.
Strong, hard-working, and unpretentious Boer cattle men were also popular, and they were the favorite coolies of slave owners.
Another example is the Dace people of the Panglin tribe, both men and women, who are the best miners in the world. This is an orc slave with a natural race of professional skills. It is a vast land with abundant resources and abundant resources, and the human world is very lacking in professional human resources.
This is exactly the same as the slave society that Captain Cao knows, and the slave group is the most pitiful group in the world.
As long as they become slaves, they no longer have the most basic human rights, and they are inferior to the common people of society, and their lives are so low that they are not even comparable to the pets of slave owners.
Slaves were considered the private property of slave owners and could be bought and sold freely. Slave owners could force slaves to do any work without any pay. Even their lives belonged to the slave owners, and they were the most exploited and worthy of sympathy. Not to mention the slightest dignity in themselves, even their descendants are slaves from birth.
There are countless slaves in this world who die every day under the whips and butcher knives of slave owners, and no one cares about them, and this qiē is an inherent system and system.
The annual return of human business travel, of course, is also indispensable to the figure of slaves. Almost every human caravan was followed by hordes of slaves, most of whom were bought by these human caravans at auction on the slave market.
Captain Cao, who already regarded himself as a member of the Bimon orcs, couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness when he saw the figures of these orc slaves.
Large numbers of orc slaves of all races were chained in heavy iron chains, and staggered forward behind the sembodled human caravans. Many slaves were only a little slower in their steps, and they would be given old fists or leather whips by the caravan guards next to them or the mercenaries hired to act as guards.
Both orcs, male and female slaves, were almost unclothed and hungry, and many of them were even naked. In the harsh winter that has just passed, it is not even known how many orc slaves have died in the sheer cold. Starving or freezing a few slaves to death was a common occurrence, and the slave owners did not feel the slightest heartache.
Even the vast majority of the nobles of Beamon had the habit of buying slaves or keeping slaves, not to mention the insatiable rich people in the human world.
Even the Beamon orcs of Sri Lanka looked at these fellow slaves with a deep look, and they either turned their faces away and didn't look at them anymore, or they had indifferent expressions and cold gazes.
There are also sympathetic people, but few people have come out. The Bimon Empire also had extremely strict laws regarding slaves, and once you became a slave, it was a luxury and unattainable dream to restore yourself as a commoner.
Not only will they be treated as the private property of the slave owner and will be subject to the special law, but their bodies will be branded with the mark of the slave owner by a red iron. If traded, the branded flesh is also cut off and branded elsewhere in the body with the new owner's mark.
The law on slaves was common throughout the Pan-American continent, and slave laws were strictly observed even with each other. Once a slave tries to escape, as long as it is discovered, then the person who finds it has the obligation to cooperate in the capture and return it to the slave owner.
After that, it depends on the mood of the slave owner. In many countries, slaves were also sent to the battlefield in wartime to serve as cannon fodder on the front line, and even the army of the Beamon Empire had slave camps.
The orc civilians of Sri Lanka are more reluctant to see these figures, and they do not want to be part of this poor group for themselves or their children and grandchildren. The attitude is a little more extreme, and even regards these slave compatriots as ominous people, as if passing by them will be contaminated with bad luck, and often let them avoid them from a long distance.
These were all seen by Captain Cao, which made Captain Cao feel even more chilled. It is not overnight that a huge and deep-rooted system wants to be eradicated, it has even been seared into the hearts of everyone in the Pan-American continent, and it has also stabbed Captain Cao in the heart like a sharp sword.
In the past few days, Captain Cao's eyes have been a little red, especially when he saw the tears of those orc slaves walking in front of him with a sad face, that kind of sadness converged, so that Captain Cao, who had always been regarded as a wolf by human merchants and had no feelings, was silent from time to time.
Those devastated ** bodies are like sharp needles, constantly stabbing at his heart, and the pain is indescribable.
Even criminals should not be deprived of their basic human rights. Even if they do something wrong, will their descendants and children be implicated? This is too unfair! It is too unacceptable!
What's more, these slave compatriots are not necessarily lawless and disciplined to obtain this lowly status, many of them are kind and simple people at first glance, and it is only possible that they become slaves because of the pressure of life, maybe only because of a few living expenses, in order to keep their families from dying of hunger and cold in the cold winter. For such a reason, it is too bleak for them to sacrifice their dignity and even their lives to do so.
Captain Cao, who had gone through the blood sacrifice of the spirit of the beasts, also had the blood of the orcs flowing in his body, even if this blood-related relationship was imposed, it didn't matter anymore.
Captain Cao didn't know about the slave's storage for the first time, he knew it from the beginning. Why was there a poverty alleviation fund, and why did he vigorously encourage orc civilians to do business or find other ways out? Because he knew that it was impossible for his own strength to solve these problems, and to solve them fundamentally, he had to deal with the root cause of this stubborn disease.
It's a pity that the time is still too short, the day that Captain Cao is looking forward to is far from coming, and the road to realize what he wants is still extremely long...... (To be continued......)