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Zhan Ou is still very much the great spirit of thrift and thrift of the miser. Jumping," the dog rebuked the Janissaries.

Lorraine didn't have time to pay attention to him, and immediately ordered his boat to come up and get close to the captured transport.

By this time, the captured slaves had been brought to deck by tax collectors and Praetorian Guard soldiers. When he knew that he had been rescued by the Neyan army. The men burst into tears on deck.

Leo scolded until his throat hurt, and finally felt that the young mind that had been bullied by Catherine for a long time was much more relaxed, so he let out a long breath, and then waved his hand with a sense of accomplishment. Spared the group of Janissaries who were bloodied.

These Praetorian Guards scolded their colleagues in their hearts, you damn stinky hands, let the brothers scold for you, and go back to beat them in Lichun Courtyard.

Lorraine and their ship approached, and Leo was lying on the side of the ship, looking curiously at the slave in front of him.

He had seen the slave girls, and there were two in Lorraine's family, and the pair of elf sisters were no different from other ordinary maids except for the courage of the mouse, and the flat chest was like a bean bag.

And the real slave, the kind with shackles. Known as the talking animal, Leo had only heard of it, and had never seen it with his own eyes

At this moment, Leo blinked his big eyes and swept curiously through the group.

At this time, slaves were constantly being brought from the cabin to the deck.

Lorraine saw that the vast majority of them were women, especially the most young women and girls, and some of the young people, among these women, the elves were the most.

In addition to this, there are several) dwarf and human males, all wearing heavy chains.

The slaves were not dressed in their entirety. One by one, they hung on their bodies, everyone had scars on their bodies, even the children had bruises on their bodies, and two of the dwarves were not lightly injured, and they were wrapped in bandages.

That miserable appearance, if not to see it with your own eyes. It's really hard to believe that in this civilized society. There are people who can be so despicable. Abuse others in such a cruel way in exchange for pieces of gold.

The slaves were freed from the disaster, and most of them could not help but cry bitterly. And among those men, a few of them laughed happily. Even with difficulty. Ran over to the crew members, yelling at them, punching and kicking them.

Tax collectors and the Praetorian Guard handed the men water bottles, and the priests of the Praetorian Guard checked their bodies one by one.

Leo slapped the side of the ship and said fiercely, "Those slave traders, it's really unforgivable!"

Lorraine: "Hmm, nodded.

Leo pointed to the slaves and said loudly, "What a good labor these are, how many taxes can be paid for the empire, and they are actually sold as slaves." ”

He angrily pointed at the bound slave traders, and said solemnly: "Then who else are we looking for to collect taxes, how can this increase the gross national product, and how can it increase?"

Lorraine glanced at Leo, and was basically sure that this fart child, who seemed heartless and was always ravaged by a few women and girls, was indeed a genius child once in a thousand years, and a natural imperial talent.

He slapped Leo on the shoulder and said, "Yes, you say that. It's so right, we definitely can't let them go

Leo was right, Lorraine knew that the main reason for the empire's ban on slaves was that they could not collect taxes from these poor slaves, and their labor was contributed to the slave owners, and then used against the imperial power.

(The Civil War in the United States, for the same reason.) The black slaves couldn't even afford to drink tea because they worked, and the Yankees just produced things but couldn't sell them, so of course they didn't want to. ）

It took Lorraine herself twenty years to understand this. And that ruffian now just glanced at it, and by virtue of his natural intuition, he was already aware of it.

"But" this also shows that he has been taught, and Lorraine immediately thought intoxicatedly: "In this way, in fact, I am a little more genius?,

Lorraine's ship was soon joined by the Praetorian Guard's ship, and General Philip, who was directing the Janissaries' movements, jumped from the boat next to him.

Leo hurriedly greeted him and asked anxiously, "Have you caught them all?"

General Philip nodded and said, "Please rest assured, Your Highness, the Janissaries never make mistakes, we have already interrogated, there are a total of eighty-five slave traders and shipwrights on the two ships, and none of them have escaped." All the sixty-six slaves they captured were here

Lorraine nodded approvingly, although the Praetorian Guards did not participate in the assault just now, they blocked the entire water surface very densely.

In order to ensure that the whole operation can finally find out the big fish behind the scenes, none of these people can be let go.

"It's hard work, General, now we can dock, intensify the interrogation, we have to go out overnight. In addition, all public servants who signed their letters were first detained. The general can arrange his own manpower, and the tax collectors will lead the way. Lorraine then proceeded to deploy the following operations.

Leo looked at the slave traders, clenched his fists and said excitedly, "I've been looking forward to it for so long, and I'm finally addicted to raiding my house." ”

Then he turned to the Praetorian Guard behind him and shouted: "Everyone, the opportunity for wealth has come." Robbery of money, snatching of things, robbery of women went. This is the first time I've personally led the team, young master. Don't leak it out of me. ”

The Praetorian Guard's eyes were all green at the moment. They knew that this was going to grab something with the future emperor

In this case, even if it is a hundred years, it may not be possible to encounter the last one. This shows that this master didn't treat himself as an outsider, but all as a confidant.

"Your Highness, please," they immediately roared.

The tax collectors led by Graytan looked at each other. Xindao: Is this what the Propaganda Department has always said represents the hope of the bright future of the Ruman Empire?

They don't know that Leo has been out of the mountain. The first deal he did was to rob Lorraine and Vera, but he left without success.

And Leo is embarrassed to mention that his first vote business was a failure for the sake of his reputation.

Several transport ships lined up in a long line, and soon anchored at a pier outside Nedel City.

The people on board were taken to the yard next to the pier.

Boatmen and slave traders were dragged into their backyard houses.

Lorraine's demand was a war decision, and as soon as the news of the capture of these slave traders leaked, those who were on the line would immediately abscond, and it would be difficult for him to eradicate the slave trade again.

The information that Lieder could provide, that is, the news of these transports, and those who revealed this, the news to him.

As for the people who received slaves, as well as the people in charge of the sale, and the masterminds behind the scenes, these secret things need to be knocked out of the mouths of these people.

The Praetorian Guards are not good at interrogating this kind of thing, it is not their job in the first place

But the good thing is that there are still tax collectors. On the ability to interrogate. They're first-class players.

These warriors have a lot of experience in dealing with tax evasion and smuggling in the past.

The crowd did not take a break, so they began the interrogation work in an orderly manner.

The boatmen were easy to deal with. Capture, trafficking, and selling slaves are capital offenses. The tax collectors need not be frightened, these people are already stupid, knowing that what awaits them is a noose in Nedel Square, these people desperately want to atone for their crimes and avoid the death penalty.

The shipwrights soon gave Lorraine everything they knew.

The location of the slave traders, their destinations, the people with whom the owner had come into contact in the harbor, and so on, but these things were of little use to them in Lorraine.

Those slave traders, knowing that what they were doing were killing heads, were all outlaws, and some gritted their teeth and didn't say anything.

The tax collectors tossed for a long time, but no useful news came out, so they could only report to Lorraine helplessly.

Leo glanced at Gretan and the tax collector beside him, and said, "I knew you couldn't handle it." ”

Gretan and his subordinates glanced at each other, then bowed his head deeply, and said helplessly: "The subordinates are incompetent. ”

Although the tax collectors also used torture to extract confessions, they dealt with most of the businessmen, and if they were tough, they were just smugglers. Even after being arrested, there is no need for everyone to carry it to death.

Therefore, as long as the two sticks go down, everyone will recruit everything, and if the mouth is hard, at most two more cold water will be added.

Leo snorted with his head tilted back with his hands behind his back triumphantly, snorted, walked in front of Gretan, and said loudly, "Fortunately, I was prepared." Brothers, copy the fellows, and show them what we are doing in Freetown, and I don't believe it. Their mouths will be harder than those bandits. ”

The Praetorian Guard outside the door yelled, "Yes." ”

Then hurried to prepare.

Lorraine shook his head and said in his heart: I knew that this guy was crazy and couldn't live in peace.

Lorraine and Leo followed Gretan to the backyard where the slave traders were being held, surrounded by Praetorian guards and tax collectors.

Leo walked in front of the slave traders trapped on the ground with his hands behind his back, looked at them one by one, and then waved his hand and said, "Carry it in." ”

A group of Praetorian Guard soldiers snorted into the room with a large pile of things.

Lorraine turned his head and saw spicy water, tiger chairs, leather whips, soldering irons, nail boards, bamboo sticks, and clamping sticks. Clamping, iron virgin * female. Hammer. Chisels, datapieces, pliers, and so on.

Janissary soldiers in front of slave traders. They are putting these things on the table one by one, and each one will be thoughtfully demonstrated to these slave traders, so that they can know how these things are used.

Gretan and a room full of tax collectors were already stunned, the most powerful of these people were leather whips and buckets, where they had seen these advanced tools of the Yue era, and now they were sweating profusely, and they were unconsciously a little far away from Leo and them.

Leo looked at the prisoners, laughed loudly, and said, "My boss learned from his American friends about the 3,763 high-tech tortures in Abghraib Prison, I think you can survive a few, hahaha,"

Lorraine sighed in her heart, Leo is really learning and applying, which has risen to the height of psychological intimidation.

Slave traders are not afraid of death, but no one wants to be made to survive, to die, if these things are passed on that guy, then they will not be * humanoid.

One by one, they looked at Lorraine and Leo in horror, not knowing which unlucky man would fall into the hands of this cute-looking guy who was actually more terrible than a demon.

Lorraine glanced at the crowd for a moment. Look for the kind of people who look frightened and dodgy, have weak psychological defenses, and are easy to break. Then he pointed to one of them and said, "It's him, bring it to me." ”

The Praetorian Guard soldiers walked into the crowd with their sharp points, and the eagles grabbed the river. He dragged the man out of the crowd

The Praetorian Guard soldier ignored the man's shouting and dragged him to the ground in the middle.

Leo walked over to the table, looked at the strange torture instruments, tapped his fingers on his chin, and hesitated: "Which one should I use?" Forget it, it's better to kill softly, alas, I'm too merciful." Use sticky wax paper first. ”

The Praetorian Guard hurriedly agreed, and several men rushed to the table, and finally the two soldiers grabbed something, laughed and walked up to the slave trader.

They stripped the man naked from his upper body and pulled out a large piece of duct tape. Glued the man all over his body, and then picked up a corner and strained it

There was a pig-killing scream from the room.

Lorraine walked in front of the group of slave traders, and said lightly: "If you still don't recruit, you will give him spicy plate water, if the spicy comb water does not work, you will give him a red soldering iron, and if it doesn't work, you will use that iron virgin." ”

The Praetorian Guard soldiers shouted excitedly: "Yes, big yes"

Leo looked at it. But he hesitated for a moment and said, "Boss, what if it's an iron virgin?"

Lorraine sneered, and then said: "If the iron virgin is not good, then you will broadcast the Chinese foot to him live, I want to see if you are hard bones, or I am ruthless enough!"

The slave trader in the middle was foaming at the mouth. He fell to the ground and did not move.

Leo said disdainfully: "Phew, it's an outlaw, you can't beat any mercenary, it's at this level." Get him up. Go on

Lorraine turned to look at the group of slave traders in the corner. said: "I know that you are not afraid of death, and I don't know if you are afraid of death." ”

Lorraine stood still in front of the group of slave traders. He looked at them and said, "However, I am a very merciful person, and the one of you who provides the most information can be pardoned for his crimes."

Listen clearly, it is not a pardon of capital crimes, but a pardon of all your sins, and as long as the information provided satisfies me, he can walk out of here as an ordinary person. ”

Lorraine raised her index finger and said to the slave traders, "There is only one man."

Leo sighed and said, "There's no more to play now." Boss, why don't you discuss it, let me try a few more things. I've always wanted to see if you said that iron virgin was so. Put people in for three days before they die

The soldiers of the Praetorian Guard also looked very lost, as if their toys had been snatched away. Look at the torture instruments on the table, and look at the group of slave traders, all of them are dumbfounded, putting on a "don't agree".

Lorraine smiled at Leo and said, "Don't worry. Those who don't tell the truth and deliberately conceal them, as well as those who are eliminated in the end, will be yours when the time comes, whatever you want. ”

Leo clapped his palm, hey. smiled and said, "I knew that the boss would not treat my brothers badly." ”

Trapped in a slave trader crouching in a corner. Although they are all ruthless, it is chilling to see Lorraine and Leo decide their fate like toys.

One of the slave traders jumped to his feet and shouted, "I say, I say, I know it all." ”

The other person next to him stared at him with wide eyes and shouted at him, "Bastard, you dare!"

As he spoke, he staggered to his feet and rushed towards the man.

The Praetorian Guard soldier stepped forward and unceremoniously picked up his sword.

The back of the sword slammed into the man's back. Knock him to the ground in one fell swoop, and then step up and step on his head, the tip of the sword against the man's neck.

Lorraine kept calling out to the confessor, saying, "Drag him next door, and that person will play with you." ”

Leo nodded to Lorraine and sneered at him. Said: "Good, good"

Then he changed his expression for a moment, his chest was straightened, he crossed his waist with one hand, and pointed to the slave trader who was trampled under the feet of the Praetorian Guard soldiers, and said, "Fork him over for me, fork over, this time we won't play with the stick." There is no leakage at all, just start with the milk powder. ”

The rest of the thugs were also excited. Desperately shouted on the ground: "I am their head, I know better."

"I'm the boss's brother-in-law, and I know a lot. ”

"Phew, I'm my boss's lover and I know the most. ”

The people around him were dumb for a moment, and then stayed away from the man.

"Okay, my sister always said that my brother-in-law has a vixen outside, so it turned out to be you. But the brother-in-law stopped doing it, and jumped forward angrily, wanting to fight, but his hands were tied, and he had to hit the man with his head.

Lorraine vomited in disgust and said, "I'll vomit first, and you will take the confession away."

Life is precious, if possible. No one wants to die, Lorraine puts a chance to live in front of this group of slave traders who are bound to be hanged, for those slave traders who don't want to die, it is a lifesaver after drowning, and it is desperate to catch it.

In particular, Lorraine is still very clear about the standards set by them. Whoever provides more information will be able to live.

These people are like pouring beans, saying what they know and don't know, in order to screen what is true. Those false news, those tax collectors have spent countless brain cells, with their testimony day to corroborate, or directly confront them, and those who are caught telling lies are immediately thrown to the Praetorian Guards and tax collectors who are eager to try it on the side. (To be continued)