Returned to his residence with Seth, although the big-headed guy was still full of curiosity about Dewey, but before leaving, Deacon Clark had sternly reminded this Seth, telling him to follow the orders of this Duwey mage from today onwards in everything in the future. "It's like treating your teacher. That's how Clark described it.

Of course, it turns out that Seth has a teacher, and his teacher has a pretty good position in the Magic Guild. It was the guy who once entered the frozen forest with Gargamel, but after meeting Medusa, he tricked Gargamel and ran away first--Mage Azi.

However, Seth had no status under Aziz in the first place, otherwise he would not have been sent out to sell wands. As an eighth-level magician in the Magic Guild, Azi has many magic apprentices under his command, and there is no shortage of Seth.

Therefore, from now on, Seth can be regarded as a change of door and officially joined Du Wei's door.

"What's the matter, Seth. Du Wei saw that this big-headed guy was a little strange, and Wen Yan asked, "What are you thinking?"

"No, no, it's nothing, Du Wei...... Mr. Du Wei. Seth honestly called Dewey "Teacher" in accordance with the tradition of the Magic Guild. However, this title made Du Wei frown a little when he heard it.

"Seth. Du Wei stopped and looked at the genius in magic research who he had abducted: "I don't need you to call me teacher. ”

"But it's the ...... tradition," Seth whispered, "In the Magic Guild, all apprentices in magic are required to call their allegiance to the magician 'Teacher'. ”

"But I'm not your teacher. Du Wei shook his head: "You are not my student either, and I have nothing to teach you." I brought you here because I need your mind, and even exaggerate you to say that I need you to teach me something. Hehe......" Seth panicked.

Du Wei patted the wooden guy. looked at him and smiled, "Okay." You'll understand later, I value your talent, and I hope you can use your talent to help me accomplish a lot of things. ”

Then, regardless of Seth's expression, Du Wei pointed to the front of the street: "Look, my place has arrived." ”

In front of it is Du Wei's current temporary residence. This was originally an annex that belonged to the Great Prince. It is said that in the past, it was used by the great prince to hide the beauty of the golden house. Of course, this is a rumor, and no one knows if it is true.

Du Wei didn't care either, he was leaving Dìdū anyway.

This mansion is not small, and when Du Wei moved in, the servants inside and the people who originally guarded the mansion had all been dismissed with the fall of the eldest prince. Du Wei didn't think about finding someone again. Now there is an old servant Made, and two servants of the original Rowling family, after the Rollin family moved back to the Lorraine Plain, they were unwilling to leave Dìdū, so they stayed behind and remained under Du Wei for the time being.

In addition, the current family of people. There's also Vivien, Gargamel the Mouse, and Lord QQ.

However, the existence of Gargamel and QQ is still a secret to everyone, and only Du Wei knows about the existence of these two guys.

After returning to the worse death, Du Wei saw Vivian, a little girl, actually standing at the door of the house, sitting quietly on the steps of the gate. Holding her chin with her hands, she looked at the end of the street pitifully, probably because she had loved you for too long, and the little silly girl was a little dazed, and she didn't even notice Du Wei's walk.

"Why are you here?" said Du Wei smiled, looking at Vivien, who was sitting on the steps in a daze.

In fact, he was quite happy to see Vivien go out. Since that day I went from "Brokeback Mountain"

After bringing Vivian back, this little girl, who was already weak, suddenly learned the news of her teacher's death, and has been locking herself in her room since she came back. Every day is sullen.

Du Wei went to see her several times a day, but every time. The little girl was silent, with a sad face, Du Wei also tried to tease her, and every time Ke Hos said and talked, this little girl suddenly burst into tears. In the end, Du Wei had no choice but to let her rest quietly in the room by herself. I guess when the incident passes day by day, the pain in my heart will always dissipate.

Sure enough, seeing that Vivian finally went out today, and was still sitting at the gate of the house, Du Wei walked up, reached out and tapped her head gently, squinted his eyes and smiled: "Hey, are you in a daze? Didn't you hear me?"

Vivian raised her eyelids, blinked her eyes twice, looked at Du Wei, gradually came back to her senses, then stood up, rubbed her somewhat sore knees, and said in a low voice: "You, you took the test, did you pass the test?"

Xiao Nizi still has a weak face, but the pain in her eyes has faded a lot, and her tone still has concern for Du Wei.

Du Wei smiled, and his tone softened a lot: "Are you sitting here waiting for me?"

"I ...... I'm worried about you. Vivien's face turned red and she lowered her head: "Magic test, assessment, it's difficult, I'm worried about ......"

Du Wei patted his chest, which had a magic apothecary's badge hanging on it, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, you see, this is my badge, and now standing in front of you is already a qualified magician." ”

Vivien's eyes widened as she looked at the Potions Master badge on Dewey's chest, but before the little girl could speak, Dewey had already strode into the house with Vivien in one hand. After taking two steps, he turned his head to look at Seth: "What are you doing here?"

Mader also quickly ran out of it, and Du Wei instructed Mader to take Seth in: "Let him pick a room by himself, anyway, there are so many rooms here, alas, it will be deserted at night, like a haunted house." ”

Ma De nodded, and was about to go down, when he suddenly remembered something, turned around and said: "Young master, Miss Ruolin has been here, she said that there are some things in our shop, and the business has been good recently, but there is a little shortage of manpower, if you can, she wants you to go to the shop to have a look, and besides, she seems to be not very satisfied with the two craftsmen in our shop now...... Also, the four quadruplets you sent to the shop, it seems that Miss Ruolin is not very happy with them either. ”

Du Wei nodded: "Made, I know...... Well, there is one thing you should remember, don't say anything about "Miss Ruolin" in the future, remember, she is a knight, and when you want to mention her on any occasion in the future, you have to say "Your Excellency Knight Ruolin", remember? This is very important. ”

Ruolin did have some troubles.

Although she is now following the right boss, and judging from the trend, Du Wei, the boss, is rising step by step, and the future is bright. Moreover, Du Wei also trusted Ruolin very much, and had decided to completely hand over the business of dìdū to Ruolin to manage.

However, Ruolin did not like the work.

Essentially, she prefers to manage the pirates, at least to take the fleet on the seas, through the wind and rain, and the kind of adventure full of novelty and excitement that makes Ruolin more excited—rather than now wearing ridiculously gorgeous armor every day, circling around a group of hypocritical aristocrats.

However, Ruolin still obeyed Du Wei's arrangement, she was a smart woman, and she saw the difficulty of the current lack of manpower in Du Wei's hands. Although this young master is rising very quickly, he started too quickly, his foundation is not strong, and he lacks available people, which is a fatal wound for Du Wei at present, and if this problem is not solved, it will cause great trouble to Du Wei's development.

Therefore, Ruolin still obeyed.

She managed the business with all her heart, and she showed her abilities completely, and she walked around batch after batch of nobles every day, and she didn't need to sacrifice a little bit of her appearance once in a while, as she did when she walked the rivers and lakes...... Thanks to Du Wei for packaging her image, in fact, now Ruolin only needs to deliberately maintain a cold look, and those nobles come around like flies.

Ruolin felt that she was too busy to eat. Although I know that today is Young Master Du Wei's rì who went to the magic union for assessment. However, this clever female knight has a lot of confidence in Du Wei...... Just kidding, she knew too much about the young man's methods. So, in the morning, she didn't even make a gesture of concern to care about Du Wei's assessment results, but stayed in the shop to deal with some things.

At present, the business is very good, in just a few days, it has brought Du Wei an income of more than 500,000 gold coins, deducting the cost of the initial investment, just in these three days, Du Wei has made a net profit of one million gold coins.

Without the exploitation of the black-hearted merchants in the middle layer, Du Wei's fleet could continuously transport the goods that those mercenary adventurers had hunted from the frozen forest directly to Dìdū from the side. The freshest goods, plus a slightly lower price. and Du Wei's current reputation in the aristocratic circle, so that in just three days, almost half of the entire shipload of goods brought by Ruolin last time had been sold.

In the morning, she had already sent someone back as fast as possible to deliver a letter to the ship anchored in Walker Harbor, so that people could continue to go north to purchase and deliver the goods to Dìdū.

And then, she finally waited for Du Wei.

Du Wei came with Wei Wei'an. Since this little girl is finally willing to go out of the room, then she can't continue to be alone at home, take her out for a walk. It's also good for soothing your mind.

Vivien was interested in the various goods from the frozen forests of the north in the industry run by Du Wei, and from the eyes of a magician, Vivien found many things useful.

Leaving Vivian there to choose slowly, Du Wei and Ruolin went to the upstairs room and talked carefully for a while.

Ruolin first talked about several problems she is currently facing.

First of all, there is a shortage of manpower. Since it was a business for the aristocratic group, there was also a need for some trained waiters in the store...... Those nobles are not ordinary people, if they go to the slave market and buy a few people back, they will not be trained in the etiquette of childbirth, and people will talk about it behind their backs. It will also lose Du Wei's face. The aristocracy was still very particular about this.

Actually, the problem of craftsmen. Most of the goods shipped from the north were raw materials, although Du Wei had already hired a few good craftsmen at a high price in Dìdū before he opened, including blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, and a few carvers. But it's not enough.

The furs of those monsters are to be made into jīng beautiful costumes. Fur fur everyone, it's not just a matter of sewing and mending. While the aristocracy paid attention to the material, they also paid great attention to the novelty of the style, and this aspect was obviously insufficient.

And those precious magic cores, although most of them have been ordered by the magic union, some wealthy families will also come to purchase them to calculate the magicians recruited in their own families. There are also some weapons......

When it comes to weapons, this is what makes Ruolin the most troublesome.

At present, the materials stored in the warehouse are all high-quality goods, but the strength of the two blacksmiths under his command is too ordinary. Moreover, there are too few people. Just last night, these two mediocre blacksmiths damaged two scales of the earth dragon while forging equipment, and accidentally destroyed a slender stabbing sword designed for the most popular nobles at present when they were quenching, because of the lack of heat.

The two blacksmiths have actually worked hard, but their talent is really insufficient. And although they had also built weapons in the first place, they had never touched so many high-quality materials.

These are just the current problems, and the ...... that makes Ruolin the most angry It's the quadruplets of the four female magic apprentices from Duvese!

The four beautiful quadruplets were originally the pets of men worth millions of gold coins, but Du Wei didn't seem to have any interest in these four girls, and after the store opened, he directly threw these four women under Ruolin's hands.

Du Wei's idea is very simple, he hopes to continue to develop his business, and in the future, he can make some magic props! The group of magicians is not short of money, on the one hand, a large number of nobles are flattered, and countless riches are given, on the other hand, magicians have all kinds of precious gems. Such a group is the best consumer in Du Wei's opinion.

The magic cores of these demonic beasts transported from the north can create a lot of things that attract magicians, and Du Wei also knows very well that selling raw materials is far worse than selling finished products! The profit will also increase several times. However, the manufacture of magic props is not something that ordinary craftsmen can do.

In the Roland Continent, there is a special profession called "Magician", this professional group is very small, and the number is not large, mainly to make the props that magicians need, such as magic wands, such as crystal balls, such as magic auxiliary props, and even people can create magic scrolls!

But the group of this profession is also very eccentric, some magicians, themselves are magicians, and the magic props he makes are mainly for his own use, and occasionally some props are circulated on the market. Of course, there are very few such magicians, and only such a person who is both a magician and a magician can have the ability to create a magic scroll. And most of the magicians are apprentices of magic, but they don't have the talent to become magicians, and finally have to become magicians, using the magic knowledge they have mastered to create all kinds of things for magicians.

But no matter what kind of magician it is, it is currently impossible for Du Wei to recruit. Because almost all magicians belong to the Magic Guild. And those magicians who are magicians in the first place will not be recruited by someone casually.

Therefore, Du Wei has high hopes for the quadruplets, hoping that these four girls can use their magical knowledge and eventually become money-making machines in their hands.

Obviously, Du Wei's understanding of the value of these four girls is different from that of most men.

If it had been for any other nobleman, I am afraid that this rare quadruplet beauty would have been put into the house as a confinement long ago.

"Lord Duke, with all due respect, I would like to ask you to take these four 'eldest ladies' back!"

Ruolin said very politely: "They don't come to help me work at all! I have to break up people every day to serve them......!"

Du Wei frowned: "There is such a thing?"

Next. Ruolin told Du Wei about what happened in the past few days.

It turned out that not only Ruolin was depressed, but the quadruplets were also depressed. They have been beauties of four children since they were children, and after being bought back by Count Villa, they have undergone rigorous training and some magical knowledge. But Count Villa's expectation of them, frankly, says: "All the training they receive is for the purpose of pleasing men in the future." ”

Even the rìzi, who had been trained in the Count's Court of Villa, were served to the ground. In addition to training. Their lives are almost comparable to those of some young ladies of small aristocratic families.

Originally, after being given to Du Wei, these four girls were still very satisfied at first, after all, Du Wei was young and promising, handsome, and had a prominent background. Recently, he has become a popular Grand Duke.

The four girls were bent on pleasing the duke in the future, and after gaining his favor, they would fly up to the branches and become phoenixes.

It's a pity, but where did he think that Du Wei didn't even bother to touch a finger on them. He also threw them into Ruolin's hands as errands!

The most infuriating thing is that Ruolin, this rude woman, this cold woman, dares to ask the delicate herself to work!

......

After listening to Ruolin's narration, Du Wei's face sank. He glanced at Ruolin: "Can't you just take them? Knight Ruolin, I'm very disappointed in you! You were able to clean up a bunch of unruly pirates, but now you can't even do anything about the four little girls?"

Ruolin's face was a little embarrassed: "My lord...... These four young ladies, after all, were sent from your side, and I ......"

Du Wei immediately understood Ruolin's concern, and he smiled: "Don't worry, they are not my women, and I don't plan to let them be my women! Then you can do whatever you want!"

Ruolin breathed a sigh of relief, and then she was relieved.

Looking at the female knight's face, Du Wei smiled secretly in his heart: Now, the quadruplets may have a hard time in the next few days.

After pondering for a while, Du Wei said: "The problem of manpower, I can't rush it, I can only look for it slowly." Especially craftsmen, good craftsmen are very difficult to dig up now. In this place, no one in the dìdū is willing to give us good craftsmen. If you want to rob it. It's also easy to offend people, especially when I'm going to leave dìdū in a few months, when I'm here, even if I offend people, I don't have to be afraid of people daring to retaliate, but after I'm gone, it's not good. So, if you offend people, try not to do it!"

"But good craftsmen have masters, where can we find them?" Ruolin sighed.

"It's really not good, the only stupid way is to cultivate it yourself. Du Wei also shook his head: "But this cost is too big, and it takes a long time, and the results are slow." I'll put the craftsman's business aside first, and then I'll figure it out slowly...... Well, it's still early, so let's go to the slave market in the city and maybe get some suitable people. ”

The slavery system in the Roland Continent has always been firmly opposed by the Temple, and this has been the case for hundreds of years.

Of course, in Du Wei's view, this is not the nobility of the temple, but the huge benefits of the temple for slavery, but he is dissatisfied because he can't get a piece of the pie.

For hundreds of years, although the mainland was generally peaceful, the expeditions in the South Seas, as well as some small rebellions in the northwest, always followed by a lot of prisoners after the expeditions of the imperial army...... In particular, the expeditionary fleet in the South Seas, every time it returned from an expedition, it would bring back a large amount of loot...... Many of them were indigenous people who had been captured from large islands in the South Seas.

It's not that the armies of the empire like to plunder the population...... To tell the truth, those generals who lead the expedition, who doesn't like to plunder some more real money and come back?

Unfortunately, with the frequency of the South Seas expeditions, the harvest of each expedition became less and less. Things are really not grabbed, so in order to get some harvest to supplement military spending, so plundering the population occupies the largest proportion of the spoils of the last few expeditions!

And those who came from the South Seas became the mainstream of the slave market. Du Wei has read a statistics from the military, and now in Dìdū, according to estimates, there are probably more than 8,000 natives from Nanyang, most of whom have been plundered for many years, and even after the previous generation was plundered, they have lived in the empire for many years, and many are the second generation.

In addition, there were many slaves who were originally born into slavery because they lived in poverty. And a few small-scale rebellions in the northwest will also spawn some slaves.

In addition, there is also a kind of existence called "official slave", which mainly comes from some declining wealthy families. For example, after this coup d'état, several wealthy families were completely bulldozed, and many members of the family were convicted, and after being tried, they lost their status as zìyóu citizens and became slaves, most of whom were put up for sale in the slave market.

Interestingly, one of the largest slave traders in Dìdū was none other than an industry under the direct financial department of the Imperial Empire! That place was set up in the slave market southwest of the city in Dìdū, where many "official slaves" were concentrated.

Yes, the imperial treasury also earns a lot of financial revenue every year by relying on the slave trade.

And the reason why the temple is dissatisfied is because every year there is such a big piece of cake, but the temple can't officially intervene to share a piece.

Most of the slave trade in dìdū was concentrated in the west and south of the city, and the population of more than 900,000 people lived there, accounting for almost half of the population of dìdū.

In addition to the slave trade, there are many people who are actually just ordinary poor people and strange places for people to find work.

In other words, this is a "labor market" similar to the one that Du Wei had seen in his previous life.

At the end of the long street, against a square. The statue and pool in the center of the original square. The construction cost was demolished decades ago, and now several high platforms have been erected on top of the square, on which dozens of famous large slave cartels of Dìdū carry out a lively slave trade.

On the square, with several high platforms as the center, a large number of people gathered to watch, many of them were merchants from other places, as well as people from the families of some wealthy nobles in Dìdū. Those slave traders who stood on a high platform. With a leather whip in his hand. Behind him stood several strong men with big shoulders and round waists, and on the platform next to them, there were large iron cages, in which people were locked up like beasts -- most of the people who were locked in cages were "newcomers" who had just become slaves. Only these captives, who had just returned from the plundering of the Northwest or the South Seas, were unwilling to accept the fate of slaves, and would rebel, so they were to be imprisoned.

On the other high platforms, some slaves with wooden faces were empty-eyed, and there were no hideous slave traders' bodyguards around, often dozens of people, tied only with a thin rope. Just stood there with a blank face, obediently motionless, letting all kinds of eyes cast around him. That's an old slave who is already angry with his mother.

Even the slave traders, who kept walking up to the slaves, pinched this one's face, knocked that one's chest, or pulled their lips open for everyone to see...... It's like a brute. These people are also indifferent and have become numb to their fate.

Du Wei and Ruolin walked in the crowd, both of them in civilian clothes. Ruolin didn't wear that gorgeous and overly ornate armor, and Du Wei naturally wouldn't wear the eye-catching magician robes.

Wearing an ordinary coat, Du Wei squeezed all the way through the crowd with Ruolin's difficulty.

On both sides of the road, in addition to the slave trading platforms, there are some corners where there are some indifferent people, men and women, old and young. He will also stand quietly on the corner of the street, his eyes sweeping back and forth in the crowd. These people are without exception. They all have a piece of cloth on their bodies or arms.

These were not slaves, but the citizens of the empire, but many had to sell themselves into slavery in order to survive because of the hardships of life. As long as you stop at the slave market and put a black cloth on your arm, you are willing to sell yourself.

Of course, there are also some who are unwilling to be slaves, standing here, with a white cloth on their arms, representing their willingness to find a loyal master, but not in the form of hard work.

There are many such people, and most of them are people with one skill. Some craftsmen, grooms, or others were down-and-out samurai.

Du Wei looked all the way and found that there were several people dressed as warriors, wearing shabby clothes that were almost shabby, holding a long sword that was almost rusty, standing in the corner with a solemn expression, and the white cloth on his shoulders was unusually piercing.

In dìdū, the survival of the samurai was not easy. As the center of the empire, there were too many masters gathered here, and basically, a mid-level samurai was just a bodyguard for the nobles.

And the low-level samurai want to eat together, it is too difficult, and there are many low-level samurai, nobles disdain to solicit, can only work hard in some chariot and horse shops, a little better, can also be a bodyguard in the transport team of the chariot and horse shop.

And those martial artists with low martial skills, only one or two levels, even more can't find food.

Magic is strong and warriors are declining, which is the epitome of the entire continent.

"Young master, look!" Du Wei was looking at a few warriors in the corner, when he suddenly heard Ruolin shouting to himself. When I looked ahead, I saw a crowd of people at the end of the street. It was the largest center of the slave trade in the whole of Dìdū - an official slave trafficking site belonging to the Empire!

In terms of quality and price, official slaves are generally much higher than ordinary slaves, and most of the slaves who came out of the wealthy families who were raided had undergone some training and could be used immediately after buying, so although the price was higher, they were still favored by many buying prices.

"Go over and see. Du Wei nodded.

It seems that he came at a good time, and it seems that there is a batch of "new goods" for sale at the trafficking point of official slaves.