Chapter 70: Peter, the Slave Owner
In 671, under the auspices of the Sixth Brave, the Philip Empire officially introduced the Slavery Act.
The Act did not prohibit the purchase or becoming a slave, but clarified the system of household registration and the rights and interests of slaves, while imposing very strict restrictions on the profession of slave traders.
As soon as the bill was introduced, it caused an uproar.
As the founder of Hogwarts, the Sixth Brave is the most intelligent magician among the Brave, not an idealistic figure. He knew very well that the slave trade could not be eradicated under the backward social system and social productive forces, and the bill aimed to protect the rights and interests of slaves and abolish the rules of "generational slavery" and "prohibition of intermarriage".
Because of the asymmetry of force, the slave revolts that broke out in this world basically ended in failure. The slaughter of ordinary people by high-ranking professionals is as simple as crushing ants, and the owner of the manor often only needs to hire a security guard to take care of dozens or hundreds of slaves. In this social context, the treatment of slaves can be imagined.
When they are old, they are killed and discarded, and women are used to give birth to children, and children are faced with a miserable future of slavery from birth. The slave selection system of "breeding and procreation" is popular in society, that is, slaves with less food and more physical strength are selected to breed offspring, optimize the human race, and increase the efficiency of slave production work.
At that time, slaves were deeply involved in all kinds of social production, even if it was a small nobleman in the north, it was common for the family to have hundreds of slaves, not to mention the rich lands in the south. There may be tens of thousands of slaves in a noble territory to ensure the food, drink, shelter and transportation of one person, and the difficulty of the brave people who want to implement the "Slave Act" can be imagined.
Fortunately, the Sixth Brave is not an unreasonable person.
He first asked for the portraits of the three gods at home, named "Chongba", "Loving Father", and "Youtai", and asked the gods to come up.
Later, he visited the Phillips nobles from house to house, and said strange things to people, such as "You suspect that the Nine Tribes are a bit too much", "I opened a big hotel in the Gulag", "I see that your children look like Hammar.....
Within half a year, Philippe's "Slavery Act" was implemented in all aspects of society, and the implementation was very good.
He then spent more than two years lobbying across the continent, promoting the idea of the bill in various countries and getting the monarchs to reach a consensus.
It's very good to speak, and if you can't understand people, then my staff also knows a little bit about fists and feet.
There are also people who have tried to resist, and soon they will be a year old.
King? How many divisions can he have? Rub a shot to see the strength.
Yes, this is the Faye, the immortal with a blue bar of 4700, a Faqiang of 329, and an intelligence of 201. There's output, there's a shield, and you can play low and high. There are controls, and even the cooldown is only 1 second, as long as 15 points of blue. You can even refresh the CD of the booster when channeling, as well as area damage. Then, after the intelligence and magic strength are improved, you can also get double casting, shorten the chant of the ninth-order magic, and you can also play it twice in one breath, and then there are summons. When the demon king saw it, he !!
With the passage of time, thanks to the development of magical technology and the improvement of social productivity, the number of slaves in the world of Terra has been greatly reduced, and the working environment and welfare system have been relatively well guaranteed.
Today, in 1428, the Slavery Act has undergone several revisions and has become a common law for all human nations. At present, the main source of slaves on the continent is basically war refugees and orphans in the western continent, and there will be some outcasts who volunteer to be slaves in various countries, because becoming a slave can get a considerable amount of money for selling their citizenship, and the adventurer brother will do this when he is desperate.
Nowadays, ordinary civilians can no longer afford to hire slaves, and apart from the army, the only direction of employment for slaves is aristocratic or wealthy merchant families. Take the Ron Kingdom as an example, it will accept a certain number of refugees from the Western Continent, and those who have money will go with you, and those who have no money will become slaves. After 70 years of working in the employer's family, if you have no criminal record and have received a favorable opinion from the employer, you can get rid of your slavery status and become a Ron national and enjoy the corresponding benefits, and this is probably the case in other countries.
Don't look at the shame of being a slave, in fact, compared to the western continent with ammonia and zinc, the southern continent is simply a paradise.
Especially in large countries like Ron and Phillips, they join the army without fighting, and they have two days off as slaves. If you work hard to join the army for 30 years and become naturalized, you can become a naturalized slave if you don't want to work hard to be a slave for 70 years, and the Western Continent has even developed a line business of smuggling into the south as a slave, which is probably what the sixth brave man who made the "Slave Act" did not expect.
Ron and Philoe are the preferred destinations, if you are a general refugee, you really don't want to enter, the men must be strong and honest, and the women must be well-behaved and beautiful. But even if the quality is excellent, it can generally only be sold to wealthy merchants or lifelong aristocratic families, and hereditary nobles are not wanted.
Why don't the big nobles want to? Because of the shame.
The servants of the great nobles were not so much slaves as honorary employees who had worked in the nobles' homes for generations. Such domestic servants are usually proficient in all kinds of etiquette and have a high degree of loyalty, and do not look like ordinary servants.
Their treatment is often far higher than that of urban white-collar workers, and the aristocracy will not only take care of all the birth, old age, sickness and death of domestic slaves, arrange to live in their own homes, but also have quite a generous salary and vacation every month, and the best of them can even intermarry with the master's family, for example, Frey's wife is the distant niece of Amamiya Yu's generation.
The great nobles usually compare the number of hereditary servants in the family, because the more domestic servants who serve the same master's family for generations, the more it shows that the master's family has a solid background, a good family style, and can retain people.
As for the servant of the slave nationality, he generally does not want it, he can't hang his face, and he is simply ridiculed.
But after the servants of the Earl of Cavendish were evaporated from the wizarding world, they now had to buy some slaves to keep the manor running.
So Peter accompanied Amamiya to the largest slave market in the inner city.
The slave market is actually just behind the town hall and looks like a department store selling furniture.
In the morning, it seemed that it was snowing again, and the sky was overcast.
In addition to Peter Frey, her cousins Tansho Konno and Harry were the ones who came to buy slaves along with Amamiya.
The fat man from the field went to play with the prince yesterday, and when he came back, he looked quite satisfied.
As soon as Cavendis's carriage stopped at the gate of the market, the head of the slave market eagerly greeted him.
The slave trade throughout Ron was run by a chamber of commerce called Dong Yingdu, and when it was heard that the Earl of Cavendish was short of people to buy slaves, high-quality new slaves from several cities around Arknay were recruited and rushed to the market by train for a day and a night.
Amamiya Xi is wearing a very elegant white sweater, and there are two fluffy cute balls hanging from the neckline, which is quite like a winter girl.
"Although these domestic servants in the family are good, after all, they are subordinates of other people's families, and they think about spying on me every day, hey, these nobles ......"
"Mademoiselle is right... It's also a debt of affection for them to stay for a long time...."
"My mother said that she sent someone over, I don't know if I can get there before the New Year."
"Heh, after several retired servants in the territory heard about this, they also rushed over, and it is estimated that they will be there tonight......"
"It's Frey, you want a wife, right?"
"Miss is really discerning."
"Good frank ...... of admission"
Amamiya and Frey walked through the crowd chatting, while the mall manager led the way.
Peter followed, with Harry there, not worried about Amamiya's travel safety at all.
He carried the beast bone stick on his back and wore a suit, like a player dressed up randomly in an MMO online game.
That's right, the classic troll shrinks the defense tower under the gank.
When Tansho Konno heard the two chatting, he also leaned in and interjected:
"Why don't you just go to your brother-in-law.... Oh no, the prince wants someone? He's all court maids, and the service ...... hehe, aren't you all coming when you open your mouth?" β
"Brother-in-law?" Amamiya Xi glanced at him with a sneer, "Ernie sauce, you went to someone else's place to play for a day, and you sold your sister?" β
Tanzo Imano stood erect on the spot.
"Nonsense! What do you think of your brother? β
"That's it.... Then how many gifts did you receive from Satyri? β
"What gift?" Tansho Imano pretended to be crazy and stupid, "Did he give me anything?" β
"Frey, go back and throw away all the bags in his room."
"Oops! Xiao Xi, I was wrong, Xiao Xi ......."
Amid the fat man's wailing, the crowd entered the slave market building.
"It's not worldly at all."
Peter looked at everything that was familiar, and his head was full of black lines.
GodTM slave market, isn't this a human intermediary?
Refugees from the Western Continent and slaves captured by the South Seas Islands sat on benches in rows for everyone to choose. There are basically men here, with a sign on their chests to mark the price, and when they see a guest coming, even if it is winter, they hurriedly take off their coats to expose their arm muscles.
Tall or stocky are more expensive, generally around 70 gold. There are also some people with special price signs, who look thin and small, and their faces are not very good-looking, and they are all people with diseases or defects.
The person in charge of the market introduced to everyone: "These are all young people who are left over from the army, or who do not want to join the army. Buy back to farm and cultivate the fields are good hands, the origin is very clean, our slave has a three-year warranty, if you die because of congenital diseases, you will be compensated, and the temperament is guaranteed to be docile and obedient....."
Amamiya Xi also looked at it cooperatively, and let out a faint "um".
It's not these people that she wants, but it's these people that the person in charge wants to sell to Amamiya. Everyone has done their best to help, and they have to give some face.
How much money can you sell for a high-quality slave? Cavendish has almost 100,000 acres of arable land, all of which are cash crops such as coffee beans and tea.
As soon as the amount goes up, you can make money, which is also the reason why the slave market curries favor with Amamiya.
Peter wandered around, and the slaves sitting in his chairs were different from the lifeless, dead-eyed medieval slaves he had in his impression, and though they were not very energetic, they were absolutely not mistreated. Most of them are like working people, and they feel similar to the social animals in their hometown....
Touching the fish, what are you doing, just living. When I go to work and get off work, one end of the bowl is covered, and I have everything in my dreams.
But at the end of the slave procession, Peter saw a skinny little black man.
"Hey, I finally have the feeling of a slave market."
Looking at it again, the price card hanging around his neck is only 1 gold coin, which can be called the price of cabbage.
"It's more right!"
Harry looked over and frowned suspiciously.
"It's not like the natives of the South Sea Islands..."
Most of the people in the South Sea Islands are mainly brown-skinned, but there are also many particularly black uncles, who are extremely remote tribal natives, and most of their hair is curly and hard, but this person has straight red hair and a very high-end dark complexion.
It's like a black pearl.
"Why does he only sell for 1 gold coin?" Peter asked the Chamber of Commerce staff on the side.
"Oh, he doesn't speak Terra and he's so skinny, so it's affordable."
"Soga, I thought I had AIDS."
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"Peter, let's go."
Amamiya Yu shouted at him and was about to go upstairs.
"Here we are."
Before Peter left, he subconsciously turned on the system and glanced at the black brother's divination quote.
30 soul chips.
Peter shook his head, this man may have a bit of a story, but not much.
There are many fewer people on the second floor than on the first floor, all of them are men who seem to be well-trained, and there are even low-level knights who escaped from the battlefield in the Western Continent, and the price is directly doubled compared to the first floor, and the minimum is 120 gold coins.
The rain palace here is not to be looked down upon, they are all sold to wealthy businessmen as bodyguards or thugs, and the person in charge directly led everyone up to the third floor.
Peter only felt that he had seamlessly cut from the agency to the KTV private room.
Grass, what to choose a princess?
The environment on the third floor is more than a star and a half better than the first and second floors, and most of them are female slaves here, and there are very few men with clear eyebrows and strong physiques.
The slaves on the third floor are roughly divided into three types, a good-looking girl, a mediocre but honest slave girl, and an experienced maid with various housekeeping skills.
Maids were mainly sold to the nobility, while slave girls were bought by wealthy merchants as nannies, and maidens were ......
I don't know, anyway, the girl slaves that no one comes to buy during the day account for forty percent of the sales of the slave market.
The Slavery Act stipulates that minors are not allowed to be sold as slaves, but when Amamiya Xi came up, the person in charge brought out a large group of thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls from the room on the third floor.
That's the kind of servant that Cavendish Manor needs.
The girls don't need to know anything, only one requirementβββ
Orphan.
Train the etiquette and maid skills from scratch, and apprentice the maids transferred from other places, so that after two or three years, the Earl's Manor will have a group of obedient and loyal domestic servants.
Mature maids or women can't buy and don't dare to buy, who knows if they were inserted by someone with a heart?
Only these war orphans from the Western Continent are the safest to cultivate themselves after giving favors.
For them, becoming a servant of the earl's family also means getting a golden job, so they all try their best to be well-behaved and wait for the selection.
The fat man is not very interested in three-dimensional women, and stays behind to admire the maid outfit.
Peter and Harry waited on the sidelines, guarding the stairs up and down, the security guards dutiful.
"What a strange name for Brother Ni just now...."
Harry heard Peter's muttering and asked in confusion, "What's the name?" β
"The black man."
"How do you know what his name is?"
"Serravanapal.... A good tongue-twisting surname, it doesn't feel as good as Kobe. β
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Harry froze suddenly.
"What's his last name?"
"Serravanapal.... What's wrong? β
"," Harry jerked back, "the black elves?!" β