Section 81 Reign and Preparation (II)
"Get in, get in!" the Wolf warrior Xiuhe shouted in a broken dwarven voice.
Dwarven language was as rough as orc tribal language, not to mention beautiful, and Wolf's warriors had learned a few of the most common phrases after spending some time here, including "go in" and curses.
Solomon also hopes that the dwarves can master some lingua franca, but he is the only one who is most qualified to be a language teacher, even among the other magicians around him, although one or two know a little dwarven language, but they are also very rudimentary, and it is the dwarven language of Keos, compared with the language of the dwarves of Black Rock, it is as different as the northern dialect and Hokkien.
Therefore, there are not many dwarves who can master some lingua franca now, only Tieye and Amu, and they are far from being able to communicate with Solomon in lingua franca.
However, this did not prevent Solomon from conquering the dwarven clans of the Riverland, as the conquest was done with a sword, not with a mouth.
Kills, pokes and deaths are the most powerful language for the dwarves at this stage, allowing them to discern every need of their rulers, as they do now.
The whip rekindled the nearly numb dwarf, who had to walk to the pitch-black "hole" ahead
The Sealed Demon Chest is like a demon's mouth smiling silently, waiting to devour one dwarf after another.
When the last dwarf was driven into the sealed box, the demon's mouth closed.
Together, the two Wolfs pushed the Sealed Chest through the portal and into the distant Queos.
In the teleportation hall of Asturias, Solomon has rented a separate large chamber at a high price, where a dedicated teleportation magic circle connected to the Black Rock Plane is arranged, and where new directional portals are opened.
Solomon did not ask for the new directional portal to be placed elsewhere, such as the City of Liberty, not because he could not trust the City of Freedom, but because the City of Liberty was too remote in Asturias.
If it is located there, although it is conducive to the transmission of slave labor in the early stage, it will definitely not be conducive to the later exhibition.
Santa Quentin is the heart of Asturias, and it is here that the distribution of any commodity is the most advantageous, and it is also the most likely to affect the price of the same kind, which is a natural advantage as the capital of a country.
Moreover, the teleportation hall is tightly guarded, almost second only to the royal palace, and it is no less than the core castle of the three powerful clans themselves, and it is also trustworthy in terms of security.
Solomon followed the last of the sealed boxes into the portal of light, and after an undiscernible teleportation, he appeared in the great chamber of the teleportation hall.
When he stepped out of the portal, there were already people waiting.
The man waiting was Franklin's new captain of the guard, Cusseau, who had brought three hundred elite soldiers with him to take in the slave laborers.
However, due to the rules of the teleportation hall, most of these soldiers could not enter the teleportation chamber freely, and had to stay in the designated position and wait for the handover of the goods.
There have always been rules on the teleportation hall, and the scrutiny of teleportation from Keos was not strict before, but everything teleported back from other planes has been subject to a certain amount of scrutiny.
The purpose of this is to avoid the invasion of the infernal creatures as much as possible, and they may use this opportunity to enter Keos.
Ever since Solomon proposed the Plane Free Trade to Asturias and tried to form a tax on this basis, Edward had already begun to consider the issue, although he had not yet immediately taxed the merchants who did the plane trade.
Therefore, whether it is teleporting out of the teleportation hall or teleporting back, the royal magicians in charge of the main hall must inspect the bulk items they carry, including the magic sealing box.
Of course, before the magic detector and other things that people have nothing to hide, if it is a small space storage prop such as a dimensional bag carried by the magician himself, there is no way to test it unless he searches his body.
But the stock of such props is limited, even if someone wants to smuggle, it is only a little, just like before Solomon's crossing, some people took advantage of Hong Kong's free travel to carry milk powder to the mainland and sold it, it is unlikely to be completely banned, Edward is only the first step, an effective registration record system, and do not miss large quantities of goods.
After the arrival of the goods, the goods will be inspected by the soldiers responsible for guarding the hall under the auspices of the royal magician, and then resealed and escorted to the receiving area on the periphery of the main hall.
Therefore, after Solomon's sealed magic box arrived, there was naturally a royal mage in the giant room who was presiding over the inspection.
Arriving before Solomon were a few Wolf warriors, who confronted the royal mages and the Asturian soldiers, roaring loudly, though they were far fewer in number, but they were not at all afraid to keep them from opening the sealed box.
The tension continued until Solomon arrived, and only after Solomon agreed to let the other side test him, the Wolf obediently retreated.
Several battles in the Black Rock Plane have allowed Solomon to slowly establish a certain prestige among Wolff under England, at least he will now have to command Wolff to do something, and he no longer has to give orders through Guò England or Xiuhe.
The royal mage who was in charge of this commodity inspection twitched, and forced his subordinates to open the magic sealing box for inspection.
He was quite unhappy with Wolfe's confrontation just now, but he knew some of Solomon's details, and the young mage seemed to have recently been appreciated by His Majesty, and he was close to Regina, the chancellor of the exchequer. Regina even greeted the main hall for him, asking for a discount on his one-qiē transmission fee, which was only charged at cost price.
The number of sealed boxes was counted first, and only seven sealed boxes arrived before Solomon.
Solomon's face was a little ugly, this time a total of ten sealed magic boxes were teleported, and Solomon was the last to enter the portal, so according to the normal chronological order, when he stepped out of the portal, there should be ten sealing boxes here.
But now there are only seven, which means that three are very unlucky enough to get stuck in the passage of time, they enter the portal first, but arrive in Keos later than Solomon.
Solomon sighed, which means that thirty percent of the goods may have drifted in this teleportation.
"Open these boxes. The royal mage commanded, and then he was shocked as there was a snoring sound coming from the sealed box.
One by one, the sleeping dwarves were dragged out, and in the process, the dwarves also woke up, but the ropes held them together, unable to break free.
They muttered until Wolf shouted at the crappy dwarves that the dwarves fell silent and were obediently escorted out of the sealed box.
"Is this your cargo?" the royal mage said in shock.
Solomon replied with a blank face, "Yes, I intend to pay taxes to His Majesty at the price of one silver coin per person. ”
The mid-level mage gave him a deep look, but didn't say anything.
The slave trade was a grey business in the nations, but the mage was shocked not by the slave trader itself, but by the way Solomon transported the slaves, and the dwarves were transported in manned boxes.
Originally, the loading capacity of the manned magic box was three to five people, and this standard was to ensure that passengers within five people would still survive after falling into a state of time lapse during the transmission process, with a chance of survival of more than 90%, that is, as long as the frieze did not fall to the point where the time disorder was delayed very badly, they could survive.
Because when the Sealed Demon Box was transformed into a manned form, it was originally asked by the merchants of the commodity exchange to transform it in order for ordinary people to travel on the plane, and they had to consider their own safety issues, and the passage of time could not be completely eliminated when the plane teleported.
For this teleportation, Solomon remodeled the sealed box again, expanding the space inside the box, so that the number of passengers according to the original standard could reach seven to eight people.
By ignoring the need to ensure that passengers are trapped in a state of time lapse while teleporting, the Sealed Chest's loading capacity can be increased by at least five times.
And more crucially, he was going to transport dwarves, not Terrans, not Wolf.
So this loading capacity can be doubled again, in other words, the loading capacity of each Demon Sealing Chest is conservatively estimated to be seventy to eighty loads.
But Solomon couldn't be sure how many, in fact, eight of the ten demon sealing boxes this time had different numbers of dwarves, some were seventy-five, some were seventy-eight, and some were eighty-two, eighty-five, and even close to ninety.
The initial load is also a test to prepare for the standard load in the future, and the upper limit can be increased step by step until the optimal load is found.
The sealing boxes were opened one by one, the dwarves were dragged out, and Wolf skillfully stepped forward and kicked a few times, so that the dwarves who had just woken up were honest.
"This is the first batch. Solomon said to Franklin's new captain of the guard.
Although he couldn't receive it immediately, Cuso was counting the number of slaves, "It seems like five hundred." ”
At this time, the teleportation light gate lit up again, and the three sealed magic boxes after falling into the passage of time finally arrived.
Although the three demon sealing boxes that arrived later seemed to be only a little late, under the time disorder, it was impossible to judge how long the actual delay was.
The soldiers of the main hall stepped forward to open the box, and Solomon raised his hand, trying to stop it, but finally put it down gently.
The first two chests opened, much to the surprise of the soldiers and mages, as well as the people from Liberty City.
Because there were not a large number of male dwarves inside, but female dwarves, each box contained only eight female dwarves.
"This is my gift to Lord Franklin, a specialty of the Black Rock Plane, a female dwarven slave. Solomon said.
Sixteen female dwarf slaves, before coming, Solomon specially trained these sixteen female dwarves in the lingua franca, although they still could not speak the lingua franca, but they could understand some simple lingua franca.
Franklin may not have used these gifts himself, but that doesn't prevent him from giving them to his subordinates, such as the Cussel in front of him.
Perhaps thinking of this, Cuso immediately showed a very friendly attitude towards Solomon.
The dwarves were counted by a man's after being counted
When the third Demon Sealing Box, the tenth Demon Sealing Box, was opened, the soldiers who went in to search for it suddenly screamed.
A soldier ran out and whispered a few words in the ear of the royal mage in charge of the work.
The royal mage's face changed slightly, and he said to Solomon, "The dwarves inside are all dead. ”
The corpses were dragged out of it one by one, and sure enough, they were all dead.
Every dwarf who died, when they opened their eyelids, could see spots of bleeding, cyanosis of their lips, and they all opened their mouths wide, like goldfish after offshore.
"Isn't that a little too cruel?" said the Royal Mage.
"They encountered the passage of time. Solomon said slowly.
"It shouldn't be so much. ”
"Yes, but they are slaves. ”
"Five hundred and sixty-six in all. Cuso was afraid that the royal mage would quarrel with Solomon, so he hurriedly interjected.
"It's five hundred and fifty. Solomon corrected, "As I said, the sixteen dwarven slave girls were my gift to the lord of Franklin. ”
"That's fourteen hundred and fifty. Cuso hesitated.
"I'll send it here for 6 renewals, and you can receive a batch here every month today, up to two thousand, as I repay the loan from Franklin Bank. ”
In order to maintain the development of the Black Rock Plane, and even if he wants to carry out the slave trade, he has to pay the first investment, such as these ten further modified demon sealing boxes.
The Demon Sealing Box is not cheap, not to mention the transformation goods, which cannot be obtained from Max's Alchemy Workshop, he has only just started there, and it is okay to make some simple things, but to transform the Demon Sealing Box, it is temporarily out of the alchemist level there, and the cost is so high that it is impossible for Solomon to take it for nothing.
Combined with other expenses, Solomon's initial loan from Franklin was close to 200,000 silver coins.
The agreement he made with Franklin was to repay the dwarven slaves, and for each dwarven slave, Franklin was willing to pay a whopping hundred silver coins.
Under normal circumstances, a slave in the prime of life is only equal to 30 to 50 silver coins, and if he has status, it depends on how much ransom he can give, or what his own value is, for example, if the slave is a magician, the price is definitely different from that of an ordinary slave.
There is also a female ** Li's worth is also difficult to determine, it depends on how big her breasts are, how beautiful she is, and it is related to race, the ups and downs of the price can vary by up to a thousand times, a middle-aged obese woman with a street aunt's face may only be worth a few silver coins, and a female ** Li with elf blood may be worth hundreds of gold coins, and some orc women who have been tamed will also be warmly sought after by nobles or businessmen with special hobbies.
Franklin paid almost two to three times the normal price, both as a support and because the Free City was in desperate need of slavery since the last great escape.
In this slave transfer project, Solomon originally prepared 640 male dwarves and 16 female dwarves, but the result was that after three sealed demons fell into a state of time lapse, an entire box of male dwarves became a sunk cost.
There are also two other boxes of female dwarves, which Solomon gave to Franklin as a gift, and according to normal passenger standards, each box of eight female dwarves is equivalent to four Terran passengers, so that they can survive the passage of time.
The first few transports were experimental in nature, with Solomon slowly increasing the number of people in the sealed crates to test the maximum amount of each crate could contain.
The cost of teleporting is the same for each Sealed Chest, even if it is empty, of course, it is necessary to load as many as possible.
For example, the snoring of the dwarves gave Solomon some inspiration that it should be easier for creatures who are asleep or in a coma to stay alive in the Sealed Chest.
Of course, if you encounter a time lapse like the last box, there is no way to do it, unless the loading volume is reduced at the beginning and transported according to the standard of loading female slaves.
But this is not possible, the dwarven female slave is now not for sale, and if it is to be sold, Solomon will offer a much higher price than the male dwarf.
The intention of giving it to Franklin was originally to expect that Franklin himself was unlikely to use these dwarf female slaves, and it was very likely that they would be rewarded to his subordinates, thus producing an advertising effect.
The next time, Solomon will also bring two boxes of dwarven slave girls, but the object of the gift will be Count Philip.
"Take these corpses with you. The royal mage said to Solomon with dissatisfaction.
The corpses of the dwarves who had unfortunately died were reloaded into the sealed box, and Solomon settled the teleportation fee to the teleportation hall twice, in addition to the cost of teleporting back to the teleportation hall in addition to the one that came.
In addition to this, Solomon paid an additional six hundred and fifty-six silver coins, which he promised to pay to the Asturian treasury.
It wasn't a lot of money, but Solomon was well aware that His Majesty was looking forward to the Pioneers starting to pay taxes as an example of opening the door to the merchants of the plane trade.
Solomon still needs the support of the Perth Palace, and of course he must be the first to do so.
The blood-smelling silver coins were handed over from Solomon's hand to the treasurer of the main hall, and one by one Solomon and his sealed boxes disappeared into the portal.
After completing the initial transaction, Solomon returned to the Black Rock Plane.
That box of corpses was a bit of a hassle to dispose of in Asturias, and if nothing else, just discarding the corpses could have caused trouble or extra costs, but it couldn't have been easier here.
But at this moment, the patriarch of the Stone Fist clan came to ask for an audience.
This dwarf with a bit of a brain prostrate at Solomon's feet brought an astonishing message: "Dear master, he, they are coming!"
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