The Death Knight of the Secret World

Chapter 76 0076. Do you Marines still work as part-time slave catchers?
This time the Beckman family held a dinner party. As Allen's senior, Erics also received the invitation on behalf of the Lanshere family.

Moreover, he really asked Alan, the little brother, for help with some things.

For his idol senior's request for help, Alan, who was too drunk, agreed with his mouth. After all, the Beckman family is now a Viscount.

Mid-level nobles of the viscount level are almost the [bottleneck] that lords can theoretically achieve.

After all, a big man like the earl is either a feudal official or a powerful man, the last time...you have to be related to the royal family, and the blood of the current king can't be far away.

If you use a more vivid metaphor, the nobles at the earl level are basically similar to the ancient Chinese princes, who belong to the real boss.

As for mid-level nobles like viscounts, it is more difficult to define, because the upper and lower limits of viscounts are not very clear.

The upper limit of the viscount is that he can become the deputy of the big boss. If he really wants to gain power, he is equivalent to the low-end version of the earl.

As for the lower limit of the viscount, it may belong to [add head].Some poor viscounts are not even as comfortable as the baron.

Some act as dogs for the big bosses, some act as dogs for the royal family, and some even act as brokers for the parliament or various forces. To put it bluntly, they are high-level intermediaries.

And the energy possessed by a viscount is actually hard to say.Some viscounts can be hammered by ordinary municipal departments, and some viscounts have a lot of face with the prime minister and the king.

As one of the few special existences who have been promoted three levels in a row in the peaceful age, Viscount Beckman looks like the latter no matter how you look at it.

After all, Mr. Beckman was recalled by the king himself, and he was promoted by the king as an exception. No matter how you look at it, it is not easy!

There is a special word for people like this in ancient China to describe them - Jane is in the heart of the emperor!
Erics is also optimistic about the energy of Alan, a junior family, so he came here specifically for help.

In fact, the matter of Erics asking for help is not too big, but it is not too small.

It turned out that since Erics graduated five years ago, he entered the navy department. Because he worked hard enough and came from a nobleman with the title of Lord, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in just three years. Now he is a captain of the navy .

In Lord Backlund's circle, this is also a relatively progressive young talent.But if you want to go further, you are stuck.

In fact, it can't be said that he was stuck, but that he didn't have a strong backing background, and being able to reach the rank of lieutenant officer was already the limit.

So, around the end of last year, Erics, who had been stuck in the rank of captain for more than a year, found himself a small backer.

In the case of Erics, finding a backer is not so easy, because the other party has arranged tasks for him as a testimonial and test.

Originally, Alex's own abilities were not bad, and he worked very hard when he received the test task, but... how can it be so easy to complete a special task that can be regarded as a test.

Fortunately, with Erics' own efforts, the completion of the task is still passable, but there is still a gap between the completion of the [test].

An excellent officer like Erics is also in the middle and lower ranks in the navy and is qualified to be a captain.

The special investigation task he received was actually very simple to say - to transport labor.

Specifically, they drove a boat from a certain port town in the southern continent, sailed all the way for about two months, crossed the violent sea, and finally stopped at a certain port in the Sonia Sea northeast of Loen.

Driving a boat to pull people is not difficult for a veteran sailor like Erics who has been at sea for several years, unless he is particularly reckless and encounters rampant pirates, otherwise he can just go all the way.

On the other hand, the ships of the navy department rarely encountered pirates on the route—after all, the Loen navy was quite capable of fighting.

But this is not the predicament that Erics encountered. The most important problem he encountered was that the voyage time was too long.

It took one and a half months at the fastest to run the whole process from pulling people to sending them to the place.If the weather is bad, it may even run for ten more days.

Because it was a secret mission and it was on a special route, he could only stop at the shore twice halfway to replenish supplies such as fresh water and food.

If it was autumn and winter, it would be okay, but as soon as summer came, his task faced the most severe test—food preservation.

With a crew of about 50 people, and 400 people [recruited] from the Southern Continent, the food and drink consumption of a total of nearly [-] people is not a small number.

And the one who arranged the task for him didn't have much money, so he had to plan carefully and tighten his belt to live.

Since the end of last year, until now, Erics and the fifty or so brothers under him have already made three trips.

However, the task completion is not high.

He needs to ensure the health of the strong laborers he transported, and not too many people die...

Hearing this, Beomy finally came to his senses. How dare this navy captain actually run [slave transportation]?
[Recruit] strong labor from the southern continent, and then bring it back to Loen. As for whether it is used for farming or mining, it is actually a very profitable industry.

The backer behind him seems to have a lot of energy. He can obtain strong labor in batches from the colony of the southern continent, and he can also buy the internal routes of the navy...

Hey, this is the slave trade!

Beomy's eyes are a bit wrong when he looks at the strong man Alex...

This is a cruel man!

However, he was relieved when he thought that Dwayne Dantès, the incarnation of the old fairy fool, was still helping to dump [expired arms] to the colonies.

The slave trade was not a new product. Before Emperor Roselle opened up the new shipping lanes, there was such a traditional high-profit industry operating in the North Continent.

It's just that after the discovery of the New World, this lucrative commercial activity became known to everyone—in the south of Loen, that is, the area bordering Feneport, the slave trade could even become a pillar industry.

A few years ago, those slave trade routes that made money as simple as drinking water were generally carried out at the national level. The four major countries in the Northern Continent, except for the northernmost Fusac, basically enjoyed the huge dividends of the slave trade.

However, since the Three Kingdoms of the Northern Continent began to encounter each other in the New World, several forces fought a few times, and the locals also made a few fights. In the end, this huge profiteering industry began to slump.

The population of the Southern Continent is not large. After the split of the Balam Empire, the population of the Southern Continent is estimated to be between 5000 million and 8000 million.Even with the perennial wars, the population there has not declined much.

Take Loen's colony on the southern continent as an example, the vast colony is equivalent to half of Loen's territory, with a population of nearly ten million.

And this huge colony is the result of nearly a century of hard work of the Loen Kingdom, and it is now controlled by more than a dozen forces in Loen.

According to incomplete statistics, the number of people looted from the Southern Continent by the Loen Kingdom in the past 100 years has exceeded one million.

But in the last three to forty years, due to various reasons, the Loen Kingdom's colony strategy has also changed, and the plundering of the population has begun to slow down.

After all, if you pull a slave from a colony all the way, let him farm for you and let him mine for you, the value created is just like that.

As the expansion of the colony began to slow down, the development of the colony had become the main trend—anyway, it was farming and mining, and it was better to let slaves come to the North Continent to work than to let them do it locally.

After all, the big forces in Ruen want the value created by the slaves, not the slaves themselves.

Therefore, there has been no large-scale slave trade for a long time recently-after all, the development of colonies also requires labor.

In Loen Kingdom, there are actually not many undeveloped areas left, and it doesn't make much sense to blindly accumulate labor.

However, the slave trade, a frighteningly profitable industry with fast money, is not so easy to stop.

In most areas of Ruen, the annual salary of an adult labor force is at least more than ten pounds.In relatively wealthy cities, the annual salary can exceed thirty gold pounds.

But if it is used to buy slaves, the price of a slave, depending on age and physical fitness, is about 150 to [-] gold pounds.

In the colonies, however, the cost of [obtaining] a strong labor force is frighteningly low. Perhaps it only takes a morning's efforts of a team of slave catchers equipped with guns to catch more than ten.

In the colonies, the [price] to buy out a strong laborer probably fluctuates around twenty gold pounds, and the highest does not exceed fifty gold pounds.

The profit is so big that people can't stop it.

Therefore, there are indeed some big forces in Loen's country, and they are still secretly engaging in slave trade routes.

Alex seems to have been picked up by some powerful force and pulled to do this [dirty work].

How should I put it, this kind of behavior of helping people with dirty work can indeed be regarded as a vote of honor to join a big force.

For a young officer like Erics who is aggressive but has no backing, this kind of opportunity is also very important.

Ai Lun, this trash, doesn't seem to understand what private work he, an idol senior, is doing. He drank a little too much - after all, there are really not many opportunities for a low-level dude like him to be toasted one by one by a large group of dudes of the same level .

Taking advantage of his father's good opportunity to advance to three levels in a row, Allen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and was successfully toasted one by one by many people who had [favored and ignored] him, so he drank very happily today.

For Erics, the idol senior, who asked for help, he agreed without even thinking about it.After all, this senior who took good care of him has basically never begged anyone, and he felt very useful to be able to ask him to do something today.

However, the iron waste who drank too much still knows that he weighs two pounds.

In the Beckman family, Alan, the second son of a waste, was not even as high as the butler.Moreover, Mr. Beckman went out to work when Allen was very young, and was not at home all year round. The relationship between father and son was very weak.

If it is his brother Romeo, Mr. Beckman still attaches great importance to asking for help for his friends or colleagues.But should Alan go... He doubted that he would be hung up and beaten by his father - because Alan himself knew that he hadn't done anything too reliable in these years.

However, since he promised to senior Erics, he couldn't break his promise, so he thought of his good friend Beomie...

Beomie: I thank you!
Alan, this iron waste, is useless, but he is very self-aware.Moreover, he has always known that there is no shame in being soft.

He is quite convinced of Beomi as a good friend, because Beomi is indeed much stronger than him, not only has a good brain, but also has a lot of ghost ideas.

The current situation is: if you beg your father, you may be hanged and beaten, if you beg your elder brother, you may be rejected, if you beg Elsa... It seems that Elsa can't help much.

Therefore, he happily pushed his good friend and close buddy Beomi to emergency.

However, he also clearly felt something, the problem that Erics encountered seemed to be very difficult to deal with.So he wisely didn't speak again, and gave the time of communication to Beomi and Alex.

And he pretended to be drunk next to him - this was his special skill, and he avoided embarrassment many times in this test.Today is no exception...

Because Beomi and Alex communicated for a while, her face became more and more gloomy, and the atmosphere began to stagnate...

So, wisely, he lay down on the sofa and snored.Vaguely, he seems to have heard Beomi speak.

"Are you Marines still part-time slave catchers?"

(End of this chapter)