Law of the Devil

Chapter 173 [Slave]

With Seth back to his place of residence, this big head guy is still curious about Du Wei, but Clark’s deacon has severely reminded this Sette when he left, let him start today and everything will be done in the future. Obey the command of the Du Wei Master.

"It's like treating your teacher." Clark said it.

Of course, it was originally Sate who had a teacher, and his teacher was quite good in the magic union. It was that when I entered the frozen forest with Gege Wu, I ended up with Medusa, but I got a sneak peek, and I was the first guy to run away.

However, Scitech had no position in Az's hands, otherwise he would not be sent out to sell his wand. Az is an eight-level magician of the Magic Union. There are many magic apprentices under his command, and there is no such thing as Saite.

Therefore, from now on, Scitech is changing the door and officially investing in Du Wei.

"What's wrong, Seth." Du Wei saw that the guy in this head had some strange looks. Wen Yan asked: "What are you thinking?"

"No, no, Du Wei... Teacher Du Wei." Scitech honestly referred to Du Wei as a "teacher" according to the tradition of the magic union. However, this title made Du Wei feel a little frowning.

"Scitech." Du Wei stopped and looked at the genius of magic research that he had abducted back: "I don't need you to call my teacher."

"But this is tradition..." Sett whispered: "In the magic union, all the magic apprentices must call the "teacher" to the loyal magician."

"But I am not your teacher." Du Wei shook his head: "You are not my student, I have nothing to teach you. I have asked you to come over, you need your mind, even exaggerated. I I need you to teach me something. Hehe..."

Seth was scared.

Du Wei patted the guy on the raft, looked at his big head and smiled: "Okay, you will understand later, I am looking at your talent, I hope you can use your talent, help I have done a lot of things."

Then, Du Wei did not care what the expression was. Pointing to the front of the street: "Look, my place is here."

In front is Du Wei's current temporary accommodation. This monastery, which originally belonged to the Great Emperor, is said to have been used by the Great Emperor in the Golden House. Of course, this is a rumor, and no one knows if it is true. Du Wei does not care, anyway, he will leave the imperial capital.

This house is not small, when Du Wei moved in, the servant inside and the person who guarded the house. All of them have been dismissed with the fall of the great emperor. Du Wei did not spend any more time looking for someone. Now there is only one old servant, Mad, and two servants of the original Luolin family. Luo Lin’s family moved back to the Luolin Plain. Unwilling to leave the Imperial Capital, he stayed and was still in Du Wei's land.

In addition, the current family, there is Vivian. Mouse Gege Wu, and the beast qq adults. However, the existence of the mouse Gege Wu and qq is still a secret for everyone. Only Du Wei knows the existence of these two guys.

When he came back, Du Wei accidentally saw that Vivian was standing at the door of the house, so quietly sitting on the steps of the gate, holding his chin in his hands. Poorly looking at the end of the street, probably waiting for too long, the little silly girl was a bit dazed, not even aware of Du Weidi approaching.

"How are you here?" Du Wei smiled and looked at Vivian, who was sitting on the steps.

In fact, he was very happy to see Vivienne coming out. Since I brought Vivian from the Brokeback Mountain that day, the little girl who was originally weak, suddenly learned the news of her teacher’s death. I have been keeping myself in the room since I came back. Every day is unhappy.

Du Wei went to see her several times every day, but every time she went. This little girl is silent, a look of grief, Du Wei also tried to tease her, but every time he said, this little Nizi suddenly smashed his tears. In the end, Du Wei had no choice but to let her rest quietly in the room. I want to wait for the day and night, and the pain in my heart will always disappear.

Sure enough, today I saw Vivian finally coming out, sitting at the gate of the house, Du Wei went up, reached out and gently tapped on her head, squinted and smiled: "Hey! You are Are you in a daze? Didn’t you hear me?”

Vivian lifted her eyelids, rubbed her eyes twice, looked at Du Wei, and gradually returned to God, then stood up and licked a bit sour knees, whispered: "You, you test, have you tested?" ?"

Xiao Nizi is still a weak face, but the pain in his eyes is a lot weaker, and his tone is also concerned with Du Wei.

Du Wei smiled, and the tone was softer: "Are you sitting here waiting for me?"

"I... I am worried about you." Vivian had a red face and lowered her head: "Magic test, assessment, it is difficult, I am worried..."

Du Wei patted her chest with a badge of a magic pharmacist. She smiled: "Do not worry, you see, this is my badge. Now standing in front of you, it is already a qualified magic. Teacher!"

Vivien stared at the potionist badge on Du Wei's chest, but Du Wei had already walked into the house with a handful of Vivian. After two steps, I turned to look at Scitech: "What are you doing? Come in!"

Mard also ran out from inside, Du Wei told Ma De to enter with Saite: "Let him pick a room, anyway, there are so many rooms, hey, it’s cold and clear at night, like a ghost house. ""

Madd nodded and was about to go down. He suddenly remembered one thing and turned and said: "Young Master, Miss Ruolin has come, she said that there are some things in our shops. Recently, the business is good. But the staff is not enough, if If she can, she wants you to go to the store to have a look, and she seems to be not satisfied with the two craftsmen in our shop now. Also, the four quadruples you sent to the store, it seems that Ruolin Miss is also not very satisfied with them."

Du Wei nodded. "Made, I know... um. Also, you remember one thing, don't say anything later, 'Mr. Jolin', remember, she is a knight, no matter what Whenever you want to mention her, you must say 'Lord Jolin Knight'. Remember this? This is very important."

Ruolin did have some troubles.

Although she is now with a boss, and from the trend, Du Wei is a boss, and the future is bright. Moreover, Du Wei also has great trust in Ruolin. He has decided to hand over the business of the imperial capital to the management of Ruolin.

but. Ruolin did not like the job.

In essence, she prefers to manage the pirates, at least with the fleet on the sea, and experience the storm. The kind of adventure that is full of novelty and excitement makes Jolin’s heart instead of wearing a gorgeous and almost ridiculous armor every day, and is surrounded by a group of hypocritical nobles.

However, Ruolin is obeying Du Wei's arrangement. She is a clever woman. She sees the difficulty of Du Wei's current manpower. Although the young master is very fast, but he started too fast, the foundation is not strong, and there is no available person. It is a fatal injury to Du Wei. If this problem is not solved, it will cause great trouble to the development of Du Wei.

Therefore, Ruolin is still obedient.

She managed her business with all her heart and soul. She fully demonstrated her ability. Every day during the day, she was surrounded by a group of aristocrats. She didn't need to sacrifice a little color occasionally when she was walking in the rivers and lakes... ...thanks to Du Wei for her image packaging, in fact. Now Ruolin has been deliberately keeping a cold look. Those nobles will instead be like flies.

Ruolin feels that she is too busy to eat. Although I know that today is the day when Master Du Wei went to the Magic Union for assessment. However, this clever female knight is very confident about Du Wei... Just kidding, she knows too much about the young master's means. Is it a piece of cake for the young master? Therefore, in the morning, she did not even care about the Duwei assessment results, but stayed in the shops and dealt with some things.

At present, the business is very good. In just a few days, Du Wei has brought more than 1.5 million gold coins to Du Wei, deducting the cost of the initial investment, the cost of buying the shop, and the expenses of the staff. Cost, just these three days, Du Wei has net profit of millions of gold coins.

Without the exploitation of the middle-ranking black-hearted merchants, Du Wei’s fleet can continuously transport the goods that the mercenary adventure groups hunted from the frozen forest to the Imperial Capital from the north. The freshest goods, plus a slightly lower price, and Du Wei's current reputation in the aristocratic circle, so that in just three days, the last time Ruolin brought a whole ship of goods, almost sold. Most of the time.

In the morning, she has sent people to return to the ship parked in Walker Harbor at the fastest speed. People continue to go to the north to purchase and deliver the goods to the capital.

Then she finally waited for Du Wei.

Du Wei came with Vivienne. Since this Xiao Nizi has finally been willing to leave the house, then she can't let her continue to be suffocated at home. Taking her out and turning around will also be of great benefit to ease the mood.

Vivian is interested in all kinds of goods from the northern frozen forest in this industry run by Du Wei. From the perspective of a magician, Vivian feels that many things are very useful.

With Vivienne slowly picking it up, Du Wei and Ruolin went to the upstairs room and talked for a while.

Ruolin first said several problems that she is currently facing.

First of all, there are not enough people. Since it is a business for the aristocratic group, there are still some well-trained waiters in the store... Those nobles are not ordinary people. If you go to the slave market and buy a few people back, you will not have to undergo strict courtesy training, which will make people talk behind the scenes. , will also lose Du Wei's face. The nobles are very particular about these.

Second, the problem of craftsmen. Most of the goods shipped from the north are raw materials, although Du Wei has hired several good craftsmen at the high price of the capital before the opening of the company. There are blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, and several engravers. But still not enough.

Those World of Warcraft furs should be made into exquisite Chinese clothes, leather coats, but not casual seams can be supplemented, the nobles pay attention to materials, but also very particular about the novelty of the style. In this respect, it is obviously insufficient.

And most of the precious magic cores, although most have been ordered by the magic union, but some wealthy noble families will also come to purchase, to please the family to recruit the magician. There are still some weapons...

Speaking of weapons, this is the place where Ruolin is the most troublesome.

At present, the materials stored in the warehouse are all superior, but the two blacksmiths under their hands are too ordinary. And there are too few people. Just last night, these two mediocre blacksmiths were forging a set of equipment. Damaged the scales of two pieces of earthworms, but also accidentally quenched the fire, because the lack of fire, the design of a slender sword designed for the most popular aristocracy to destroy the problem of the fire, the handle Designed as a thin sword like a chopstick. When I was trying it out, I was easily knocked off by a tongs used by a blacksmith.

The two blacksmiths have actually worked very hard, but the talent is really insufficient. And although they originally built weapons, they never touched so many superior materials.

These are just the current problems. And the most ruthless Jolin is... the female magic apprentice quadruped by Du Weisai!

The four beautiful girls, four-legged girls, were originally pets of men worth millions of gold coins, but Du Wei seemed to have no interest in these four girls. After the opening of the shop, they directly put the four. A woman threw her hand into Ruolin.

Du Weidi’s idea is very simple. He hopes to continue to develop his business. In the future, he can make some magic props! This group of magicians is not short of money. On the one hand, a large number of aristocrats are pleased to present countless wealth. On the one hand, the magician has all kinds of precious gems. Such a group is the best consumer that Du Wei believes.

These magical weapons of Warcraft, which are shipped from the north, can create a lot of things that attract magicians. Du Wei is also very clear. Sell ​​raw materials. Far from selling finished products! Profits will also be multiplied several times. However, the manufacture of magical props. Not ordinary craftsmen can do it.

In the mainland of Roland, there is a special occupation called "magic creator". This professional group is very small and has a small number of people. It is mainly used to make various kinds of props that magicians need, such as wands, such as crystal balls, such as various Magic-assisted props, and even others can make magic scrolls!

But the group of this profession is also very weird. Some of the magician is an excellent magician. The magical props he creates are mainly for his own use, and occasionally some props are made to spread in the market. Of course, such a magician is very rare, and only such a person who is both a magician and a magician can have the ability to create a magic scroll.

The identity of most of the magician is a magician apprentice, but he has not become a magician's talent. In the end, he has to become a magician, using his own magic knowledge to create a variety of magical skills. thing.

But no matter what the magician is, it is currently impossible for Du Wei to recruit. Because almost all magicians belong to the magic union. The magician who was originally a magician will not be recruited by someone.

Therefore, Du Wei has placed high hopes on the quadruplets, hoping that these four girls can use their magical knowledge and finally become a money-making machine in their hands.

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

If it is for any other aristocrats, I am afraid that the rare four-year-old beauty of the four-year-old will be imprisoned.

"Duke of the Duke, excuse me, I still ask you to pick up the four 'Missy'!" Jolin said very rudely: "They are not here to help me! I have to separate every day. People are waiting for them! Hehe..."

Du Wei frowned: "Is there such a thing?"

Next, Ruolin tells Du Wei about these days.

It turned out that not only if Lin was depressed, the quadruplets were very depressed. They were a beautiful four-child beauty since they were bought, and after being bought back by Count Villa, they have undergone rigorous training and some magical knowledge. But Count Villa counts on them. Frankly speaking: they are all trained in the ground to please men.

Even in the days when they were trained in the Earl of Villa, the quadruplets were also waiting for them. Apart from training, their lives were almost comparable to those of the little aristocrats.

After being given to Du Wei, the four girls were still very satisfied. After all, Du Wei was young and handsome. And the world's most prominent, recently became the popular Duke.

The four girls thought that if they could please the duke and get the favor of him, they would fly to the phoenix.

It is a pity, but where did she think that Du Wei was too lazy to even have a finger on them. They also threw them into Ruolin’s hand and went down!

The most annoying thing is, Ruolin! This rude woman, this cold woman. Actually dare to call yourself to work!

......

After listening to Ruolin’s narrative, Du Wei’s face was gloomy. He looked at Ruolin’s eyes: “Do you have no way to take them? If Lin Knight, I am very disappointed with you! At the beginning, you can pack a bunch of unscrupulous pirates. Down, now there are no ways for the four little girls?"

Ruolin’s face was awkward: “Adults... these four ladies. After all, they are sent from your side, I...”

Du Wei immediately understood Ruolin's concern. He smiled and said: "You can rest assured that they are not my women. I have no intention of letting them be my women! Are you relieved? I sent them to you. You are in charge of it! If they are not obedient, then you can handle it at will!"

If Lin is relieved, this is relieved.

Looking at the face of the female knight, Du Wei smiled in the heart: This time, the quadruplets may have suffered bitter in the next few days.

After a moment of indulgence, Du Weidao: "The problem of manpower, eager to come. Only slowly looking for. Especially craftsmen, now it is difficult for good craftsmen to dig. In the place of the capital, no one is willing to give good craftsmen Give us. It’s easy to offend people, especially when I am leaving the emperor a few months later. When I am, I will offend people. I don’t have to fear people to retaliate. But after I leave, I can’t. So, if you offend people, try not to do it."

"But good craftsmen have the Lord. Where do we go?" Jolin sighed.

"There is no way, the only stupid way is to cultivate yourself." Du Wei also shook his head: "But this cost is too big, and the time is long, the effect is full. The craftsman's things are first placed, I will slowly find a way... Well, it’s still early, let’s go to the slave market in the city and maybe buy some suitable people.”

The slavery of Roland has always been firmly opposed by the temple, which has been the case for centuries.

Of course, in Du Wei's view, this is not a noble temple, but a huge interest in the temple for slavery, but he can't share a piece of cake.

For centuries, although the mainland is generally peaceful, the expedition of the South Sea and the frequent rebellion of the small land in the northwest. After the expedition of the Imperial Army, there will always be many prisoners... especially in the South Sea. The expedition fleet, each time the expedition comes back, will bring back a large number of spoils... many of them are indigenous people captured from the large islands of Nanyang.

It’s not that the empire’s army likes to plunder the population... To be honest, those generals who ruled for the expedition, who don’t like to plunder some real money back?

Unfortunately, as the Nanyang expedition is too frequent, the harvest of each expedition is getting less and less. Things can't be robbed, so in order to gain some gains to supplement military spending, so plunder the population, occupying the largest proportion of the trophies in recent expeditions!

The indigenous people from Nanyang have become the mainstream in the slave market. Du Wei has seen a statistic from the military. Now in the Imperial Capital, according to estimates, there are probably more than 8,000 indigenous people from Nanyang. Most of them have been plundered to the emperor for many years, and even the previous generation has been plundered. After returning, I lived in the Empire for many years, and many of them are second generation.

In addition, there are many slaves who are some of the original free people. Because life is not enough, they can only be sold as slaves. Several small-scale rebellions in the northwest will also spawn some slaves.

others. There is also a kind of existence called "official slaves", mainly from some declining giants. For example, after this coup, several giants were completely leveled, and many of the family were convicted. After being judged, they lost their status as free slaves and became slaves. Most of them were sold in the slave market.

Interestingly, the biggest slave trader in the Imperial City. Not someone else, it is an industry under the direct department of the Imperial Central Finance! That place was established in the slave market on the southwestern side of the capital of the capital, and concentrated on many "official slaves."

It can be said that the empire finances rely on the slave trade and earn a lot of fiscal revenue every year.

The reason why the temple is dissatisfied is that because of the size of a cake every year, the temple cannot officially step in and join in.

Most of the slave trades in the capital are concentrated in the west of the city. Backed by the southwestern city wall, there was originally a broad avenue. It is on this avenue that has spawned the most prosperous slave market in the entire continent.

The southwest of the capital is always close to the slums, the southwest of the city, with more than 900,000 inhabitants, accounting for almost half of the population of the capital.

This is a kilometer-long street. In addition to the slave trade, there are many places where the ordinary poor and the strange people look for work.

In other words, this is a kind of “labor market” similar to what Du Wei had seen in previous lives.

At the end of the long street, relying on a square place. The statue and pool in the center of the original square. It was dismantled a few decades ago. Now there are several high-level stations on the square. Several famous slave trade groups in the Imperial Capital are on this high platform and carry out lively slave trade.

Above the square, with a few high-level stations as the center, a large crowd of people gathered around, many of them are business groups coming from other places. There are also some wealthy aristocratic families in the Imperial Capital. The slave traders who stood on the high platform, holding the leather whip in their hands, stood behind a few strong-breasted bodyguards with big waists and rounds. On the table next to them, there were large iron cages, and the cages were closed like animals. Most of the cages are "newcomers" who have just become slaves, only those captives who have just been plundered from the northwest or south ocean. Not willing to accept the fate of slaves. Will resist, so be locked.

And the other ones are on the high platform. Some slaves with gnomes, empty eyes, and no slave traders around the bodyguards, often dozens of people, only tied with a thin rope, they stood there with a blank face, stunned, left around Cast a variety of eyes. It was an old slave who had already been numb.

Even the slave traders kept walking around the slaves, pinching the face, knocking on the chest, or pulling the lips to let everyone see the mouth... just like a beast. These people are also indifferent and have been numb in their own destiny.

Du Wei and Ruolin walked in the crowd, both of them were dressed in one casual costume. If Ruolin did not wear the gorgeous over-the-top armor, Du Wei would naturally not wear a striking magician robe.

Putting on an ordinary coat, Du Wei and Ruolin struggled in the crowd all the way.

On both sides of the road, in addition to the slaves selling slaves, there are some corners, some indifferent people, or men or women, old or young, will stand quietly in the corner of the street, eyes in the crowd Sweep over. These people, without exception, have a piece of cloth on their body or arm.

These are not slaves, but the free people of the empire, but many people have to sell themselves as slaves because of their hard life and in order to survive. As long as you go to the slave market and put a black cloth on your arm, you are willing to sell your body.

Of course, there are also some who are unwilling to be slaves. Standing here and putting a white cloth on their arms means that they are willing to find a loyal master, but they are not slaves.

There are also many people like this, and most of them are people who have the skills. Some craftsmen, grooms, or some others are lonely warriors.

Du Wei all the way, I found that there are several people wearing the identity of the military, wearing almost shabby clothes, holding a long rusted sword in their hands, standing in the corner with a dignified expression, white on the shoulders The cloth, the abnormal eye.

In the Imperial Capital, the survival of the samurai is not easy. As the center of the empire, the emperor has gathered too many masters. Basically, an intermediate warrior is just a lifeguard for the nobility.

The low-ranking warriors want to mix and eat, it is too difficult, there are many low-ranking warriors, nobles do not bother to recruit, can only work in some cars and horses, slightly better, but also in the car Be a bodyguard in the transport team.

And those martial arts are low, only the first-level and two-level warriors, even more can not find meals.

The magic is strong and the military is down. It is the epitome of the whole continent.

"Young master, look!" Du Wei was looking at a few warriors in the corner, and suddenly he heard that Jolin called himself. Looking forward, I saw the crowds at the end of the street. It is the largest slave trade center in the imperial capital, belonging to the official official slave trafficking site of the Empire!

In terms of quality or price, the official slaves are generally much higher than ordinary slaves. Most of the slaves who are taken out of the wealthy house are trained. If they buy it, they can be used immediately, so although the price It is a bit higher and is still favored by many buyers.

"Look at the past." Du Wei nodded.

It seems that he came very time. It seems that the trafficking point of the official slaves is being sold in a batch of "new goods".