Law of the Devil

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(Today's update, 2 in 1 chapter)

Chapter 173 [Slavery]

Returning to his place of residence with Sett, this brain-headed guy was curious about Dewey, but when he left, Deacon Clark had warned this Sett so hard that from today on, everything would be at the behest of this Dewey Master.

“Treat your teacher like you do.” That's what Clark calls it.

Of course, Seth had a teacher, and his teacher was in a pretty good position in the Magic Union. The guy who used to go into the frozen forest with the Ghazi witch, and then, after meeting Medusa, he pitted the Ghazi witch and ran away himself - the Azi Mage.

But Sete had no place in AZ's crew, otherwise he wouldn't have been assigned to sell the wand. As an eighth-level magician of the Magic Union, Aziz has many magic apprentices and is not short of a Sete.

So, from now on, Sett is kind of changing the court and officially putting it under Dewey's door.

“What's up, Seth?” Dewey sees this bizarre head guy, and he says, “What are you thinking? ”

“No, no, nothing, Mr. Dewey...” Sett honestly calls Dewey a “teacher” according to tradition in the Magic Union. But that name made Dewey feel a little frowned.

“Sete.” Dewey stopped and looked at this magical research genius who had kidnapped himself back: “I don't need you to call me teacher. ”

“But it's a tradition…” Sete whispered: “In magic unions, all magic apprentices call themselves' teachers’ to their loyal magicians. ”

“But I'm not your teacher.” Dewey shook his head: “You're not my student, and I have nothing to teach you. I brought you here, and I needed your head, and even exaggerated, and I needed you to teach me something. Heh...”

Seth was scared.

Dewey photographed this wooden guy, looked at his head, and laughed, “Well, you'll see, I'm looking at your talent, and I want you to use your talent to help me do a lot of things. ”

And then Dewey, regardless of Seth's expression, pointed to the front of the street: "Look, my place is here. ”

In front is Dewey's current temporary residence. This courtyard, which belonged to the Grand Prince, was said to have been used by the Grand Prince to hide the delicate house. Of course, it's a rumor, no one knows if it's true. Dewey doesn't care either. He's leaving Didu anyway.

The house was not small. When Dewey moved in, the servants inside, as well as those who had previously guarded the house, had been dismissed with the fall of the Grand Prince. Dewey didn't try to find anyone else. There was only one old servant in the house, Mudd, and two former servants of the Rollins. After the Rollins moved back to the Rollins Plains, they didn't want to leave Didu, and stayed with Dewey for the time being.

In addition, there are now people in the family, Vivian, Mouse Grigg Witch, and Lord QQ the Beast. However, the existence of the Mouse Gringo Witch and QQ is still a secret for everyone, and only Dewey knows the existence of these two guys.

On his return, Dewey unexpectedly saw Vivian, the little girl, standing at the door of the house, sitting so quietly on the steps at the gate, holding her hands to her chin, looking pitifully at the end of the street, probably staying too long, the little silly chick was a little silly, she didn't even notice Dewey approaching.

“What are you doing here?” Dewey laughed and looked at Vivian sitting on the steps.

Actually, he was glad to see Vivian coming out. Ever since I brought Vivian back from "Broken Back Mountain” that day, the girl, who was already weak, suddenly found out about her teacher's death, kept herself locked up in her room since she came back, depressed every day.

Dewey went to see her a few times a day, but every time she went, the little girl was silent, sad, and Dewey tried to tease her, but every time she talked, the little girl suddenly burst into tears. In the end, Dewey had no choice but to let herself rest alone in the room. If you want to wait for the day to pass, your heartache will always dissipate.

Sure enough, today I saw Vivian finally come out and sat at the front door of the house, and Dewey walked up, reaching over her head and knocking gently, squinting her eyes and smiling: "Hello! Are you being silly? Didn't you hear me? ”

Vivian lifted her eyelids, blinked twice, looked at Dewey, gradually turned back, then stood up, rubbed some sour knees, and lowered her voice: “You, did you take the exam? ”

Xiao Niko still looks weak on her face, but the pain in her eyes is much faded, and her tone still carries concern for Dewey.

Dewey laughed and softened her tone a lot: "Are you sitting here waiting for me? ”

“I... I'm worried about you.” Vivian's little face turned red and drowned her head: “Magic exam, exam, difficult, I'm worried...”

Dewey slapped herself in the chest with a magic pharmacist's badge on it, laughing: "Don't worry, look, this is my badge, now standing in front of you, already a qualified magician! ”

Vivian glanced at the magician's badge on Dewey's chest, but without waiting for the little girl to talk, Dewey had walked into the house with Vivian in her hand. He took two steps, turned his head and looked at Seth: "What are you standing there for? Come in!”

Mudd hurried out of there, too, and Dewey told Mudd to take Sett in: "Let him pick a room for himself. Anyway, there are so many rooms here, alas, it's cold in the evening, it's like a ghost house. ”

Mudd nodded and was about to go down and suddenly remembered one thing and turned around: “Young master, Miss Jolyn has been here, she said there are some things in our store, business has been good lately, but there are not enough people, if you can, she would like you to go to the store and take a look, and she does not seem to be happy with the two craftsmen in our store right now... Also, the four twins you sent to the store, it seems that Miss Jolyn is not happy with them either. ”

Dewey nodded: "Mud, I get it... well, remember one thing, don't say 'Miss Jolyn’ anymore, remember, she's a knight, and in the future, whenever you mention her on any occasion, say 'Lord Jolyn', remember? This is important. ”

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Ruolin does have some upsetting things.

Though she is now on the right track with a boss, and by the way, Dewey is a step-by-step man with a bright future ahead of her. And Dewey trusted Jolyn so much that she decided to give Jolyn full control of this one-day gold business in Diduli.

But Ruolin didn't like the job.

Essentially, she prefers to manage those pirates, at least with her fleet at sea, experiencing storms, adventures filled with novelty and excitement, making Jolyn move - instead of wearing a gorgeous, almost ridiculous armor every day, circling around a bunch of hypocritical nobles.

But Jolyn still obeyed Dewey's arrangement, she was a smart woman, and she saw the difficulties that Dewey was currently understaffed. Though the young master is moving very quickly, he started too quickly, his roots are weak, and the lack of availability in his hands is a fatal wound to Dewey at present. If this problem is not solved, it will cause a great deal of trouble for Dewey's development.

So, Ruolin still obeys.

She tried her best to manage the business in hand, she completely demonstrated her ability to spin around a bunch of nobles every day, she didn't have to sacrifice a little hue every now and then when she walked around the river and lake... thanks to Dewey for packaging her image, in fact, now that Jolyn deliberately kept a cold look, those nobles would come around like flies.

Jolyn thinks she's too busy to eat. Though it is known that today is the day for Young Master Dewey to go to the Magic Union examination. But this clever knight is very confident in Dewey... just kidding, she knows too much about the means of this young master. Is the exam still a small dish for this young master? So in the morning, she didn't even take an attentive stance to look after Dewey's test results, but stayed in the store and handled some things.

The current business is very good. In just a few days, Dewey has earned more than 1.5 million gold coins, minus the cost of the up-front investment, and the cost of buying the store, as well as the cost of the people, the cost of the goods. In just three days, Dewey has earned millions of gold coins net.

Without the peeling of the middle-class black-hearted merchants, Dewey's fleet could continue to carry directly from the north to Didu the goods that the mercenary adventures had hunted from the frozen forest. The latest freshest cargo, coupled with a slightly lower price, and Dewey's current reputation in the aristocratic circle have made almost half of the entire ship sold last time Jolyn brought it in just three days.

She had sent someone back in the morning at the fastest possible speed to deliver the mail to the boat docked in Port Walker, allowing people to continue their procurement in the north and bring the goods to Didu.

And then she finally waited for Dewey.

Dewey came with Vivian. Since this little girl finally leaves the house, she can't continue to be bored by herself at home, taking her out for a spin, which also greatly helps to ease her mood.

Vivian is very interested in all kinds of goods from the frozen forests of the North in the industry that Dewey operates, and from a magician's point of view, Vivian finds a lot of things useful.

Keeping Vivian there slowly choosing, Dewey and Jolyn went upstairs to the room for a moment to talk.

Ruo Lin first mentioned a few of the challenges she is currently facing.

First, we are understaffed. Now that it is a business for the aristocratic groups, there is a need for some strictly trained waiters in the shop… those aristocrats are not ordinary people, if they go to the slave market and buy a few people back, they will not be trained with strict etiquette, they will make people talk behind their backs, and they will lose Dewey's face. The nobles are still very attentive to this.

Secondly, the issue of craftsmen. Most of the goods shipped from the North were raw materials, although Dewey had already hired several good craftsmen, blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters and carvers at high prices in Didu before he opened his business. But it is not enough.

The furs of the beasts are made into fine gorgeous clothes, fur coats, can not just be stitched to make up, the noblemen are also very concerned with materials, but also with the novelty of style, which is obviously not enough.

And while most of those precious nuclei have already been ordered by the Magic Union, some of the Homen aristocratic families will also come to buy them to please the magicians they have solicited from their families. There are also some weapons...

Speaking of weapons, this is where Jolyn gets the most headaches.

The materials currently stored in the warehouse are superior, but the two blacksmiths in the warehouse are too ordinary. And there are too few people. Just last night, these two mediocre blacksmiths damaged the scales of two dragons while forging a set of equipment, and accidentally when they quenched, because the fire was not enough, they destroyed an elongated sword designed to be the most popular nobleman of all time - because of the problem with the fire, which was designed as a fine long sword like chopsticks, and when they tried it, they were easily knocked off by a blacksmith's plier.

Two blacksmiths have actually worked hard, but their talents are insufficient. And while they had built weapons, they had never come into contact with so much superior material.

These are just current issues, and the one that pisses Jolyn off the most… is the Magic Apprentice Four Twins from Duvese!

The four beautiful twin girls, who were originally pets of millions of gold coins, seemed to have little interest in the four girls, but after the store opened, they were thrown directly at Lauryn's hands.

Dewey's idea is simple, he hopes to continue to grow his business and make some magic items in the future! The magician group is not short of money. On the one hand, a large number of noblemen like it and give away countless riches. On the other hand, the magician possesses a variety of precious stones. Such a group is what Dewey thinks is the best consumer.

These warcraft nuclei from the North can make a lot of things that appeal to magicians, and Dewey knows that selling raw materials is a lot better than selling finished goods! Profits will also multiply several times. However, the manufacture of magic items is not within the competence of ordinary craftsmen.

On the continent of Roland, there is a special profession called "Magic Maker”, a small and small professional group that specializes in making all kinds of props needed by magicians, such as wands, crystal balls, all kinds of magic aids, and even some people can create magic scrolls!

But the occupational group is also very strange, and some magicians, themselves excellent magicians, make magic items primarily for their own use, and occasionally produce items that circulate on the market. Of course, there are very few such magicians, and only those who are both magicians and magicians can have the ability to create magic scrolls.

And most of the magicians' identities are from magic apprentices, but they have not become magicians' talents, and eventually they have to become magicians, using the magic knowledge they possess to make all kinds of things that magicians need.

But whatever magician it is, it's not currently available to Dewey. Because almost all magicians belong to the Magic Union. And the magicians who were magicians were not easily recruited by someone.

So Dewey had high hopes for the four twins, hoping that the four girls would take advantage of their magic and eventually become money machines in their hands.

Obviously, Dewey recognizes the value of these four girls, unlike most men.

If any other nobleman had been replaced, I'm afraid this rare four-born beauty would have been banned from the house.

“Duchess, with all due respect, I'd like to ask you to take these four young ladies back!” Jolyn said very politely, "They're not here to help me at all! Every day I have to separate people to serve them! Hmmm...”

Dewey frowned: “Is there such a thing? ”

Next, Jolyn tells Dewey what happened these past few days.

Turns out, not only is Jolyn depressed, but so are the four twins. Since childhood, they have been beautiful girls with four children, bought back by the Count of Villa, and have undergone rigorous training, as well as some magical learning. But what Count Billia expected of them, frankly, was that they were trained to please men in the future.

Even on the day of their training in the Count of Villa, the four twins were being held hostage, and besides their training, their lives were almost comparable to those of the little aristocratic ladies.

After being given to Dewey, the four girls began to be satisfied. After all, Dewey was young, handsome and worldly, and recently became the Grand Duke of Red.

The four girls thought that if they could please the Duke and get his favor, they would fly up the branch and turn into a phoenix.

Unfortunately, Dewey was lazy with one finger. And threw them at Lauryn's men for duty!

Best of all, Jolyn! This rude woman, this ruthless woman, dares to ask her to work!

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After hearing Jolyn's account, Dewey looked gloomy, and he glanced at Jolyn: "Can't you help them? Knight Jolyn, I'm disappointed in you! You could have cleaned up a bunch of nasty pirates, but now you can't even handle four little girls? ”

Ruo Lin looked a little embarrassed: “My lord... these four ladies are from you after all, I...”

Dewey immediately understood Jolyn's concern and smiled: "Don't worry, they're not my women, and I'm not going to let them be my women! Are you relieved now? I sent them to you, and you're in charge! If they don't listen, you can do whatever you want! ”

If Lynn was relieved, she would be relieved.

Looking at the female knight's face, Dewey laughed in her heart: Now, I'm afraid the four twins will suffer for the next few days.

After a moment of silence, Dewey said: "The manpower problem, can't rush, can only look slowly. Especially the craftsmen, now good craftsmen are hard to dig up, and in this place of the Emperor, no one is willing to give us good craftsmen. Ming robbery makes it easy to offend people. Especially when I leave the Emperor in a few months, even if I offend people, I don't have to fear retaliation, but after I leave, I can't. So, offender things, try not to do them. ”

“But good craftsmen are owners. Where do we find them?” Ruolin sighed.

“It can't be done, the only stupid way is to cultivate it yourself.” Dewey shook his head too: "But it was too expensive, too long, and it worked. Let's leave the craftsman thing behind and I'll figure it out... Well, it's early, so why don't we go to the slave market in town and maybe get some right people. ”

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Slavery in the Roland continent has been firmly opposed by the Temple for centuries.

Of course, in Dewey's view, this is not the nobility of the temple, but the enormous benefits it produces from slavery, which it cannot share in its own dissatisfaction.

For centuries, the continent has been generally peaceful, but the expeditions of the South Ocean and the frequent outbreaks of small insurgencies in the Northwest have always been accompanied by many prisoners following the army enlistment of the Empire… Especially the Expeditionary Fleet of the South Ocean, which every time returns brings back a large number of trophies… Many of them are indigenous people captured from large islands in the South Ocean.

It's not that the Imperial Army likes to plunder people... To be honest, who doesn't like to plunder some more real gold and silver back?

Unfortunately, with the excessive frequency of expeditions in the South Ocean, the gains from each expedition are diminishing. Things really can't be grabbed, so in order to get some gains to supplement the military spending, so plunder the population and occupy the largest proportion of the loot in recent expeditions!

The resulting indigenous peoples from the Southern Ocean became mainstream in the slave market. Dewey looked at a statistic from the military, and now in Didu, it is estimated that there are more than 8,000 indigenous people from the Southern Ocean, most of whom have been plundered for many years, even after the previous generation was plundered back, many of whom have lived on the Empire's soil for many years, many of whom are second generation.

In addition, there are many slaves who are original free people who cannot live in poverty and can only be sold as slaves. And a few small insurgencies in the northwest can also give rise to slaves.

Others, also known as "official slaves”, originate mainly from some fallen hawks. After the coup d 'état, for example, several hawks were completely razed, many members of the family were convicted and, after being tried, they lost their status as free citizens and turned into slaves, most of whom were sold on the slave market.

Interestingly, one of the largest slave traders in the Empire, not others, is an industry under the central financial subdivision of the Empire! That place was set up in the slave market southwest of the city of Tidu, where many “official slaves” were concentrated.

It can be said that the Empire's finances rely on the slave trade every year and also capture significant fiscal revenues.

And the reason the temple is unhappy is because it is so big a piece of cake every year, but the temple can't officially intervene to divide it.

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The slave trade in Tidu was mostly concentrated southwest of the city, behind the walls to the southwest, with a wide avenue. It is on this avenue that the most flourishing slave markets across the continent emerge.

Historically, the southwest of Didu has been close to slums, and the entire southwest of the city is home to more than 900,000 inhabitants, almost half of the population of Didu.

In addition to the slave trade, there are many places on this kilometre-long street that are actually just ordinary poor people and strange people of all colours looking for work.

In other words, it is considered a “labour market” similar to the one seen in Dewey's previous life.

At the end of Long Street, against a square. Originally demolished decades ago, the statues and ponds in the center of the square are now set up on several high platforms, several famous major slave groups in Didu, above which there is a lively slave trade.

Above the square, centered on several high platforms, a large crowd of people gathered around, many of them business groups coming from outside, as well as some of the noblemen of Tidu. Slave traders on high platforms, with whips in their hands, and strong bodyguards with a few big, round arms behind them, on the table next to them, some in a big iron cage, in a cage, holding people like animals —— most of them in cages are “newcomers” who have just become slaves, only these prisoners who have just been plundered from the Northwest or the South Ocean will resist the fate of slaves, so they will be locked up.

And on those other high platforms, some colored slaves, their eyes empty, and their surroundings were not surrounded by frivolous slave traders' bodyguards, often dozens of people, tied together with only a fine rope, just stood there with a blind face, behaved well, and let all kinds of eyes cast around them. That's a numb old slave.

Even the slave traders kept walking to the slaves, squeezing this face, banging that chest, or pulling their lips open to show their teeth... like animals. They are also indifferent and have been numbed by their own destiny.

Dewey and Jolyn walked in the crowd, both dressed in plainclothes, and without that gorgeous and excessive armor, Dewey naturally wouldn't wear a glamorous magician robe.

With a plain jacket, Dewey squeezed through the crowd as Jolyn struggled.

On either side of the road, in addition to the slave trade table, there are corners where some indifferent people, male or female, or old or young, stand quietly on the corners of the street, sweeping their eyes back and forth in the crowd. These people, without exception, have a piece of cloth on them or on their arms.

These are not slaves, they are free people of the empire, but many people have to be sold as slaves because of their difficult lives in order to survive. Just one stop to the slave market, with a black cloth on his arm, means willing to sell himself.

Of course, there are also those who do not want to be slaves, standing here with a white cloth on their arms, representing their willingness to find a loyal master, but not as slaves.

There are plenty of people like this, most of them with a skill set. Some craftsmen, some muffs, some samurai.

All the way to Dewey, it appeared that several people dressed as fighters, wearing old clothes that were almost cold and sour, with long swords that were almost rusty in their hands, stood in the corner with an expression, white cloth on their shoulders, unusually eye-catching.

The survival of samurai is not easy in Didu. Emperors are at the heart of the empire, where too many masters are gathered, basically, an intermediate warrior, but a bodyguard for nobility.

Low-level samurai want to mix meals, it is much harder, there are also a lot of low-level samurai, nobility do not hesitate to solicit, can only work hard in some carriages, a little better, can also serve as a bodyguard in carriages of carriages.

And those with low martial arts skills, with only one or two levels of martial arts, are even less able to find food.

Magic is strong and the martial arts fall, which is the epitome of the entire continent.

“Young master, look!” Dewey was measuring several samurai in the corner, and suddenly she heard Jolyn shouting at herself. Looking forward, you can see the crowds floating towards the end of the street. It is the largest slave trade centre in the Emperor - the official official official slave trafficking site of the Empire!

Official slaves are generally much higher in quality and price than ordinary slaves. Most of the slaves who come out of the house door are trained and can be used immediately when bought, so although the price is higher, they are still favored by many buyers.

“Go check it out.” Dewey nodded.

Looks like he came at a very opportune time and seemed to have a bunch of “new goods” for sale at the official slave trafficking point.

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