Chapter 1224 Slave Merchant
Beberant is the junction of the Northern and Southern Tribal Alliance. Although the Northern and Southern Tribal Alliance does not have clear boundaries like outside countries, the Northern and Southern Tribal Alliance has established seventeen border cities, and Beberant is one of them.
city.
Beberant itself is not a city with special characteristics. Just like most other cities in the wasteland, Beberant was also a city established by early colonists. The reason why the city was established here was because this generation was entrenched at that time.
With several large tribes numbering in the tens of thousands, the colonists at that time took advantage of the conflicts between these large tribes to provoke wars between them, and then used both sides to seize the wealth accumulated in their tribes for countless years.
, and even after each tribal war, the warriors of those tribes were turned into slaves by purchasing prisoners of war.
In less than ten years, these large tribes that have existed for thousands of years have completely disappeared, and the tribesmen have become slaves. Only the dilapidated tribal ruins tell the people who come here about the prosperity of the past.
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After those large tribes were annexed by the colonists, there was no value here, and the city of Beberant was abandoned by the colonists at that time.
After that, because there were no mineral resources around and it was deviated from the main road, Beberante remained abandoned until the construction of the North-South Highway. It was rebuilt and became one of the border cities.
People at the time didn't quite understand why the originally straight North-South Avenue had to make a turn at Beibelant, which made construction more difficult and cost a lot of money. Until recent years, the Holy Mountain in the north leaked
Only some information revealed the answer to this mystery. It is actually very simple. One of the people responsible for designing the route of the North-South Expressway at that time was a descendant of the tribe near Beberant. He hoped that the land of his ancestors could flourish again, so he selfishly
I modified the route and made a detour here.
However, this selfish approach accidentally discovered a huge treasure that had been hidden in Beiberant for many years and had not been discovered. This treasure was the blood orchid growing in the valley near Beiberant.
This kind of blood orchid is a material needed to make some high-level shaman potions. This kind of flower is extremely harsh on the growing environment. If it is slightly unsatisfactory, it will stop growing or even wither and die.
In the past, when the great shamans of the Holy Mountain needed to make this kind of shamanic potion, they could only exchange it from the secluded tribes on the other side of the Dajiao River. There were many inconveniences. What was even more troublesome was that some accidents occurred during transportation.
Some losses occurred due to the accident, and several rituals that required the use of this shamanic potion had to be postponed or canceled due to the lack of blood orchids.
After a large number of blood orchids were discovered in the valley near Beberant, the Holy Mountain immediately paid special attention and care to them. Not only did the northern Holy Mountain send people to station here, but even the southern Holy Mountain also sent several experts.
The shamans are permanently stationed here, and because of the actions of the North and South Holy Mountains, many idle warriors from the tribes also came here to make a living, so that the place gradually became prosperous, which can be regarded as a disguised fulfillment of the original North and South.
Avenue designer's wish.
When the outside civilized society completely banned any slave trade, this city, which was deeply harmed by the colonial slave trade, still had legal slave trade. However, the slaves here were not limited to tribal people, and there were many
Most of them were people from other countries who became slaves due to debts, prisoners of war, criminals, etc.
After the Year of the Fog, many systems in civilized society have changed. Among them, the system that has changed the most is the criminal imprisonment system. Naturally, governments are unwilling to spend a lot of their own manpower and material resources to support a group of criminals, so there are only two of these criminals.
There are ways to go, one is to go directly to the battlefield and become a member of the vanguard legion that directly faces the first wave of mutant monster attacks, and the other is to be sent to the wasteland and sold to the tribesmen as slaves.
Although slave trade has been banned within each country and between countries, it is still possible to exploit some legal loopholes and trade slaves with wilderness tribes. At first, only some death row prisoners were traded here as slaves, but later debtors and prisoners of war were traded here.
, thieves and other petty criminals were also traded here.
Those who were traded as slaves were naturally extremely angry about their situation, but they were also very helpless, because becoming slaves was their own choice, and in their view, joining the Pioneer Corps was a sure thing.
There is no doubt that basically no prisoner can survive in the Vanguard Legion until his sentence is over, and becoming a slave of the powerful tribe in the wasteland is naturally much safer than those who join the Vanguard Legion. Although he met a
A bad master will also make his life very difficult, but compared to the vanguard legion who are bound to die, this kind of difficulty in life is not worth mentioning.
Henry Jones is an Englishman and a wanted criminal, and is a jointly wanted criminal in thirteen countries including the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of America, and the Kingdom of Daliat. These countries have accumulated a total of 100,000 criminal charges on his head.
The bounty has reached an astonishing height. Every year, countless hunters hope to obtain all the bounties in the bounty pool by hunting him, but in the end, these hunters eventually become decorations in his manor.
The reason why he is wanted by so many countries is mainly because of the career he has built throughout his life, a slave trading network that at its largest covered almost the entire civilized world of Velen.
Although after the Year of the Fog, the isolation of various continents caused the slave trading organization under his control to go out of control, causing his career to fall apart, but with the wealth and manpower accumulated over the years, he was still able to stabilize the business in Moissan Continent, even if
But in this era where mutated monsters are rampant, his slave trade can still be maintained.
However, as various countries in the Moissanite Continent began to implement extremely strict military control in order to fight against the tide of mutant monsters, Henry Jones's hiding places were dug out one by one, and his forged identities were revealed one by one. In addition, the secrets within his own organization were also revealed.
The traitor betrayed him, forcing him to abandon most of his career and flee into the wilderness.
However, even after escaping to the wilderness, he still did not give up on the slave business. Instead, he started a new business in Beibelant, a wasteland border city, although this business was inferior to the business he had started in the past.
It's not a slight difference, but it's also the basis for him to be able to stand in the wilderness. If he loses this career, his end will not be much better than the decorations made of hunter human skin in his manor.
In the eyes of others, because the first people to colonize the wilderness were the Inges, and the people who later engaged in the slave trade in Mozang were mainly the Inges, a large number of tribes that have existed in the wilderness for thousands of years are all because of the Inges.
They were hunted and exterminated by humans, so the entire wilderness tribe was extremely disgusted and hostile to the Inges.
Therefore, if an Inge engages in slave trading in the Moissan Wasteland, and the slaves traded are mainly tribesmen, this will definitely arouse the hostility of the wilderness tribes, and even lead to targeted attacks by the wilderness tribes.
This is a universal idea that almost everyone who knows Henry Jones and knows that his business is the slave trade will have this idea.
But in the view of Henry Jones, this idea is very superficial and even completely wrong, because only a very small number of tribes in the Moissan Wasteland truly hate the Ying Kingdom and the Ying people, while the vast majority of other tribes only do this.
People who treat other kingdoms treat the Kingdom of England and the people of England the same way, and there will be no particularly prominent hatred.
This is mainly because those in the outside world who do not understand the tribes in the wasteland always regard all the tribes in the wasteland as a whole. The actual situation is completely different. The reason why there is such a misunderstanding is not only due to errors in conventional cognition.
In addition, what is more important is that the Holy Desert Mountain gives an illusion to outside civilization.
To a large extent, the tribes in the wilderness are like a separate city-state. They are equal to other tribes, have no affiliation, and are not one body.
The relationship between tribes is far from as close as what outsiders see. In fact, many tribes in the wilderness are mortal enemies. The reason why they can go to the Holy Mountain together to participate in various rituals on the Holy Mountain is
, not only because of the influence of the Holy Mountain Shaman, but more importantly because they are unable to swallow their mortal enemy in one go.
Some of these tribes who are mortal enemies have been at war with each other for thousands of years. For these tribes, the damage caused by the Kingdom of England during the colonial period was simply not worth mentioning, so they did not pay much attention to the England people like Henry Jones.
A lot of hatred, at best, they will only use this kind of hatred rumors to lower the price when trading with Henry Jones.
Moreover, the emergence of slave traders like Henry Jones also solved some problems of prisoners of war for these tribes, allowing them to sell prisoners of war in a short period of time after a battle and obtain huge profits that were enough to compensate for the losses of the war.
Therefore, after Henry Jones established a foothold and became one of the largest slave traders in Beibelant, he hardly needed to find the source of goods himself. Some tribes would directly come to see him and hand over a batch of prisoners of war to him for trading.
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When news of the conflict between the Silver Moon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe of the Southern Tribal Alliance reached Beibelant, Henry Jones immediately paid attention to the matter because he saw huge business opportunities in this matter.
Therefore, he even did not hesitate to use a long-stored token of his to contact another participant in this conflict, the mixed-blood tribe, and planned to start the post-war prisoner of war trade from the mixed-blood tribe.
Henry Jones's slave trading house has always had a very good relationship with the mixed-race tribes. The mixed-race tribes have long ago used Henry Jones to purchase the mixed-race tribesmen who appeared in the slave market to strengthen their own tribe, and Henry Jones
Through the conflict between the mixed-blood tribe and other tribes, he purchased prisoners of war and slaves on a large scale and sold them to other tribes. The cooperation between the two was extremely close. He believed that he would be able to get good news from the mixed-blood tribe this time.
However, what surprised him was that he received a very formal rejection letter from a mixed-race tribe. Excluding the polite words in the letter, there was only one actual content in the letter, which was to ask him not to interfere in anything.
Regarding this prisoner of war trade between the Silver Moon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe.
This formal letter of rejection surprised Henry Jones because it was something that had never happened to him before. Although he felt that it was a bit strange, he did not intend to delve into it further, but chose to listen to the letter.
He proposed not to interfere in the prisoner-of-war trade between the Silver Moon Tribe and the Tinder Tribe. This was one of the reasons why he was able to survive until now. He controlled his curiosity and desires.
However, although he is not prepared to intervene in the prisoner-of-war trade between the two protagonists of the conflict, this does not mean that he will completely give up on other benefits that this conflict can create. For example, other small tribes attached to the two tribes do not seem to be restricted.
Among them, the prisoners of war produced between these small tribes are the goals he is considering now. In addition, the spoils of war are also a source of profit. In short, even if he does not intervene in the largest prisoner of war transaction, he can still earn from this conflict and war.
earned a lot.
Just when Henry Jones was considering whether to go to the Southern Tribal Alliance in person, a supervisor he arranged at the trading house suddenly hurried to his manor and told him that someone wanted to see him.
Henry Jones was a little confused, because the supervisor knew his temper very well and would not disturb him with trivial matters, so the person who wanted to see him must be an important person.
So Henry Jones asked about the man's identity, and after the supervisor said the man's name, Henry Jones immediately showed a serious and disgusted expression on his face, because countless experiences in the past reminded him that that man
There is absolutely no good thing going on with his appearance. After the few times we met in the past, he would encounter some unlucky things inexplicably.
According to Henry Jones's idea, he would and would never meet this person, but he knew very well how much loss he would suffer if he really followed this idea. After all, he now had a second point of interest at hand.
You need to rely on the other person for support.
Henry Jones wore relatively authentic clothes and hurried to the VIP room of the trading house. Then he opened the door and walked in. After seeing the man standing by the window sill, he immediately stepped forward to say hello respectfully: "Ms.
, I didn’t expect that you would come to Beberant in person. Your arrival made this dark corner of my city become brighter. Although this is not my city, I am still familiar with it, and I am very willing to bring you...
Please visit this beautiful city with me, madam.”
"Beautiful?" The other party pointed to the slaves waiting to be sold on the slave farm outside the window sill, and said with a hint of ridicule: "Are you talking about this scene? Maybe this is beautiful to you."
Faced with the other party's ridicule, Henry Jones could only respond with a smile. He did not refute. Instead, as if changing the subject, he looked at the other person aside and said, "This must be that gentleman, right?"
Chapter completed!