108. Setins Oasis
When the convoy arrived at the Setins Oasis, it was late at night.
But here, there is no trace of the tranquility of the night.
In the large buildings, there are bright fires swaying, the noise seems to never stop, and there are constantly teams of convoys walking or entering the streets, and occasionally you can see one or two firefights, but the scale is not large, that is, a few people on each side go head-to-head, and the loser not only leaves a bet, but also the lives of the participants, and the winner can take away the spoils and honor.
This is paradise, where you become famous overnight, get rich overnight, and all kinds of situations that can only appear in dreams are played out here.
This is hell, ruined, dead and dead, and all kinds of plots that were once only novels and stories are also staged here.
The saddest thing is not to step into heaven or hell, but to go to heaven with the left foot and hell with the right foot - the spoils of desperate fighting, and then turn around because you are seriously injured and secretly done by others, which is the saddest.
The formation of the convoy began to shrink.
Sean had already said in advance that he should not cause trouble here, because maybe a decadent who looked like a gangster was actually the gold medal fighter of a certain large chamber of commerce, and it could even be the future heir of a certain large chamber of commerce. In a place like the Trade Capital, even if the Black Cat Chamber of Commerce is a relatively powerful local Chamber of Commerce, but when Ron comes to a place like the Trade Capital, he can only clamp his tail and be a low-key person.
There was a phrase in the forum that was used to describe the situation of the trading capital.
There is as much gold as a dog, and the sanctuary is everywhere.
Silver? I'm sorry, but this kind of strength is really not enough in the trading capital. As for those heirs such as chambers of commerce and families, unless they have absolute regional-level influence, or are those really old aristocratic families of the Seven Great Empires, they may be very majestic in the country, but when they come to a place like the trade capital, they are not even as good as a commander who has always looked down on them but has real power, or a mercenary captain.
So here, clamp your tail and be a low-key person. is a very normal thing.
Watch Sean's motorcade enter. But the number of guards is so small, and many people with intentions have already set their sights on this convoy. If it weren't for the inherent rules of the Trade Capital that prevented these people from doing anything within the scope of this Oasis City, these fierce gods like hungry wolves would have rushed forward a long time ago.
Only those with a little eyesight will limit their team actions, because in the veterans they feel only an air of fearlessness. Just nineteen guards. can exude this kind of atmosphere, if this team does not have a little strength or background, no one present will believe it. Therefore, it is the best way to wait and see for a while, and let those who have little eyesight go to explore the way first.
But when the convoy actually stopped in front of a gray-looking building, the people who watched showed excitement and a look of good entertainment.
Anyone who's lived a day here at the Setings Oasis will know it. This unremarkably inconspicuous-looking dilapidated three-story building is actually the real heart of the entire Setings Oasis – the headquarters of the Setins Chamber of Commerce, one of the top ten chambers of commerce. On the surface, this house used as the headquarters of the Chamber of Commerce is no different from ordinary residential houses, and it is not even imposing, but in fact, the underground area with a radius of thousands of kilometers has actually been hollowed out by the Setings Chamber of Commerce, and then reinforced and stabilized with special magic building materials. Make sure that there is no collapse in the ground.
This is also for the fact that all the other buildings around it are covered as high as possible. Or simply the reason why a large circle came out. After all, if you're in the slave trade, the place you use to display your slaves is too small. Then there are naturally fewer slaves that can be displayed, and there are not many types of people who can choose from them, so there must be no desire to buy, so this slave business, of course, covers as much area as possible.
The Setins Chamber of Commerce, as one of the top ten chambers of commerce, is also the first veteran chamber of commerce to capture the slave trade, of course, not everyone can go in to buy slaves, at least more than 20,000 pan-continental gold coins to be eligible to enter. And 20,000 pan-continental gold coins are actually not much for some big nobles, because even if it is a ratio of one to two, it is only 40,000, but to know the Dao, this is just a qualification for entry.
And those people around him, which one has so much money, so they naturally feel that it is impossible for Sean to get so much money. After all, they haven't seen anyone who can enter the Setins Chamber of Commerce, but none of them have ever been so shabby, although this team is already up to the level of fat sheep, but it is also a relatively thin type among fat sheep.
Eighty percent of the people around regard this team as countrymen who have never seen the world.
An old man sitting in front of the dilapidated house raised his head and glanced at the convoy parked in front of the door, what made him different from the old man's appearance was that his eyes were extremely bright and bright, and the whole person was just sitting in place, and he had already shown an amazing momentum. His momentum was like a knife and a spear, but it was aimed directly at the first carriage, and the old soldiers around him did not feel the momentum of this old man at all.
There is no doubt that the old man in front of him is definitely a real gold-level powerhouse.
Sean opened the car door, and although the momentum exuded by the old man had been deliberately restrained, and what he was showing at the moment was only a threatening warning, it was actually stronger and more terrifying than Alfred in the Wine and Blades Tavern.
To be honest, even Sean can't bear this kind of momentum. But he also knew that if he wanted to enter the Setins Chamber of Commerce, he would definitely have to pass this hurdle, so he just took a deep breath and walked towards the old man, for Sean's attitude, the old man's expression did not change at all, from the moment he was reduced to guarding the door for others, the dignity of a gold-level powerhouse had long been abandoned by him.
Standing in front of the old man, Sean reached out and took out twenty gold exchange scrolls, no more, no less, exactly twenty. When he set out from the village of Seroda, he also had twenty gold exchange scrolls, but at that time he used one to buy a lot of things, and then set off along the way to actually do business as a merchant, and then those who came to rob him and were robbed also contributed a lot of money to him, and by the way, he sold a special product and so on, Sean finally got together twenty gold exchange scrolls with a thousand gold denominations when he arrived in the trade capital.
The moment he saw the gold scroll, the old man's momentum dissipated. Then he reverted back to the kind of arrogant old man who didn't care about himself.
Sean whispered a message for Alfred and the veterans to wait outside. And he went in alone. Cecilia and Hina are still in the carriage and haven't come out, one of the main reasons is that Cecilia hasn't woken up yet, and Sean is not causing some unnecessary trouble because of the appearance of these two little guys, if the lower silver makes a move, he can still deal with it, if the upper silver or even a gold-level powerhouse makes a move, then he really can't stop it.
And leaving the veterans and Alfred. Naturally, it is also to show a sense of mystery and strength. If he had brought everyone in, the wagons and wagons would have been taken away in less than a minute. Of course, this idea is actually a baseless speculation, in fact, when Sean stepped into the small house of the headquarters of the Spices Chamber of Commerce, those who originally wanted to fight Sean immediately withdrew, even if Sean left these carriages here and left them alone. Absolutely no one dared to take it.
This is the deterrent power of a sufficiently strong chamber of commerce.
Walking into this house, a strong smell of blood instantly poured into Sean's nasal cavity, which obviously looked very normal, but the smell of blood that made people panic and want to vomit was everywhere. Although Sean was mentally prepared enough when he stepped here, he still didn't expect the gap between this place and the original game. It's unbelievably big.
Moment. Sean seemed to hear countless people howling.
Frowning, Sean took a few deep breaths. Finally calmed down a little bit of the emotions and fears in my heart. At the door on the left, a burly middle-aged man is carrying a leather whip out of it, his right arm is actually holding an almost naked young woman, the woman has countless bright red whip marks, on the surface, these whip marks did not hit her skin and flesh, but the blood beads are constantly oozing out from under the skin, almost dyeing her into a bloody person, as the middle-aged man walked towards the second floor, the woman's dripping blood drew a palpitating blood path on the ground.
A man scolded and followed the burly man out, and when he saw Sean, his eyes immediately lit up and greeted him: "This gentleman, let you see a smile." A slave who wanted to run away was just a little lesson. ”
The voice was faint, and the smile on his face did not look like a fake, and he did not typically treat the slave as a human being. However, this kind of thing was gradually accepted by players in the game world, and even by buying a large number of slaves to serve as cannon fodder, even players who were educated on human equality gradually sank, not to mention that this is a real world of slavery legality.
Sean's mood may be a little complicated, but he has no position or strength to say these things at the moment, let alone save the suffering, or be determined to liberate all these slaves and abolish slavery. In this world where slaves can be used as almost any livestock, the abolition of slavery is tantamount to being the enemy of the entire continent, and there was a group of players with an excess sense of justice in the game who did this, and as a result, basically all the camps and forces in the whole continent are mortal enemies and blood feuds, and they can only delete the number and start over again.
Looking at the man's respectful look, Sean finally spoke: "I need slaves, regardless of race, but I need to be burly, able-bodied, able-bodied, able to walk, run, and fight, and it is best to have family members to drag me down, if I really don't have it, I can also be a slave from the same tribe, but I don't want a tribal slave with a blood feud." …… This kind of slave, the normal selling price outside is calculated according to the strong adult man, but because of the drag of the family, it will be discounted accordingly, I don't know how you plan to sell it? ”
The man's heart sank, and he had the first preliminary impression judgment of Sean: veteran. So the mentality was immediately readjusted, and Zhi Lu Dao had no way to fool around in this regard, but it was better to spread it out, so that the reputation of the Setins Chamber of Commerce would sound better: "Under normal circumstances, it is six to ten gold coins per family, if you want to buy a tribe directly in large quantities, I can calculate a preferential price for you, just calculate it according to eight gold coins." ”
Sean silently calculated, the price of eight gold coins is not outrageous, normally it can buy a medium-sized tribe with 2,500 households, but in fact this is just the money to buy slaves, and the food and drink of these slaves during this period after being captured is actually a separate cost.
"How do you calculate the cost of food?" Sean asked.
"It's five gold coins a day for every 100 people."
Sean nodded, and said again: "So is there a tribe that is about two thousand households, and it has been captured for less than a month now?" ”
Two thousand households, even if there is only one person in each household who can participate in the battle, there are two thousand.
The size of 2,000 men is the minimum number of people required for a standard infantry corps; As for their families, they can also be used as labor, and it is not a problem for women to be responsible for washing vegetables and cooking, which can save the cost of the logistics army, and if they have children, they can also be injected as new blood when they grow up in the future. The most important point is that slaves with families are much easier to control than those without families, and even for the sake of their families, they are the same tribal group, and the cohesion is much stronger, so they are the easiest candidates to upgrade to the third-level army.
Sean really hadn't been a lord before, but he hadn't eaten pork, at least he had seen a pig run. Therefore, he is still competent in some basic concepts, but when the territory is really established, he really needs an internal affairs officer.
"There are three tribes that meet your current requirements." The man thought for a moment, and even took out a small notebook and flipped it up, before he said, "The Northland barbarian tribe, the blue-blooded tribe, and a group of barbarians. …… However, the price of the barbarians, sir, you also know, I can't count eight gold coins for you, this must be ten gold coins, but the number is less, but the overall total is about 20,000 gold coins. ”
"Take me to see the barbarians." Sean didn't even think about it, and said directly. (To be continued.) )
PS: The top of my room is a platform, I originally wanted to plant some flowers and plants, and then I didn't get it, today it rained for a whole day, the water on the surface was too serious, and the drainage outlet was blocked, and the water didn't flow out, but soaked the brick surface, and my room became a hard-hit area, just finished busy, so this fourth is more late, sorry, in order to make up for it, 3900+ words, it's sincere, right?