Thousand-Faced Dragon

Chapter 36 Night Talk
The broken gate and the chaotic crowd completely destroyed the dignity of the slave market this time.

Seeing the two of them get on the departing carriage, the head of the family, Kveldoff, breathed a sigh of relief.

He became even more troubled when he thought about how to explain it to the big bosses behind the scenes.

But noticing the pointing and talking around him, he knew that the trouble had just begun and this time the slave market was really in trouble.

"Come on, damn Eugene! Send all of Eugene's women and cubs to the auction cage! Send his people to his favorite arena!"

So, he transferred his anger to Eugene Ford and killed a few of them to calm the situation down.

In the carriage, the "engaged couple" faced each other, and the scene was a bit awkward.

Rean didn't have the ruthless intelligence to ask the stupid question "Haven't we already dissolved our marriage?"

He guessed that the other party was looking for this excuse to help him, otherwise it would be difficult for outsiders to intervene.

However, the two people who had just experienced all this still found it a little difficult to face each other.

At least the woman kept blushing and lowering her head, which was not consistent with her reputation for being good at dancing.

Perhaps unable to bear the embarrassment, Sallyman spoke first.

".Why do you only ask for that as compensation."

She was really confused by this, so she asked.

Rean did not ask for magical weapons, wealth or shops. What he asked for was the thing that a paladin should never ask for.

"You want to ask me why I demand slaves as payment?"

"Yes. Although you prioritize skilled slaves, this isn't a problem in the slave market. Skilled and skilled slaves are always popular and therefore quite expensive. However, they are still incomparable to your Hero's Blood. This top-tier evolutionary material can't be priced accurately. This deal is a huge loss."

The Hero's Blood, an evolutionary material with no threshold, has always been in short supply. If you really estimate its price, it would be an astronomical figure. However, if you can't buy it at any price, it is useless.

Originally, with his help, Rean could have asked for better things, such as some magical weapons or rare materials for evolution.

Sallyman was prepared to force the slave market to bleed heavily, but in the end she only asked for the technical slaves who she considered the most worthless.

This is the reason why "compensation" was negotiated so quickly, and the slave market felt that the loss was not much.

"I will release those slaves directly. Of course, it won't be without cost."

Now that they were allies, Rean explained some of his ideas and plans.

"The prerequisite is that these skilled individuals must sign a three-year contract to live in the dock area. Of course, they must earn their own living."

Seeing that Sallyman was still confused and that these plans might require her cooperation and help in the future, Rean became more patient.

"In my opinion, the greatest harm the slave market in the docks inflicted on the surrounding area wasn't even the crimes it caused, but the fact that it constantly drained resources, both human and financial, and simply converted them into money."

There are very few normal businesses in the dock area where the slave market is located.

Those craftsmen have to work to make a living, so naturally some new industries will be created.

A baker needs a family when he grows up, so there is a woman who does not need to go to Huaxiang.

If he opened a shop, he would need two apprentices and helpers, which would provide employment for the two boys.

When the apprentices grow up, they want to open a shop to make money, thus creating new demands and jobs.

Ultimately, entrepreneurship and employment are like this: people with skills need investment and development plans, and once their business takes off, they can drive a whole area.

Li En, who worked in investment promotion in his previous life, is very clear about these things. In this era, every person with skills can become a high-quality "project", especially when the economic situation is bad, the larger number of flexible small self-employed individuals and craftsmen become more important.

In his eyes, the greatest harm the slave market caused to the dock area was not even the evil itself, but the fact that it occupied all the upper ecological niches and distorted all the surrounding industries to provide nutrition for it.

It is not normal "human tissue" but greedy "cancer cells".

It only needs red-light districts, casinos, gangs, and human traffickers, and makes the docks and the people coming and going its targets, which is enough to make huge profits.

If Li En wanted to do something, he had to start with an ecological perspective; simply investing in large projects wasn't enough. Freed-up artisans, whether they went into business, textiles, or even simply used their skills to open a cake shop, could bring something new to this port area, once dominated by prostitution and gambling.

"If possible, you can provide them with commercial loans since they have nothing. Even if it is high-interest loans, they will gladly accept it." Li En said this sincerely. He really expected the local nobles to do something useful, even if it was not useful like providing high-interest loans.

In Rean's eyes, since the slave market consumes all resources, it must spit out something so that ordinary people in the dock area can follow the right path and live like human beings.

Li En has been thinking seriously, and he doesn't know whether doing this will get good results.

But he was even more convinced that if he did nothing, nothing would change.

Back then, he attended a cocktail reception for investment promotion, and he deeply understood the importance of "investors". Whether it was technology or capital, they were the golden keys to regional development.

It is indeed very satisfying to fight and kill indiscriminately, but just doing so will only start another cycle. What is the point if another hero comes along and kills indiscriminately in a few years?

"At the same time, I will also ask some young and strong people with no bad deeds to hand it over to Dimon."

If there is business, there must also be armed forces to protect it.

The Oath of War Knights is not something that humans can do. But in the eyes of many people, slaves are not really human, and even they themselves think they are not human.

Dimon will try to recruit them and form an armed force outside the gang, and even consider giving them the training methods of the Oath Knights.

After they gain freedom, if someone is willing to give them the power, they can do anything. Compared with being a slave, asceticism is nothing.

The most interesting thing is that these people who now have power were once slaves in the slave market in the dock area. It is needless to say how they will treat their former slave owners.

"This is just a direction, a possibility. Let's take it one step at a time." Li En was not sure that everything would get better. He could only try to guide the future within his ability.

Rean continued to speak, but Sallyman did not respond for a long time.

He looked up and saw a beautiful face that was extremely surprised.

She was surprised? Li En also laughed.

Perhaps, in her eyes, all knights are rough guys.

"Oh, don't look at me like that, I'm educated."

"That's not it!! Haven't you ever considered yourself? If you do this, you won't get anything!" This is the point. Sallyman, who knows the evil of human nature, cannot understand Rean's choice.

At this moment, Sallyman, who was ordered by the princess to rescue Rean, completely couldn't understand the man in front of her.

"No way. I'm very happy. Money can't buy my happiness." Li En's cold joke didn't make Sallyman laugh. She just looked at him coldly.

The carriage fell silent again.

"How long will it take for you to completely lose your strength?" The woman suddenly asked.

In her opinion, Li En's behavior was too much like arranging funeral affairs.

"About four or five days." The man still had a smile on his face, as if he didn't take it seriously at all.

Sallyman sighed and did not try to persuade him anymore. Having read his mind, she was sure that the man in front of her could not be persuaded.

Just as Her Royal Highness the Princess said, save his life and help as much as you can. But, the scale may be a little higher than expected?
"Tell me about your plan. Do you really think you can change anything?" This time, Sallyman was a little serious.

"Change? I can't. Only the locals can change this. Oh, in my opinion, everything here is ultimately a problem of the royal family. The royal power is weak, giving up its original ecological niche, and various forces have stepped in to fill it, eventually forming this distorted faction of free aristocrats. They have become the de facto king, but they have failed to fulfill the responsibilities of a king."

"Perhaps you see these disasters as sporadic, but the inability of those in power to act is itself the greatest sin. The slave market is a cancer throughout the kingdom and Glowing City, but it has actually become the heart of the dock area, the true ruler in the absence of royal power. Solving it is not so simple."

Even if the heart has become cancerous, removing the blood vessels will still cause massive bleeding and death.

Rean spoke all kinds of treasonous words in front of the backbone of the royal faction.

"It's all the royal family's fault?!" Soon, the princess was also amused by the anger.

(End of this chapter)