Chapter 173

Taking Seth back to his residence, the brain bag guy is still curious about Dewey, but before leaving, Deacon Clark has sternly reminded Seth to obey the orders of Dewey from today on.

"It's like treating your teacher." That's what Clark said.

Of course, it turns out that Seth has a teacher, and his teacher has a good position in the Magic Union. This is the guy, master AZ, who once went into the frozen forest with gegewu, but after meeting Medusa, he made a fool of gegewu and ran away first.

However, Seth had no position under AZ's hands, otherwise he would not have been distributed to sell magic wands. As a level 8 magician of the magic trade union, AZ has many magic apprentices, and there is no shortage of Seth.

So, from now on, Seth has changed his ways and officially joined Dewey.

"What's the matter, Seth?" Duwei saw that the brain bag guy looked strange. Wen Yan asked, "what are you thinking?"

"No, no, it's nothing, Dewey... Mr. Dewey." Seth honestly called Dewey "teacher" according to the tradition of the Magic Union. But the name made duvet frown.

"Seth." Dewey stopped and looked at the magic genius he had abducted: "I don't need you to call me teacher."

"But it's a tradition..." said Seth in a low voice: "in the magic trade union, all the magic apprentices should call their loyal magicians' teacher '

"But I'm not your teacher." Dewey shook his head: "you are not my student, and I have nothing to teach you. I asked you to come here, it needs your brain, even exaggeration. I need you to teach me something. Ha ha... "

Seth was terrified.

Dewey patted the carpenter, looked at his big head and said with a smile, "well, you'll understand later. What I'm interested in is your talent. I hope you can use your talent to help me accomplish a lot of things."

And then, Dewey doesn't care what setty looks like. Pointing to the front of the street: "look, here I am."

Up ahead is Dewey's current temporary residence. It is said that this other courtyard, originally belonging to the prince, used to be the place where the prince used to hide her. Of course, it's a rumor. No one knows if it's true. Dewey doesn't care. He's leaving the capital anyway.

This house is not small. When Duwei moved in, the servants inside and the people who used to guard the house. All have been dismissed with the fall of the prince. Duwei didn't bother to find anyone. Now there is only one old servant, madder, and two former servants of the Rowling family. After the Rowling family moved back to the Rowling plain. Unwilling to leave the imperial capital, he stayed and was still under Du Weidi's hands for the time being.

In addition, the current family, as well as Vivian. Mouse, witch, and animal QQ adult. However, the existence of mouse gegwu and QQ is still a secret for everyone. Only Duwei knows the existence of these two guys.

When he came back, Du Wei unexpectedly saw Vivian standing at the door of the house, sitting quietly on the steps of the gate, holding her chin in both hands. Looking at the end of the street pitifully, maybe it's too long. The little silly girl is in a daze, and doesn't even notice Du Wei's approach.

"Why are you here?" Du Wei smiles and looks at Vivian sitting on the steps in a daze.

In fact, he was very happy to see Vivian go out. Since that day when she brought Vivian back from Brokeback Mountain, the girl, who was weak in nature, suddenly learned the news of her teacher's death. I've been locked in my room since I came back. Every day I'm depressed.

Dewey went to see her several times a day, but every time. The little girl was silent, with a sad face. Dewey tried to amuse her, but every time she said that, the little girl suddenly burst into tears. In the end, Dewey had no choice but to let herself rest quietly in the room. Want to wait for time to pass day by day, the heart of the pain will always dissipate it.

Sure enough, today, seeing Vivian finally come out and sit at the gate of the house, Duwei went up, reached out and tapped on her head, narrowed her eyes and said with a smile: "Hello! Are you in a daze? Didn't you hear me? "

Vivian raised her eyelids, blinked her eyes, looked at Du Wei, and gradually recovered. Then she stood up, rubbed her sour knees, and whispered, "you, did you pass the exam?"

The little girl is still a weak face, but the pain in her eyes is much less, and her tone is still with concern for Dewey.

Dewey laughed, and his tone softened a lot: "are you sitting here waiting for me?"

"I... I'm worried about you." Vivian blushed and dropped her head: "it's hard to test magic. I'm worried..."

Dewey patted himself on the chest with a magic pharmacist's badge on it. He said with a smile, "don't worry, you see, this is my badge. Now you are a qualified magician!"

Vivian stares at the potion badge on Du Wei's chest, but without waiting for the little girl to speak, Du Wei has already taken Vivian to the house. After two steps, he turned to see Seth: "what are you doing in a daze? Come in

Ma De also quickly ran out from the inside, Du weiphene told Ma De to take seter in: "let him choose a room by himself, anyway, there are so many rooms here, alas, it's lonely at night, like a ghost house."

Madder nodded and was about to go down. Suddenly, he thought of something. He turned around and said, "young master, miss Ruolin has been here. She said that there are some things in our shop, and business is good recently. But there are not enough people. If you can, she hopes you can go to the shop and have a look. Moreover, she seems to be not very satisfied with the two craftsmen in our shop now... Besides, the four quadruplets you sent to the shop seem to be not very satisfied with them, too. "

Dewey nodded. "I see, madder... Well. Also, remember one thing. Don't say "Miss Jolin" any more. Remember that she is a knight. Whenever you want to talk about her on any occasion, you should say "Sir Jolin". Remember? This is very important. "

Ruolin did have something to worry about.

Although she is now with the right boss, and judging from the trend, Dewey's boss is rising step by step, with a bright future in the future. Moreover, Du Wei also has great trust in Ruolin, and has decided to give Ruolin the management of such a golden business in the imperial capital.

But. Ruolin didn't like the job.

In essence, she preferred to manage the pirates, at least with the fleet galloping in the sea, going through the wind and rain. That kind of adventure life full of novelty and excitement, more let Ruolin heart, rather than now every day wearing a gorgeous almost ridiculous armor, around a group of hypocritical nobles.

However, Ruolin still obeyed Du Wei's arrangement. She was a smart woman. She saw that Du Wei was short of hands at present. Although the young master is very fast, he starts too fast, has a weak foundation, and lacks useful people. It is a fatal injury to Dewey at present. If this problem is not solved, it will cause great trouble to Dewey's development.

So, Ruolin obeyed.

She manages her business with all her heart. She fully shows her ability. She is surrounded by a group of nobles every day. She doesn't need to sacrifice a little bit of color as she used to do when she was wandering in the river and lake. Thanks to Dewey for packing her image, in fact. Now Ruolin as long as deliberately keep a cold look. Those nobles will come around like flies.

Ruolin felt too busy to bear. Although I know that today is the day when master Dewey goes to the Magic Union for examination. However, this clever female knight has great confidence in Dewey... I'm kidding, she knows all kinds of means of the young master too well. Is it a piece of cake for the young master? So, in the morning, she didn't even care about Dewey's assessment results. Instead, she stayed in the shop and dealt with some things.

At present, the business is very good. In just a few days, it has brought Duwei more than 1.5 million gold coins. After deducting the cost of upfront investment, the cost of buying the shop, the cost of personnel and the cost of goods, Duwei has made a net profit of one million gold coins in the past three days.

Without the exploitation of the black hearted merchants in the middle layer, Dewey's fleet could continuously transport the goods that the mercenary adventure group hunted from the frozen forest to the imperial capital from the north. The freshest goods, with a slightly lower price, and Du Wei's reputation in the aristocratic circle, almost half of the whole ship of goods that Jolin brought last time had been sold in just three days.

In the morning, she had sent people back as fast as possible to deliver letters to the ships moored at Walker harbor, and sent people to continue to purchase in the north and deliver the goods to the imperial capital.

And then she finally waited for Dewey.

Dewey came with Vivian. Now that the little girl is finally willing to leave the house, she can't be left alone at home. Taking her out for a walk is also good for easing her mood.

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

Leaving Vivian there to choose slowly, Du Wei and Ruolin went to the upstairs room and talked carefully for a while.

Ruolin first explained several problems she was facing.

First, there is a shortage of staff. Since it's a business for aristocratic groups, there are still some waiters who have been strictly trained 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 receive strict etiquette training, which will make people talk behind their backs and lose Dewey's face. The nobles are very particular about these.

Secondly, the problem of craftsmen. Most of the goods transported from the north were raw materials, although Duwei had already paid a high price to hire several good craftsmen in DIDU before opening. There were blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, and a few sculptors. But it's not enough.

The fur of Warcraft needs to be made into beautiful clothes and fur coats. It's not easy to sew and mend them. The nobles pay attention to materials as well as the novelty of styles. In this respect, it is obviously insufficient.

Although most of those precious magic cores have been ordered by the magic trade union, some aristocratic families will come to buy them to please the local magicians in their families. And some weapons

When it comes to weapons, this is the biggest headache for Ruolin.

At present, the materials stored in the warehouse are all first-class goods, but the two blacksmiths are too ordinary. And there are too few people. Just last night, these two mediocre blacksmiths were forging a set of equipment. The scales of two earthworms were damaged. When they were quenched, because of the lack of heat, they destroyed a slender stabbing sword designed for the most popular aristocrat at present. Because of the problem of heat control, the handle was designed as a long sword like chopsticks. Actually in the trial, it was easily broken by a blacksmith's tongs.

In fact, the two blacksmiths have worked very hard, but they are really lack of talent. And although they had built weapons, they had never come into contact with so many superior materials.

These are just current problems. And what makes Ruolin angry most is the quadruplets of female magic apprentices from duviser!

The four beautiful quadruplets were originally the pets of men worth millions of gold coins, but Dewey seemed to have no interest in the four girls. After the shop opened, he threw the four women directly into Ruolin's hands.

Du Weidi's idea is very simple. He hopes to continue to develop his business. In the future, he can make some magic props! Magicians are not short of money. On the one hand, a large number of nobles flattered and presented countless wealth. On the other hand, the magician had all kinds of precious gems. Such a group is the best consumer in Dewey's opinion.

The cores of these Warcraft transported from the north can produce many things that attract magicians. Dewey is also very clear. Sell raw materials. It's not as good as selling finished products! Profits will also multiply. However, the production of magic props. It's not something ordinary craftsmen can do.

In Roland, there is a special occupation called "magic maker". This occupation group is very small, and the number is small. It is mainly specialized in making all kinds of props needed by magicians, such as magic wands, crystal balls, all kinds of magic auxiliary props, and even some people can make magic scrolls!

But the group of this profession is also very strange. Some magicians are excellent magicians themselves. The magic props they make are mainly for their own use, and occasionally they make some props to spread 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 make magic scrolls.

Most of the magicians were apprentices, but they didn't have the talent to be magicians. In the end, they had to become magicians, making use of their magic knowledge to make all kinds of things for magicians.

But no matter it is any magic maker, Du Wei is unable to attract at present. Because almost all magicians belong to the magic guild. And those who are originally magicians will not be recruited by someone casually.

Therefore, Dewey has high hopes for quadruplets, hoping that the four girls can make use of their magic knowledge and finally become money making machines in their hands.

Obviously, Dewey's understanding of the value of these four girls is different from that of most men.

If it was for any other noble, I'm afraid that this rare quadruplet beauty would have been forbidden in the house.

"With all due respect, your highness, I'd like to ask you to take these four ladies back." Ruolin said impolitely: "they didn't come to help me at all! Every day I have to send out people to serve them! Hum... "

Dewey frowned: "is there such a thing?"

Next, Ruolin tells Dewey what happened in the past few days.

It turned out that not only Ruolin was depressed, but the quadruplets were also depressed. They have been beautiful women with four births since childhood. After being bought back by the count of villa, they have undergone strict training and learned some magic knowledge. But what the count of villa expected of them. To be frank: they are trained to please men in the future.

Even in those days when they were trained in the Earl's house of villa, these quadruplets were also served. Besides training, their life was almost as good as that of some young ladies of little aristocratic families.

After being given to Dewey, the four girls were very satisfied at first. After all, Dewey was young and handsome. Moreover, he has a distinguished life experience and recently became a popular grand duke.

The four girls thought that if they could please the Duke and get his favor in the future, they would fly to the branches and become Phoenix.

Unfortunately, but where to think of, Dewey to them even a finger is lazy to touch. Also threw them to Ruolin's hand to work!

The most exasperating thing is, Ruolin! This rude woman, this cold woman. Even dare to ask the delicate to work!

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After listening to Ruolin's narration, Du Wei's face was gloomy. He looked at Ruolin: "can't you do anything with them? Knight Rowling, I'm very disappointed with you! At first you could clean up a group of rebellious pirates, but now you can't even help four little girls? "

Ruolin's face was embarrassed: "my lord... These four ladies. After all, it's from you. I... "

Du Wei immediately understood Ruolin's concern, he laughed: "don't worry, they are not my women. I'm not going to make them my women! Are you relieved now? I've assigned them to you, and you're in charge! If they are not obedient, then you can do whatever you want! "

If Lin is relieved, she will be relieved.

Looking at the countenance of the female knight, Dewey laughed in his heart: now, I'm afraid the quadruplets will suffer in the next few days.

After pondering for a while, Du Wei said: "the problem of manpower and land, I can't be in a hurry. We can only find it slowly. Craftsmen, in particular, are hard to find. In the imperial capital, no one is willing to give us good craftsmen. It's easy to offend people by robbing land openly, especially when I'm leaving the imperial capital in a few months. When I'm here, I'll offend people. You don't have to be afraid of retaliation. But after I left, I couldn't. So. Don't do anything that offends people. "

"But good craftsmen have their own masters. Where can we find them?" Ruolin sighed.

"I can't. The only stupid way is to cultivate myself." Dewey also shook his head: "but it costs too much, and it takes a long time, and the effect is full. Let's leave the craftsman's business in the first place, and I'll try to find a way later... Well, it's still early now. Let's go to the slave market in the city together, maybe we can buy some suitable hands. "

Slavery in Roland has been firmly opposed by the temple for hundreds of years.

Of course, in Dewey's view, it was not the nobility of the temple, but the temple's huge interest in slavery, but he was dissatisfied with the fact that he could not get a share of it.

For hundreds of years, although the mainland is generally peaceful, the expeditions in the South Ocean and the small rebellions in the northwest often break out. After the expeditions of the Imperial Army, there are always many captives... Especially the expeditionary fleet in the South Ocean. Every time they come back from the expeditions, Will bring back a large number of spoils... Many of them are aborigines captured from large islands in Nanyang.

It's not that the Imperial Army likes to plunder the population... To tell you the truth, who doesn't like to plunder more real money?

Unfortunately, with the frequent expeditions, the harvest of each expedition is less and less. We can't get anything, so in order to get more or less to supplement the military expenditure, we plunder the population and occupy the largest proportion of the spoils in recent expeditions!

The aborigines who came from Nanyang became the mainstream of the slave market. Du Wei read a statistics from the military. Now in the imperial capital, it is estimated that there are more than 8000 aborigines from Nanyang. Most of them have been plundered to the imperial capital for many years. Even after the previous generation was plundered back, they have lived in the Empire for many years. Many of them are the second generation.

In addition, many slaves were originally free people who could not live in poverty and could only sell themselves as slaves. Several small-scale rebellions in the northwest also gave rise to some slaves.

other. There is also a kind of existence called "guannu", which mainly comes from some declining powerful families. For example, after the coup, several powerful families were completely wiped out. Many members of the family were convicted. After being tried, they lost their status as free citizens and became slaves. Most of them were sold in the slave market.

Interestingly, the biggest slave dealer in the imperial capital. No one else, it's an industry under the imperial central finance department! That place was set up in the slave market on the southwest side of the imperial capital, where many "official slaves" were concentrated.

It can be said that the imperial finance relied on the slave trade every year and also seized a large amount of financial revenue.

The reason why the temple is dissatisfied is that the temple can't formally join in and share such a big cake every year.

Most of the slave trade in the imperial capital concentrated in the West and south of the city. Back to the southwest, under the wall, there was a broad road. It was on this road that the most prosperous slave market in the whole continent emerged.

The southwest of the imperial capital has always been close to the slums. In the southwest of the whole city, more than 900000 people live, accounting for almost half of the population of the imperial capital.

This is a kilometer long street. In addition to the slave trade, there are many poor people who are just ordinary people, and there are many strange places for people to find jobs.

In other words, this is a kind of "labor market" similar to that Dewey had seen in his previous life.

At the end of the long street, there is a square. The statue and pool in the center of the square. It was demolished decades ago, and now several platforms have been built on the square. On this platform, several famous slave trading groups in the imperial capital are engaged in the lively slave trade.

On the square, with several high platforms as the center, a large number of people gathered to watch, many of them were business groups from other places. There are also some noble families in the imperial capital. Those slave traders standing on the high platform, with whip in hand, and a few strong men bodyguards with big arms and round waists standing behind them. On the platform next to them, there are some big iron cages, in which people are locked up like animals. Most of them are "new people" who have just become slaves. Only these prisoners who have just been plundered from the northwest or Southeast Asia. Unwilling to accept the fate of slaves. That's why we have to be locked up.

And the others are on the stage. Some of the masked slaves had empty eyes, and there were no ferocious slavers and bodyguards around them. Often dozens of people, tied with a thin rope, stood there blankly and motionless, letting all kinds of eyes cast around them. It's a numb old slave. Even the slavers kept coming up to the slaves, pinching their faces, knocking their chests, or opening their lips to show their teeth... Just like animals. These people are indifferent and numb to their own destiny. Du Wei and Ruolin were walking in the crowd. They were both dressed in plain clothes. Ruolin didn't wear the gorgeous armor, so Du Wei would not wear the eye-catching wizard's robe. Wearing an ordinary coat, Du Wei pushed hard in the crowd with Ruolin. On both sides of the road, in addition to the slave trading platform, there are also some corners, some indifferent people, male or female, old or young, will also stand quietly at the corner of the street, their eyes sweeping back and forth in the crowd. All of these people, without exception, have a piece of cloth on their body or arms. These were not slaves, but free people of the Empire. However, many people had to sell themselves as slaves 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 yourself. Of course, there are also some people who do not want to be slaves. Standing here with a white cloth on their arms, they are willing to find a loyal master, but they are not slaves. There are a lot of such people, most of them are people with special skills. Some craftsmen, grooms, or some down and out warriors. Along the way, Du Wei found that there were several people who were dressed as warriors, wearing almost shabby old clothes, holding a rusty sword in his hand, standing in the corner with dignified expression, and the white cloth on his shoulders was very eye-catching. In the imperial capital, the survival of samurai is not easy. The imperial capital is the center of the Empire. There are too many experts gathered here. Basically, an intermediate warrior is just a bodyguard for the noble. It's very difficult for the low-level warriors to make a living. There are also many low-level warriors and nobles who disdain to solicit them. They can only work hard in some chariot and horse companies. If they are a little better, they can also work as a bodyguard in the transport team of chariot and horse companies. And those who have only one or two levels of martial arts have no food to eat. It is the epitome of the whole continent that magic is powerful while martial arts are declining“ Look, young master Du Wei is looking at several warriors in the corner, and suddenly he hears Ruolin yelling. Looking ahead, you can see the crowd at the end of the street. It was the largest slave trading center in the imperial capital. It belonged to the official slave trafficking place of the Empire! In terms of quality and price, the number of official slaves is generally much higher than that of ordinary slaves. Most of the slaves from the rich families who have been ransacked are trained and can be used immediately after they are bought. Therefore, although the price is higher, they are still favored by many buyers“ Go and have a look. " Dewey nodded. It seems that he came at the right time. It seems that there is a batch of "new goods" on sale at the official slave trafficking point.