Lord Harland

Chapter 35 Slave Market
Entering the Nolan city gate, Li Cha first showed the city defense officer his aristocratic coat of arms.

Seeing that he was the son of a noble baron in the northern border, the city defense officer was very polite. After carefully checking the luggage of Li Cha and others, he gave Li Cha a customs clearance document.

When he came to Nolan City, Richard first found a large hotel and accommodated everyone.Then, from the innkeeper, he found out the location of the slave market.

The slave market is located outside the South City. It is large in size, but it is messy.

The planning is not very good and the sanitation is very poor.It stinks, human and horse excrement everywhere.

Many of the slaves acted very insensitive and seemed shameless.

Li Cha saw some female slaves urinating and defecating everywhere, not paying attention to other people's eyes, and even showing their private parts.

The strong slaves were displayed in the most conspicuous places, and some guests went up and broke the teeth of the slaves to check the health of the slaves.

Li Cha frowned, walked around holding his breath, and roughly inquired about the price of slaves.

A strong young male slave costs around twenty gold coins.

The price of a strong young female slave is around twelve gold coins.

For slaves over 30 years old, there will be some health problems, and the price will be half cheaper.Elderly slaves over 40 years old, like underage children, are money-losing goods, and the price ranges from one or two gold coins.

Soldiers, veterinarians, blacksmiths, carpenters, barbers and other craftsmen were more expensive than slaves in their prime.

Beautiful female slaves would basically not appear in the slave market. Such precious slaves would basically appear in high-end places such as auctions and trade fairs.

In the slave market, professional indentured slaves are also provided.

Indentured slaves are different from ordinary slaves.To buy such a contract slave, you need to discuss the treatment of the contract slave in advance, and then sign a contract, which is more similar to an employment service.

After the service period expires, the indentured slave will be restored to freedom.

These contract slaves are basically captured officers, caravan guards, mercenary mercenaries, hunters, adventurers and so on.No family members paid the ransom, so they were reduced to the slave market and became indentured slaves.

In the slave market, every contracted slave is very sought-after, and the price is very high. The ten-year contract of a third-tier professional can even reach about [-] gold coins.

Such a high price made Li Cha feel dumbfounded, and couldn't help feeling a little dazed.

When he came to the capital this time, Li Cha brought a lot of gold coins.

In order to buy enough people, the Harland family tried their best to raise funds.

He sold a lot of assets in Heihe Castle, including the waterwheel mill run by his stepmother Mrs. Ola, a farm with a size of tens of acres.Mrs. Ola even took out all her private money to make up this sum of money.

Mrs. Ola was born in a merchant family, and she still runs many businesses after marrying William.His older brother, Rand Marsal, ran a grain store business and bought a large farm near Black River Fort, with considerable assets.

It was also in order to preserve his wealth and find a backer for himself that Rand married his young sister to William, a widower.

Now William is struggling to become a hereditary baron, and Mrs. Ola's children have also become nobles.

In the Kingdom of Grant, there is a world of difference between nobles and commoners.

The laws of the Kingdom expressly stipulate that judges, prosecutors, auditors, high-ranking civil officials in counties and towns can only be selected from nobles.

Becoming a nobleman is legally regarded as the master and ruler of this country.In order to hold important positions, life will have a future.

There is only one way for ordinary people to become nobles in the Grant Kingdom, and that is to obtain military titles and change the fate of their families through war.

Even if Mrs. Ola's children can't inherit the title, William will arrange a good future for them.

This time when Richard went to Nolan, Mrs. Ola's brother, Rand, also took out a thousand gold coins and lent them to the Harland family.

Plus the money accumulated by Powell, William and others over the years.In addition, Richard's uncle Soros borrowed 2000 gold coins from the mercenary union for the Harland family with his own property as a guarantee.

When Richard came to the capital this time, he brought with him 20 years of working capital accumulated by two generations of the Harland family, which added up to 9600 gold coins.

This also includes a debt of about 4000 gold coins.

Richard found the largest slave trader and handed over his seal to the slave trader.

The seal is a token of nobility, with Richard's name engraved on the front and the Harland family's crest engraved on the back.

After becoming a hereditary noble, you must have a noble badge.

The Harland family coat of arms depicts a majestic knight brandishing a spear and riding a horned horned horse.

The appearance of the knight has many similarities with William.Seeing this badge, you can know part of the situation of the Harland family.

The Harland family had just been knighted, and most ordinary people in the Grant Kingdom were not familiar with this badge except for scholars who specialized in badge science.

"Is the young master's family a new nobleman in the north? Is it from the territory directly under the royal family or the territory of the Duke of Jonathan? My name is Smail, and I come from the territory of the Duke of Guise in the west. My great-grandfather is also a hereditary nobleman."

Discovering that Li Cha is a hereditary nobleman, the slave trader Miles was very polite and warmly greeted Li Cha.However, he still wanted to be clichéd in his words, and wanted to find out the details of Li Cha.

In this war of orc invasion, the Kingdom of Grant only captured four hereditary barons.

One is an ordinary military nobleman, the other is the well-known Baron Harden in the Gascoigne province, and the other two are the sons of Duke Jonathan, who are considered to be the Duke of Jonathan's branch.

The influence of these three companies is almost worlds apart in Nolan.Although Li Cha is young, he will not be greedy for petty gain and pretend to be a member of Duke Jonathan's family.

By doing such a thing, not only would he lose his noble status, but he would also become the laughing stock of the Grant Kingdom and shame the honor of the Harland family.

When the time is right, it can also become a big trouble.Maybe Duke Jonathan will take this kind of thing as a joke and won't pursue it.But the Harland family couldn't afford to owe favors to the great nobles.

"My name is Richard, and I come from the Harland family, which is directly under the royal family. Our family has just been promoted to a hereditary noble. I want to buy some slaves from the royal capital to develop the territory. Mr. Byers, you are the biggest slave trader here. Are your slaves enough?"

"I am not the largest slave trader in the royal capital. The largest slave trader here is the military department. The next few big nobles have slave trade teams, and their scale is much larger than mine.

There are only more than 300 slaves in my hands, and they are slaves captured from the Kingdom of Delong by following the Duke of Guise. "

The Duke of Guise is located in the southwest of the Kingdom of Grant, bordering the Kingdom of Delong.

Due to the lack of population in the northern part of the Grant Kingdom, there is a huge market for slave trade.

The market scale is large, and the profits will not be small.The citizens within the kingdom cannot be arrested, and the slave traders can only go to the neighboring kingdoms to lay hands on them.

Moreover, there is a territorial dispute between the Kingdom of Delong and the Kingdom of Grant. The Duke of Guise is a feud with the Marquis of Harper and the Marquis of Isaac.

Although the war on the southwestern border was not as large and intense as the war on the northern border, there have always been fierce conflicts.

Especially in the last hundred years of the development of the northern border of the Grant Kingdom, the Duke of Guise crossed the border almost every year to capture slaves from the Dron Kingdom.

The Duke of Guise was once the hereditary duke family of the Dron Kingdom.Because of a civil strife in the Dron Kingdom, the Duke of Guise failed to stand in line. In order to avoid being liquidated, he joined the Grant Kingdom and became a great nobleman of the Grant Kingdom.

Capturing slaves is already a very important income for the Duke of Guise.

In the outside world, the Duke of Guise even has the title of Duke of Slaves.The vassals of the Duke of Guise all followed the Duke in the slave trade.

Most of the merchants in the royal capital's slave market are nobles from the Duke of Guise.

(End of this chapter)