Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 78

Purficott's toughness was not because she was arrogant and unreasonable, nor was it because she really didn't even have time to explain to the plantation owner and convince him by explaining the situation.

It's just that Purficott really doesn't want to worry about this kind of thing now, as well as her aversion to plantations and slavery.

Whether it is the original world before traveling or this world, while countries with advanced technology are enjoying the dividends of technological progress and productivity development brought about by modern civilization, slavery is still prevalent in these colonies.

This is a very primitive and backward production system. Not to mention that slavery itself has no production enthusiasm at all. The low efficiency of the production means alone is enough to show that this is a production system that has been eliminated by the times.

Those planters and farmers obviously would not hand over advanced mechanical farm tools to their slaves, and it was impossible for those slaves to learn how to operate these advanced tools for work. They could only use traditional and primitive tools for work.

What this brings is heavy physical labor.

Coupled with the bottomless exploitation of farmers in pursuit of production efficiency comparable to machines, slaves are literally inferior to animals.

Two hundred gold pounds is not a small amount of money in Longton. You can buy a carriage with two ordinary draft horses, a two-story building in a new city, a small farm in the suburbs... and so on. Or a silk shawl or a sumptuous banquet. An Alchemy Maid Doll.

But again, two hundred gold pounds can buy 50-80 slaves, and if you buy female slaves, you can even buy a hundred.

Generally speaking, if the slave owner does not deliberately use it to death, a healthy adult slave can be used for ten to twenty years, and the total value generated can probably buy ten more slaves.

In Langton, the price of an ordinary good horse that can be ridden ranges from 20 to 50 gold pounds, while the price of a thoroughbred horse with a good pedigree can easily be several times higher.

Pet dogs raised by nobles can be sold for hundreds of gold pounds if the breed is expensive.

Therefore, it is a literal social reality in this era that humans are less valuable than animals.

In a sense, life is so cheap, and people are so worthless.

Although slavery was illegal in the empire, in the colonies... it can only be said that the darkness of human nature is far deeper than people imagine.

Of course, if it were just like this, Purficott wouldn't show his disgust so obviously.

The reason why she hated the plantation owner so much and expropriated his plantation as soon as she came up was largely because the information she asked James to investigate clearly stated that this man was once a pirate.

During the colonial pioneering era, with the help of some loopholes and provisions in the empire's laws, they came to the New World and became pioneers.

It's just that this man did not go to explore the deep interior of the New World. Instead, he resumed his old business and continued to plunder at sea.

It's just that the pirates who finally cleared their identities did not rob merchant ships anymore, but chose to target the indigenous people.

When he was a pirate, this man knew about the existence of Sweet Berry Island, so he occupied the island in the name of a colonial pioneer, and after pretending to raise the flag of the empire, he announced that it was The island became imperial territory. And he also became the owner of the island through some provisions of the imperial law, and turned all the indigenous people on the island into slaves.

Although nearly twenty years have passed since the incident, and the once ferocious pirate has turned into a fat-minded plantation owner, this incident has not been forgotten, and people from the Intelligence Bureau still found out about these things.

Purficott saw these contents when he checked the relevant information before.

This resulted in Purficott not having any good impression of the plantation owner from the beginning, not to mention that in the information of the Intelligence Bureau, there was a special note: "Because the colonial authorities have promoted slaves in recent years. According to the policy of treatment, this person has always claimed that there are no slaves in his plantation, and that the indigenous people are workers he hired, thereby defrauding the colonial authorities of a large amount of subsidies."

For Purficott, she can accept the social reality of the existence of slavery. After all, the darkness of people's hearts and the imperfect laws of this era make those exploiters unscrupulous. To the extent that local workers are squeezed and exploited, Not much worse than a slave.

But this practice of plundering the land of the indigenous people, turning the indigenous people into slaves, and not forgetting to obtain more profits while squeezing them still deeply angered Purficott.

She considers herself not a good person. After all, she has no resistance to the social reality of this era. Instead, because she is a vested interest, she enjoys the privileged life brought about by all this with peace of mind.

But even so, she couldn't tolerate some things that she couldn't stand.

It can be said that Purficott is hypocritical, but she still goes her own way, although it is difficult to say that there is no psychological pressure caused by the incident in New Shaker City, which causes her to vent her emotions.

But no matter what, he was just a plantation owner who deserved his crime, and no one would make any remarks about this kind of thing to Perfectcott, who had just caused a massacre.

Some people even think that Purficott was being magnanimous and merciful by not decapitating the plantation owner or turning him into a stone statue on the spot.

That night, Purficott had dinner at the plantation owner's manor. This house was used by Purficott as a temporary camp for the exploration team.

A large amount of supplies were piled in the open space in the manor. The exploration team and security personnel were also enjoying the bonfire and food, with a rare sense of relaxation on their faces.

But Purficott, who went to the bedroom to rest after dinner, was still in a bad mood, because when he entered the manor, the old butler found three female slaves, one large, two young, and one young, from the plantation owner's bedroom. Twin daughters.

They were the planter's bedding at night, and what was particularly outrageous was that the twin girls were the result of the mother being defiled by the plantation owner.

"Hang that beast! Hang him on the flagpole outside!" Looking at his mother, who was only in her twenties, and her two twin daughters who were younger than him, as well as the numerous scars on their bodies, Purficott was still distraught. Angry.

Her order was carried out. Listening to the screams coming from outside, Purficott finally felt better inside.

At this time, the three female slaves in front of them, one large, two small, finally understood what was happening, and their faces showed surprise that could not be concealed by fear.

(End of this chapter)