Chapter 161: The Era of Great Development
In an era of low productivity, population is the most important productivity, so population transactions have not been banned.
The slave class can be said to be a product of this era, and the blood and sweat of these people became the basis for the glory of an era.
As development continues, when productivity has reached the upper limit, excessive population will become a burden.
The existing arable land cannot meet the needs of these people, so population trade shifts from input to output, and through these excess populations to obtain further development.
Xingluo has reached this stage. Although the nobles are still buying slaves, their needs have changed. From the past pursuing quantity to the current pursuing quality.
In the eyes of the upper class, slaves are not humans at all. They are just commodities. When things are used for old things, they have to be replaced with new ones. However, with the purchase of new slaves, how to deal with old slaves has become a problem.
Usually these slaves will be sold at low prices, and after several resales, they will end their lives in a state of hunger and cold.
This lower level life is not reflected too much, because the mainstream of this world is always the soul masters.
The soul master's society is the top star in this world and the cleanest-looking world, but the invisible corners are filled with the darkness of the world.
As long as you can become a soul master, it means you will get a life of food and clothing, and no matter how bad you are, you can live on the subsidy issued by the Spirit Hall.
They don’t have to worry about whether they have a meal for the next meal, or whether they will be scolded by their owners because of a temporary mistake.
As a province with population transactions that account for the majority of the economy, a batch of slaves eliminated from all over the country are transported here every year, which was a huge burden in the past.
These eliminated slaves are mainly sold to Tiandou. The development of Tiandou is still in the stage of pursuing quantity. Every year, Xingluo and Tiandou trade in Xingluo will exchange a large number of ordinary slaves for a small number of high-quality slaves.
This kind of transaction happens every five years or so, because five years is enough to destroy a person to haggard. People who have been resold many times have no intention of resisting, because this period is a rare day when they can eat without working.
In previous years, the transactions would be completed at most half a month, but this year is different because the slave traders in the Farah province suffered a devastating blow.
In the revenge operation that had just happened before, the famous slave traders in Farah Province have now gathered up several tables of mahjong below.
Not only the slave traders in other provinces, but even the Tiandou side knew about the recent changes in Farah's province, so these slave traders were unwilling to get close to this place.
This led to a large number of slaves who had transported over to Farah Province. In the past, these slaves were purchased in advance by the province and then resold to Tiandou.
So these slaves were bought with money. In order not to let the money go to waste, they could not let them starve to death like this. Even if they were weak and tens of thousands of people were a huge expense after several months.
So when Wanlu came here to take office, the mess was the one that caught his eye, especially the dazzling red financial statements, which made the officials who were left behind very overwhelmed.
Wan Lu solved these problems head-on on the first day of taking office.
The others were afraid of the white wolf, after all, even the elite squad sent by the royal family was left there.
But Wanlu is not afraid. If others don’t know, he doesn’t know yet. He can take office smoothly, thanks to the chaos caused by Bailang, and he naturally has a way to deal with these populations.
As long as the financial gap can be filled, no one cares who these slaves have been sold to. After all, these people do not have any talent for cultivation and are just the lowest-level existence.
What Wanjia lacks the most now is money. It is more than enough to buy this batch of slaves with the operation of the business and the golden soul coins stored there.
The place where these slaves go is naturally the East Continent, which is in urgent need of population. Although the East Continent is not very large, it is enough for millions of people to live.
The message sent back from Arou said that those people had strong acceptance and were influenced by their faith and quickly accepted the life of living with the wolf thieves.
The prototype of the town has been established and a lot of arable land has been reclaimed. If this continues, it should be possible to achieve self-sufficiency in food in a year.
The terrain of the Eastern Continent is mainly plains and is very suitable for farming, but there are still too few people nowadays. It is simply a fantasy to develop this kind of person.
Even the cultivation of these fields was done by the wolf thieves. If these people were simply allowed to do it, the life of self-sufficiency would be delayed by one or two years.
Therefore, there was a new step in the population trade in Farah Province. The slaves in Farah Province were transported to the Eastern Continent by sea, and then they used funds to replenish strong slaves in Tiandou. This kind of life took sixteen years, and a full sixteen spring and autumn.
After sixteen years, Wanlu had become the official chief of the Farah Province, because the political achievements he handed over made other officials and nobles lose the reason to refute him.
Under his leadership, the fiscal revenue of Farah Province increased by five times.
Correspondingly, the Eastern Continent has also achieved great development. With the input of population, the population of the Eastern Continent has reached 200,000. Under the leadership of the initial batch of immigrants, a country called the East Wolf Kingdom was born.
The existence of the East Continent gradually appeared in the eyes of Xingluo and Tiandou. After the East Continent had a certain foundation, Ye Qing did not continue to hide his existence, but instead began to develop commercial connections with the Douluo Continent based on the East Continent.
The East Wolf Kingdom was discovered by a merchant ship that encountered a shipwreck. They got the wrong direction on the lifeboat and finally floated to the East Continent.
Here they saw a completely different scene from Douluo Continent. What surprised them the most was that there were no soul masters in this country, and they only had another brand new cultivation system.
Some of those people called themselves knights, some called themselves mages, and they called the power of cultivation spiritual power. Instead of hunting soul beasts, they regarded soul beasts as close combat partners. Those who saw these novel things for the first time were curious about everything here because they had never heard of similar things before.
This is the normal reaction, because this way of cultivation does not belong to Douluo Continent, it is a way of cultivation from the Gods and Demons Continent. Although the human race and the demons live together on that continent, that continent is now in the glorious era of human beings. The human race now has a very outstanding genius, who is called the Son of Light, and his name is Electrolux.
Chapter completed!