Chapter 11 Bought a Slave

One hectare of land is not too big, and Xu Yi spent less than an hour to complete the inspection.

After returning to Brunei's butler, Xu Yi took out a document from his bag and handed it over.

"Steward Brunei, this is the use plan for the first year we leased this land. You can take it back and let the Viscount see it. If the Viscount has any dissatisfaction, you can put it to us, and we can make it according to the Viscount. appropriate amendments to the proposal.”

Xu Yi was still very respectful on the surface.

He is very clear that the current social form of Sainz Continent is still a half-serf and half-feudal society, which is very different from the situation on Earth. If he wants to do certain things successfully on this continent, some rules still have to be followed.

Sure enough, seeing Xu Yi's respectful attitude, Brunei's butler's expression softened slightly. He took Xu Yi's plan and nodded: "Okay, I will take it back and let the Viscount see it. Actually, you don't have to. Too nervous, the Viscount is a very generous person, as long as you don't do anything to make him unhappy, the Viscount will generally not interfere with what you do."

"Then I would like to thank Steward Brunei for your kind words."

The atmosphere of the conversation became better, and things naturally proceeded much more smoothly. The Brunei butler just glanced at the plan at random, and then took out a lease of land for Xu Yi to sign.

When Xu Yi signed his name, the Brunei steward finally showed a smile and extended his hand to Xu Yi: "Very well, Mr. Xu Yi, now this land belongs to you within this year, I hope you can be well Cherish this opportunity given to you by the Viscount."

"must."

The three exchanged a few more words, and Xu Yi was about to leave together with Heinze when a shrill scream suddenly came from a distance.

The three of them were stunned for a moment, and they all looked towards the northwest direction where the screams came from.

There was another scream, and at the same time, there was a loud cry and a loud whip twitching along with the wind.

"Go and have a look!" Xu Yi didn't have time to think about it, he raised his foot and ran in the direction of the sound.

Heinze hesitated for a moment, then looked at the Brunei steward beside him: "Brunei steward, the sound should still be in the Viscount's territory, right?"

The Brunei butler narrowed his small eyes and looked at the direction of the sound for a while, then waved his hand: "Let's go take a look too."

The closer the distance, the clearer the voice. The sound of the whip in the air made people shudder, and accompanied by the screaming and screaming, it was even more mournful.

Xu Yi was much younger than Brunei's butler and Heinze, and he set off first, and soon he arrived at the place where the voice came from.

In a wasteland, three stout men were surrounding a thin, fourteen- or fifteen-year-old child in the middle, each hand whipping the child with a leather whip.

At this time, the child had been whipped with countless bloodstains on his body, and even the flesh was turned over in some places, and his appearance looked extremely miserable.

At first, she was able to scream, but now she can't even scream, and she doesn't even have the strength to roll. She can only twitch with the twitching of the whip.

"Stop!" Xu Yi roared, and rushed out without thinking. "Do you want to kill him?"

The three strong men obviously did not expect someone to suddenly rush out from the side, and glanced at Xu Yi in amazement, probably because the magic robe on Xu Yi's body made them scruples, and they stopped their hands involuntarily.

But when Xu Yi wanted to squat down to help the child up, he was directly stopped by a strong man.

"Hey, what are you doing? We are teaching our slaves, no matter who you are, you are not qualified to intervene!" the strong man shouted.

"Family slave?" Xu Yi glanced at the child on the ground in amazement, thinking that this is Viscount Leslie's territory, then this child...

"He is a slave of Viscount Leslie's house?"

The strong man glanced at Xu Yi unexpectedly: "Since you know Lord Viscount, don't mind your own business. Let me tell you, this little bastard actually lost Lord Viscount's cattle, and it would be cheap to kill him! "

"Cow?" Xu Yi frowned and said angrily, "It's just a loss of a cow, do you want to kill him?"

"You know the shit!" The strong man scoffed, "The autumn harvest will come in less than two months, but this little bastard lost one of his oxen at this time, which will have a great impact on the autumn harvest. Besides, do you know how much a farming ox costs? Forty gold coins! Even if you sell this little bastard, you can't sell it for half a gold coin! Do you think it's cheap for him?"

"Then you can't kill a man, right? Even if you kill him, the ox won't come back."

"Nonsense! Of course we know. This is punishment! Do you understand punishment? If you don't punish this guy, other guys will be like this, will the Viscount's fields still be planted?"

Xu Yi frowned, knowing that it would not make sense for him to reason with them, and that there was no guarantee of power over slaves on the Sainz Continent, and he really had no right to prevent them from doing these things.

After thinking about this, Xu Yi turned his head and saw the voices of Brunei's housekeeper and Heinze not far behind him, so he settled down.

The three strong men followed Xu Yi's gaze and naturally saw the Brunei butler.

As Viscount Leslie's manor guards, of course they recognized the Brunei butler who was trusted by Viscount Leslie, and hurriedly greeted him.

After a while, the Brunei butler and Heinze also came over, just glanced at the situation here, and already understood what was going on.

"Mr. Xu Yi, this is our family's private affairs, please don't interfere." Brunei's butler's tone was very indifferent, but there was a stern expression of disapproval and refusal in his tone.

Xu Yi frowned deeply, he knew that if he followed the rules of Sainz Continent, he really had no reason and was not qualified to intervene.

But letting him watch such a child be beaten to death is unacceptable no matter what.

Xu Yi glanced at Heinze for help, but found that Heince shook his head slightly at him, obviously disapproving of his intervention.

Seeing that the whips in the hands of the three strong men were about to be pulled again, Xu Yi felt anxious in his heart. Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed, and he shouted loudly, "Wait a minute! Butler Brunei, can I buy him?"

"Buy?" Brunei's butler was stunned, then frowned deeply. "Xu Yi, I have already told you that this is our family's private affairs, do you really want to interfere?"

"No, no, I didn't mean that." Xu Yi waved his hands again and again. "It's just that I suddenly remembered that it's very inconvenient for me to live alone. I wanted to buy a slave to serve me, but there was no suitable one. Now that this slave belongs to the Viscount, I will take the opportunity to ask for favors and ask the Viscount. How about you sell him to me? I believe that with the Lord Viscount's trust in your steward of Brunei, you can make up your mind about this mere slave, right?"

Brunei's butler's face sank, and just as he was about to refuse, Xu Yi suddenly rushed over and put his arm around his shoulder.

This sudden action made the Brunei steward raise his eyebrows and was about to get angry when he heard Xu Yiju whisper in his ear: "One percent of the shares! Lord steward, as long as you promise to sell this slave today Give it to me, I will give 10% of the shares of the magic fan factory to be established to the Viscount, what do you think?"

The Brunei steward looked at Xu Yi in amazement, and found that the expression on Xu Yi's face was very serious, not joking at all, so he couldn't help but wonder: "Mr. Xu Yi, you really want to give up 10% for this mere slave. Are you coming for the shares? Although I don’t know how much your 10% shares in this factory are worth, but the magic fans are selling so well in Bangta City, so this 10% shares must not be less, right?”

Xu Yi smiled lightly: "Just treat me as wayward for a while."

Brunei's butler looked at Xu Yi meaningfully: "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Xu Yi nodded affirmatively: "Yes."

The Brunei steward nodded, broke free from Xu Yi's arm, and waved to the three strong men: "Let him go."

The three strong men glanced at each other and obediently stepped aside.

The Brunei steward glanced at the slave on the ground, then looked at Xu Yi: "Mr. Xu Yi, now he belongs to you."

Xu Yi laughed and put his hand into his pocket: "Thank you very much. So how much is this slave?"

There was a strange smile on the corner of Brunei's butler's mouth, and he shook his head and said, "Mr. Xu Yi, you are so generous, and on behalf of the Viscount, of course I can't be too stingy. This slave is given to you as a greeting for our cooperation. "

"Since this is the case, then I am here to thank the Viscount."

After the Brunei steward and the three strong men left, Xu Yi and Heinze carried the slave on the ground into the carriage.

Heinze almost jumped up in the carriage when he heard Xu Yi tell the price of saving the slave.

"You're crazy!" Heinze pointed at Xu Yi, and was actually a little furious. "Xu Yi, according to our estimates, if everything goes well, this magic fan factory will earn at least 5,000 gold coins a year! If you give 10% of the shares to Viscount Leslie, it's equivalent to giving him directly. At least five hundred gold coins! You know, we only spent one hundred gold coins a year on renting his hectare of land!"

Xu Yi waved his hand, motioned Heinze to do it, and said with a smile: "Actually, even if there is no such thing, I have always wanted to find an opportunity to give Viscount Leslie some shares, and now I just use this matter to give it up logically, Rather, it is exactly what I want.”

Seeing Xu Yi speak lightly, Heinze calmed down a little, but was still a little puzzled.

"why?"

"Why?" Xu Yi laughed and pointed to the large wasteland outside the car window. "Heinze, you see clearly, this land is Viscount Leslie's private domain, you should know what private domain means, right? It means that as long as Viscount Leslie wants, he can drive us away at any time. , even if we have a contract, it's useless, because that's the damned noble privilege."

"I have long considered that if we want to work here for a long time, we must have the sincere support of Viscount Leslie. But why should we let this noble viscount truly support us? There is only one answer, that is Tie him and us to the same chariot. Only when his interests are in common with ours will he truly support us, or at least not come to hold us back. In fact, 10% of the shares are still too little. Now, if I can, I would like to give him 20% of the shares. But this is too conspicuous, and our relationship has only just begun, so there is no need to worry too much now."

Heinze stared blankly at Xu Yi for a while, then suddenly shook his head and sighed, "Xu Yi, I misread you."

"Oh?"

"I thought you were just a magical genius, but now it seems that you are actually more like a profiteer than me."

"Ha, thanks for the compliment."