Chapter 92 Why Abolish Slavery?

What happened in the southern waters of the Candela Empire, thousands of kilometers away, did not have any impact on the Principality of Standing and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. ←,

Recently, in the Principality of Stating, and even in several surrounding countries, the most eye-catching thing is a bill that is being decided by the Congress of the Principality of Stating.

This bill was proposed by Xu Yi, the chairman of Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, as an ordinary member of Congress.

According to Xu Yi's unparalleled influence in the Duchy of Standing, any proposal would have been easily passed, but it took a full two months for this proposal to enter the final approval process of the Congress, and it had to go through the Congress Members will vote publicly to determine whether the resolution will take effect.

The reason why this proposal is so difficult is because the content of the proposal is too amazing.

The content of this proposal is actually to abolish slavery!

When Xu Yi first proposed this proposal, everyone thought he was crazy.

Since the Qian elves ruled the entire continent for thousands of years, slavery has always existed on this continent. Up to now, the history of slavery has even exceeded tens of thousands of years.

During these tens of thousands of years, no matter how the continent changed, the slavery system remained unchanged. Even during the two thousand years before and after the race war, slavery reached its peak in the entire continent.

Before the race war, the elves treated almost all other races as slaves, but after the race war, humans frantically captured other races to use as slaves.

As for human beings themselves, they will also treat a large number of their own kind as slaves.

For all the people on Sainz Continent, the existence of slaves has long been a normal state that everyone is used to. No one thinks there's anything wrong with that at all.

Now Xu Yi suddenly ran out and said that slavery would be abolished. This is simply challenging everyone's common sense. Challenge the default rules of the entire continent.

Especially those slave owners who had benefited a lot from their slaves scoffed at Xu Yi's proposal and strongly opposed it.

Originally, because of the huge influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Principality of Standing, all the lords in the Principality could only cooperate obediently and did not dare to have any objections to any of Xu Yi's proposals.

But when Xu Yi threw out this proposal, these lords who had always followed Xu Yi's arrangement honestly expressed their opposition to the proposal with one voice.

In the first vote on this proposal, the number of votes in favor of this proposal was an astonishing zero!

This shows how much impact this proposal has had on everyone. How strong the opposition was.

However, relying on the strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Principality of Standing, and under the strong promotion of Xu Yi, this proposal still gained more votes in favor, and finally entered the final agreement process.

And today is the day when the State Council of the Principality of Standing launched the final agreement procedure on this proposal.

As long as this proposal can be passed today, it means that the Principality of Standing will officially abolish slavery starting today.

According to incomplete statistics, the total number of slaves in the Principality of Standing now is between 160,000 and 170,000.

Once the slavery system is abolished, these more than 160,000 slaves will become ordinary civilians, so the social impact will undoubtedly be extremely huge.

So whether the proposal is passed or not. It can be said that the entire Principality of Standing will be plunged into huge turmoil.

In the eyes of many, this is not a good thing.

"Why should I vigorously promote the abolition of slavery?" Xu Yi looked at Baron Haines sitting opposite him with a smile. Slowly shook his head. "Of course it's not because like many people said, I, like a saint, don't want to see slaves suffer, so I want to abolish this system and liberate them."

"Can't you completely deny this? From your attitude towards the slaves under your name, it can be seen that your attitude towards slaves has always been very gentle." Baron Haines asked.

Although today is the time for the Congress of the Principality of Standing to finalize Xu Yi's proposal for the abolition of slavery, because this matter has attracted so much attention, several countries around the world have also sent people to pay attention to this matter, and countless newspapers have also taken aim at it. , intending to report on it.

The final agreement process of the Congress began in the afternoon, so in the morning, Xu Yi held a special press conference to accept interviews and questions from various newspapers.

Now at the press conference site, there are reporters from almost all the newspapers in the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Rulson, the Duchy of Drake, the Duchy of Mirando, the Duchy of Norton, etc., and even the Kingdom of Sark. Three newspapers were sent to report on the incident.

The total number of reporters even exceeded 500 people, and the originally fairly spacious hall was packed to the brim, with almost no place to stay.

The reporters are all well-informed, so they naturally know that Xu Yi has a deep personal friendship with Baron Heiners, the editor-in-chief of the "Lampari Weekly", so the first question is consciously left to him.

"From my personal point of view, I really don't want to see slaves being treated cruelly. Because to me, there is actually no distinction between slaves and civilians. Everyone is the same human being. Why should we distinguish Come on, treat your own kind like animals and treat them cruelly?" Xu Yi said seriously.

"But besides humans, there are many other races among the slaves. Should they be treated as the same kind?" A reporter suddenly asked loudly.

The other reporters turned to look at the reporter who asked the question, thinking that this guy is an idiot.

It's a bit silly to ask this question to other people, but it's a waste of time to ask this question to Xu Yi.

Sure enough, Xu Yi smiled slightly, and replied: "There is not much difference between other races and humans, isn't it? Our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has hired so many employees of other races over the years, and I haven't seen them from us. Is there any special difference. If there is any, it is probably that there are certain differences in their respective cultures. But even among us humans, don’t there be cultural differences caused by different ethnic groups? So I don’t think this is what is the problem."

"President Xu. Let's get back to the point. What you just answered was from a personal point of view. I hope slavery can be abolished. But after all, you are the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. You are a powerful figure who everyone knows , You made this proposal, obviously it is impossible to consider it completely from your personal point of view?" Another reporter asked.

"Of course." Xu Yi nodded and admitted without any hesitation. "Of course, this proposal also has my consideration from an overall perspective."

"President Xu, I'm a reporter from Luerxun Kingdom. Before I came here, I inquired about a piece of news. In our Luerxun Kingdom, there is a chamber of commerce that specializes in making magic lamps. They are slave workers. Therefore, the cost of the magic lamps they produce is lower, and the price is much lower than your new flying brand magic lamps. They are very popular in our Luerson Kingdom. Are you proposing to abolish slavery now, is it because Perceived a threat from this chamber of commerce?" Another reporter in the crowd asked loudly.

All the reporters in the audience changed their expressions.

Many people are hearing this news for the first time. If it is true, then the reason why Xu Yi proposed this proposal is intriguing.

Xu Yi glanced at the reporter and asked back, "You mean the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce in Rio City?"

The reporter was taken aback for a moment, but didn't answer, apparently acquiescing.

Xu Yi smiled and continued: "First of all, my proposal is only aimed at the Principality of Standing. Even if this proposal is finally passed, it will not affect the Kingdom of Luerson. The Sanqi Chamber of Commerce wants to continue to use slave workers, and it is still no problem. There will be no impact."

Everyone in the audience nodded in unison.

The Principality of Standing can only be regarded as a small country in fact, and it is much worse than the Kingdom of Rulson.

If it weren't for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce being here, and this proposal was too shocking, I am afraid that not many people would pay too much attention to the policies of such a small country.

"Secondly, the magic lamp produced by the Sangqi Chamber of Commerce did not pass the quality inspection of the Magic Industry Administration of the Luerson Kingdom, but chose to sell it privately. The investigation by the Magical Industry Management Office of the Xun Kingdom ordered it to suspend business for rectification, do you know this?"

Everyone's eyes fell on the face of the reporter who claimed to be a reporter from Luerxun Kingdom, and found that his expression was a little embarrassed.

Obviously, he knew about it, but deliberately chose not to say it.

"Finally, why do you think that I regard the magic lamp produced by such a chamber of commerce as a threat? I don't think...any of the reporters here will think that this Sanqi chamber of commerce will pose a threat to our Xinfei chamber of commerce. ?”

Everyone in the audience couldn't help but nodded in unison.

They have never heard of this Sangqi Chamber of Commerce, how can it be compared with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce?

This guy actually thinks that Xu Yi thinks that the Sangqi Chamber of Commerce is a threat to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is ridiculous!

A blush flashed across the face of the reporter, and he said loudly in random disbelief: "President Xu, maybe the Sanqi Chamber of Commerce will not pose any threat to your Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but you must be afraid that other chambers of commerce will also use slave workers to reduce costs and You Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is competing? You want to abolish slavery so much, it must be because you have anticipated this situation!"

The other reporters in the audience fell silent.

In fact, this is also the doubt in their hearts.

If it wasn't from the perspective of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, why did Xu Yi have to take so much effort to abolish slavery in the face of so many people's opposition?

"Perhaps you are right, this is indeed a problem. But I must remind you of the fact that not only now, even a few years ago, many chambers of commerce were using slave labor, but they did not have a special advantage because of it , do you understand why?" Xu Yi asked back.

Everyone looked at each other, and found that Xu Yi's question sounded a little unreasonable at first, but actually it was worth thinking about carefully.

That's right, it's not a day or two since slaves have existed on the continent of Sainz.

Now a large number of chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery have emerged in these surrounding countries, and many of them have adopted a large number of slave workers to reduce production costs, but this does not give them much advantage.

This is not aimed at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because in the magic industry, there is currently no chamber of commerce that can be compared with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.

But when compared with other chambers of commerce in the same industry, the chamber of commerce that adopted slaves did not gain a particularly large advantage.

"This is the biggest reason why I want to abolish slavery, and it is also the conclusion I have reached after considering the whole. In fact, the reason is very simple. In my opinion, the vast majority of slaves are not a complete one. labor force."

"Because slaves generally cannot receive education, nor have any enthusiasm or initiative, even if they participate in production, they are only completely passive. Such workers will not only not reduce production costs in actual production, but actually It will greatly affect production efficiency and product quality.”

"From a businessman's point of view, these slave workers are completely negative assets of the chamber of commerce. What I want to do now is to turn these negative assets into positive ones!" (To be continued...)