Divine Tribulation of the Star Civilization - Chapter Extra 64. Stranger (12)

[Extra 64. Stranger (12)]

The price of female slaves who can sing and dance has risen, making slaves a symbol of wealth. The comparison mentality of big families has skyrocketed, prompting them to spend more property to buy female slaves.

This increased the demand for female slaves in the Hidden Sand Castle area, driving surrounding areas to follow suit, and the slave trade became more prosperous.

At this time, simply purchasing female slaves from poor people who were on the verge of bankruptcy could no longer meet people’s needs. In this case, slave traders found a new method.

They began to get in touch with hostile forces in various regions and offered to help them attack villages controlled by their opponents, provided that after victory, the prisoners in this place would be handed over to them.

Naturally, these rival village leaders would not reject this suggestion.

This caused wars to break out across the land, and a large number of young men and women became commodities in the hands of slave traders.

With sufficient resources, big gangs would be able to provoke larger wars, and slave traders could obtain more slaves. This plunged the slave trade in all human-inhabited areas into an infinite vicious circle.

When they cannot provoke a war, slave traders will even directly lead their own private armed forces to kill those weak human settlements. They killed the resisting villagers and the old, weak, sick and disabled in the village, and put all the remaining prisoners on the shelves.

This move also tied the interests of the big gangs to the slave trade, because every time a war was launched, the winning side would not only obtain a large amount of land and resources, but also get more men.

After being selected and trained, some of these slaves can become the new force of thug gangs, replacing the original troops, rushing to the forefront of the bloody battlefield, and continuing to expand their power.

There are many ways to judge a slave’s worth, but the slave’s physical condition is the basis for pricing.

In addition to the slave’s face and body health, there are many special circumstances to cater to the bizarre needs of the buyer.

Neither male nor female slaves had any dignity in the marketplace. “Striping clothes and checking” is just the norm. Buyers will poke slaves’ stomachs with fingers or wooden sticks, pull their skin and muscles, check their mouths, and even scare their bodies, etc.

With the support of the Xuanming Gang, a large number of weapons and equipment were provided to Batianang and his team of hunters. While the Yinsha Gang expanded their sources of goods, their business grew bigger and bigger like a snowball, radiating to hundreds of surrounding villages and large and small human settlements, spanning hundreds of kilometers.

Since then, the slave trade has changed the economic cycle of the Hidden Sand Castle area, from a monopoly authorized by gangs to a few people, to a carnival with the participation of all people. Slavery has become a strong driving force for the local economy and has also brought huge profits to the Xuanming Gang.

It can be said that the Xuanming Gang spared no effort in supporting the slave trade.

Gang conflicts, large and small, have arisen due to this, but as the saying goes, if you can beat me, I will go first, but if you cannot beat me, you will run first. The generosity of the Xuanming Gang has established a good reputation for itself, and it has truly become the well-deserved big brother in the industry.

In order to compete for population and resources, the Xuanming Gang has launched a crazy war with the Iron Fort and Rocket Gang for more than ten years, and has expanded its territory several times.

Although the competition has been repeated, their power has been balanced. Unless there are special changes, it will be difficult to open a new situation.

During this period, the Xuanming Gang established secret cooperative relationships with several foreign gangs engaged in slave trading to ensure mutual interests in order to divide up the few remaining resources.

At that time, Batianang also proved that he had extraordinary control over the slave business and contributed a lot of economic benefits.

His Yinsha Gang and Xuanming Gang also have a deep friendship. It can be said that they are inseparable and no one can live without the other. This relationship is not a perfunctory hug, but a knowing look.

Amid the prosperity and vitality brought by the slave business, Li Renxuan and Wang Ming felt: We are lucky to have you. And Ba Tianang felt: I am really convinced by you.

However, such good times did not last long.

As the Xuanming Gang expanded, its appetite gradually grew. Not satisfied with staying in Hidden Sand Castle, they want to annex the territory of other gangs, and even completely seize their opponents’ lair.

So the Xuanming Gang formulated a series of plans, becoming more alert to the activities of forces outside Hidden Sand Castle. They were keen to eliminate internal troubles, prevent enemy infiltration, cut off most business channels, and actively prepare for war.

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Batianang, this is by no means good news.

Because there is no external business channel, the liquidity of his business is greatly reduced. He has to rely on his own strength and years of savings to reopen the market. At the same time, it is more difficult to do business with rival gangs.

As the Hidden Sand Gang reached its peak of strength, it also discovered that most of the profits from the slave trade had been made by the Xuanming Gang. He could neither increase revenue nor reduce expenditure, so the differences between the two parties became larger.

Batianang began to rely on his own efforts and secretly set up a second branch in Iron Castle to penetrate the local market. A large number of slaves flowed to the rival camp of the Xuanming Gang.

He also lied that the slave trade was not going well and hid part of his income and refused to hand it over to the Xuanming Gang.

But this kind of thing cannot be hidden from Wang Ming’s eyes and ears.

He actually knew about the collusion between the Yinsha Gang and their old enemies, but he had his own considerations – he wanted to win over the Yinsha Gang and join him. So he didn’t say anything, and turned a blind eye, just waiting for the opportunity to completely destroy Li Renxuan’s Xuan Gang first, and then settle the accounts.

Faced with Wang Ming’s question again, Ba Tianang became smarter this time and said directly without any nonsense, “My lord, you must be… because you have taken a fancy to the fact that I am devoted to you without any second thoughts.”

“Oh, Well said. But how do you Yinsha Gang repay me? “

Wang Ming sneered and put his hands behind his back, looking at Ba Tianang with amusement.

“This…”

Ba Tianang’s heart trembled slightly, and he was speechless for a moment, but the other party didn’t say anything, so he could only continue to pretend to be stupid.

“Sir…”

He raised his head, looked at Wang Ming with an innocent face, and said, “I don’t know why you ask that. I think that our Yinsha Gang has never crossed the Leichi. To you and Lord Li Renxuan has always been respectful and has never paid a penny less in tribute. Although our business is difficult, the brothers work hard and can barely make a living by tightening their belts. So what you said…” “

Oh, you. Didn’t you say you didn’t cross Leichizi?” Wang Ming suddenly bared his teeth and stared at Ba Tianang, and said slowly, “If you say so, those ten brothers from the Xuan Gang died unjustly last night.

“Ah!”

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What? The Xuan Gang killed a dozen people last night?”

Ba Tianang’s eyes widened in surprise.

Even Luo Renjie next to him raised his head blankly, with a look of shock on his face and his mouth wide open.

After saying these words, Wang Ming turned around deliberately and observed the words with the corner of his eyes.

He knew that this kind of thing could not be committed by the small Yinsha Gang, even if he borrowed Batianang’s ten courages, it would not be possible. After this layer of questioning and covert observation, Wang Ming once again confirmed that Ba Tianang did not know anything about this matter.

However, since you want to act, you have to act in full.

In addition, he didn’t expect to find the answer from Batianang.

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