Magic Industry Empire - 738. Chapter 738

What happened thousands of kilometers away in the southern waters of the Candela Empire did not have any impact on the Duchy of Stantin and the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

In the recent period, the most noticeable thing in the Principality of Stadin, and even in several surrounding countries, is a bill being resolved by the Congress of the Principality of Stadin.

This bill was introduced by Xu Yi, president of the New Flying Business Association, as an ordinary member of Congress.

According to Xu Yi’s unparalleled influence in the Principality of Stantin, no matter what the proposal originally was, it would be easy to pass it, but it took a full two months for this proposal to enter the parliamentary final agreement process, and it had to go through the parliament. Members will vote publicly to determine whether the decision will take effect.

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

The content of this proposal is actually to abolish slavery!

When Xu Yi proposed this proposal for the first time, everyone thought he was crazy at all.

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.

In these tens of thousands of years, no matter how the continent changed, the slave system remained unchanged. Even before and after the race war for more than two thousand years, slaves reached the culmination of the entire continent.

Before the race war, the elves treated almost all other races as slaves. After the race war, the elves were replaced by humans frantically capturing other races as slaves.

As for human beings themselves, they also treat a large number of their 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, and no one will feel that there is anything wrong with it at all.

Now Xu Yi suddenly came out and said that he wanted to abolish the slavery system. This was simply challenging everyone’s common sense and the default rules of the entire continent.

Especially for those slave owners who have benefited a lot from their slaves, they sneered at Xu Yi’s proposal and strongly opposed it.

Originally, because of the huge influence of the New Flying Merchant on the Principality of Stantin, 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 obeyed Xu Yi’s arrangement all unanimously expressed their opposition to this proposal.

In the first vote on this proposal, the votes for this proposal were surprisingly zero!

This shows how much impact this proposal has brought to everyone, and how strong the opposition it has received.

However, relying on the powerful influence of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce on the Principality of Stantin, under Xu Yi’s strong push, this proposal still received a little more votes in favor, and finally entered the final negotiated procedure.

Today is the day when the Principality of Stantin will launch the final agreed procedure on this proposal.

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

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

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

Therefore, whether this proposal is passed or not can be said to put the entire Principality of Stantin into huge turmoil.

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

“Why should I vigorously promote the abolition of slavery?” Xu Yi looked at Baron Haynes sitting opposite with a smile on his face, and slowly shook his head. “Of course it’s not because like many people say, I, like the saints, don’t see slaves suffer, so I want to abolish this system and liberate them.”

“You can’t completely deny this, right? From your attitude towards the slaves under your own name, you can see that your attitude towards the slaves has always been very gentle.” Baron Haynes asked.

Although today is the time for the final agreed procedure of the Congress of the Principality of Stantin on Xu Yi’s proposal to abolish slavery, because this matter is too much attention, several surrounding countries have sent people to pay attention to this matter, and countless newspapers have also taken aim. The incident was reported, with the intention of reporting on it.

The Congress finally agreed that the procedure would begin in the afternoon, so in the morning, Xu Yi held a special press conference to accept interviews and questions from various newspapers.

Now at this press conference, reporters from almost all newspapers in the surrounding countries, including the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Ruelson, the Duchy of Drake, the Duchy of Mirando, the Duchy of Norton, etc. have been squeezed in, even the Kingdom of Sark. Three newspapers were sent to report on the incident.

The total number of reporters even surpassed five hundred people, and the originally spacious hall was crowded with almost nowhere to stay.

The reporters are all well-informed people, and naturally know that Xu Yi and the editor-in-chief of the “Lampari Weekly” Baron Haynes have a deep personal friendship, so the first question is consciously left to him.

“From my personal point of view, I really do not want to see slaves being treated cruelly. Because for me, there is actually no distinction between slaves and civilians. Everyone is the same human being. Why should we distinguish between slaves and civilians? Come, treat your own kind as cruelly as beasts?” Xu Yi said sternly.

“But in addition to humans, there are many foreign races among the slaves. Should they be treated like 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.

Asking this question to other people is still a bit messy, and asking this question to Xu Yi is not a complete waste of time.

Sure enough, Xu Yi smiled lightly and replied, “Other races are not much different from humans, aren’t they? Our New Flying Business Association has hired so many employees from other races over the years. Are there any special differences. If there are any, it is probably because their respective cultures are different. But even among us humans, aren’t there cultural differences due to differences in ethnic regions? So I think it’s not the same. It’s not a problem.”

“Chairman Xu, let us return to the topic. What you just answered was from a personal point of view, hoping to abolish slavery. But after all, you are the president of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, and everyone knows that you have a strong influence. Big man, when you put forward this proposal, it is obviously impossible to consider it entirely from your personal point of view, right?” Another reporter asked.

“Of course.” Xu Yi nodded and admitted without any hesitation. “Of course, this proposal also has my overall consideration.”

“Chairman Xu, I am a reporter from the Kingdom of Ruelson. Before I came here, I heard a piece of news. In our Kingdom, there is a chamber of commerce that specializes in making magic lights. They are slave workers, so the cost of the magic lights they produce is lower, and the price is much lower than your new flying magic lights. They are very popular in our Ruelson kingdom. You are now proposing to abolish slavery, is it because Perceived a threat from this chamber of commerce?” Another reporter in the crowd asked loudly.

All the reporters in the audience moved with expressions.

Many people have heard of this news for the first time. If this is true, then the reason for Xu Yi’s proposal is intriguing.

Xu Yi glanced at the reporter and asked, “You are talking about the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce in Rio City, right?”

The reporter applied for a moment, but did not answer, obviously tacitly acquiescing.

Xu Yi smiled, and continued: “First of all, my proposal is only for the Principality of Stantin. Even if this proposal is finally passed, it will not affect the Ruelson Kingdom. The Sanchi Chamber of Commerce wants to continue to use slave workers, but it is still okay. It will not be affected in any way.”

Everyone in the audience nodded.

The Principality of Stantin can only be regarded as a small country, much worse than the Kingdom of Ruelson.

If it weren’t for the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce here, and this proposal is 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 Sanchi Chamber of Commerce did not pass the quality inspection of the Ruelson Kingdom Magic Industry Management Agency, but chose to sell it privately. It has severely violated the Ruel Kingdom magic industry management regulations and is now accepting Ruhr. The investigation by the Magic Industry Administration of the Sun 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 the Ruelson Kingdom reporter, and found that his expression was a little embarrassing.

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

“Finally, why do you think I would regard the magic lamp produced by such a chamber of commerce as a threat? I think…Any reporter in this room would not think that this Sanchi Chamber of Commerce poses a threat to our new flying merchants. Bar?”

Everyone in the audience couldn’t help nodding their heads.

They have never heard of this Sanchi Chamber of Commerce, so what can you compare with the New Flying Chamber of Commerce?

This guy actually thought Xu Yi felt that Sanchi Chamber of Commerce would threaten the New Flying Chamber of Commerce. It was ridiculous!

A blush flashed across the reporter’s face, and he said in a loud and unconvincing voice: “President Xu, maybe Sanchi Chamber of Commerce will not pose any threat to your new flying chamber of commerce, but you must be afraid that other chambers of commerce will also use slave workers to reduce costs and Do you new flying chambers of commerce compete? You want to abolish slavery so much, it must be because you anticipated this situation!”

The other reporters in the audience fell silent.

In fact, this is also their doubts.

If it weren’t from the perspective of the New Flying Merchants Association, why did Xu Yi have to thanklessly, spend so much effort and face the opposition of so many people to abolish slavery?

“Perhaps you are right, this is indeed a problem. But I must remind you of the fact that it is not only now, even a few years ago, many chambers of commerce are also adopting slave workers, but they did not have a special advantage due to this. , Do you understand why?” Xu Yi asked back.

Everyone looked at each other and realized that Xu Yi’s question seemed unreasonable at first sight, but in fact, after careful consideration, it was very worthy of reflection.

Yes, slaves have not existed on Sainz Continent for a day or two.

Now a large number of chambers of commerce producing magic machinery have emerged in these surrounding countries. Many chambers of commerce have adopted a large number of slave workers to reduce production costs, but this has not given them much advantage.

This is not aimed at the New Flying Chamber of Commerce, because in the magic industry industry, there is currently no chamber of commerce comparable to the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.

But when compared with other chambers of commerce in the same industry, the chamber of commerce that uses slaves has not gained a particularly large advantage.

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

“Because slaves generally cannot receive education, do not have any enthusiasm or initiative, even if they participate in production, they are just completely passive. Such workers will not only reduce the production cost in actual production, but actually It will greatly affect production efficiency and product quality.”

“From the perspective of a businessman, 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!”