Ten thousand I am across the heavens

Chapter 2131 Strong Support

The operator in charge of handling this incident was shocked. How could someone describe human trafficking in such a refreshing and refined way? But after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense.

For people who live under family rule, toil day and night but find it difficult to settle down and live a stable life, being sold to the Shanhe Republic is actually a good thing for them.

Moreover, a newly-born industrial regime, facing a group of relatively primitive tribal natives, seems to often engage in triangular trade. The operator even thought that Lanno Branch could not only sell people, but also buy people. In theory, they were a newly-developed industrial entity, and their population gap was greater than that of the Shanhe Republic.

The country of Shanhe Republic has gradually started the mechanical automation of artificial intelligence, and a large number of jobs that require manpower have been liberated. Although a large population is still needed, the population required is more of a large number of educated people, and a new wave of baby boomers is about to come. It has been 21 years since the establishment of Shanhe Republic, and the children of the first batch of elders have grown up. Under the environment at that time, under the family planning plan, the upper limit of children for each family reached four, and at that time, almost all families who had just had enough food were stuck with this upper limit.

The ideas of the people in the previous era have not completely changed, and they are still at the stage of having many children and more blessings. As a result, at that stage, the population was in a period of rapid growth. If the upper limit was not planned in advance, it was possible for a family to have more than a dozen children. However, a large number of relatively rational intellectuals still proposed that too many children may cause parents to be unable to devote enough energy to care about their children's growth. This is not conducive to the cultivation of talents, and it is also likely that due to problems in the original family, the psychological problems of subsequent children will become a destabilizing factor in society, which is why the upper limit is stuck. Even so, after roughly completing the unification of the entire southern Xinjiang, so many years have passed, and the total population of the Shanhe Republic has expanded to 700 billion.

In fact, there is no shortage of population in the short term, but it is still possible to nominally acquire foreign population, although doing so will squeeze the welfare of the domestic people to a certain extent and make the foreign population compete for local jobs to a certain extent.

However, judging from the current productivity and population base, this level of sharing is not a pressure for the Shanhe Republic. On the contrary, the Beiyuan regime needs the demographic dividend more now. The Shanhe Republic needs high-quality talents, but this place is the type that lacks even basic labor.

However, once the human trade starts, it cannot be stopped easily. Therefore, the specific matters still need to be asked to the top leaders of the Shanhe Republic, and a democratic vote is required to see if they agree. After all, once the human trade industry is opened, there are many problems that come with it.

After hearing this proposal, Lan Nuo frowned: "We can't just open this loophole casually. Population trade is not as simple as you think. Many of us have been facing the Shanhe Republic since the founding of the country, so we may have underestimated the dark side of human nature.

We can indeed ask employers to provide high-quality personnel, and verbally ask them to ensure the safety of these people when transporting them, and reduce casualties during transportation.

But this world is a huge outsourcing factory. Many things are outsourced layer by layer. As long as we start to purchase people, there will be local people who will find ways to plunder the population, turn them into slaves, and send them to us.

The process of plundering was not that they went to the villages themselves to explain the benefits and then persuade the villagers to send them to the Shanhe Republic, nor was it that they surrounded a village and then took everyone away in one go.

A powerful Gu Master might do this, but a weaker mortal regime may not have much military advantage over these villages, and cannot capture people in this way. They are the real grassroots, and the benefits of population trade fall on these people. What they will do is not simply plundering the population, but secretly instigating conflicts between different villages, making them fight each other, and then providing one of them with advanced weapons, so that they can capture their own people, sell weapons at high prices, buy slaves at low prices, and then sell the slaves to us at high prices. Buy weapons from us at low prices.

This cycle will continue in the future, and countless tribal conflicts will break out over and over again, ultimately leading to disastrous consequences. "

This world has not experienced the triangular trade, so the locals are not very clear about the harm of human trade. Back then on Earth, when Europeans sold black slaves, they did not capture them themselves, but sold matchlock guns to black uncles and asked them to capture people from hostile tribes. The white people almost did not need to pay the price of their lives, but only needed to pay a small amount of money and arms to make the black people in tribal separatism kill each other, and they still did not feel guilty about capturing their compatriots as slaves and sending them to the dark slave ships.

Without the constraints of the system and the law, everyone will follow the principle of profit first, and the slave trade will gradually compromise in the direction of reducing costs. As a result, before the slaves become slaves, there will be a large number of casualties during transportation. The Shanhe Republic cannot tolerate such innocent deaths and injuries.

This problem is not easy to solve. Once this loophole is opened, everyone will want to get a piece of the pie. Everyone will think, why can you engage in slave trade, but we can't?

If they compete with each other, it will naturally lower the cost and lead to people not being treated as human beings.

At the meeting, everyone had a heated discussion. This was an important decision related to the future development of the other four regions. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility. The original Shanhe Republic could not even take care of the entire southern border. Naturally, they would not consider the affairs of the world. They were not qualified to consider these at that time. But now they dominate a region, and their power is so strong that it is almost as strong as the heaven. They must take on the responsibility of their current status and consider the people of the world.

Although it is difficult for them to fight across domains at present, fighting across domains is not only a natural danger brought by the five domain boundaries, but also affects people and Gu worms. The impact is particularly serious for those below the immortals. Just after crossing a domain, everyone's strength will be reduced by a major realm. The fourth level will become the third level, and the fifth level will become the fourth level. The same is true for Gu worms. The power of the fifth level Gu worm will become the power of the fourth level Gu worm. But the consumption remains unchanged, which means that the effect is actually not as good as the fourth level. You must use local Gu worms to avoid this restriction.

As for personal cultivation, it will take time to gradually adapt to the local rules, and then recover little by little, and gradually return to the state of its heyday. There are not many immortals in the Shanhe Republic now, and it takes a lot of social resources to overcome the tribulation. The main force of the army is still the peak of the fifth transformation. The weakening is very serious. If they force an expedition, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses. But even if their ability to interfere with foreign affairs is limited, they must now shoulder the responsibility of a great country.

In the second half of the meeting, everyone had actually worked out a rough charter. Lan Nuo just briefly summarized their speeches: "So everyone's opinion is to deal with special matters in a special way. For the time being, only a few forces will be given the right to engage in population trade. And the total number of people in population trade each quarter will be limited to ensure that there will not be a rush to engage in slave trade, right? We also have to increase the cost of import trade and set requirements for the quality of the purchased population. The level of compulsory education we have here is definitely not achievable. The manpower and material resources required to cultivate such a social elite are absolutely unaffordable by the outside world. With so many resources, they are enough to cultivate a fifth-level strongman, and they will definitely not sell it to us. But it is still okay to set certain requirements for the education level of the population.

We can formulate a set of examination papers. Only those who score more than 80% of the full score in the public examination organized by our teaching staff can be sold to us as qualified population. This assessment is tentatively named the unified examination for high-quality talents, or the college entrance examination for short.

Although this may also lead to certain educational problems in some places, the emergence of educational problems itself is a good thing for a world where most regions do not even have the concept of education.

A person who is sold as a slave will not be motivated to learn actively. Even if a gun is pointed at his head, under the anxiety of death threat, it is difficult for him to effectively absorb and learn some knowledge that requires rational thinking. Only a relatively stable closed environment is suitable for learning those logical knowledge, which can guarantee the safety of the population in the trade process to a certain extent. It also filters out the possibility of irresponsible and incompetent forces wanting to participate in the human trade. "

The proposal was voted on by the public and passed by a majority, with most people agreeing with this policy that made certain compromises while maintaining a bottom line.

Thus, as the meeting came to an end, a system that had influenced the entire Five Regions for two days or even hundreds of years, had far-reaching historical impact, and even affected dozens of generations, was formulated at a seemingly insignificant meeting.

The Shanhe Republic also sent out educational missions to the five regions, announced its own talent selection plan, and had these people establish embassies in various places.

This news immediately caused an uproar in the entire Gu world. The East China Sea and West Desert adjacent to Southern Xinjiang reacted most strongly. They all thought that the Shanhe Republic was preparing to launch an invasion. They each sent out an eighth-level strongman to lead the team. More than a dozen immortals surrounded the academic team that easily crossed the five-domain boundary.

These people crossed the five domains as a small force. Because of the small number of people, they used professional equipment, that is, steam machinery that can still operate unimpeded within the five domains, so they did not suffer much damage when fighting across domains. The whole team was led by a newly promoted seventh-turn Gu Immortal, who led four sixth-turn Gu Immortals and hundreds of staff, and was surrounded by a group of immortals. The ambassador in charge of the East China Sea region was still fearless in the face of danger.

In order to ensure that the relevant actions will not be obstructed or maliciously interfered by local forces, the Shanhe Republic has invested a lot of money. So far, there have been only 18 seventh-level strongmen born in the country, but this time they directly selected four of the strongest ones to sit in the four regions, establish embassies, and be responsible for maintaining the implementation of the talent selection system.

The one in charge of the East China Sea branch was Yak, who had frightened the enemy in the previous battle. It was no wonder that the East China Sea forces sent so many masters to besiege them. The pressure Yak brought to them was too great. Now Yak has reached the seventh level. According to the nature of the masters of the Shanhe Republic, Yak might have the strength to fight against an eighth-level strongman. Everyone felt their scalps tingling when they sensed it. The eighth-level Gu Immortal in the lead couldn't help swallowing his saliva: "Three immortal orifices! The third empty orifice Gu! Someone actually refined the third empty orifice Gu! This is at least a seventh-level immortal Gu! You actually have two immortal orifices that have reached the seventh level."

This person is also a veteran Taoist master. He dared to guarantee that he was definitely not mistaken. As soon as he finished speaking, the faces of the besieged immortals all changed drastically. Immortal orifices are the foundation of Gu Immortals, and can be said to be their greatest foundation. As a result, there is someone whose foundation is three times that of theirs, and each of their immortal orifices is top-notch in their eyes. It is really impossible for people of the same level to fight with him. Even if we don’t consider Yak’s personal strength and his ghostly fighting skills, his panel quality alone is enough to compete with the eighth-level immortals.

"We came for peace, but we are not afraid of war. This time, we prepared 300 million immortal essence stones, which can be sent through Baohuangtian at any time. It is equivalent to 30,000 Baili immortal essences of eighth-level masters. If you want to fight, I can accompany you until you don't want to fight anymore." Yake's resounding declaration immediately made many of the besieged masters retreat. The eighth-level masters who intercepted him were even cursing.

This person really understands what it means to be rich and powerful. What is an industrial society? What does it mean to concentrate efforts to accomplish great things? The productivity of 700 billion people is used to support the battle of a few people, which is the result of the wealth and power that makes people's eyes black.

Three hundred million immortal stones, this was beyond their imagination. Usually, an 8th-rank strongman with family support would have a maximum of one million liquid funds on hand, which was considered rich to ordinary Gu Immortals, but it was two orders of magnitude less than the opponent's strategic reserves. If a fight really broke out, they couldn't even afford a war of attrition.

[To be continued]

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