Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1171 Wouldn’t it be better if I could become a good master?

When Sherlock heard the Eye Demon's words before, he subconsciously thought that the number of slaves in the city was three times that of free people... Maybe there were also the good master's own slaves, but not much more.

But the ratio of free people to slaves... is too weird!

In other cities, this ratio generally does not exceed one to four.

——And in Paradise City, the ratio is an astonishing one to three hundred!
Rather than saying they are "free people", it would be better to say they are "aristocrats"!
"I see……"

Aiwass commented sharply: "He may have invented the feudal system."

——If the treatment of free citizens is good enough, then all we need to do is reduce the number of free citizens.

"But there are so many slaves," Lily, who was hiding in Aiwass's shadow, couldn't help but ask, "If they secretly eat some food, there's nothing we can do about it, right?"

"That's all I can do, miss."

Although it didn't know where the voice came from, the Eye Demon gave an obedient answer - it was obvious that Lily was not the first person to ask this question: "Those foods have particularly bright colors, and these colors cannot be digested and erased. If those untouchables dare to eat these free cakes, free meat, and free drinks, their feces will have colors.

"All slaves have fixed toilets. Excreting outside of toilets is a capital crime. Every day, Adil sends people to check the toilets. If colored feces are detected, all slaves who use this toilet will be executed, unless they offer the thief's head before the inspector arrives.

"The slaves must find and kill the offender with their bare hands, while the inspector uses colored feces as a medium for the curse. If no one dies, then the matter is over - if the curse is established, the slaves who used the toilet will still be killed, so it is impossible to take the blame."

——That’s just right.

Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

Hearing about such cruel punishment, Ai Hua suddenly felt that the painting style had returned - this was the painting style of the ancient Parthia.

No wonder the Eye Demon just said "Adil gave us color", so this is what he meant.

Thank God. Aiwass just thought he had accidentally wronged a good person.

"But so many slaves..."

Ligeia frowned. "Where do they usually live? In the slums?"

"Underground, sir. This keeps the city clean."

"Stateless slaves have other things to do. Only when it is better for them to serve a free man and live under the sun will they serve their masters faithfully."

The two beholders answered in succession.

"What kind of job is it?"

Ligeia demanded.

But the Eye Demon could not give an answer to this.

It’s not that they are hiding it, but they really don’t know and don’t care about these things.

"underground……"

Sherlock chewed the word slowly, looking around thoughtfully: "Evans, I remember you said... the desert of rest will suck blood, right?"

"You mean, the alchemical tablet?"

Although Sherlock's words were incoherent, Aiwass guessed what he meant in an instant: "The good master of Paradise City bought slate from Rock Cellar City?"

"That makes sense, my friend."

In front of outsiders, Sherlock did not call Aiwass "fox".

He said calmly: "Yanjiao City is a small border town without any special products and insufficient production capacity, but it can purchase so many alchemical slabs and build such a large underground waterway. Why do you think it is? Where does the money of the benefactor of Yanjiao City come from?

"They didn't even catch the slaves who escaped from the city, and they took the initiative to build underground passages that might help them escape from the city. They just kept an eye on them. What do you think this was for?"

"The former... is of course to resell the stone slab to Adil at a high price. As for the latter, it is the escape route left by the benevolent master... If he senses the murderous intentions from his extremely powerful partner, he will probably exchange identities with the slaves and escape through the underground passage disguised as a slave."

Aiwass glanced at the troll wizard who was chanting "Praise the generous Adil, praise the merciful Adil" in pain, and suddenly turned around and walked into the house, whispering, "If a person has neither a job nor parents to support him, but has endless money for no apparent reason... then it is likely that his funds came from an illegal source."

Hearing this, Sherlock smiled with relief.

He knew that Aiwass had understood.

——Since the merchants went to Anxi, they naturally planned to do business in Anxi.

In this case, their trade routes and caravans could not just stop at the entrance of Rock Cellar City. Because Rock Cellar City, a small city with only a few hundred people, could not possibly have high enough purchasing power to buy out all the products here.

But if the merchants were able to penetrate deep into the ancient Parthia Empire, how could they not bring out any intelligence from within?
There is only one answer.

That is why most merchants stop at Rock Cellar City.

Of course, Rock Cellar City did not have enough money to buy all their goods, but Paradise City did.

Paradise City gave Rock Cellar City a sum of money to let them buy goods and then transfer the goods to them. Because the caravan had already bought everything, they only needed to exaggerate the subsequent dangers to drive these merchants away.

Those city-states that want to attack Rock Cellar City will be defeated by the powerful Heaven City. Therefore, as a key pass city, Rock Cellar City is the only way for Xingti to go to Anxi, so the defense force is so weak... because they are a subordinate city-state governed by the long arm of Heaven City!

Paradise City uses this method to cut off the land supplies to other city-states.

As a result, only the Goblin Chamber of Commerce that could get around the desert to the south could sell goods to other city-states. The greed of the goblins allowed them to drain all the resources of other city-states. With a steady supply of cheap materials, Paradise City could gain an advantage in trade and war with other city-states.

Now that Paradise City has suddenly turned against Rock Cellar City and directly destroyed the city... there are only two possibilities.

Or maybe Rock Cellar City was too greedy, taking too much from the deal and doing too much, and Heaven City finally couldn't stand it anymore, so they planned to destroy them and replace them with their own people to preside over the deal.

Or maybe Paradise City is too greedy... and no longer needs partners who are not completely obedient.

Regardless of the reason, it actually shows one thing:

——They felt that the time had come and they planned to unify Anxi. That was why they planned to sell this grand ceremony that could easily destroy the city, in exchange for a large amount of funds and complete control of this pass.

The reason why the three ritualists were waiting here was not to protect this troll wizard...

Their essence is a "sales office".

Although the three ritualists were waiting here in advance, they did not prepare any trap-like ritual spells - otherwise even Aiwass would definitely be a little overwhelmed. After all, ritualists rely on long periods of preparation to defeat the strong with the weak.

This shows that their purpose is not actually to "kill all outsiders and prevent the ceremony from being stopped."

This troll wizard was already about to be burned to ashes. Even if Aiwass and the others hadn't come... in two or three days at most, as the troll wizard died naturally, this wave of petrification would have ended.

At that time, the number of visitors will increase. And these three ritualists will conduct business communication with those who are interested - after all, the ones who communicated with foreigners before were all benefactors of Rock Cellar City, which is also the secret of Rock Cellar City's self-protection. If they come to take over by force, they will also need to reconnect with people.

What is the so-called "Adil's great cause"? It's also very simple...

For the fragmented Parthia, "unifying Parthia" is the only great cause that Parthia people can recognize.

The laws of each city-state are different, and each city-state has its own benevolent ruler. Every free citizen who adapts to the lifestyle of his own city-state hopes to assimilate other city-states according to his own way of life.

When one city-state defeated another, the free citizens of the other city-state would be reduced to slaves if they could not pay to redeem themselves. The way of life and rules would be overwritten, and the free citizens of the original city could migrate to the new city-state.

Although the good lord will still be retained for water production, they will be downgraded by three levels to become "governors". At the same time, they will lose their privileges and the right to make rules. If the good lord dies accidentally, the city will be directly abandoned and everyone will move to the city with the good lord's protection.

If their benevolent master could unify Parthia, then they would be "noble people" living in the capital, a higher level than free people.

For the free people of Paradise City, they naturally hope that Adil can unify Anxi and save everyone.

Let everyone live a happy life with unlimited food and water, without any disputes or conflicts!

——Of course, slaves are not considered human beings.

Even the slaves themselves did not consider themselves human beings.

They would rather seek refuge with other good leaders and go to other cities than leave the desert as human beings.

"Master..."

Far away from the crowd, Lily's voice rang out softly, "Why are the people of Anxi so weird?"

She wanted to help these people, but she didn't know where to start. She felt that everything was so logical and self-contained. Any interference from the outside would make the Anxi people feel uncomfortable.

Aiwass did not answer her, but continued to pace deeper into the cave.

The crow standing on Aiwas's shoulder said coldly, "Because they have no choice, Lily. Without a good master, everyone will die. The root of the problem is that this desert should not be inhabited by living people - this is not a place for people to live. Since their ancestors, all of them have been wrong.

"It's like a group of people mastered the ability to allow others to breathe and live in water, so they took a group of people to the bottom of the sea to live in the ruins of the Atlantean civilization. They naturally have the power to control everyone, and anyone who disobeys them will be deprived of the right to breathe. Because their ancestors have sold this power... the power to control their descendants, from generation to generation, to their rulers."

"And if we let them come ashore again, it won't work. Although they entered the seabed from other countries back then, if they come ashore now, they will occupy the land of other countries."

Aiwass said softly: "People from other countries will not allow these strangers to enter their territory for no reason. If they are forced to agree, it will only be a new group of people to oppress them."

The problems facing Anxi are really difficult to solve.

The root cause is that it is difficult to cure the problem - does he want to say directly that it was wrong for you to choose to live here?

They thought that this was just an ordinary desert, and that with the power of the Good Lord they could permanently transform the desert into an oasis... but that was not the case.

The underground here is full of sinners... It is very abnormal that there are so many sinners in the material world. I am afraid that the underground here is the umbilical cord between the material world and the dream world, just like the fairy kingdom.

——Since it is wrong, what should we do? Should we kill them all?
"Then what should we do?"

Lily felt confused.

It was a feeling of discomfort that one couldn't do anything about.

"It's very simple," Aiwass replied, "Although the existence of the 'Good Lord' cannot be erased, the problem is not here. It is that the Good Lord has chosen to monopolize the ability to become the Good Lord through inheritance."

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Hearing this, Vignes laughed happily.

She already knew what Aiwass was going to do.

She seemed to be back in the days when she had just met Aiwass, and was amazed by his bold and bizarre ideas every day.

Aiwass continued to walk towards the room of the Good Lord, and slowly said, "I really cannot become the Good Lord because I do not have the adaptability to the Twilight Path... No, to be precise, I should have it. But for some reason, I have never been able to use the power of the Wild Hunt that I got from the promotion ceremony.

“But if it’s just about communicating with Yuan Tiansi… As a cardinal, I can do something of this level.

“And if it’s just about producing water infinitely—Sherlock can do that, too.

"In that case..."

Aiwass walked into the Good Master's bedroom.

The good leader of Rock Cellar City is a tall and fat man.

He was not ugly, and could even be called handsome—this was due to the good genes inherited from generation to generation. He was fair-skinned, with not much fat on other parts of his body, and was relatively strong, except for his unusually large belly, like a pregnant woman.

He was holding his young-looking wife, chatting excitedly with a sneer on his face, while his five wives surrounded him, lying or kneeling on the huge bed to serve him, with similar smiles on their faces, either sincere or flattering.

Aiwass looked at the Good Lord and said softly: "Since the Parthians are only willing to obey the rules of the Good Lord, and only recognize that the Good Lord can rule them, dominate their fate, and change their way of life...

"——Then why don't we become good masters?"

(End of this chapter)