Chen Hansheng and Kalanda came out of a villager's house. Chen Hansheng said, "It basically matches. They built a house here before the New Year and shipped the goods here after the New Year. Then they left in a hurry after getting the news from me last night."
“I didn’t expect these people to be so cautious and run away overnight.”
"Are you waiting to be caught by me?" Chen Hansheng snorted coldly, "You call this cautious? Humph, if they were really cautious, they wouldn't ship goods in a place like Suero. These bastards are short-sighted, so they did such a thing."
"Did you guess who it was?"
Chen Hansheng pondered for a moment and said, "No, it's hard to say what's going on in this world. Sometimes someone who makes a lot of noise may not be unreliable, and someone who keeps silent may not be secretly doing bad things. We still have to continue investigating before we can draw a conclusion."
"Why don't we go look for Cohen? Since you suspect that they are using slaves, we should naturally start with the slave traders." Kalanda suggested.
"Smart, you are worthy of being my Chen Hansheng's woman."
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Ever since Xiao Chen helped Cohen take over as a slave trader in the slave market, he has been the main provider of labor for the school.
Chen Hansheng's caravans had a lot of dealings with him when they traveled. Basically, every time the caravan left, they would take away a batch of slaves prepared by Cohen.
Even though the school needed a large number of slaves, it was unwilling to label itself a slave trader, so agents like Cohen were still necessary.
Cohen's camp was built by buying old houses and renovating them. The house where he held slaves was completely different from those of other slave traders.
The slaves lived in a square-shaped building with a playground in the middle. The houses in Fenghewan New District were very similar. The slaves were arranged in groups of eight and lived in dormitories. Slaves with special skills were often assigned to more comfortable four-person rooms. There were clinics, schools, canteens, workshops, and even activity rooms and libraries in the camp. Although the slaves had no freedom and could not go out, such an environment, food, and education were no exaggeration to say that they were a paradise compared to other slave camps in Suero.
When the slaves arrived here, they would first undergo sanitation and then learn to adapt to collective life and various behavioral rules. They would also learn to speak Chinese and recognize Chinese characters.
Most slaves had very good learning progress, much better than residents directly employed by the school. Because in the slave camp, those who failed to meet the teaching standards would be eliminated and sold to other camps.
When most slaves came here, they had been through many twists and turns, passed through many hands, and stayed in more than one slave camp. Most of them knew very well what it meant to be sent to other camps.
Their first feeling when they come here is often unbelievable, and then they try their best to stay. Studying, working, and living here are even better than the days before most people became slaves. So these people cherish the life here.
Therefore, schools now let slaves receive preliminary education in the camps and send them to Montenegro only when they can communicate in Chinese. The educational effect and learning cost here are much better than placing them in camps in schools.
Every time Chen Hansheng walked here, he didn't feel like he was walking in a slave camp, but in a boarding school. But that was the truth, the management method here was actually an enhanced version of the school, and it was far from the rules for ordinary people to manage slaves.
The first person he was going to visit today was not Cohen, but Ding Lunquan, the head of the Chinese course here and from the foreign affairs group. This tall boy had been working here for two months since the camp was established.
"Uncle Chen. According to my observation, everything is normal in this camp. There are no slaves disappearing or moving abnormally." Ding Lunquan answered Chen Hansheng's question seriously.
"What about the people who were eliminated and went to other camps? There aren't many of them either?"
Ding Lunquan smiled, "The people here are much more hardworking than the kids I tutored. They study very hard. Not only do they study hard in class, but they also form study groups at night. They always ask me to give them some special lessons. If they studied like this in our world, I think half of them would be able to get into our school. I have only met three people who were driven away. One was for making enemies and hurting people, one was for wanting to bully women, and the other was mentally ill and crazy. There is no way there would be a large number of slaves leaving like you said."
Chen Hansheng patted his shoulder and said, "It's not easy for you either."
"Don't tell me, Uncle Chen. I feel great here. How should I put it? It's really fulfilling to help so many people learn knowledge and understand that there are things in the world that they can pursue. To put it in a more literary way, I have opened a window to their world and let the sunshine into their hearts. This feeling is hard to experience elsewhere. You don't know that many of them are actually very smart and beautiful. If they were in our place, they might be the academic masters, school beauties and the like. But here, society originally did not give them opportunities. But now I can give them such opportunities."
"The feelings are very sincere." Chen Hansheng punched him and said, "But if you ask me, looking at the school beauty is the main thing, right?"
The two men burst into laughter.
"Well, just take good care of your flowers here. I'll come to you to ask, and then I'll go find Cohen and I'll have a clear answer."
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Compared with the luxurious style of the Oaks family, the house where Cohen lived was simple, just a small two-story house. Chen Hansheng and Karanda met Cohen in the living room with only a set of sofas and a coffee table.
The only decoration in the room was a vase filled with small white flowers. Against the backdrop of the white flowers, Cohen, a thin middle-aged man, actually gave people a feeling of pity and solemnity.
"Master Chen, I know my position very well. It was Master Xiao who pushed me here. Without the support of Black Mountain, I would not be able to survive in this slave camp for even a moment. Although I am a slave trader to the outside world, I dare not treat anyone who comes to the camp with the same attitude as a slave. I know that you all hate the slavery system itself, so I can only do my job carefully, take good care of everyone, and prepare them before they embark on a new journey. In Ding Lunquan's words, I am just an operating station manager. How dare I sell slaves secretly?"
Cohen looked calm. He continued, "Don't you think that if someone really needs slaves, it would be troublesome to get them from me? If anyone wants to buy slaves secretly, any other camp here is more suitable than me, isn't it?"
Chen Hansheng nodded and said, "That's true. However, I know very little about the methods used by other slave traders."
"If Lord Chen trusts me, let me get the news for you. Although... I am not very sociable here, I still have some channels of my own."
"Okay, then I'll wait for your news."