What happened in the southern waters of the Kandra Empire, thousands of kilometers away, had no impact on the Principality of Standing and the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. ←,
In recent times, the most eye-catching thing in the Principality of Standing, and even in several surrounding countries, is a bill being resolved by the Parliament of the Principality of Standing.
This bill was proposed by Xu Yi, chairman of the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce, in his capacity as an ordinary member of Congress.
According to Xu Yi's unparalleled influence in the Principality of Standing, any proposal would have been easily passed. However, it took a full two months for this proposal to enter the final approval process of Congress, and it also had to go through Congress. Members will publicly vote to determine whether the resolution will take effect.
The reason why this proposal is so difficult is because its content is so shocking.
The content of this proposal is actually the abolition of slavery!
When Xu Yi first proposed this proposal, everyone thought he was completely crazy.
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.
During these tens of thousands of years, no matter how the continent changed, the system of slavery remained unchanged. Even before and after the racial wars, which lasted for more than two thousand years, slavery reached its peak in the entire continent.
Before the race war, the elves treated almost all other races as slaves, but after the race war, it was humans who frantically captured other races to use as slaves.
As for humans themselves, they will also take large numbers of their own kind as slaves.
For everyone on the continent of Sainz, the existence of slaves has long been a norm that everyone is accustomed to. No one thinks there's anything wrong with this at all.
Now Xu Yi suddenly came out and said that he wanted to abolish the slavery system. This simply challenges everyone's common sense. Challenge the default rules of the entire continent.
Especially those slave owners who had benefited a lot from their slaves scorned Xu Yi's proposal and strongly opposed it.
Originally, because of the huge influence that the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce had on the Principality of Standing, 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 put forward this proposal, these lords who had always obeyed Xu Yi's arrangements all expressed their opposition to the proposal in unison.
In the first vote on this proposal, the proposal received an astonishing zero votes in favor!
This shows how much impact this proposal has on everyone. The opposition was overwhelming.
However, with the strong influence of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Principality of Standing, and Xu Yi's strong promotion, this proposal still gained more votes in favor, and finally entered the final negotiation process.
Today is the day when the State Council of the Principality of Standing will launch the final negotiation process on this proposal.
As long as this proposal can be passed today, it means that starting from today, the Principality of Standing will officially abolish slavery.
According to incomplete statistics, the total number of slaves currently owned by the Principality of Standing is approximately between 160,000 and 170,000.
Once slavery is abolished, these more than 160,000 slaves will become ordinary civilians, so the social impact will undoubtedly be extremely huge.
So let’s talk about whether this proposal is passed or not. It can be said that the entire Principality of Standing will be plunged 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 Heiners sitting opposite with a smile. He shook his head slowly. "Of course it's not because, like many people say, I, like a saint, don't want to see slaves suffering, so I want to abolish this system and liberate them."
"You can't completely deny this? It can be seen from your attitude towards the slaves under your name that your attitude towards the slaves has always been very gentle." Baron Heiners asked.
Although today is the time for the final approval process of Xu Yi's proposal to abolish slavery by the Congress of the Principality of Standing, because this matter has attracted so much attention, several surrounding countries have also sent people to pay attention to this matter, and countless newspapers have also taken aim at it. This incident was reported with the intention of reporting it.
The final deliberation process of Congress began in the afternoon, so in the morning, Xu Yi held a press conference to accept interviews and questions from various newspapers.
Now at this press conference, reporters from almost all newspapers in neighboring countries, including the Kingdom of Lampali, the Kingdom of Lulson, the Principality of Drake, the Principality of Mirando, and the Principality of Norton, are crowded in. Even the Kingdom of Sark has sent Three newspapers came to report on the incident.
The total number of reporters even exceeded 500, and the originally spacious hall was so packed that there was almost nowhere to stay.
The reporters were all well-informed people and naturally knew that Xu Yi had a deep personal friendship with Baron Heiners, the editor-in-chief of Lampali Weekly, so they consciously left the first question to him.
"From a personal point of view, I really don't want to see slaves being treated cruelly. Because to me, there is actually no distinction between slaves and civilians. We are all the same human beings, so why should we distinguish them? Come and treat your own kind cruelly like animals?" Xu Yi said seriously.
"But besides humans, there are many foreign races among the slaves. Do they have to be treated as 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 was an idiot.
Asking this question to other people is a bit confusing, but raising this question to Xu Yi is a complete waste of time.
Sure enough, Xu Yi smiled lightly and replied: "There is not much difference between other races and humans, right? Our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce has hired so many employees of other races over the years, and I don't see any difference between them and us humans. Is there anything particularly different? If there is, it's probably because there are certain differences in each culture. But even among us humans, aren't there cultural differences caused by different ethnic groups? what is the problem."
"President Xu. Let's get back to the point. What you just answered was from a personal perspective. You hope to abolish the slavery system. But after all, you are the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. You are a big man with strong influence that everyone knows. "It's obviously impossible for you to propose this proposal entirely from your personal perspective?" another reporter asked.
"Of course." Xu Yi nodded and admitted without any hesitation. "Of course I have considered this proposal from a holistic perspective."
"President Xu, I am a reporter from the Luersun Kingdom. Before coming here, I inquired about a piece of news. In our Luersun Kingdom, there is a chamber of commerce that specializes in making magic lamps. They are slave workers. Therefore, the cost of the magic lamps they produce is much lower than that of your new Fei brand magic lamps. They are very popular in our Luersun Kingdom. Is it because you are proposing to abolish the slavery system? Do you sense a threat from this chamber of commerce?" Another reporter from the crowd asked loudly.
All the reporters in the audience had expressions of excitement.
This is the first time for many people to hear this news. If this is true, then the reason why Xu Yi proposed this proposal is intriguing.
Xu Yi glanced at the reporter and asked, "Are you talking about the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce in Rio de Janeiro?"
The reporter was stunned for a moment and did not answer, obviously acquiescing.
Xu Yi smiled and continued: "First of all. My proposal is only for the Principality of Standing. Even if this proposal is finally passed, it will not affect the Kingdom of Luersun. If the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce wants to continue to use slave workers, there is still no problem. There will be no impact.”
Everyone in the audience nodded.
The Principality of Standing is actually only a small country, much worse than the Kingdom of Luersun.
If the New Aircraft Chamber of Commerce were not here and this proposal was too shocking, not many people would pay much attention to the policies of such a small country.
"Secondly, the magic lamps produced by the Sanchi Chamber of Commerce did not pass the quality inspection of the Magic Industry Management Bureau of the Kingdom of Luxun, but chose to sell them privately. This has seriously violated the magic industry management regulations of the Kingdom of Luxun. It is now being accepted by the Luxun Kingdom. The Xun Kingdom’s Magic Industry Management Bureau investigated and ordered it to suspend operations for rectification. Do you know this?”
Everyone's eyes fell on the face of the reporter from the Luersun Kingdom, and they found that he looked a little embarrassed.
Obviously, he knew about this, but deliberately chose not to say anything.
"Finally, why do you think I would regard the magic lamp produced by such a chamber of commerce as a threat? I don't think... any reporter here would think that this Sanchi Chamber of Commerce will pose a threat to our New Flying Chamber of Commerce?" "
Everyone in the audience couldn't help but nodded in unison.
They have never heard of this Sanchi Chamber of Commerce. How can it be compared with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce
This guy actually thinks that Xu Yi thinks that the Sanqi Chamber of Commerce poses a threat to the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, which is simply ridiculous!
A blush flashed across the reporter's face, and he said loudly and unconvincingly: "President Xu, maybe the 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 You Xinfei Chamber of Commerce will compete? You must be expecting this situation because you hope to abolish slavery!"
Other reporters in the audience fell silent.
In fact, this is also their doubt.
If it wasn't from the perspective of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, why did Xu Yi have to go through such a thankless task, expending so much effort and facing so many people's opposition to abolish the slavery system
"Maybe you are right, this is indeed a problem. But I must remind you of the fact that not only now, but even a few years ago, many chambers of commerce were using slave workers, but they did not have any special advantages. , do you understand why?" Xu Yi asked.
Everyone looked at each other and realized that Xu Yi's question sounded a bit unreasonable at first glance, but in fact, after thinking about it carefully, it was worth pondering.
Yes, slaves have existed on the continent of Sainz for more than a day or two.
Now there are a lot of chambers of commerce that produce magic machinery popping up in the surrounding countries. Many of them employ a large number of slave workers to reduce production costs, but this does not give them much advantage.
This is not directed at the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, because in the magic industry, there is currently no chamber of commerce that can compare with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce.
But when compared to other chambers of commerce in the same industry, chambers of commerce that use slaves do not have a particularly big advantage.
"This is the biggest reason why I hope to abolish slavery, and it is also the conclusion I came to after considering the overall situation. In fact, the reason is very simple. In my opinion, the vast majority of slaves are not actually a complete human being. labor force."
"Because slaves generally cannot receive education and do not have any enthusiasm or initiative, even if they participate in production, they are only completely passive. Not only will such workers not reduce production costs in actual production, in fact they will It will significantly affect production efficiency and product quality.”
"From a businessman's point of view, 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 assets!" (To be continued...)