As the sages said: if there is a 20% profit, capital will be ready to move; If there is a fifty percent profit, capital will take risks; If there is a 100% profit, capital dares to risk hanging its head; If there is a profit of 300 percent, capital will dare to trample on all the laws of the world.
Stimulated by high profits, many mercenaries and adventurers financed by slave traders flocked to the province of Komi, with the dream of becoming rich overnight, devoting themselves to the ancient and cruel trade of "slave hunting", using Harrenhal, the world's largest slave trading market at that time, as a base, fully armed into the depths of the grassland, attacking those villages inhabited by wild elves, setting fire to houses, slaughtering the aborigines who dared to resist, and wantonly plundering women and children, and selling them at high prices in the Harrenhal market, with an astonishingly high profit In less than a century since the establishment of Komi Province, the population of wild elves in the local steppe has dropped from more than 100,000 to less than 50,000, and if this trend continues, I am afraid that this group will be extinct in a few years.
In order to escape the harm of the Imperial slave traders, the wild elves retreated to the depths of the jungle, and the imperial government also realized that this slave hunting business was too cruel, and under the repeated condemnation of the church and cultural circles, it issued a decree prohibiting the violent capture of wild elves and forced slaves, and also designated a large area of primeval jungle in the border area between Komi Province and Far Eastern Province as a "reserve", allowing wild elves to live peacefully and recuperate according to their own customs and habits within the scope of the reserve.
The starting point of these policies was originally very good, but it is a pity that the implementation of these policies has been reversed when it comes to the grassroots departments.
The original intention of the reserve was to carve out a home for the wild elves in their natural nature, but due to the lack of rigor in the provisions of this decree, the local officials of the province of Komi quickly exploited the loophole, misinterpreting the wild elves to operate within the reserve, and leaving the reserve would be an illegal outcast, and any citizen of the empire had the right and duty to arrest them and send them to the governor's yamen in exchange for a bounty.
Of course, it is up to the local bureaucrats to decide what to do with these wild elf outcasts, and it would not be strange if they were to be seen in the slave market the next day.
Compared with the small bounty obtained by reporting the homeless, it is undoubtedly more profitable to directly escort the wild elves who leave the reserve without permission to the slave market and sell them.
The slave hunting business, which had been suppressed by the prohibition of the abduction of wild elves, has once again flourished in Komi Province, and what is even more ironic is that the reserved land originally set up to protect the wild elves has now become a large prison cell for the wild elves.
Once upon a time, the wild elves were scattered in the vast grassland, and with their excellent survival skills in the wild, it was not difficult to escape the pursuit of the slave hunters.
Now that their range of activities is confined to the reserve, there is limited space for refuge.
On the other hand, the Imperial Decree only stated that wild elves could live in the reserve, but did not prohibit other Imperial residents from entering the reserve, so the slave hunting team only needed to spend a small amount of money to get a "logging license" to enter the reserve reasonably and legally These slave hunters who broke into the wild elves' own land in the name of the logging team set fire to the elven camp in the jungle, hunted the wild elves in more brutal and unscrupulous ways than before, and continuously delivered a steady stream of fresh "high-quality goods" to the slave market in Harrenhal.
If the Church of Light or other cultural figures condemned this, the slave traders could have pretended to be aggrieved, claiming that their hired loggers had been attacked by savage elves while working in the jungle, and had to flee the reservation, but the elves still pursued them and had no choice but to fight back.
As for the wild elves who were sold to the slave market, they were robbers who chased the loggers out of the reservation on their way, and it was the legitimate right of the merchants to capture them and dispose of them on their own, and selling them would make up for some of the losses suffered during the attack.
Of course, this set of nonsense is pure lies, but there is no way for the top of the empire, after all, the wild elves are self-sufficient in the reservation and cannot create any economic benefits for the imperial government, and the taxes paid by the slave traders are a large amount of real income, and at least half of the financial revenue of the province of Komi comes from the transaction tax of the slave market.
The Imperial authorities could only turn a blind eye to the still thriving slave hunting business in Komi Province.
In such a situation, of course, the local wild elves will generally have a fierce sense of resistance, and the scale of the "revenge army" has also grown, and the slogans shouted have become more and more radical, openly advocating the independence of Komi Province, and expelling all the inhabitants of the empire from the Komi steppe, so that the wild elves can restore their dominance in this land.
In order to achieve this goal, they did not hesitate to use terrorist methods, and even indiscriminately killed innocents, which Roland had personally learned during the attack on his car.
Frankly speaking, Roland does not like the extreme claims and terror of the "Revenge Corps", and the wild elves try to emulate the Far Easterners to set off an independent revolution, starting from "nationalism" but sliding all the way to "racism", and in the long run their path will become narrower and narrower, until they fall into the abyss and bring about their own destruction.
However, considering the long-term devastation and abuse of the wild elves, it is understandable that such an excesses of ideology should arise, not to mention that such a determined armed group with an understanding of the local environment will be of great help to the Far Eastern Legion's upcoming expedition to the west.
Therefore, after receiving the letter from Marshal Pavel, Roland, after careful consideration, agreed to receive the representatives of the "Revenge Corps", and as for whether to cooperate with them, it depends on whether their leader is a good material.
If the other party is full of extreme thoughts, and it is really "mud can't support the wall", then forget it, Roland would rather fight the Yashan Empire alone than have a relationship with a group of stubborn terrorists, this is his bottom line in life and politics.
If he hadn't adhered to this bottom line, he would have taken the olive branch from Tamara five years ago.
Even the "Naro Order", which was once the most powerful terrorist organization in the world in Vares, did not buy it, so that in the end, a conflict broke out against each other, not to mention a "revenge corps" that was not ranked
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