"What's going on?" After the ship docked at the pier of Carlos Island, Lawrence discovered that there were many ships on the edge of the pier that were constantly loading people. See how these people could carry various items.
It seemed that these people were preparing to leave the island.
The reason why Lawrence was surprised was that the traditional division of territory not only divided the territory, but also included the people on the territory. Although the relationship of personal dependence in this era was much weaker than in the past, and there was no forced change of personal ownership rights. But like
It is obviously abnormal for most people to choose to leave.
Moving to another place was not an easy thing even in Lawrence's previous life, let alone in this era. After all, abandoning everything you own now and going to a foreign country to start from scratch is full of challenges for most people.
Uncertainty and difficulties of all sizes, so under normal circumstances not many people like to move around.
"This is indeed a bit abnormal, I will ask someone to ask." Nora also showed a shocked look on her face after seeing this, and then flew into the cabin. Soon, several people dressed as ordinary people
The handsome guardsmen and attendants blended into the crowd and began to inquire about the situation.
Lawrence and officials from the two empires followed a path to a small castle in the largest town on the island.
After they approached the castle, several people keenly discovered that there were a lot of very fresh magic and traces left after being hit by ammunition on the castle's buildings. There were even one or two buildings that should have been completely destroyed.
"Welcome, welcome, you are here earlier than I thought." Just when Lawrence and the others were led to the gate of the main building of the castle by a person from the island, a man wearing a white silk robe embroidered with gold embroidery and hanging around his neck
The Priest of the Lord of the Morning, hanging with a golden holy symbol, walked out of the door.
"It's great that you can come now. To be honest, there are really not many of us who are good at handling these daily affairs, so we have been crazy busy these two days."
When Lawrence and the others walked through a corridor towards the office on the second floor, this man, who was obviously a stay-at-home officer sent by the tribunal, complained to Lawrence.
"Thank you so much for your hard work." Lawrence said to him with a smile. As a powerful lord with an adoptive father who was a clergyman, Lawrence knew how much work a manager who needs to make the final decision has to deal with every day.
Pure clergymen like the priest in front of me are indeed not very good at handling these matters.
After entering the office, the two parties signed the documents related to the transfer of the territory as quickly as possible, and then everyone moved to a living room next to it. At this time, several plates of refreshments and pots of hot tea were already placed here. It looked like
Let's have a small tea party to relax together.
"I have a question." After everyone took a few sips of tea and started chatting, Lawrence took this opportunity to ask the priest next to him. "When I logged in just now, I found that many people were trying to leave here.
It’s an island, can you tell me what this is about?”
"Are you talking about the people who left? They actually left for a reason." After hearing Lawrence's question, the priest put down the tea cup in his hand and sighed, and then said. "The main reason is that this island is really
There are not many natives here, and those outsiders are eager to go home——"
Following the priest's explanation, Lawrence finally figured out what this island was all about. It turned out that the reason why this island was able to develop the sugar industry was purely because the owner of the island was able to deceive a person from the Algarve Empire.
A large group of contracted workers with extremely cheap labor costs.
A very important reason why these workers were willing to leave their hometowns and come to this island was that the foremen who recruited them promised to provide them with adequate food and shelter, and to give them wages commensurate with their labor.
So in order to escape the poverty and war in their hometown, they took a series of means of transportation to come here.
However, after arriving on the island, they discovered that everything was a scam: the labor time far exceeded the previously agreed time, and the labor was also much higher than the agreed time. Not to mention that they only had enough food to survive starvation and 20 people each.
There are no labor protections mentioned before.
But it was too late after they realized that they had been deceived, because the warlord on the island at that time had enough thugs to force everyone to work. As a small island with the nearest coast more than 100 kilometers away, even from those sugar cane
It is difficult to escape them from the plantation and leave the island.
Of course, this warlord also knew that what he did was obviously taboo. It was just because he was using the tiger skin of the Algarve Empire. So even if others knew that they had done nothing good on the island, they did not do anything similar.
It’s really hard for outsiders to interfere in things like offering sacrifices to evil gods.
"Actually, we have heard about the situation on this island before, but there was really no way to send people over to investigate at that time. After all, unless we can prove that the other party has committed some serious crimes against humanity, we have absolutely no right to intervene in other countries.
For internal affairs, we can only report to the other party's superiors at most." The priest of Dawn Church sighed and said.
What this priest said was a slightly helpless fact, because according to regulations, there is an iron law of non-intervention between organizations and various countries. After all, if the rights and obligations of both parties cannot be divided, then in the end
One day this system will no longer be able to function.
"Of course. I can understand this." Lawrence nodded and said. As for why the report was invalid, it is also very simple. After all, although the island belongs to the empire on the surface, it is actually independent. Therefore, after receiving the report, the mainland of the empire is also interested in
There is not much that can be done for such a small island isolated offshore.
At least for the royal family, it is simply impossible for them to mobilize their troops to cross the territories of several semi-independent governors and warlords to attack the small warlords on this island.
Because even if they win this way, they will not be able to overcome the enclave ruled by the warlords, so there is no benefit to them except consuming their own manpower and materials.
For the powerful warlords in the surrounding area, this island happens to be very close to the territories of several warlords. Whoever acquires this island will have an advantage over other parties. So they simply collected the money from this small warlord.
This allowed this little warlord to maintain a relatively independent position.
The little warlord on the island is well aware of these things, which is why after this territorial exchange, he immediately gathered his men and prepared to resist. After all, for this kind of Turkish warlord who has never seen the big world.
, he felt that he should be able to stop these people who wanted to seize his territory.
Of course, this kind of stopping does not mean using his own strength, because even with his vision, he knows that he cannot deal with those outsiders with the little power in his hands. However, he thinks that based on the location of his island, those on the land
The warlords above will definitely lend a helping hand.
As a result, after the Inquisition took action, the little warlord on the island naturally stayed in the castle on the island and prepared to wait for help. As a result, he was easily killed by the weapons of the Inquisition before he could hold out for even 15 minutes.
Until the moment the warlord was shot dead behind the table, none of the warlords on the coastline who had high hopes for him sent anyone to the island for support.
Think about it, after all, the larger group of warlords also have more sources of information. So it is natural to go to the Inquisition. Therefore, it is impossible for them to send any force to the island, otherwise, the imperial family will never mind
Use this as an excuse for the joint tribunal to kill them completely.