v5 Chapter 92: Why should we abolish slaves? (1/2)
What happened on the southern waters of the Candela empire thousands of kilometers away did not affect the Principality of Constantine and the New Flyers Chamber of Commerce. ←
In the recent period, the most striking thing in the Stadings, and even in the surrounding countries, is a bill being decided by the Parliament of the Principality of Constantine.
The bill was proposed by Xu Yi, the president of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, as an ordinary member of the National Assembly.
According to Xu’s unparalleled influence in Standin’s territory, it would have been easy to pass any proposal, but the proposal took two months to enter the final assembly process of Congress and also passed Congress. Members will vote in public and decide whether the resolution will take effect.
The reason why this proposal is so difficult is because the content of the proposal is really amazing.
The content of this proposal is actually the abolition of slavery!
When Xu also made this proposal for the first time, everyone thought he was crazy at all.
Since the centuries-old elves ruled the entire continent, slavery has always existed on this continent. Until now, the history of slaves has even surpassed tens of thousands of years.
In this tens of thousands of years, slavery has not changed anything, no matter how the mainland changes, even in the two thousand years before and after the ethnic war, slaves reached their peak in the whole continent.
Before the ethnic war, the elves almost treated all other races as slaves, and after the ethnic war, they switched to humans to capture other races as slaves.
As for human beings, they will also use a large number of similar species as slaves.
For all people on the continent of Sainz, the existence of slaves is a normality that everyone is used to. No one will feel that there is anything wrong with this.
Now Xu also suddenly ran out to say that he wanted to cancel slavery. This is simply to challenge everyone's common sense. Challenge the default rules of the entire continent.
Especially in those slave owners who have gained a lot of benefits from slaves, they even sneered at Xu’s proposal and strongly opposed it.
Originally because of the huge influence of the new Feishang Chamber of Commerce on the Principality of Stantin, all the lords of the public can only cooperate and dare not object to any proposal by Xu.
However, when Xu also threw out this proposal, these lords who had consistently listened to Xu’s arrangements actually expressed their opposition to this proposal.
In the first vote on this proposal, the approval vote for this proposal was actually an amazing zero vote!
This shows how much impact this proposal has on everyone. How strong is the opposition.
However, with the strong influence of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce on the Principality of Stading, under the strong promotion of Xu Yi, this proposal still received more votes in favor, and finally entered the final agreement procedure.
Today, it is the day when the State Council of the Principality of Constantine launched a final agreement on this proposal.
As long as this proposal can be passed today, it means that the Principality of Constantine will officially abolish slavery from today.
According to incomplete statistics, the total number of slaves owned by Stantin is now between 160,000 and 170,000.
Once the slavery is abolished, the more than 160,000 slaves will become ordinary civilians, and the social impact is undoubtedly enormous.
So the adoption of this proposal is not. It can be said that the entire Principality of Stading will be in great turmoil.
For many people, this is not a good thing.
”Why should I vigorously promote the abolition of slavery?” Xu also smiled and looked at the Baron of Hainas sitting opposite. Slowly shook his head. ”Of course not because, as many people have said, I and the saints generally see that slaves suffer, so I want to abolish this system and liberate them.”
”Can't you completely deny this? From your attitude towards the slaves in your name, you can see that your attitude towards slaves has been very mild.” Baron Henas asked.
Today is the final time for the decision of the Parliament of the Principality of Constantine to abolish the proposal of the abolition of slavery. However, because this incident is too interesting, several countries around the country have sent people to pay attention to this matter, and countless newspapers have also targeted This matter is intended to be reported.
The final agreement of the Congress began in the afternoon, so in the morning, Xu also held a special press conference to accept interviews from various newspapers.
Now at the press conference, I squeezed into reporters from almost all newspapers in the neighboring countries, including the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Rulson, the Principality of Drach, the Principality of Milan, the Principality of Norton, and even the Sark Kingdom. Three newspapers were sent to report on this matter.
The total number of reporters even exceeded 500, and the hall, which was originally spacious, was crowded and almost nowhere to be found.
The reporters are all well-informed people. Naturally, Xu knows that he has a deep personal friendship with Baron Henas, the editor-in-chief of the Lampari Weekly, so the first question was left to him consciously.
”From my personal point of view, I really don't want to see slaves being cruelly treated. Because for me, there are no slaves and civilians. Everyone is the same human being, why should they be separated? Come, treat your own kind as a beast as cruelly as they are?” Xu Yizheng.
”But there are many foreigners in the slaves besides human beings. Do you want to treat them like the same kind?” A reporter suddenly asked loudly.