Pirate Kingship-Chapter 680 - 466: Probability Dice, Golden Deer Enters the Game (6000)_2

The composition of indentured servants in the Old Continent was mainly of four types. One was the bankrupt unable to repay debts. Another was the immigrant who sought to relocate to the New Continent through labor. The third was the unlucky soul kidnapped or tricked into signing an indenture. And the last was the exiled prisoner.

Compared to natives, indentured servants were much more expensive, with an average selling price of 35 pounds; even in bulk, the price would not go below 15 pounds.

And it was not only the Remit People who did this; many Old Continent countries did the same, including the Kingdom of Hightins where Byron originated.

There is an anecdote concerning the immigration of prisoners.

Before the rise of industrialization, agrarian civilizations had a limited capacity to sustain a population.

The security of large cities in various countries was actually not very good, and a large number of jobless vagrants was bound to cause a soaring crime rate.

Exiling those guilty of minor offenses to the colonies became the rulers' best choice.

It not only settled the issue of dealing with the criminals but also addressed the development of new colonies—killing two birds with one stone.

It was said that at the beginning of the great voyages, a Warship from the Kingdom of Hightins transporting exiled prisoners arrived at Jamestown Royal Harbor after two months of sailing. Of the 221 female prisoners on board, only five had died.

In the harsh conditions of the great voyages, this was simply a miracle.

However, of these more than 200 female prisoners, except for a few who were truly too old, every one of them was pregnant and subsequently gave birth to the colony's first batch of second-generation immigrants.

In fact, in the beginning, the rulers mainly increased the proportion of female prisoners to balance the gender ratio in the colonies.

These 221 people had an average age of 27 years, and most of their previous occupations were dancers and hostesses, with above-average looks.

The original intentions might have been sound, but for the sailors and officers aboard the ship, these quite attractive female prisoners were nothing less than a Garden of Eden.

No sooner had the Warship left its homeland and escaped the monitoring range of the Law Network, than they, based on their ranks and duties, systematically exploited these female prisoners.

Furthermore, each time they docked at a port to replenish supplies, the officers would force these female prisoners to disembark and earn them a quick buck.

Due to the complex and frequent changing of hands, no one could figure out who the father of the children in their wombs was.

And life for these female prisoners at their destination wasn't much better, as there were even more male prisoners waiting for them.

According to statistics, in the first half-century of colonization, regardless of the country, on average, every female prisoner who arrived at the colony gave birth to six children.

The indentured servants on the side of the victors are just the tip of the iceberg in the bloody history of colonization; those who disappeared from history didn't even have the right to shed tears.

The indentured servants that fell into the hands of the Remit People had an even more tragic fate and were not even regarded as fellow human beings.

Mr. Byron, who ruled the entire Yucatan Island, was simply a refreshing force in the colonial world, a living beacon of morality and civilization.

The merchant Michel, after arranging the work for the slaves, strode into the center of what was once the Shuiran Tribe and saw a World Rift extending from a spring.

Just like conquering the Chasm Trench, if they wanted to settle here securely, they had to deal with the World Rifts everywhere.

The military commander scratched his head with some frustration, "Mr. Michel, there are too many World Rifts overseas. Before we construct churches and move people to suppress them, we need Transcendents from the Lighthouse Sequence to volunteer as [Lantern Carriers]. I've heard that the Extraordinary Knowledge from the Rift Monastery can repair World Rifts. Unfortunately, after Father of the School of Sharks Bonaparte, almost all of them were wiped out, and we're unlikely to acquire such technology."

In the Old Continent, the general practice when encountering a World Rift was to construct a church, concentrating the power of all believers in a certain area to create a rivet that would reseal the World Rift.

In Mysticism, human Mind Wish Power is almost omnipotent.

Overseas, however, populations are sparse and believers even fewer. Thus, they often lack the conditions for such a time-consuming and laborious undertaking. Initially, they can only fill the gap with the lives of [Lantern Carriers].

Now that they were planning to settle down and establish a Kingdom, they could no longer cut corners. For greater security, they had to mimic the Old Continent's methods step by step.

However, [Lantern Carriers], treated as expendables, are not easy to find. This is why small forces lack the capacity to pioneer independently.

But the merchant Michel simply smiled complacently, "No need for such hassle. I just visited His Highness the Puppet King of Castilia a few days ago. He has developed a type of Artificial Lantern Person that can completely substitute for the work of normal Lamplighters."

As he spoke, he clapped his hands, and an Attendant came over carrying a "stick-like object."

HISS!

Seeing the so-called Artificial Lantern Person, several officers nearby couldn't help but gasp.

The whole thing was a wooden puppet. Its arms had been removed, and its legs were twisted into a screw-like, braided shape.

But looking into its eyes, one could still see the gleam of Human Nature.

This indicated that it wasn't just a simple puppet; it was a living doll created by Strange Arts: Flesh Is Futile!

The merchant Michel, while commanding the Attendant to slowly twist this "human nail" into the ground, looked toward the northwest, full of admiration, and said, "His Highness the Puppet King is truly a genius to have invented this substitute for Lamplighters. Using Transcendents from the Lighthouse Sequence as raw material, they cut off many 'useless' organs, retaining only a small amount of flesh and their wooden bodies. The trick to guarding the world is to change Lamplighters frequently; once this artificial creation breaks, we just need to replace it with a new one."