There was no doubt that the progress of society was always linked to the improvement of productivity.
When human beings had just defeated the beasts and a primitive civilization appeared, human productivity was extremely low, so they could only huddle together for warmth. Otherwise, they would starve to death. That was the primitive era of communism.
When people began to use tools to hunt beasts, began to obtain large amounts of food, and even began to snatch territories from each other. When the embryonic form of agricultural civilization appeared, it was accompanied by the appearance of defeated captives, which were slaves deprived of all their freedom.
Slaves had no rights. They were arbitrarily controlled and used, and all their value could be squeezed out. Therefore, in that period, slaves represented productivity, and the number of slaves also represented the level of a person's social status.
On Earth, along with the beginning of the Age of Exploration by the European feudal lords, there was also the extremely popular black slave trade. Slaves completely became a commodity, and they were sold and bought at will. This situation still existed until the Industrial Revolution. It was not until the 20th century, when productivity once again developed rapidly, and the importance of human rights was once again reaffirmed, that the special product known as slaves completely disappeared from Earth.
Then, in this unscientific world, how long would it take for Prandal, which had true gods, divine arts, and magic, to completely replace slaves?
The answer was one day.
As long as the gods came forward, declared that all living beings were equal, and opposed the slavery system, it would only take one day, and there would be no more slaves in the whole world.
In a world where true gods existed, the power of faith was so strong.
But strangely, the gods did not come forward to correct this point.
Therefore, Tang En privately believed that in the eyes of the gods, the creatures of Prandal might not feel like "biological sons," but more like … bacteria in a petri dish? Objects to be observed in a laboratory?
Of course, as an outsider, Tang En did not care about this. To put it bluntly, he only cared about his own feelings.
Yes, what was the difference between a person without freedom and a salted fish?
After coming to Prandal, great power, the identity of the chosen one, a free life, the love that he dreamed of … these were the things that he cared about.
In this world, everything satisfied him. Even if he was not satisfied, he could slowly change it to his satisfaction. However, there was only one thing that Tang En was still brooding about. That was, as a foodie from the empire, he could not eat sparkling food in this world!
How could a dish that didn't glow be called good!?
That's right, after a lot of nonsense, the topic was finally brought back.
Why was this brought up?
As a king, even if he was a fallen king, he was still a king. The food that Victor usually enjoyed was not much different from that of the nobles.
The theme of staple food was always barbecue steak, smoked meat, tender barbecue steak, imported smoked meat, juicy barbecue steak, oily smoked meat …
The side dishes were always bread and pancakes, and the soup was always the same cream XX soup. The XX soup could be replaced with mushrooms, minced meat, fruits, and so on, and it didn't feel out of place!
Therefore, after tasting the Imperial Palace Banquet for the second time, Tang En completely despaired of the food in this world. He immediately decided not to go to the booth the next day. He wanted to take advantage of this national festival to look for the legendary spices. If there were spices in this world, how could they miss the festival of the spice merchants?
The next day, after Tang En threw all the tasks to Fiona, he brought Elsa, Elijah, and Tina out shopping.
The elven girls decided to stay at home. Originally, Tang En thought that Grandia would kick up a fuss and go out to play. He didn't expect that she actually decided to join in the fun with Fiona.
The group went out on their bicycles, including Elijah. That's right, she also brought her bicycle with auxiliary wheels. The little girl was very passionate about bicycles recently. She wanted to stay close to them and bring it with her wherever she went.
Of course, the auxiliary wheels of the bicycle also attracted a lot of attention.
After noticing the gazes of passersby of all ages, Tang En fell into deep thought.
At first, he only thought of promoting bicycles, but he forgot about the derivative market — children's walkers and cargo tricycles.
These two products also had a very wide market, especially cargo tricycles. They could definitely greatly increase the efficiency of cargo transportation in the city.
After making a mental note of this, they came to the market area.
Alinx's market area was already very lively on normal days, not to mention during the Glorious Ceremony. After all, it was called the Glorious City, the Holy City of the Vatican. Of course, there would be more people.
At this moment, every street in the huge market area was crowded with merchants from all over the country. There were even merchants from foreign countries. These merchants had set off from their hometowns a month in advance with their specialties. After a long and dangerous journey, they had come to Alinx, all for the shocking difference in profits.
"My Lord, what do you want to buy?"
As a maid, Tina was always most concerned about Tang En's needs.
"Spices."
Tang En said casually, "Some spices that I haven't found before may be found today."
Spices?
Tina became cautious and began to pay attention to the spices merchants on the street.
Tang En, on the other hand, was observing the passersby with great interest. This was the first time he had noticed a large-scale human gathering in Prandal. This was a world-class festival, and with Alinx's status as a Holy City, it was possible for him to see people from all over the world in Alinx. This was indeed the case now.
Not only did Tang En see tri-colored people, but he also saw a race that he had never seen before — that's right, it was the Orcs.
The Orcs were a very general concept. Perhaps it had something to do with the God who created them — the God of Fire and War, who was also the God of War and Protection of Warriors, Kalomariff. He had created this race, or rather, this race.
The Orcs were divided into Half-Orcs and Orcs. The members of this race were very complicated. There were Lion-Men, Tiger-Men, Lizardmen, and so on. Most of the ruling class of the Orcs were rude and barbaric. They liked to talk with their fists, and the strong were respected. Therefore, the weak Orcs could only rely on these strong Orcs.
However, because the strong Orcs were not good at delicate work, the weak Orcs had space to live — they were very similar to the lords and tenant farmers in human society.
However, they were not at the bottom of the Orc society. The real bottom were the Half-Orcs.
The Half-Orcs were more like humanoid creatures. Even the Orcs did not recognize them as intelligent creatures. They had a low civilization and only had simple intelligence. About 50% of the Half-Orcs relied on the Ryan Empire, which was formed by the Orcs. They served as various low-level labor forces to gain space for survival. The other half lived in disorder and chaos and only acted on instinct.
Most Orcs believed in Kalomariff, and the Orc Berserkers were one of the most powerful warriors on the continent. Their combat power was very amazing. Thanks to these Orc Berserkers, the Orcs had a firm foothold on the chessboard of the Gods. They took a piece of land from the hands of the Humans and established the Ryan Empire.
The Ryan Empire spanned the entire north and bordered the Solant Kingdom and the Taris Kingdom. It had a cold relationship with the Humans, and there was constant friction. Its capital was Bul-Kathos in the northwest.
In the human countries, the Orcs who were rude and unclean were very unpopular. They were often regarded as barbarians. However, as mercenaries or slaves, the Orc Berserkers were very popular. They were brave and fearless. Once they promised to never betray, they were the best fighting partners.
In the past, the Orcs and the Elves were regular customers of the slave trade. However, since the two Chaos Wars, the Orcs and the Elves gained the recognition of the Humans through fighting (Tang En felt that this was probably a one-sided opinion of the Humans). Since then, there were no Orcs or Elves slaves on the surface.
A hundred years ago, during the second invasion of Chaos, the Legendary Orc Hero, Razortooth, Bloodmane, Bloody Battle Axe, had proven to everyone that the Orcs were true warriors. With only one axe, he had held off tens of thousands of corrupted daemons for nearly seven days and seven nights, earning precious time for his comrades.
Thanks to Razortooth's performance in the war, he won the friendship of the Humans' leaders at that time, Jean and Angus. Therefore, in the decades after the war, it was a sweet period between the Humans and the Orcs. Humans finally officially started to trade with the Orcs. The Ryan Empire also found its own unique advantage in trade and finally got rid of the shortage of resources.
However, no matter how much they claimed to be peaceful and free, there was still an unfamiliarity between the Humans and the Orcs that could not be eliminated. Even though some people had verified that there was no reproductive isolation between the Humans and the Orcs.
Well, yes, this was a very strange thing. There was a certain degree of reproductive isolation between the Humans and the Elves, but there was no reproductive isolation between the Humans and the Orcs, who were even more different in appearance …
When the Humans and the Elves married, the children would definitely be half-Elves. As the bloodline iterations increased, the Elven bloodline would become thinner and the characteristics would become less obvious. However, there would always be some traces that would not disappear.
But what about the Humans and the Orcs? The children would either be purebred Humans or purebred Orcs. There were no exceptions.
And the Orcs, Vulpera, and Rabbit-Human that Tang En saw were a very rare combination.
The two Orcs were quarreling.
They seemed to be in a bad mood.
Noticing the shadow in front of them, the two Orcs raised their heads and saw Tang En's startled eyes.
"Sir, in order to hunt down a criminal, we crossed two kingdoms, but now we've lost our wallets …"
The female Rabbit-Human looked at Tang En pitifully. "Would you like to help us? I'm Zhu — "
"Don't tell me your name!"
Tang En threw a money bag over. "I'm afraid I'll have a stomachache."
"Thank you, sir. We'll definitely pay you back double when we go back."
After seeing the Orc couple off, Tang En looked at the sky for a while and was speechless.
"Damn it …"
Tang En felt that his teeth were a little sore. "The person who created this world was either a lunatic or had just finished watching a movie when he made people …"
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