Book 7 Chapter 168 - Slave Liberation (1)

Slaves existed everywhere on the Eeth Continent.

Prisoners of war, as well as those who committed felony crimes and those who were bankrupt continued to emerge.

However, in most kingdoms, it was forbidden to take ordinary innocent people as slaves.

If the kingdom’s citizens were enslaved, the lords’ financial situation would become unstable and the number of soldiers to be mobilized for war would decrease.

While peasants could not be called completely free people, since they could get evicted from their residence, they were quite different compared to slaves who were subjected to exchange, inheritance, and trade.

However, slavery was legalized in the Talis Kingdom, so there were many cases where nobles used vicious tricks to enslave the people of the kingdom.

Because of this, slave traders have benefited greatly since ancient times, and some of them regularly paid the lords who would protect them in return.

Dragonlord Ivanov used this fact cleverly to make all of them pay the royal family, which resulted in the secret ledger hidden in the treasurer Alexei’s office.

The sources and origins of all sorts of dirty funds flowing in the Talis Kingdom were recorded within.

Therefore, with the cooperation of the King of Izuna, Woohyuk closed all...

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