Chapter 86 But Who Should I Sell This Thing To?

As you might have guessed, in the past, no one in the Krurod Empire had ever seriously considered the rights of women. As a result, for almost a thousand years, the fate of women had long been determined by the men in their own families.

In particular, there was a concept that Zelen himself asked officials in charge of education such as Sennagu to eliminate.

That is, what is the use of teaching women so much knowledge? It is better to find a rich husband and marry early and live a rich and powerful life.

In this regard, Zelen couldn't understand why someone would think so.

This is a "sinful" act of buying and selling women as commodities.

Although to some extent, some families, due to their poor economic conditions, sent their children who could not be supported to their neighbors or relatives and friends as child sons and daughters early, which was not an unforgivable crime.

But why did this happen?

Poverty.

Why are they poor?

Because these poor families did not receive more knowledge and education, and thus did not master more skills to increase their income. Therefore, because he did not have enough skills to make a lot of money, he spent a lot of time that should not be wasted on creating new life.

As a result, the number of children in such a family will naturally aggravate the already bad economic problems.

The simplest way is to change from eating rice to drinking porridge.

Under such circumstances, there is naturally no way to stop the child-raising of sons-in-law and daughters-in-law.

Even if there are relevant provisions in the law to prohibit the sale of children; but... if the people below collectively cover up crimes and even send their children to other people's homes to be raised before they can remember, it means that a law is actually "dead".

And this is exactly what Zelun least wants to see. At the same time, it is precisely because of the current war that the number of male subjects is limited that Zelun needs to let more female subjects come out to work and contribute to the country.

Of course, this is definitely not referring to the kind of use of the body to provide military service in the Akitsu Empire, which is a serious crime against female citizens.

Yes.

As a country that looks like a modern and advanced country, the Akitsu Empire has maintained a tradition that women in other countries hate very much until now.

Specially recruited female people to comfort the soldiers physically, so that the pressure of the soldiers can be relieved as much as possible.

So when the Akitsu Empire invaded, Zelun had seen many reports about female Japanese people who would rather commit suicide by shooting themselves, hanging themselves, slitting their wrists, cutting their necks, or even deliberately attacking and being shot by pig-headed people or black-haired dog-headed people than being captured.

It must be said that there are many strong-willed Japanese women, and it is worth recording them in history books. Regarding these sacrifices, Zelun, as the emperor, should not only not learn from his grandfather. On the contrary, he needs to set an example and let women, including Qin, have that awareness.

And...

The Akitsu Empire needs to find a way to clean up.

Qin: "Zelen?"

Zelen: "It's okay. By the way, how is the improvement of your explosive formula?"

Qin: "It's okay. But the key problem is always inseparable from the raw materials. If the quality of the raw materials is not good, the problem of explosives cannot be solved."

So, Zelun couldn't help but nod slightly.

Qin can make explosives and also knows how to improve the quality of explosives.

This is one of the things he wants to see most.

He doesn't want to see Qin just relying on her youth and the children she will give birth to in the future to live.

If the Krurod Empire wants to revive, women must work outside the home, there is no other choice.

For this reason, Zelen even hopes that female citizens can share many of the tasks that were originally done by male citizens.

So at night...

Bang!

Bang!

Nagamasa: "Well... ah... the recoil of this gun... the foreign trade products of the Orchid Republic are deadly..."

Accompanied by two unusual gunshots, Nagamasa's assassination caused a lot of pig-headed people to be collectively alert because of his poor shooting skills (unable to withstand the recoil, resulting in the shooting not achieving the ideal effect). But Nagamasa is not an idiot. The pig-headed man he asked his men to kill with a knife before had prepared an evacuation route for him.

Especially his "independent" rifle...

No, this gun is not suitable for him at all.

The only thing was that he barely used the gun as a crutch to support himself back to the safe house.

Adjutant: "General, are you okay?"

Ying Si: "I didn't expect that assassins are getting bolder and bolder nowadays. The two shots just now were definitely not caused by ordinary guns. Look, there are two small craters on the ground, 20mm caliber ammunition."

Although Ying Si's face remained calm, the two small craters about 10 meters to his left made him feel that there must be rebels around him who were resisting him, or even against the Akitsu Empire.

At the same time, he had to admire that the 20mm caliber gun... This is a cannon! At least in his understanding, the traditional dividing line between guns and cannons is 13mm caliber. As long as it exceeds 13mm caliber, it is all cannons, small cannons that can be automatically loaded or only allowed to be manually loaded.

In order to kill himself, the shooter who carried out such an assassination was probably worried about all kinds of things, and deliberately used such a weapon that was not used to shoot ordinary infantry units to deal with himself.

However, he looked at the two small bullet holes caused by the shooting, and thought that the assassin might not have conducted the test shooting in a safe place, which led to the result that the two shots missed.

In other words... the guy who tried to shoot him used a weapon that was not suitable for him?

Don't jump to conclusions yet, wait for the subordinates to track the opponent's traces before analyzing.

Compared with Yingsi's calmness, Nagamasa was staggering and supported by his subordinates to the safe house. Two shots, just two shots, his shoulder hurt so much that he almost cried.

Why did the Orchid Republic develop this kind of weapon and circulate it on a large scale in the black market?

This is not a weapon that a single soldier should use.

In this regard, Nagamasa looked at the rifle that almost took his life. He didn't need to think too much, and he was ready to find an opportunity to sell it directly.

But who should this thing be sold to?

It's impossible for the Akitsu Empire, the Crurod Empire?

Alas!

The bodies of the Japanese people he had killed could probably be piled up into a small mountain. When the Japanese people saw him, they would definitely raise their butcher knives or guns of unknown caliber to kill him.

Especially the Japanese people are not forgetful people. They have their own historical heritage and extremely strong tempers.

The past slavery era did not make the Japanese people docile. On the contrary, the Japanese people are notoriously hard-headed.

Yes.

If he, Nagamasa, had no grudges against the Japanese people, he would probably be able to sell a lot of unsuitable garbage.

Otherwise...

The rumored Dark Elf Clan?

If there is any caravan in the world that can still carry out normal trade activities, it is only these "crazy people" who can use all kinds of means to make money.

But how should they contact them?

Nagamasa himself did not dare to say that he could continue to come out now.

His right shoulder hurt, very painful, so painful that he wanted to scream.

If he continued to contact the pig-headed people as an officer of the vassal army at this time, he would definitely be taken down by Yingsi because he could not raise his hand to salute for the time being.

He even let Yingsi, who had a heat-light knife, chop him alive on the spot.

This is why he has never considered close-range assassination or poisoning.

Knife fight...

Even if Nagamasa can fight with a stab, he will never be able to win against a pig-headed man with superb knife skills.

And if he fights like this, won't the guards around Yingsi deal with him together?

But now the assassination failed, the situation is not much different. He doesn't believe that Yingsi is incapable of discovering a black-haired dog-headed general like himself who never raises his head, and he doesn't believe that Yingsi is incapable of tracking down the weapons and equipment he uses.

It seems that it's time for him to find the next base to avoid the pursuit from Yingsi and even the intelligence department of the Akitsu Empire...