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Li Chun said: "Miss, you are a noble person and do not know the dirty things in the slave trade. If you check the official records, you will find that except for the categories of 'criminals and state criminals', 'economic compensation' and 'prisoners of war' The source of slaves is fully in compliance with the "Slave Act" and the "Bill of Rights". The vast majority of the slaves recorded in the origin column are 'domestic slaves' or 'self-born slaves'. The combined ratio of the two can be Accounting for more than 90% of the total number of registered slaves. But in fact, this is just a number on paper. At least one-fifth of them have forged origins, and the proportion of forgeries sometimes reaches one-third. One is not impossible.”
"The true origin of many slaves is shady, that is to say illegal. Although the reproductive capacity of slave ranches and individual family breeding of private slaves is extremely strong all year round, there are also criminals, bankrupts and prisoners of war. To supplement, the market of slave trade will never be saturated. People from illegal sources have been flowing into the market continuously, and the total market volume and profit cake of slave trade are getting bigger and bigger. Space pirates plundered Population, prisoners of war privately plundered by the national army, pledges and foreclosures obtained illegally by large and small debt companies and loan sharks, hostages and chickens in the hands of various kidnappers and fraudsters, and even from prisons, detention institutions, and factories The prisoners or bonded laborers sold out there...etc., etc."
"In order for these illegally sourced people to openly enter the slave trade, there must be a process of laundering from free people into slaves. It is very difficult to register the source of 'criminals and state criminals', 'economic compensation' or 'prisoners of war'" , criminals need a formal court or judicial institution's judgment, financial compensation requires a complete and formal contract and an arbitration letter from the Slave Trading Agency, and prisoners of war need an approval and number given by the selling country for possible redemption in the future. There is no One is not troublesome and expensive. So at the beginning, slave ranches, slave trading companies and other slave operating institutions absorbed these illegal people, and then declared the source as 'self-produced slaves' when registering. Anyway, the ranch has a huge number of long-term slaves and an astonishing fertility output. There will never be standardized and accessible records in terms of daily management or medical treatment. The Slave Trading General Administration and Branch Offices, and the Supervisory Association are simply unable to verify it. How the ranch is reported, they will board it.”
"But this shortcut to the South did not work for a long time. Under repeated protests and interference from human rights organizations and some countries, the United Nations Slave Trade Agency had to modify the "Slave Law" in 3929 and promulgated a new version The "Galactic Slave Trade Treaty Allied Countries' Slave Registration and Filing Regulations" stipulates that self-born slaves used for trade under the names of various registered slave trading companies, slave ranches, slave training institutions, slave wholesale and retail merchants, etc. must be registered before the age of three. Those with a biological age over three years old will not be registered, and they will not be sold as self-produced slaves. This is simply a slap in the face. The traditional method of identity-washing will no longer work, and we have to change our ways and find another way."
"As a result, various middlemen and intermediary companies came into being and began to flourish in the cosmic slave trade. Whenever the illegally sourced slave population in the hands of the slave company wanted to officially enter the legal trade channel, the slave company would Through an intermediary company, we find a suitable middleman to register these illegal people, and all of them apply and register their births in the name of "domestic slaves." This is very easy to handle. According to the "Slave Law" and the "Slave Registration Regulations", domestic slaves The time for initial registration of slaves is relaxed until the age of 18 before they officially become adults, and as long as they present reasonable reasons when applying, this time and age limit can be further relaxed. This is very easy, and it can be approved almost as soon as the application is made. The universe is so It's so big. It takes a year for light to travel through the subspace passage from one end of the galaxy to the other. If it doesn't pass through the subspace, it won't be able to complete it in a lifetime. It's normal for the registration to be delayed for any reason. In fact, most of the slaves who illegally flow into the market are under the age of eighteen, so there is no need for special applications or delayed registration."
"An intermediary company generally has at least several hundred to thousands of intermediaries, and some large intermediary companies can have more than tens of thousands of intermediaries. These intermediaries come from all nationalities and identities. Some of them do exist in real life. people, but many middlemen do not exist at all, they are just a bunch of identity cards forged by intermediary companies - of course, these identity cards are real, real perjury. In the registration system of the Slave Trading Agency The audit will definitely pass, but you will never be able to find him anywhere based on the information on the identity card. In other words, there is no such person in the universe. In addition, there are some independent middlemen who work alone. Often they use They may use the identity of a traveling merchant or factory owner as a cover, or they may be traveling merchants or factory owners themselves, working part-time as middlemen for slave washing. The characteristic of this unified identity is that it is very common to register thousands or tens of thousands of domestic slaves at one time. It won’t attract anyone’s attention.”
"Generally, slave trading companies have several long-term cooperation intermediaries or independent intermediaries. Some slave trading companies and intermediaries even have the same boss behind them, and each intermediary company and independent intermediary usually maintains contact with multiple customers. With cooperation, the relationship here is very confusing, and no one can fully understand it.”
"In terms of fees, through an intermediary company and a middleman to launder a slave, the slave company usually costs about three thousand to five cosmic coins as the intermediary fee. It is usually 37%, the middleman gets 30%, and the intermediary company gets 70%. If you are a card intermediary, of course the intermediary company will get everything. Throw away the costs and you will make a lot of profit. If you are an independent intermediary, the intermediary fee will be slightly lower, which can be 20 to 30% cheaper than the going price. But they do not have the commission of the intermediary company. Moreover, the amount of transactions under his name is very large every time. Generally, if you work for a few years, as long as you are not too unlucky and get caught and investigated by the Slave Trading Bureau, you can become a rich man. Of course, you are not a rich man yourself, and you have no background behind you. , just can’t be an independent intermediary.”
"So the price of black slaves in the trading house is always lower than that of white slaves. The intermediary fee is also one of the reasons - oh, in our jargon, we call slaves from regular sources white slaves, and slaves from illegal sources are called white slaves. Slaves who have not yet cleared their identities are handed over as black slaves - black slaves do not clear their identities when they are traded between trading houses, and there are no sales records, so there is no need to issue tax bills."
"The specific method is this. After the trading houses collect these illegally sourced black slaves through their own various channels, they will trade them with the white slaves in their hands. They may have to go through various purchasers in the process. Wholesalers, distributors and other intermediary trading houses change hands at all levels. When these intermediary traders change hands, unless there is a special request by the taking over party, it is all in the form of slave trading. Only when entering the slave trade Before the various terminal sales links, they will start to be laundered into legal identities to facilitate transactions. The so-called sales terminal links refer to regional-level distributors, wholesalers, slave headhunting companies, slave ranches and other correctional institutions. The ranch is responsible for harvesting. Black slaves are very cautious, and the trading department is very strict about their inventory. If they are not dealt with at all, they will close the door for inspection. Ordinary small slave ranches will also take over some black slaves, and then contact intermediaries to launder them. Because the ranch There is a considerable proportion of normal wear and tear in the work, and the cost of buying only white slaves is too high. But slightly higher-end ranches and correctional institutions are only willing to buy white slaves. Because they basically use headhunting companies and acquisition companies. Once the goods are purchased, the wastage rate will be much lower, so the slave cleaning is often left to headhunting companies or acquisition houses to do it, and they don’t want to get involved themselves.”
"Take me for example. On the registration form, I was first registered at the age of eleven, but in fact, I entered the slave market as a black slave more than a year ago, and was among multiple slave traders and slave owners. I passed many offers until I was finally selected by the Green Grassland Slave Ranch, and then the slave dealer contacted the middleman to officially register me and clear my identity."
Gu Hanhan nodded: "So, you were not a slave originally, but an unknown person who illegally flowed into the slave market - what about before?"
She asked: "Do you still remember what you did before you were sold into the slave market? How did you become a black slave?"
"It's been so long that I can't remember clearly, Miss." Li Chun shook her head and said, "I only have a vague memory of what happened when I was a child. Now I only remember that I seemed to live on a planet called Na. I There is a whole wall of cabinets in the room filled with various stuffed animals. There is a woman with a particularly bright lipstick, who should be my mother. There is also a man whose clip on his tie is always shiny and he often puts it on I pick him up and kiss my face and forehead, or my dad.”
"One day, the sky outside the window suddenly darkened, there were gunshots and explosions everywhere, and buzzers kept ringing. War, pirates, coups, or other things, I can't think of what happened at that time. The man rushed in As soon as the door was lifted, I ran out. The woman next to her was panting and ran away with her high heels. Later, many people ran together and rushed up the spiral staircase of the spacecraft. The cabin was crowded everywhere, and people could only sit in On the ground. The man put me on his lap and hugged me tightly. The woman was not there, maybe she was separated. I didn't find her in the room. It was dark outside the porthole, nothing, never. I don't know. After a while, a half-dark light suddenly flashed through the porthole, and then soldiers in gray clothes rushed in, or maybe they were police, maybe they were pirates, I don't know what they were. They all had guns. .”
"The crowd was driven outside the cabin and gathered into a larger room. There was a very tall man walking around in the crowd with a gun. When he came next to us, he suddenly reached out and pulled me out of the room. The man tore it off. He carried me for a long distance with one hand, and then threw me into a cage. A black cloth was pulled down, and everything was dark."
