Chapter 432 Labor Pains
"Take him... outside the city and kill him?" Taliyah was speechless.
Yes. Because the Wind Leader has officially intervened in Shurima, the plantation owners on the north coast dare not buy slaves.
When the desert warlords who were engaged in the slave trade found that the goods were stuck in their hands, they would immediately take measures to stop the loss.
And this measure can only be a massacre.
Every Shurima is a warrior who survived this cruel desert - it is impossible for the slave owners to release these "dangerous elements" who have deep hatred for them for nothing.
"What...what did I do?" The fighting spirit had long faded, but the consequences it brought made Taliya shudder.
She looked up at the slaves being driven like pigs to the slaughterhouse. There were at least several hundred of them here alone.
What about outside of Vikaura?
What about the entire Shurima Desert?
How many slaves were ruthlessly slaughtered by their slave owners because they had lost their value?
"I..." Taliyah didn't dare to think too much.
She was terrified and confused by this.
"How can I save them?" She murmured to herself as she looked at the slaves who were about to reach the end of their lives.
“Save these slaves?” Nasus quietly came to Taliyah.
"It's very simple." Although anyone who can occupy an oasis city in the desert surrounded by wolves and keep this big piece of fat meat firmly in his bowl is not easy to deal with.
But as long as Nasus is willing to help, he can help Taliyah save the slaves in front of her at any time.
But he knew that what Talia was thinking about was far more than just the group of slaves she saw before her.
“It’s easy to save these people,” Nasus said in a deep and penetrating tone. “But if you want to completely make up for your mistakes and save all the Shuriman slaves, it will be almost impossible.”
"It is impossible to stop the spilled water even if the butterfly flaps its wings. How can you stop this storm that has already spread?"
"I..." Taliyah was speechless.
Yeah, what can she do.
Slave traders have been spontaneously "clearing their stocks", and this trend has spread throughout Shurima with the news of the end of the slave trade.
After the desert tribes attack each other in the future, I’m afraid no one will be left alive.
How could she reverse this? Could she just talk to the plantation owners on the North Shore and ask them to restart the slave trade?
"I..." Taliyah's forehead was covered with cold sweat.
She thought for a long time, finally gritted her teeth and made up her mind: "I can use the emergency communication of the Blue Bird Avatar to contact Zaun and let the organization find a solution."
“How do we find a solution?” Nasus asked, half questioning and half expecting: “You Wind Leaders no longer have the energy to intervene in the situation in Shurima, do you?”
“No need to intervene formally.” Taliyah expressed her thoughts: “Maybe…”
"We can ask Zaun to pay and redeem the people from the slave traders."
This is equivalent to restarting the slave trade in disguise.
The slave traders in the desert would not rush to clear out their stock when they saw that their goods could still be sold.
“This…” Nasus was amused by this naive idea: “Hahahaha.”
“Taliyah, I don’t know your superiors. But I believe that if they received such a request from you, they would be very troubled.”
Levi and others will certainly have a headache.
Zaun now has a lot of money to spend, especially after the second-line construction plan was gradually launched.
The huge investments in industrialization and infrastructure are difficult to see benefits and recover costs in the short term. In order to support Ionia, the once generous Leaders Association is now beginning to face financial constraints.
At this time, if Taliyah sent this kind of help message to the Supreme Council, it would be equivalent to waving the moral stick of political correctness and putting all the top leaders of the Leader in a state of imprisonment.
We can't afford to redeem him financially.
It would be a political mistake not to spend money to redeem the person.
To put it bluntly... this is equivalent to driving desert refugees to the doorstep of European white leftists, putting them in a dilemma.
“I can see that,” Nasus sighed. “Shurima is not a high priority in the Windward Society’s strategic planning.”
"The accident you caused in Beljuin and the huge subsequent impact it caused were probably a big trouble that was beyond the plan of your wise President Levi."
This is exactly the case.
Shurima is a place with a small population, complex political situation, vast but barren land, and an extremely primitive social form.
If we don't play the high-sounding tune of political correctness, let's be realistic:
For the Leaders' Association, which urgently needs to spread faith, consolidate strength, and increase the number of believers, Shurima is almost a rotten land with "little money and a lot of work".
It's not even a chicken rib, at most it's just scraps.
It takes a lot of effort to chew it, and you can only get a few bites of meat.
So according to Levi's strategic plan, the Leader should first concentrate on conquering the populous Ionia, and at the same time, with the cooperation of Swain, Prince Jarvan and others, secretly infiltrate Noxus and Demacia.
Once these three most populous places are taken care of, Goddess Jana will be invincible.
Only in this way can the Wind Leader realize the dream of liberating all of Runeterra as quickly as possible.
Before this, the Leader had neither the will nor the ability to take on the heavy burden of Shurima.
“So, your best option now is not to report this to the Wind Leader’s top brass.” Nasus said in a deep voice, “Because even if you tell them, they won’t be able to solve this problem.”
"When that happens, your superiors will have no choice but to play dumb and pretend they never heard your report. "
"Otherwise, they will have to disrupt their own strategic planning and squeeze out a large part of their manpower, financial resources and material resources from other places to clean up the mess in Shurima."
“Taliyah…” Nasus asked, “Do you think this is good for the cause of your Leaders?”
“Then…” Taliyah’s face turned pale.
She murmured, "So we just do nothing?"
Now, a wave of massacres of slaves has begun across Shurima.
Is there really no way to curb this trend?
“No.” Nasus said solemnly, “Reality is not the legendary stories told by the bards. You can’t become a hero just because you want to be one.”
"Besides, do you really think that the redemption plan you came up with will have no negative impact on the Shurimans?"
To put it bluntly, redeeming slaves is a disguised way of reviving the slave trade.
As for the fact that the slave trade was ended...
In the short term, this would lead to the mass slaughter of slaves, which would be a bad thing.
But in the long run, the end of the slave trade was a good thing.
“Because as long as there are people who spend money to buy slaves, they will become valuable.” Nasus said meaningfully: “And in the vast desert of Shurima, there are not many valuable things.”
Making something valuable is actually a disguised way of encouraging people to fight and plunder for it.
In the past, when the various tribes of Shurima met in the desert, they had to first check whether the other party had anything to rob and whether the robbed items were worth the money.
A conflict between tribes will only occur if the expected profit far outweighs the risk of fighting.
But later, the slave trade emerged. Humans, who were once considered a waste of food, became valuable treasures.
Thus, the vast desert of Shurima completely turned into a dark forest.
It is almost impossible for two strange desert tribes to coexist peacefully after they meet. They can only choose to fight without hesitation to ensure that it is not themselves but their opponents who are sold as piglets.
"The existence of the slave trade will only make the already chaotic Shurima Desert even more chaotic. A lot of blood that shouldn't have been shed will be shed because of it."
“Taliyah, are you sure—you still want to keep this terrible slave trade alive with your naive ransom policy?”
Nasus' question hit Taliyah's soul, and she was completely speechless.
In that sense, the end of the slave trade was a good thing. She shouldn't have stopped it.
"But what about the slaves?"
“Alas,” Nasus said helplessly, “Once this batch of slaves is dealt with, the warlords will not capture more slaves.”
"Then the tragedy will be over."
Taliyah: “…”
“This is the pain of change,” Nasus said solemnly. “Shurima must endure it.”
"What's more..." He added, "The news of the end of the slave trade may have spread throughout Shurima. No matter what method you want to use to remedy the situation, it's probably too late."
Taliyah became increasingly silent.
"Is it true that I can't save them?"
“Save them, okay.” Nasus said, looking at the slaves in front of him.
Then, he looked up at the vast yellow sands of Shurima: " It's impossible to save all of Shurima."
"Being a leader is much harder than being a hero."
