LOL: Summoner of Goddess Jana

Chapter 102 Is it better to be a slave? (Please subscribe~)
Zeli called out Janna's name.

The blue bird flapped its wings slightly, as if showing its favor to her in a human way.

"Oh? Do you recognize Janna?" The man glanced at the Walkman hanging on her waist: "It seems that you have the volume of "Janna Thoughts", don't you?"

"Yeah." Zeli nodded.

"Then have you heard of it?" The man took the initiative to talk enthusiastically again.

"I have." Zeli replied.

"How do you feel?" Like a teacher checking homework after class, the man actually asked her how she felt after the class.

"I," Zeli replied honestly, "I think it's quite boring."

The man was silent for a while.

Then he muttered to himself: "It seems that we have to find a way to design a set of theoretical textbooks that are easier to understand for children."

Zeli couldn't understand what he was saying either.

She doesn't really want to talk to strangers now, she just wants to talk to the acquaintance uncle at the food stall about her troubles.

It's just that the cute blue bird instinctively attracted her.

But the food stall uncle guarded Ze Li vigilantly and reminded her: "Don't talk to this man, he's a Picheng guy!"

"Why do you say that?" The man was slightly taken aback.

He was clearly wearing the most common Zuan overalls, so why did he unknowingly break away from the crowd?
"People in Zaun rarely have pets." The food stall uncle replied.

Raising is also raising mice, beetles, little magic marsh frogs and so on.

A pet like a blue bird is too expensive, and the people of Zaan can't keep it alive.

"No wonder." The man reacted belatedly: "I said that everyone looks at me wrongly."

"What is a Picheng guy doing in Zaun?" the food stall uncle asked warily again.

"I'm not a Picheng guy. My name is Li Wei, and I'm from Zaun who came back from Picheng." Li Wei reported his family name.

"The Zaunites of Piltover?"

Well, this is even more annoying.

Most Zaunites who have moved to Piltover look down on their poor relatives back home.

The people of Zaun naturally resent these honorable Piltovers who claim to be superior.

"Cut! Why did you come back after you ran over? Why, you didn't hold the stinky foot of the Picheng guy on the other side of the canal, and was driven back by the law enforcement officer?" The uncle of the food stall sneered and sarcastically.

"Haha, almost." Li Wei explained ambiguously.

In fact, he has no other purpose in returning to Zaan this time, but to do a field trip to Zuan.

Although the Leaders have dispatched an investigation team in the past month, they have managed to do a sufficiently detailed grassroots investigation on their hometown of Zaun, which is about to return.

But Levi wasn't content to just sit in his office and read the investigative report.

And "he" has been away from Zaun for more than two years.What is Zaan like now, he has to come and see for himself.

"In short, it's not easy to mess around in Picheng. If you want to gain a firm foothold, you still have to go back to Zaun."

"Zu'an is a vast world, and there is a lot to do!"

"Heh." The uncle of the food stall smiled disdainfully: "I have already returned to Za'an, and there is still a lot to do!"

"You guys from Picheng come back like this. They couldn't stay any longer and were driven back, and they still had to pretend when they came back."

"I think you'd better shut your mouth and eat your magic swamp frog!"

As he said that, he put the "ten thousand bowl" in the muddy water tank with a cold face, rinsed it, grabbed a few large pieces of sticky frog meat with unwashed hands, and took the delicious meat that had been marinated for many years. Stirring a large amount of spices with his fingers, he handed it to Li Wei in a wet bowl.

Li Wei didn't hesitate, just took it and ate it.

It was delicious.

There are no chopsticks, knives and forks available on the stalls, just grab them with your hands.

"Well, at least I'm a Zaunian."

The food stall uncle looked at him a little calmer.

Then he ignored Li Wei, turned around and put on a smiling face in an instant, looking at the little girl Zeli:

"Zeli, why do you look so bad today?"

"Are you sick?"

"No." Zeli lay down on the food stall with a listless expression, her green-haired twin ponytails drooping.

"That's how it happened." She told what had happened to Chuck in a haggard tone.

After hearing this story, everyone
No response.

Whether it is the uncle of the food stall or Li Wei who has the memory of the original owner, everyone is familiar with this kind of thing.

Only the blue bird lowered its head slightly, silently feeling sad for this tragic story.

"Uncle." Zeli pouted and asked the uncle of the food stall: "What do you think I should do? Should I try to go to the factory of Gorask Industry and rescue Chuck?"

"What?!" The food stall uncle was shocked.

He did know that Zeli could do magic, but he also knew how much Zeli weighed now.

She went to Renata to save people, didn't she bring the whole family to die together?
"No, absolutely not!"

The uncle at the food stall objected strongly at first, and then reacted quickly. He changed his words to the stubborn Zeli:
"Zeli, actually. You really don't have to worry about Chuck."

"I'm not worried about him?" Zeli's eyes widened. "Chuck is going to be a slave!"

"What's wrong with being a slave?"

The uncle of the food stall actually answered like this.

He had a natural expression and a firm tone, and he didn't look like he was talking irony at all.

"That, that's a slave." Zeli was shocked and puzzled: "Is being a slave still a good thing?"

Li Wei on the side also silently put down the magic marsh frog meat in his hand, interjected subtly and asked, "Uncle, have you ever been a slave?"

"This...no." If he had been a slave, how could he appear here freely now.

"Then have you seen what the life of slave labor in Zaun is like?" Li Wei asked again.

"Ahem. Not at all." The slave workers are usually locked up in the factory tightly, how could he have a chance to see them?
"Then why do you still say that Chuck will be fine!" Zeli couldn't help asking.

"This." The food stall uncle also had a reason: "Just think about it—"

"When I go to work in a factory normally, I have to work more than ten hours a day. I don't have enough food, I don't wear warm clothes all day long, and I don't even make a little money, and I have to be bullied and beaten by the factory foreman every day."

"Being a slave labor, can life be worse than this?"

The factory in Zaun is a blood mill in the pure old British style in the 19th century.

Compared with the life of Zaun workers, there is no place in Runeterra that is poor.

"But it doesn't mean that slave labor is better than workers, right?" Li Wei helped Zeli question: "While they are selling their blood and sweat like ordinary workers, they don't even have the most basic personal freedom."

"Don't you think that they will only have a worse life than ordinary workers?"

"That's not necessarily the case!" The food stall uncle seriously explained his opinion: "Slaves are different from workers."

"Slaves are the property of their masters, and workers are only employees."

"When the workers are exhausted, just recruit another batch. But when the slaves die, the property of the slave owners will be gone. Just think about it, who would not love their own property?"

This makes sense at first glance.

Xiao Zeli was taken aback by what she said.

And the uncle at the food stall quickly continued: "I think those who are slave owners will feed their slaves and give them clothes no matter what. If the slaves are sick, the master may even see a doctor for them."

"Otherwise, if the slaves died of starvation or illness, wouldn't they be at a loss?"

Talking about it, slavery is almost being said to be a welfare society with free board and lodging and free medical care.

Being a free worker in Zaun sounds like a slave.

The more Zeli listened, the more confused she became, and unconsciously she really believed that her friend Chuck was going to live a good life as a slave.

"But." Li Wei asked suddenly: "Since workers are more useful than slaves—"

"Then why are there still bonded workers in Piltover, and slave labor in Zaun, and business owners are still happy to restore slavery in disguise?"

"This" the food stall uncle was speechless.

"Of course it's because it's more profitable to use slave labor!" Li Wei said loudly, "If you think slaves are property, the master will love property."

"But slaves are just consumables. As long as they can create profits beyond their worth, slave owners can consume them without any scruples—"

"Will you stop lighting cigarettes because the matches are your property?"

"No, as long as there are useful places, no matter how many matches there are, you will burn them openly!"

The uncle of the food stall was stunned speechless.

He wanted to say something more, but Li Wei suddenly turned his head to look at Ze Li:
"Little girl, have you read the "A Brief Introduction to Janna's Thoughts", right?"

"Yeah." Zeli nodded numbly.

"Remember the part about the history of the two cities and the first industrial revolution?"

"Remember a little bit" Zeli was in a daze, not knowing what he was going to say.

"Then I'll add some additional historical materials to you." Li Wei said: "Now there is a saying in the academic circles of Piltover, which roughly means the same as this uncle's opinion—"

"They said that the slaves of the colonial plantations back then lived better than the workers. So the slave owners who were engaged in colonial business back then were actually considered good people in the context of that era."

Piltover later abolished slavery.

However, those big families who once owned plantations and worked as slave owners in the colony still existed in Piltover well.

They are still an important part of Piltover's high society.

Then it is conceivable why there is such a trend of overturning the case for slave owners in the history circle.

"But actually"

"You have all greatly underestimated the 'business acumen' of slave owners."

"Then I thought the slave owner would feel sorry for his own property, but the truth is:"

"2. 300 years ago, the colonial slave owners used torture and quantitative assessment, so that the efficiency of slaves picking cotton by hand increased by 30% in just 400 years, even catching up with the increase in machine efficiency in the same period. Piltover completed the first industrial revolution."

Human productivity can even be improved to keep up with machines.

that in this case
"Do you still think that the life of a slave is much better than that of a free man? Especially the slave labor of Zaun!"

Li Wei solemnly took out a booklet from his pocket.

That is the grassroots investigation report of the Leaders Association against Zaun:

"I can tell you right now how these alchemy barons use slaves at a 'high cost performance' that is far better than workers."

(End of this chapter)