News of Pandora

"After leaving the capital of the Jin-Yun Kingdom, we first moved to Star-Gazing City. The slave trade there is extremely prosperous. Some wealthy individuals, especially after purchasing female slaves, have specific, peculiar needs; they enjoy bestowing strange, formal identities upon those women. Our embassy happened to be able to solve this problem for them, so we actually lived quite comfortably for a few days!" Philip sighed, his eyes seemingly filled with an infinite longing for that period of time.

"Strange identities? What kind of identities can you provide for those female slaves?" Zhang Tie asked curiously.

"As long as they can pay a sum of money, besides granting those female slaves the official citizenship of the Sacred Golden Orchid Empire, we can also buy them honorary imperial titles that carry no real power, such as Imperial Palace Consultant, Palace Musician, Secretary of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, or officer in the Guards' Cultural Troupe, and so on!" Philip replied. "Among these official identities that can be bought with money, the most sought-after roles are the identities of Priestess and Saintess of the Love Holy Sect, founded by His Majesty the Emperor!"

Damn it, Zhang Tie understood as soon as he thought about it. For certain nouveau riche, what they could do after buying a beautiful female slave went without saying—one could figure it out with their knees. But for those people, even when they were in bed or wanting to do something strange, the sense of conquest brought by an ordinary beautiful slave versus one with a bizarre, official identity was completely different.

"You rely on this to make money?"

"Who's to say otherwise? This is the only way all the empire's embassies can scrape together any money. If we don't sell citizenship or those official titles and identities,