Bringing the Railway to Daming

Chapter 315: Living Hell! Lao Zhu asks [Request for Subscription]

The video did not stop because of the Zhu family's astonishment, and a solemn female voice continued to be heard.

"Today I want to introduce you to a living hell - the human black market!"

"Human trafficking is the second most serious crime in the world after drug trafficking and arms smuggling. Although slavery has been abolished for a hundred years, there are still a large number of modern slaves on this planet..."

“According to statistics, the number of modern slaves was 2016 million in 2021, and in this number has risen to million!”

"This group of poor people, who are not treated as human beings, will bring at least $1500 billion in value to their exploiters every year, which is more than the GDP of 150 countries!"

Although the Zhu family was shocked at the beginning of the video, they were shocked again when they saw this.

There are 50 million modern slaves in later generations?
Doesn’t that mean five-sevenths of the current population of the Ming Dynasty?

Not only Empress Ma, Zhu Biao, Zhu Di and others couldn't understand it, even Zhu Yuanzhang found it difficult to understand for a while.

Through his understanding over the past few years, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that not only was technology extremely advanced in later generations, but the systems of various countries were also more sound, and some countries did not even have emperors.

Like the Xin Dynasty in later generations, the safety of people's lives and property was greatly guaranteed, almost to the point where they could leave their doors open at night.

In such a future, there are still at least 50 million slaves?

Moreover, these slaves may not be servants in today's sense, but rather miserable slaves who are strictly controlled, used as tools for drug trafficking, as slaves, and for organ harvesting.

If the slaves in the Ming Dynasty and some neighboring countries can still be called human beings, then the slaves in later generations were obviously not treated as human beings, but as living commodities like pigs, dogs, cows and sheep!
"Friendly reminder, everyone watching this video must take good care of themselves, because once you are sold into the human trafficking black market, it's almost as if you've disappeared from this world."

"Currently, only 0.4% of missing persons in the world can be confirmed."

“What are the most common methods used by human traffickers to traffic people?”

"What kind of horrific abuse do victims of the human trafficking black market experience?"

"Why is it that despite countries cracking down on human trafficking, the number of people falling into 'modern slavery' is increasing?"

As the woman explained, the video flashed with tragic scenes of slaves being abused in later generations. Even someone like Lao Zhu, who had witnessed the chaos and bloodshed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, frowned, and the others were even more horrified.

The video then goes on to talk about "human trafficking for commercial purposes."

Among this part of trafficked population, women make up the vast majority, with men also accounting for a portion, and their age is getting younger.

"One out of every three victims has a young face, and the proportion of children has increased from 04% in 13 to 18% in 34 - a considerable number of these children have become victims."

"What's even more shocking is that some people have refreshed people's understanding of the cruelty of human traffickers because they are trafficking their own children."

Seeing this, the Zhu family was shocked at first, but then Zhu, Empress Ma and other older people thought of some phenomena in the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

In order to survive, the people sold their children and even their wives - some of them were so cruel that they sold their wives and daughters directly to brothels. Isn't this similar to what was said in the video, treating their own children as "commercial exploitation products"?
However, looking at the children in the video, they all seem to be children.

It would be terrible if their parents sent such young children to be "commercially exploited".

Next, the video uses the example of a Filipino child to tell Zhu Yuanzhang and others that reality is even more terrifying than the worst case scenario they imagined!
Several concubines and princesses whose children were still young subconsciously covered the eyes and ears of the children around them, not wanting them to know that there were such terrible parents in the world.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but slap the armrest of his chair and angrily said, "How can there be parents in the world who treat their children like this? They are worse than animals!"

Zhu Biao also frowned and said, "These people are far worse than animals - no, they are not worthy of being called human beings!"

Both Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao were furious, which shows how horrifying the examples given in the video were.

"The Philippines has become the world's largest site for child exploitation livestreaming. United Nations estimates indicate that approximately 200 million children in the Philippines are at risk every day, a figure that represents one-fifth of the country's total child population."

"Even more tragically, many of these children's parents were also victims of similar experiences as children."

"When asked why they treated their children this way, they said that it was because similar things had happened to them before, and in order to survive, they felt it was natural to do so..."

The video then talked about "human trafficking mainly for labor exploitation" - the trafficked population was mainly men.

For example, they are sold to some fishing boat owners in Southeast Asia and become fishing slaves; they are sold to mines in some small countries and become mining slaves; they are sold to some black factories and become factory slaves, and so on.

These modern male slaves not only have to work extremely long hours, but are also subjected to various forms of abuse, beatings, and even rape.

The vast majority of male slaves would die, and the few lucky enough to be rescued would suffer irreparable physical and psychological trauma.

"Forced labor and commercial sexual exploitation account for nearly 90% of the exploitation methods used in the human trafficking black market, but this video aims to share with you the cruel methods used beyond these primary methods." "Some trafficked people have their hands and feet chopped off, their tongues cut out, and are forced to beg; others have their organs, blood, and bone marrow sold; others are used as containers for drug trafficking..."

"To evade customs inspections, drug traffickers often use plastic bags, condoms, etc. to package drugs into pills and force victims to swallow them - such people are called drug mules."

"Not only do drug mules risk being discovered by customs, arrested, and imprisoned, but the poison pills in their stomachs could burst at any time, leading to their death from the high concentration of the drug they ingest!"

"So, never doubt the extent of a human trafficker's lack of humanity. If there's something a human trafficker hasn't done yet, it's probably just because they haven't thought of it..."

After talking about several brutal methods of exploitation of "modern slaves", the video begins to explain several typical methods of human trafficking.

For example, they lure people overseas and sell them under the guise of recruiting them to work overseas; they use emotions to lure victims; and they use online communication to gain victims' trust, etc.

"In 2015, a human trafficking research organization showed that in the Bald Eagle Country, 55% of human trafficking victims met traffickers online and established intimate relationships before meeting them in person. Most of these victims were middle school students."

"Human traffickers spend a long time studying these students. When students show vulnerability online, traffickers will appear at the right time and gradually win their trust and favor through repeated communication."

"From the traffickers' perspective, once a close relationship is established where they can talk about anything, they can 'dispose' of the victims at will."

"For example, some middle school students who develop romantic relationships with traffickers, even if they are lured into the sex industry, are unwilling to reveal the identity of their traffickers after being rescued by the police."

"Because they believed the human traffickers' lies: The world doesn't care about you, God doesn't care about you, only I care about you."

"This feeling of being unable to leave the abuser even after being abused is called a 'trauma bond' in psychology..."

"Estimates of the number of people trafficked globally each year range from 60 to 400 million, which means there are at least thousands of victims of human trafficking every day and at least one person is trafficked every minute."

"What follows can be brutal beatings, imprisonment, forced drug addiction, and ultimately, dark slavery, forced participation in the sex trade, or crime."

"Even if they are lucky enough to be among the 4 in 10,000 rescued, the victim will live in pain for the rest of his life!"

"Remember, once your dangerous situation becomes known, what you may receive is not salvation, but a bottomless abyss."

"Always be vigilant and never put yourself in danger! The best salvation is always before the disaster happens!"

The video was not long, only about ten minutes, but the Zhu family felt as if they had been watching it for a long time.

Because the cruel scenes revealed in every frame of the film challenge the nerves of most people; every word of the explanation challenges their understanding of human nature.

After the video was over, the Zhu family remained silent for nearly two minutes in a depressing atmosphere before Zhu took the lead in speaking to break the silence.

"I never thought that human traffickers would be so rampant in the future. Why is that?"

Liu Kuan sighed and explained, "Your Majesty, there is a saying in later generations: 'Without buying and selling, there will be no killing.'"

"This phrase was originally used by animal protection organizations to describe poachers who kill protected animals, but I think it can also be applied to human trafficking."

"Even in the future, with advanced technology, there are still so many crimes that treat people as commodities for huge profits. Ultimately, it's because there is market demand."

"For example, the demand for sex, drugs, blood and organs, and so on."

"Of course, some criminals simply disregard the law and lose their humanity, treating others like commodities for profit."

"Fortunately, in later generations, the Xin Dynasty has been cracking down on human trafficking, and social security has been improving. In addition, publicity about the various abduction methods used by human traffickers has increased people's vigilance. Before I traveled through time, human trafficking crimes in the Xin Dynasty were already very rare."

"In later generations, the regions with the highest levels of human trafficking law enforcement were actually Southeast Asia, Central America, South America, and Africa. These regions were either poor or plagued by frequent wars, and public security was already very poor, making it difficult for these countries to effectively combat human trafficking."

After hearing Liu Kuan say that human trafficking had become extremely rare in the Xin Dynasty, Lao Zhu and others felt a lot more relieved.

If the horrible things in the video also happen in the Xin Dynasty in the future, they will be very disappointed with the Xin Dynasty.

Then Lao Zhu asked, "The last movies and videos you showed were all about human trafficking. There must be a purpose behind this, right?"

Seeing that Old Zhu asked, Liu Kuan didn't intend to hide it - with the Jinyiwei around, he couldn't hide anything.

"Your Majesty, I do have something to report."

Old Zhu smiled and said, "Tell me, what's the matter."

　First update.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)