Abyss Domination

Slavery was a serious hindrance to productivity.

Without freeing slaves, there is no way to liberate enough working people. The future development of Modo City needs a large number of civilians, not slaves who are worthless and can only sell coolies.

Sauron's Abolition of Slavery seemed to have dropped a heavy bomb on the material plane, and even Glory City shook. Because even the shining lord of the lawful and good camp rejects slavery, but the church has never proposed such an idea.

even!

Some paladins also took the initiative to defend slavery.

Sauron didn't care about the reaction from the outside world at all. He started the third census of Modo City immediately after promulgating the Abolition of Slavery Act.

All the slaves were liberated as lower-class poor, and they will be registered in the population statistics of Modo City. From now on, they will gain personal freedom and property freedom. However, because they have almost no wealth of their own as slaves, the next arrangement of the Modo City Hall is to allocate land to them.

Every inch of land in Modo City is very precious!

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to give these lands to these slaves free of charge, which is unfair to all meritorious classes.

Modo City has reclaimed a large amount of land near twelve large towns. These lands belong to the property of Modo City, and now they are leased to all slaves, and the city hall of Modo City will distribute housing to slaves uniformly Farming tools and daily necessities.

But that's all there is to it.

Excessive gifts can easily lead to counterproductive effects, and Sauron will only give them the opportunity to fight for the future by relying on their own efforts.

All the housing belongs to the wealth of Modo City, and the freed slaves only have the most basic living quarters, and all farming tools also belong to Modo City, and they only have the basic right to use them.

The slaves were still penniless.

However, they can then rely on themselves to earn and accumulate wealth. The land allocated by Modo City only charges about 30% of the rent, which means that 70% of the income in a year of cultivation can be used as the property of these tenants.

Sauron certainly would not let the slaves go free.

Freedom is only relative!

Sauron had already arranged their fate, and they had no choice but to follow Sauron's orders.

Because Sauron is the deity of the lawful evil camp.

Slaves became tenants, and they had the right to cultivate the land independently, and thus obtained the foundation for accumulating wealth. At the same time, they also began to provide tax burdens for Modo City, and solved the current lack of a large number of civilian laborers in Modo City. .

Under the slave system, they had almost no freedom of life and property rights, and they relied more on whips for labor.

Now they have property rights, and the income from farming will be their private property, which greatly stimulates their enthusiasm. At the same time, Modo City also opened a more favorable policy to them than outsiders. Freed slaves can use about one-third of the wealth of the outside world to buy the ownership of the residence and convert the land into private property. All these properties have the title deed of Modo City, and being recognized by the city hall is tantamount to gaining a firm foothold in Modo City. Sauron's promise has already passed the test of time, so there is no need to question any of this.

The pace of the third census is very fast.

The City Hall of Modo City has long been accustomed to efficient operations. After the third census, the counted population has reached about 270,000.

It seems that there are really many hidden populations in Modo City.

The blacksmith workshop is stepping up the forging of agricultural tools. This time, the arable land in Modo City has nearly doubled. Because of the Abolition of Slavery Act, Modo City has an additional farming population of about 50,000. At the same time, twelve towns It all works.

The deep farming system is being popularized. Relying on the promotion of fertilizers, the grain output of Modo City is expected to be enough to maintain about 500,000 people.

but.

For Sauron, agriculturalization is only the most basic part, and he needs to do more than that.

All his current plans are just laying the groundwork for a large-scale farm economy. When farming grows to a certain extent, what he needs is to liberate these working people and move them to other places at the same time.

A slave can only squeeze a little strength, Sauron needs more and more.

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The morning sun shines down.

Kovano woke up just after dawn. He looked at the clean bed lying on it, and everything was clean like a dream.

He is a slave.

From Shipwreck Bay, bought by a merchant, who used to be a guard, and became a slave for noble reasons. Life as a slave was not easy, the businessman urged him to work with a whip every day, and the other five slaves like him rarely did anything wrong with beating and scolding. As a slave, he has nothing, even if the master kills him, he has no responsibility. This situation has continued until the promulgation of the Abolition of Slavery Act. At that time, the businessman hoped to transfer him to the south coast urgently, and then resell him for money, but unfortunately he was still caught by the guards of Modo City.

He is free.

Everything is like a dream.

But freedom is relative, and Kovano soon discovered that the guards did not let him go, but placed him and another group of slaves in this place called Qiushui Town.

A neat row of brick houses.

A house for each of them was placed here, and men dressed as officials came to count them the next day, followed by the distribution of tools. Kovano thought that everything was no different from what he had experienced in the past, but he soon discovered that it was really different.

No one beats, scolds and urges, and even blatant laziness will not be punished.

Many slaves like him had blank expressions, some worked hard and seemed to be full of hope for the future, while some were doing nothing, as if they didn't know what to do.

Such days lasted for three days.

Kovano doesn't know how to face the future, so he just does ordinary things every day. As a commoner, he has learned how to farm the land since he was a child. Three days later, the officials of the city hall reappeared. They secretly conducted an assessment on everyone. A slave named Nord who performed the best was given a farm ox. as his private property.

This makes many slaves feel envious.

Because they used to be worth less than a farm ox, and the man named Nord was full of surprises.

But.

What soon follows makes everyone else uneasy.

Another slave was expelled. He didn't even do the most basic reclamation because he was lazy every day. The officials of the city hall deprived him of everything given to him by Modo City, housing, utensils, food, and clothes. So everything bestowed by Modo City was deprived. This poor man was expelled outside the town wearing only a thin piece of clothing. This man didn't even have the next ration. Being thrown out by the guards, it was completely like letting him destroy himself.

This time, everyone felt uneasy.

But, fortunately, the guards only expelled three people, and no one knew their fate, except that their original residence, food and clothes were taken away.

at this time.

Others realize how precious everything they have now is. They don't have to worry about being hungry or cold, they can live in a clean and tidy house, and they can fill their stomachs with hard work every day. Kovano began to adapt to this change of fate, and he gradually found that he seemed to have become a tenant, because everything he did now was no different from that of a tenant.

but.

In any case, the status of tenants is higher than that of serfs, and even higher than that of slaves.

About a week later.

The City Hall officials reappeared, much to the dismay of many of the slaves.

They are used to the present life, they have a clean place and a solid house, and they no longer have to be beaten, scolded and flogged, and they cherish such days very much. Fortunately, this time the city hall officials did not deport others, they just took all the children between the ages of seven and twelve, whether slaves or civilians, and then Kenwano heard that there seemed to be many children in the town. a school.

And these children are being concentrated in it for... learning? ...

Yes.

Soon, they learned that Modo City was educating these children.

This kind of thing sounds a bit unbelievable, because in other places, only the nobles and the merchant class would receive formal education.

Kovano felt in the dark that the owner of Modo City seemed to be doing something very remarkable, but he knew too little knowledge, and had no idea what Modo City was going to do.

He just feels that the future is full of hope!

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In addition to counting the number of people, the third census also counted the age of all residents.

Immediately afterwards, under the operation of the city hall, all the territories of Modo City, including Modo Port, began to establish colleges one after another, which taught the most basic knowledge, arithmetic, literacy, reading and writing, etc. The basic knowledge is completely unified and compulsory taught to all school-age children by Modo City for free.

At the same time, some huge and dense buildings began to appear in Modo City. These three-to-four-story buildings were placed in the south, and a large number of laborers were transferred to work there.

No one knew exactly what Sauron was going to do.

But today's Modo City seems to be a starting machine, which is gradually running at a high speed!

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(PS: Tomorrow I will go to Beijing to discuss things.) (To be continued ~^~)