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Right next to the dead body, Chu Chaohui gave the first lecture to the slaves, announcing the rules that the slaves must abide by, that is, to be obedient and work hard and not to run around, and to give the slaves good treatment, as long as they work If you don't slack off at work, you will be able to eat and wear warmth.

The people who had been shocked by Chu Chaohui's execution of the burly slaves with pistols saw the power of the weapons in Chu Chaohui's hands, and they all thought that Chu Chaohui had a heaven-defying magic weapon, which could kill him even if he was hundreds of miles away. The desire to go on, now that food and clothing are guaranteed, I have no and dare not have other ideas at all.

The body of the burly slave whose head was pierced by a bullet was dragged to the forest for burial. The two slaves who were responsible for the burial were very disgusted with the burly slave and buried them hastily without digging the hole deep. As a result, the body of the burly slave was buried the next day. The beast was dug out from the pit, and only a few bones were left scattered around. This slave, who had two lives in his hands, was bought by Chu Chaohui to make an example to others, and in the end there was no bones left.

After dealing with the burly slaves, Chu Chaohui directed the slaves to carry the purchased supplies into the kitchen storage room. If the kitchen storage room couldn't fit, they put them into the half dormitory of Huo Sizhong and Mouse.The pottery bowls and basins purchased were taken out for cleaning, and the tableware used by the slaves in the future will be local products. The bowls and bowls from the previous time and space have been stored in cardboard boxes and moved to the attic of the villa. The conspicuous items in the kitchen have also been stored. The utensils here are replaced by items from this time and space as much as possible.

Most of the materials that the slaves carried back to the valley were food for food, including corn, wheat, and soybeans. People in this time and space had not yet invented millstones, except that corn could be crushed with stones, and wheat and soybeans were either boiled or eaten directly. It was crushed like corn to make cakes, and the wheat cakes given to slaves on the road were made by mixing flour and bran.

A pair of small millstones left by Grandpa Zheng Yuming on the attic of the villa was moved to the well to wipe clean. Under the guidance of Zheng Yuming, several slaves ground a bag of wheat into flour, and the powder was sifted through a sieve to obtain flour. The slaves' dinner that day was corn porridge and gnocchi with salt.

The ground of the three workers' houses was covered with dried grass, and the cheapest burlap was spread on the dry grass. This was the temporary bed for the slaves. The 21 slaves were divided into three groups, with seven slaves living in each house.

"Father! We have met a good master." The young slave lay on the straw bunk with his clothes on. Although he didn't have a quilt, the jacket on his body made him feel very warm, making him very comfortable to sleep in.

"Yeah, God bless us, we have good luck. Da Zhuang, you must do a good job tomorrow." The lame middle-aged man, Da Zhuang's father, touched his warm stomach, and tears dripped from the corners of his eyes. shed tears.He originally thought that he was old and disabled, and would be drowned in the long river if he couldn't sell it. He was prepared to wait for death in his heart. His only hope was that his son could be bought by a good owner, but his son's desperate request, He actually let the master's family buy him this trash. Da Zhuang felt that the legendary gods must have blessed him, and the gods sent two benevolent foreigners to rescue them.

"Where are you from? I escaped from the country of Tang. Everyone calls me the second son." The slave who was close to the father and son moved his head closer.

"We are from the state of Chu, and we are close to Dacheng." Da Zhuang replied in a low voice, and several other slaves in this room were also whispering.

"Isn't your state of Chu very rich?" On the way the second son fled, he only heard that there was a large-scale famine in the northern vassal states, while the situation in Wu and Chu in the south was much better. Chu was too far away from Tang, and most of the starving people in Tang chose to flee to Wu to survive.

"We are in a mountainous area, short of water, and there was a drought last year. The landlords and nobles refused to reduce the rent. Many people in our village starved to death. My younger sister and younger brother starved to death. My father and I had to flee our hometown and reach the city. Come find a way out."

Da Zhuang's mother died of illness a few years ago. His father made iron tools for the farmers in the surrounding villages for a living. The family cultivated much less land than other families. The common people are not full enough to eat, and no one has any spare money to go to Da Zhuang Daddy to make ironware. The land used for grain production was taken back by the main family and distributed to other farmers.Da Zhuang didn't want to sit still, so he took his eldest son out to find a way out, not wanting to become lame while fleeing.

"Our master is so generous that he even gave us salty noodles. I have never eaten such delicate noodles. It is so delicious. I hope to eat noodles every day in the future." The second son lay on the straw bed and daydreamed comfortably.

"Dream! The master gives us pasta every day to eat the poor!" The slave lying next to the second son felt that his companions were whimsical. At the beginning, they were given better food because the master wanted to attract people's hearts. As far as he knew, he The richest villagers in the village can't even afford to eat corn porridge every day. If the host family gives them such good treatment every day, why not give them poor food?This slave likes his master with outstanding appearance, he likes the sackcloth on his body, and he likes a house that is airtight. He doesn't want his master to be poor and bankrupt by them.This kind of corn porridge with delicate gnocchi is enough for him to eat a few times a month.

Early the next morning, Chu Zhaohui opened the door of the villa, and Mouse and Huo Sizhong stood on the steps outside the door as usual.

"Morning adults!"

"Morning! Are the tanks full?"

"It's full, and the corn is boiled in the cauldron." The mouse always answered neatly in front of Huo Sizhong.

"Leave the gnocchi too." Although Huo Sizhong's speed was slow, he was also stimulated by the mouse's claim of credit, and was forced to rush to speak. "The soybeans have been washed and soaked in the kitchen."

"Good job." Chu Zhaohui was very satisfied with the performance of the two boys.

"My lord! Can you give the mouse a name?" The mouse is very envious of Huo Sizhong's name and surname. Zheng Chu and Zheng Chu bought slaves this time, so that the mouse can see that the slaves have been branded, but their three children have not been branded. Yes, when those slaves respected their three children and regarded them as the masters of the villa, Zheng Chu didn't open his mouth to correct them. The mouse's desire to be the adopted son of the two adults became stronger. The brothers and sisters of the Huo family were all named. Mouse wished he could be treated the same way.

"Choose a name, okay! What's your last name?" Chu Zhaohui moved around in the yard.

"My lord, the mouse doesn't know what my last name is." The mouse only knows that he is from Weiguo. His first memory when he was a child was that his parents died of illness and he was taken in by a beggar. The beggar didn't know what the mouse's parents' last name was.

"You are from the country of Wei, so take Wei as your surname, and Qing as your first name." Chu Chaohui had a good impression of Wei Qing, a Chinese general who was born as a slave.

"Thank you for the name!" The mouse repeated Wei Qing's name, thinking it sounded very nice, even better than Huo Sizhong.

"Go and wake the slaves up." Chu Zhaohui threw the worker's room key to the two boys.

"Chu Chaohui, do you want to be Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty?" When Chu Zhaohui named the mouse, Zheng Yuming went downstairs and heard it.Hearing that the mouse's name turned out to be Wei Qing, when the two children walked away, they couldn't help but tease Chu Chaohui.

"That's too whimsical. Now we should honestly bring slaves to open up wasteland and farm. Don't starve to death." Chu Zhaohui looked at Zheng Yuming with admiration. Today, Zheng Yuming is wearing the blue dark clothes that Mrs. Wu's wife helped them make. , Zheng Yuming wears ancient costumes, which are more refined than modern ones.

"Can you do it alone in the valley today?" Zheng Yuming is going to Nanbu Village today. He wants to go to Nanbu Village to find someone to make spinning machines and looms.

"It's just 21 thin and weak slaves, I can handle it, but you, you should pay more attention to safety when you go to the village alone, and take the mouse with you to do errands." The mouse, that is, Wei Qing, is very clever. Multiple helpers.

"No, there's Angkor in Nanbu, I'll be fine there, I'll take Huo Sizhong to see if I can train him to be an independent assistant." Children are easier to train than adults, and what the two of them lack most is helpers.

Judging from the current situation, Nanbu is much safer than the valley.Wu Da had already become sworn brothers with them, and their interests and fates were all intertwined. The current Wu Da, his loyalty to them was unquestionable. Zheng Yuming was in Nanbu, and Wu Dahui tried his best to protect his sworn brother.And there are 21 newly bought slaves in the valley. Although these slaves have been intimidated by Chu Chaohui's killing of chickens and monkeys, but the time in the valley is too short, and loyalty has not yet been cultivated. Chu Chaohui, who has a higher force value than Zheng Yuming, Staying in the valley is actually more dangerous than Zheng Yuming going to Nanbu.Wei Qing was smarter than Huo Sizhong, and could help Chu Chaohui better in the valley.

The slaves were called out from the worker's room by Wei Qing and Huo Sizhong. After washing their faces one by one, they ate the food they had dreamed of.After eating enough, these slaves were given tools and followed Chu Chaohui to the junction of the transferred land and the forest to dig ditches and build houses. They used soil and forest trees as building materials. They wanted to build more than a dozen mud houses here. The mudroom would be temporary housing for them and subsequent slaves.

After Zheng Yuming had breakfast, he and Huo Sizhong went out of the valley to Nanbu with the blueprints and tools.

Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong rushed for an hour and a half to arrive at Nanbu, and Wu Da had already led the villagers to greet them at the entrance of the village.There are only 1600 households in the aboriginal register of Nanbu Village, and the whole village has a population of more than 1800.After the children of some families grow up and get married, although they live in separate houses and live in separate houses, their accounts are still on the same register as their parents and brothers.In addition to the aborigines, there are more than a dozen migrant households. They all came to seek refuge with relatives and friends in Nanbu. They built thatched huts on the edge of Nanbu village to sell coolies for a living. Several families in the village were craftsmen and opened small workshops in Nanbu Some of them make wooden ware, some make iron ware, some weave bamboo ware, and another one makes pottery.The actual population of Nanbu Village is nearly [-].

Zheng Yuming read the sheepskin roster, and after listening to Wu Da's introduction to the villagers, he found that Yu Kui, who runs the wine shop, is the most unusual villager in Nanbu Village.Yu Kui came to Nanbu Village six years ago. He is different from other migrant households. Other migrant households have relatives in Nanbu who can rely on them. The port people have no relatives and no reason, but they can be taken in by the villagers of Nanbu. Zheng Yuming has the idea of ​​paying special attention to Yu Kui.

Nanbu is a village formed by immigrants living together from all over the country. After the formation of the village, the villagers spontaneously united into a clan to manage the affairs of the village.There is no large surname with a large population in the village, and the largest surname Wu has only more than 100 people. Therefore, although the clan in Nanbu is headed by the surname Wu, it is not the surname Wu who decides the clan's discussions.Now that Zheng and Chu have become the landlords of Nanbu, and Wu Da and these two have sworn brothers of the opposite sex, the villagers surnamed Wu in the village are very happy, feeling that Wu surname will become the real person in power in the village in the future.

Zheng Yuming stood on a boulder and looked down at his villagers. The living conditions of Nanbu villagers can be regarded as average in Dacheng area, but in Zheng Yuming's eyes, they are only a little better than African refugees.Although the villagers are not as skinny as the refugees who fled to the city, most of their faces are pale.The villagers have different expressions on their new masters in a foreign land, some are hopeful, some are fearful, and most of them are numb.

Zheng Yuming didn't talk nonsense with the villagers, and directly lifted more than a dozen skilled people out of the villagers, announcing that these people would become his hired workers in the future.The villagers who knew craftsman's faces turned pale when they heard Zheng Yuming's announcement. According to the rules of this time and space, Zheng Yuming directly turned the free people into serfs in his own family. Although they were not treated as slaves, they could only work for the master's family in the future. All profits belong to the master, but I can only get food for living from the master.The income of craftsmen in Nanbu can be regarded as upper-middle class among the villagers, and they are not willing to become domestic slaves.

Just when the craftsmen were looking gloomy, Zheng Yuming announced the treatment for them next, which made the craftsmen ecstatic again.After the villagers heard that the monthly salary of the skilled master was 15 yuan, the villagers lost their composure, and all started whispering to each other, so that Zheng Yuming's next arrangement plan for the villagers could not continue.

"Brother Zheng Xian! Isn't the reward for the master too much?" Wu Da was very surprised by Zheng Yuming's generosity. A craftsman who blacksmiths or makes woodware can earn up to ten gold a month in the entire workshop, while Zheng Yuming pays the master a month. There is a reward of fifteen gold, and those apprentices and apprentices who follow the master can also get paid.

"Brother Ang, don't worry, the rewards these craftsmen give us will definitely be doubled." Zheng Yuming knew in his heart.

The patriarch of Nanbu Village, who is also the uncle of Wu Da's house door, walked to Zheng Yuming and asked Yaya: "There are still a few people in the village who know how to forge iron and make woodwork. Can they also work as craftsmen under the master's door?" Several villagers are actually half-toned craftsmen. Under the lure of Zheng Yuming's high salary, they all wanted to become craftsmen.

"Okay, as long as you know how to do crafts, you will be paid every day after the assessment." Zheng Yuming only hated that there were too few craftsmen.

The craftsmen in Nanbu Village blushed with excitement. Apart from envy, the villagers only blamed themselves for not learning the craft and being unable to work for the master. However, Zheng Yuming's subsequent arrangement of things in the village caused the whole village to fall into ecstasy.

The season of this time and space is early spring, which is the third month of the lunar calendar. When the wheat is ripe in the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Zheng Yuming announced that he will not collect taxes from the villagers by then. Not only will he not collect taxes, but he will also help the villagers build waterwheels Water, dig irrigation wells, and organize the digging of irrigation canals. Although these measures are beneficial to the villagers, all villagers can receive two meals a day when doing these tasks.

Working on their own land and getting two meals, the villagers couldn't keep their mouths shut for joy.Regarding Zheng Yuming's request that all villagers in the village must obey the command, they all nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

Zheng Yuming looked at the villagers who looked like they had picked up the pie that had been lost in the world, and couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. The people in this time and space had really low requirements, and provided two meals of food for free, so they rushed to become his cheap labor force. Letting the villagers do these water conservancy projects seems to only benefit the villagers. The villagers will not have to work hard to irrigate the fields in the future.Zheng Yuming's real purpose is to liberate the villagers from the land. He needs labor force, and with labor force, he and Chu Chaohui's plan to get rich through industry can be implemented.