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When the sun was setting, Chu Zhaohui rode a big brown horse and led a group of slave soldiers slowly back to the living area, which was the center of the villa.The camp in the west area has just been built, and it will take a few days before it is equipped with living equipment. With the living equipment, the camp can be used.The slave soldiers still have to go back to the living quarters to rest.

Chu Chaohui’s brown horse was covered with wild game hunted with arrows and crossbows, and the slave soldiers behind him carried wild boars with wooden sticks, which were also today’s hunting harvest.Wei Qing was at the end of the team. He rode a horse of the same color as Chu Chaohui's on his crotch, and the horse was also full of prey.While the slave soldiers were training, they had to go hunting in the forest. The prey they hunted was the main meat in the valley, and the poultry raised in the valley had not grown enough to be eaten.

For the carnivorous beasts in the valley, Zheng and Chu are going to kill them all. On the one hand, these beasts threaten the lives of humans in the valley, and on the other hand, they will cause great damage to the farmland.

Chu Chaohui looked back at the tired soldiers on horseback, and sighed depressingly. The fifty slaves selected from among the slaves were all the strongest in body and smartest in mind. Chu Chaohui planned to Cultivate these people carefully, and cultivate these people into elites. In the future, these elites will become officers of the armed forces and the framework of the valley's future armed forces.However, the results of several days of training made Chu Chaohui dumbfounded. After three days of formation training, there were still seven or eight slave soldiers who couldn't tell the difference between east, west, north, front, back, left, and right, and reported numbers that were less than fifty.On the contrary, these slave soldiers are more willing to endure hardship and exercise than modern recruits during field training. This is probably related to the living environment. Although the field training is hard, it is nothing compared to the suffering they have suffered. Eat well and sleep well, and there will be monthly pay every month in the future.

When Chu Chaohui selected slaves to be soldiers, he promised that the slaves who served as soldiers would receive hardware every month.As soon as the news came out, all the slaves were eager to try.

The slaves in the entire Great Qin could not own private property. Their people belonged to the master, their wives belonged to the master, the children born in the future also belonged to the master, and the income from labor belonged to the master.Now serving as a soldier can earn income, which is beyond the reach of ordinary civilians. Soldiers' food, drink, clothing and housing are all covered by their masters, and hardware is a net income.

When Chu Chaohui gave the slave soldiers their monthly salary, Zheng Yuming was also going to give money to the slaves who worked in the valley.The remuneration of craftsmen will be paid according to the monthly salary of craftsmen in Nanbu Village from next month.

The slaves engaged in agriculture cannot be allocated land yet, but Da Zhuang has learned to keep points. After finishing the assigned work every day, the extra work will start to be counted, and they will be paid according to the work points at the end of the year.

After the slaves are paid, the only things that can be consumed by them in the valley are houses. The houses built for them in the valley are charged. The price of the house is not high, and a master craftsman can pay for it in two years. All these house payments are paid in installments. After all, all the slaves in the valley came in with nothing. If the house payment was paid in full, the slaves would have to save enough money to buy a new house after two years at the earliest.Once a house is built, it cannot be left empty until the slaves are able to buy it.

The slaves pulling weeds in the rice fields saw the soldiers coming back with their prey, their mouths were all gaping open. Having game meat meant that there would be meat to eat at noon and night tomorrow.In summer, the weather is too hot, and the salt is very expensive. The wild game hunted cannot last for a long time. After being slaughtered and cleaned up on the same day, it will be cooked in the cafeteria for the slaves in the valley to enjoy.

"Don't look any more! Pull out all the weeds in this field and go back to have dinner. It's not allowed to pull weeds after dark!" Da Zhuang was also grinning when he saw the slaves around him standing up and staring at the training The returning team yelled loudly.

Ever since Zheng Yuming set up the work point system, the slaves who did farm work refused to call it a day, and even wanted to work in the dark in the dark to earn more work points. The extra work could be converted into money, who? I don't want to earn a lot of money, who doesn't want to own a brick house in the future, that is a good house that only slaves and nobles can afford.

In order to save more work points, the slaves went to the field every day at dawn, and refused to go back after dark. Every time they finished their work, they had to walk around the field to drive back the slaves who refused to leave. When it was dark, the light was not good, and the grass and rice could not be seen clearly. At this time, among the grass pulled out in the rice field, there were always some rice seedlings.

When the women and old people near the villa saw the slave soldiers bringing back their prey, they trotted up to pick up the prey. The children who had rested after work in the afternoon also surrounded them with laughter. The children in the valley were more miserable than the children in the 21st century. Not only did I not have summer vacation, but after class every morning, I had to work in the fields in the afternoon when the sun was not strong, cutting weeds for poultry.However, none of these children thinks that they are hard-working. For them, having food and clothing is happiness. Hunger and poverty have too much impact on children.

Chu Chaohui got off his horse, and after the women and the old man picked up the prey, he ordered the slave soldiers to assemble once before disbanding.The slaves and soldiers had just been dismissed, the craftsmen were leaving get off work from the workshop, and the slaves doing farm work in the fields came back one after another. There were bursts of people talking and laughing in the valley, and the chimneys of several canteens began to smoke for dinner. Looking down at the valley from the top of the mountain , I just feel that the valley is full of life.

The horses of Chu Chaohui and Wei Qing were taken away by the horse slaves. The two slaves used to serve the horses for the nobles. Now the four horses in the valley are under the responsibility of these two slaves.

"Hello, my lord!" Huo Sihua saw Chu Chaohui and Wei Qing entering the courtyard, and hurriedly stepped forward to say hello.

"Has Mr. Zheng come back?" Chu Chaohui and Wei Qing pressed water to wash their bodies by the well in the yard. They sweated too much all day, and they smelled bad all over their bodies.

"No, my lord hasn't come back yet." Huo Sihua hugged Mu Mu, preventing Mu Mu from rushing to the well to play with water.

"It's getting dark!" Chu Zhaohui looked at the sun in the west, Zheng Yuming was going to come back from the dark again today.

"Sir, I'll go to the valley to pick up your lord." Wei Qing volunteered, and now he calls Chu Chaohui the same name he used during training.

"No need, you and Sihua will read a book for a while, I'll go to the mouth of the valley to have a look, and let Mrs. Su boil a pot of hot water for backup." Chu Chaohui said while putting on his sweatshirt.

"Okay, my lord." Mrs. Su replied respectfully.

Mrs. Su was bought from the slave market. She was a 30-year-old widow, alone, but good at cooking.Mrs. Su specialized in housework in the villa, and she did not live with the slaves. Instead, she lived in the half of the worker's room where Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing used to live. After the slaves moved out, the three worker's rooms were given to the Huo family. The three brothers, sister and Wei Qing used a bedroom for each of them.

A wide dirt road has been opened up from the villa to the gap passage, and a lot of wood on both sides of the dirt road has been cut down, so walking on the dirt road is not as gloomy as before.Most of the ferocious wild beasts are the smartest animals. After feeling that the valley became unsuitable for survival, they left the valley one by one and moved to the north of Ulsan. Recently, when Chu Chaohui led people to hunt, the freshness of tigers and leopards could no longer be seen. stool.The number of ferocious beasts in the valley decreased, and it was much safer to walk at night. Chu Zhaohui only brought a pistol and went to the gap to wait for Zheng Yuming.

When Chu Zhaohui reached the gap on foot, it was already dark, and the torches of the watchtower at the wooden door of the gap were already lit.

"Who?" A man's head protruded from the watchtower and shouted at Chu Chaohui.

"Me!" Chu Zhaohui stood under the watchtower and raised his face so that the slaves on the watchtower could see his face clearly.

In the valley, except for Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming, the other slaves had to obtain a special certificate before they could enter and leave the valley. That special certificate was a red one hundred yuan RMN.

There are more than 100 21st-century Chinese 10,000-yuan coins in the villa. That’s because Zheng Yuming is going back to Suzhou for the New Year and deposits all the cash in the bank. If it is normal, the villa’s cash is at least around [-]+, which are all flowers and trees. The merchant pays in cash when buying a small amount of flowers and trees at the villa, and the large amount of flowers and trees is transferred to the bank.

These banknotes have no monetary value, but they are very good as vouchers, because they cannot be counterfeited. The slaves guarding the wooden door can tell the real from the fake as long as they hold the red banknotes and look at the light.In fact, with the printing technology of the 21st century, there is no need to look at the watermark for verification, but as long as the gatekeeper sees someone taking the voucher out of the valley, he will always have to verify it before opening the wooden door.

This banknote is so miraculous that every slave on duty wants to see it. Since the number of slaves who can get out of the valley is very limited, after a few months, only Da Zhuang and Gongsun Jiang used this certificate to go in and out a few times.

"It turns out to be an adult!" There are two slaves on duty on the watchtower. The selected slaves are all family members. They have families in the valley. They care more than the bachelor slaves, and they will not easily betray the valley. Pay more attention to the safety of the valley.

Chu Zhaohui climbed the wooden ladder to the watchtower, and the two slaves in the tower quickly saluted.

These two slaves came to the valley in May. After living in the valley for a month, they only felt that they had been living a life in a dream.You can eat dry rice here, and you can eat meat twice in three days. Each person is given two sets of clothes and a pair of shoes per season. Those with family members can also be allocated two mud huts, and they will have private property in the future.One of the slaves on duty would pinch himself every morning, and he would say 'this is true' when he felt pain, and then he would get up to do things.

When selecting guards in the valley, the two actively signed up. They must guard the passage and prevent outsiders from entering. The masters treat them too well and it is not in line with the rules of the outside world. In such a situation, the two adults will definitely be condemned by the nobles of Dacheng, and they will return to live like animals.These principles were told to them by the very learned teacher Fan Jin.

The watchtower is small and can only accommodate five or six people standing. Mosquito grass is burned inside the tower to repel insects, and the guards on duty rotate every six hours.The two slaves on duty have only been here for an hour, and other slaves will replace them until tomorrow morning.

Zheng Yuming got off his horse at the wooden door, and seeing the flickering cigarette butts at the wooden door, he immediately understood that Chu Chaohui was waiting there.

"Zhaohui!" Zheng Yuming threw the rope to Huo Sizhong, and asked Huo Sizhong to take the horse back to the villa first.After staying in the valley for four months, the Huo brothers and sisters and Wei Qing have grown a lot taller. Huo Sizhong's height has grown the most, and he has almost caught up to Wei Qing's height.

"Would you like a cigarette?" With a cigarette dangling from his mouth, Chu Chaohui took out the cigarette case from his trouser pocket and handed it to Zheng Yuming.

"Well, take a cigarette to relieve fatigue." Zheng Yuming took out a cigarette, took the cigarette from Chu Chaohui's mouth and overfired it, saving the lighter one time to start.There are still more than a dozen usable lighters in the villa, all of which were brought back as small gifts by Zheng Yuming when he went to the hotel for consumption.The lighter is a one-time consumption, and it is useless when it is used up. Zheng and Chu always use modern products based on the principle of saving what can be saved.Now all the fires in the valley are made of flint.

"Are you busy today? It's too late to come back." Chu Chaohui and Zheng Yuming walked side by side on the dirt road. They were going to walk back and exchanged information about each other along the way.

"Businessmen from the Tang Dynasty came to ask for goods, not only for cotton linen, but also for jacquard cloth."

"Isn't there a severe drought in the Tang Dynasty? Can the nobles still afford it?"

"The drought is the drought, and the nobles don't cut taxes, so their income is not low. Besides, there is salt in Tang Dynasty."

Tang State and Wei State are both vassal states with severe drought. Tang State, like Wu, is close to the East China Sea. It produces salt, which can be exchanged with other vassal states for money. The domestic economy is better than that of Wei State.

"If the kings of these two countries don't act, sooner or later there will be chaos." Chu Zhaohui shook his head.

"The first peasant uprising in our time and space was at the end of Qin Dynasty, the time of Qin II." Zheng Yuming frowned.

"It's probably going to be here soon." Chu Zhaohui looked at Zheng Yuming, and both of them sighed at the same time. There has never been a peasant uprising in this time and space. Happened this first.

"Buy some iron from Nanmanduo and go into the valley." Chu Chaohui threw the butt of the cigarette in his hand to the bottom of his feet and stomped it out. The smoke had already been sucked into the filter.

"Nanban mining is not good." Zheng Yuming was very helpless.

The iron used in Nanbu is purchased from Ulsan Iron Mine, which is owned by Ulsan Lord. Zheng Yuming claimed that he wanted to make agricultural tools and obtained the right of first refusal from Ulsan Iron Mine. The quality of iron ore in Ulsan Iron Mine is not good, it is lean ore , making farm tools is okay, but making weapons is much worse.Nanban's iron ore is good, and the weapons it makes are sharp and strong.The Nanban iron ore is used to build weapons in the valley.The iron ore in the land of Tianchao is all lean ore, while Nanman has high-quality iron ore. Zheng Chu and his wife guessed that the high-quality ore was formed when the meteorite fell there from the sky, and the meteorite was rich in iron-containing minerals.

"Sell them equipment, teach them methods, and increase the purchase price of iron ore." Chu Chaohui gritted his teeth. He always felt that storms were coming. Without his own armed forces, Chu Chaohui had nowhere to go.

"Okay, I will do everything I can." Zheng Yuming looked at Chu Chaohui's tense face, which was an expression of no matter what the cost.

The two slaves on the watchtower kept watching the two masters by the moonlight, and when they were no longer visible, a slave praised: "The two adults are really a good pair."

"Yeah, no one can stand with them." Another slave also sighed.

Zheng Yuming and Chu Chaohui lived together on the upper floor of the villa, and they always went in and out at the same time. They both passed the age of marriage and did not start a family. In addition, their appearances matched each other. It was rumored among the slaves in the valley that they were a couple. Now The fact that Chu Chaohui always went to the gap to greet Zheng Yuming further confirmed this guess.