Right next to the dead body, Chu Chao Hui conducted the first lecture to the slaves, announced the rules that the slaves must abide by, that is, to listen to more work is not allowed to run around, but also to the slaves to set a good treatment, as long as the work is not lazy to play the grinding labor, will be able to eat and wear warm clothes.
People who had already been shocked by Chu Chao Hui's pistol execution of the stout slave, seeing the power of the weapon in Chu Chao Hui's hand, one after another thought that Chu Chao Hui had a heaven-defying magic weapon, even from a hundred miles away, could take his life, and originally had only the desire to live in their hearts, and now that their food and clothing were guaranteed, they simply did not have and did not dare to have any other thoughts.
The body of the stout slave whose head was pierced by a bullet was dragged to the forest and buried, the two slaves responsible for burying the stout slave were disgusted, did not dig the pit deep and buried it hastily, as a result, on the second day, the stout slave's body was plowed out of the pit by wild beasts and ate only a few pieces of bones scattered around, this slave who had two lives in his hands was bought by Chu Chao Hui to make an example of him, and finally ended up with a corpse without bones.
After dealing with the stout slave, Chu Chao Hui commanded the slaves to carry the purchased supplies into the kitchen storage room, which could not fit in the kitchen storage room, so it was put into the half dormitory of Huo Si Zhong and Rat. The purchased ceramic bowls and pots were taken out and cleaned, the tableware that the slaves will use in the future will be local products, the bowls and pots from the previous time and space have been put into cardboard storage and moved to the villa attic, and the supplies that are too conspicuous in the kitchen have also been collected, and the utensils in the villa have been replaced with items from this time and space as much as possible.
Most of the supplies carried back to the valley by the slaves were food grains, including corn, wheat, and soybeans. In this time and space, people had not yet invented the mill, and except for corn, which could be crushed with stones, wheat and soybeans were either boiled and eaten directly, or crushed and made into cakes, just as corn was, and the wheat cakes that were given to the slaves to eat on the road were made of flour and bran mixed together.
The villa attic Zheng Yuming grandfather left a pair of small mill was moved to the well and wiped clean, a few slaves under the guidance of Zheng Yuming, a bag of wheat into a powder, powder with a sieve sifted once, you get flour, the slaves that day's dinner, it is corn porridge with and salt of the noodle lumps.
The floors of the three workmen's houses were covered with sun-dried dry grass, which was covered with the cheapest coarse linen, and these were the temporary beds of the slaves. The twenty-one slaves were divided into three groups of seven slaves per house.
"Father! We've met a good master." The teenage slave lay down on the straw bunk with his clothes on, and although he didn't have a quilt, the pincushion on his body made him feel very warm, and it was very comfortable to sleep that way.
"Yes, the gods have blessed us with good luck. Da Zhuang, you must do well in your work tomorrow." The crippled middle-aged man, Dazhuang's old man, touched his warm stomach and tears trickled out of the corners of his eyes. He had thought that he was old and disabled, and would be drowned in the Yangtze River after failing to sell, and had been prepared to wait for death in his heart, and his only hope was that his son would be bought by a good owner, but his son's unknowing plea for a good owner had made the owner offer to buy him, a waste of money, and Dajiang's old man felt that it must have been the legendary gods who had manifested their blessings, and that it was the gods who had sent the two merciful outsiders to rescue them.
"Where are you guys from? I'm an escapee from Tang, everyone calls me Erzi." The slave who was near the father and son pair put his head together.
"We're from Chu, near Dar City." Big Strong replied in a whisper, as did several other slaves in this room.
"Aren't you guys rich in Chu?" On his flight, the second son had only heard of the widespread famine in the northern vassal states, while Wu and Chu in the south were in much better shape; Chu was too far away from Tang, and most of Tang's starving people chose to flee to Wu to survive.
"Our place is mountainous and lacks water, last year there was a drought and the landowning noble lords refused to reduce the rent, so many people starved to death in that village of ours, my sister and brother starved to death, and my father and I had to flee our home town to come to Dacheng to find a way to live."
Dazhuang's mother died a few years ago, his father to the surrounding villages on the farmers to build iron tools for a living, the family planted a lot less land than other families, when there is a bad year, the family food was landlords and nobles collected, the commoners do not have enough to eat, and no one has no money to Dazhuang old man here to build iron, Dazhuang old man has no income, and when the family's two skinny children died of starvation, but still owed the main family rent, the only land that can produce food was taken back by the main family to be distributed to other farmers. The only land in the family that could produce grain was taken back by the master and distributed to other farmers. Not wanting to be a sitting duck, Mr. Dajiang took his eldest son out to look for a way out, but he didn't want to be crippled by a fall on the way to escape.
"Our master is so generous, he even gave us salty noodles to eat, I've never eaten such delicate pasta before, it's so delicious, I hope to eat pasta every day from now on." Er Zi lay down on the grass bunk in a cozy reverie.
"Dream on! The master is going to be poor if he gives us pasta every day!" The slave lying beside Er Zi felt that his companion was whimsical, giving them better food at the beginning was the master's attempt to recruit people's hearts, as far as he knew, the richest villagers in his own village couldn't even afford to eat corn porridge every day, and the master had to eat them poorly if he gave them such a good treatment every day? This slave likes his master who has outstanding appearance, likes the hemp clothes on his body, likes the house that doesn't leak, and doesn't want his master to go bankrupt by them eating poorly, he doesn't want to resell his master eating poorly. This kind of corn porridge with delicate noodle lumps, a few times a month he is satisfied.
Early the next morning, Chu Chao Hui opened the door to the villa, and Rat and Huo Si Zhong were standing on the steps outside the door as usual.
"Good morning, my lord!"
"Morning! Are the water tanks all full?"
"It's full, and the corn has been placed in the cauldron to simmer." Rat always answered cleanly in front of Hoszhong.
"The noodle lumps are also released." Although Huo Si Zhong was slow, he was also spurred on by Rat's invitation to take credit and was forced to grab his words. "The soybeans have been washed and soaked in the kitchen."
"Well done." Chu Chaohui was satisfied with the two boys' performance.
"My lord! Can you help Rat have a name?" Rat was very envious of Huo Sizhong having a name, Zheng Chu and his two men bought slaves this time, letting Rat see that those slaves were branded, while their three children were unbranded, when those slaves were respectful to their three children, treating them as villa masters, Zheng Chu did not open his mouth to correct them, and Rat's heartfelt wish to be the righteous son of the two lords became even stronger, as Huo's siblings were all given a name, and Rat hoped that he could have the same treatment.
"Take a name, yeah! What's your last name?" Chu Chao Hui moved around the yard.
"My lord, the rat does not know what his surname is." Rat only knows that he is a Wei country people, his initial memory as a child, is that his parents died of illness was taken in by a beggar, that beggar also does not know what Rat's parents surname.
"You're from Wei, let's take Wei as your surname, and for your first name, let's take Qing as your first name." Chu Chao Hui had a soft spot for the famous Han general Wei Qing, who was born as a house slave.
"Thank you, Your Honor, for the name!" Rat's mouth repeated the name Wei Qing, thinking that it was very good, better than even Huo Si Zhong.
"You guys go wake up the slaves." Chu Chao Hui threw the key to the workers' room to the two boys.
"Chu Chao Hui, do you want to be Emperor Wu of Han?" When Chu Chao Hui named Rat, Zheng Yuming came downstairs just in time to hear it. Hearing that Rat's name was surprisingly Wei Qing, he couldn't help but flirt with Chu Chao Hui when the two children walked away.
"That one is too whimsical, now it's better to honestly lead the slaves to open up the land and plant, don't starve to death." Chu Chao Hui measured Zheng Yuming with an appreciative gaze, today Zheng Yuming wore the green colored dark clothes that Wu Da's wife had helped them make, Zheng Yuming wore ancient clothing, more elegant than wearing modern clothing.
"Will you be able to make it alone in the valley today?" Zheng Yuming was going to Nambu Village today, where he was looking for someone to make spinning machines and looms.
"It's only twenty one skinny slaves, I can handle it, it's you, you need to pay more attention to safety when you go to the village alone, bring Rat with you as an errand boy." Rat, also known as Wei Qing is very resourceful, if there is any situation, Zheng Yuming can have more than one helper.
"No need, Nambu has Brother Wu, I'll be fine there, I'll bring Huo Si Zhong with me and see if I can train him to be a unique assistant." Children were better trained than adults, and what the two lacked the most was helpers.
With the current situation, Nambu is much safer compared to the valley. Wu Da has already been married to them, interests and destinies are intertwined, now Wu Da, their loyalty to them is unquestionable, Zheng Yuming in the south port, Wu Da will do his best to protect his brother-in-law. And the valley has just bought twenty one slaves, these slaves although has been Chu Chao Hui's kill the chicken example deterrent, but come to the valley time is too short, loyalty this thing has not been cultivated, the force value is higher than Zheng Yuming Chu Chao Hui, stay in the valley in fact, than to go to the south port of the Zheng Yuming danger. Wei Qing is smarter than Huo Si Zhong, and is more able to help Chu Chao Hui in the valley.
The slaves were called out from the worker's room by Wei Qing and Huo Sizhong, one by one, they washed their faces and then ate the food they had been dreaming of. With their stomachs full, these slaves were distributed tools and followed Chu Chao Hui to the junction of the land and forest that they had teleported over to dig trenches to build their houses, using dirt and trees from the forest as building materials, they were going to build a dozen or so mud huts here, these mud huts were going to be the temporary accommodation for them and the slaves that followed.
Zheng Yuming finished his breakfast and left the valley with Huo Si-Zhong for Nambu with drawings and tools.
Zheng Yuming and Huo Sizhong hurriedly traveled for an hour and a half before arriving at Nambu, where Wu Da had already greeted them at the entrance of the village with the village people. There were only two hundred and eight households on the Nambu village's original resident register, with a total village population of more than 1,600 people. The children of some families have grown up and started their own families, and although they have split up and built another house to live in, their heads of household are still on the same roster as their parents and brothers. In addition to the aborigines, there are more than a dozen foreign families, all of whom came to rely on friends and relatives in Nambu and built huts on the edge of Nambu village to sell laborers for a living, and there are a few families in the village who are craftsmen, and open small workshops in Nambu to earn a living, some of them making wooden utensils, some of them making iron tools, some of them weaving bamboo utensils, and one of them firing ceramic utensils. The actual population of Nambu Village is nearly 1,800.
Zheng Yuming has read the sheepskin roster and after listening to Wu Da's introduction of the people in the village, he realizes that Yu Kui, who owns a wine shop, is the most unusual villager in Nambu Village. Yu Kui is six years ago to the village of Nambu, he and other foreign households are different, other foreign households are in Nambu have relatives can rely on, rely on kinship in Nambu to live down, and this Yu Kui and Nambu people have no relatives, but let the villagers of Nambu to take in, Zheng Yuming Yu Kui up to the idea of extra attention.
Nambu is a village formed by immigrants from all over the world. After the formation of the village, the villagers spontaneously united into a clan to manage things in the village. There are no big family names in the village with a large population, and the largest Wu family name has only a hundred or so people, so although the Wu family name is the head of the clan, it is not the Wu family name that makes the decisions on clan discussions, and the deliberations in the clan are more democratic. Now Zheng Chu two people become the landlord of Nanbu, Wu Da and these two people and the worship of the opposite sex brother, the village Wu villagers heart happy, feeling Wu will become the real power in the village in the future.
Zheng Yuming stood on a boulder overlooking his villagers, the living conditions of the villagers in Nambu were already considered medium in the Dacheng area, but in Zheng Yuming's eyes, it was only a little better than the African refugees. Although the villager's were not as skin and bones as the refugees who fled to Dacheng, most of their faces had a vegetable color. The villagers had different expressions on their faces for their new masters in a foreign land, some were expectant, some were fearful, and more often than not, they were numb.
Zheng Yuming didn't talk nonsense with the villagers, directly first lifted the dozen people with crafts out of the villagers, announcing that these people will become his hired laborers in the future. Craft villagers will listen to Zheng Yuming's announcement, one by one, the face began to whiten, according to the rules of this time and space, Zheng Yuming is a free man directly into his own home serfs, although not slave treatment, but in the future can only do things for the master, all the profits belong to the master, but they can only get from the master hand to make ends meet food. Nambu craftsmen income in the villagers counted in the upper middle class, they are not willing to become a slave.
Just when the craftsmen's faces were bleak, Zheng Yuming next announced the treatment given to them, and made the craftsmen ecstatic. When the villagers heard that the master craftsman's monthly remuneration was 15 qianpai, the villagers were not calm, and all of them talked to each other, so much so that Zheng Yuming was unable to continue with his plan of arranging for the villagers.
"Sage Brother Zheng! Isn't the remuneration given to the master craftsman too much?" Wu Da was very surprised at Zheng Yuming's large sum of money, a smith who made iron or woodwork would earn up to ten gold a month for the entire workshop, while Zheng Yuming gave the Master Master fifteen gold a month, and those who followed the Master's disciples and apprentices were still paid just as much.
"Brother Wu, don't worry, the returns that these craftsmen will give us will definitely multiply a hundredfold." Zheng Yuming had a bottom in his heart.
The patriarch of Nambu village, also Wu Da's house uncle, walked to Zheng Yuming's side period Yaya said, "There are still a few people in the village who can play iron and do wood work, can they also go to the adult door to do craftsmen?" These villagers are actually half-toned craftsmen, in Zheng Yuming's high salary temptation, one by one want to agriculture to craftsmen.
"Yes, as long as you can craft, we'll set the daily pay after the test." Zheng Yuming only hated that there were too few craftsmen.
The craftsmen of Nambu village were all so excited that their faces turned red, and the villagers, apart from envy, only blamed themselves for not having learned their crafts and not being able to serve their master's family, but Zheng Yuming's next arrangement of the village's affairs threw the whole village into ecstasy.
The season in this time and space is early spring, it is the third month of the lunar calendar, by the fifth month of the lunar calendar, it is the time when the wheat is ripe, Zheng Yuming announced that he will not charge the villagers taxes by that time, not only will he not charge the taxes, he will also help the villagers to build a waterwheel to turn the water, to excavate irrigation wells, and to organize the digging of the irrigation canals, although all of these measures are beneficial to the villagers, all of the villagers will be able to collect two meals of food per day when they are doing this kind of work.
In order to work on their own land and also get two meals, the villagers were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths. For Zheng Yuming's request that the entire village must follow the command, each head nodded like a chicken pecking rice.
Zheng Yuming looked at the villagers a look of picking up the world fell out of the pie look, can not help but exhale a heavy breath of air, this time and space of the people's requirements are really low, gratuitous supply of two meals, one by one, scrambling to become his cheap labor force, so that the villagers to do these water conservancy projects, it seems to be only beneficial to the villagers, the villagers do not have to struggle to pick up the water to irrigate the fields in the future. Zheng Yuming's real purpose is to free the villagers from the land, he needs labor, with labor, he and Chu Chao Hui's plan of industrial wealth can be implemented.