For a long time, the impression of people in this world of the Far North savages is that they are big, have a lot of body hair, have a low IQ, and like to eat people. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhou Ming's impression of the wild men was almost like this, but when the group of more than 200 wild men and women, old and young, were locked up in solid cages by him in groups of ten, the performance of these wild men in the cage still surprised him.

When a small amount of food that could not be eaten but did not starve to death was given to the savages, the savage women who had given birth did not eat it first, but fed it to their children first.

When a poisoned or injured wild man is in great pain and needs to be cared for, there will be some wild man next to him, who will take the initiative to care for him and feed him and drink water.

When a few wild people died due to deep poisoning, their people would also be sad and weeping......

"People are not plants and trees, who can be ruthless, savages are also people, but they are just wild, not without human ......"

Seeing these scenes, Zhou Ming, who originally wanted to sell these savages to slave traders, temporarily changed his attention and wanted a few smart servants to be responsible for managing this savage captive.

"Master Edward, can I give it a try?"

As soon as the words fell, a small servant took the initiative to stand up, Zhou Ming turned his head to look, it turned out to be Derek's eldest son, his previous life - Ryan, he saw that the other servants did not act in time, and he was the first to raise his hand.

There was a great deal of talk among the servants.

"Ryan, isn't this kid afraid of being eaten by savages?"

"Ryan is just a trainee servant, and he hasn't turned regular yet, so he is in the limelight, I must teach him a good lesson!"

"I don't know that this kid was taken by Young Master Edward, and let him enter the castle as the son of a lowly farmer......"

"Okay, don't say it, don't let Master Edward hear it, he's praising Lane. ”

"Hey, if only I had stood up earlier, Ryan was lucky to step on shit......"

Zhou Ming was very pleased, when he was fighting the wild man a few days ago, Derek was very heroic, leading his farmer team to catch 6 strong wild men, but because he rushed too hard, his right hand was smashed by a dying and struggling wild man, the injury was more serious, Zhou Ming took the servant to carry something to his house to see him, just saw the ten-year-old Lane, in the kitchen to help his mother Julina cook, as if he was precocious and sensible, after thinking about it, he took him to the castle, a ten-year-old child, although he was a little younger, but he could be a two-year apprentice servant first, learn some cultural knowledge, which is helpful for future development。

Sure enough, looking at his performance of striving for progress and not being afraid of difficulties, Zhou Ming seemed to see the shadow of himself in the previous life, praised him very happily, and after telling him to pay attention to safety, he handed over the more than 200 savage captives to him for management.

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In the next two or three months, in addition to spring sowing and autumn harvest, and occasionally training 130 carefully selected leaders in the castle (100 are knight leaders and 30 are lord's direct leaders), Zhou Ming spent most of his time on another major matter.

That is, he carved out an area on the downstream shore not far from the town of Rose, and started a large furniture workshop and a large garment factory.

Yes, as early as last winter to the beginning of spring this year, after obtaining a large amount of furs and precious wood through grain trading, Zhou Ming had plans to establish two furniture workshops and garment workshops in Grand Ling.

"There are wood for making all kinds of furniture, fur for making clothing and clothing, and follow-up raw materials will continue to come from other territories, and after the two workshops are basically completed, recruiting a large number of carpenters and garments with good skills has become a top priority for the Grand Collar, and the current Grand Collar is really lacking in these two types of craftsmen. ”

How lacking is it?

In terms of carpenters alone, although there are many people in Rose Town and the other ten villages who know a little carpenter's work, the total number of professional carpenters who are pure and can make furniture with symmetrical and beautiful shapes, uniform specifications and sizes, who are not engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, and who make a living purely from carpenter's craftsmanship, will not exceed 10 in the entire Gela Ling.

This is especially true for a garment maker, a mature garsmith who understands more than a dozen fur processing processes such as fur nitration, tanning treatment, skin drying and shaving softness, and finishing hair style, can find out the number of the whole glanker, which can be regarded as very lucky.

After all, most of the people of this era still wore rough and cheap linen clothing, and the only people who consumed refined fur coats were the aristocracy.

But......

Zhou Ming's backlog in the castle warehouse is now selling furs that can't be moved, and they can't be allowed to stink and rot in it, and there are precious wood, if you don't want to find a way to deal with these things as soon as possible, Zhou Ming's more than four months of hard work will be in vain.

"The recruitment of Seiko carpenters and mature garment craftsmen can only be solved by the power of the Free Business Alliance, but fortunately, the number of member leaders who have joined the Business Alliance has reached 72, including 8 southern leaders and 64 northern leaders......"

After the establishment of the Free Business Alliance, the business activities between the internal member leaders, because of the unified tax rate and the principle of tax exemption (tax exemption for transactions between lords, and another discussion for traveling merchants), business activities have reached a primary active state, and the lords of each member leader, when they have more or less goods in hand, will subconsciously go to the door of the trading station to see the summary information of the supply and demand of goods received by other members on the bulletin board, because this supply and demand table will be updated regularly, so some observant lords will always find some valuable information and taste a little sweetness from it。

However, Zhou Ming still didn't understand why most of the seven lords in the seven counties in the north applied to join the business alliance, while the seven counts in the south, except for the 8 barons in the Rhodes territory, the other lords in the south were not very interested in this free business alliance with a large number of "northern Yankees", and waved their hands and refused to join.

"Could it be that the so-called 'North-South Dispute' in the upper echelons of the kingdom has been fought to such an exaggerated level that even the most normal commercial activities are not willing to engage in it?"

Zhou Ming felt that it was a pity that the market capacity in the south was larger, but just because of the differences and prejudices between the north and the south, water and fire were incompatible to this extent, which was really a pity.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhou Ming to kick out all the Northland members who joined the Business Alliance in order to obtain a larger market, that would be too chilling, he might as well think of a roundabout way to secretly attract potential customers in the south of the kingdom......

In May, when the infrastructure of the furniture workshop and garment workshop in the Grand Collar Workshop District was about to be completed, Zhou Ming asked the messenger in charge of releasing updated information to publish a hot recruitment message on the "bulletin board" of each member leading merchant station:

"Heavy recruitment of skilled carpenters, garment makers, excellent carpenters from 100 gold coins per year, mature garment craftsmen from 200 gold coins per year, no limit, no limit to men and women, no age limit!"

Then, Zhou Ming himself, also non-stop, visited most of the members of the business alliance in more than a month.

Early July.

With the good reputation accumulated in the establishment and development of the business alliance, as well as the personality charm of making a wide range of friends and bold atmosphere, coupled with Zhou Ming's promise, after the benefits of the Grand Collar Furniture Workshop and Garment Workshop, those lords who join in as craftsmen will receive rich returns and share rewards...... By all means, he concentrated a large contingent of craftsmen in the Free Business Alliance, including 300 fine carpenters and 200 mature garment makers, and recruited 500 manual apprentices in a ratio of one belt to one.

In this way, after the completion of the factory, there was no shortage of craftsmen in the furniture workshop and garment workshop of Grand Collar.

In August, after all the preparations were ready, the large-scale furniture workshop and garment workshop of Grand Collar officially entered the stage of assembly line mass production......