The two of them ran all the way to the cliff corner, and there were many more figures on the road that Thor didn't recognize. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not long ago, Thor and 50 warriors and dire wolves went a little deeper into the forest east of the mine, and after some exploration, they spotted a group of barbarians.

The number of these barbarians was not large, but there were only a few dozen or so, and Thor, who had already planned to train his troops, immediately decided to target them.

The battle was easy, only two warriors were scratched by each other's stone axes, and although there were no extra men to forge weapons and armor, these days, the warriors had fish and meat, and the recipe also had pasta made of cassava, and their physical fitness had long surpassed that of the savages in the jungle who drank blood and were hungry for a full meal.

However, after a surprise attack, under the siege of the dinosaurs and warriors, the group of savages fell to their knees and surrendered with their faces against the ground.

The increase in the population of the tribe was a good thing, but the question of what to do with the captured slaves was a real headache for Thor.

There was no shortage of cultivated land in the vast South Island, and Thor could divide the land among the slaves, even giving them the same status as the Soths, but neither Morey nor Diana advised Thor to do so.

Expanding the area of cultivation would only make labor more scarce, and the harvest of crops would take time, and the tribe was now short of not food, but population, and the easy acquisition of land and status on par with the other Sothians would only make the newly developed farming techniques seem cheap, and Diana's suggestion was to assimilate these barbarians step by step.

Thor felt that the two of them had a point, and that the whole cliff corner was in a state of extreme busyness every day, and everyone was working day and night, mining, logging, ironmaking, building houses, and cultivating everywhere needed manpower.

It was assumed that the savages captured from the forest were the main source of labor.

So Sol finally decided to give the captives as slaves to the families of the soldiers in the army, and Saul found that although they were given the most land, because the main laborers were training every day and had no time to cultivate the land, the cultivation efficiency was even lower than that of ordinary families.

While secretly complaining, he hurriedly made a remedy and distributed the captured wildlings to the warrior family, but for the sake of future integration, Thor also stipulated:

The slaves assigned to each family to assist in matters such as farming were collectively referred to as serfs

Serfs were the responsibility of their families for food and shelter

Serfs could be promoted to freedmen after working in the same household for two years

Simply making a rough plan, Thor distributed the captured slaves to the warrior families, and the policy was still very imperfect, but he could only wait for Diana and Morey to discuss the details later.

Now the two of them are often too busy to see each other because of the many matters of the Agricultural Bureau, and after giving Sol advice about slaves, they left in a hurry to do other things, and did not even say a second of gossip to Sol.

Saul was also helpless, he seemed to be the most idle person in the tribe, as for the serfs, although he claimed that the food was the responsibility of the family, but in fact the tribe gave it, because the first individual grain was only in the sowing stage, now the rations of each family are still provided by the Agricultural Bureau, and this supply will continue until the first harvest of individual planting.

As for allowing serfs to be elevated to the status of free people, that is, ordinary Soth people, it was to give the slaves a hope, which could be regarded as an outlet for alleviating the contradictions.

But what Saul didn't expect was that the newly captured slaves were very satisfied with their status as serfs, although they didn't actually understand what serfs were, nor did they understand what the regulations promulgated by Saul meant.

All they know is that if they lose a battle, they will become slaves of other tribes, which is the rule of the island, but no tribe will provide slaves with a life beyond the past.

In fact, the wildlings were stunned when they saw the neatly arranged earthen huts where the Soths lived, and they could not believe that they could live in such houses in the future.

The dwelling of ordinary tribes in the wilderness was nothing more than a simple shed made of thatch and branches, and more often than not, they "lived naked", sleeping on the ground, in straw rope hammocks, and even on tree branches, but never tried to sleep in a house that seemed so warm, sturdy, and secure.

And when the savages first ate the hot and fragrant noodle soup and the soft and delicious stewed oil beans, everyone was stunned, and after hearing that they could eat such food every day as long as they worked, these newly captured slaves went almost crazy, and this was the life they had always dreamed of.

It is better to surrender directly, and being a "slave" here is far more happiness than struggling to survive in a small tribe in the past.

Thor was also shocked by this, and as the living standards of the tribe improved, he was about to forget how difficult it was for this small tribe to live in the wilderness, so that what he thought of as "slave treatment" was actually not much different from the "Nome treatment" in the hearts of slaves.

Thor regretted that he had not set a twenty-year deadline for serfs to be promoted to freemen.

Complaining to themselves, Thor and Bertha came to the warehouse at the corner of the cliff, which was a new house that was later built, larger than Thor's house in the central square, a total of three, dedicated to storing all kinds of grain, charcoal, and other supplies for the tribe.

Thor and Bertha pushed open the door and walked into the middle room, and as soon as they entered, Diana's slender figure came into view, and she stood in front of a cauldron, staring intently into the pot, and did not even notice that Thor and Bertha had entered the door.

The cauldron was lit on fire, and I didn't know what was boiling in it, and a man of Soth was stirring in a circle in the pot with a stick, and beside him was Kaziba, and the old man noticed Saul's arrival for the first time, opened his mouth, and greeted in his deep voice:

"You are here, my master—" His words woke Diana, who looked up sharply, and saw that it was Thor with an excited smile on his face, and his face was as tight as a crisp and delicious apple, and he raised the corners of his mouth and said happily to Thor with the corners of his mouth:

"Lord Thor, the experiment you commanded, Mr. Kazibah, is complete. As she spoke, she pulled out a small yellow square brick from her bosom and handed it to Thor.

Thor also took it with a happy face, and the palm-sized milky yellow strip lay quietly in his hand, like a piece of dried cheese, a slightly pungent smell came from above, and when he rubbed it vigorously with his hand, his fingertips suddenly became slippery and greasy.

That's exactly the kind of soap Saul asked Kazibah to try to make.