Jingle bell

This sound is everywhere in the copper mining area, where adult slaves with normal copper shovels or pickaxes, and juvenile slaves with small copper shovels or pickaxes, busily work in the pit as they dig out pieces of ore and put them into rattan baskets.

Most adults walk with shackles on their feet and even on their hands, making a "clanging" sound.

They hate the heavy stuff they carry on their feet and even on their hands, which greatly limits their walking speed and makes it difficult for them to run and jump.

The rattan baskets were filled with copper ore, and soon slaves pushing wheelbarrows came and used wheelbarrows to transport the copper ore, and these adult slaves pushing wheelbarrows were the better performers among slaves, their hands were not handcuffed, and their feet were still shackled, but they were replaced by shackles with longer chains and less weight.

No matter how good a slave behaves, the shackles will not be easily removed, and no one can be sure that these slaves are really honest, and if the slave behaves well, he can change the slave to a slightly easier job, or give the slave better food.

Just like now, some of the slaves who behaved well left the copper mining area and went to the three cities of Yuancheng, Chicheng, and Zhucheng, and their daily labor became brick-making, and the work of making bricks was much easier than that of mining.

There are also some good slaves who are moving from mining to transporting copper ore by wheelbarrow, which is also easier than mining.

The slaves' diet was mainly vegetarian, with grain and wild vegetables and a small amount of fish, and the food was rationed, and at worst the slaves could be fed.

If the slave behaves well, the amount of fish meat will increase, and sometimes even get animal meat, you must know that in the dragon tribe, the amount of animal meat that the tribe can obtain is greatly reduced, and it takes many days to accumulate before eating a meal of animal meat.

Since the year before last, the dragon tribe implemented slavery, up to now, more than fifty slaves have been killed because of escape or resistance, of course, two-thirds of them died this year, almost every month this year, the dragon tribe's conquest team will conquer a tribe, bringing back a large amount of loot and slaves.

Up to now, the number of slaves in the Dragon Tribe is as high as thousands, which is equivalent to thousands of adult laborers, effectively alleviating the problem of labor shortage in the Dragon Tribe.

The new slaves always want to run away or resist, and the dragon tribe can only use strict rules and a better living environment to make the slaves honest, and at the same time reward the slaves who perform well.

Due to the increase in the number of slaves and the hidden crisis, Su Yan already had the idea of setting up a special department to manage slaves, and transferred a patriarch to the management department, and this matter was put by Su Yan next year.

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"When is this day a head, these hateful guys, I really want to kill them." A stout slave with shackles on both hands and feet and the word "Thirty-Eighty-Two" tattooed on his face whispered in the language of his former tribe to another slave a few paces away, both of whom were from the same tribe whose tribe had been wiped out by the Dragons.

"I also want to, it's just that we people, how can we kill them, they are quite a few of them, and they need sharp weapons." Another slave with the words "Three-Nine-Five" tattooed on his face whispered helplessly.

The words tattooed on the slave's face are their number, and as long as the number is tattooed on the human face, it means that the person is a slave, distinguishing it from the dragon tribesmen.

In ancient China, the tattoo word is called 黥 punishment, also known as ink punishment, one of the five punishments in ancient times, is the longest used in ancient Chinese feudal society a kind of corporal punishment, until the end of the Qing Dynasty Guangxu 32 years when the "Qing Dynasty Statutes" was completely abolished, before and after the use of thousands of years.

382: "I heard that those people are in tandem, and a lot of people have joined them, ready to look for an opportunity to act, kill those hateful guys, and then run away together." ”

395: "Let's join the past, too?" ”

382: "Yes, let's join the past, I don't want to live like this again, even if I die, I have to kill a few of them." ”

No. 395: "Okay, I'll listen to ......"

Syllable! Syllable!

"You two are old, don't talk."

As a soldier approached this side, he heard the two slaves of No. 382 and No. 395 talking, and directly whipped them over, leaving a red mark on each of the two slaves.

No. 382 and No. 395 hid the hatred in their hearts deeply, did not dare to speak, lowered their heads and mined hard.

The two have been in the copper mining area for more than a year, and they have already been able to understand the dragon language, and they can also speak some dragon language, and they are stumbling when they speak, and even the slaves communicate with each other in dragon language, after all, the slaves come from multiple slaves, and they communicate with each other in dragon language plus gestures.

After a slight pause, he continued to walk forward with his people to inspect the copper mining area.

There are many patrol teams like this in the copper mining area, they are all wearing rattan armor and holding a copper shield and a copper axe or copper knife in the other, such a piece of equipment, even if it is besieged by dozens of slaves, it can be dealt with, and in the distance, there are several archers on each wooden building to guard the surrounding situation, once there is a problem, they will immediately open their bows and shoot arrows.

In order to guard the slaves, the dragon tribe has mobilized a large number of clansmen to the copper mining area, and a small number of clansmen have been qualified to join the reserve team and hunting team.

The two slaves 382 and 395 were right, the slaves in the copper mining area were indeed planning the riots, and the masterminds were the earliest slaves of the Dragon Tribe, who came from a tribe in the north that used wolves as totems.

The slaves from the wolf tribe, the leader is dead, and a few people who want to escape or resist are killed, and the rest of the people who want to escape or resist know that they can't escape or resist for the time being, so they can only put aside their thoughts for the time being, and wait for an opportunity in the future.

In the end, slave number nine "came to the fore".

Nine originally belonged to the most powerful people in the wolf tribe, and after the death of the leader, there were fewer people with higher force than nine, and nine firmly wanted to resist in his heart, and soon gathered the small half of the wolf tribe, they were constantly looking for opportunities to resist or escape, but the dragon tribe did not give nine this opportunity.

As the dragon tribe continued to conquer other tribes, the number of slaves in the copper mining area was also increasing, and Nine sent his men to try to contact other tribes, and soon, Nine gathered a large number of people who wanted to rebel against other tribes, and Nine's power was the largest in the large camp of slaves in the copper mining area.

Four-One-Seven: "Nine, when are we going to act?" ”

Nine: "Don't worry, winter is coming, let's act now, what to do in the cold winter, and when we wait for next spring, we are looking for opportunities to act." ”

Four-One-Seven: "Okay." ”

Many of the slaves did not have names, and the number given to them by the dragon tribe became their names instead.