"Smack!"

"Hurry up, the construction period is approaching, if it can't be completed this month, you will all be filled in the river and worship the gods!"

"Hurry up and get me work!"

The scorching sun, a large number of slaves at the foot of the mountain with shackles, under the supervision and whipping of a large number of guards of the local army, continue to dig stones, dig rivers, thousands of slaves along this river that has not yet flowed, day and night digging and building, and looking into the distance, you can see more countless figures, this is along this huge project, has been spreading into the distance.

This is a canal that has not yet been opened, since three years ago began to be built, the Cretan Empire from the territory of nearly 200,000 slaves, from the south of Crete to the Red River Plain, from the beginning of the construction, has been doomed, this is a river made of blood and tears, countless slaves of life and flesh filled into this huge project, the road built, but are all the corpses of slaves, every corner, as if you can see the blood and tears of these hundreds of thousands of slaves.

This man-made project, which can be called the largest in the history of mankind in the continent of Alan, was carried out under the auspices of Prime Minister Tambur, and once connected, it would connect the Na'vi River in the south and the Red River in the north, and at the same time pass through the three major lakes in Crete, forming a transportation vein like a golden waterway, opening up the north-south connection of the entire Cretan Empire.

At the same time, Yancheng, located not far from the Red River Plain, is also within the scope of the transportation vein of this canal, which is the largest salt producing area in Zhongzhou and the northern region, and is a natural salt farm.

The formation of life and daily needs, not only need water, but also need salt, tracing the ancient tribal era, you will find that the migration and settlement of those tribes, not only along the water veins, but also along the origin of salt, without salt, life is difficult to survive, since ancient times, salt is the necessities of everyone's life, but also comparable to gold hard currency.

And the Red River Plain, is the largest natural salt field in the central part since ancient times, orcs and humans, for this salt field, launched wars and massacres again and again, the ownership and master of the Red River Plain, but also with the change of historical events, replacing the protagonist, earlier wars, it can even be said that the war between the king of gold Akhnaton and the Sakya wolf king Costa also started because of this.

Part of the reason for the establishment of the canal is also to take into account the geographical location of Yancheng and the growing demand for salt in the Cretan Empire.

After dozens of hundreds of years of peace, the population of the Cretan Empire also showed explosive growth, the population once exceeded 15 million, and this number was already a few years ago, but the Cretan Empire did not have a large amount of salt production except for the salt city, in order to meet the demand for salt, plus the expansion and increase of the Cretan Empire's north-south connection, the development of commerce, the Duke of Tambur came to power after the promulgation of the canal project.

At the same time, in order to win the consent of the people in Crete and most of the nobles, Tambur issued the bloody and inhumane "Orc Slave Act", and a large number of orcs and half-orcs who were mixed with orcs and orcs who originally lived in the Cretan Empire were all reduced to slavery after the emperor and the prime minister jointly signed the "Orc Slave Act".

Hundreds of thousands of orcs within the Cretan Empire, overnight, from the original ostracized and oppressed low-status environment, into unbearable slaves without the slightest human rights and status, a large number of orcs from all over the Cretan Empire, were captured and sent to various canal excavation project sites, to build canals.

Hundreds of thousands of slaves were brought on ropes and shackles, and day after day, they carved a huge project for the humanity of the Cretan Empire that would allow them to further develop and make life happier for all, but no one remembered that in every part of this project, it was the cries and accusations of these orc slaves.

No one ever thought that their happy and stable life was actually based on the suffering and sacrifice of a large number of people, who were drunk in the glamour, but did not know that every drop of liquid in the cup was someone else's blood.

Joakins is a capable cat half-orc, in terms of age, at this moment he should be at home to help his mother with farm work, take care of his younger siblings, after a few years, his father will help him find an orc girl of the same status, set up a family, continue to work as a tenant farmer for the nobles, although life in the Cretan Empire is not easy, but it is relatively stable.

It had changed dramatically three years earlier, when Tambur had signed the Orc Slave Act, with his father being sent to build the canal with him and his younger brother, and his mother and young sister to other places where they were also reduced to slavery to work for the Cretan Empire.

Two years ago, Joggins's father died because of old age, and half a year ago, Joggins's younger brother died because he was hit in the head by a rocky rolling down the river while digging a river. Half? A year? Or is it a day or two?

If he continues like this, one day he will die here, the end is already doomed, he is just a consumable, no one treats them orc slaves as human beings, and wants to change their fate, unless......

Jorkins immediately remembered the orc slaves who had contacted him a few days ago, they were different from other orc slaves, with tall bodies, strong muscles, and tiger-like eyes, there were many such guys among them.

They weren't slaves, so why did they get involved? What exactly are they trying to do? Jorkins was sweaty, feeling tired and a little dizzy, and his whole person was moving like a walking corpse, and at this moment he remembered the man's words: "Orcs! Never be a slave! ”

This sentence made Joggins tremble involuntarily all over his body, like a slogan that ignited all the flames in his heart, making people feel their blood stirring.

It's late at night, but the lights are still lit on both sides of the canal, and everyone is still desperately digging the river, and the deadline is approaching, if they can't finish it on time, most of them will be killed.

At the same time, the guards and officials in charge of this section of the river project also have to be held responsible, so these days, these human beings, desperately with whips to drive them, let them dig the river day and night, from ten days ago, one after another, there began to be orc slaves can not hold on, one after another corpses are exhausted or sick on this section of the river project, and then dragged down, whether it is a corpse or not, they all know that these guys will be thrown out as corpses.

No one dared to speak or talk, these builders and soldiers, staring at them like vultures, if they made the slightest move, they would be treated as a rebellion, but Jorkins could feel a deep resentment and anger, hidden in everyone's hearts.

All it takes is a lead, or a little spark, to instantly detonate this place, releasing all the anger and resentment in everyone's hearts.

"It's on fire! It's on fire! ”

At this moment, there was a sudden firelight in the distance, and everyone raised their heads and looked into the distance!