Chapter Seventy-Two: An Extraordinary Magnificent Manor
Harvey Keith worked as a grape picker in Barony Bouz Rupert after attending school at the age of fifteen, and he received nothing for five years of work except for his charcoal-like skin.
Later, the baron had an accident, the fief was recovered, and the baroness disappeared with the dinar and the baron's groom.
Unpaid hired men stormed the Baron's Palace, ransacked it, and set fire to the vast vineyards.
The sheriff and knights arrived, and the peasants fled in all directions. The hapless Harvey Keith was captured and imprisoned, where he ended up being a slave.
Because Hawe can read and write, he helps his hired workers write and read letters while working as a picker, so he has gained a lot of appeal.
When I knew that I and the pickers around me had been bought, my heart suddenly went up and down, and I was full of uncertainty about the future.
Until this moment, even those skilled slaves with empty eyes and numb expressions stood at the portholes and looked at the constantly changing clouds in the sky, their mouths unconsciously opened wide, and they couldn't bother to wipe their saliva.
"Harvey, where are we going to be sold?" asked a short, sunken sunspot.
"Where, I'm afraid, only the gods know, but this time the master must have been a rich man at least, the first time he heard of a buyer who transported slaves by airship. ”
The surrounding foraggers of the former barony were chattering around Harvey, who had not been slaves for a long time, but had only submitted to the laws of the kingdom, and there was still a little agility in their eyes.
"Harvey, look at the direction of the sun outside, we're flying north!"
"There won't be any big people in the royal capital or the imperial capital who want to plant some grapes in their basements, let's go over and pick them, right?"
"Hahahaha". The exaggerated question made the twenty or thirty pickers around Harvey laugh.
On the southern slope of the North Mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the halfway slope, the road that has been repaired is being widened to at least accommodate horse-drawn carriages.
"I thought about renting more airships in the future, but I didn't expect the cost to be so expensive!"
Francis the fat man looked up at the sky to the south, and it was the day when the slaves were sent.
On the southern slope of the northern hill of Yorktown, there are many people at this moment, and the people carrying the wood and the stones are in full swing.
The troll Dosta complained to Extraordinary that the wage premium was too high, and that the wooden houses would not have been built so quickly if they hadn't been paid more.
"Is airship expensive? When the ratio of income to income is getting bigger and bigger, you will feel that airship is too cheap, and the cargo pulled at one time is ten times and a hundred times that of a horse-drawn cart. ”
It was like answering Francis's question, and it was like explaining to the three of them.
Gu Lie took a step forward, stood in line with Feifei, and spread out a scroll of planning maps in his hand.
"My lord, look at the foot of the mountain in the distance in front of you, there is the rest area of the hired man, and the layout inside is arranged according to your wishes, but my lord, do you really need a 'washroom' that can accommodate thirty people at the same time?"
Extraordinary looked at the planning diagram he made by himself, and joked: "Gu Lie, do you want to take the title of Dosta's butler?"
The rest area was built at the foot of the hill for safety reasons, and as for the washrooms, if they weren't big enough, wouldn't the whole camp stink.
Reaching out to the fat man and the troll, Extraordinary pointed at the drawing with his hand as he turned around and crossed the circle at the foot of the mountain.
Based on the principle of proximity, Extraordinary wanted to put the entire living area on the mountain, but after listening to Dosta's account of the horrors of flash floods and mudslides, Extraordinary thought that he had floated and forgot even the most basic common sense.
The living quarters were built at the foot of the mountain, and at the same time there was an alchemy tower under construction, which was also an extraordinary idea, but in terms of appearance and internal structure, with the exception of Dosta, several people thought it was similar to the magic tower.
This extraordinary has its own considerations, once the extraordinary release of poison at that time, it will poison the entire Yorkshire, and even the kingdom of Orlanto, the best plan is, of course, to poison the whole continent.
I'm afraid that there will be a lot of things like "planting beans" growing in the kingdom, and I control it from the core, everyone has beans, even if everyone can bake, so what?
As long as you establish your own brand, I am afraid that the high-end market of the entire mainland will be monopolized by yourself in the future, and the low-end market will definitely have a certain image.
I don't care if it's sour or bitter, as long as there is that sweet and bitter burnt, I love it, and this kind of person is also a lot.
The only way to make a time difference is to reduce the dimensionality of the "bean" merchants who have not yet appeared on the mainland.
"My lord, airship!"
The fat man shouted excitedly, drooling at the rye-grain-sized airship in the air.
The three of them and one beast looked at the airship slowly approaching in the distance, and eliminated the inky black smoke of a curved trajectory at the tail, and the picture looked beautiful.
Look at the mountain and run the dead horse, and watch the airship survive the mortal.
When the sun turned west, there was a sour feeling on the neck of Zhongrao.
The airship flew over unhurriedly, unhurriedly.
Finally, when the darkness began, more than 500 slaves, carrying only a fig leaf, assembled in the center of the "Extraordinary Manor" at the foot of the southern slope of the North Mountain.
The middle two upper body, who didn't have a head, grabbed a large handful of slave contracts and tore them up on the spot, loudly announcing that you are free.
Here, Extraordinary can tell you in all seriousness that you have torn up the slave contract, which may make the slave hate you.
Baskets of coarse cloth were placed in front of 500 slaves, belts were just ordinary hemp ropes, and shoes were straw sandals.
Francis stood in front of the crowd, briefly explained the precautions for bathing, and asked the slaves to begin to get their clothes and shoes.
Two bathrooms, each with a capacity of 30 people at the same time.
It was only after an hour that all the new-looking slaves stood in front of the extraordinary few that they let each of them breathe a sigh of relief.
Although there is no big river on the North Mountain, the streams that can be found everywhere in the mountains solve the problem of water supply.
Extraordinary got up and walked to a makeshift platform, "Ahem".
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's a pleasure to be here at Extraordinary Estate, where I am the owner, Cordo Extraordinary. ”
"I see a lot of confusion and a lot of confusion. I think you've noticed that you're still in Yorktown. ”
After a short pause, sure enough, dozens of people were attracted and listened quietly to this different manor owner.
"I think you'll be wondering, why didn't you come here step by step from the slave market with anklet bracelets?"
"I'll give you an airship ride too, to be honest, I haven't been on an airship until now!"
"Ahem, a few of them over there, what about you. How to hold the clothes in your hands, how not to put them on. ”
Many slaves were slightly commotioned after hearing the extraordinary expression, such a good treatment, is it to let themselves pick hell flowers?
"You've seen the 'bean' trees around the camp, right, as you think, to pick the fruit of these trees."
As soon as the extraordinary words fell, the young and clever slave had already cast his eyes on the large ginseng trees outside the sharpened log fence.
"Okay, follow the symbol in front of your clothes to find the symbol in the restaurant, and then you can eat!"
When I first saw 500 slaves, 500 Spartan warriors flashed to my mind.
If you take these 500 warrior farmers with you, it will be difficult to know if you can break into the outer city.
In addition to being extraordinary, the other three were also tired enough, in addition to complaining that there were many slaves, they also complained about the lack of personnel.
Harvey Keith felt something was wrong the moment he stepped out of the airship, until he took a shower, changed into new clothes, ate at the dining room table, and finally went to sleep in the twenty rooms.
Slaves were rarely bathed and bathed, with no new clothes to wear, no clothes to wear.
Eating is like feeding pigs in the cage, and the benches, dining tables, and many candlesticks in the middle have only been seen in dreams.
Bed is a word that doesn't appear in the dictionary of slaves.
So until he fell asleep, Harvey didn't understand what the young silver-gray haired adult on the stage was thinking!
When they arrived at the second neighborhood, several groups of slaves who had been divided into teams had to go to the southern slope to pick "beans".
Looking at the brand-new gloves issued, a water bottle and a sweat towel for each person, Harvey Keith's head felt like it couldn't be bent.
Even civilian farmers in the major territories don't go down to the fields with a pair of gloves each.
Not to mention this fine iron kettle, which is at least a hundred dinars on the outside.
It wasn't until it was their turn to accept the task that Harvey found himself standing in front of a tall, lanky gentleman.
"You're Harvey Keith, and the thirty or so people behind you are your countrymen?"
"Yes, sir. We come from the same territory, and I hope we don't get scattered, and I can take care of them and ask them to work hard. Praise the gods, it is an honor to work at Extraordinary Estate. ”
Looking at a young sunny slave in front of him who stretched out his hand to touch his chest and saluted, Gu Lie felt strange.
Shouldn't all slaves walk up with blank eyes, take the tools given to them by the overseers, and drink a meal of wheat porridge with no grains of wheat in sight after the whole work?
Although Extraordinary made his ideals clear and allowed himself to help him, these slaves were nominally slaves when they got off the airship, but in reality they were treated more than the homeless and some poor civilians.
Can a slave be fed? No, because a slave can run away at any time.
Can a slave be dressed to keep warm? No, you can pretend to be a civilian if you run away in a fit fit.
"You will be in charge of the management of all slaves in the future, and you will be my deputy. ”
"First select 50 strong slaves and send them to the alchemy tower outside the manor to act as guards there. Then you go and see the alchemy pagoda that is still under construction, and assign the right people. ”
Harvey was still confused until Gu Lie was far away, and more than thirty of his fellow villagers congratulated him in unison.
Let yourself manage 500 people? This is the first one, and you are not afraid that you will escape with the slaves?
But looking at the bathing room and the smelly dining room in the back, Harvey knew that even if he was so skillful, the remaining slaves would not be doing a big job with him.
Including the fellow villagers who are now congratulating around him.