Chapter 338: The Slave Camp (4)

I can't help but sigh with emotion. 【Reading.com】

Since a slave is a slave, no matter how good you are to him, he is on the opposite side of the slave owner. This antagonism is much stronger than the antagonism between employees and bosses.

Slaves were inherently rebellious, especially when they learned that they were bought, not hired, that is, they would not be returned.

Whether it was a vain attempt to escape, a fight for more food, an outburst of negative emotions among slaves, and an attempt to escape heavy physical labor, the overseers needed to deal with it properly.

On the fifth day of work on the highway, the soldiers on the seventh-rank tree sentry killed two slaves who tried to escape - this was almost a sure thing, the construction section of the highway was very long, and on both sides of the highway was a vast wood, and in the eyes of the slaves, as long as they ran two or three hundred meters without the attention of the manager, they could escape.

Their ability to survive in the jungle may not be weak, but they are obviously not as strong as the village hunters armed with special equipment such as automatic rifles and compasses.

After two bodies were hung on both sides of the newly built road and allowed to be visited by the slaves, the slaves quieted down. Then there was the battle for food at noon, followed by the battle for bunks in the evening......

Dai Adi, nicknamed the Red Wolf, was busy carrying out various trials and repressions, and the Killing Wei Bāng broke the four, but the energetic and strong slave tried to continue the escape at night......

As a war slave, after the brutal temple war, a simple beating could not make them succumb, not to mention that Shi Nengren strongly asked Dai Adi to control the intensity of punishment, so that more slaves could carry out their normal work the next day.

Although the general practitioner Jin Mian used slaves to hone his medical skills, he also did not like the many patients with the same trauma, so he also protested.

But when the slaves broke the rules, they never diminished.

Dai Adi finally got into the hustle and bustle, like Li Duo's maintenance team, running between construction sites every day, the latter repairing vehicles, and he repairing slaves.

"I finally know how slave society collapsed." When Dai said this to Shelei, he was ordering 30 slaves to be beaten at the same time. The charges were sī hiding food and tools, and it was clear that these were the prelude to a new escape.

She Lei experienced a short period of ups and downs, and finally smoothed out the edges and corners, and nodded with a cold expression. He was in favor of the ròu body punishment, but did not participate in it.

"I think only by killing can we deter these hún eggs." Dai Adi was cruel by nature, and the reason why Chen Yi brought him from the martial arts hall to the Western Continent was also so that he could take charge of the punishment and play a deterrent role.

This kind of personality-driven approach is still very unnecessary when there are no clear rules.

"If it really doesn't work, send them back to the slave camp, let them go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder, and change a batch of docile ones." She Lei suggested again.

"It's not worth it, it's that far, and it's through Mara City...... The slaves will know this. Dai Adi pursed his lips and said, "Don't underestimate these slaves, they are all professional soldiers, as long as they don't rebel on a large scale, no one you can replace them from stopping the escape." You can only keep killing and show them something more terrifying. And, who doesn't like debt slaves, well-behaved and dexterous. ”

"Debt slaves are high-end slaves, and if they are literate, they can also help their masters tidy up their study and so on." Shi Nengren did not say how to deal with the slaves in the water village.

Doing is more important than talking, especially if the other party does not affect their own plans. Essentially, slaves were the property of the capital construction group - so they were departmental interests, so Sneeren still wanted to be able to resolve the issue peacefully, especially without affecting the further purchase of slaves.

He already knew from Da Yang that there were more than 100,000 surplus slaves in the slave camp, and if he could buy them all, no matter what Mara City was to build, the problem of manpower would not be a constraint.

At the same time, if there are 100,000 subordinates, no, even if there are only 10,000 subordinates, their status will be different-Shi Nengren thought of the diamond-shaped office in Xijiang Water Village, where Yu Weichao and other upper echelons of the Water Village deliberate. At present, the only people who can often appear there are Yu Weichao, She Lei, Li Changning and Li Feng. He, Qin Dajiang and others can only be the second batch, but if the capital construction team expands vigorously...... He had completely forgotten about the city walls that had been stopped and had set his sights on the road.

The Mara city-state has at least two or three prefecture-level cities, in other words, if the roads are renovated in their entirety, there will be endless infrastructure construction and unlimited expansion rights.

All this is based on the premise that the slaves can play a real role.

The next day, Shi Nengren got up early in the morning and went to supervise the second phase of the market, which is currently the largest in terms of construction.

The slaves got up before dawn and went to work, driven by an indigenous platoon, 30 men of the second class spearmen and non-commissioned officers with automatic rifles, almost one-seventh of the number of slaves, and at least one infantry squad in the other sections.

She Lei and Li Changning were not very happy about this, and Yu Weichao gave Shi Nengren only one month to return to normal.

After a month, the number of supervising troops was to be reduced to one-tenth of the number of slaves, and then to one-twentieth.

Shi Nengren was thinking about this matter, and a new accident occurred on the construction site of the second phase of the market - deliberate destruction of tools.

When historians criticize the slave society of the later period, the "tool of destruction" of passive sabotage is often seen in the ends. This was an early form of violent non-cooperation, whether it was a farm tool or a craftsman's implement, and when the tools were destroyed, the work was often difficult to carry on, and the slave master either put more effort into the management or replaced it with more cumbersome tools...... The former increases costs, while the latter reduces productivity.

On the construction site of the second phase of the market, the clever slaves did not destroy the tools in their own hands, they destroyed the cranes at work, and pierced the mailboxes and tires of three cars, but fortunately did not ignite.

It seems that they can see through the weaknesses of mechanical vehicles without modern education.

Dai Adi hurried over, looked at the two hundred slaves who were squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the eight "slaves involved in the case", and couldn't help but whisper: "It's better for us to do it ourselves." Do you want to kill them all? ”

"The tools of destruction cannot be killed, otherwise there will be more violent ways of resistance."

"They have already tried to fight, flee and attack the indigenous soldiers, what else do they want?"

"Attacking indigenous soldiers?" Sneng Ren didn't know about it yet.

Dai Adi sighed and said, "It was this morning, what happened in the quarry, a slave attacked the indigenous soldier with a sharp stone, and was seriously injured, and then the slave clamoured, the soldier fired, and 6 of them died. Let's make an example. ”

Shi Nengren glanced at Dai Adi dissatisfied, he didn't like this young man who advocated strict punishment and strict law, especially when he overstepped his responsibilities and interfered in his own internal affairs.

None of the colleagues in the capital construction team like to carry cement sandbags under the scorching sun and configure hún concrete...... They would rather be overseers...... Moreover, although 1,000 slaves are troublesome, the simplest manual work is still more than that of wage workers, and it is difficult for Xijiang Water Village to absorb thousands of wage workers today.

"I'll figure it out." Shi Nengren said, and said two words to the native officials of the three poles who followed him, and the latter ran away in a hurry.

Dai Adi found that Shi Nengren was not ready to be severely punished, so he was anxious and said, "I can find out the one with the most serious crime from these slaves, teach him a lesson, and I can't let them go." ”

"I won't let them go." After Shi Nengren answered, he stood up and said to a group of slaves: "From today onwards, we will implement a new policy, and the group will be responsible. Now, the soldiers, put every 15 slaves, divided into a group, immediately. ”

He ate konjac, the lingua franca, and spoke words that the slaves could understand.

The clerks who ran out at the right time found some máo towels with different faces, and also distributed them, according to different groups, there will be different máo towels.

"Keep everyone on record." Shi Nengren finished whispering, and then said: "Now, all the 8 teams involved in destroying tools, you will not have food at noon. Others began to eat. ”

"Why don't we have anything to eat?" Immediately a slave shouted out.

Without Shi Nengren answering, the spearman drew it with a stick.

Buckets of hún were served with ròu-scented soup and boiled sweet potatoes, which were much better than life in a slave camp, and although they didn't feel fragrant, they were always good enough to fill their stomachs.

And among the large barrels, a plate full of blue cow ròu is the most eye-catching, and the snow-white steamed bun next to it makes the former soldier drool. Grain was a good thing that only the nobles could eat, and they could occasionally share it when they won battles, but now they almost forgot its taste.

"Who was the first to arrive at the construction site today?"

A brown-skinned slave stood up.

"Your name."

"Duke."

"Legume? Okay, legumes, from today onwards, you are the leader of the red máo towel group, and your team is entitled to this plate of ròu and steamed buns. ”

Du looked suspiciously at his teammates who he didn't know.

Shi Nengren made a gesture of please.

Duke's suspicion did not defeat Shiyi, and finally rushed up and gobbled it up. Two seconds late, 14 of his teammates pounced.

ròu soup, it must be cooked with these ròu. Since the ròu soup is so delicious, it must taste even better if you come to ròu that you haven't tasted for a long time......

"Duke, he was only the first in line when he was in line, so he was the first to enter the construction site." Eventually, an objection was raised, and in a relatively standard manner.

Shi Nengren shook his head and said: "We don't talk about fairness, we only talk about loyalty." Every day there will be a slave who will be promoted for some kind of good work on the job, and his team will share in the fruits of his victory. And there will always be a last place where the whole group is punished for some kind of behavior that is not good for the construction site...... Hard work won't necessarily be rewarded, but anyone who is lazy and slippery will be punished, and possibly the whole group. ”

After speaking, he said to the students in charge of supervision: "From today on, as long as there are no serious injuries or deaths in the slave cells, there is no need to control them...... Over jī behavior. ”

"That's going to be a fight, and now it's going to be fought just for whoever uses the toilet first."

"Give them a space to release the pressure, and from today onwards, this group of people, according to the new rules, will be used as a pilot."

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