Chapter Seventy-Three: The Importance of Trustworthiness
Ziggy certainly knew that the existing Minotaur orc slaves would find a way to ask to be soldiers, and this was a deliberate effect he had created. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
No one would watch the opportunity for a free status slip through their eyes, and the only way for a minotaur slave to become a soldier was to fight as a soldier.
It just so happened that the overseer of their barracks was Dwayne Johnson, who was also a minotaur orc, as the saying goes, the villagers were full of tears when they saw the fellows, and this group of minotaurs was even more tearful when they saw the same clan.
After all, the quiet and resolute Dwayne Johnson is also a Minotaur orc, and he doesn't need the dozen or so of his fellow clansmen to plead, and under the honest genes brought by the ploughing ox, he immediately agreed to intercede with Lord Ziggy for these dozen Minotaur orcs.
This kind of relationship is sometimes not as good as bullshit, but sometimes it is very useful.
Dwayne Johnson's mentality at this time is basically similar to Ziggy's exchange of iron pots and steppe orcs for captive humans, and few people can watch their own race being enslaved and oppressed by foreign races without a little sympathy.
Especially in the current environment, when there are not many people of the same race, they will generally lend a helping hand to each other.
The most important thing is that Dwayne Johnson's ten meritorious contributions to freedom are too easy, these demonic beasts around Grizzly Bear Village are not too strong, plus they are all twenty or thirty people with crossbow arrows to cooperate, as long as those demonic beasts are not some of the earth demon bears or stone turtles that are known for their defensive power, there is no flesh and blood body that can resist under the serious injury of inserting twenty or thirty crossbow arrows into their bodies.
If twenty or thirty crossbow arrows are not enough, then one more round, two volleys, forty or fifty crossbow arrows stuck in the body, who can stand it?
"It's not that I don't give them a chance, the demonic beasts around Grizzly Village have been cleared, and now we don't need to clear the demonic beasts anymore, if we want to make military merits, we can only go to the battlefield. Ziggy said lazily.
That's Ziggy's trick.
Ziggy gave Dwayne Johnson ten times to redeem himself as a slave, is it because Ziggy is compassionate, because Ziggy is a benevolent and benevolent person?
Not at all!
Ziggy is just trying to build credibility with these slaves!
The minotaurs were tall and strong, and Zieg had long coveted their fighting power.
It's a pity that the Minotaur Orcs are a docile and enslaved race for a long time, a complete slave race, and it is not easy to turn them into an army.
History has taught us countless times that turning oppressed slaves into armies is counterproductive.
You don't need to look it up on the Internet, it's in history textbooks.
At the end of the Shang Dynasty, King Wu of Zhou was about to hit Chaoge, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, when the King of Zhou had no soldiers, and someone gave him the idea to arm the slaves in Chaoge City to resist.
The later result is known to everyone, the slave army of the king of Shang either defected or fled, and King Wu of Zhou decided the battle and destroyed the Shang Dynasty to establish the Zhou Dynasty.
Think about it for a while, a group of oppressed slaves suddenly issued weapons to let them go to the battlefield to fight hard, can these slaves who have been oppressed for a long time really fight for the king of Shang?
Definitely not!
After the war, if the slave is still a slave, he will be oppressed and enslaved, and the slave will be willing to fight hard, and there will be ghosts!
Some people will ask, in this case, the king of Shang is not necessarily a fool, before distributing weapons to slaves, maybe he promised to give them freedom if he won the war, so that the slaves would fight desperately, right?
That's the right question!
Will the slave believe the promise of the slave owner?
Slaves and slave owners were two naturally hostile classes, and if it weren't for the whip in the hands of the slave owner, and the shackles on the hands and feet of the slaves, the slaves would have been eager to kill every slave owner who enslaved them.
Hatred has long grown into a towering tree in the hearts of slaves, and the seeds of trust have just been sown, and it is still unknown whether they will survive.
There must be a worry in the hearts of the armed slave soldiers, I have worked hard for the slave master, what should the slave owner do?
Thinking of this, if Ziggy wants to arm these minotaur orcs, he must make some preparations.
The first is to build credit.
But how do you build credit?
This is to learn the martingale.
There is no need to look up this example on the Internet, but anyone who has gone to school has seen it in a textbook, and it is called - Miki Lixin.
Shang Ying changed the law to establish credit with a very simple thing, that is, to erect a large log on the market where people come and go.
It is estimated that this big wood is very heavy, but the reward is even heavier, as long as this wood is moved from one place to another, the Qin State Government will give the strong man who recruits a lot of gold.
Due to the people's distrust of the government, no one was really willing to do this at first.
If you think about it, you can get so much money by carrying a piece of wood? This is too easy, right? No one believes in this kind of pie-in-the-sky thing, even if you go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, you can't get so many bounties!
Especially the promises of the government, after all, the people are naturally distrustful of the government and the aristocracy.
However, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, and there are really people who have been recruited, and when someone applies and gets that valuable bounty, all those who hesitate because they don't trust the Qin State government will definitely regret it.
The matter of Ximu Lixin was to establish the credit of the Qin State government in the hearts of the people through a simple and trivial matter.
If Ziggy wants the minotaur slaves to believe that he will keep his promise and set them free after they have established their military exploits, he must first learn the method of the minotaur and establish a promise that has been fulfilled for the slaves.
Let them know that they are truly going to keep their promises.
Hunting Warcraft can make military merits and become a free man, but after the Warcraft is killed, you can only go to the battlefield to make military merits!
Through the example of Dwayne Johnson the Minotaur, those Minotaur slaves will believe that if they work the battlefield to make military achievements, they can become free people!
In this way, these minotaur slaves would definitely fight hard when they went to battle, and Ziggy did not have to worry about them defecting or escaping.
"However, we can give them the opportunity to train now, without training, they can't even use shields and weapons, how can they go to battle?"
"Okay, I'll go back and prepare!" "Dwayne Johnson the Minotaur Dwayne Dwayne heard that Ziggy had nodded in agreement, and he didn't know how excited he was, this kind of excitement was rare in Dwayne Johnson, who had a quiet and resolute personality.
"Wait, go to the smithy and tell them to make seventeen iron shields and seventeen axes, and say that this is my command. Ziggy stopped Dwayne Johnson, the minotaur who was walking out, and what he said made the big man even more excited, because there were no more, no less, exactly seventeen Minotaur orc slaves in Grizzly Village!