"Haha, isn't this on the way here, and we met these blind guys who want to rob our ship?" Qian Laosan said with a smile: "Then I thought that Ping Guogong said that he would build a workshop here, and it would be best to keep these captives as slaves and keep them secret, so I brought them all." ”

Tang Ping inquired carefully, but he didn't expect that it was actually those Arab pirates who were ravaging the Mediterranean, thinking that the Tang fleet that came was a fat sheep, but it was served in a pot.

He's been thinking about how to get rid of these pirates lately.

Because the existence of these pirates will greatly affect his business in Europe.

Merchants don't dare to go to sea, how can their own things be circulated?

Unexpectedly, Qian Laosan and they had already helped themselves solve them.

"Don, where's my cook?" Egbert was no longer sad about leaving Wessex.

Since you're leaving, it's better to do it better.

Moreover, these thirty giant ships will be his own in the future, and he will open up new kingdoms, and the unknown southern Africa will attract him even more.

All he cares about now is the cook that Tang Ping promised to invite him.

Tang Ping asked Qian Laosan, and Qian Laosan said with a smile: "Don't worry, the shopkeeper Liu of Bazhen Building heard that it was the person you wanted, so he directly sent two of their chefs from Bazhen Lou over, and they will be changed every two or three years in the future." ”

"Well, that's good!" Tang Ping nodded, every two or three years, it will not make people leave their hometown and do things outside.

Egbert's people couldn't be transported away once, but he had his own arrangements, and with a few lords and some residents who were going to follow them, he curiously boarded the giant ship of the Tang Dynasty.

These ships were all built in the style of sailing ships of the Ming Dynasty in Dongyue at that time, and they were almost a thousand years ahead of the world's technology.

It's just that Datang's technology is updated too quickly, especially now that gasoline engines and diesel engines have begun to be mass-produced, this kind of sailboat is gradually going to be eliminated.

Egbert didn't expect that this time the Tang Dynasty not only sent such a huge ship, but also prepared a lot of slaves for himself to mine, and happily left Wessex and headed for his new kingdom in southern Africa.

Tang Ping made an appointment with him, and after he brought all the people over and settled there, he would take the Tang craftsmen there to help them build mines and build some infrastructure.

Seeing Egbert away, Tang Ping looked at the dozens of slaves he had left behind.

Although they don't like slavery very much, these guys are the worst pirates in the Mediterranean, and they don't do any bad things.

These slaves were also apprehensive, especially knowing that the person in front of them was Tang Ping, the prince of Pingguo, who was known as the Tang Demon God.

Although they did not directly face Tang Ping in the last war, there are many legends about Tang Ping.

In particular, he "slaughtered" more than 200,000 Arab soldiers in Tianzhu, which also made these captives extremely afraid of him.

"Ahem......" Tang Ping cleared his throat with a cough, and some of these captives were shocked.

"Don't be afraid!" Tang Ping said helplessly: "I won't eat you again." ”

It's good that he doesn't say that, but when he says this, a thought arises in the hearts of these captives, is it because he really can eat people?

Although they were pirates and plundered merchant ships, in their opinion, the gap between their rank and Tang Ping was too big.

"What you have done before, I can not blame the past, and in the future, as long as you work honestly, I will not whip you at will, and I will feed you every day."

Tang Ping looked at these slaves and said, "And...... As long as you've done it for five years, I can get the good guys back to freedom. ”

When Tang Ping spoke, these slaves all lowered their heads, but when he finished saying this, all the slaves raised their heads and looked at him.

Because in their thinking, once they are called slaves, then not only will they be slaves all their lives, but even if they have descendants, they will always work for Tang Ping as slaves. It has never been heard of where a slave can work for a slave owner for a few years and then be free.

"What? Unbelief? Tang Ping looked at the expressions of these slaves and knew what they were thinking.

"Not only will I be free again in a few years, but I will also teach you to read!" Tang Ping continued to magnify his moves.

As soon as he said this, he was even more shocked than letting them regain their free body.

Literacy, which anyone can access?

In the past, many aristocrats did not have the opportunity to read and write.

"You can try to trust me, work hard, and then be literate, and when the time comes, we can sign a contract."

These slaves are slaves now, and they used to be the mighty Arab navy.

Tang Ping didn't want to guard them every day, if they were bent on escaping, how many guards would he have to get every day just to prevent them from escaping?

It's better to give them hope and let them obediently stay and work.

And this brewing and perfume or something, the process has been improving, if they can read, when the time comes, just give them the new recipe, and save time and effort to teach them again.

When the slaves were suspicious, they were taken to the staff dormitory that Tang Ping had prepared for them.

And then these slaves, you look at me, and I look at you.

This is where slaves lived? In the past, slaves in Arabia lived in pigsties.

But what does it say here?

Well...... The conditions are much better than the barracks they used to be.

There is a bunk bed for eight people, and there is actually a toilet and a bathroom for bathing!

Everything was prepared, and each person was given two sets of blue clothes.

Although there is no meat for the meal, it is full, and rye steamed buns are served in unlimited quantities.

I work every day, and I can also have two short breaks to bask in the sun in the yard.

In the evening, Tang Ping personally came to teach them to read.

At the end of the day, the slaves even wondered why they hadn't taken themselves over as slaves earlier.

After all, even if it is the Arab navy, they are highly hierarchical, and the senior officers may have a good life, but the low-level soldiers......

That is, I can barely make ends meet, and there is not much work to be done here, and it is safe, which is really more comfortable than being a navy or a pirate in the past.

So in several workshops in Tang Ping, the most harmonious relationship between slaves and slave owners appeared.

These slaves went to work on time every day, never made trouble, and took the initiative to work hard to learn the Tang script.

It's just that what they don't know is that in fact, in Tang Ping's place, this kind of thing is not called a slave, but has another name - labor prisoner!