Chapter Eighty-Nine: Meetings
"It's very simple, it's just eight words!" Old Griffin smiled smugly, "hoe the strong and help the weak, reward diligence and punish laziness!"
Eight simple words, but they contain the profound wisdom of old Griffin for many years, Xia Zuo, who has a little understanding, nodded slightly.
Old Griffin also gave Xia Zuo a detailed explanation with seriousness, and the specific implementation of these eight words made Xia Zuo really understand the meaning of these eight words.
Half-orcs are loose and lazy, but they are social creatures, and for lazy people, such troublesome things as using their brains are always left to the leader to do, and no matter what they do, someone always needs to take the lead.
In the battle led by Bigu and Walden, all the leaders of the tribes were slain, and a new leader was prevented from appearing among them.
Private fights between orcs were strictly forbidden, and if there was a fight, both sides were punished, and if there was a winner in the fight, the victor was whipped and put in a shackle for ten days, and the bullied orcs were encouraged to complain to the Saiyan warrior who was in charge of them, and the defendant would be punished regardless of the truth.
This prevented the orcs from giving birth to a new leader in the brawl, and fostered a group of forces attached to the Saiyan warriors in the orc colony.
At the same time, the female orcs were separated from the adult orcs, and the coolie adult orcs were divided into groups of ten, and they worked under the supervision of the overseers, and every day they would pick out the most diligent and obedient group of half-orcs with wooden signs, and they could sleep in the camp of the female half-orcs for the night, and enjoy a rich feast of wine and meat like the Saiyan warriors who guarded them, while the rest of the people had to go back to their low huts and eat the black and smelly food prepared by the female half-orcs.
Old Griffin chose one of the most obedient orcs among the forces attached to the Saiyan tribe, that is, Shabi, so that he could live in a tall and beautiful house with the Munk warriors, and even be able to follow the warriors back to the great Saiyan tribe.
He leads a team of orc overseers, accompanied by twenty heavily armed warriors every day, supervising the work of the orc coolies, and of course, there are four Saiyan warriors who are indispensable to "protect" them.
"Although it was a bit troublesome at the beginning of the separation management, it was quickly suppressed, and now these half-orcs who are not led by anyone are honestly like a flock of sheep, although the lazy nature is difficult to eradicate, but now they have begun to know that the Saiyan warriors who are guarded by them are being tamed, and slowly they will get used to pleasing their masters and adapt to their slave status, and when the time comes, the dense half-orcs on the gravel wasteland will provide you with the cheapest labor in the whole continent!" The more old Griffin spoke, the more excited he became, and he involuntarily waved his arms, immersed in his great plan.
Xia Zuo looked at the fanatical old man beside him, and his heart was completely shocked, and he even suddenly felt that this thin and harmless old man was a little terrifying.
This crazy and terrifying old man, what he is doing now is to change the essence of the half-orcs, maybe the specific effect cannot be seen in a short time, but this way makes Xia Zuo feel very familiar, once he grows older, and imprints servility in the thoughts and bones of the half-orcs, then what this old man has completed will be a reversal of the nature of the half-orc race.
Under the fearful and flattering gaze of the orc coolies, Xia Zuo, led by old Griffin, inspected the mine that belonged to him.
After Xia Zuo returned to the tribe, he called everyone to a meeting in the largest dining room of the tribe, which included all the leaders of the Saiyan tribe, including several elders of the Saiyan tribe and the snow ape tribe, the cavalry captain Walden, the infantry captain Bigu, the guard captain Tara, the snow ape team leader Gulie, the deputy commander Marcus, the financial manager Bouman and the advisor Griffin, as well as the squad leaders of each detachment also attended the meeting with weapons.
Xia Zuo, who had inspected the mine, was full of smiles, and the meeting began in a relaxed atmosphere, and the leaders of each team made reports on the scope of their jurisdiction, which made the smile on Xia Zuo's face brighter and brighter.
But when Buman stood up, the smile on Xia Zuo's face couldn't help but stiffen, and the account book sewn from animal skins in his hand turned over with a loud sound: "Lord Chief, when I took over the accounts, the tribe had a total of 34,262 gold coins, 312 jewels, and 548 bags of grain, of which 15,000 gold coins were spent on the purchase of smelting equipment and mining equipment, a total of 600 gold coins were spent on housing and transportation on the road, and 6,500 gold coins were spent on the purchase of building materials and tools on the construction site. Four thousand gold coins were spent on drinks and pig-staking cubs, four thousand gold coins were spent on buying equipment for the newly recruited warriors, and now there are four thousand one hundred and sixty-two gold coins left in the tribe's treasury!"
The brown eyes were slowly full of worry, and the dull circles and greasy hair were full of exhaustion, "And our food is not enough to support the cold winter, counting the three hundred bags of food purchased from Dallasman, the tribe now has three hundred and twenty-two bags of food left, plus the seven hundred and eighteen clansmen of the Quinn tribe, the tribe's food is only enough for us to last for another month at most, and this is not counting the consumption of those orc laborers on the mine!"
Originally, at the beginning of the meeting, the good news made everyone's eyes flash with excitement, but now when this is mentioned, except for the leisurely drinking of old Griffin, these Campas warriors who can fight suddenly fell silent.
"Okay! let's do it one by one!" Xia Zuo rubbed his headache and glanced at the old Griffin, who was obviously not prepared to solve such a small matter for him.
And the rest of these powerful Kampas warriors, if there is any way to kill the enemy most simply, each of them has dozens or hundreds of methods, but food and how to raise money, let them come up with any ideas, it is better to let them and the beast go head-to-head.
"What do you think about food now?" Xia Zuo led the way to ask the Campas warriors, who lived in the wasteland and always had some way of getting food.
"What else can you think!" Tara pouted, "If you run out of food, go and grab it!" The wasteland is full of orc tribes, and grabbing one tribe can catch at least forty or fifty strong orcs, most of these damn robbers have saved enough food before winter. ”
"That's a good idea!" Bigu nodded as well, "but now that the orc tribes around us have been swept away, there are not many properties, and the rest have chosen to move farther away from us!"
"Then go far!" the belligerent Tara exclaimed impatiently, "and the captured orcs can be sent to the mines to be used as drudgers!"
"No!" Buman objected in a loud voice, "The mine can't support the consumption of more orc laborers, and the current number is no longer sustainable!"
"What's so hard about that! If you can't pay them, pull them down and sell them, or kill them outright!" Mantas stood up with a sneering face, and confidently said a bloody plan that was a little difficult for Buman to accept.
"Kill the orcs, are you going to work in the mines?" Booman argued with a pale face.
"Damn boy, you dare to compare me to those filthy orcs! Do you owe a beating?" Mantas was immediately enraged by Boomman's words, and reached out to copy Booman over.
"Alright, shut up for me, whoever is yelling, I'll let him live in the pig and beast shack!" Xia Zuo kicked the ground violently, and the Campas warriors in the dining room were so frightened that they shrank their necks and didn't dare to say anything when they saw the lord's anger.
"Tara, you lead the team, search the orc tribe around," Xia Zuo said and saw Marcus's excited look on his face, "Marcus, you also jump with some snow ape people, Walden, you lead the centaur warriors to search far away from the tribe!"
"Yes, Boss!" Tara and Marcus gladly agreed, glancing at each other.
"Yes, my lord!" Walden ordered in a calm voice.
"Remember, if we're just food, we'll get rid of the rest!" Xia Zuo said with a cold face that made the warriors involuntarily smile cruelly.
The mines could not afford more orc labor now, and leaving the filthy lives of the orcs after the battle to gather and harass his people after the cold winter was a foolish decision for Natsuzo would never have made.
"Yes!" the warriors cheered, some even singing desolate war songs, and they prepared to rush into the wasteland to slaughter the orc tribes.
"Alright, let me be quiet!" Xia Zuo waited quietly for a while, and only after the initial excitement of the fighters had passed, he suppressed the increasingly high-pitched noise.
The Kampas have a special obsession with killing their enemies, and not only the warriors of the tribe, but also the Saiyans, Shazo, boil with belligerent blood when they think of the charming smell of blood to kill.
Rubbing his brows, Xia Zuo raised his head, "Bigu, tomorrow you take two teams and Buman to Dallas Man, and exchange all the remaining money for food!"
"All?" Buman was slightly stunned, and then hurriedly objected, "Lord Lord, if all of them are replaced with grain, then the construction of the territory castle and the brewery, and the construction of the smelter will be completely stopped!"
"Yes! As for the project, I naturally have a way!" Xia Zuo naturally knew this, but the project could be started again if it was stopped, if the clansmen's stomachs were not full, then he, the leader, would be too much of a failure, and building a castle with more than 4,000 gold coins was tantamount to a drop in the bucket, but it was better to use it in the right place.
"After you arrive in Dallasman, first report to the lord of Dallasman about Sarnia's spring invasion of Kanpass, and then go to the Woods family's Chamber of Commerce, our dear ally, Miss Amanda, and ask her to give us some help!" Speaking of this dear Fox ally, Xia Zuo's stomach was full of anger.
An empty name of the lord of the Gravel Wasteland will let him build a territorial castle from scratch, and also open a shortcut to trade for the Woods family, the old Griffin has calculated for Xia Zuo, if the Woods family trades from the Gravel Wasteland, the Woods family's daily expenses on the road alone can be reduced by more than 100,000 gold coins, and this is still a high tax when passing through the rest of the strong clan's territory.
A territory that no one cares about, Amanda only needs tens of thousands of gold coins at most to dredge up the relationship, it can be said that this deal seems to be a big loss for Xia Zuo from now on, since he understands the pass, how can Xia Zuo let his allies sit idly by, watching him busy waiting for a bumper harvest.
ps: Prepare for the war with all your might, brothers give more motivation!