Chapter Seventy-Two: Reward, Hireling
There is no good in continuing to fight, and it is easy to provoke the revenge of the robbers by keeping the peace for no reason.
Such is the thinking of the barbarians, if you fight a place and lose, then you have to take revenge.
The best way to get along with the barbarians, with a bunch of robbers, is to make them afraid.
The best thing to do is to make them disappear.
Now we can't make these people disappear, so we can only make them scared first.
"Go back and tell the nobles of the earldom that if the earl's descendants can't make a rational choice, don't come and discuss things with me."
"Then we won't go to the Western Kingdom this year, but go south to settle accounts with them!"
The Count's men had surrendered, but only one of them had been spared to provide him with the bread and water he had eaten for the past few days, while the rest remained here as slaves.
Lawrence sat in a chair, with Kharan and Saliel behind him, and Sophia crouched in front of him with an iron shield, who looked like a savage king who was very interested in enjoyment, but in fact was afraid of death.
However, he is not the only one who is afraid of death here.
Lawrence looked at the knights kneeling five or six meters away.
"You said you were going to be a slave so readily, but you had heard about my deeds here?"
The kneeling middle-aged knight said honestly: "Yes, merciful prophet, the merchants on the road said that you do not kill slaves here, and you will give slaves three meals, and allow them to work for three years and then be free." ”
Lawrence nodded, "Yes, the rumors are true, although you are cowardly, you have chosen to run away instead of going against me. ”
"I will allow you to be slaves here, and I will allow you to get three meals a day, wine and meat, and a separate place to live through your hard work, and will not let you sleep with cattle, sheep, pigs, and dogs."
The middle-aged knight breathed a sigh of relief, "Thank you, merciful prophet! ”
"Reglo, take them down to rest, let your female warriors take care of them, and don't let them escape."
Lawrence confessed the special assignment to Reglo.
Reglo didn't get it, "Yes, master. ”
Lawrence plans to wait until he will explain it separately.
At the moment, according to Lawrence's rules, it is easier to match together for a similar age.
It's easy for young girls and young teenagers to get together, but many widows are not easy to solve, and even a man marrying two or three can't take care of them.
No matter what time it is, there are always some crooked melons and cracked dates, especially in the north, where the climate and diet determine that some older women are really not attractive, they have long passed the years when God took special care of them.
There are many women who are very healthy, but because of their obesity and face, or because of their personality, no one favors them, and they can't make them mothers, which makes Lawrence very troubled, obviously they are all strong.
In order to prevent some aunts and old women with endocrine disorders from harassing the young, Lawrence has always encouraged these people to find new arrivals in the water capital to start a family.
However, the men of the water capital also look down on these women, proving that the soft ones can't be used, and they can only come to the hard ones.
Lawrence watched as nine strong men left the house, these nine brutes could really be used as brutes.
Fryce didn't understand why Lawrence was so merciful.
"Prophet, why do you give them wine and meat?"
Lawrence explains: "They still have a purpose. ”
Seeing this, Fryce asked, "So will you go west or south this year?" ”
"It depends on the choices of those people." Lawrence continued, "Your village is right in the middle of this, and if you want to leave, leave it, and if you want to continue to do things for me, then bring your family and friends, and I will arrange for them to live and farm." ”
Fryce said decisively, "Yes, Prophet, we are willing to be soldiers in your realm. ”
Lawrence nodded with satisfaction, "Very well, I will allow you to canonize you as knights after accumulating a certain amount of honor based on your military exploits, and let you establish knightly domains in my newly conquered territory." ”
The reward promised by Lawrence thrilled the two dozen barbarians.
Fryce and the others soon set off to bring their families over, and Lawrence also began to bury the fallen warriors.
Lawrence focused on the development of the next generation, rewarding soldiers who fought bravely, and rewarding them with wine, clothes, and chickens.
The crowd held a celebration, eating, drinking, dancing and singing, and dispelled the sorrow with a joyful atmosphere.
Lawrence saw a lot of fat aunts silently munching potatoes in the corner, and watched some young men and women thirsty and hungry for each other while dancing, and hugged each other and went to the back of the house in the distance to do ambiguous things.
"Reglo, you go tell the fat women over there that if you're willing to hand in a chicken, you can ...... tonight."
Lawrence explained in detail the purpose of the nine men, and Ragelo quickly smiled knowing everything.
"Can I turn in two chickens?"
Lawrence looked at the woman who was dancing in the distance and said lightly: "Yes, but don't play to death, pay attention to keep it clean, just like when washing vegetables." ”
"Yes, master." Leglow quickly went down to make arrangements.
Kharan wondered, "Why are you so cruel to these people?" ”
Lawrence explained, "The Durella didn't invade me, neither did the foresters, and neither did the people of the Water City. ”
Keharan quickly understood that the people who invaded here before were all wiped out on the spot, and the rest of the slaves had no grudges against Lawrence's side.
The fate of the Vakiri people was even worse, and the three Wakiri people who were captured were directly castrated and died of pain.
To the enemy, Lawrence is so unkind.
Delenn looked nearby, "You can't take a shower tonight, we've been here for the past few days?" ”
Lawrence said: "I will go back tomorrow, there is still a lot of work to be done on the mountain, and those people will come back at least half a month later, and then they will come back." ”
"I've already arranged things here, and today I've sent people to call Seravin and Beoff back, and those foresters speak Durella, so that Brielil's father, Tukara's family, will come and take care of them for a while."
The number of foresters now exceeds four hundred, but their combat effectiveness is low, and they are extremely wasteful in both farming and work, like a group of primitive people.
Sophia said: "The last time I talked to Brielil and Navia, Navia said that she wanted her family to come and help, that is, her family would definitely listen to her. ”
Lawrence smiled: "It's okay, when the Western businessmen come this time, let them recruit some people to come and work for us when they go back, and we will provide them with currency, and also accept Western currency to buy our things." ”
"It's too wasteful for our people to do some mining and construction and farming."
Sophia said happily: "Exchange our wood for money, exchange money for people outside to help us mine and farm, the master is so powerful, I haven't thought about this before!" ”
(End of chapter)