[Make up for yesterday's!]

Chapter 379 [Religious Rituals]

A strange notice appears in Mulan City.

This notice has been copied in countless copies, and posted in the most conspicuous and conspicuous places in all the densely populated places in Mulan City.

At the gates of the city, outside the guild halls, beside the bazaar......

Even the wall opposite the Doge's Palace was secretly posted one night.

There is nothing inherently excessive about the content of this announcement, and the content is just a recruitment of craftsmen.

It's just that the number and conditions of this recruitment have caused a sensation in Mulan City!

100 carpenters, 100 blacksmiths, 500 builders.

Originally, although Mulan City was the capital of Nulin Province, there were more craftsmen than other regions, but after such a large-scale collection, I was afraid that more than half of the craftsmen in Mulan City would be collected at once.

In addition, there are a number of laborers recruited in this notice, and the remuneration of the laborers is also extremely attractive, indicating that there is a subsidy of ten copper plates per day, so that you can get three hundred copper plates every month!

You must know that in Mulan City, the original monthly income of a laborer is only more than 100 copper plates, which is equivalent to doubling the price.

Although he was asked to leave Mulan City to work in the north, it seemed from the notice that the place he was going to was not too far away, and it was still in Nulin Province after all.

Those hard-working people who rely on hard work to eat every day, where do they not go to earn money to fill their stomachs? What are they afraid of if they are far away? Working for one year is worth two years of hard work in normal times. Why not?

These people are not afraid of being put into the dangerous work of mining - miners have always been extremely dangerous, and mining from mountains to the ground is a desperate battle. If it weren't for the poor and having no way out, no matter how much money they had, no one would want to do it—but fortunately, it was clear from the notice that it was within the province of Nurin.

Everyone knows that in the territory of Nulin Province, where there are any mines, there are only a few small loess slopes in the north. Not to mention what kind of minerals it is, even if it is dug for three or five years, it can only dig out a pile of loess.

Think of the gang recruiting carpenters, blacksmiths, and builders. The news spread, and the people in Mulan City were basically certain that most of these people were going to build a walled city somewhere in the north.

Most importantly, the number of these coolies recruited on this notice is not specified. Who knows how many people will recruit? I'm afraid that if I go late, I won't have a quota.

......

There are a total of four recruitment points set up inside and outside Mulan City. Artisans were recruited in the city, and laborers were recruited outside the city.

In the past few days, there has been an endless stream of people coming to apply, and one of the places in the city that recruits craftsmen is fine. On the other hand, the place outside the city where labor was recruited was set up in the market outside the western city, and for the first day or two there were people watching, but on the third day, it became crowded. The long stream of people almost overwhelmed the small market.

In just one Mulan City, there are only a limited number of people who work as coolies. In three or five days, nearly 1,000 people were recruited, and almost all the people who did hard labor in Mulan City were recruited, and the result of direct guidance was that in the market outside Mulan City, there were cars and horses, goods and goods, and even the manpower to hire porters was in short supply.

But Chen Daolin's group still doesn't seem to be satisfied, and the momentum of recruitment obviously has no intention of stopping.

After a few more days, even the people in several small towns around Mulan City got the news that a large number of strong laborers from outside came to apply.

This time, the impact is different.

Chen Daolin and these people recruited all the laborers, and many businesses in Mulan City were obviously affected, and some people couldn't help but come forward to do some small tricks.

However, Chen Daolin's bid was high, and these people had no choice but to recommend one or two people to deliver a message to the governor's palace in the city.

But the officials in the governor's palace in the city were all connected by Chen Daolin with gold coins, and they were obviously unwilling to get involved in this matter.

has been making trouble for more than half a month, and the number of strong laborers recruited by Chen Daolin in the end has reached nearly 5,000!

Most of them have heard the news of the good pay, and have come from other places in the past few days.

At this moment, the governor's palace can't sit still!

Even though Governor Fiolo had received Chen Daolin's money, the current development of events, a large number of laborers from the small towns in the countryside were flooded in Mulan City.

There were almost tens of thousands of people who came to the inquiry, and the criteria for selecting laborers by Chen Daolin and others were very strict, and those who were not strong enough, too weak or too old were all dismissed.

As a result, there is a large number of immigrants in the city. These people stayed in Mulan City, always had to eat and sleep, and they made a miasma in Mulan City, and in a few days, more than a dozen public security incidents occurred.

More importantly, when Governor Fiolo heard that many of the strong laborers who had come to apply for the recruitment were farmers in the villages, and when he heard that there was a good pay, he was so moved that he did not even plant the land—anyway, in this part of the northwest, he could barely fill his stomach by plowing the soil for a year without much harvest.

This is equivalent to a large number of farmers from the countryside running away.

Now is the spring ploughing season every year, if a large number of farmers run out to work, so that the land is wasted, at the end of the year affects the grain production, so that the agricultural tax is greatly reduced, this is the governor of the government is not effective, how can he not care?

Finally, one night, a minor official from the governor's palace came to the hotel where Chen Daolin and others were staying, and the person in charge of Chen Daolin's appearance here was the Baron Pierre, and this official expressed the governor's concerns to Baron Pierre in cryptic words, and only after getting some kind of promise from Baron Pierre did he leave satisfied.

"It seems that people have put up with us to the limit. ”

In his room, Chen Daolin smiled after listening to Baron Pierre's conversation with the officials of the Governor's Palace tonight: "Okay. It's not good if things get too big. Even if we go to the north, we will still be under the jurisdiction of the province of Nurin, and we will have to deal with this governor in the future. It's not good to offend him. Anyway, we've almost recruited the manpower we needed for the first phase......"

After a pause, Chen Daolin glanced at Baron Pierre: "The matter of receiving the land ......"

Although they stayed in Mulan City for many days, the large wasteland purchased from the Doge's Palace had already been received by Boromir, the son of Baron Pierre.

When the baron heard Chen Daolin's questioning, he immediately said, "Boromir sent someone back last night, saying that the matter received over there is very smooth. The governor's palace sent officials to accompany him, and the local towns did not stop them. The contract and all the paperwork procedures have been secured. The land has also been demarcated. ”

"Okay, then get ready, we'll leave in three days!"

......

Three days later. Chen Daolin set off from Mulan City with a large group of people.

The accompanying team was accompanied by hundreds of wagons, loaded with all kinds of goods.

In addition, Chen Daolin was the stronghold of a mercenary guild in Mulan City, and hired two hundred mercenaries to accompany him. The task of these two hundred mercenaries is to ensure the safety of the team and cargo along the way, in addition to maintaining order with so many people. Just in case something goes wrong.

And this time. Chen Daolin's departure did not make the Governor of Fiolo in Mulan City relaxed, and the governor sent someone to find out the situation of Chen Daolin's team, but he was stunned!

The Governor's first thought was: Deceived by this guy!!

It turned out that although Chen Daolin had recruited five or six thousand people in Mulan City for more than half a month, when he left, the number of people in the team was far more than five or six thousand! According to the description of the person who came back to report, the team that Chen Daolin pulled away from Mulan City was at least ten thousand people!!

Except for the five or six thousand recruited artisan laborers. Half of the team is women, children, and civilians!

This shocked Governor Fiolo!

As a province in the northwest region, Nulin Province was originally vast and sparsely populated. Although the capital city of Mulan City is the largest city in Nulin Province, its total population is only 100,000.

This time, let Chen Daolin pull away a tenth of the city's population?!

The base of the population determines the tax revenue, the vitality of the city, and the reserve of labor and other factors, which is equivalent to letting Chen Daolin and his gang suck one-tenth of the blood from Mulan City!

How does this make Governor Fiolo sit still?!

After listening to the careful reports of his subordinates, the truth surfaced.

It turned out that Chen Daolin and others were recruiting people in Mulan City these days, and they also deliberately released the news that they were going to the northern casting city to settle down, in addition to the need for craftsman labor, such a large project, the construction period must last for a long time, so in addition to the labor of workmanship, there is always a need for some other manpower.

For example, washing laundry, cooking, ensuring logistics, etc., for a large number of laborers, it always needs to be done by people, so you can't let Chen Daolin and other masters do it themselves, right?

In this way, this gap always needs to be topped by someone. Laundry and cooking are jobs that do not require strong labor to do, and some women are enough to do it.

Moreover, Chen Daolin and others also deliberately let out the wind that after they built the early walled city in the north, they would also open a textile factory, which also needed some laborers, and female laborers were also acceptable.

In this way, the news spread among the recruited laborers, and a small half of the laborers, after thinking about it, simply dragged their families and joined the team going north!

Five or six thousand strong laborers, plus half of them brought their wives and children with them, and the number of this team suddenly exceeded 10,000!

Governor Fiolo sat in the governor's palace and looked at several deputy officials beside him, dumbfounded. Everyone looked at each other for a while, and Governor Fiolo's face was a little worried, and he frowned and said, "You say, these foreign guys won't cause any trouble, right?"

One of the officials thought about it and comforted him: "My lord, I can't think about it." Although these people are foreigners, they all speak with an imperial capital accent, and their speech and demeanor are very decent, not like some kind of villain. ”

"Yes...... Pulling tens of thousands of people to migrate...... This matter cannot be taken lightly! What if something goes wrong...... an official was also a little frightened, and couldn't help but say: "Why don't you mobilize the patrol team in the city and stop them back while they haven't gone far yet?"

Before Fiolo could speak, the face of the official who had just spoken out to comfort him changed. Leng retorted: "Nonsense! The team of tens of thousands of people set off in a huge way, how complicated the situation is! Moreover, those guys also hired a large number of mercenaries to protect them along the way. If we hastily send troops to intercept ...... If any misunderstanding or conflict arises, it will cause trouble! How many cavalry are there in Mulan City? The cavalry patrolling the city is only 200 cavalry! If we send them to intercept them, what reason will we have? If they refuse to come back with the legal documents issued by us, what should the cavalry sent to do? Forcibly arrest them by force? 200 people capture 10,000 people? In case of miscommunication and civil unrest...... It's going to cause trouble!"

This official has repeatedly spoken for Chen Daolin and others, not because he is really kind, but because he has already taken enough golden tickets and red envelopes from Ade.

Fiolo listened. His face was hesitant, and he couldn't help but say, "But these people have taken away tens of thousands of people...... Went to the north side. They're not going to do some kind of treasonous sin, are they?"

The official laughed and comforted: "Don't worry, Your Excellency, although the land bought by this group is a little remote, it is still the territory of our Nulin Province. And the place was close to the border of the Tulip Family's territory on the left, and not far from the military defense line of the Imperial border to the north. If they dare to do anything bad. With a piece of paper, we can bring in elite troops from the Tulip family stationed on the border to extinguish them! In this case, if we dare to do any rebellious crime there, it will definitely be a bad brain. It's impossible!"

When Fiolo heard this, he thought about it in his heart, and he gradually settled down.

Anyway, I got a lot of benefits in this matter. quite made up for his own private pockets. And as long as these outsiders pull away a large number of people, they are not going to gather people to rebel. Do anything else, he, the hand-throwing governor, doesn't bother to care.

As for the labor in Mulan City being taken away so much, the chambers of commerce in the city complained, and the Governor didn't bother to take care of it.

......

The team of tens of thousands of people is dragging families and children with children, so it is naturally very chaotic.

Chen Daolin handed over the power to command these laborers to Montoya, and even the two hundred mercenaries hired by Montoya were also handed over to Montoya to command.

Montoya organized the laborers into more than twenty teams, and then broke up the mercenaries and mixed them into each team, and then reluctantly pulled the team up.

But even so, these laborers who dragged their children and daughters with their families also carried a lot of belongings with them, and many of them were like moving, carrying burdens, bedding, pots and pans, pulling their own taxis, and some valuable belongings, all of which were brought on the road.

Moreover, the contingent of tens of thousands of people, unlike the disciplined group of the army, spread out on the main road in the field, and suddenly stretched for several miles...... This was just a short time away, and it was the result of Montoya's efforts with the hired mercenaries to drive it away.

It is conceivable that such a team, if it goes for a few days, it is not strange that the team will stretch out for seven or eight miles!

From a distance, on the road on the outskirts of Mulan City, this mighty team is like a brigade of displaced people fleeing!

Chen Daolin and others naturally rode horses and cars, but these tens of thousands of ordinary people, where can they have carriages to sit on, and they can only rely on their own feet to measure the land along the way.

Although Chen Daolin's reward was higher, after a day of walking, some people in the team couldn't help but complain, tired and ruthless, and there was a faint feeling of regret in his heart.

Even Chen Daolin knew that there were a small number of people in the team, and within half a day of coming out, seeing that the journey was too hard, some people quietly broke away from the team, walked back, and returned to Mulan City.

Chen Daolin had slowed down the speed of his journey as much as possible, left Mulan City in the morning, walked for a day, and in the afternoon, calculated the distance, and only walked out of twenty miles.

Montoya, who was responsible for maintaining order along the way, was already tired and sweating. The Holy Knight couldn't help but run to Chen Daolin's side and complained: "My lord, today is only the first day of departure, everyone's spirit is the most sufficient, and they have only walked such a little way, and ...... In my experience, the speed of long-distance travel is only getting slower and slower, and according to this trend, we will rush to our own territory, and we are afraid that it will take a month!"

Chen Daolin stopped on the side of the road, stood on a small slope, condescendingly looked at the mighty and loose team on the road, like a long dragon, but his face was very relaxed: "What are you afraid of if you go slowly? What are you afraid of if you drag on for a long time? The longer the time, the more room we have to make a fuss." I was on my way to the middle of the road. I have gathered the hearts of these people well. If you go fast, I'm not happy!"

"Huh?"

Looking at the Holy Knight's puzzled eyes, Chen Daolin smiled faintly: "These people have moved out with their families. How much ration can they carry on their own belongings? We have set a rule that every day we provide food only to the recruited craftsmen themselves, and we don't care about the food and drink of their families. How much food can these people bring out on their own backs? After a few days, they run out of food. Don't you have to rely on us to the fullest? When the time comes, we will slowly gather people's hearts and wait until we reach our destination. These people have naturally developed a habit of obeying us. ”

Chen Daolin had already made a comprehensive plan, and most of the goods loaded on the hundreds of wagons in the team were carrying grain.

He looked at the sky. I counted the time. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and it was still early in the morning.

Chen Daolin called a few guides hired by the team, and after some questioning, he looked at the map again, looked up at the distance of the road, and simply pointed to the small hill in front of the road, and ordered Montoya: "Pass the order, stop and rest when you walk to that hill today! I asked the guide." There was a stream beside the hillside, and the season was just over the dry season. There is a water source just right for camping and resting. When we got there, we camped on the hillside, and you had the rest of the teams camp around the hillside. ”

Montoya nodded, rode away, beckoned to the mercenaries, and passed on the orders one by one.

Fortunately, in the team he formed, several experienced mercenaries were added to each team as team leaders, and with these mercenaries who were used to trekking outside all year round, the order was well executed.

But even so, the team of tens of thousands of people is, in the final analysis, some ordinary people.

The line marched loosely, and it was not until it was dark that the last wave finally reached the bottom of the hillside.

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That night, a procession of tens of thousands of people camped under this small hillside.

The hillside is actually a small dirt slope, there is no vegetation on it, and the highest point is only ten meters above the ground. Chen Daolin camped on the hillside with his own people and built a bonfire. Naturally, a seriously wounded man like Martin stayed in the carriage to rest.

Montoya, on the other hand, led a group of mercenaries and rode around the camp a few times, picked a few places, built a few bonfires at the edge of the camp, and sent mercenaries to guard them.

After all, this is the wild, and there are many wolves in the northwest wild, so choose a few places outside the camp to build a few bonfires, so you don't have to worry about wild beasts attacking at night.

Most of the ordinary people who accompany the team are not blessed to enjoy the fire. After all, there are so many people, if they all want to make a fire, I am afraid that the firewood they need will not be enough.

Fortunately, there is a stream at the foot of this hillside, although it is not wide and the water potential is not large, but with a clean water source, people take water for drinking, and replenish a lot of fresh water.

Chen Daolin naturally wouldn't drink this kind of water, in fact, if it weren't for the fact that people in the wild would not allow it, he would have liked to order all the people in the team to be forced not to drink raw water. After all, with a large team of so many people, if drinking raw water causes some disease, it will be a big problem.

Unfortunately, this place is very desolate in the wilderness, and if you want to make a fire, you can't even get enough firewood, so in order to prevent the limited number of bonfires of wild beasts, I want to provide hot water for 10,000 people...... Thinking about it, it's better to shake your head quickly.

Everyone walked for a day, although the distance was not far, but there were many people with their families, a lot of bags carried, as well as dry food and other belongings they carried, and they were naturally exhausted after a day's journey.

When it was dark, the camp was full of noisy noises, calling children and daughters, and it was bustling.

And at this time, suddenly, in the center of the campsite, on the hillside where Chen Daolin and the others were camping, the most blazing bonfire suddenly burst into flames!

On this big night, most of the camp was dark, and the hillside was located in the center of the camp, and it was high, and it was the most clear to see, and the flames rushed into the sky, which immediately attracted the attention of many people.

Fortunately, Montoya took those mercenaries around to maintain order, otherwise this sudden attack would have caused some fright.

The flame was bitter and attracted more and more people's attention, and for a while, even the noisy noise was weakened.

I saw the flames burst up, one, two......

After more than a dozen flames soared into the sky, they gradually subsided.

While everyone was in doubt, all of a sudden, a voice came from the hillside.

Chen Daolin's steady voice was full of energy, and he used a sound amplification magic to spread the sound throughout the camp:

"Don't worry, everyone, this is our religious people's evening prayer, don't panic!"

After saying this three times, it seemed that there was a kind of majesty in this voice, and for a while, the whole camp fell silent, and occasionally a child of someone shouted, and immediately the adult covered his mouth.

Soon, on the hillside, it could be faintly seen that Chen Daolin and several others were standing in a circle around the fire.

Led by Chen Daolin, Barossa, Xia Xia, and the people of the Baron's family, Montoya, all wore a snow-white robe.

The style of this robe is very wide, and from a distance, it is particularly eye-catching next to the fire.

A long moan was heard, and then a strange voice was heard......

A female voice full of magnetism begins to sing!

The singing voice sounded to the standards of the Roland people, and it was really full of strange flavors, and the singing voice was long and tortuous, but it had a certain flavor that seemed to be awe-inspiring and sacred in the dark.

The singing voice is high and low, long and short, and everyone can't understand every word and word sung, but in this song, it is full of a flavor that people can't describe in words.

Seems...... That formal smell of strong religion?.

[I know you must be surprised, how can such a character thing be done by someone like me...... Hahahaha......]

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(To be continued......)