When the sun went down in the west, Chu Chao Hui rode a big brown horse and led a group of slave soldiers to slowly return to the living area, which was the place centered on the villa. The campsite in the west area had just been constructed, and it would take a few more days for the campsite to be ready for use with the living equipment. The slave soldiers had to go back to the living quarters to rest for the time being.
Chu Zhaohui's brown horse was carrying some wild game caught with arrows and crossbows, and the slave soldiers behind him were carrying a wild boar with wooden sticks, which was also the harvest of today's hunt. Wei Qing is at the end of the line, he is riding a horse of the same color as Chu Chao Hui, and the horse is also full of prey. Slave soldiers training at the same time, but also have to go to the forest hunting, hunting from the prey is the main meat in the valley, the poultry raised in the valley is not yet long enough to eat.
For the carnivorous beasts in the valley, Zheng Chu two people are ready to drive to extinction, on the one hand, these beasts in the valley of human life threatening, on the other hand on the farmland has a lot of damage.
Chu Chao Hui rode on the horse looked back at the spirit looks a little tired soldiers, can not help but depressed sigh, from the slaves selected out of the fifty slaves, are the most robust body, the brain is smarter, Chu Chao Hui intends to cultivate these people with all his heart, these people cultivate these people into elites, in the future, these elites will become the officers of the armed team, the valley of the future framework of the armed forces. But a few days of training results let Chu Chao Hui crying and laughing, formation training for three days, there are still seven or eight slave soldiers can not distinguish between the southeast and northwest, front and back, report the number reported less than fifty. On the contrary, let these slave soldiers field training, than modern recruits are willing to suffer and endurance, this is probably related to the living environment, field training training, although hard, compared to their suffering is nothing, not to mention that the training can eat and sleep well, and then there is a monthly salary can be taken.
When Chu Chao Hui selected slaves to be soldiers, he promised that slaves who became soldiers would receive five gold every month. When the news came out, all the slaves jumped at the chance.
The slaves of the whole Great Qin can not have private property, their people are the master's, the wife is the master's, the children born in the future are also the master's, and the income from labor is even more the master. Now when the soldiers can have income, this amount is still general civilians can not earn, soldiers eat, drink, wear and live by the master of a single hand, hardware is pure income.
When Chu Chao Hui gave the slave soldiers their monthly pay, Zheng Yuming was also prepared to give monetary incentives to the slaves working in the valley. The treatment of the craftsmen from next month would be paid with reference to the monthly remuneration of the craftsmen in Nambu village.
Slaves engaged in agriculture are not yet entitled to land, but have been made to learn score-keeping by Dajang, and after they have done their allotted work each day, they begin to be credited for the extra work, and at the end of the year they are paid according to the number of points they have worked.
After the slaves have been paid, the valley can let them consume the goods, the current only house, the valley for them to build the house is to charge, the house set the price is not high, a master craftsman master two years of wages can be paid off, these house payments all take installments, after all, all the slaves in the valley are all nothing to come in, if you pay in full the house payment, slaves at the earliest two years before they can save up enough money to buy a new house. If they paid in full, it would take two years at the earliest for the slaves to save enough money to buy a new house. The houses could not be left empty until the slaves could afford to buy them.
The slaves who were pulling grass in the paddy field saw the soldiers who returned with the prey, each mouth split wide open, with the wild game, it meant that there would be meat to eat at noon and in the evening tomorrow. Summer weather is too hot and salt is very expensive, the wild game hunted can not be stored for a long time, after slaughtering and cleaning and packing up on the same day, the next day will be made in the canteen for the slaves in the valley to enjoy.
"Stop looking! Quickly pull up all the grass in this field and go back to eat dinner, no more grass pulling after dark!" Da Zhuang was originally grinning as well, and when he saw that the slaves around him were all straightening up and staring at the team returning from training, he quickly yelled.
Since Zheng Yuming set up the system of counting labor points, the slaves who work on the farm refused to call it a day, and when it was dark, they still wanted to work in the field in the dark to earn more labor points, which can be converted into money for the extra work, who does not want to earn a lot of money, and who does not want to own a brick house in the future, which is a good house that only the big slaves and nobles can afford to live in.
In order to save more work points, the slaves went down to the field every day at dawn, and refused to go back when it was dark, and every time Dajiang wrapped up his work, he had to go around the field to drive back the slaves who refused to go away, after all, it was dark and the light was not good, so the grass and the rice couldn't be seen, and this time there were always a few handfuls of rice seedlings in the grass pulled out in the paddy field.
Villa near the women and old people see the slave soldiers brought back the prey, quickly jogging up to receive the prey, afternoon work rest after the children also laughed and surrounded the children, the children in the valley than the twenty-first century children miserable through, not only no summer vacation, every morning after class, to the afternoon when the sunlight is not strong also have to work in the field, cut weeds for poultry. But none of these children think they are bitter, for them, have food to eat and clothes to wear is happiness, hunger and poverty on the children's impact is too great.
Chu Chao Hui dismounted his horse and waited for the women and old men to pick up the prey before opening his mouth and ordering the slave soldiers to gather once before disbanding. Slave soldiers have just been disbanded, craftsmen from the workshop off work, the ground to do farm work of the slaves one after another back, the valley came from the people a burst of talk and laughter, a few canteen chimneys began to smoke to make dinner, from the top of the mountain overlooking the valley words, only feel that the valley is full of life.
Chu Chao Hui and Wei Qing's two horses were taken away by the slaves who fed the horses, these two slaves had originally served the horses for the nobles, and now the four horses in the valley were under the responsibility of these two slaves.
"Good day, my lord!" Huo Sihua caught a glimpse of Chu Chao Hui and Wei Qing entering the courtyard and hurriedly went forward to greet them.
"Is Lord Zheng back?" Chu Chao Hui and Wei Qing were pressing water to rinse their bodies by the courtyard well, having sweated too much for one day and smelling rancid all over.
"No, the adults haven't returned yet." Huo Si Hua held Woody to keep him from rushing over to the well to play in the water.
"It's almost dark!" Chu Chaohui looked at the sun in the west, today Zheng Yuming would have to rub the dark and come back again.
"Sir, I'll go to the valley to fetch His Excellency." Wei Qing volunteered, nowadays he addressed Chu Chao Hui with the same name he used during training.
"No need, you and Sihua go read for a while first, I'll go to the mouth of the valley to take a look, in addition, let Su woman boil a pot of hot water for backup." Chu Chao Hui said while putting a sweatshirt on his body.
"Yes, my lord." Su-woman replied respectfully.
Su Woman was bought from the slave market, a thirty year old widow, alone, but skilled in cooking. Su Woman specializes in housework in the villa, and does not live with the slaves, but in the half of the workers' room where Huo Sizhong and Wei Qing used to live; the three workers' rooms were given to Huo's siblings and Wei Qing as bedrooms one for each of them after the slaves moved out.
The villa to the gap passage opened up a wide dirt road, the timber on both sides of the dirt road was cut down a lot, walking on the dirt road was not as eerie as before. Most of the ferocious beasts are the most intelligent animals, after feeling that the valley has become unsuitable for survival, one by one, they left the valley and moved to the northern part of Ulsan, and in recent times, when Chu Chaohui led people to hunt, they could no longer see the fresh dung of tigers and leopards. The valley's ferocious beasts decreased, walking at night was much safer, Chu Chao Hui only brought a pistol and went to wait for Zheng Yuming at the mouth of the crevice.
It was already dark when Chu Chaohui arrived at the mouth of the crevice on foot, and the torches of the watchtower at the wooden gate at the mouth of the crevice were already lit.
"Who?" A man's head stuck out from the watchtower and bellowed at Chu Chao Hui.
"Me!" Chu Chao Hui stood at the bottom of the watchtower and tilted his face up, making it easy for the slaves on the watchtower to see his face.
In the valley, except for two people, Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming, the other slaves had to take a special certificate before they could enter and exit the valley, and that special certificate was a red hundred yuan RMN.
The villa has more than one hundred twenty-first century heavenly hundred currency, that is still because Zheng Yuming to go back to Suzhou for the New Year, the cash are deposited in the bank, if it is the usual, the villa cash banknotes at least in the hundred thousand or so, that are flower and wood merchants to the villa to buy small flowers and trees when the cash payment, the large flower and wood payment is to the bank transfer.
These banknotes have no monetary value, as a voucher but very good, because it can not be counterfeited, the slaves guarding the wooden door as long as the red ticket towards the light to see, will be able to identify the real and fake. In fact, with the printing technology of the twenty-first century, there is no need to look at the watermark to verify, but as long as the slaves guarding the door see someone taking a voucher out of the valley, they always have to verify it before opening the wooden door.
This paper banknote is too magical, the slaves whose turn it is to be on duty all want to see it, due to the fact that the slaves who get to go out of the valley are very limited, a few months down the line, it is only Papa Dazhuang and Gongsun smiths who have been in and out of the valley a few times with this voucher.
"So it's my lord!" There were a total of two slaves on duty on the watchtower, the selected slaves were all family members, having family members in the valley was more of a concern than bare slaves, and they would be less likely to betray the valley easily, and pay more attention to the safety of the valley.
Chu Chao Hui climbed the wooden ladder up to the watchtower, and the two slaves in the tower hurriedly saluted.
These two slaves came to the valley in May, and after living in the valley for a month, they only felt that they had been living the life of a dream. Here can eat dry rice, three days twice meat, each person quarterly distribution of two sets of clothes and a pair of shoes, have a family can also be assigned to two mud houses, later will have private property. One of the slaves on duty, every morning wake up first pinch yourself, pinch over feel the pain and say 'this is true', then only get up and do something.
When the valley was selecting guards, the two men actively signed up, they were to guard the passages and keep outsiders out, the masters were too nice to them not in accordance with the rules of the outside world, the Da Qin nobles did not approve of letting the slaves live better than the commoners, and if the outside nobles knew about what was going on in the valley, the two lords would surely be condemned by the nobles of the city of Dacheng, and they would go back to their lives as animals. All these truths were told to them by the very learned teacher Fan Zin.
The watchtower is not large, can only accommodate five or six people standing, the tower burns mosquito grass to drive away insects, and the guards on duty are rotated once every six hours. The two slaves on duty now have only been here for an hour, and there will be other slaves to replace them only tomorrow morning.
Zheng Yuming dismounted at the wooden door, and after seeing the flickering cigarette butt at the wooden door, he immediately understood that Chu Chao Hui was waiting there.
"Chao Hui!" Zheng Yuming threw the horse rope to Huo Sizhong, letting Huo Sizhong lead the horse back to the villa first. The Huo siblings and Wei Qing had all grown much taller after spending four months in the valley, and Huo Sizhong's height was the one that had scampered the most, and had almost caught up to Wei Qing's height.
"Want a cigarette?" Chu Chao Hui had a cigarette in his mouth and took out the cigarette case from his pants pocket and handed it to Zheng Yuming.
"Well, smoke a cigarette to relieve the boredom." Zheng Yuming drew out a cigarette and took over the cigarette on Chu Chao Hui's mouth to pass the fire, letting the lighter save a lighter. There were currently a dozen lighters in the villa that could be used, all of which were complimentary small gifts that Zheng Yuming had brought back from going to the hotel to spend money. The lighter is a one-time consumption, after using it, it is useless, Zheng Chu two people always in line with the principle of saving what can be saved to use modern supplies. Now the fire in the valley are flints.
"Busy today? Came back too late." Chu Chao Hui and Zheng Yuming walked side by side on the dirt road as the two prepared to stroll back, exchanging their respective situations with each other along the way.
"Merchants from Tang have come to the door to ask for goods, not only for cotton and linen, but also for jacquard."
"Isn't there a great drought in Tang? Do the nobles still enjoy it?"
"A great drought is a great drought, and the nobles don't reduce their taxes, they don't have less income, and besides, Don has salt."
Tang and Wei were both vassal states suffering from severe drought. Tang, like Wu, bordered the East China Sea and produced salt, which could be exchanged with other vassal states for money, so its domestic economy was a bit better than Wei's. The state of Wei had a lot to do with the drought, but it had a lot to do with the drought.
"If the kings of these two countries don't act again, sooner or later there will be chaos." Chu Chao Hui shook his head.
"The first peasant revolt in our time period was at the end of the Qin Dynasty, during Qin II." Zheng Yuming frowned.
"It is estimated that there will be one here soon as well." Chu Chao Hui looked at Zheng Yuming, the two of them sighed at the same time, this time and space has not yet had a peasant uprising, the two analyzed the information they had in hand and intuited that this is what is going to happen in these years the first.
"Purchase more iron into the valley from the southern barbarians." Chu Chao Hui threw the butt of the cigarette in his hand to the bottom of his foot and stamped it out, which had been smoked to the filter.
"Southern barbarian mining doesn't work." Zheng Yuming was helpless.
The iron used in Nanbu was purchased from the Ulsan Iron Mine, which was owned by Ulsan Jun. Zheng Yuming claimed that he wanted to build agricultural tools and got the right of first refusal from Ulsan Jun's iron mine, the quality of the Ulsan Iron Mine's iron ore wasn't good, it was a poor mine, it was fine for building agricultural tools, but it was much worse for building weapons. The iron ore of the southern barbarians was good, and the weapons made were sharp and strong. In the valley to build weapons use is the southern barbarians iron ore. Iron ore in the land of heaven is poor, the southern barbarians will have high quality iron ore, Zheng Chu two people estimate that the sky meteorite fell there, the meteorite is rich in iron minerals to form a high quality mine.
"Sell equipment to them, teach them the method, raise the purchase price of iron ore." Chu Zhaohui gritted his teeth, he always has the feeling that the storm is coming, without his own armed forces, Chu Zhaohui has no place in his heart.
"Alright, I'll do everything I can." Zheng Yuming looked at Chu Chao Hui's taut face, which was an expression of doing whatever it takes.
The two slaves on the watchtower kept their eyes on the two masters through the moonlight, and only when they could no longer be seen did one of the slaves praise, "The two lords are truly a matched pair."
"Yeah, there's no one to stand with them." Another slave lamented.
Zheng Yuming and Chu Chao Hui two people live together in the villa upstairs, work and rest is always the same in and out, two people over the age of marriage have not started a family, coupled with the two instrumentation match, the valley slaves in the rumor that the two are a pair of Lang, and now Chu Chao Hui always go to the mouth of the crevice to meet Zheng Yuming's behavior, more confirmed the speculation.