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Chapter 189 Freeing the Slaves

Free the slaves, make them free people, and then make them work as hired labor.

In just a few words, Izehi explained the art of controlling the people that the high elves were good at.

Slaves are indeed not good things, even though slave owners have the power of life and death over slaves and can even use slaves as their personal property.

But at the same time, every slave owner would cherish his wealth and must provide food and water for his slaves, and even treat them well if they were sick.

In Naggaroth, except for some high-ranking nobles, other ordinary dark elves still have to exploit slaves to a certain extent, otherwise the slaves will be squeezed to death in one day, which means that there will be no wealth in the future.

Even some Bretonnian serfs were captured and taken to be slaves of some small dark elf nobles. Their lives were better than working under a knight, and they did not have to go to the battlefield.

But this was not the case with the free folk.

The boss only needs to pay them according to the amount of work they do, and does not have to pay for their food, drink, or medical care.

They could even recover wealth from free people by selling goods at a high premium to them and collecting taxes.

At the same time, a virtual freedom was promoted to the free people, making them believe that they were working for their own wealth and that private ownership could liberate labor to the greatest extent.

After weighing the pros and cons, and considering the education he received in the empire, Windlow chose Izeshi's plan and decided to abolish slavery and give these people freedom.

For the high elf Izeshi, although this matter did not benefit her at all, as long as she could make the dark elf Mousse suffer a setback, it would be the best help to herself.

Faced with this situation, Mousse had no choice but to accept it. After all, his ultimate goal was to make money. As for the way to make money, it was all up to Windlow's arrangements.

How to liberate these slaves and where to liberate them is a big problem.

The environment of the Norse Peninsula is not good. There is almost no arable land and all kinds of resources are quite scarce.

If we liberate these slaves right where they are, they will eat up all the grass here and starve to death within a month.

The decision of how to choose a site fell on the shoulders of a wood elf like Leslie. The sensitivity of the elves was even more evident in the wood elves.

When she left the team to look for a suitable place to settle down, Windlow also took all the slaves to fish along the coast to get basic food first.

Only one day later, Leslie returned to this temporary camp and led everyone to continue moving south, a very ideal colonial location.

There is sea to the east and south, mountains to the west, and only one northern passage to communicate with other places.

Although its development is restricted, it is very suitable for occupation as a colony and is particularly good for defending against threats from other places.

Next to the carriage, a hundred slaves also gathered together, and all of them looked at Windlow in front of them with lifeless eyes.

Even though Windlow did not have the terrifying muscles of the Norsemen, no one at the scene had the idea of ​​resisting. The slave mentality completely crushed their will, and they only knew to obey orders and complete them.

"All of you, go and cut down trees, and mine stones, and build houses, not for me, but for yourselves!"

The slaves' will and labor efficiency were very low. In the absence of supervisors, they basically had no output.

But it was because of the last sentence that the slaves understood one thing: although they were still slaves, they had the right to build their own homes.

This is good news. Even as slaves, they hope to have a better living environment, and their enthusiasm for work will increase a lot.

While everyone was digging trees, the Ratwoman and Windlow had already drawn up the initial traffic grid.

Starting from the middle of the entire area, one road extends to the sea in the east, and the other road extends to the sea in the south.

Special living areas were set up, and all slaves could only build their own houses in restricted areas.

But how to build houses was a puzzle to all the slaves, as they had never received any education or training.

They have no skills or techniques at all and can only do the most basic physical work.

Windlow had already known this very well, so he asked the female rat people to draw some well-structured houses and taught the slaves how to build them.

Two ropes were tied to the stone, and two people each held one side. They threw the stone high up and then dropped it hard to flatten the soft soil to serve as the foundation.

The limited area of ​​a house is five meters long and three meters wide.

According to the materials science calculations of the female rat people, the most suitable area for each house is fifteen square meters.

A wooden stake was erected at the four corners, and then foundation stones were laid along the corners of the house and covered with mud mixed with water.

A layer of mud and a layer of stone are used to make a simple wall. Finally, a wooden beam and a keel are added, and then hay is laid on it. A basic house is formed that can accommodate two people.

The only resources needed to build a house are five trees, some stone and some hay.

In addition to meeting basic living needs, there is also a stove for heating and food.

In addition, as Windlow said, the houses built are the residences of these slaves themselves, and their enthusiasm for work is particularly high.

Even though they were hungry, they built fifty huts in one day, with one hut for every two people, and it became a small coastal village.

Since it was a temporary structure and there were no extra manpower, the three elves and one female ratman in the caravan of Windlow of course lived together, oh, and there was also a unicorn.

"Do you want to stay inside?"

The unicorn nodded.

“Will you poop in the house?”

The unicorn shook his head.

Very good, this problem has been solved, so there is no need to rush to expand the house for the time being.

With breathable air, a place to sleep and water, the slaves' most basic physiological needs were basically met.

Now all that is needed is a steady source of food to meet all the physiological needs at the bottom of the pyramid of needs.

Food happens to be the most important of all needs.

"The land here is too barren to grow any plants."

Leslie, the wood elf, knew the basic situation of this land just by basic touch.

But she didn't need to say it, everyone knew that it was almost impossible to grow food on the Norse Peninsula, and how to obtain a stable source of food was the most important problem that this newly born small village needed to solve.