Sword and Sorcery and Martial Arts

Chapter 262 Arrangement
Rhodes sat resting on the stairs in front of a house. After a busy night, they finally arranged the refugees.

As one of the few people here who could read, Rhodes was so tired of writing that he registered all the information of the more than 400 people.

The commotion after the arrival of those refugees yesterday was a bit loud, waking up everyone in the town.

But that's good, it also solves the problem of accommodation for those people in the next few days.The houses of many residents in the town are relatively large, and there are many rooms. The most important thing is that most of them are kind and willing to temporarily take in the refugees transported by Quentin.

Before these people were captured and captured by slave traders, they were all just ordinary freedmen, and some were craftsmen or businessmen.

Some of them were robbed by robbers on the road when they were traveling far away, and then they were sold to slave traders themselves, and some of them were raided by slave traders disguised as robbers, and then the whole village was killed Captured and sold as slaves.

Regardless of the situation, they were all changed from free citizens who owned land to slaves, and now they came to Rhodes' territory as refugees.

Among them, people with craftsmanship or other special talents are still the same as the free people, and they can rely on their skills to survive, while those who don't know anything can only choose to rent fields from Rhodes. If they are from other lords, these people Even if they become their serfs.

And Rhodes had promised Quentin before, he decided to let these people do some work for him such as road repairs, and then use the money they earned to buy vacant land.

In this continent, the slave trade is not allowed in other places except the grasslands, but the Villen continent in the west is different. More than half of the people in each city-state are slaves, accepting the cruel exploitation of slave owners .

Before Rhodes went to the slave trading market, he thought that all the slaves on this continent were sold from the Villen continent, but he still thought too simply.

"Has the cement you researched been put into production?" Rhode stopped Gilbert who was passing by him. He, Heyman, Ott and Rhode were responsible for registering the information of those people just now.

"Not yet, it's only been a few days." Gilbert replied.

Rhodes nodded. He had thought about using cement to let these refugees build their own houses, but now it seems that they can only use wood to build houses as before.

"See if there are any alchemy talents among these people. You can take a few apprentices and let them do some less important jobs." Rhodes said again.

"Let's talk about it again. I'll study the animal skin scroll you gave me yesterday, which records the smelting of steel and a lot of characters that I can't understand." Gilbert yawned.

Gilbert is usually used to going to bed late and waking up late, so I woke him up before dawn today and made him do a lot of work.

Rhodes stood up, and he suddenly remembered that he still had some things to deal with. He found Quentin by the river, and Quentin was instructing the craftsmen in the town on how to build the port.

"I need your help. Can you go to the south to buy some food for me? With so many people here, the food in my territory may not be enough for the winter." Rhodes said to Quentin.

Fish Kingdom's geographical conditions are superior. Even in winter, the temperature in many places is still more than 20 degrees, which is similar to that in Southeast Asia on the earth.Farmers can still plow in winter, so they have no shortage of food at all.

"I can let my crew do these things. They have learned a lot after following me for so many years." Quentin turned around and said.

"What about you?" Rhodes asked.

"I'm going to take a break and help you build the pier. These people have no experience in this field. I suggest you take a long-term view and build a bigger pier, if you have money." Quentin said again .

Rhodes nodded, "I think so too, then would you like to be my caravan leader in the future?"

Quentin waved his hand, "Let those young people do this kind of thing, the Ford who sent you here before is a good candidate, he is a very smart young man.

Most of the other people on the ship have good brains and can do this kind of thing.

Rather than continuing to run a boat, I want to be an architect here. Designing buildings is my dream besides conquering the sea. "

Rhode smiled and nodded, "I can give Ford the same conditions as you did before, and also give him a share.

But if you want to be an architect with me, I still need to see if you have the ability, so don't give me some shabby projects. "

"Don't underestimate me, I am very talented in design, and my ship is designed by myself.

You should know that it is much faster than a boat of the same size.As for Ford and the others, you still treat them as ordinary people in the caravan, and you only need to give them a basic salary without giving them a share.

They are young and money will corrupt them and make them do irrational things. Quentin patted Rhodes on the shoulder.

Rhodes took out a few gems and handed them to Quentin, "Give these to them, and let them use the money to buy food from the south and come back, buy as much as possible, maybe some refugees will come to my territory in the future .”

Quentin nodded and accepted the gem.

"If you don't have enough manpower, you can choose from those refugees, but I will decide how much to pay them." Rhodes continued, "Also, besides the pier, I also need you to build some houses. Crowded with the townspeople."

"I don't need you to tell me about these things. Apart from this matter, I think the roads in the town need to be repaired." Quentin wiped his feet on the ground.

The roads in the town are all ordinary dirt, and there are still many stones in the ground. Rhodes tripped over a stone once, but fortunately, he has a strong balance and stabilized in time.

When the wharf is built in the future, there will definitely be many more carriages transporting goods near the town, and those carriages will be dangerous to run on such a road.

"I'll leave it to you. I'll come here every day to see how you're doing." Rhodes stood up and patted the dust on his body. He looked at his clothes and felt a little shabby. It's not time to make a few sets of clothes that nobles should have.

This is not a matter of vanity. If important people come to his territory in the future, he must dress more formally.

After seeing that things were almost handled, Rhodes did not return to the castle, but came to his big house in the small town. He was going to practice the martial arts he had acquired recently in the yard next to the house...

(End of this chapter)