Be a Lord in the World of Black Beasts

But most of their orcs are very short, and it is rare to be as tall as a human being. I have never seen these orcs as tall as two or three meters in front of me.

Looking at their necks with cow heads like cows, they must be the legendary bull orcs, right?

The tall bull orc boys were very proficient in distributing food to Cameron and the others, as if they had done it more than once, thinking about it.

After all, this small village defeated almost all the mercenaries in Ross Town and captured them all. This matter has long been spread in Ross Town.

Thinking of this, Cameron couldn't help shivering. What would it be like if the huge steel spoon they used to cook rice hit his head?

When the bull orc boy arrived, the crowd suddenly became silent. When people face unknown power, they always look at it with awe.

Everyone stood in several rows according to the instructions of the cattle orcs, and went up one by one to receive their share of meals. No one dared to be arrogant, and no one dared to jump in line.

Even the most notorious gang of hooligans in Rose Town stood there obediently and lined up in peace, not daring to make any mistakes.

Cameron thought that this might be intimidated by the overly violent appearance of the bull orcs, their well-developed muscles were exposed like this, and the hot air from their noses was whistling.

They alone can beat a team of these hooligans, Cameron thinks so.

Everyone was given a large bowl, and Cameron thought the gray ceramic bowl was as big as his face plate.

There are two rice buckets in each column, one for rice and one for dishes. After a long wait, it was finally Cameron's turn.

The Niu orc man who was eating rice directly picked up a large spoonful of rice, and immediately covered his bowl tightly, which was full of weight, before Cameron could react.

Then another big spoonful of dishes was put on top of it. It was Chinese cabbage, a vegetable that is often eaten in summer, but it is a rare and good thing in winter, and Cameron generally cannot afford it.

It can only be said that the cattle orcs are very sincere, the soup in Cameron's bowl was about to overflow, and he was so distressed that he quickly took a sip.

Well, it smells so good!Cameron couldn't wait to squat aside and ate big mouthfuls, "There is meat! I ate a big piece of meat!"

Suddenly Cameron heard someone yelling excitedly, and there was a fat and thin strip of meat that was as long as his finger was caught on the chopsticks in his hand.

Judging by the color of the meat, it should be that the pork has not escaped.

A lot of saliva came out of Cameron's mouth. Meat is always a good thing that can only be eaten on festivals or other important days.

Cameron couldn't remember how long it had been since he last ate meat, it seemed like four months ago?It's still a sip of broth for the pregnant wife to replenish her body.

Forget it, don't be envious of others, this may have been accidentally left behind by the lord's chefs, they always like to steal food, and I don't have such good luck.

While Cameron buried himself in the meal, more and more people found meat in their bowls, and some even had more than one piece.

Cameron felt itchy in his heart. It didn't make sense that so many people had him but didn't. Cameron hurriedly pushed aside the thick layer of dishes and found the meat underneath.

"One piece, two pieces, three pieces..." Cameron was so excited that there were five pieces of meat in his bowl. How much is this worth?

Now the price of pork at the pork stall in Ross town has risen to three silver coins per catty, which has doubled fully, so calculate the price.

I have to sell this bowl of food for one silver coin to get back the cost. Isn't the lord so generous that he is afraid of spending his small treasury?

Cameron carefully picked up a slightly larger piece of meat, chewed it slowly, and slowly filled his heart with happiness.

After eating this piece of meat, Cameron put the bowl in a safe place, then tremblingly took out a half-eaten sweet potato from his arms.

Then he pressed it down, poked a few holes with his fingers, and stuffed the pieces of meat in, so that it would stay clean. Cameron planned to take it back for his wife and children to taste.

Cameron carefully hid the roasted sweet potato with pork in his bosom pocket, and then continued to pick up his big big bowl and start eating.

Yi Cheng watched these people eat with a smile, the way they ate was neither elegant nor good-looking, it was ugly and vulgar.

But Yi Cheng likes their vigor, only in this way can he eat fast, eat well, have strength to work, and build his own territory quickly!

Yicheng provides three meals to his workers every day. Because of the two-shift system, Yicheng will prepare a meat dish for the meal at noon and midnight.

The most common one is stewed pork with Chinese cabbage, which is the simplest and the taste is not bad. Other times, broth is occasionally prepared, on Sundays or during festivals.

Yi Cheng will also ask the kitchen to make super big meat buns, one for each person, to keep them full.

The cost of doing this is very high. The food expenses of the workers alone are about six or seven gold coins per day, and the remuneration is even more.

But Yi Cheng earns more, everyone is working hard, and the profits made by the carpenters alone are far higher than these.

Chapter 150 The Queen's Deal

The lords are squeezing the laborers, and Yi Cheng is also squeezing the laborers, but the effect is completely different.

The territories of the lords will change from nothing to rich quickly, but the decline is also very fast. Why is this?

Because the source of wealth of these lords is extracted from the people of the territory, which is their main source of income, not one of them.

But where did all the wealth that was extracted from the people go?Most of them were concentrated in the hands of the lord and those close to the lord.

And what do these people who hold wealth in their hands usually like to do?Likes to buy luxuries, likes to buy slaves, likes to build castles for himself.

Luxury goods are purchased from foreign merchants, and slaves are also brought by slave merchants from other territories. Even the lords who build castles rarely pay for it.

They will force the citizens to work voluntarily, from the production of raw materials to the construction, they may not even provide food, they are so stingy.

With their short-sighted eyes, they only saw how much money they had saved and how wonderful their lives were.

But they never noticed that the labor force in the territory was gradually aging, and there were fewer and fewer young and middle-aged people to replace them, and the people in the territory were busy fleeing.

But many of them don't care about it, and are even proud that there are a few fewer refugees in their territory, and their appearance has improved a lot.

But they don't understand that in this stage of production, manpower is the most precious resource, and they don't understand Yicheng.

In terms of net worth, Yi Cheng can now be regarded as a relatively wealthy town-level lord.When other lords have so much money from Yi Cheng.

What they think about is how to enjoy and how to stabilize their rule, but they don't know how to maintain and develop their own territory.

But Yi Cheng was different, he had almost no extravagant and luxurious clothes, the most expensive thing in the closet was the priest's long white robe, which was given to Yi Cheng by Neil Butz and the others when they left.

The second is the cotton coat on his body. It is pure cotton and wrapped in animal skins. It is very warm. It may be worth a few silver coins, but if it is compared with Bender.

This dress might not even be as good as his buttons, and all of Bender's property that was collected from the castle has now been counted.

When there is a suitable price, all these clothes will be sold to those merchants.

Yi Cheng kept part of the money he earned in the warehouse as a trump card, and most of the money was spent on territory construction.

Staff wages are a part, and raw materials are a part. These are all bulk, and it is unnecessary to think about putting them on other lords. How good would it be to save this money?

Anyway, people who live in their territory are obliged to work for them, or just get out of their own territory.

When Yicheng distributes the money to these laborers, they will have the ability to buy goods, which will drive the economy, and there will be a market if there is demand.

The market here will attract businessmen from other places to invest, and the businessmen will pay taxes, which is another large sum of money, and then the money will continue to be invested in construction.

It sounds the same as other lords, and the process is the same.

But there is a very important joint that determines the essential difference between the two, and that is human nature.

When a person has been working for another person for free, he will gradually become lazy, and the efficiency of production will be greatly reduced.

This has something to do with people's ideological realm, and it also has something to do with the overall productivity of society. Only when the productivity reaches the point where there is no shortage of everything.

The ideological realm of the people can reach the realm of saints, which is a very contradictory relationship.

And Yicheng gave them a lot of money, the more intensive their profession, the higher their basic salary, and their performance will be used as their assessment, the more excellent they will get, the more bonuses they will get.

This is an important factor to promote the progress of personnel, and people should be divided into three, six, and nine grades.

You can't put the treatment of beggars and elites together, but this is a disguised form of contempt for these truly capable people.

Who creates resources and who consumes resources must be clearly distinguished.

Yi Cheng has never read Das Kapital, but there are these principles in textbooks, and this principle is valid in many worlds, unless there is no such thing as class in this world.

For Yicheng, these laborers create value, as long as they complete their work, Yicheng will give money.

People who work hard can always get more resources. After getting these resources, it is a kind of affirmation, and they will work harder to make money.

But the resources they get are definitely not as good as the resources they create, so where are the excess resources?

It can be said that a large part of it is in the hands of Yi Cheng, and part of it is in the hands of some other elites.

This is a snowball process, Yicheng gets bigger and bigger, and others get smaller and smaller.

So what Yi Cheng lacks the most now is the labor force. He has a lot of ideas to make money, but there are very few people.

Even with the addition of these people on the playground, there are still very few people, and it is very likely that there are not enough people to lay the railway.

The construction of the railway requires a lot of iron, a lot of logs, and a lot of labor, these are things that Yi Cheng is worried about.

There is a shortage of people in any place I am now, a large number of people are pouring in, there is an urgent need for a place to live, and construction materials are needed for construction, so the people in this place cannot be evacuated.

The territory is increasing, and the army is also expanding. It used to be easy to defend a small village, but now that there is an additional Ross town, this is even more troublesome.

The small town of Rose has iron mines that Yicheng urgently needs, which is a free resource, because this iron mine is Bender's property, and now that Bender has been driven away, this property belongs to him.

Therefore, the number of personnel in the army cannot be reduced. On the contrary, the scale must be increased.

The labor force must be liberated!Time to speed up the brainwashing, no, transformation process of the captives.

Yi Cheng has quite a few captives now, and they are all the ones waiting to be punished for labor. Perhaps the chances of serving their sentences faster will be better.

Taking advantage of the meal time to go over what to do next, Yi Cheng reassembled the messy crowd on the playground.

Everyone was very satisfied with the big meal, and each of them seemed to have something to say, and some of them were already discussing their life in the village excitedly.

Yi Cheng stepped onto the stage, "Everyone be quiet, I'm going to say a few words next, I won't say much else, it's uncomfortable to wait in the snow, I'll announce the compensation for each position first."

The crowd suddenly burst into exclamation, and started talking about salary before they got a job?In the past, when I was doing things for other lords, I had to ask for it myself before I settled the settlement.

Moreover, the remuneration will be reduced layer by layer with the distribution of the above. From the housekeeper to the servant who gave the money, everyone will deduct a little bit.

But when everyone thought of Yi Cheng's unique appearance, they felt relieved. Other lords would not give such a good meal.

"Those who have learned blacksmithing go to the blacksmith department to report. Beginners get three silver coins, and skilled ones get six. Those with ratings will be counted separately. The same is true for carpenters."

After Yi Cheng finished speaking, there were blacksmiths and carpenters who had been prepared in the audience waiting to pull people. Recently, everyone was under a lot of pressure.

The task given by the village chief Yi Cheng was very heavy. The original number of people was not enough. In order to save the freight, many businessmen led large convoys all at once.

Calculating the time, the next wave of merchants is coming, and the goods agreed are still far behind.

Those who know how to work as a carpenter and blacksmith are overjoyed. Even an apprentice can earn three silver coins a month, which is something that is unimaginable.

Not to mention those who make a living from these jobs, they have been doing this for many years, and they can be regarded as proficient no matter what.

This is six silver coins a month, which is close to one gold coin a year, stepping into the rich class in one step.

Cameron laughed so hard that he couldn't close his mouth. He took out the roasted sweet potato in his arms, picked out the meat inside and ate it, and bought better and more meat when he made money!