Succubus' Manor

Chi Yan didn't expect so many people to come - so many that he felt that he had made a wrong choice.

The servants obviously brought back not only their parents, but also brothers and sisters. One person brought four or five people back, while Chi Yan's original calculation was that one person brought his parents back, that is, two.

Now the number of people is two or three times higher than originally expected.

It is impossible for this group of people to squeeze into the castle, even if Chi Yan is willing, the steward and the knight will not.

"Let them live in thatched huts first, and build the house before it rains for a few days." Chi Yan said, "Build it bigger so that more people can live in it, and build more next year."

When this group of people came to his territory, they were naturally his people, and they all obeyed his orders.

Chi Yan asked the servants to boil these people's food, one meal a day, and he knew that the servants would also cut down their clothes and go on a diet to subsidize their families, so he didn't plan to give too much. When they can open up wasteland and farm, Chi Yan won't worry about it. Taxes only need to be collected once a year.

After all, with so many people here, the taxes paid to the Holy Court will also increase.

This is why nobles prefer to have slaves in their territories rather than civilians.

Because hard work is the property of the nobles, it is equivalent to an item, and there is no need to pay taxes, but the common people need it.

Therefore, many civilians became slaves of the lord after they could not pay the tax to the lord.

This is forcing the people into slavery, but this is a gray area, neither the Holy Court nor the officials, so this deformed ecology has continued.

The civilians who came here didn't complain, you know, when they were in the city, they didn't even feel confused!

A bowl of mush a day, and the relatives in the castle will bring them black bread to eat, what is there to be dissatisfied with?

But what surprised them the most was that the slaves here could eat two meals a day, and occasionally black bread.

This is better than most civilians.

"Slaves can eat bread if they do a good job." Abel ate the mush with his family, which he saved today, and took it back to the hut to eat with his family at night. He was used to the rule of the new lord , I didn't think there was anything wrong, "This way they will work honestly."

The previous lords would not give the slaves much food, and the daily meal was only a little bit. The slaves would always find ways to be lazy.

The current lord gave the slaves more food, but the slaves stopped being lazy. Abel didn't know why, but he knew it was a good thing.

"Your Excellency is kind and full of wisdom!" Abel said categorically to his family, "When the house is built, we will be given land and we will be able to eat enough."

The family members are very happy. A man who is kind to the slaves will not treat them too badly.

They hope that the lord is a soft-hearted person, so that their life can be easier.

For Chi Yan, the best news recently was that after countless failures, steel was finally smelted.

It was refined one by one, and it was barely a child, with a scar on his face. Chi Yan didn't dare to let the common people do this, and he couldn't let the servants and knights know. He could only pick a few from each race. Individuals, let them forge iron in a walled house.

Maybe Karl and Albert guessed something, but they acted normally and didn't even ask.

While Chi Yan was relieved, he was also wary of them.

If this continued, Chi Yan felt that he might suffer from persecution paranoia.

——There are always people who want to harm me.

This kind of steel is much rougher than fine steel at that time, but compared with iron, the progress is not a star and a half, and it consumes a lot of manpower. Take it out, and then continue to put it into the carbon fire to absorb carbon, reduce impurities, increase the carbon content, and then go through repeated beating and tempering to get steel.

Although it sounds simple, it is very troublesome in practice.

After all, there are no sophisticated instruments and no experience. Whether you can succeed depends on luck besides hard work.

As for the raw materials for textiles, Chi Yan also learned from Kleist that cotton is not called cotton now, but cloud flowers. The cotton cloth woven is only supplied to the royal family and the Holy Court, and the clothes worn by common people are made of a kind of plant Yes, the outer skins are peeled off, and these skins can be twisted into threads after being beaten, and then clothes can be woven.

This kind of linen is more durable than cotton and is not easily damaged.

However, due to the current limited textile technology, the cloth sold by merchants is very sparse and easily damaged.

Moreover, there is no spinning tool here, but manual twisting into threads.

Therefore, the price of cloth is very high, which is staggeringly high.

When Chi Yan went to the countryside to play before, he had seen a spinning wheel, and the old woman had shown it to him, but what she used was not hemp, but cotton, which was spun into thread by a spinning wheel, and then it could be used for weaving. .

The old lady also told him that when the People's Republic of China was just founded, some people still used this spinning method, but they stopped doing it when the days got better.

Thanks to the old lady, Chi Yan can still remember how the spinning wheel works.

This kind of spinning car is pedaled, the principle is the same as that of a sewing machine, the wooden wheel will rotate with the frequency of the pedals, and people only need to adjust the thickness and pull the thread.

It's not difficult to do, nothing too difficult.

So steel came along, the spinning wheel and the loom could be made, and the only question was, where to get ramie?

Cotton Chi Yan didn't dare to think about it. Merchants didn't dare to sell it. Even if merchants dared to sell it for money, Chi Yan didn't dare to plant it on his own territory.

It doesn’t matter if you grow ramie, because ramie can be eaten besides spinning and weaving. The hemp root can be used as food. Can extract fiber textile.

Chi Yan learned about this knowledge in history class. Among all the culture classes, Chi Yan was most interested in history class. He loved ancient history the most and modern history the least.

After hearing Kleist talk about plants, he immediately thought of ramie. This thing can be said to be a treasure all over the body, it can be eaten and used, and it can be used to make paper!But Chi Yan couldn't tell Kleist that this thing can make paper, he only said that besides weaving, it can also make wine and sugar.

When Kleist heard that he could make wine and sugar, he said: "This is a good thing."

Chi Yan was a little discouraged: "No matter how good the thing is, where can I get the seeds?"

Although he doesn't know what weeds and vegetables are on his territory, he also knows that anyone who can eat and is useful has been tried. If there is ramie, how can it be possible not to collect seeds to plant?

Kleist laughed: "Do you think everyone else knows how useful it is like you?"

This thing is not precious. It just so happens that Kleist also bought seeds when he went to the city to buy pig iron.

"I know you will definitely need it." Kleist looked at Chi Yan with eyes like water. He wanted to look into Chi Yan's mind and see how much stuff was still in Chi Yan's mind.

Chi Yan was taken aback for a moment, then hugged Kleist excitedly.

"You're great!" Chi Yan grabbed Kleist's hand. He needed a helper like Kleist so much. He must have many things that he couldn't think of by himself, and he just needed a helper to fill in the gaps.

With a smile on his lips, Kleist suddenly broke free from Chi Yan's hand, and gave Chi Yan a standard aristocratic salute.

"It is my honor to serve you."

Chi Yan smiled brightly, and he put his hips on his hips without caring about his image, and said very complacently, "Now we are going to take the first step towards a new world!"

Then he left the bewildered Kleist and ran to the blacksmith room.

This house was built bigger than the others at that time, and it was built with high stone walls. Once the door is closed, you can only hear the sound inside, but you can't see what is going on inside.

As soon as Chi Yan walked in, the slaves quickly lay down on the ground, even if there was still work in hand, they had to stop.

Chi Yan met the goblin who successfully smelted steel.

Slaves don't have names, but if there are elders, they will be given to him, but the names they choose are all strange, some are called stone, some are called wood, in short, they are all words that no one uses as names.

This goblin didn't have a name. When Chi Yan asked him what his name was, his forehead was stuck to the ground, not daring to let Chi Yan see the scar on his face, and tremblingly said that his name was Dahe, which means the river of river water.

He also explained that his mother said that there was a big river in their hometown.

Chi Yan praised him and rewarded him in front of all the slaves, because he was the first to smelt steel, so his daily black bread could be replaced by white bread, and the mush could be replaced by three meals. Chi Yan also rewarded him He is fully clothed and will be brought to him when the servants are ready.

After all, there is still cloth in the castle. Although it is not cotton cloth, it is very luxurious to be able to make a whole dress out of coarse cloth.

All the slaves were dumbfounded, including Dahe who made the iron. He lay on the ground with tears streaming down the floor.

He worked day and night, just wanting to smelt iron as soon as possible. He was afraid that the lords would hate them goblins, and hoped that with his own efforts, he could win the favor of some adults for the clansmen.

But he didn't expect that he would get so many, so many things!

Three meals a day of mush, and white bread!He can let his mother also eat delicious and soft bread!

He didn't dare to cry out loud, only dared to cry silently.

Chi Yan didn't stay here for too long. When he was there, the slaves would always feel uncomfortable, frightened, and unable to work well, so he encouraged the slaves a few words, and left after drawing a big cake for the slaves. up.

As long as the slaves work hard and no one is lazy, next year the slaves involved in steelmaking will become free citizens.

The flatbread was so delicious that the slaves thought they were dreaming.

After Chi Yan left, the goblin named Dahe stood up with all the slaves.

All the slaves were looking at him, looking at him enviously, as if he had suddenly become a different person.

At this age, Dahe has never been as excited and proud as he is today.

Although he was born a slave, he didn't want to be a slave forever!

He has to work harder than others, be more useful to adults, and be more loyal to adults, so that he can let himself and his mother live a good life.

Only then... can I be closer to adults.