Succubus' Manor

This winter, Chi Yan spent almost all his energy on how to keep the people in the city alive.

Kleist will lead the army away before the arrival of spring, and he will take down a small half of the city near the Holy City before the next winter.

Ever since Chi Yan and Kleist met, they had never been separated for so long.

Chi Yan was reluctant to part with Kleist, but he had no one else he could trust other than Kleist.

Especially when Achill and the others compared with Kleist, Chi Yan still felt that Kleist had a better chance of winning and would take less time.

"You send a letter back once a month."

After exercising and taking a shower, Chi Yan lay on Kleist's lap and asked Kleist to dry his wet hair with a linen cloth.

Kleist gently wiped Chi Yan's hair: "Okay."

Chi Yan closed his eyes and said, "You have never left me for more than a week."

Kleist smiled: "Then find someone else."

Chi Yan: "But I don't believe anyone else except you."

The corners of Kleist's mouth became wider, and his voice was very gentle: "Then I will come back once a month."

Chi Yan looked at him: "I almost forgot that you have wings!"

Chi Yan sat up, hugged Kleist and kissed him.

On the day Kleist left, almost everyone in the city came to see him off. At this time, the snow had almost melted, and Chi Yan only needed to wear a padded jacket, instead of wrapping himself into a ball like in the deep winter. The ministers are more honest and obedient now - it's not that they were conquered by Chi Yan's domineering aura, but that their food, clothes and money were all cut off by Chi Yan, and now they have to eat based on Chi Yan's face.

Without a territory, without a territory, nobles who are not in their own territory are wolves without minions, and even if they get together, they can't make a big difference.

The number of Chi Yan's soldiers also increased. The soldiers who originally belonged to the royal family were merged into Chi Yan's army, and many civilians also joined the army in order to be able to eat their stomachs and eat meat occasionally.

There are also many orphans who have grown up and have no families. Both men and women have joined the army. Anyway, the army does not reject anyone except for disabilities.

As for Flando's captives, Chi Yan has arranged to do repair work, and the two meals a day are relatively sparse, but he will not deliberately abuse them.

After all, they are all strong laborers, and they are still very precious in this era. Chi Yan is not going to watch them die in a few days.

Chi Yan began to insert his own people into various administrative units. As for the former ministers, although they were still working, his people would slowly take over the affairs.

The previous people, Chi Yan, didn't plan to leave all of them idle. If there were capable ones among them, he wouldn't go looking for them, and these people would jump out by themselves.

As the weather started to warm up, Chi Yan conducted the first census.

In the end, the number of people who reported to Chi Yan's desk was about the same as he expected.

After a winter of wear and tear, the total population of the city was 26, of which more than 6 were slaves.

He chose this time for the census because the population will not be too big due to the weather. In winter, people with poor physical fitness are frozen to death every day. The census is carried out today, and a bunch of people will die tomorrow. The statistics are not very good Rigorous, the number of people will be much more stable after the weather warms up, and the error will not exceed [-].

The unowned houses were also counted, and then Chi Yan's people set the price.

These houses will be "sold" to homeless people, but instead of these people paying directly, they will pay off their debts with work. They can only get the minimum salary every month, but they can guarantee food supply.

Chi Yan built several relatively simple factories for processing sugar, brewing wine and making shelf-stable black bread.

In addition, he also started to recruit people to repair roads and still repair the damaged city walls.

The holy city, which was originally somewhat lifeless, has been rejuvenated due to the increase in jobs.

In a small wooden house in the south of the city, a woman was packing her things. She was carrying her small cloth bag and a child on her back, and was about to go out.

Her husband carried the other older child on his back, and the couple headed out together—they would go to the "nursery" to drop the baby there before going to work.

"Did you get the money?" The wife didn't quite believe her husband's memory, and asked several times after going out.

The husband said helplessly: "Take it! Twenty copper coins."

The nursery school is very cheap, only ten copper coins for ten days, and both of them are weaned and can drink mush.

Nursery schools only appeared recently. Businessmen in the city were the first to discover business opportunities. Now that there are too many jobs, the adults in the family will basically go out to work in order to make money. It is not safe to leave children at home. Take them to work?The factory does not agree, and it is too busy to carry children to work, plus an adult, even the weakest person, can earn two copper coins a day.

So they found some middle-aged women with relatively strong strength, and then bought a house and set up a "nursery".

Children under the age of three receive one copper coin a day, and children over the age of three and under eight receive two copper coins a day.

They are based on how much the child can eat.

It's a bad calculation, though, because it doesn't take into account the time and energy women working in nurseries spend on younger children.

But there is still money to be made.

After all, for such an older child, he would eat half a copper coin twice a day.

And three women can control more than 20 or even more children.

The nursery schools that have just emerged don’t take care of much, that is, take care of the children’s two meals, watch them and keep them from running around, no accidents, and no fights.

When businessmen earn money, parents can go to work with peace of mind, and children can stay with their peers to play. Some parents who can do carpentry will also prepare some small toys for their children to take to the nursery.

The couple are now building roads. Road building is hard work, and their income is not as much as that in the factory, but fortunately, it is very stable, and the more they do, the more they earn.

Like their husband and wife, they have been working together to build roads, earning more every day than those who work separately. Together, they can earn five copper coins a day when they are less, and seven or eight copper coins when they are more.

When the wives and husbands arrived at the nursery, they handed over the money to the woman in charge, and then they greeted the children to get along with the other children here, and hurried away.

On the way, the wife said to her husband, "It would be great if we could enter the factory."

The husband sighed: "It's not that there are too many people signing up."

The wife glanced at her hands. She was very envious of her neighbor. The neighbor was a widow who lived alone. Because she ran fast—she ran like a gust of wind, so she signed up early and was arranged to go to the bakery. Kneading dough and making bread, one person can earn five copper coins a day, and it's not as hard as she is. Just yesterday, she saw a neighbor buy a box of sheep oil to wipe her hands.

The wife's own hands are already chapped, but she is reluctant to buy suet.

The husband couldn't notice, the wife rubbed her hands and followed her husband to work in silence.

Maybe after they work for a while, and work hard for a while, she can also buy a bottle of sheep oil.

Many of the people who work with them are former slaves. There are many dwarves and goblins. These dwarves and goblins will not be lazy. They work hard to pay for the house. No matter how much work they do, they only have two meals a day. , but how much work they have done will be recorded, and it will be used to offset the money for the house. Once the money is paid off, they can get their wages.

The husband didn't want his wife to deal with goblins and dwarves-although they were poor, they were human races, and human races were always nobler than other races.

They sometimes don't use "he" to refer to other races, but "it".

The wife buried her head in her work, and the sun rose higher and higher. The wife was sweating all over her body, but she didn't stop.

"Shall we go drink some water?" The wife wiped the sweat from her forehead and said to her husband.

The husband stopped: "Go, go drink some water."

Sometimes you need to queue up to drink water, sometimes you don't need it, it depends on how many people drink water.

When they went, it happened to be the peak drinking time, and the dwarves and goblins were ahead of them.

The husband took his wife's hand, ready to jump in line.

Of course they don't join the human team, they want to join the goblins and dwarves.

The little goblin was counting with his fingers how much debt he should be able to repay today, but when he looked up, he saw a couple trying to squeeze in front of him.

If it was normal, the goblin would act as if he didn't see it, and take a step back honestly, he didn't want to conflict with the human race.

But today, the goblin has already been cut into the queue by more than a dozen human races. He said dissatisfiedly: "You have to queue! I have been in the queue for a long time! I still have a lot of work to do!"

The wife tugged at the hem of her husband's clothes, feeling a little embarrassed.

But the husband said confidently: "The goblins should be in the back!"

The goblin jumped up: "Why should it be! I don't owe you anything!"

The husband looked down at the goblin and said contemptuously, "What can a goblin do? A slave is a slave."

The goblin is not alone, there are seven or eight goblins behind him, and the goblins are indignant: "We are not slaves! We are free people now, free people like you! If we were slaves, you and slaves would still drink from the same vat the water!"

The wife was even more embarrassed, she said next to her husband: "Let's go to the back."

The husband held on, unwilling to show weakness. He continued, "Why aren't you slaves anymore? Your Majesty didn't say that you should be free citizens."

The dwarves behind were also shouting: "We have a house, a job, and we are free people!"

Some people in the human race in front of her husband also disliked goblins and dwarves: "Slaves must look like slaves! How dare you talk like that?!"

By the time other people found out that there was a commotion here, the human race and the goblin dwarves had already fought, and it developed into a big melee of more than 20 people.

The manager hurriedly took people over to fight.

This trivial matter of fighting and fighting between the human race and other races was told to Chi Yan by Ryan as if it were a story that night.

Chi Yan: "What are you laughing at? What's so funny? This is a very serious matter."

Lane shut up.

Chi Yan knew that how to deal with this "little matter" would have a huge impact on his status as a slave and free citizen in the future.

The holy city is different from the manor and Saket. It has "rules". If the "rules" exist for a long time, they will become the default rules.

To break this "default", he has to spend more time and energy.

And he doesn't want to fail.