Chapter 66

Su Lun didn't directly take out the white sugar to trade with the skylark chamber of Commerce. In his positioning of white sugar, it was a luxury jewelry. White sugar is different from salt. Even if ordinary people don't eat sugar, it's nothing, so sugar is basically prepared for those nobles.

Robert's caravan brought a variety of daily necessities, including wine, tea, etc. in addition to a small amount of food. Their arrival solved many problems in the territory. When sulun came to develop the territory, he should have limited funds. He just bought the most important materials, but didn't bring other materials at all.

The simplest thing is clothes. Clothes are not produced in the wasteland, so many people wear leather clothes after clothes are damaged. It's hard and smelly. It's uncomfortable to wear and smells bad. Before coming here, Robert specially asked Jean about the situation of sulun territory, and then prepared the goods. Naturally, these goods are very popular.

Sue Allen had no money for his previous purchases. He wanted to buy Robert's goods only by barter. Fortunately, during this time, the blacksmith shop forged a lot of armor and weapons, which happened to be traded with Robert.

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Robert is still curious about zhenbeibao, a small town more than 300 miles away from Blackstone city. In his impression, few people who go so deep into the wasteland can survive for three months, and a few who survive for three months and finally stand firm are heavily in debt and need a lot of capital investment every year, After all, maintaining a regular army of more than a thousand people in the wilderness is too expensive.

But the town's North Fort is different. After coming here, Robert's first impression is clean and orderly. Yes, it's clean and orderly. You know, even in the King City of Florence, in addition to the aristocratic and rich areas, it's common to urinate everywhere. The streets of the city are also muddy, and there are human excrement that don't know when it will fall from the sky.

The town is unexpectedly clean and the streets are clean, and the street pavement is paved and rolled with stones. In some places, stone slabs are used as the pavement. There is no garbage in the streets, and the pedestrians have not discarded the garbage, even those goblin slaves and jackal slaves.

Later, he learned that this was the request of Lord sulun, and there was severe punishment for violating the regulations. He cleaned the streets and toilets under the surveillance of others with chains. In addition, if they are caught defecating everywhere, they will not only pay fines and labor, but also be caught and hanged. Those who do not change after repeated education will also be confiscated their crime tools.

There will be a bathroom at the corner of each street. Everyone must go to the bathroom. In addition to being clean and tidy, there are many rules here. For example, the road is divided into two from the middle, and everyone needs to walk on the right, etc.

Although the whole town looks small, it is in good order. Several roads divide the town into several parts, and all houses are almost one style. Although it doesn't look good, it looks neat. Some of these houses have been occupied, but more are empty.

Although each house has a small area and only three rooms, the layout is very reasonable. All the houses facing the street are two-story attics. These houses should be shops. Drainage ditches have been dug on both sides of the town road, and there are special sewers inside the house.

There are more people living in the south of the city, but other places are very empty. Many open spaces have built fences, which seems to be a reserved position. No one is allowed near the military camp in the town. The Lord's residence also prohibits people from approaching, but you can come and go freely on the other side of the square.

Compared with other towns, this town not only has fewer residents, but also has an appalling number of troops. For such a pioneering town to gain a foothold in the wilderness, there must be at least 800 regular troops, but what about this town? There are less than a hundred barbarian warriors.

Even if these barbarian warriors are powerful, the number is too small. After a large-scale battle, the sea of people can drown them. But until now, the town still survives well, which makes people feel that they have no cards.

However, the strength of these barbarian warriors is really strong. On the way, the barbarian warrior named Johnson may have reached the level of Knight Chief. I didn't expect that there are Knight chiefs who surpass the level of knight and great knight in such a remote and small place. If he is willing to be loyal to the Kingdom, he can at least become a viscount.

In addition to these, what surprised him more was that the town had a large number of slaves. In addition to those serfs, there were more than 1000 goblin, dog headed man and jackal slaves. The number of these slaves was more than several times that of the urban population, and no slaves had escaped.

There are few free people here. Most of them are slaves of the Lord, but the slaves here are completely different from those in other cities. In other places, slaves are not very motivated to work. Often supervisors must whip, but slaves here work very actively and do not need supervisors to whip at all.

After discovering this situation, Robert was very surprised. After asking some people, he learned that the Lord sulun promised to pardon the slave and make him a free man as long as he worked hard for the territory for five years. Robert was stunned when he heard the news.

You should know that slaves are his private property. Let slaves work hard not by the whip of the supervisor? Why release the slaves? Does he think he has too much money? This approach is beyond Robert's comprehension. They even established a contribution system for these slaves. They can get a small number of points for serious work every day, or they can also get points after joining the army and fighting.

Only when the points meet the requirements will the slave be free.

In fact, Su Lun's reason for doing so is to increase the number of free people in the town. After all, if you know that you will always be a slave, can you expect this slave to work hard? impossible. Suellen successfully mobilized the enthusiasm of these slaves in this way.

Even after five years, these slaves returned to freedom. They also had nothing. They needed to continue to work for Suellen before they could get paid. They just changed exploitation into a more hidden way.

In addition to these, what makes Robert most curious is that there is a blacksmith shop on the river outside the city, which is the place for producing weapons and equipment, but Robert was stopped when he wanted to enter. There are several such places. One of them is in the workshop next to the Lord's castle, which is also guarded by barbarian soldiers.