Chapter 0387 Buried Thunder
Taking advantage is something that the people like to hear.
But if you take advantage and support yourself, comedy will turn into tragedy.
Old Arad's affair with the Long-Legs family was completely within Zhou Qingfeng's expectation. He also expected that once the Long-Legs family was defeated, they would definitely be kicked out of Cold Wind City and flee back to their own autonomous territory outside the city to lick their wounds.
A family with a big business will definitely become delicious fat meat when fleeing. The 'rebellious' powerful people will turn into hyenas, surround the prey and bite them hard on the way to escape - fighting to the death, isn't it just for this moment?
How much meat you can eat at this time depends on how big your appetite is.
Zhou Qingfeng originally just wanted to take advantage of his financial advantage to take advantage of it, so that the thousands of refugees he took in could be fed and clothed, and he would be very happy if he could provide the "Fu Qiang Ling" with material guarantees to start construction.
But I never thought...
Phils Long Legs hates the outsider Victor Hugo with all his heart, and he hates the "rebellion" in Cold Wind City. The internal rebellion that stabs him in the back is even more gnashing of teeth than the external enemies.
The property was also sold at a low price. Phils would rather sell it to Zhou Qingfeng than to Old Arad and other 'rebellious' people in Cold Wind City.
Foreign enemies should be punished, and rebellion should be punished even more!
After the chaos, the heir to the Long-Legs family saw clearly - Victor Hugo was a hungry wolf that couldn't get enough to eat, and sooner or later he would bite back on the 'rebellious'. He might as well sell all the family property to this hungry wolf, or even give it away for free.
He, the 'rebels' will definitely feel resentful.
Why do you provoke trouble and let us die? Why do you eat meat and we can't even drink soup? Why do you, a foreigner, take advantage of us more than the locals?
When Zhou Qingfeng swallowed the huge amount of property sold at a low price by Long Legs, he was really full - like a hungry ghost going to eat buffet hot pot, holding on to the wall to get in and out.
At first, only Rubio was responsible for receiving the low-priced materials, and more than a dozen government officials from Harmony Village followed them to count and deliver them. However, more and more things were received, and they were too busy just to receive them.
Wilson brought a team of craftsmen who had joined Zhou Qingfeng to support him, which only slightly relieved Rubio's work pressure. The long-legged family's century-old savings were too much.
Hilly quickly took Sophia to take charge personally, and also brought along Irene and Arcee. Not long after, she asked Zhou Qingfeng for help in the master-servant contract, requesting that seven goblins be sent to help, and by the way, more than a dozen
The spiritual slave was also sent.
The maids totaled nearly thirty people, and Lorraine and dozens of other apprentices were sent to do odd jobs. This finally greatly reduced the workload and allowed the reception to proceed smoothly.
However, the Long Legs family was selling off more and more property, including shops and properties in and outside the city, supplies for servants, and cattle and sheep fields. They were all sent over.
That posture looked like he was going to smash Zhou Qingfeng to death.
Hundreds of years of savings, it doesn’t hurt to sell it to me!
The Long Legs family had been in business for several generations, but it was gone in one day.
Several housekeepers in the family were filled with tears, and knelt down and begged Phils Long Legs not to sell it anymore. But the new head of the family was very decisive and straightforward, and he just wanted to sell it with all his strength, leaving almost nothing left.
As a result, they had been busy all day, from day to night, and Rubio and Hilly were so tired that they didn't even have time to drink water. The long-legged family went completely crazy and had a clearance sale, leaving nothing behind.
Not only materials were sold, but also living people.
The family servant dragged his skinny wife and two or three timid children, and ran to Zhou Qingfeng one by one and shouted, "Master". The long-legged family sent thousands of people over for free and asked them to drag the family with them.
Meet the new owners.
"Damn it, are these people here to work for me, or are they here to feed the rich?" Zhou Qingfeng always likes to accumulate people. But with so many people coming in the blink of an eye, he can't stand it.
Crowds of people crowded the streets, whispering uneasily and making noisy noises. Men were beating and scolding women, women were disciplining children, and different families collided with each other, creating a mess.
The unorganized and undisciplined population is not a labor force at all, but the source of unrest. Zhou Qingfeng really wants to order all these people who have taken refuge to go home, and declare that they are free citizens from now on.
Free people should not come to trouble Uncle Zhou again.
"Master, you must not declare them to be free citizens." Wilson was formerly the craftsman guild president of Cold Wind City. He was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat after learning Zhou Qingfeng's intention. "Free citizens without assets are refugees. They
There will be a riot."
Zhou Qingfeng didn't understand it yet, but when he thought about it carefully, he was frightened.
For other worlds where life is difficult, slaves of aristocratic families are equivalent to lifelong employees of large companies. The slaves in the system are a job that guarantees a harvest despite droughts and floods. They seem to have no freedom, but in fact, their lives are much better than those of ordinary free people.
But these thousands of people are really a big deceiving burden, and Zhou Qingfeng doesn't want to bear it at all. Wilson can only come up with an idea: "Master, why don't you reward these people to the subordinates who follow you?"
If he were a normal noble, he would really do this.
Enfeoffment.
But Zhou Qingfeng flatly refused. He currently pays both physical and monetary wages to everyone in his system. In theory, everyone has equal status, the only difference is their position.
If you engage in personal dependence, you will end up with uneven hills one after another beneath Zhou Qingfeng. Each hill will first pull wealth and resources toward your own home. This is human nature.
Zhou Qingfeng would not challenge human nature. He would rather spend more money and give more supplies, rather than confer an inch of land to his subordinates or assign a slave.
If he wanted to live a life of being served, he could only have an employment relationship, and there could never be a master-servant relationship outside of Zhou Qingfeng. He rejected Wilson's suggestion, but it could not solve the immediate trouble.
Wilson continued: "The Longlegs family gave these slaves to us, but gave all the slaves' property to Arad and other families in the city. These people were actually kicked out and have no home."
Zhou Qingfeng was very surprised.
"In addition, the Long-Leggs family also sold several manors to what they regarded as 'rebels', but gave us the people in the manors. Just now, several nobles from the city came and asked us to move the people immediately and not eat them.
Grain from the estate.”
Just sowing discord.
Poor tactic.
But if you encounter a pig teammate, this clumsy trick will work.
Zhou Qingfeng took too many advantages in the bargain-hunting war, and the "rebellious" nobles in the city must not like him. The nobles only want real estate, not extra people, so they will definitely fall into this trap.
If it was a close alliance, they should shelve their conflicts at this moment and join forces to fight against the outside world. But Zhou Qingfeng knew that this was impossible. If the nobles in the city could understand the overall situation, they would not be incited to rebel.
"Phyls, Phils, you still want to lay such a bombshell for me before you leave. That guy has become smarter."
Chapter completed!