The original mayor's official residence has been renovated, but Lu Ming still uses the RV in the courtyard of the official residence as a resting place, and does not deliberately go back to the Southern Region while sleeping, so as to avoid being attacked at night or other emergencies. There is no backbone here, and in the RV
The sanitary conditions feel better and more comfortable than those in the official residence.
The architectural style of the city hall, official residence, and library here is the Baroque style of the 18th century, mostly using stone. The fronts of these public buildings look more majestic, in sharp contrast to the remains of the simple wooden houses and stone houses in the town. From here
A little speculation is that this society may have been an authoritarian world at one time.
However, most stone buildings are not so severely corroded. Unlike metal objects, they are as fragile as paper under the venom of ferocious beasts. Therefore, they are still relatively intact and can be repaired simply.
In the RV, Lu Ming looked at the floor plan and planning document of this Hedong stronghold.
Zhuge, the deputy leader of the special service team, knew this very well and borrowed the tactics from Steel Fortress.
After Lu Ming told him that he could provide any resources in the New World, Zhuge's plan was to first surround the grid with a grid. Whether or not to build high walls within the grid would depend on the situation. At regular intervals within the grid,
The finished steel bunker is a characteristic of the New World. It is a cast steel bunker. Dig the ground two meters deep, put the three-meter-high bunker directly inside, and pour cement outside. It is a bit like Lu Ming playing a strategy in his previous life.
The kind of standardized fortress of the game.
Lu Ming promised to provide all raw materials, including the finished bunker.
In this way, a total of more than twenty bunkers are needed in the overall rectangular power grid.
If there are four combatants in a bunker, two in a team, and they are on duty 24 hours a day, it will require about a hundred combatants.
Lu Ming originally wanted Zhuge to select slaves for training.
There are more than 300 slaves in total, including 33 gladiators, and the rest are 100 slave families, half male and female. In addition, their minor children, under ten years old, will live with their parents. They are considered as additional child slaves.
Twenty or thirty, when they reach adulthood at the age of ten, they must obey their master's arrangements. In addition to these slave families, Lu Ming also bought more than a hundred unmarried slaves, that is, slaves between the ages of ten and sixteen.
There are about half men and women.
In the past ten years or so in the Southern Territory, slaves were basically purchased as a unit of slave family, or as a pair of unmarried slaves.
Because the offspring of slaves are also the property of slave owners, and now that there are no more wars in the Southern Territory, and there is no longer talk of plundering people as slaves, it is inevitable for the existing slave class to multiply.
Although it is not possible as before, the female slaves are just for reproduction, and there is no fixed male slave to form a family with them. Instead, the master chooses strong male slaves to make peace with many female slaves, so that the little slaves born in this way will most likely inherit their father's inheritance in the future.
Genes are strong and tall.
Nowadays, it is more humane, and slaves are allowed to form families.
Even if this is the case, the idea is similar to that of raising pigs. We must consider the safety of their offspring, including the yield of the offspring and the genes of the offspring.
Regarding the arrangements for these slaves, apart from initial maintenance of the town and necessary handyman work, there is actually not much to do in the future.
There is no need to pretend to make them produce resources, and there is no cultivated land nearby.
However, when it comes to training them to be warriors, they are even issued with firearms.
Lu Ming hesitated again, because these slaves were passed down from generation to generation and their psychology was very twisted. It was difficult for normal people to understand their thinking patterns.
If they have combat capabilities, or even have powerful guns in their hands, and in such a chaotic and lawless place, will they have some strange thoughts?
Zhuge should also have considered this and carefully expressed his different opinions in the planning book. Naturally, he would not blatantly refute the "Tai Sheng Huang", but would carefully ask if he could find a way to recruit capable personnel from the Southern Territory. Otherwise,
The next best thing is to give slaves the use of flintlock muskets from the Southern Region? Training them as musketeers would match the technological level of the remaining humans in this post-apocalyptic continent, and would not seem so shocking.
After all, the nine-man special service team can use weapons from the New World, but if there are suddenly more than a hundred combatants armed with assault rifles, it may cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.
It's just that the bunker was originally equipped with a heavy machine gun as standard equipment, but it became a flintlock gunner, so the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
However, it would be good for Mr.’s slaves to familiarize themselves with flintlocks first. They will learn to use advanced weapons more quickly in the future. At that time, loyal and talented ones can be selected from among the musketeers and distributed with the ordnance and equipment of the New World.
What's more, Mr.'s slaves have seen flintlock guns at most in the Southern Territory. Learning to use flintlock guns is an extremely incredible thing for them. However, as slaves of the master, when they come to dangerous places, the master gives them the ability to fight.
Their thinking can also accept it. Most likely it will be a sense of glory? But if they are directly allowed to use the New World's assault rifles, light and heavy machine guns, etc., it will bring them too much stimulation, and some uncontrollable events will easily occur.
In the final analysis, if these slaves must be armed, it is the best strategy to first train the slaves as flintlock musketeers, and then slowly select loyal and capable ones to be promoted to the backbone of combat who can possess the new continent's weapons.
Looking at Zhuge's long speech in the planning book, Lu Ming shook his head in amusement, but it had to be said that he was actually persuaded by Zhuge's words.
Huh? Lu Ming turned to look at Queen Hera, who was even more beautiful in a white sacrificial dress. Her steps were extremely light, and she didn't even tremble when she got into the RV or vehicle. I really don't know how light her fragrant skin and jade body were.
Like feathers, there is still another mystery.
"Your Majesty, look at this!" Queen Hera, who was wearing various luxurious gold tassel ornaments, had a snow-white stone in her slender hand.
"What is this?" Lu Ming was a little curious. Based on Queen Hera's knowledge, she would not talk to him specifically about things that were not really important.
"The domestic slaves found it from the storage room." Queen Hera's pretty face was extremely solemn, "This is a magic stone that has disappeared in the Empire Continent. It should be called fairy stone in the East. It can help with spiritual practice. Legend has it that there were many in the Empire Continent in ancient times.
The magic stone mine has gradually become extinct due to over-exploitation, and the continent of the empire has gradually depleted its spiritual energy and entered the technological era. Monks are now so rare that they are hard to find. This is because magic stones could originally be used to help monks practice, but they are now unavailable."
"Oh, is that useful to you or me?" Lu Ming reached out and took the snow-white stone. He was slightly startled immediately. His hands were cold, as if he had not touched anything solid. The next moment, the coldness seemed to turn into threads,
Gradually it fell into the palm of my hand.
The snow-white stone suddenly shattered and turned into a ball of black scum.
Queen Hera didn't need to tell her, she knew it was useful to her.
Moreover, it was as if he was suddenly touched, as if a person who had never known what sweet spring tasted tasted it for the first time, and now he was extremely eager to be mingled with that cold feeling again, and the larger the better.
"It's strange. According to the rules of the world here, there are no monks, but immortal stones were discovered." Lu Ming then smiled, "Maybe it's because of this that the immortal stones are not extinct?"
Queen Hera nodded lightly.
…
At the northern entrance of the town, a watchtower similar to a few straight fir trees has been erected as a base.
The male and female slaves outside were surrounding pieces of black barbed wire.
When Lu Ming came over, a person quickly slid down the slide on the watchtower, it was "Jack the Wheel".
"Boss!" He ran to Lu Ming's side with a flattering smile on his face.
He was assigned as a sentinel, but he actually used it according to his ability. After all, he could detect traces of the movement of ferocious beasts from a distance, or discover enemies that were secretly approaching with malicious intentions. For him, an adventurer with twenty years of adventure career,
There is no one around Lu Ming who has more experience than him.
Several other male unmarried slave boys in their teens, who seemed to be smarter, were arranged to learn from him.
Jack Wheel did not feel at all that he was being slighted by being assigned to be a sentry or even a position where he was mixed with slaves.
On the contrary, he was overjoyed. After all, this meant that he had become a member of this mysterious organization. At least his life seemed to be saved. Not to mention, it was obvious that following this mysterious organization would make things a lot brighter than before.
The leader of this mysterious organization, who is now his boss, also promised to bring his companions here soon. If they are willing to obey the order, they can stay. If not, Qiqi will wait for the construction of the town's defense facilities.
When they reach eighty-eight, they will be let go.
"There have been no traces of ferocious beasts in the past few days. It seems that these ferocious beasts have their own lairs, so there are very few wandering outside. Even if one lair is destroyed by us, the ferocious beasts in other lairs do not know about them.
There's no connection between them, and there's no Beast King?" Jack Wheel was actually relieved now. This was the first time humans had counterattacked and captured the town where the ferocious beasts had their lairs. They were really worried that a wave of ferocious beasts would soon come.
Lu Ming nodded slightly: "Thank you for your hard work!"
"It's not hard work, that's right. Boss, you should be careful not to work too hard." Spinner Jack kept smiling in apology.
"Oh, let me ask you something, do you see this white stone often?" Lu Ming took out a photo.
The slaves found a whole box of fairy stones, with a total of ten stones. Now there are nine left, all with characters engraved on them. This kind of stone is like soft metal, and characters can be written on it, but the characters cannot be read.
Spinner Jack was a little surprised by such items as photos, but he didn’t care too much about the things in the photos, “Oh, it’s the Great Breaking Day, which is the currency of this continent before the end of the Beast Tide. It’s very common, and it’s also bartered now.
If the other party does not have the item you want, use this currency to trade, because it also has another use. Use it to soak particularly turbid water, which can slightly remove the odor, and the chance of being poisoned is smaller, so you are also an adventurer.
Necessary equipment." He looked at the photo carefully and said, "Boss, the coin in your picture has a very large face value, but we won't talk about that now. No matter what face value it is engraved on, we only have one stone and one coin. Generally speaking, one
The coin can be exchanged for ten pieces of black bread."
Ten pieces of black bread? Lu Ming rubbed his nose. However, the smaller its value, the less rare it was in the settlement and it was a good thing.
But ten pieces of black bread, in this world, are not as insignificant as I first thought.
"Well, I get it!" Lu Ming didn't say much, turned around and left.