"Xingye, Xiaocao, what do you think of me freeing you from slavery?"
After waking up in the morning, eating rice porridge and drinking honey and soy milk, Yao Yun lay back on the wicker chair contentedly and casually said to Xing Ye and Xiao Cao who were packing things in the room.
As a result, the two little girls froze, Xingye's hand picking up the quilt stopped in mid-air, and Xiaocao who was sweeping the floor also stood there, looking at Yao Yun in great surprise.
Yao Yun is lying on a wicker chair, and the little cat Tengu is lying obediently in Yao Yun's arms. There are two giant pandas playing at his feet, hugging Yao Yun's legs from time to time, rolling and acting coquettishly, and looking very naive. It looks like a scene full of life.
If it were normal times, the two little girls would have been very sweet in their hearts when they saw this scene. What a heartwarming scene it is!
However, when Xingye and Xiaocao saw this scene, their surprise turned into fear of the unknown.
Xingye was soft-tempered and murmured without saying anything. Xiaocao said with a sad face: "Your Majesty, don't you want us anymore?"
"Why do you say that? You are still in the palace. Gu just wants to free you from slavery and make you a common citizen of Xidu."
Hearing this, the two little girls calmed down a little.
Xingye: "Your Majesty, we have been tortured by ink, and we will never be able to escape from slavery in our lives."
Xiaocao also nodded: "Yes, even if we are no longer slaves, people outside will still look down on us. Look, we all have the mark of the king!"
After saying that, the two little girls rolled up their wide sleeves, revealing their tender white jade hands. They saw an ugly mark on their jade-white arms, which was vaguely the Chinese character "Yao" in Zhuxia.
Yao Yun frowned, seeming to regret that beautiful things had been destroyed.
Xingye seemed to understand Yao Yun's thoughts and smiled sweetly: "Your Majesty, others suffer ink punishment on their faces or foreheads. Because we were selected to be the King's personal maids, we are just lucky enough to have this tattoo engraved on our arms.
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Hearing this, Yao Yun understood what Xiaocao meant. It was not easy to free slaves. Yao Yun might be able to give slaves the status of common people in their household registration, but living in a group, they would still be discriminated against if they were born slaves.
and unfair treatment.
Xiaocao also said: "Your Majesty, the slave family is unwilling to break away from the slave status. It would be great to be with the King all the time. If we become common people, it will be difficult for us to support ourselves. How great it is now, we can eat everything from the King."
Phew! Yao Yun was happy, this little girl is really smart, but when he thought about it, he felt that it made sense. Even if slaves were to be freed from slavery, they still need to survive. Otherwise, they might as well be slaves. At least they met Yao Yun.
This kind king still has something to eat.
After breakfast, Yao Yun was ready to go out to inspect the slaves in Xidu.
Huangshi Tianshu released the main mission of liberating the slaves. Yao Yun felt that it was very high. In terms of the game, it was the ultimate SSS-level mission. It could not be completed in a day or two. Maybe Yao Yun would not be able to complete it in his lifetime.
But the side task of letting slaves survive this winter is much less difficult. At least it can be completed with careful planning.
There is indeed a shortage of food in Xidu, and the most scarce thing is the food rations for the slaves to survive.
Ordinary common people, farmers have land, craftsmen have craftsmanship, and work hard for a year. Although it is tight to survive the winter, there is basically no problem. Whether the slaves can survive the winter depends entirely on the palace's food inventory.
As for the treasury of the Xi State, there is no hope at all. The money from the treasury is used to support the army, build the Xi capital, etc. If the balance of payments can be balanced, it means good governance.
Yao Yun quickly took the palace guards to the slave workshop, where all the slaves in Xidu were gathered.
"The king has arrived!"
The slave farm is not like other farms, where each household is neatly organized. It is more like a breeding farm. The short reed houses are lined up in rows and densely packed. Some of the mud houses have many people living in them, just like breeding farms.
The pigs in the pig farm are kept in confinement.
Dirty environment, stinky air, and skinny slaves constitute the basic appearance of the slave workshop.
When they heard that the king was arriving, people who looked like stewards came to greet him soon. Then many slaves came to the open space one after another, knelt down and worshiped Yao Yun, and called the king directly without even daring to raise their heads.
"This is the slave workshop?" Yao Yun asked.
Hu Yi bowed and said: "I tell you, Your Majesty, this is the slave workshop. The slave workshop is a dirty place. Your Majesty's rich body cannot be left here for a long time, lest it be tainted with filth."
Yao Yun shook his head and ignored Hu Yi, but said to the prostrate slave: "Get up later."
The slaves didn't seem to hear it, and even if they heard it, they didn't think that the king would ask them to get up.
"Bastards, the king asked you to get up, why are you lying down!" The steward of the slave shop roared and cursed, mixed with some slang words that Yao Yun did not understand, and his attitude was extremely rude.
Yao Yun frowned, but didn't say anything.
Soon, hundreds of slaves stood up timidly, but none of them dared to raise their heads to look at Yao Yun. They all looked away, with confusion and numbness in their eyes.
Yao Yun looked around and felt that the number of people was a bit small, and most of them were old, weak, women and children, and even the other young slaves were sick.
"There are not thousands of slaves in Xidu, why are there only these now?"
The steward of the slave workshop flattered and respectfully replied: "Report to your Majesty, all the young and strong slaves have been sent out to work. At the end of the autumn harvest, they are working in craftsmen's workshops, working in mines, and the people are leasing slaves to work as laborers. Now they are all useless, freeloaders!"
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Seeing Yao Yun frowning, the steward's forehead was sweating a little, so he said: "Your Majesty, these slaves are old and young, and of no use. It is better to solve them as soon as possible. In the past two years, we acted too late, which led to many deaths.
A young, strong and useful slave..."
The steward was spitting, and he became more and more proud when he talked about the rise, because he had calculated that as long as some useless slaves were disposed of now, the remaining food would be enough to allow most of the useful slaves to survive the winter and continue to serve Xiguo in the coming year.
Work.
Yao Yun suddenly felt a sense of absurdity. A slave steward said in front of the slaves that they should be killed to save food.
The barbaric world of cannibalism is not imaginary, this world is so barbaric, so absurd.
"Then how many slaves do you think is appropriate to kill?" Yao Yun's voice was low. The palace guards who were familiar with the king's temper shuddered, and the king became angry!
However, the slave manager didn't hear it and thought that the king thought he was very capable, so he said proudly: "Your Majesty, you only need to kill one hundred and fifty slaves."
As soon as these words came out, the slaves in the slave workshop all showed expressions of fear, and they were all trembling like chaff, with despair in their eyes.
Useless slaves, aren’t we talking about idle slaves?
In other words, most people present will not be spared.
All the slaves had a look of despair on their faces, they could not control their fear, and the women and children even burst into tears.