The sky is getting dark, the streets are dim, and the crowds are sparse.
The "Harmony Warehouse" construction site next to the road was still busy. Three or five stout women came to the construction site carrying iron buckets. The coolies who were digging the foundation looked up and did not dare to look more and continued working.
Lorraine took the slave girls to tie up torches to illuminate the construction site. The torches had to be tied firmly and soaked in pine oil to burn longer. Every step must be done properly, otherwise you will be scolded.
After inserting the tied torch into the bracket, Rubio took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it. Every time he lit the fire, the construction site was a little amazed. A group of bumpkins had never seen such a simple and easy-to-use item.
Rubio raised his hand, lifting his cuffs as if he didn't care, revealing the watch on his wrist. He glanced at the time and ordered: "One group, listen to the order, stop working, and place the tools."
The twenty coolies, like machines, stopped wielding hoes and shovels and lined up to walk to the construction site. If the formation was not neat, the team leader and deputy team leader would curse in a low voice.
After putting the tools away, Rubio ordered "eat in groups". The coolies who received the order lined up in front of the stout woman. They first had to wash their hands, receive tableware, distribute food, and finish eating within ten minutes.
Everything looked in order, but it wasn't like that a few days ago.
On the first day, Zhou Qingfeng emphasized that women working as cooks must wash their hands and faces and tie their hair tightly. Some people did not take it seriously and were immediately whipped - the whipper was from Harmony Village and was also beaten by Zhou a few months ago.
Qingfeng whipped him hard.
On the first day, every time it was time to eat, all the coolies on the construction site came out in a swarm. The backbone of the Harmony Village counted this moment and started whipping with wet whips - they did the same thing a few months ago.
On the first day, Rubio's throat was hoarse, and few coolies could understand the orders. After a few puffs, someone finally got the idea. Those who didn't get the idea would have a second and third chance. Those who still didn't get the idea, get out.
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The warehouse construction site has become a scene in Hanfeng City, and a large number of citizens come to see the strange things every day. It is not uncommon for the powerful to beat and scold their servants, but it may be novel to elevate "beating and scolding" to a management skill.
Most nobles only know how to get angry, but don't know how to tell their servants their intentions. The servants are uneducated and ignorant, and being beaten and scolded only adds to the chaos.
The core members from Harmony Village have been trained for several months and have become accustomed to a regular life and are proud of it. They serve as team leaders and deputy team leaders, responsible for demonstrating correct behavior to the newly recruited coolies.
The effect of "bringing the old with the new" is very good, which is as kind as possible. But when faced with a group of illiterate people, sometimes only pain can deepen their memory.
This kind of management method is a little rough, but it is effective. Because the current aristocratic management is even worse, Mr. Zhou is forced to become a management master.
Rubio was very satisfied with the 'efficient' performance of the construction site. He ordered the seventh group of coolies to go to work, and the twenty people in the shift were waiting outside the construction site. The team leader distributed the placed tools, and the deputy team leader watched from the side.
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Simple, direct, not too much nonsense.
After the first group has eaten, they will obediently go to the shack built near the construction site to rest and sleep. The stout woman will bring the second bucket of dinner, then the second group will stop working, and then let the eighth group work. There are three shifts every day, and so on.
The cycle begins over and over again.
After setting up the torch, Lorraine took the slave girl to rest. The slave she just bought was in poor physical condition, and even drinking stamina potions was useless. She could only do some light work every day, focusing on recovery. Zhou Qingfeng was quite tolerant of the slave girl, not too much.
Require.
It's just that the slave girl has a rest, but Lorraine can't rest yet, she still has to study.
'Last time' Zhou Qingfeng held a banquet to recruit useful intellectuals from the guests. But the whole process was too crude. The person responsible for the first level of inspection was an authentic illiterate orc who judged whether he had knowledge by looking at his appearance.
Once again, Zhou Qingfeng would not make such a slap on the forehead. Also at the Orc Tavern, the book charm Sophia who came from Harmony Village was in charge of screening.
Sophia knows how to calculate the 'area of a circle', knows the general history and geography of Faerun, and has enough knowledge. She can transform into an ordinary human and act as Zhou Qingfeng's secretary.
A notice recruiting scribes and apprentices was posted outside the tavern, so it was naturally not as sensational as 'Big Banquet Guests'. But on the first day, more than thirty people came to apply, and a third of them met the requirements through a simple screening.
For four or five consecutive days, most of the idle and available people in the city were basically brought in. As usual, these people were fed and clothed, and then eliminated training was carried out.
Sophia needs to stay with Zhou Qingfeng, and she only occasionally acts as a teacher. More teaching work is performed by more than a dozen spirit slaves, and the teaching point is arranged at Fabro's manor outside the city.
"You actually asked a spiritual slave to be your teacher?" When Fabbro learned about this, he wanted to criticize Zhou Qingfeng angrily, "This is the best alchemy assistant. Although this strange creature has no spellcasting ability,
They're smart enough."
According to what the 'Chief Alchemist' meant, this was a waste of resources. Zhou Qingfeng was helpless, "I only have spirit slaves under my command who are more suitable for this job."
Spirit slaves were sent by the succubus Medeis. They are also creatures from an alien plane. They are essentially a group of spiritual light. They were born in the tide of magic, and they have evolved to become wise after thousands of years.
The spirit slaves in Zhou Qingfeng's hands are equivalent to ordinary people, and their combat effectiveness is basically zero, but they can still do a good job in assisting. However, they can transform into human women and serve as enlightenment teachers.
If anyone is not willing to learn from women, they can get out.
In fact, no one was unhappy. Because when Zhou Qingfeng posted the enrollment notice, he added at the end of the article, 'Those with excellent academic performance can receive advanced arcane education.'
With this sentence, all the people in the city who wanted to be wizards but could not get started were interested. Many people wanted to join Zhou Qingfeng's training class, and the quota of fifty people was easily filled.
The 'new batch' of students are not well treated. They have to work part-time under Zhou Qingfeng to earn some allowances, and they have to drink a 'spicy' version of the stamina potion at night, with their eyes and face red.
study.
Since the training implements an elimination system, every trainee is forced to work hard. Whether it is to fill their stomachs or to rise in class, forgetting to sleep and eat is the most basic operation.
If there is someone with excellent qualifications, Zhou Qingfeng would not mind training him or her to become a wizard apprentice. But only one in a hundred can truly become a wizard. Most of them become grassroots civil servants, serving as small screws for the development of civilization.
When Zhou Qingfeng's Cold Wind City gained a foothold, his true purpose gradually emerged. Adrian, as his secret agent, has been cooperating with the black cat Miaomiao in the past few days to investigate the situation of the Supervision Office in Cold Wind City.
"The Imaskan civilization has long been buried in history and has become a legend rarely known in books. But this civilization brings me a strong sense of intimacy. Why are beings from the abyss suddenly interested in it?
It is impossible for the worshipers of evil insects to develop out of nothing. How did their leader become the chief of the Supervision Office? I can't deal with the Supervision Office, so... let's cut off their black hands in Cold Wind City first."