The small village of Nisei has undergone several changes recently.
First, the wild slaves found that their food had changed.
The hard and unpalatable black bread was gone, replaced by a brown-green powder.
The person who distributed the food to them said it was called sweet powder.
When the replacement first started, some of the wild slaves were very panicked.
They thought that the small village of Nisei was running out of food, or that they thought they had no use value, and were ready to abandon them.
This kind of thing is not uncommon for them. In fact, as former leaders of the wild people, they often do this when they are short of food and clothing. They often do this to the old, weak, sick and disabled among the wild people.
They were very afraid. The city wall of the small village of Nisei was about to be built, and it seemed that they, the wild people who only consumed food, would be of no use.
A person without value has no need to survive.
These wild people understand this truth deeply.
However, this uneasy feeling subsided after they ate the sweet powder mixed with water and turned into a batter.
The batter made from this kind of sweet powder is sweet in your mouth, warm in your stomach and very resistant to hunger.
Compared to the previous brown bread, it is completely incomparable.
Just grab a handful of sweet powder and add water to expand it into a big bowl of batter.
Each wild slave is allowed to eat 3 bowls per meal.
Every time, the wild slaves ate until their bellies were bloated.
A sense of happiness flowed in their hearts, so that their enthusiasm for work increased a lot.
Various projects in the small village of Nisei are progressing faster as a result.
The taste of sweet powder is so sweet that it not only fascinates the wild slaves, but also makes some villagers who have tasted it fall into this trap.
However, the sweet powder was provided by their respected lord, Lord William, and no one else would provide it except wild slaves and members of the guard.
They work and are only rewarded with money.
However, monetary rewards are of little use in this village where supplies are extremely scarce and a few households have no business.
They can't buy sweet powder.
They could only bake hard and unpalatable black bread to eat, and then watched helplessly as the wild slaves happily drank sweet porridge.
The so-called worry is not about scarcity but about inequality.
This dissatisfaction was rising day by day, so much so that they couldn't bear it anymore, so they found Old Grete, hoping that he would come forward to request the Lord to receive the same treatment as the wild slaves.
When William heard the call from the masses from Old Grete, he was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he rejected the villagers' request.
Old Grete was very disappointed at first. After all, he was also one of the villagers who wanted to eat sweet porridge.
As he got older, his teeth began to loosen, making it difficult for him to eat black bread, which was hard and stomach-breaking.
The batter has no taste at all, is bitter, astringent and unpalatable, and I often feel uncomfortable in my stomach after eating it.
The sweet porridge made from this sweet powder has a sweet taste, is not hungry and does not hurt the stomach, it is really fascinating.
However, after William told Old Grete his plan, Old Grete became happy again.
Two days later, a grocery store opened in the small village of Nisei. The business address was in a thatched house not far from William's "Lord's Mansion" earthen house.
Crimac's father, the man who first sold the golden grass to William, was hired by William to be the person in charge of the grocery store, and his monthly remuneration was three hundred and fifty Poole copper coins.
This is the reward for his first surrender and his son's loyalty.
William is cultivating his own interest class.
There are too few interest groups belonging to him in the small village of Nisei.
Without a stable interest class as the cornerstone of his rule, he is like a reed blowing in the wind. He may be worry-free for a while, but when there is a disturbance, he will disintegrate.
In fact, if the original small village of Nisei had enough interest groups on his side, he would not have to be so gentle and roundabout, and would directly enforce the orders of the lord. How would the villagers have any room to resist?
In addition, under the strong recommendation of Old Grete, his eldest son Great Grete was also recruited into this grocery store to serve as Old Mark's assistant. His monthly remuneration was less, only 280 Pooles.
copper.
The eldest brother Grete has been in a very depressed state after the last incident. Old Grete's move is also to cheer up the eldest brother Grete.
William did not refuse Old Grete's small request.
Anyway, everything is under the control of the magic mirror, and William is not afraid of them causing trouble.
The job of the grocery store is very simple, that is, buying and selling sweet powder shipped from William's earthen house.
As for where the sweet powder comes from?
William didn't say anything, and no one in the small village of Nisei dared to ask.
A kilogram of rye can only be sold for three copper coins.
But one kilogram of sweet powder was priced at ten copper coins.
Although the price is high, the villagers have made a lot of money from Lord William during this period.
First, some villagers couldn't restrain their appetite and bought sweet powder from the grocery store.
The taste of the sweet porridge easily conquered the villagers' appetite, and the black bread in the past became difficult to swallow.
William secretly added fuel to the fire, creating the concept that those who do not drink sweet porridge are inferior. Sweet porridge became popular throughout the village at an extremely fast speed.
Through this scissor difference, William quickly collected the distributed funds and then paid them out again as rewards.
After the sweet powder solved the food crisis in the small village of Nisei, it also eased William's economic crisis to a certain extent.
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The weather is getting colder and colder.
The cold wind is biting, and I don’t know which day the invasion of lizard people will come!
After taking care of these trivial matters, William was ready to focus all his energy on the training of the sixty escort members and fifty wild servants.
After all, force is the key to dealing with the lizardmen.
However, one wave after another arises.
Just two days after training the escort members, William's butler Old John came to report anxiously. Eight wild slaves were sleeping in the shack and were frozen to death by the cold night. There was also a villager who had been soaked in turbid sewage.
After drinking sweet powder, five of the six members of the family developed high fever.
There are not many effective drugs in this era, at least for civilians.
When civilians get sick, most of them choose to fight hard.
If you can handle it, just keep on living.
If you can't bear it, you will be reborn as soon as possible.
Many people die of this disease every year!
People have long been accustomed to it.
William was helpless about this.
He had to temporarily put aside his training work and first went to the house of the sick villager to check. He found that the water used by this villager was dirty and had a faint stench.
How dare they drink such water without even boiling it? William applauded the courage of this villager!
William guessed that they drank the "poisonous water" first, and then the temperature dropped sharply last night, and their bodies suddenly couldn't bear it, and then they collectively developed a high fever.
The only one who did not have a fever was the eldest son of the family. He was young and strong, and he probably relied on his physical strength to survive.
At this time, he was squatting next to his family with a sad face, panicking and not knowing what to do!
William was speechless. He asked the villager who was not sick to pick up some clean water, boil it and let it cool for the sick to drink.
Then he was asked to find some clean linen cloth, soak it in water, moisten it, and then put it on the patient's forehead to reduce the fever.
The rest can only be left to fate.
After leaving this villager's house, William asked Old John and Old Grete about the drinking water situation of the villagers, and was surprised to find that there were many cases in the village where the drinking water in the homes of sick villagers had deteriorated.
At most, the water quality is not as bad as this villager's, but it won't be much better!
Especially now that the village is in a rush for construction, the villagers are addicted to work and making money, and they pay even less attention to the sanitary conditions of drinking water.
Anyway, drinking won't kill you, that's what they think.
It was okay before, because their staple food, black bread, was eaten toasted or broken into pieces and boiled in soup, so it was rare for the whole family to have a fever together.
But now the whole village is obsessed with William's sweet powder.
This "magic" sweet powder is easy to eat, just add water.
Since William's wild slaves were fed uniformly, they strictly followed William's requirements and used boiling hot water.
But in order to save trouble, villagers often add cold water directly.
The knowledge from his previous life lets William know how serious the security risks here are.
He immediately demanded that all water he drank in the future must be boiled.
Old John and Old Grete looked at each other, hesitated to speak, and finally replied, "Yes!"