Chapter 163 Mix kindness with menace

"Big king... We don't want to go back, chief. We want to obey you."

"Said the crowd, dropping to their knees again.

"Don't be afraid," I explained. "When I send you back, I will go with you and destroy the kingdom. No more will you be taken as slaves."

"Thank you, chief."

"Let the leader be our king."

"Yes, please let us destroy the great tribes and start a new kingdom. We are all willing to listen to your Majesty."

"I don't want to be your king. Get up. Come back to the tribe with me." "I said, and turned away.

As long as there is no threat, I can live very well on Cuckoo Island. There is no need to be king on that island. Who knows when they'll be assassinated, and there's a lot of people there. I freed the slaves, and the slaves and the subjects of the Great Kingdom were at odds with each other, and I rarely resolved complex conflicts.

Back at the mouth of the river, they help us carry the boat back to the tribe.

Cui Bin and his men also successfully returned with thirty captives. I let Zhang Yutong they several women to do personnel statistics.

We brought back 51 slaves, 90 great tribal soldiers.

Upon questioning, nanova's position in the kingdom is indeed precarious. In order to establish his authority, to suppress those who did not obey him. He decided to do it by destroying my tribe.

But he didn't have enough men, so he set a few slaves free and sent them out with his army. They were promised that when they won, they would be freed from slavery and made subjects of the kingdom. The slaves were naturally grateful for this kindness. But they did not expect that the original plan was still well-thought-out, by the monster to destroy the black, but we eat dry wipe clean.

I divided the slaves into two groups, twenty in one, for two shifts, to watch the ships at the mouth of the river, and thirty-one to watch the prisoners. They've been oppressed, and now that the tide is turning, they'll be determined to help me fight those soldiers.

After making preliminary arrangements, I called my own people to my home for a victory meeting.

"How dead are we?"

"Seventeen were killed, and only twelve wounded." "Lucie replied.

That's not a bad casualty rate, considering we all have guns, and the weapons are so different. All the casualties should have occurred during the melee.

"Chief."

I almost didn't react when I heard Cui Bin Shouting.

"You say."

Cui Binqi laughed. "We have won a great victory. Let's attack the big tribes and destroy them at one stroke."

"Now is not the time. We've spent a third of our ammunition. It'll take us half as much to destroy the horde, and more to die." I put a hand: "or the first construction of the tribe, do more preparation, in the crusade against them."

"Fly elder brother, I this credit is not small." Li Ding shouted, "Are you going to arrange some slaves to work in my house?"

"There are no female prisoners, how to arrange for you?" I retorted, "Let them all work together. Now we have more hands. Let's speed up the construction and try to build the tribe within a month."

"Surely there should be a victory celebration tonight?" He settled for the next best thing.

"There should be. You can arrange it." I motioned to Zhang Yutong and Wu Wa.

Arrange Cui Bin and Li Ding respectively to collect most of the guns, we scattered.

In the evening, I asked the fifty-one slaves to eat with us. The prisoners were treated much less well, with only sweet potatoes to eat.

The next morning, they collected the bodies separately and set them on fire. In the afternoon, they went directly to the construction of the tribe. More than 100 people were added at once, and all of them were young and middle-aged workers, making the construction speed soar.

With more people, the division of labor is naturally more detailed. The group of people with specialized skills were assigned, and the rest were tasked with the routine, more demanding tasks.

I got myself a job working on the water system. First lead people around the well, dug four ten centimeter depth of small pits, and then put four large tanks on it. Cui Bin has built a large kiln that can fire pottery of any shape.

After this step is completed, we went to cut bamboo for three days, with slender sticks, the bamboo joints open into the original water pipe. Stick a bamboo tube into a hole drilled under a large water tank. The bamboo tube is shallow in the soil. All the way to the houses. When the bamboo pipe enters the house, the water system is declared complete.

Because the outlet is so low, we can't put pressure on it to get it up. They had to dig a hole in the kitchen and bury half of the tank in the ground. Drill a small hole where the tank is level with the floor and let the water flow into the tank itself.

However, there is still a problem, when the tank is filled, the bamboo pipe out of the water is also submerged in the water. To solve the problem, I had to find Lao Cheng.

Knowing what I meant, Cheng said in an understatement, "How can such a small problem trouble people?"

"You can?" He's a college professor, and I'm used to his taste for superiority.

"Of course we have. Let's go and see." Old Cheng stood up and waved.

When they arrived in the kitchen, Cheng observed the problem for a while and said, "You have to fix the bamboo pipe at the water outlet. Go and get another bamboo."

After I handed the bamboo to him, Old Cheng compared the two bamboo sticks. Then he cut a piece of the bamboo I found, polished it carefully, and cut a hole on the other bamboo with a saw. Then he inserted the bamboo blade into the hole.

"It probably didn't work out too well." "I'll put it on," Cheng said. "You have a try."

I ran to the well, drew two buckets of water, and poured them into the pitcher. Running back to the kitchen, Cheng rushed to show me his masterpiece.

After the bamboo is pulled up, the water flows out, though not very much. After the bamboo is pressed down, nothing is left but tick tick tick.

Mr. Cheng took out the bamboo pipe, polished it, and installed it back to fully control the flow of water.

"This is an original faucet." Lao Cheng clapped his hands and smiled. "They must fit well, or they won't be able to hold the water. You have to work slowly."

"Or you can stop the taps and make more of them." I suggested.

"Well, I'll have to do that." "When we get rid of the big tribes, we'll get more copper. I have the knowledge and they have the technology, so we can make some copper faucets."

"This matter is you, for someone else is really not good." Knowing his vanity, I gave him a tall hat on purpose.

Lao Cheng was really impressed by this. He nodded repeatedly and followed me to talk about science and engineering.

After I got rid of him, I left the plumbing out there. I got into the bathroom and started building my second shower.

The toilet, which has a special space for bathing, is brick walled off from the latrine. It looks like a small room, but the isolation layer is only one meter high. The floor is paved with bricks and it looks like a floor tile.

I had nothing to work with, so I had to find two pieces of iron that I had brought out of the sinkhole. I made the iron into a box shape and drilled a small hole in the bottom. Then tie a rope to both sides of the tin box and hang it on the back wall so that you can shower directly under it.

After doing it, I tried it on myself first, and it felt ok. It was filled with water and the iron box would not sway.

When it was time for dinner, Zhebie ran over in a hurry and said that slaves and prisoners were fighting and he could not control it.

"Go and see." I touched the pistol at my waist. It had become my habit to carry pistols and axes.

At the place where the bricks were piled, a large circle of people formed and there was a great bustle.

Zhe bei runs quickly and shouts, "The leader is coming. Get out of my way."

Everyone turned to look over, the initiative to get out of the way.

There were seven men fighting, three slaves and four prisoners. Several people are hung color, although dare not continue to start, but still with eyes in hatred at each other.