Chapter 72 Preparations before conquering the Savage Tribe

Chapter 72 Preparations before conquering the Savage Tribe

Under Wilson's unified arrangement, the 102 slaves were divided into five groups: the construction team, the ironwood team, the logging team, the dung collection team, and the newly formed blacksmith team.

This batch of slaves was purchased in a timely manner without disrupting the work arrangements of other serfs and free tenants.

As mentioned earlier, the status of slaves was lower than that of serfs in the territory, and they were regarded as talking tools.

Although serfs had a low status, were tied to the land, and could not easily leave or change their identities, they still enjoyed certain independent family, marriage, and economic rights at the legal level.

As the master of this group of slaves, Roning has the power to decide their identities.

In accordance with what he had instructed Galen to do before, he promised these slaves that as long as they worked hard for Hillwood Castle for ten years, Roning would remove their slave status and promote them to the serf class.

At the same time, Ronin also allowed this group of slaves to get married and have children. Although the children born were still slaves, as long as they got rid of their slave status, their children would no longer be slaves either.

Identity must be earned through one's own efforts. Although Roning has the soul of a modern man, he cannot be a pure good man in this world.

It was already very good that he could provide this group of people with a channel to change their identities. For ordinary lords, who would care about the lives of slaves?

Although he only made these two promises, it was enough to awaken the desire of some slaves to escape their fate.

Of course, it is very unrealistic to expect slaves to be completely self-conscious. Roning will not give up the right to whip them and will allow Wilson and others to exercise such rights.

For small matters, they will be punished lightly; for big matters, they will be punished heavily. If they have committed something that deserves death, Roning will not be unable to kill them just because he bought them.

In the final analysis, it all comes down to them working hard.

In addition to slaves, Ronin also issued the same promotional measures for serfs.

On the existing basis, if the serfs cultivated the land for the territory for ten years, Roning would reward them with ten acres of land.

Although the ownership of these ten acres of land still belongs to Roning, he allows that only 30% of the output from these ten acres of land needs to be handed over to Hillwood Castle, and the rest can be distributed freely.

You have to know that nowadays, serfs have to hand over 50% of their output to the castle. After deducting the seeds, they are left with about 25% that they can eat. They can barely survive by making black bread with wild vegetables and other things.

No matter in which world, people's emotions are the same, and they all want to live a life with enough food and warm clothing.

Luo Ning set long-term goals for the serfs. Coupled with the recently announced incentive plan for four villages to compete in production, as well as the upcoming implementation of the curved plow and ridge tillage method, he believed that the enthusiasm of most farmers would be greatly improved.

After returning from William, Roning took a look at the training status of McKen and others.

The guards brought from Wushan Fort were already completely unemployed, and Luo Ning had no intention of letting them work in the fields.

Although he and McKen were not in Shanlin Town during this period, before leaving, both Roning and McKen instructed David to let the guards continue to conduct proper training while guarding the castle.

The open space to the west of the castle has now become a training ground for the guards.

McKen divided the twenty-seven ordinary guards into three groups, each with nine people. Every day, one group was assigned to guard the castle and patrol the territory while the remaining two groups continued their daily training.

In addition to drill training, ordinary guards now also need to undergo military boxing training. At the same time, McKen also arranges close combat and sword practice between them and archery training that will begin in the next two days.

Professional knights such as David, Tom, Jewett, and Sim mainly train in combat skills, which is much more intense than the training of ordinary people.

Only by constantly pushing his body to its limits can a knight strengthen his internal fighting spirit; slacking off will only cause his cultivation to stagnate.

The only exception was Commander Ridal, who disappeared early this morning. According to McKen, Ridal left Shanlin Town early in the morning and walked into the Wubei Forest alone.

Indeed, it is time to start gathering intelligence on the Savage Tribe. Compared to the Territory of Thayne, the Savage Tribe should be easier to deal with.

After all, openly launching a war against other nobles would inevitably lead to accusations and interference. Even Wushan Castle would mediate or even punish Ronin in order to maintain the unity of Wushan Territory.

To deal with the open attack on the Sean Territory, either Roning had to become so strong that no one dared to say anything, or he had to push Lei Sen into an isolated situation where no one would help him plead for mercy. Either way was not the best option now.

The situation is different with the savage tribes; they were originally enemies driven into the forest by the noble coalition forces of Wushanling.

If the mountain roads had not been difficult to travel on and the supply transportation had not been too troublesome, and if the nobles had not been interested in expending great efforts to annihilate the remaining remnants of the enemy, they would not have left the barbarian tribe alone.

Now that Roning has taken action against the barbarian tribe, not only will he not be criticized by any nobles, but he will even make a contribution to the Wushan Territory to a certain extent and publicize the power of the Wushan family.

It seems that Wushanbao has not done anything remarkable over the years.

Ever since old man Rulans stepped back and handed over matters to Wiggins, the family has become quiet.

Roning watched the knights and guards practicing from afar. There were now two high-level peak knights, one mid-level magician, four junior knights, and himself, a mid-level dual-class lord, in Shanlin Town, a total of eight extraordinary people.

With a few more extraordinary people, we can form a team of knights.

When selecting guards at Wushan Castle, Ronin looked at Sir Garman and wondered when he would have his own team of knights. He did not expect that only a month would pass and that this idea would become within reach.

"My lord, you are here!"

When McKen and others saw Roning coming, they immediately stopped.

"I just came to take a look. You guys are continuing training."

Roning waved to McKen and said, "Carpenter William has made a batch of ironwood armor and weapons using black iron trees. Please arrange for two people to bring them over and equip the guards. The shields are of good quality, and you should be able to use them."

McKen knew about the existence of the black iron tree. They discovered it that day when they accompanied the lord to inspect it.

At that time, McKen was only an intermediate knight, and he couldn't even cut the black iron tree with one sword. The protective gear made of this thing definitely has a certain defensive power.

"I didn't expect William to process the black iron tree so quickly." McKen said with a smile, "I'll have someone move it over later and equip the guards first."

"The ironwood armor, plus the five sets of full body armor obtained from Pedro and Princet, will be distributed by you."

Roning glanced at the two new knights who were practicing. "Give more guidance to Juwitt and Sim during this period. Also, give David and Tom more guidance. Improve their combat effectiveness. After Redar gathers intelligence about the barbarian tribe, we will be ready for battle."

Macon's face turned serious, "Yes, sir, I understand!"

While the two were talking, a guard ran towards Ronin, "Sir~."

Mikan looked over, "They are the guards guarding the castle today."

Roning was a little confused. The guards must have come in such a hurry because of something urgent. The last time, it was Philidon who visited, so could it be that someone else came today?

The guard ran up to Ronin, panting heavily, and said, "Sir, several knights want to visit you."

Some people actually came, and the mountain forest town became lively, but he couldn't imagine who would be bored enough to come here.

"Is it the Knight Feridon of the Thane Order?"

"No, no, it's the knight from the Horse Ranch City."

The guard gasped and replied, "The leader said his name was 'Rognar Ironhoof."

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