A few days after the good days in Caroline's dream, a study assignment was handed down from above.
Residents of Buildings 2 and 3 are required to help each other and use language knowledge to truly learn Qin dialect as soon as possible.
Along with this, a literacy booklet and a practice sandbox were distributed.
The booklet was printed on wood and consisted of dozens of pages. Each page contained fifty words, all of which were short paragraphs describing scenery and objects.
After Caroline came here, her general knowledge of language stayed with her, and she learned quickly. After about half a month, she was able to carry out general conversations and simple writing without having general knowledge of language.
After passing the basic assessment, the fateful moment suddenly came.
"Caroline, you need to make a personal choice about your next arrangements." The person sitting in front of her was a business officer. Their characteristic was a small wooden sign on their chest with a name and number on it. .
"Huh?" Making the choice is the hardest, so let's just give the order.
She didn't say the last sentence because during her time here, she had realized that normal people wouldn't say such things.
“Considering your lack of autonomy, we will provide several options.
First, transfer to the military department. The advice of our administrative department is not to take this path, because it is easy to die.
Second, I have been transferred to the Ministry of Education. My king requires universal Qin language education for all the people in Red Rock City, which requires a large number of mages to provide general language assistance. I will be very busy recently.
Third, if you stay in the administrative department system, as a magic talent, you can play a great role in communication between various ethnic groups and market research.
Fourth, transfer to the newly established social group. This is an institution specially established for groups who have been slaves since childhood. Its function is to help you learn and restore life skills and return to the track of normal people. "
"me……"
"There's no need to answer now. You still have plenty of time to think about it before everyone in Buildings 2 and 3 completes their learning tasks." The clerk said, adding, "Because your magic level is the highest among this group. One of the few, I can reveal another information, you can apply to transfer to the weapons development category that has not yet been listed. In the future, this category will mainly develop magic-related weapons and armor to protect our soldiers."
Caroline returned to the cabin in a daze, thinking seriously about the future.
...Actually, she doesn't think much. She got used to not thinking a long time ago.
After sitting with an empty mind for a long time, I decided to go to sleep first.
After getting up, I took a shower and had a meal, then returned to the hut and continued thinking.
Maybe sleeping does help and the brain starts to move.
Joining the army is definitely not possible. She is afraid of death, and it is precisely because of her fear of death that she can survive until now.
Educating others... is a bit of a joke.
The administration department, has no idea what to do and sounds like it has to do everything.
As a society, if we return to the normal track, will we have to make money to support ourselves in the future? very scary!
So is it just weapons development?
She did know a little bit about weapons, because slaves were not allowed to touch weapons, so they had to at least know what weapons were.
I’ve decided, but I’m a little scared about the future.
After two more days of confusion, I went to the clerk who had been at the gate of the outpost to inform me of my choice.
"Weapon development? Because it hasn't been established yet, you have to study for a period of time first. You are a magician and you have to study two courses: magic and mathematics. The magic teacher is from Red Rock City. The class will start in about a week. After the mathematics class Re-arrange."
"I...I don't have money to pay tuition." She knew that going to school costs money, a lot of money.
"It doesn't cost money, this is vocational training." The night people in Phoenix City are more likely to accept the vocabulary of the industrial age. After all, the gap is only one generation.
"ah!
! "
It’s the first time I’ve heard that it’s free to go to school.
"You should go back to your room and wait for news. You don't have to stay in the room all the time. When you are free, you can walk around and talk to other people."
"Let me try."
If you talk to someone when you have a master, you will be beaten. No one has been beaten recently. Maybe you can really give it a try?
…
The slaves are all worried near the outpost, but the slaves still alive in Red Rock City are not so happy.
Three weeks after His Highness the Special Envoy left, there have been no incidents of violence involving weapons or magic for a week in a row. The rest of the minor disturbances are just ordinary security issues, and the most common ones are hanging on the gate.
According to the king's handwriting, after the public security improves, we can start to attack the slave owners.
Citywide announcement:
"All slaveholders will unconditionally release their slaves within a time limit, or switch to employment. The slave owner must take the initiative to destroy the slave contract at the designated location of the outpost. Those who do not have a contract must also go to the scene to explain in person, and the employment contract must be changed to the same location.
Red Rock City will implement slave ownership with rewards after 20 days. Once confirmed, it will be enforced by the Urban Management Bureau. The slaves will be handed over to the society. Each slave will be temporarily paid the Phoenix City minimum wage. The slave owner will be fined 120 months' share. Red Rock City will be restored. After the regular order is changed to local standards, the report will be valid for a long time.
The reporter will receive 20% of the fine as a reward, half of which will be returned to the victimized party after completing social studies, and the rest will be administrative and enforcement costs.
Since the release of this announcement, the countdown to reward reporting will begin, and the remaining time will be updated daily at each announcement office. "
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and there were signs of chaos again in Red Rock City.
Slaves are not human beings. They are private property and are similar in nature to animals. Since there are misers in the world, there are also people who like to exchange money for slaves.
For some people, freeing slaves meant losing their lives. But don’t let it go. Once the report is enforced, you will immediately become a beggar.
He wouldn't even dare to lead a group of slaves to cause trouble. It hadn't been long since they had killed so many people before, and no one thought his head was tougher than those gangs.
After much thought, the only option was to run away.
But if there are too many slaves, it is not easy to run away.
Slaves have no personal freedom. When they know that many slaves have already lived in the sun, only a few can continue to be obedient.
As for why the slaves knew this, it was not because the entire city was driven out of the city that day to suppress armed resistance.
Many slaves took the opportunity to run away that day, and some were taken over by reinforcements later. Everyone saw it.
Today's slaves, even if they don't publicly hang their slave owners, still have a hundred reasons to hold back, because Red Rock City may be the only time in their lives when they are closest to freedom.
It can be said that there are very few loyal dogs among slaves, so the slave owners can only drag them away first to see if there is a chance to unite with others to escape.
Another group of slave owners are relatively hesitant. Among their assets, slaves account for a limited proportion, and more of their assets are good things in basements or secret compartments.
I'm just used to living a good life, but I'm troubled when I don't have anyone to take care of me.
First, observe which of your own slaves are suitable to be converted into hired workers, hold off for the time being, and then apply for the regulations when they are implemented, and you can save some wages.
Most slaveholders were somewhat reluctant to give up, but they were able to cooperate and release the slaves unconditionally.
It is difficult for these slaveholders to be called slave owners, because they themselves are just freedmen with a little money, cannot afford big animals, and buy one or two slaves to help their families work.
From the perspective of slaves, it makes no difference who buys them. Although most small households are reluctant to beat slaves to death, they are still classified as livestock. A very small number of people treat slaves as family members, and they have a mentality similar to raising pets. Suddenly they become fists and kicks without any reason, which is not very kind.
Slaves may be an extremely important asset to them, but unlike the wealthy households, they have no ability to resist the urban management. They don't even dare to think about it. They are afraid that the urban management will demolish their homes when they are executed, so they are more cooperative.
In addition, small slaveholders did not have the opportunity to buy real high-quality slaves. Most of them, in order to further save money, owned slaves with slight disabilities themselves, such as lameness, deformed hands, etc. With slaves and slight disabilities, neither person may be able to If you are a free citizen labor force, you won't feel particularly distressed if you let him go.
But don’t you still have time? Let’s stay at home and do things for a few more days.
