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Chapter 120 Happy Slaves(1/2)

After Wang Wei's inspection, pottery came in different uses.

The first type of pottery produced by ratio is more resistant to falling and used to make bowls. This is something that needs to be used frequently and may cause bumps.

The second type is the most waterproof, suitable for making large clay pots for storing things.

For example, water, or food.

The third type of pottery is easier to absorb heat than burnt pottery and is used as a container for boiling water or cooking food.

The last type of ratio is relatively uniform, and the data are not prominent, but the feel is very good and the appearance is very smooth. It can be burned into a sacrificial utensil.

When you need it, you can also sell it to other tribes in exchange for what you need.

The only drawback is that after inspection, several pottery, which was originally small in number, were broken by Wang Wei.

The old woman sighed repeatedly with heartache.

The second batch of pottery has begun to be produced.

The four female slaves who participated in Hemu were assigned to the pottery making industry.

Wang Wei rewarded each of them with a pottery bowl as their private property, but he strictly prohibited them from rumoring the ratio of clay. Once the ratio of clay is leaked, no matter who leaks it, their pottery bowls will be taken back and punished.

In the afternoon of that day, all the first batch of pottery fired were divided by the tribe members.

The number of pottery is too small and is now a public item. Large pottery jars are used to cook meat and make soup to alleviate the embarrassing situation of insufficient copper barrels in the tribe.

The pottery bowl is used to hold deer milk, so I can't afford to eat with the pottery bowl for the tribe.

Because of the emergence of clay pots, the tribe had to start building stoves.

According to the size of the clay pot and the direction of the ears, a row of stoves was built with soil and burn-resistant stones.

The stove has only five filler ports, but it can hold more than a dozen clay pots at the same time.

Just one person needs to burn the fire and add the ingredients to cook more than a dozen cans of food at the same time.

When the food is cooked, the tribe members will take turns to make the meal with bamboo tubes. The empty pots will be filled with water and meat. In just over ten minutes, they can cook the food again.

In this way, the copper barrels originally needed to be cooked for a day and continuously provided food to the tribe members to supply everyone's food.

And now, it only takes more than an hour to make everyone full in a meal.

The tribesmen found that the meal was very late today.

In the past, I started cooking supper at noon.

After it is cooked, whoever is in the tribe will eat first.

Now, it's almost dark, and all those who go out to work are coming back, and the old woman in charge of food is always calm.

In the middle of the front yard, a row of earthen buns with hollows, but many holes on it were built up.

Wang Wei was busy with everything like a clay man.

Just as the hungry slaves were wondering outside the yard whether there was no food in the tribe, the clay pots were seated in the holes reserved by the damp earthen buns.

Most people have never seen a pottery jar. I heard that when I cooked it with the thing Wang Wei called pottery today, many people in the tribe showed a look of confusion.

The slaves living outside the yard did not even have the chance to see the clay pot.

I just saw that there was a lot of water mist in the front yard.

That is the mist produced by the evaporation of the moisture in the newly built mud stove.

When the food was cooked, several strong male slaves were called in and were responsible for serving the food.

When they came in, they happened to see all the royal people gathered in the front yard to eat at the same time.

This surprised them when the tribe had the ability to cook so many foods at the same time.

The royal people shouted and said that they were delicious, which made them secretly despise them.

Isn’t it just the meat cooked with salt? As long as we don’t make mistakes, we can eat it every seven days, and there is no such thing as fuss like you.

When the slaves in charge of taking the food saw that their food today was not messy wild vegetables, mixed with some unpalatable animal internal organs, but with oily smell, with meat or fish, bamboo shoots and mushroom broth, they all shouted excitedly.

What day is today?

Isn’t it still two days to eat meat?

Why did you eat meat today?

The slaves were puzzled, and Wang Wei explained to them with a smile: "Today there is pottery in the tribe and a stove is built. From now on, we can eat on time every day. To celebrate the guidance of our ancestors, we can cook pottery. Let's eat better the first meal made of pottery!"

After hearing Wang Wei's words, the slaves were all excited and blushed and shouted excitedly.

However, when they saw the old woman frowning, they were all silent and never dared to say another word.

In the tribe, there are no slaves who are afraid of Wang Wei.

Not only because he is young, but also because he is easy to talk to.

Whether it is to treat slaves or his tribe members, he is usually kind-hearted. As long as he does not make mistakes within the rules, he will not punish anyone.

But these guys were frightened by the old woman, Wang Meng, Bai Hua and the others. They usually wanted to lower their heads and bypass them when they met them.

During the period when I was captured, many people wanted to escape at the beginning.

However, under the differentiation and harsh management of Wang Meng and others, these ideas were suppressed.

When the management was not as strict as it was originally, they built their own straw sheds, dug up the ditch for drainage when it rained, and weaved their grass skirts with the long-leaf clover borrowed from the royal family and the techniques they learned. After sleeping, their thoughts of running away gradually faded.

Some groups are even sent out to work, and they can run away without anyone monitoring them without worrying that someone will be punished.

But this suggestion was put forward and was immediately rejected by most people.

They were reluctant to leave their straw huts. Such straw huts would take two or three days to build when the royal family provided materials.

If there was no wood, straw ropes and long-leaf clover that the royal family had lent them to them, they would use stone flakes to mow the grass, cut trees with stone axes, and cut bamboo.

It will take at least ten days to build it.

If you don’t hunt for ten days, you won’t encounter bad weather. After they build the straw hut, they will probably starve to death.

And now in the royal family, life is not bad.

Except for the danger of getting into the forest and logging, the rest of the work is acceptable even if it is heavy.

At least, as long as you don’t make mistakes, you can have a full meal now.

The tribe does not need to go down the mine to mine, do not need to work in clusters of factories, and do not need endless land to be cultivated for planting. Due to the preciousness of lamp oil, there is nothing to do after dark, so the life of the slaves is very relaxed and comfortable.

In this case, although they were gathered together because of the hatred of war.

But under the erosion of life, they chose to give up hatred.

After all, Wang Wei promised them that as long as they did enough work, they could join the royal family and become members of the Wang family in the future.

They can also live in a walled yard.

This kind of prospects, not heavy work, low risk factor, can fill your belly, and life is still comfortable. If you have your own private property, straw sheds, straw skirts, straw mats and other items, and if you have no weapons, no place to go, and your fighting spirit has been wiped out, it would be strange that they can still have the idea of ​​resisting.

But they won't know for the time being that this is all done by Wang Wei on purpose.

The number between tribe members and slaves is almost half.

Once oppression is fierce, it is easy to be uncontrollable for riots.

Therefore, using some differentiation means to prevent them from uniting, finding some hope to destroy their fighting spirit, and giving them some hope can basically eliminate their desire to resist.

If the royal family now has strong combat power and can crush these slaves without relying on bows and arrows, they can crush these slaves in close combat, then the copper mines can be mined long ago and the land can be reclaimed.

Even if it is not available now, the land that has been reclaimed is more fertile and is more suitable for the growth of crops. Once you find the right seeds, it will ensure that it will be a great harvest if you plant them.

Compared with mining with extremely high mortality rates in the early stage, too much overwork leads to slave-style reclamation with an average lifespan of no more than three years. What is the 19-hour cluster work in the factory now? Now, what is the logging that is occasionally smashed or bitten by poisonous insects and wild animals?

Playing house?

There is no comparison at all, right?

These people are called slaves, but are actually not slaves at all.

At most, it can only be considered a relationship between a worker and an employer who does not receive wages.

Because of this, these people can still laugh now, be rewarded with meat and cheer excitedly, and when the moonlight is good, they can actively clean up the blockage of the drainage channels in front and back of their straw huts.

When the food was taken out one after another, cheers and scoldings were heard outside soon after.

Standing on the arrow tower and looking at the straw sheds outside the wall and the slaves eating outside the straw sheds, Wang Wei smiled and sighed.

"Oh! What a group of happy slaves!"

Those slaves who were responsible for moving food told everyone about the pottery.

For Tao, most of the slaves had never even heard of it.

Now they heard that Wang Wei made pottery with soil, and the food cooked with pottery was better than that of copper buckets, and they were all surprised.

Can soil be used to cook something?

As soon as the doubt came to my mind, the delicious food was distributed to them.

These slaves, who performed well, had bamboo tubes as bowls.
To be continued...
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