Urban Sims

For a long time, people in this world have negative impressions of wild people in the extreme north, such as big size, hairy body, low IQ, and cannibalism. Except for their appearance, they are almost like beasts.

The savages in Zhou Ming's impression were almost the same. However, when the group of more than 200 savages, male and female, old and young, were locked in strong cages by him in groups of ten, The performance of these savages in the cage still surprised him.

When a small amount of food that can't be full but will not starve to death is distributed to these savages, those savage women who have given birth will not eat first, but feed their children first.

The poisoned or injured savage is very painful. When he needs care, there will be some savages next to him who will take care of him and feed him food and water.

When a few savages die unfortunately due to being too poisoned, their clansmen will also look sad and cry...

"Humans are not plants, so how can they be ruthless? Savages are also humans, but they are wild and poor. It's not that they are completely inhuman..."

Seeing these scenes, Zhou Ming, who wanted to sell these savages to slave traders, temporarily changed his mind, and wanted some smart servants to take charge of the savage captives. If there was such a servant, he could communicate with these savages and let These savages work obediently, and this servant will be rewarded generously. The time limit is three months, and he can recommend himself.

"Master Edward, can I give it a try?"

Zhou Ming waited for a long time, but no one answered. Finally, a small servant stood up and turned his head to look. It turned out to be Derek's eldest son, the former self-Lian. He saw that other servants did not take action in time. The first one raised his hand.

There was a burst of discussion among the servants.

"Ryan? Isn't this kid afraid of being eaten by savages?"

"Lian is just a trainee servant, and he hasn't become a full-time employee yet. He's just getting the limelight. I'm going to teach him a lesson!"

"I don't know that this kid was taken by Master Edward, and let him, a lowly farmer's son, enter the castle..."

"Stop talking, don't let Master Edward hear it, he is praising Ryan."

"Hey, I wish I had stood up earlier. This guy Ryan just got lucky..."

Zhou Ming was very relieved. Derek was very brave when he was fighting wildlings a few days ago. He led his farmer team to capture 6 strong wildlings. However, because he charged too hard, his right hand was injured by a dying wildman. The injury was more serious. Zhou Ming took his servants and brought some things to his house to visit him. He happened to see ten-year-old Ryan helping his mother cook in the kitchen. Brought to the castle, a ten-year-old child is a little young, but he can be a trainee servant for two years and learn some cultural knowledge, which will be helpful for future development.

Sure enough, Zhou Ming seemed to have seen his own shadow in his previous life, seeing his performance of striving to make progress and not being afraid of difficulties, and praised him a few words very happily. Leave it to him to manage.

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In the next two or three months, apart from spring sowing and autumn harvest, Zhou Ming would occasionally train 130 carefully selected leaders (100 knights and 30 lords) in the castle. Zhou Ming spent most of his time in on another major event.

That is, he set aside an area on the lower bank of the river not far from Qiangwei Town, carried out extensive construction work, and opened a large furniture workshop and a clothing workshop.

Yes, as early as last winter to this spring, after obtaining a large amount of furs and precious wood through grain trading, Zhou Ming had plans to build two furniture workshops and a clothing workshop in Granling.

"With the wood for making all kinds of furniture, and the fur for making clothing and accessories, the follow-up raw materials will continue to come from other territories... When the two workshops are completed, recruit a large number of carpenters and clothing makers with good craftsmanship Craftsmen have become a top priority for Glenland, and there is really a shortage of these two types of craftsmen in Glenland now."

How lacking is it?

As far as carpenters are concerned, although in Qiangwei Town and the other ten villages, there are many people who know a little about carpentry, it is not a big deal for those who are skilled in crafting and can make furniture with symmetrical shapes and uniform sizes. There are no more than 10 professional carpenters in the entire Glenland who are farmers, animal husbandry, and people who make a living solely on carpentry craftsmanship.

This is especially true for a garment maker. A mature garment maker who understands more than a dozen fur treatment processes such as tanning, tanning, drying and softening, and grooming, can find out the entire gran collar. They are all very lucky.

After all, most people in this era still wear rough and cheap linen clothing, and the people who can afford refined fur coats can only be the aristocratic class with a very small number of people.

but……

The half of the warehouse that is backlogged in the castle warehouse is now selling fur that is not very dynamic. They must not be allowed to stink and rot in it, and there are precious woods. All the hard work was in vain.

"The recruitment of excellent carpenters and mature garment makers can only be solved by the power of the business alliance. Fortunately, the number of member collars that have joined the business alliance has reached 72, including 8 southern collars and 64 northern collars..."

After the establishment of the Free Trade Union, the commercial and trade activities between the internal member leaders have entered a primary active state because they follow the unified tax rate and the general tax exemption principle (transactions between the lords are exempt from tax, travel merchants are discussed separately), and the business activities have entered a primary active state. The lords of the collar, when they have more or less goods on hand, will subconsciously go to the entrance of the business station and look at the bulletin board. A lord with keen intelligence will always find some valuable information and taste a little bit of sweetness from it.

However, Zhou Ming still doesn't quite understand why most of the seven earldoms in the north have applied to join the Merchant Alliance, while the seven earldoms in the south, except for the eight baronies in the territory of Rhodes, have no other lords in the south. , all of them were not too impressed with this free trade alliance with a large number of "Yankees", and waved their hands one after another, refusing to join.

"Could it be...the so-called 'North-South War' at the upper echelons of the kingdom has been fought to such an exaggerated level that they are unwilling to engage in even normal business activities?"

Zhou Ming felt that it was a pity that the market in the south had a larger capacity, but it was a pity that water and fire could not be compatible to such an extent just because of the differences and prejudices between the north and the south.

Of course, it is impossible for Zhou Ming to kick out all the northern member leaders who started to join the business alliance in order to gain a bigger market. Secretly attracting...

In May, when the infrastructure of the two large workshops in the furniture workshop and garment workshop in the Granling workshop area was about to be completed, Zhou Mingrang, the messenger responsible for releasing updated information, posted on the "bulletin board" of each member's business station. ", posted a popular recruitment message:

"Recruitment of carpenters and garment makers with a lot of money. Excellent carpenters start from 100 gold coins per year, and mature garment makers start from 200 gold coins per year. There is no limit to the number of people, men or women, or age!"

Then, Zhou Ming himself, non-stop, visited most of the member leaders in the business alliance for more than a month.

Early July.

With the good reputation accumulated in the establishment and development of the business alliance, as well as the charisma of a wide range of friends and a generous personality, coupled with Zhou Ming's promise, after the benefits of the Grand Collar furniture workshop and garment workshop, those who can work as craftsmen The lord who joins as a shareholder will receive generous returns and share rewards... Through various means, he has gathered a large team of craftsmen, including 300 excellent carpenters and 200 mature garment makers. At a ratio of one, 500 manual apprentices were recruited.

In this way, after the completion of the factory buildings in the furniture workshops and garment workshops of Granling, there is finally no shortage of a large number of craftsmen working.

In August, after all preparations were completed, the large-scale furniture workshop and garment workshop of Grand Collar officially entered the mass production stage of the assembly line...