Simulate the heavens from Faerûn

Chapter 32 Development and current situation

In April 1725, in the northeastern part of Newfoundland, Fort Wendo, which was 4 meters long, 500 meters high and 300 meters high, stood erect in the howling cold wind. The streets in the city were tightly guarded and clean, and there were crowds of people with different skin colors.

The river mouth about 300 meters below the castle was the original landing point. However, after about a year of construction, the port has been widened and turned into a wide deep-water port. A dock is next to the port pier.

In the dock, boatmen are hastily overhauling large ships that have been moored for three months.On the towering cliffs on both sides of the river bank in the port, guards were cleaning and maintaining the iron cannons that were arranged neatly and fiercely.

Starting from Wenduo Fort, extending towards the southeast coastline is a vast stretch of cultivated land.There is an open reindeer pasture in the jungle to the west of Wendo Castle, and a winery is hidden in the mountains and forests of the southeast valley.

Since landing in September 1724, Rey not only continued to build Fort Wendo, but also ordered the excavation of the port to build docks and docks and the construction of port forts, making the area of ​​Fort Wendo officially enter the status of a military fortress.

In addition, he also actively opened up surrounding areas, reclaimed farmland in the southeast, where the land is fertile and the climate is mild, and used retting fertilizers from human and animal excrement to increase fertility.

Conquer the local Indian tribes and Aikis tribes in the southwest and make them slaves. Even if there are extraordinary people in the tribe, they surrender under the majestic appearance of Ishlandi and the threat of violence and siege of muskets by Rey.

After more than a year of continuous development, Rey has wiped out all the monsters in the north (including 3 forest troll tribes and 8 murloc settlements), captured more than 10 indigenous tribes, and obtained a large amount of animal furs and 100 reindeer, but the biggest harvest was the harvest of slaves. A total of about 2100 indigenous slaves were captured. It can be said that in the northern part of Newfoundland, the indigenous power has been completely ended.

Today, in Wenduo Fort, after about a year of transportation of young white slaves from the mainland and black/white slaves obtained from the trade, plus the captured indigenous people, there are now more than 6500 people, including more than 800 women and children. There are more than 16 men over the age of 5700, among whom Rey trusts the most: 2100 little white slaves he has trained since childhood, 1500 natives captured, about 700 adult white slaves purchased, and 400 black slaves. people.

This was after the winter due to the smallpox virus outbreak, which caused the death of approximately 200 people, and this was the result of Rey's vaccination with cowpox. However, through his outstanding performance in treating patients and saving people during the disease outbreaks in winter and spring, He also consolidated and expanded his prestige and condensed the title.

At present, the most significant problems in Wendo Castle are two: one is the ratio of men to women, and the other is race and class.

Regarding the issue of male-female ratio, although Rey currently adopts militarized management of Fort Wendo, the seriousness of this problem has not yet been highlighted.After all, as the saying goes, "you are full of food and wine, you are full of lust," but now they are either doing military drills or building houses, doing civil engineering work, and opening up wasteland. They are basically working continuously. They feel like a dead dog at the end of each day, and they basically have no such thoughts.

But this problem still needs to be solved. This will not only greatly stabilize and enhance the cohesion in the fort, but also increase the population. It is of great significance to Rey's future development plan and can also strengthen his dominance.

At present, he has asked his uncle Brayton to purchase a large number of girls and adult female slaves from Ireland. The former focuses on training to become nurses, while the latter is used to reward meritorious slaves. It can not only increase the loyalty of slaves, but also make the slaves involuntarily involved. Creating greater value only takes a while to arrive.

On issues of race and class.The current status quo is a typical diamond-shaped slave state of colonial rule.Rey and his relatives belong to the top ruling positions; next are the white slaves they have trained since childhood. Other slaves basically dare not offend them. After all, they have the largest number and have received key training from the family. Most of them are adults now. The most loyal hunting dog of the family, with many functions.

Then there are the purchased adult white slaves; those whose status is worse than the white slaves are the real indigenous slaves, who are larger in number, and there are also transcendent elders; and the ones with the lowest status are the black slaves, who have the smallest number, so it doesn’t matter. On the relationship.

The current adult white slaves swallow their anger and hold their breath in their chests. Although riots and uprisings will not break out, their loyalty to the Rhodes family may be greatly reduced when their contracts expire and they obtain the status of free citizens.As for the indigenous slaves, they exist in different races and cultures. Currently, they are temporarily submissive under the violence of Rey and the belief and worship of Thunderbirds that are prevalent in North Grek. Once someone starts a riot or is overly oppressed, there is a possibility of rebellion , before assimilation, only violent, high-pressure and iron-blooded methods can be used to rule.

As for black slaves, they were the main slaves in this period. It is rumored that one black slave labor force can equal four indigenous slaves, which shows that black slaves are the best labor force, and this is a country with ancestor worship or god worship. In this ethnic group, the gods have absolute authority and supremacy among the black people, and they also have incomparable respect for extraordinary power. This aspect is relatively easy to control.

Thinking about resolving the discord and conflicts among various slaves as soon as possible, Rey also began to think about the management of this multi-ethnic colonial rule in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and wanted to find the one that was most suitable for the current situation and had great development potential. model.

Molec and Haled also discovered that the status of the little white slaves was the highest overall, but this was what they wanted. They felt that only the private slaves who had been raised since childhood were their own, and ordinary adult white slaves were just goods. Because of the preferential treatment, they can support their rule and are the backbone of the colony. Only by constantly migrating white people from Bailuozhou can their dominance be stable.As for indigenous slaves and black slaves, they are just the cheapest slaves and the lowest animals, and they are the objects of constant exploitation.

Rey doesn't have much objection to this. What song you sing on any mountain, your butt determines your head.He is now an exploiter and a vested interest in the highest position, a slave owner. How can he say anything against it?However, Rey still feels that this direct and crude method of exploitation is too inefficient.

Think about some developed areas in the past life. There were no slaves in name only, but since their birth, they have been exploited as slaves.

I went to the school founded by the company since I was a child, and made up for the company's remedial classes. After graduating from university, I either worked hard to serve the company to repay the loan or became a house slave of the property built by the company. When I was sick, I mortgaged the property for treatment. Everywhere, although the relationship between slaves is hidden, the intensity of exploitation becomes more and more intense, sucking out the bones and marrow, eating people clean inside and out.Just like the cyberpunk world of Mechanical Hunter, exploitation is everywhere, but you can't refuse because you have no choice.

Closer to home, when Rey thought about the colonial rule of a multi-ethnic country by a few people, he thought of me, Dai Qing, to see if all the conditions were met?

Colonial rule, multi-ethnic, using a few to rule the many, potential, stability, um~ all right!Just change it to make it more in line with the current situation and have more development potential.

Although it is impossible to establish master-servant relationships at several levels, such as banner master and bannerman, master and slave, armored man and coated man.After all, the Bailuozhou people have been Bailuozhou people who advocated freedom since the Middle Ages (give me freedom or rather die). Slaves in the traditional sense basically no longer exist. What exists are indentured slaves who respect personal property (in name, but in most cases). Some of the actual operations are treated like black slaves).

Black slaves were also indentured slaves at the beginning, and it was possible for them to become freedmen after the contract expired. However, after a certain black slave owner who was not a human being, black slaves became slaves for life, but the chains still could not stop them from pursuing freedom. yearn for.

So Lei Mo's revised version of the Eight Banners system appeared.First of all, the Eight Banners are divided into White Eight Banners, Yellow Eight Banners, and Black Eight Banners, which are directly divided according to blood and skin color. The overall status is that the White Eight Banners are one level higher than the Yellow Eight Banners, and the Yellow Eight Banners are one level higher than the Black Eight Banners. The nobles of the Eight Banners are all the ruling class, and in the army With privileges in the government, non-Eight Banners cannot serve as the ruling class and command the Eight Banners personnel.

In descending order, the status under the Eight Banners was divided into citizens, freedmen, living indentured servants (contract slaves), and dead indentured servants (lifelong indentured slaves) (of course, the latter two classes may be abolished with the development of the times). Anyone can raise the rank and flag through contributions and meritorious deeds.

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