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Hurry and let the followers who came with us disembark. If anyone is sick, continue to provide them with medicine for free; we cannot be careless!
Those who are able to move, take them to the east, where His Highness has promised us the Ten Thousand Acres! If we can cultivate it all within Three Months, we might even be granted another Ten Thousand Acres! This place will surely be the cornerstone of our family's resurgence!
No one is allowed to act recklessly. If I find out, hmph!
Under such a reprimand from the family head, a few younger members quickly fell silent, not daring to speak further. They hurriedly called those willing to go out to sea in search of a living to disembark and assigned them the one acre of land they had previously agreed upon.
It wasn't that their family was generous; rather, they had already become adept at land consolidation. This generation receives Freeholder Land, but by the next generation, it could very well become their own Tenant Land. Otherwise, they would never have invested so much in building so many Transport Ships to bring people from Da Qian over.
The urgent task now was to make them happy so that they would have more spirit to cultivate more fertile land. His Highness had said that the more land they cultivated, the greater the rewards would be. Who knows, in the end, their family might directly hold tens of thousands of acres!
If they could even run a few more trips with over ten ships and put in some effort, they might just touch upon a hundred thousand acres—just thinking about it made one feel joyful! That would be a precious asset left for future generations!
He casually summoned a Family Steward: "Go find some local Barbarians. I've heard from the Kaihai Division that these folks are quite useful. Hire two groups; one should come first to repair the port so that the Second Prince can see our gratitude. The other group you take with you should help us build our residence. If there's still energy left, take them along to clear land."
There were indeed people living locally; however, in the eyes of the Kaihai Division and Salt Merchants, anyone outside of Da Qian was simply a Barbarian. Hiring these people for work didn't even require Ying Qian; a meal would suffice.
The Household Manager took his leave and found several stationed Sailors at the port. He established connections by both entertaining and providing drinks.
"Brothers," he said, "we are newcomers and unfamiliar with the rules; I hope you can offer some guidance." After speaking, he did not allow anyone to assist him but discreetly handed out several small pouches.
A Squad Leader took one pouch, weighed it in his hand, and accepted it with satisfaction: "You're quite sensible. Your family head must know to seek Wu Zhi; there's no need for us brothers to say more about that."
As for other matters, there were no strict rules—just don't kill or seriously injure anyone. After speaking, this Squad Leader even had time to crack his whip across a Barbarian's back while cursing at them to hurry up and repair the port.
The Household Manager looked bewildered. Prohibiting harm? With such a dark approach, there seemed to be no sense of order at all.
Oh. The Squad Leader cracked the whip, his face filled with indifference: "Barbarians don't count as people."
The main concern was His Highness; he needed a population, people to settle here and reproduce.
As for these Barbarians? Hmph. The Squad Leader's eyes were filled with suspicion: "Those not of our kind must have different intentions. No matter how careful we are, it’s never too much."
The Household Manager pondered for a moment and nodded slightly, understanding the rules of this place. Before he could even start to torment the Barbarians, someone was already standing up for them.
"Which faction are you from?" Chen Tao approached with a grim expression.
Wu Qianchuan, feeling impulsive after receiving another mission from His Highness to set sail again, didn’t want to stay behind facing Wei Zhuangzhu and decided to follow along.
However, he hadn’t expected that upon arriving in this Fudi region, the Second Prince’s treatment of the local Barbarians would truly be something Chen Tao couldn’t tolerate.
This was far from what he had imagined Fudi to be; it shouldn’t be like this at all.
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