Low Dimensional Game Chapter 177: : Canals and slaves
"Pop!"
"Move up quickly, the construction period is approaching. If it cannot be completed this month, you will all be filled into the river and worship the gods!"
"Hurry up and work for me!"
The sun is scorching, and a large number of slaves at the foot of the mountain are shackled. Under the supervision and whip of a large number of guards of the local army, they are constantly digging stones and digging rivers. Tens of millions of slaves are walking along this uncirculated river. Excavating and constructing day and night, and looking into the distance, you can see countless figures. This is a huge project that has been spreading to the distance.
This is an unopened canal. It has been constructed three years ago. The Cretan Empire has signaled nearly 200,000 slaves from the territory. It started in southern Crete and led to the Red River Plain. At the time, it was destined. This is a river channel made of blood and tears. The lives and flesh and blood of countless slaves are filled into this huge project. The roads built are the corpses of slaves. Every corner Inside, the blood and tears of these hundreds of thousands of slaves can be seen.
This is the largest man-made project in human history on the Aran continent. It was carried out under the auspices of Prime Minister Tanbur. Once connected, it will connect the Namee River in the south and the Red River in the north while passing through Kerry. The three major lakes in the territory formed a transportation network like a golden waterway, opening up the north-south connection of the entire Crete empire.
At the same time, Yancheng, not far from the Red River Plain, is also within the scope of this canal. It is the largest salt-producing land in the state and the northern region and is a natural salt field.
The formation and daily needs of life require not only water, but also salt. If you follow the ancient tribal era, you will find that the migration and settlement of these tribes is not only along the waters, but also along the salt. Migration of production areas, without salt, life is difficult to survive. Since ancient times, salt has been a necessity for everyone to live, and it is also a hard currency worthy of gold.
The Red River Plain has been the largest natural salt farm since ancient times. Orcs and humans have waged wars and massacres for this salt farm. The ownership and owner of the Red River Plain has also continued to follow historical events. The transformation of the protagonist replaced the protagonist. The earlier war, it can even be said that the war between the golden king Akhnaton and the Sakya wolf king Costa also started.
Part of the reason for the establishment of the canal is also due to the geographical location of Yancheng and the increasing demand for salt in the Crete Empire. Originally, the transportation of salt had to span thousands of rivers, even Crete. The empire purposely built salt passages for the transportation of salt, which could not meet the needs of the entire Cretan Empire. A large number of merchants who depended on the transportation of salt for their livelihoods came into being, but even so, they still could not meet the growing demand.
After peace for hundreds of years, the population of the Crete Empire has also experienced explosive growth. The population once exceeded 15 million, and this number is already a number a few years ago, but Crete Except for Yancheng, the empire did not have a place to produce a large amount of salt. In order to meet the salt demand, to expand and increase the North-South ties of the Cretan Empire, and the development of commerce, after the Duke of Tumble came to power in Taiwan, he promulgated the opening of the canal. Project approval.
At the same time, in order to win the consent of the people in Crete and most of the nobles, Tanbur issued the **** and inhumane "Orc Slave Act". The large number of orcs and humans who originally lived in the Crete Empire Half-orcs, half-orcs, all became slaves after the emperor and the prime minister signed the "Orc Slave Act".
The hundreds of thousands of orcs in the Crete Empire overnight transformed from a low-status environment that was originally excluded and suppressed to a hostile slave with no human rights and status. All parts of the Ritter Empire were arrested and sent to various canal excavation projects to build canals.
Hundreds of thousands of slaves were brought with ropes and shackles, day after day for the humans of the Crete Empire, a huge project that could allow them to develop further and make everyone's lives happier, but no one remembered. Everywhere in this project, these orc slaves are crying and complaining.
No one has ever thought that their happy and stable life is actually based on the pain and sacrifice of a large number of people. They are drunk with feasting and feasting, but they don’t know that every drop of liquid in the cup is the blood of others. .
Jorkins is a capable cat and half-orc. As far as his age is concerned, he should be at home helping his mother with farm work and taking care of his younger siblings. In a few years, his father will help him find an equal status. The Orc girl of, established a family and continued to serve as tenant farmers for the nobles. Although life in the Cretan Empire was difficult and difficult, it was still relatively stable.
At that time, everything happened three years ago. After Tanbur signed the Orc Slave Act, earth-shaking changes took place. Father, him and his younger brother were sent to build a canal, while mother and younger sister were sent to others Locally, they were also reduced to slaves to work for the Cretan Empire.
Two years ago, Jorkins’s father died because he was too old to support it. Six months ago, Jorkins’s younger brother died when he was smashed in the head by a rolling rock while digging a river. Jorkins knew. The next one will be your turn, how long will it be? Half a year? One year? Or is it a day or two?
Go on like this. One day he will die here. The ending is doomed. He is just a consumable. No one treats these orc slaves as human beings and wants to change their own destiny, unless...
Jorkins immediately remembered the orc slaves who contacted him a few days ago. They are different from other orc slaves. They have tall bodies~IndoMTL.com~strong muscles and tiger-wolf eyes. Such guys are among them. There are many.
They are not slaves, why did they come in? What do they want to do? Jorkins was sweaty, feeling a little dizzy with tiredness, and the whole person was moving like a walking dead. At this moment, he remembered that person's words again.
"Orcs! Never be slaves!"
This sentence was like a whisper, making Jorkins rush to the whole body to tremble involuntarily, followed by a low growl, like a slogan that ignited all the flames in the heart, making people feel passionate.
It’s late at night, but the lights on both sides of the canal and the river are still lit, and there are many figures. Everyone is still digging the river desperately. The construction period is approaching. If they can’t complete it on time, most of them will Will be killed.
At the same time, the officials who guards and are in charge of this section of the river project also have to bear the responsibilities, so these days, these humans are desperately chasing them with whips, allowing them to dig the river day and night for more than ten days. In the past, some orc slaves started to be unable to hold on anymore. One after another corpses died of exhaustion or fell ill in this section of the river project, and then they were dragged down. Whether the corpse was dragged down or not, they knew that these guys would be Throw it out as a corpse.
No one dared to speak or discuss. These builders and soldiers stared at them like vultures. As long as they changed a little, they would be treated as a rebellion, but Jorkins could feel a deep feeling. Resentment and anger are hidden in everyone's hearts.
Only a lead, or a little spark, can detonate this place instantly, releasing all the anger and resentment in everyone's hearts.
"It's on fire! It's on fire!"
At this moment, suddenly there was fire from a distance, everyone raised their heads and looked into the distance!