Chapter 141 Slaves and Subjects

"Everyone, I have seen your hard work over the past month. This month's production efficiency is very high..."

Ji Lin paused and continued to read, from daily output to monthly output, and from time to time he also interspersed some encouragement to the fishermen and recognition of their work.

This kind of modern rhetoric is very useful when facing these ignorant slave fishermen.

Many fishermen widened their eyes and became uneasy, not knowing where to put their hands and feet.

What's more, Ji Lin really recognized their work results with true feelings.

And transparently disclosed their production performance and completed the rewards he promised them.

He is not a person who is good at personnel. If he is good at personnel, he would not like to deal with the military. Even this speech was revised after Chongshan and him compared it countless times.

After the routine lecture, he began to point out specific fishermen groups according to the list.

It is better to let him do this kind of thing. After all, the presence of the lord will be more ceremonial, while Xu Shan stood aside and watched his lord work.

In fact, not only the list, Ji Lin also asked Xu Shan to make a long wooden board in this residential area to record monthly performance. It is obviously not realistic to record it every day for them to see, but it is obviously more than enough to record the monthly production of 80 fishing groups.

Such wooden boards have not yet been popularized in the agricultural area of ​​the territory, because it involves quite a lot of management issues. This time, it is first piloted in the fishery area.

After all, the work in the agricultural area is not as intuitive as the fishery. It is not until the harvest that we know whether the work is done well or not.

Each agricultural group is responsible for cultivating different fields.

It’s just that these fishermen can’t understand it. This board seems to be playing the lute to a cow.

But Ji Lin did it, and he felt at ease.

Being honest can always solve most problems.

What’s more, education is always popular.

The selected fishing groups with outstanding work ability walked onto the temporary wooden platform one by one. They were more cramped than the fishermen who were praised below the stage, like embarrassed children holding candies, with nowhere to put their hands and feet, not knowing whether this was what he deserved.

Although the fishermen in the audience showed some envy, they also saw the efforts of these working groups. Anyone can go to the clerk to see the results of their work this month.

Seeing their appearance, Ji Lin suddenly felt relieved, because other people in the territory would also show this kind of panic when they were praised by him.

Honest and simple people.

That's good.

"What's your name?"

Ji Lin walked up to the first young man with twenty slave contracts in his hand. These slave contracts had names on them, but no photos of them.

Although as long as the slave contract is activated, people will feel severe pain, so that people can confirm that the person is a slave.

In this occasion, he didn't need to do so.

Just seeing the supreme ruler of the territory up close, the young fisherman immediately tensed up his body, his heart beat very fast, and blurted out his name quickly, as if it would burn his mouth if he didn't say it.

"Eric! Lord, my name is Eric!"

The lord smiled and signaled that he didn't need to be so nervous, he was not a man-eating devil. Then he examined the pile of slave contracts in front of him, found his slave contract, and handed it to him.

"Sir..."

The young fisherman seemed a little unbelievable. He just got the slave document like this. An indescribable sense of pleasure emerged from his heart and rushed straight to his brain.

The young fisherman confirmed dozens of times that it was his name written on it.

He wanted to shout out in ecstasy, wanting to show everyone that he had gotten rid of his slave status. Relying on his hard work, he followed the old fisherman to observe the sea day and night for a month to see which sea area would have more abundant fish.

He studied countless times how to cast the net and pull the net to get more catches, and strive to get fish every time he cast the net.

Seeing that Eric had torn the paper in his hand, he had completely changed from a slave to a free man. After the excitement, he was at a loss. What did he want to do...?

Ji Lin smiled and replied to him:

"Congratulations, you are now officially a member of Linyang City, you are free."

You can move freely outside of working hours, but you still have to work!

So, he handed the slave identity documents to these fishermen one by one, watching some of them tear them up in their hands, and some tore them and threw them into the brazier provided for them to destroy the documents.

In any case, they have become free men from slaves who have no choice.

They can freely leave this fishing area and go to other places in the territory.

"After working hard to become a formal resident of the territory, you can get the opportunity to learn. We will arrange for you to go to new and better houses. Of course, sometimes you may need to share your experience with others, or start working with some novice fishermen."

Ji Lin looked at the fishermen and explained to everyone again the benefits of becoming a resident of the territory. They were given housing and had their own private space, instead of being squeezed in a large bunk bed. They had the opportunity to receive education, and those who performed well could choose to study in higher education, or they could freely choose to try slightly technical jobs such as blacksmiths and tailors.

Unlike the previous passing by, everyone was listening very attentively at this time.

"But because of the current needs of the territory, you still need to continue fishing."

The fishermen who had become free people did not hate their jobs.

"Okay, there is no work today. This is an extra reward for your hard work this month."

A large bucket of cold sugarcane juice, just a little bit of water. The fishermen had never seen this special drink, but after taking a sip, they immediately liked this high-sugar drink with the fragrance of herbs.

No one hates sugar!

Although the current planned economic model of the territory with a 100% tax rate has greatly improved the utilization rate of resources and manpower, allowing the territory's resources to be fully invested in production, it is still a little lacking in rewards, so they can only deal with it first.

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Ji Lin considered quite a few plans to make them feel more at home in the territory.

This is one of them.

The lifting of the slave contract is only the simplest step in this plan.

And how to give them the identity of residents of the territory is the most important thing.

Because the original residents have a system guarantee, their loyalty will be guaranteed at a minimum. As long as you don't do too much, they will not rise up and want to overthrow you. Although there were lords in the past who did not treat the population of the territory as human beings, and then suffered the same treatment as Louis XVI.

In order to prevent these fishing village residents from forming groups and strengthen their sense of belonging to the territory, Ji Lin planned to force them to become residents and distribute houses to mix with the original residents of the territory. He was always cautious about the safety of these outsiders, and the habit from the officers made Ji Lin pay more attention to the stability issue.

Slowly assimilate this group of people, so each time he only plans to extract a few from these slave fishermen to become free people, and then live together with the free people of the territory.

Four hundred and thirty-one people, extract twenty people.

Four groups of fishermen.

These twenty people will be distributed to ten houses, living with eighty people of the same territory.

Assimilate one batch a month, ten people a batch, until these four hundred people are slowly assimilated into the territory culturally... This is a big project that will take forty months, three years and four months.

But fortunately, this subtle assimilation can not only stimulate the enthusiasm of these fishermen, but also stabilize the population of the territory.

He has plenty of time.