Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1180 Aiwass: Anyway, let’s put some ads first

"The original spring in Rock Cellar City collapsed, the new lord 'Aivaz of Hope' moved in, and Dawn City was established—"

The shouts, accompanied by the calls of hawks, echoed melodiously across the desert.

When Dawn City restored its water supply and then resumed normal life... the surrounding city-states that were watching were finally convinced that Dawn City did have its new benevolent master.

So they temporarily stopped and gave up the idea of ​​sending or hiring slave knights to eat at the buffet.

The benevolent masters of these city-states are in contact with each other. Although the relationship may not be good... but as long as one of them is in trouble, the benevolent masters nearby will definitely respond - for example, "taking care" of the citizens for him.

On the one hand, these spies will pass on information, and on the other hand, they will also start a rebellion against the good master at the right time. Because there are such spies in every city, if a good master starts to clean up the spies on a large scale, it is generally believed that there is a problem on his side, so others will increase their efforts or even join forces to fight.

Trekking in the desert requires a lot of supplies. The water supply and supplies of the city-state are limited. Sending troops must limit the use of water by residents in advance, which will be spread by spies. Therefore, war has "omens" that can be responded to and prevented in time.

In addition, in this tribal war mode where there is basically no supply line, as long as you defend against one or two waves of attack, the enemy will retreat due to insufficient supplies. Therefore, the regular army basically relies on harassment and raids. If you really want to capture a city-state, it is very difficult without internal and external cooperation.

But if the inheritance of a good master somewhere is cut off, then slave knights can be sent to capture people immediately.

The good masters were dead, so naturally there would be no one to defend an empty city. If no one came to capture them, it would be difficult for them to go to the neighboring city-states, and they would be doomed to die. In this case, capturing them as slaves would give them a chance to survive, so naturally there would be no danger.

Slave knights do not necessarily belong to the good master's own property, and there is a high probability that they do not belong to him.

It is similar to the "construction companies" like Avalon or Star Antimony, mainly undertaking official outsourced projects.

Because the good masters usually want to maintain their reputation - although this is ridiculous, the people of the desert do care about this - so they will not send their men to capture people directly, but buy people from the slave knights. In this way, these slave knights have a stable income... and the good masters also cultivate a group of extraordinary mercenaries in this way.

For example, if we let our own people go to attack a city, it would be a pity if a few people were killed accidentally. It would be better to send people to supervise the battle outside the city and let the slave knights charge. If they want to withdraw, we can help them to cover their retreat or force them back to the front line.

With just a little money, water and useless status, one can exchange for a standing army of extraordinary people, which does not require any management and is not responsible for the other party's reputation - for the good master, this is an absolutely cost-effective deal.

It's ironic.

In this desert where people are easily taken as slaves, the most valuable wealth is actually people themselves.

—For example, these messengers who deliver messages in the desert.

In addition to delivering letters, they also delivered various intelligence and news in the desert - sometimes for a fee, sometimes for free. For example, the news about Paradise City spread throughout the desert. After all, the news could not be updated in time and could not cover all city-states just by word of mouth from the caravans.

A female harpy with a naked upper body, many feathers on her body, and red paint on her face, preached on the street: "The good master of Dawn City has made new rules. Slaves can also be promoted to freemen! The recruitment of freemen has been expanded!

"Anyone who signs a 20-year free work contract, and a 10-year free work contract for their offspring, can enjoy the treatment of a free citizen! Each family will have three free education places, and food, accommodation, and drink will be provided during the contract period!
"Transcendents only need to sign a ten-year contract + a five-year contract for their offspring. Transcendents above the third energy level only need to sign a five-year work contract. They no longer need to pay water tax. After the contract expires, the work can be renewed and income can be obtained! 'Aivas of Hope' promises that the salary of all jobs will not be lower than 80% of the city-states!"

These sound like advertisements, speeches promoting welfare policies...

In fact, it was Aiwass himself who placed the advertisement. These messengers came from the same organization called "Desert Voice".

Most of them are eagle-men, who are best adapted to the desert environment. There are also some lizard men who have mutated to have the ability to resist dust. Humans cannot do this.

The eagle people can fly in the desert, thereby bypassing various phantom demons and bandits hidden in the sand, and directly avoiding quicksand traps that are invisible to the naked eye, thus moving at high speed in the desert.

In addition, they can glide on the wind, easily crossing the dead river in the desert and successfully reaching another oasis. Lizardmen can also swim in quicksand and even dive into the sand to move quickly.

The only drawback is that their effortless movement is due to their special body structure. Therefore, they cannot transport other people, only some important and inexpensive small goods, and letters.

The main customers of Desert Voice are the benefactors of various cities, and only benefactors can afford this price. Because of their special mission, even slave knights will not easily capture them... so as not to delay the business of the powerful benefactors and cause unnecessary trouble for themselves.

So even if you are deep in the desert, you can write a letter and send it outside the desert.

But apart from Paradise City, the lords of other city-states rarely care about "propaganda". After all, there is a lack of education in the desert, and the lords' family inheritance can only rely on those family teachers who are family slaves, and their quality and comprehensiveness are bound to be insufficient. Therefore, "Dawn City" immediately became a hot topic.

People were discussing the price offered by Aiwass.

Working for free for twenty years to escape slavery - this is not harsh, but rather too generous. Not to mention that food, lodging and water are provided during the work period, and education and jobs can be arranged for three offspring... Doesn't this mean that the family can save three people's food and water, and at least two generations can be guaranteed to have jobs?
Compared to the unreal promise of Paradise City that "as long as you enter Paradise City, you can get free food and water forever, and you don't need to work at all", the price given by Dawn City is a little bit more demanding, but it feels more realistic!

——This is Aiwass’ strategy.

Although he ultimately wanted to make everyone free and abolish slavery... this couldn't be done overnight.

If Aiwass gave them the status of freemen directly, the benefits would come too quickly and easily, and they would not cherish them. Moreover, all the slaves would be gone in an instant, and these desert people who had just become freemen would be unhappy.

And if Aiwass promised the future to be too beautiful and too unreal, they would be suspicious - this is not a conspiracy theory, because this kind of situation really happened in Anxi. Everything was promised to be beautiful, but once people arrived, they were directly captured and sacrificed to Yuantiansi, or captured as slaves and resold.

This is what many city-states have been doing until now. The reason why the Parthians do not believe this is because they have developed a self-protective reaction, not because they are suspicious. Without this level of defensive awareness, they would have died long ago.

So if Aiwass really advertised like this, he would just be mixed in with the noise and not make any waves at all. Even his own residents would tremble in fear and be full of resistance to him.

So Aiwass's idea is very simple.

Since they can't stand or believe in things that are too good, just give them something inferior.

The Good Lord of Paradise City has an overwhelming advantage in Parthia, mainly because he has figured out a feudal-level management system in the slave society.

In a poor place like Parthia, feudalism was considered advanced and civilized.

And Aiwass went a step further - he started to engage in capital!
Although capital is not a good thing, it is like a great man sent from heaven in a slave society!
(End of this chapter)