Every time I come home, my wife is making garbage

Chapter 292 Slave Workers
Zhang Jingyi walked up to the platform slowly, stood still and raised his hands.

The prisoners looked at him with fear.

While they were building the prison here, they had heard from the guards that it was this man in front of them who organized the various subhuman races and defeated their army. He possessed vast knowledge, and even the elves admired his knowledge.

This made all the captives stand half a head shorter in front of Zhang Jingyi, a kind of admiration and respect for the strong man that came from the bottom of their hearts.

How can I describe this feeling?

In reality, if you talk to a scientist who has won an award, you will understand.

Zhang Jingyi smiled at the captives: "Everyone! You have been captured for a few days. You have been building a prison for yourselves all these days. I have not been in a hurry to chat with you. After all, it takes time to adapt to the environment... It also takes time to calm down from the bloody excitement of war. During this time, I just need to take care of your meals."

His last words instantly made the captives grateful!

As a prisoner, it is a great favor to be remembered and provided with food.

Zhang Jingyi: "You are imprisoned here as invaders! An aggressive war is not a just war, so your actions are definitely wrong and must be punished. But I don't want to put all the blame on you. Your king and superiors should bear the main responsibility, and you should bear the secondary responsibility."

The prisoners were silent for a moment.

Zhang Jingyi: "So next, I need you to make up for your share of responsibility, which is... work."

The captives thought: This is not surprising. It is an old rule to do hard labor as slaves after being defeated in a war. There is nothing much to say about it. The next step is to work under the whip.

Just as they thought of this, they heard Zhang Jingyi change the subject: "But you are only responsible for the secondary responsibility, not the main responsibility, so you don't need to compensate us with all the fruits of your labor, that is, the rewards you deserve for your work. You only need to compensate us with a portion of it."

Prisoners: “Huh?”

The previous speech was at a normal rhythm, but now it suddenly became abnormal.

The captives couldn't help but whisper to each other, especially the human captives: "Is this a mistake? It means that we are paid for being slaves?"

"I've never heard of slaves being paid for their work!"

"Everything a slave has belongs to his master."

"It's so weird, I can't quite understand what he's saying."

"Then be quiet and listen carefully to what he says next."

After the prisoners were cheered, they immediately became quiet again, with their ears stretched out.

Zhang Jingyi said: "Next, I will arrange for you to mine and smelt iron. There will be kobold craftsmen to teach you how to do these jobs. And every time you dig out a piece of ore and smelt a piece of iron, you will be paid by weight, but your salary will be lower than that of ordinary workers."

The prisoners thought: We are thankful to have any salary at all, who cares if it is lower than that of ordinary workers?

Zhang Jingyi continued, "Let me give you an example. If an ordinary person is paid 100 copper coins for his work, you can only get 30 copper coins. The other 70 copper coins will be withheld by us as your war compensation."

The prisoners: "..."

Zhang Jingyi continued: "Your superiors, such as the commander-in-chief Akadullah, and those middle-level commanders, are all nobles, and their families have paid to redeem them, but you don't... So, you can only pay your own ransom through hard work and your own efforts. How about this, I will set the compensation for each of you at 5 gold coins. When the compensation deducted from your wages reaches 5 gold coins, that person will be considered to have paid for the crimes committed in the war and will be free. Do you think this arrangement is reasonable?" Isn't this nonsense? Who would say it is unreasonable?
This arrangement, in this era, is a great gift that the captives could not even imagine.

A group of human captives started to shout, "That's reasonable, too reasonable, Mr. Zhang. You are the most humane person we have ever met."

The camel people, lizard people, and gerbil people were still stupid and couldn't figure it out for a while. They were all quiet, touching each other's rat beards, with a look of confusion on their faces.

"Zhi, what does he mean? Why can't I understand?"

"He said that we had our wages, 7% of which was confiscated as war compensation, and 3% was given to us to keep. When our war compensation reaches 5 gold coins, he will let us go home."

"Fuck? Is this true? You're not kidding, are you?"

"I thought I was going to be a slave for the rest of my life."

“I’ve never heard of such a thing.”

"Isn't this a saint?"

The camel people were the most submissive subhuman race, and they all knelt down in an instant: "Saint Zhang, we listen to you."

The human soldiers immediately followed suit and said, "We are deeply moved by your kindness. We will work hard and compensate you with 5 gold coins as soon as possible."

Gerbils: "Squeak? What does that mean?"

The lizard man kicked the gerbil man and said, "You don't need to understand so much. You just need to keep working. Work and work. Then you will be free."

Gerbil: “Huh?”

The atmosphere in the prisoner camp suddenly became better. All the prisoners were cheering and the hardworking camelmen were impatient: "Please let us start working immediately."

A guard laughed and said, "You camelmen are too tall to go down into the mine. You can only wait outside the mine. When the ore is transported out, you will be responsible for carrying and smelting it."

The camel man was very anxious: "Ah? Then who will go down to the mine to dig?"

The guard pointed at the Nezumi. "I think they'd be a good fit."

The camel man was overjoyed. He turned around and grabbed a rat man. He said, "Go dig the ore and send it out of the cave. I will be responsible for transporting and smelting it. Hurry up and work! The more you work, the more you will earn. You will be free sooner."

Nezumi: "I haven't figured out what that means yet."

Camel Man: "You don't need to figure it out, you just need to dig hard."

Rat Man: “…”

Camel people and lizard people swarmed over, one by one, grabbing the collars of the confused rat people and shouting at them: "Go dig! The more you dig out, the more work we can do. Saint Zhang said that wages should be paid according to the results of labor! Damn it, hurry up and start."

The last to appear were humans. The human racial talent [Selfishness] lit up with a click, and in an instant, a complete plan to improve work efficiency came into their minds. The ratmen dug, the camelmen carried, the lizardmen and humans smelted, and the production line started.

(End of this chapter)