It was not the turn of the personal guard to take action, and the slaves who caused chaos were already controlled, but they still raised their heads and screamed repeatedly, fearing that Ye Xuan would not know.

"Sir, we are villagers of Shaqu Village!"

"City Lord, we are the people under your rule!"

"City Lord, save us!"

Shaqu Village is one of the six villages that did not obey management at the time.

Among them, Pingbei Village (Xishi Village), Yonghe Village and Shaqu Village. In previous years, when the barbarians headed south, they would go to Ruiyang City to take refuge.

Ye Xuan didn't expect that the first time he saw the villagers of Shaqu Village, it would be under such circumstances.

They became slaves?

It seems that even if you hide in Ruiyang City, life will not be so easy.

He came to his senses and looked at the people pressed on the ground. Ye Xuan made a gesture, and immediately a personal guard came forward to take over and took the people in front of him.

"Are you villagers of Shaqu Village?"

When they saw a young man in question, they immediately remembered something. It is said that the new city lord of Heishui City is not very old, so it must be this person.

I didn't see clearly before, but heard the people guarding them muttering, "Look, the city lord is there", "The city lord is here to inspect?" and so on, and then I saw a lot of people standing there.

As soon as several villagers in Shaqu Village decided to do the next move.

At this moment, they nodded and responded.

"Yes, yes, lord, are we villagers of Shaqu Village?"

"What is the proof?" Ye Xuan asked with a slight tilt of his eyebrows.

The few people were stunned at first, and suddenly one of them had an idea and started screaming.

"My city lord, my name is Sha Ergou. You can check the records of villagers in Shaqu Village. I must have my name."

"Yes, yes, my name is Qu Masan, and the villagers' records must have my name."

"My name is Sha Datou..."

Listening to the names of the people who reported them, each with reasonable evidence, Ye Xuan nodded, glanced at them and said lightly.

"It seems that you are really villagers from Shaqu Village. Didn't you go to Ruiyang City to take refuge? Why did you become slaves?"

"Oh, they are all the dog officials in Ruiyang City!"

"It's not just the dog officials, but also the profiteers!"

"The city lord doesn't know what crazy happened in Ruiyang City this year. It's actually targeting us who take refuge in this way. According to the head, even a newborn baby will have to charge a fee."

"When seeing officials like this, even the businessmen in Ruiyang City came to take advantage of the situation."

"In the end, in order not to starve to death, and become the same as in previous years, why did he fall to the point of selling himself as a slave?"

Listening to the complaints of the few people one by one, Ye Xuan suddenly remembered something. The first stop after the former city lord of Heishui City was Ruiyang City. Could it be...

When the villagers of six villages wanted to take refuge in Heishui City, the original city lord wanted to collect money according to the heads of the people. Seeing the way Shaqu Village was targeted, it looked very similar to the original city lord's work.

From this point of view, the one with the best life among these three villages is Yonghe Village.

Although life is still difficult, the people from the village returned neatly.

Ye Xuan couldn't help but think of a hunched figure in his mind. It seemed that the old man Lu Song, the village chief of Yonghe Village, was also a capable person!

"How many villagers from Shaqu Village are there now?" Ye Xuan knew that this time Heishui City had acquired a large number of slaves from Gao Huayang. Except for hundreds of cave tribes, the other slaves were no less than four hundred, and now they were all handed over to the Agricultural Department.

"Most of them are here, and the others are still in Ruiyang City."

"Please help us save us."

"Shaqu Village is also under the rule of the adults, so you must not ignore it!"

"Sir, please be fine..."

Several people kowtowed repeatedly, begging in tears. How could they have the moment of fighting against Heishui City to the end?

"Go and call the officials responsible for managing these slaves." Ye Xuan thought for a while and ordered.

"yes!"

A personal guard immediately came out and headed towards the crowd that had stopped there.

When these villagers from Shaqu Village saw it, they were immediately overjoyed.

As long as the city lord recognizes their identities, it will be a matter of time before the word "slave" is removed.

You should know that in this world, the identities of slaves and civilians are very different.

When a civilian dies, it may cause some trouble; when a slave dies, he just needs to find a place to throw it away, and he doesn't even need to be buried, and no one will pursue it.

As for other aspects, there is no need to mention it.

Soon, a young official hurried over under the guidance of his personal guard.

"Ding An, the Agriculture Department, has met the city lord." After approaching, the young official bowed to pay homage.

"Where is Lumu?"

"The director is discussing with the Shanyue clan." Ding An glanced at the surroundings and clicked on it.

"So that's it, it's good!" Ye Xuanduo glanced at Ding An. This young man is quite eye-catching and has a future!

Today, Heishui City can be said to have no shortage of food. Even if it is not cultivated, it can be exchanged with fine salt or braised knife wine. I believe that many cities are willing to exchange it.

What is missing is diversified crops, and Ye Xuan gave it to the mountain tribe to breed in winter for this purpose.

The land around Heishui City is not very good except for the original arable land area, but there are also things that can be planted.

For example, crops such as corn, potato, sweet potato, etc. that are suitable for dry fields, and seasonings can also be found in peppers, ginger, garlic, etc., and oil-pressing plants can work hard on peanuts, sesame, etc.

If it weren't for the heavy nature of these indigenous people, Ye Xuan would not even let go of the cultivation area. He planted a large area of ​​sorghum, and could brew sorghum wine in the future. With the current popularity of roasting taozi wine, it would definitely be a huge profit.

In addition, growing cotton is absolutely indispensable. After experiencing the big winter here, Ye Xuan had already used a red pen to type several circles on this project.

Unfortunately, it is not suitable for growing mulberry trees around Heishui City, otherwise the profit margin would be very huge. Obviously, one winter was in vain, which also gave Ye Xuan a big and small warning.

In the future, you must not be hot-headed and must be fully combined with your own reality.

Although he could exchange mulberry leaves from the faith value store, Ye Xuan finally thought about it and decided to give up for the time being.

Just like there are many kinds of seeds that can be redeemed in the faith value store, after a lot of choices, Ye Xuan only exchanged a few of them.

After all, faith value has other uses, and cannot be limited to agriculture only, and the territory under one's own name is so large that it cannot be turned into a planting area.

Ye Xuan pointed to those people and said to Ding An with a calm expression.
Chapter completed!