47. How can it be as expected, the golden finger is coming!
“The entire Middle Ages is the history of Western Europe’s emergence from violent slavery.”
"In the early Middle Ages, the primitive violent slave economy was legal. During the development of the Middle Ages, various variants of slavery, such as 'serfs' and 'debt slaves' were also legal."
"But due to the cultural progress brought about by the progress of production, primitive violent slavery gradually became illegal."
"By the end of the Middle Ages, the general lag between cultural development and production development - after all, the former relied on the latter as its material basis - caused the production speed of wealth to increase, but the exploitation efficiency of traditional rentiers had not yet been able to catch up in time [
Update and iteration], so the generally exploited class has successfully accumulated more means of production in a certain period of time than in the past period.”
"Slowly, the violent slavery and primitive slave economy of Western Europe ceased to exist and was replaced by the more 'civilized' debt indenture system."
"In the earliest days, as long as you were violent enough, you would have enough profits."
"Nowadays, violence alone is not enough. Coupled with reasonable [contracts], you can get beautiful annual financial reports."
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——"Nine Hell Contract Promotional Film"
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The two Sleif workers wiped the sweat from their foreheads, carried axes, and walked around several trees, looking for the contractor.
"Sir! Which tree should we chop down next, huh? Huh?"
One of them let out a frightened and trembling exclamation:
"ah?!"
"Snake huh huh!?"
The other person quickly covered his companion's mouth, "Don't scream, look carefully!"
He took a closer look at Mrs. Slay whose mouth was covered——
snake.
Many snakes.
Several big forest snakes in different colors of green and red, their tails hanging on the branches, several snake bodies entangled together, the snake heads hanging down, entangled into a spiral snake in an extremely weird, twisted and terrifying image.'
Chain', hanging upside down from the tree.
The contractor they were looking for was holding an ax in his left hand and a snake head at the end of a snake chain in his right hand, which was attached to the right ear of his cloak.
The snake spit out a message and made a hissing sound in the contractor's ear.
After taking a closer look at the man whose mouth was covered, the panic in his heart finally subsided temporarily.
Although those fierce snakes are very scary, especially the unnatural spiral entanglement of the snakes, it is really shocking. Anyone who encounters them for the first time will definitely be frightened.
However, those big snakes did not bite the cloaked man.
It was as if they were just a few balls of wool hanging from the branches.
The cloaked man seemed to have heard what was going on here.
He held the big snake's neck with his right hand like a ball of wool and pulled it to the outside. Then he turned his head sideways and looked this way with the brass mask.
"Oh, has your tree been cut down?"
The cloaked man asked loudly,
"Yes, sir! Which one shall we chop?" the man who had previously covered his companion's mouth said loudly.
The other person whose mouth was covered became frightened again.
Their contractor seemed to have whispered a few words to the snake?
The cloaked man first said a few words to the hanging snake head, and then shouted to the two Sleif workers: "Let's do it! You two go and inform each group and let the groups who cut the trees go to assist after cutting down.
Process wood!”
"I'm fighting here, uh, I'm busy with important things."
"When I'm done, the tree-cutting team will start working again!"
The two Mrs. Slay quickly replied, "I understand!" and then, not daring to breathe, stayed away from the group of big snakes and the contractor.
Later, a rumor spread among the small circle of the construction team:
"Our contractor, the lord's guest, is actually a legendary druid who hides his name!"
"The kind that talks to big snakes!"
It seems that in the perception of most Sreif workers, Li Jiasu is regarded as a 'lord's lackey' with a positive side.
The perception was relatively positive, so the workers did not speculate in a malicious direction:
'A contractor who can talk to snakes, could he be an evil devil?'
Stereotypes are a must!
...
Two flowers bloom, one on each side.
After the two workers left, Li Jiasu once again held the red old-fashioned microphone to his right ear.
"Yeah, I was interrupted by a worker just now. I'm sorry, boss."
In the microphone, the magnetic middle-aged and elderly voice sounded again.
ad Grand Duke: "It sounds like the slave workers you raise here have a pretty good relationship with you."
Li Jia Shu smiled bitterly and said on the phone: "What you said, I dare not answer 'yes' or 'no'."
"I don't believe, nor do I expect, that all of them can accept the current situation - no matter how much I am a 'holy king', they are still slaves in fact - there must be more or less secret opposition among the crowd.
my people."
ad Grand Duke: "The opposition is an objective existence, as long as it does not affect the overall situation."
"Is there anything else you want to report?"
Li Jia Shu thought for a while and replied: "As for the many matters of the project, what I reported previously was an overview of construction management. But in addition, there seem to be some, well, that may interfere with the project.
I'm not sure about the factors in the later stages, would you like to hear it and help me get the details?"
ad Grand Duke: "No problem, just say it."
Therefore, in addition to the summary of civil construction, Li Jiasu also reported information related to [Supernatural Power] to Grand Duke AD.
(That is, those things that, in theory, should have nothing to do with the construction project itself)
Li Jia Shu: "...The above is the situation on my side. In short, the island owned by Party A seems to be related to some, uh, extraordinary adventures? inheritance? conspiracy in this world?
In short, this kind of nonsense has associated risks."
On the other end of the phone, the Devil's Archduke snapped his fingers.
"Xiao Li."
"Boss, please tell me."
"Actually, I have been paying attention to what you experienced some time ago."
"???"
"Don't raise any questions. Well, let's put it another way." Grand Duke AD paused, "I can roughly monitor every move you make in this remote crystal wall system."
Li Jiasu was stunned for a moment, and then asked in an awkward and polite manner with a little resentment: "Boss, since you can monitor what happened to me, why do you want me to make a report?"
"You have seen everything that happened on my side, so wasn't the work report I just gave you unnecessary?" (in a resentful tone)
ad Grand Duke: "Xiao Li, you Huangxia people have an ancient poem."
"I don't know the true face of Mount Lu, just because I am in this mountain."
On the phone, He sighed,
"I'm not asking you to make a work report just to tease you."
"Work reports are indeed useful in [dealing with leaders]."
"But, it should be more of a [checking for omissions] that you use to discover the real difficulties, real mistakes, and real flaws that you have encountered in the past period of time."
"Xiao Li, please take five minutes to recall and think carefully about what you reported to me earlier."
"Then, you have to think out of the box-"
"——Hypothetically, if you were me, how would I (you) feel after listening to the report just now?"
Li Jiasu thought for 5 minutes, and then said with some uncertainty:
"Am I too cowardly?"
ad Dagong: "If I were to evaluate it, I would be a little conservative and a little timid."
"It is always right to be careful, but to be timid is to follow your heart."
Li Jia Shu held the old-fashioned telephone receiver and sighed: "Ad Grand Duke, this may be due to my previous work experience. I am not used to taking too many risks... Well, I have a very 'sloppy' personality.
Bar."
On the other end of the phone, the Devil's Grand Duke suddenly changed his tone and became serious.
"Xiao Li," He said, "Listen up, we devils are just lawful, but we are by no means cowardly."
"In the multiverse, the way of lawfulness is by no means an all-encompassing, mediocre and conservative approach."
"If you want to implement your beliefs and protect your camp, you must have a [firm will] and a [power] that can match your will."
"After recent observation, I found that although you are wise, your will is still not firm."
Li Jiasu suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right hand!
"Varied--!"
After coming back to his senses, Li Jiasu saw that at some point, the 'old-fashioned telephone' he was holding in his right hand had turned into several large snakes?
Those big snakes fell on his right arm and wrapped tightly around him, almost crushing the bones of his arm.
"Ugh!!!"
Li Jia Shu's face, hidden behind the brass mask, instantly became hideous with pain.
The voice of the devil’s true God’s words gradually dispersed:
"I feel a little unhappy about it, so I'll try to encourage you."
"This [right side, contract poison], you can use this power for now."