Chapter 393: Deterrence and Incentives

Hearing Fan Dengke's complaint, Wu Kai laughed out loud, and instead of directly answering the other party's words, he asked about Fan Dengke's affairs in Langya.

"Director Fan, you are able to command tens of thousands of people. I think you are trusted by Ye Xiang in Langya. I don't know what position you have in Langya?"

Hearing Wu Kai's question, Fan Dengke showed a wry smile, "I'm no official. To tell the truth, Mr. Wu, I'm just the servant of Junshou Ye."

Hearing Fan Dengke's answer, Wu Kai was taken aback, and looked at the other party, "Mr. Fan, I think you should be a scholar in your conversation. Why did you become a house slave?"

Fan Dengke shook his head, "It's a long story. My Fan family has been a slave of the Ye family for several lifetimes, but my ancestors have always been officials in Langya. Later, when the Ye family fell, Fan's contract The book fell into the hands of the Linghu family again. For this reason, my family did not suffer much impact, and continued to serve the Linghu family, but it could not be reused. Since then, I have been beaten down to lead these craftsmen. Two years ago , Ye Xiang destroys Linghu, and our Fan family will return to the Ye family."

After listening to Fan Dengke's words, Wu Kai finally understood. It turned out that Brother Fan had been other people's house slaves since his ancestors, but they were very high-level house slaves. Thinking that in Fufeng, General Gao wanted scholars but couldn't get them, but in Langya, scholars were actually slaves. This gap is too big.

"I don't know what plans Manager Fan has in the future?" Wu Kai asked.

"After all these craftsmen are settled, I have to go back to Langya to return to my life. After I go back, I should probably do these things. Anyway, I am familiar with the road!" I can see the arrangement of the owner."

"I want to settle all these craftsmen. It's not an easy task, I'm afraid it will take a long time!" Wu Kai spread his hands and said.

"So I'm in a hurry. To tell you the truth, Mr. Wu, my family lives in Langya. I can't go back this year for Chinese New Year. Thinking about it, I feel a little ashamed of my family?" Fan Dengke sighed.

"Boss Fan doesn't look very old, who else is there in the family?" Wu Kai asked.

"Apart from my wife, there are only two naughty boys." Fan Dengke smiled when he mentioned his own boy. He raised his head and looked in the direction of Langya, with a longing look in his eyes.

Looking at Fan Dengke in front of him, Wu Kai couldn't help but make up his mind. This person is undoubtedly a capable person. There are tens of thousands of people. From Langya all the way to Fufeng, there is nothing wrong with them all the way. After Jishi City, tens of thousands of people lived outside the city. But it can be regarded as orderly, although there is a phenomenon of fleeing,

But after all, it is a very small number, these credits. There is no doubt that it should be counted on this Manager Fan. But such a talent is actually a house slave in Langya, which is too much.

The city guard of Jishi City is now desperate for talents, since there are such people in his hands now. Is there any reason to let him slip away?

Thinking of this, the smile on Wu Kai's face became even brighter, "Director Fan. Please forgive me, do you want your descendants to continue to be slaves in the Ye family?"

Fan Dengke was startled, and then sighed after a while: "This is our fate, so what can we do?"

"Why don't you stay with us?" Wu Kai looked at him and said solemnly: "A capable person like Mr. Fan will be reused if he stays in our Zhengdong Mansion."

"Staying here, Fan Mou is not the same as a domestic slave. It's just that in Langya, he is a servant for Ye Junshou. Here, he is a slave for Miss and Uncle. It's the same. Why don't I stay in Langya? After all It is richer and the climate is more pleasant, where my relatives and friends are still there." Van Denko said.

"No, no, no!" Wu Kai waved his hands again and again, "I think you don't know much about our General Gao. What he dislikes the most is treating people as slaves. A few years ago, one of his elders gave him a house slave to serve him. He, it didn't take long for General Gao to tear up the contract and send someone out to work. Now this is the shopkeeper of Xianyun Building in Jicheng, and he can be regarded as having a good future. Manager Fan, that family I don't have much ability to talk about it, and it's not like you are a generation of scholarly disciples like you!"

Fan Denko was immediately surprised.

"So, as long as you are willing to stay, I will go to the general and his wife and tell the general and his wife that Ye Xiang loves his wife so much. She asked her father to ask you to come. Is it possible that Ye Xiang will refuse? I dare say that as long as the contract arrives, the general will In your hand, it will immediately turn into a ball of shredded paper, and you will be freed from the Fan family from now on, and you will be free again." Wu Kai said with certainty.

Fan Dengke swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the two blushes on his face became redder now, "You, are you telling the truth?"

"Of course it is true. If there is even half a lie, you can beat me with your ears!" Wu Kai said. "I'm afraid that you, Mr. Fan, are greedy for Langya's comfortable climate and rich land, and won't come to our remote and remote place!"

Fan Denko clenched his fists tightly, "If you can get back your freedom, who is willing to be a slave, and will be a slave for generations?"

Wu Kai was overjoyed, "Why do you say that, Manager Fan promised me?"

"If I can really be free, I, Fan Denke, will be a member of Jishi City from now on." Fan Denke stood up and said loudly.

"Okay, that's great!" Wu Kai was overjoyed, "Mr. Wu, then I still lack a long-term position in this city guard. Would Mr. Fan be willing to take up the post?"

In a blink of an eye, Wu Kai promised his third official position today, the post of long history in the city guard mansion, second only to him. Tang He on one side was dumbfounded, while Fan Dengke opened his mouth wide open and couldn't close it.

"Master Wu, this, isn't this too hasty?" He murmured.

"What's so careless?" Wu Kai laughed, "Director Fan, what is the biggest problem with Jishi City now? It's not about building the city, but about the tens of thousands of people you brought, stability, order, and the next steps. The resettlement is a big problem that makes people scratch their heads. Who is most familiar with them? You, these people will become the largest group of people in Jishi City in the future. The problem of tens of thousands of people, the construction of the city and so on, will only benefit from it, won't you? Tell me, who else is more suitable for this position than you?"

Fan Dengke smiled wryly. The other party went around in a big circle. It turned out that the final focus was here. Although the other party had bad intentions, he couldn't refuse the price he offered. He took a deep breath, Looking at Wu Kai, "Since your lord has announced it so openly, if I, Fan Dengke, still disagree, then I don't know what is good."

Wu Kai was overjoyed, and looked back at Tanghe, "Master Tang, remember, Fan Dengke is now the long history of my Jishi City Mansion, and the monthly salary is ten guan. Fan Changshi, is it enough?"

Fan Dengke smiled wryly, "Enough is enough! It's just Mr. Wu, I don't understand one thing, such an empty city guard mansion, what are you going to use to accommodate my tens of thousands of people?"

Wu Kai looked at him and laughed loudly: "Although Jishicheng City Guard's Mansion is just empty now, we have the power in our hands, and the Shangfang sword given to us by General Gao. With this, why can't we do it?"

"This, I don't understand!" Fan Denko shook his head.

"The first step, I will be ordered by General Gao to burn the bondage of these people. From now on, these people will be free!" Wu Kai pointed to the box next to Tang He.

Hearing Wu Kai's words, Fan Dengke was startled, "Master Wu, this is absolutely unacceptable. Once the slave bond is burned, these people will be free. At that time, if they want to leave, how can we restrain them? You know , This journey is so smooth, it is because these people are domestic slaves! Once they escape, they will be killed if they are caught."

"Run, where are they going?" Wu Kai laughed, "I have to trouble Mr. Fan to explain this matter after he goes down. Jishi City is located in the hinterland of the grassland, and the surrounding area is full of Huns and horse bandits. , leaving here, but no one can guarantee their safety, if they have the courage to cross the hundreds of miles of grassland without soldiers escorting them!"

Seeing the murderous look in Wu Kai's eyes, Fan Dengke was shocked, "Master Wu, those people who fled a few days ago?"

Wu Kai said coldly: "We have found these people back, but they have already turned into corpses. I think this will wake up these people."

Hearing Wu Kai's words, Tang He's body shook violently. He knew that these fugitives were still detained in the army after they were captured, and they did not die. But after Wu Kai said these words, these people But it's dead.

"This is a show of prestige!" Wu Kai raised his head, but there was a smile on his face again, "The next thing is to lure them for profit. I think they are very happy to get back their freedom. Those who stay here voluntarily will get a hundred acres of land for each household, and the city guard of Jishi City will give them a land deed. Arrange it into the workshop. Of course, we have some rules here, and these craftsmen also need to understand, that is to rely on technology to speak, the higher the technology, the higher the reward."

Speaking of this, Wu Kai looked at Fan Dengke and said with a smile: "Master Fan, you can give priority to choosing 500 mu of land in the best place as your Fan family's property."

"Isn't it one hundred acres per household?" Fan Denko said in a low voice.

"You are the long history of my Jishi City, how can you be the same?" Wu Kai said with a smile: "Furthermore, the master craftsmen among those craftsmen, I think you know it well, they have two hundred acres per household. In addition, we We will distribute unrequited livestock and agricultural tools for them, of course, this requires money, but you can owe it first and pay it back later.”

"How much land will this take?"

"Maybe we have few other things here, but we have a lot of land!" Wu Kai said with a smile. "Although it is a raw field, after two or three years of maintenance, the raw field will become a mature field. At that time, it is not a small fortune." Property, I think, these craftsmen have worked hard in Langya all their lives, so they may not be able to earn this property? Now as long as they settle here, they may have it instantly!" (To be continued...)