Immediately afterward, Field personally handed out the bounty to the guards, and each of these slaves was so excited that they burst into tears.
Could they not be excited? The slave with the most rewards: the Hammer, received 17 silver coins, a fortune that many people had never accumulated in their entire lives.
Even Field's maid was jealous.
The rest of the people looked at the money in their hands with red eyes.
"I should have known that when the guards were first formed, I would have participated."
"Damn it, it's a shame that I wasn't chosen in the first place."
Those who were originally timid were now stomping their feet in anger.
"Listen up, lords, I'm now announcing the development plan of the Night Curtain Territory, it has to do with the future of all of you."
With the lure of money, the slaves' ears almost perked up, more attentive than listening to a priest's prayer.
"First, if you want to get out of slavery, you can earn one gold coin for me. Don't despair just yet, I dare say that in other lords, it would never be possible to achieve, but in the Nightshade Collar, it's quite simple, look at the gallant Hammer! Seventeen silver coins in one day!"
The Hammer heard Feld's praise and puffed out his chest proudly, even standing on his tiptoes, this was the first time since he was born that he had been praised by another person instead of being called a stupid ass or a simpleton.
It was unbelievable to him that it was still praise from his Lordship.
"Goddess, I'm crazy, today must be my lucky day." Hammer felt the gazes of everyone who was either jealous or envious and was divine.
The corners of Fielder's mouth rose, "It's the same rule as before, kill a carrion and reward a silver coin. On top of that, I will issue a series of tasks that don't require fighting, such as farming, building fences, repairs or anything else, and I will give you bounties."
Slaves were unmotivated, Feld desperately needed freemen, who not only didn't have to take care of their food, clothing and shelter, but could also collect taxes, and it was the freemen who had the motivation to learn the skills.
The crowd erupted into a heated discussion, and Fields directly announced the second one.
"Secondly, the race issue, this is something I don't want to be bothered with, just don't violate the basic law. While I am not subhuman, my dear Chosen are, so put away your prejudices and look up at the fog of death around you, don't get everyone killed for some inexplicable reason." Feld paused, "Personally, I love subhumans, as long as they are hard working and simple, and don't give me trouble is a good lord for me."
These days' contact, Feld sensed that the subhumans were not like some races, who were only good at eating and lazy and had to cause destruction everywhere, so he was happy to accept them.
In addition, the beast-eared lady was really cute.
Ashina's eyes reddened as he felt a sense of respect and equality.
"Thirdly, when you do prayers in the future, bring Ashina's name."
This was a point that had nagged Feld for a long time, he wanted to build a more scientific territory.
However, the book said that the power of the Chosen comes from faith and city prosperity, and now that Ashena was a first-order Chosen, if she wanted to advance to the second-order, she would need a large amount of the faith power of the territory.
Fielder was skeptical about this, because according to the faith to raise the power, the Papal States with believers all over the continent would be the most powerful existence, but that wasn't the case.
Today's Holy Griffin Empire had already surpassed the Papal States at the level of high-end battle power, not to mention the other powerful countries on the continent.
"It's a pity that there is no control group, and there is no base for random trial and error, so let's try following the experience of the previous generations first."
Subsequently, Field once again enlisted slave soldiers, no salary, but managed three meals, the only source of income was killing the enemy.
The situation was very different from the last time when no one wanted to, a black crowd of people were crowding to sign up.
Fielder did not accept everything as it was, pointing to the edge of the territory, "Those who want to be soldiers, run around my territory five times, I will select the best according to the performance, in addition, I'm very democratic, you can abstain at any time."
A light sentence made six people give up at once, these guys were all slackers, a piece of black bread a day would satisfy them.
"Can't even do basic obedience, it looks like you're just trying to make a living." Felder shook his head straight, he didn't need such soldiers.
The rest of them gritted their teeth and started running.
The newly joined slaves were much worse in quality than the first batch, most of them were weak and frail, one by one they were as skinny as a skeleton soldier, until noon, the last person finished running.
Looking at the stumbling figure at the end, Field was not angry but happy: "Physical quality can be mended, but tenacious perseverance is hard to obtain."
Eliminating the two guys who played smart and ran a few laps less, Fields gained twenty-three soldiers.
Feld pulled out all the wolf subhumans from the original thirty-man guard, mixed them with new recruits, and formed a twenty-man looting cavalry, while the rest formed a thirty-three-man escort.
If any nobles or knights came here, they would definitely be stunned by Feld's behavior, it was already crazy to train civilians as an army, let alone slaves. Stupid, ignorant, timid and cowardly, they were not even qualified to be cannon fodder, and were barely good enough to be used to fill the enemy's moat.
Fielder had the audacity to organize them and provide them with armor.
The steward looked at the recruited "skeleton soldiers", his mouth was so big that he could swallow an ostrich egg, he was stunned by the lord's behavior, he found Field and said bluntly: "My lord, the previous 30-man guards were already very outrageous, why did you expand the scale, and give the valuable war horses to lowly slaves, who will then eat the precious slaves? turn their heads and eat the precious war horses!"
"Don't get excited Kael, look at Bobcat and Iron Hammer, they're doing very well, it's thanks to them that we're able to walk here and clear the landing spot."
"This, this is just a helplessness in the heat of the moment, in the face of a real test, they will surely scatter." Kao pointed his finger at the sky and swore, "A true soldier, born from a military and military family from a young age, masters all kinds of military literacy and weapon skills, and also has to have a noble character to be able to do so!"
Feld rubbed his brow, this one must have been brainwashed by bards and novelists.
"What should we use then? We're surrounded by monsters."
"Spend money on mercenaries and adventurers, of course." Kael answered as a matter of course.
Mercenaries? These unreliable guys, Feld was worried that they would turn around and betray themselves. History had proven countless times that only warriors from the people could form armies with potential.
"I appreciate your advice, but I'm going to give them a chance." Fielder rolled his eyes and said in an undeniable tone, "Kao, give the soldiers extra meals, an extra egg per person, and I'll take them out to clean up the monsters in the afternoon, and they'll show their worth."
The territory's manpower was scarce, Feld didn't dare to take everyone away, otherwise it would be bad if the base was blown up.