The Immaculate One, who had been chosen as general, pounded his chest expressionlessly.
"By the way, what's your name?"
"Gray rat".
Hao Yun really wanted to complain, what kind of lousy names are these?
“This name is not good. I will change it for you. I will give you the surname Wang, and as for the given name, let’s call you Wang Shouren.”
The gray rat pounded its chest heavily, and its expression changed slightly.
"Thank you, Lord, for bestowing this name upon me."
"You'll be leading the troops on patrol later. If you encounter robbers or troublemakers, kill them! If they rape women, kill them! If they disobey orders and return home, kill them!"
After issuing three kill orders in succession, Hao Yun signaled that the Unsullied army could go on patrol.
The army dispersed to patrol the city. Hao Yun took out a miniature crystal palace from his pocket and threw it onto an open ground.
Rumble!
The miniature crystal palace grew larger, and to Daenerys' astonishment, it transformed into a habitable palace.
"Go in."
Hao Yun was the first to enter the palace, which he had created in the Shushan Legend World.
He was drunk at the time and all he could think about was building a Crystal Palace to collect beautiful women. Now, when he thinks about it, Hao Yun feels incredibly ashamed.
Hao Yunhui chose this location to place the palace entirely because it is the highest point in the city, from which one can overlook everything within the city.
With the city successfully captured, many things awaited Hao Yun. The first was how to settle the freed slaves.
The number of slaves was enormous; Hao had observed it with his divine sense, and it was at least 500,000.
Settling these people in was a major problem; just providing them with food, drink, and basic necessities was enough to give Hao Yun a headache.
After frowning and thinking for a while, Hao Yun decided to cultivate wasteland outside the city and have some of the slaves farm the land to supplement the city's food consumption.
As for the remaining slaves, Hao Yun also arranged work for them, which was to build houses.
The houses in Slave Bay were built in a mess, which made Hao Yun, who had obsessive-compulsive disorder, very uncomfortable.
Since most of the houses in the city are dilapidated anyway, why not renovate them ourselves and plan the city roads while we're at it?
Hao Yun drew a city map and marked the areas that needed to be renovated.
Standing behind Hao Yun, Daenerys stared intently at his serious face, momentarily lost in thought.
Chapter 149 Settling the Slaves
The Immaculate Ones, who were patrolling the streets of Dragon City, suddenly heard a shrill scream coming from a house not far away.
"Damn it! Quiet down, or I'll kill you!"
The speaker was a ragged slave who had sneaked out during the city's chaos, carrying a sharp knife and robbing people of their belongings.
This was the third house he had robbed. The previous two houses had cooperated by handing over a considerable amount of gold and silver coins.
It was these two successes that emboldened the slave, and he evaded the patrolling Unsullied, setting his sights on a third household.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he broke into the house, he was met with fierce resistance. The woman he was holding down had already lost her husband to slaves.
Having killed someone, the slave completely let loose, and now he was preparing to rape the beautiful young woman beneath him.
Thump!
The tightly closed door was kicked open, and two Unsullied Ones burst into the room.
"Help! He killed my husband!"
The woman beneath the slave struggled desperately, while crying out for help to the Unsullied.
"Hey! We're all slaves. Just pretend you didn't see what happened today. Here, take this."
The slave tossed the money pouch from his waist with a relaxed smile. He refused to believe that the Immaculate Eunuchs would make things difficult for him, a fellow slave.
The woman grew desperate, looking at the expressionless Immaculate One, and completely gave up calling for help.
"By order of the city lord, those who plunder others' property shall be killed! Those who rape women shall be killed!"
Two Unsullied Ones knocked the slave to the ground and dragged him away.
The centurion leading the squad shouted as he watched the slaves being brought out.
"The city lord orders: Anyone who plunders another's property shall be killed! Anyone who rapes a woman shall be killed! Anyone who refuses to return home shall be killed!"
The civilians in the surrounding houses were all peering out of their windows, terrified by the huge changes happening in the city.
"He's dead."
The centurion waved his hand, and an Unsullied stepped forward and slit the slave's neck with a single stroke.
The bodies were dumped into the stinking ditch, and the Unsullied army continued its patrols.
The Unsullied who were on patrol that night killed countless people. Most of those killed were slaves, and only a small number were thugs who wanted to take advantage of the chaos.
The next morning, General Wugou, who had been given the name Wang Shouren, came to the small square to report.
When he saw the Crystal Palace, he was so shocked that he couldn't speak for a long time. At that moment, he truly believed that Hao Yun was a god.
"My lord, Wang Shouren has come to report."
The loud shouts outside the palace made Hao Yun, who was reforming the laws, look up.
"Come in."
Wang Shouren strode into the palace and knelt on one knee in front of Hao Yun.
"You don't need to kneel when you see me from now on. How did things go last night?"
When Hao Yun asked him about it, Wang Shouren told him everything that had happened the night before.
"Hmph! Just as I expected, go and gather the slaves here. I have something to announce."
"yes."
Wang Shouren strode out of the palace and, following Hao Yun's instructions, led the Immaculate Ones to gather all the slaves in front of the palace.
The slaves who were driven here were terrified, as they already knew what had happened the night before.
After this happened, the slaves were very worried that Hao Yun would execute them all.
Amidst the panic of the crowd, Hao Yun rode the moonlight and emerged from the crystal palace.
Looking down at the slaves below, Hao Yun remained calm and composed.
"You must already know what happened last night. Don't worry, I won't punish you, since the perpetrators have already been brought to justice."
As soon as Hao Yun spoke, all the slaves breathed a sigh of relief.
"I have called you here to make arrangements for your future lives. There are large tracts of farmland outside the city, and I will allocate them to you."
Instantly, a heated discussion erupted among the slaves. They never expected that the person who had rescued them would share land with them.
"Really? We have land now?"
“He is the true God who saves us, how could he deceive us?”
The person who raised the question was immediately ostracized by those around them.
"Quiet!"
The discussion subsided, and Hao Yun rubbed his temples. Settling so many people was no easy task.
"Those who have skills, those who have learned craftsmanship, please raise your hands. The city needs to be rebuilt, and you need a place to live. Everyone with a skill can sign up."
"Those who join will receive three loaves of bread and ten copper coins as a daily wage."
Among the slaves, countless hands were raised. Of the more than 500,000 slaves, quite a few were skilled, numbering at least tens of thousands.
Seeing that the slaves were about to riot, Hao Yun used magic to amplify his voice.
"Quiet!"
This roar was like a thunderclap, instantly silencing the rioting slaves.
"Everyone line up. There are signs below, and someone will register you."
The slaves, who had been ordered around by others for years, cooperated with Hao Yun's words and all obediently lined up.
The remaining slaves who lacked skills were getting anxious; what should they do?
"The rest of you also need to register. Those who register can receive a bag of coarse rice. Starting tomorrow, someone will notify you to go to work. Those who go to work will receive a salary of five copper coins."
After settling the slaves in a simple manner, Hao Yun's next task was to appease the common people in the city and select managers from among them to lead the slaves to work, in order to prevent any trouble from arising.
Hao Yun would also promote those slaves who performed well and bring them into the management team.
As for the Unsullied, they were responsible for city management and enforcing the laws promulgated by Hao Yun.
Hao Yun also integrated the people who originally served as slave owners' guards into a reserve force, and selected the elites to form a new army.
As for those who caused trouble, Hao Yun didn't ask any questions and killed them directly. He didn't have time to slowly reform them.
Under Hao Yun's coordination and management, a group of grassroots managers were finally selected from among the common people.
Hao Yun also arranged jobs for the merchants in the city, which was to go to other cities to buy grain.
The city's grain reserves can only support the city's consumption for three months at most. The next batch of grain will take at least six months to mature. During the gap, Hao Yun will need to purchase grain from other cities.
Merchants are profit-driven, so since Hao Yun was providing the money, they naturally agreed. As for the unrest in the city, it had nothing to do with them, since it wasn't their interests that were being harmed.
In one day, Hao Yun finally managed to set up a makeshift team, and the city began to function again.
At first, the common people were worried that this divine city lord might be very cruel, after all, he had killed many people on his first day here.
As it turns out, the city's security is much better than before.
Commoners also opened their doors to do business, and slaves, having the means to survive, worked even harder.