Chapter 33: Progress by leaps and bounds

Zhang Ziqiang understood that slaves are actually slaves in their country. They can get salary, have the right to redeem themselves, and can get married. They are generally called servants, while slaves do not have these services, and hired workers are relatively advanced workers. This is a semi-slave and semi-feudal society! Thinking of this, he asked again: "Where are slaves sold? How much does it cost? What does marriage mean by the owner's designation? Could it be that it is possible to make a random match?"

"For example, civilians who have not reached the sixth level of Qi Refining Period after graduation, or who have not reached the foundation-building period at the age of thirty cannot afford to buy gold coins for their families. In order to survive or to escape military service, they will sell themselves as servants. The law stipulates that slaves do not need to serve in the military service without the foundation-building period. It is actually not very useful to go to the battlefield until they reach the foundation-building period. However, if some of the slaves break through the foundation-building period, they also have to serve in the military service. In order to ensure the stability of the front-line soldiers, the salary given to the soldiers is generally very high. They buy slaves to work at home to avoid worries. Most of the military salary of the slaves is obtained by the master. However, in recent years, some civilians in the Qi Refining Period have been recruited in the army, but the number of people is very small."

"On average, when a noble family buys slaves, they buy younger ones. When they are trained from childhood, their loyalty to their families will naturally be higher. When they are truly trained to serve the foundation-building slaves, whether they are sent to serve the military or to work, the income of the master's family is much higher than that of several servants in the Qi Refining period. It is difficult for the slaves to save enough money to redeem themselves! After a woman graduated from the college at the age of sixteen, although she does not have to serve the military, some families are actually too burdened to support them. Besides, even if the family can support them, they will have to get married after they are twenty years old. Common families are unwilling to spend money to go to higher-level colleges to let their daughter continue to study. Therefore, those with better family conditions go home and work while waiting to marry, and almost sell themselves as servants. Our Xiao Cui and the others bought it when they first arrived in the capital three years ago."

Amilia spoke dryly, took a sip of the tea, and then said, "Although the slaves are not like slaves, they belong to the master's family, but their skills are not guaranteed. In addition, there is a ten-fold price to redeem themselves, so no one has bought them when they are cheap. The current market price is about seventy gold coins. The maid is a servant at the age of sixteen and will get married when she is twenty. Where can there be seven hundred gold coins for her redeem herself? The master can only be responsible for it. If she is well born and can give it to the master's direct children, it is considered lucky. If she is not good, she will directly point it to her.

If the master's servant directly marry the maid of his family, the master will not have to spend additional money. If a commoner woman is willing to marry, the master will have to pay half of the dowry. The married woman is also considered a slave status, and the children born are considered civilian status. They are raised from the master's family until they are sixteen years old. Generally, they have grown up in the master's family since childhood. After the master's age, as long as the master's family is willing, they will sell themselves as servants. Unless those who are talented and who go to the tenth level of Qi refining or build foundation at the 16th hour will leave the master's family to make a living. There are many such people in the army."

"Slaves are divided into men and women. The male slaves' dantian is completely sealed by masters in the Jindan stage. Their strength is equivalent to the third and fourth levels of the Qi Refining Period, so they cannot be sold at a high price. The current market is under the age of fifty, forty gold coins, and the cheapest twenty gold coins over the age of fifty can be bought. In order to encourage childbirth, there are no female slaves. All the civilian women captured from the Qianfeng Dynasty are sold as maids, but they are just sealed off their skills."

After this understanding, Zhang Ziqiang had the plan to develop his own power. First, he could make himself live as safe and comfortable as possible, and second, he could also give Amilia a guarantee. Although the price of slaves is cheap, he is a hostile country. Not to mention the issue of safety or not, even if he does things, he cannot motivate himself. Hiring workers is too unstable. The so-called skill is not very useful in Zhang Ziqiang's opinion. He has too many secrets and ways to make money, and the hired workers cannot keep it completely confidential. It seems that the only option is a slave. If he is qualified, he can train him to protect the house. If he is less qualified, he will be responsible for some of his own exclusive businesses.

After he made up his mind, he asked Amilia, "I think we have to make plans early and vigorously strengthen our strength. At least we have to have the ability to protect ourselves. We can't do this like now. I don't dare to go out. I just come home alone, but we are helpless! Do you have any good ideas?"

Amilia knew that Zhang Ziqiang had this meaning when he asked about slaves and others, so she didn't find it strange. After thinking about it, she said: "There are all slightly stronger families in the kingdom that have been formed after thousands of years of development. To form a large family, first of all, you must have your own core force, at least with mysterious martial arts. Secondly, you must have a fixed source of income to withstand consumption. Now we have martial arts, but you don't have direct relatives here, it's not easy to find people who learn martial arts, and it's also a problem."

"Don't worry about income, I will find a way to solve it. My idea is to only choose slaves, choose some loyal ones, and teach them Tai Chi skills. Do you think this is OK?"

"It is difficult to guarantee their loyalty in this way, but judging from our current situation, we have to do so. Even if we directly hire experts to protect us, it is still difficult to guarantee that there will be self-stealing under the attraction of martial arts. Cultivating them from slaves will not attract others' attention." Amilia said distressedly.

"Since you have the same view, after finishing the practice box, buy two hundred slaves and come back. Well, there are 100 men and women." Zhang Ziqiang said with a decisive statement.

"Okay, you don't have to worry about this. Dover and I will handle it well. You should hurry up and practice it." After Amilia was slightly stunned, she lowered her eyebrows and persuaded her.

When Zhang Ziqiang bought 100 maids, he thought that these male servants would become their guardians. If they helped them get married in the future, their loyalty would definitely increase. This is actually a small way of management of some companies in the world. When there are fewer companies, giving more care to employees can greatly increase the cohesion of the company. But Amilia thought it was a mistake... Amilia thought that Zhang Ziqiang was to quickly increase the number of direct offspring, which was actually a common method to improve the strength of the family. She did not object to choosing some maids to give birth to more offspring for Zhang Ziqiang. These maids without background have no effect on her status. Those who can give birth to one son and half daughter may have a status. If they cannot give birth, they will not have a status. What should she have to worry about? She was just afraid that Zhang Ziqiang was eager for quick success and instant benefits, so she reminded him that her own strength was the foundation.

Since then, Amilia has been busy dealing with business during the day, while Zhang Ziqiang practiced Tai Chi with Kailin. When Zhang Ziqiang was refining Qi at night, Amilia took Kailin to sit next to practice together. After the first refining Qi, Zhang Ziqiang established a vague connection with the ring. He can control the ring to slow down the gathering speed of the spiritual energy before refining Qi and hide the white mist. After all, there are only three people who absorb the spiritual energy, and the amount is still very small. The ring is the first.

When he absorbs spiritual energy, the internal formation may also be full, so as long as he extends the time for forming high-density spiritual energy around his body, the flow of spiritual energy in the manor will be very weak. Because the spiritual energy in the world is strong and weak, and the spiritual energy is like a breeze, and it has been flowing. Now it is just that the breeze has changed direction. Unless the careful Jindan master deliberately observes it, you may find that ordinary people cannot detect abnormalities.

Therefore, although Kailin found that the closer to Zhang Ziqiang, the thicker the spiritual energy, the faster the qi refining speed, she didn't know why, and thought it was Zhang Ziqiang's ability. Originally, she only opened six major acupoints, and reached the eighth level of Qi refining, and the speed of absorbing spiritual energy was a little slow. After practicing alone in one day, it took about fourteen hours to use all the energy, and it was just three cycles. She originally planned to use one or two more acupoints during the holiday month, and control the daily qi refining time to less than eight hours, and use all the energy refining energy.

When you are in power, you can do four cycles - this is also a common requirement of the eighth level. Unexpectedly, sitting next to Zhang Ziqiang, the acupoints that have been opened are not only sufficient, but only four hours of refining Qi is needed, and it can also be completed for seven to eight cycles! This greatly increases the time to recover energy and practice martial arts every day. What she didn't know is that Zhang Ziqiang is the core of spiritual energy gathering, and spiritual energy also puts the greatest pressure on Zhang Ziqiang. While sucking spiritual energy, it can even restore part of its energy. The circulation of warming the dantian every day can be maintained at more than twelve times!

Amilia practiced similarly to Kalyn. Kalyn's month-long vacation passed quickly. Amilia arranged for Dovers to go to school to take a long vacation for Kalyn, and then practiced like this day after day. After three months, Amilia actually broke through the eighth floor of the Qi Refining Period and entered the ninth floor, and Kalyn also reached the peak of the eighth floor. Zhang Ziqiang made rapid progress. In the first month, he even broke through two levels and rushed to the sixth floor. After passing the sixth floor, the difficulty of each floor will double. Therefore, after working hard in the next two months, he also broke through one floor and entered the seventh floor. This speed surprised Amilia and Kalyn. You must know that even a genius with extremely high qualifications would take one and a half years to reach the seventh floor, but Zhang Ziqiang arrived in three months. It was six times faster!

Fortunately, Amilia knew the reason. Although she didn't expect it to be so soon, she also knew that this matter could not be said. It was not a question of trust or not. The fewer people knew about this kind of thing, the safer it was. Karin thought that Zhang Ziqiang was a master in the past, but he had lost his cultivation and practiced again due to injury or other reasons, so this situation occurred, so she accepted it happily.
Chapter completed!