Slavery is a serious obstacle to productivity.

Without releasing slaves, there is no way to liberate enough working people. The future development of Modo City requires a large number of civilians, rather than a worthless slave class that can only sell coolie.

Sauron's "Abolition of Slaughter" seemed to be throwing a bombshell at the material plane, and even the City of Glory was shocked. Because even the Lord of Glory, who was orderly and kind, rejected slavery, but the church never proposed this idea.

even!

Some paladins will also take the initiative to maintain slavery.

Sauron didn't care about the external reactions at all. He immediately started the third census in Modo City after promulgating the Abolition Act.

All slaves were liberated into the lower class of poor people, and they would register in the demographics of Modo City, and from now on they would gain personal freedom and property freedom. However, as slaves, they had almost no wealth themselves, so the next arrangement of the Modo City Hall was to allocate land to them.

Every inch of land in Modo City is very precious!

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to give these slaves to these lands for free, which is unfair to all meritorious classes.

The city of Modo has reclaimed a large amount of land near twelve large towns, which belong to the property of the city of Modo. Now they are rented to all slaves, and the city hall of Modo is uniformly allocated to the slaves, farming equipment and daily necessities.

But that's all.

Too many gifts can easily lead to negative effects, and Sauron will only give them the opportunity to rely on their efforts to strive for the future.

All housing belongs to the wealth of Modo City. The slaves released only had the most basic residential areas, and all the cultivation tools also belong to Modo City. They only had the basic right to use them.

The slaves were still penniless.

However, they can rely on themselves to earn wealth accumulation. The land allocated in Modo City only charges about 30% of the tenant money, which means that 70% of the income from farming in a year can be used as the property of these tenants themselves.

Of course Sauron would not let slaves be free.

Freedom is just relative!

Sauron had already arranged their destiny, and they had no choice but to act according to Sauron's orders.

Because Sauron is a god who is in the orderly evil camp.

Slaves became tenants, and they had the right to cultivate land alone and gained the foundation for accumulating wealth. At the same time, they also began to provide taxes for Modo City and solved the problem of the current lack of a large number of civilian working population in Modo City.

Under slavery, they had almost no freedom of life or property rights, and their labor relied more on whips to whip them.

Now that they have property rights, the income obtained from farming will be their private property, which greatly stimulates their enthusiasm. At the same time, Modo City has opened a more preferential policy to them compared to outsiders. Free slaves can use about one-third of the wealth of the outside world to purchase ownership of their residence and convert the land into private property. All of these properties have the land deeds of Modo City, and are recognized by the city hall, which is equivalent to truly gaining a foothold in Modo City. Sauron's promise has long been tested by time, so there is no need for any doubt.

The third census was very fast.

The city hall of Modo City has long been accustomed to efficient operation. After the third census, the population counted has reached about 270,000.

It seems that the hidden population of Modo City is really quite large.

The Blacksmith House is stepping up the forging of farming equipment. This time, the arable land in Modo City has nearly doubled. Due to the "Abolition of Slavery Law", Modo City has added about 50,000 farming population, and all twelve towns have been operated at the same time.

The system of deep cultivation is being popularized. Relying on the promotion of fertilizers, the grain output in Modo City is expected to be enough to maintain about 500,000 people.

but.

For Sauron, agriculturalization is just the most basic part, and he needs to do more than that.

Everything he plans at present is just to lay the groundwork for a large-scale farm economy. When farming grows to a certain level, what he needs is to liberate these working people and transfer them to other places at the same time.

The slaves could only squeeze a little bit of strength, and Sauron needed more and more.

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The morning sun shines.

Kovano woke up just after dawn. He looked at the clean bed lying down. Everything was like a dream.

He is a slave.

From the bay of shipwreck, he was bought by a merchant. He used to be a guard, but became a slave because of a noble reason. His life was not easy as a slave. The merchant urged him to work with a whip every day. The other five slaves like him were rarely wrong and beat and scolded. As a slave, he had nothing, and even if his master killed him, he had no responsibility. This situation was not until the promulgation of the Abolition Act. At that time, the merchant wanted to transfer him to the south coast urgently and sell him again for money, but unfortunately he was caught by the guards of Modo City.

He is free.

Everything is like dreaming.

However, freedom is only relative. Kovano soon discovered that the guards did not allow him to leave, but instead placed him and another group of slaves in this place called Qiushui Town.

A row of neat brick and tile houses.

Each of them was placed in a house. The next day, a man dressed in an official came to count them, followed by the allocation of tools. Kovano thought everything was no different from what he had experienced in the past, but soon he realized that it was really different.

No one beats, scolds and urges you, and even if you are blatantly lazy, you will not be punished.

The slave like him had many expressions of confusion, some worked hard, and seemed to be full of hope for the future, while some were idle, as if they didn't know what to do.

This kind of days lasted for three days.

Kovano didn't know how to face the future, so he just did things every day very ordinary. As a civilian, he began to learn how to cultivate land since he was a child. Three days later, the city hall officials appeared again, and they secretly conducted an assessment of everyone. The best-performing slave named Nord was given a plowing ox, which was officially his private property through the town's council hall.

This made many slaves envious.

Because they were once worth nothing compared to a ox, and the man named Nord was filled with surprise.

But.

Soon everything that followed up made others feel uneasy.

Another slave was expelled. Because he was lazy every day, he did not even achieve the most basic cultivation. The officials of the city hall deprived him of everything, housing, utensils, food, and clothes that Modo City gave him. Therefore, everything that Modo City gave him was deprived. The poor man was expelled outside the town only in a thin piece of clothing. The man did not even have the next meal. No matter how much he cried and regretted, he was still thrown out by the guards, completely like he let himself die.

Now everyone felt uneasy.

But, thankfully, the guards only expelled three people, and no one knew their fate, but they knew that the place they originally had, food and clothes were taken away.

At this time.

Others realized how precious everything they have now. They didn't have to worry about being hungry or being frozen, and could live in a clean and tidy house, and fill their stomachs with just working hard every day. Covano began to adapt to this change of fate, and gradually found that he seemed to have become a tenant, because everything he did now was no different from that of a tenant.

but.

In any case, the tenant's status is higher than that of serfs, and even more so than that of slaves.

About a week later.

City Hall officials reappeared, which made many slaves feel uneasy.

They were used to their current days, with a clean residence and a solid house that would no longer be beaten and scolded, and such days were cherished by them. Fortunately, this time the city hall officials did not expel others, they just took away all the children between the ages of seven and twelve, whether slaves or civilians, and Kenvanaugh then heard that there seemed to be an additional school in the town.

And these children are being concentrated in...learning?

Yes.

Soon, they learned that Modo City was educating these children.

This kind of thing sounds a bit incredible, because in other places only the aristocratic and merchant classes will receive formal education.

Covano felt in the dark that the owner of Modo City seemed to be doing something amazing, but he knew too little knowledge and had no idea what Modo City was going to do.

He just feels that the future is full of hope!

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In addition to counting the number, the third census also counts the ages of all residents.

Immediately afterwards, under the operation of the City Hall, all territories of Modo City, including Modo Port, began to establish colleges one after another. The most basic knowledge taught in it, such as arithmetic, literacy, reading and writing. These basic knowledge were completely unified and mandatoryly taught by Modo City to all children of appropriate age.

At the same time, some huge and dense building complexes began to appear in Modo City. These three or four-story buildings were placed in the south, and a large number of working people were transferred to work.

No one knows what Sauron is going to do.

But now Modo City seems to be a startup machine, which is gradually running at high speed!

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Chapter completed!