Chapter 122 Awakening Advanced Rex
Wagner wisely gave up joining the battle, stopped the villagers who were eager to try, and stood aside and watched the undead perform.
The outcome of the battle was not at all unexpected. A total of more than two to three hundred men were dragged to exhaustion by the infinitely resurrected Undead army. When the Undead broke through the defense line and rushed into the chariot and horse camp, these Sokri people did not even have the strength to commit suicide and surrendered one after another.
As Wagner and more than 20 soldiers watched with sympathy and trembling, the captured Sokri people were stripped of all the equipment and valuables on their bodies by the undead...
The worst-off was the caravan boss who was hiding in a box carriage and was finally dragged out by the undead. All the rings on this guy's ten fingers were stripped off, and he was almost forced to have his gold teeth knocked out by two undead... He was stopped by other undead.
Amidst the wailing in the wild...the undead abandoned more than 200 Sokri captives who thought they were about to be killed, and happily left the messy carriage and horse camp, carrying a large amount of equipment and property on their backs, and returned to the open space on the other side of the cornfield in unison.
The captives who were tied up and thrown to the ground were at a loss. The villagers who had been watching the excitement for a long time didn't know what was going on. The more than 20 soldiers were also confused.
Only Wagner remained expressionless.
The whistling evening wind brought the voices of the dead, and the chirping sounds went straight into Wagner's ears:
"An excellent leather armor. No special effects but high defense. Beautiful appearance. With straps on both sides. Even undead can wear it. Starting price: 30 copper coins. Bid if you want!"
"A blank longbow with explosive attributes! Its attack power is even better than the long sword that Hal used to chop us! Are there any brothers who want to switch to ranger who like it? The starting price is 20 copper coins!"
"Twenty pieces of secondary gold items that can be taken to Old Yang to exchange for reputation. Brothers and sisters who need reputation, hurry up!"
"Boss, can I take the long sword that the little boss dropped just now? I'll take it quickly so I can log off and eat. I haven't had lunch yet!"
"Okay, okay, come on, everyone, use your identification skills and take a look. This is the most awesome long sword that dropped today..."
"Big Brothers, please keep your price down. Thank you! We don't have many copper coins now, so there's no need to kill each other~"
Wagner took off the azalea badge for the Nth time and put it in his pocket.
Can't think about it! Can't think too deeply about the words and deeds of these bastard undead!
Out of control warning!
Wagner took a deep breath, called the village chief over, and asked the villagers and soldiers to clean up the battlefield together.
He actually didn't quite understand why the undead were so interested in people's belongings, but turned a blind eye to the treasures that filled more than 20 giant carriages... But who cares? He wouldn't remind those guys.
The cleaning lasted until dawn.
The noisy undead in the cornfield had gone somewhere unknown, and Wagner was in no mood to pay attention to them. Seeing that the spices scattered during the battle had been almost packed up and the captives had been tied up with lassoes, he called the village chief Sharp and returned the cloth that the Sokre people had stolen to them. He also used the remaining copper and silver coins on the captives to pay for their conscription.
"Thank you so much, Sir Knight." Village Chief Sharp held the coins with trembling hands.
"Don't be so quick to thank me. I will continue to recruit you." Wagner pointed to the pile of more than 20 huge carriages on the carriageway, "These are the spoils of war of the Lord. I need your help to deliver these spoils to the town safely."
"Okay, okay." Village chief Sharp agreed repeatedly and immediately went to greet the young and strong people in the village.
It was impossible for the villagers to refuse such a good thing as getting paid for working. Dozens of young and strong men from the countryside who had been busy all night immediately ran over in high spirits.
Wagner glanced at the villagers, most of whom had only a rag around their waists, and imagined what it would be like to lead such a group of people to escort the spoils/prisoners of war into the town... He sighed and signaled the soldiers to search the prisoners of war again, taking off their outer clothes and trousers and giving them to the villagers.
The Socri people who were unlucky enough to have their clothes stripped off were so angry that they cursed the Rhine people for being shameless and disrespectful. Wagner said nothing, but just ordered people to block the mouths of those guys who still had the energy to shout and curse.
The undead had done worse things before, he was just stealing a few pieces of clothing, he had no psychological burden at all...
Friday, November 8th, 8pm Earth time, 3pm in the other world.
On Westham Town Avenue, a clerk trotted into a construction site under construction and shouted at the top of his voice: "Is Sibel here? Sibel?"
"Yes, yes." Xibel, who was in charge of the construction site, quickly adjusted his sun hat with dustproof gauze tied on it and walked out from behind the sand pile: "What's the matter?"
"Mr. Rex, please go to the town hall. Let me help you look after the construction site first." said the clerk.
"Okay, I'll go right away." Sibel took off his sun hat, dusted it off and handed it to his colleague, "This is for you."
When Xibel hurried to the meeting room on the first floor of the town hall, in addition to the undead mayor Ji Tang, who they had already accurately identified, Mr. Rex, Ms. Shirley and Ben were also there.
Sibel wanted to salute, but Rex stopped her: "Please take a seat, Ms. Sibel, sit down and talk."
Xibel found that everyone was looking at her, as if they were waiting for her to come. She felt a little embarrassed , so she bowed apologetically and then sat down carefully.
"Don't be nervous, Ms. Sibel." Ji Tang said with a smile, "This is what happened. Rex and I hope to open a literacy school in the town. I heard that you used to be a cultural teacher in a monastery. You have also shown good management skills in the organizational work during this period, so I hope you can serve as the principal of this literacy school."
Ms. Hibel simply slid off her chair.
Ben quickly stood up to help, but Sibel awkwardly waved his hands repeatedly to indicate that he didn't need it, and struggled to get up: "No, no, Mayor Jitang, Mr. Rex, how can I, how can I be the principal?!"
"Don't rush to refuse, Ms. Sibel, please listen to Mayor Jitang's opinion first." Rex said kindly, "If you still think it's not feasible after listening, then we can consider other solutions."
Xibel wanted to say something but stopped herself. After all, she was not a willful person, so she just nodded nervously.
"This literacy school is for the long-term future of this town." Ji Tang nodded to Rex and patiently said to Xibel, "I believe you have also noticed in the process of organizing the reconstruction of the town's main road that in the past ten days, there has been a more obvious return of young people to the working population in the town. In our daily temporary worker roster this week, the number of people aged 16 to 25 has increased by 20% compared to the previous week."
"Uh... yes." Xibel swallowed his saliva. "In the past few days, there are five young people who came back from Innadri City at the construction site I am responsible for. They are two girls and three boys."
Ji Tang nodded to show his approval of Xibel's carefulness and said, "The reconstruction of the main road in the town will be completed in half a month to twenty days at most. By then, these young people who returned because they trusted our Westham Town Hall will face unemployment crisis. In order to avoid this problem, we need to provide these young people with sufficient jobs and ensure that their lives will not be affected."
"Yes, Mr. Mayor." Sibel nodded in agreement.
In fact, she was secretly worried about this problem... She used to work in a dishonorable industry, but now she was respected and revered by the townspeople. She knew very well why - she could organize the townspeople to work for the town hall and get paid. This was the reason why she was respected, not because of how charming she was.
"The townspeople need jobs, and the town needs to develop local industries. This is a common need of our town hall and the townspeople." Ji Tang continued, "According to my and Rex's plan, combined with Westram's existing conditions, we need to develop light industries related to agricultural product processing locally, and we need a large number of industry-related workers. Before that, we need to provide on-the-job training for the townspeople. The most important point is that our workers cannot be illiterate."
Developing light industries related to food processing is the best solution proposed by Chinese experts on the Earth plane after comprehensively considering the resource issues of Tarantan and Westram.
The reason for not considering heavy industry is very simple. Tarantan's basic foundation is too weak. Even if China is willing to provide financial support, it cannot afford it - the total population is just over 20,000, and there are almost no qualified industrial workers. And this is still aimed at heavy industry, unless all the experts in the expert group have bad intentions and are waiting for Lord Yang to ruin them.
Sibel had received education in a monastery and knew what industry and business were. He knew that many factories only needed educated workers - illiterate people could only work in workshops, and even if they were lucky enough to squeeze into a factory, they would not be able to make it.
Seeing Xibel nodded, Ji Tang continued, "There is only one private classroom in town that charges a little more. Rex visited the teacher, and he is only willing to enroll up to 30 students. The tuition fee for each student cannot be less than 50 copper coins per week, and the teaching content is mainly poetry and hymns, which does not meet our needs."
"We need to teach the workers to recognize at least 500 commonly used characters and do simple arithmetic as soon as possible, but our pragmatic demands are considered by the teacher to be a blasphemy against knowledge. Since we can't come to an agreement, we can only do it ourselves."
After a pause, Ji Tang said solemnly: "Helping the townspeople who need employment to become illiterate and master work skills as soon as possible is a very important and urgent task for us. We believe that Ms. Sibel is qualified to take on this task. Are you willing to take on this important task for our town hall and for those in need of work in the town?"
Rex and Ms. Shirley also turned their expectant eyes to Sibel.
It is difficult to describe Xibel's feelings in words...
There is no one who doesn't want to be needed and recognized by others.
Indeed, Sibel had lived a miserable and humiliating life, in which her personal dignity was trampled into the mud, but she never gave up struggling even in the most desperate moments... She still wanted to live, and wanted to live like a human being, even if she was as humble as dust.
When Rex asked them if they were willing to change their lives, Sibel was the first to take the first step.
After wavering for a moment between the fear of not being able to do well, disappointing Mr. Rex and Mayor Jitang, and disappointing everyone's trust, and the excitement and joy of being trusted and needed, Xibel gritted his teeth, made up his mind and nodded: "I, I do!"
Ji Tang immediately took Xibel to see the literacy school site, and Ms. Shirley, who volunteered to help Xibel, also followed.
Ben watched all this in silence. After the two ladies and Ji Tang left, he finally couldn't help but ask Rex the question that had been in his heart for a long time: "I don't understand, Mr. Rex, why do you and Mayor Ji Tang insist that the principal of this school must be a woman?"
"Because we need male workers as well as female workers." Rex was not surprised that the class had such doubts. In fact, when Ji Tang proposed to run a school, he also fell into this thinking error, "In order to make women feel at ease to study, the principal should be a woman."
Ben's mouth dropped open in surprise.
Schools in this world do not deliberately divide into boys' and girls' schools, but women from the lower classes basically have no chance of entering school, and female students who are able to enroll must at least come from middle-class families.
"Why do you insist on recruiting female workers? As far as I know, the factory doesn't need female workers except for weaving and bedding." Ban said even more confused.
Rex's reaction after hearing Ben's words was strange... He actually smiled wryly and shook his head, as if he was embarrassed and ashamed.
"I used to have the same idea as you before I was taught a lesson by Ji Tang and Ms. Zhao." Rex said awkwardly, "Women can work in shops, restaurants, and malls. Older women can do cleaning and other jobs. Men can do things that require operating machinery."
"…Is there something wrong with this?" Ben asked in confusion.
" Yes, that's wrong." Rex turned his head and sighed to Ben, "If we think that women don't need to do more valuable and profitable work, just because they are inferior to men in every way in our eyes... then we are willing to accept and firmly defend the bullshit logic that those with nobler bloodlines are born to ride on the heads of people like us with less noble bloodlines, because our bloodlines are inferior to theirs in the eyes of everyone."
This sentence was a bit confusing, and Ben pondered for a while before he understood the meaning of it... Then, his face, which looked very ferocious, became quite funny - just like a clown with exaggerated scary makeup.
"The person with the noblest bloodline in Westram is the fat guy imprisoned in the militia. He is the nephew of Count Odysseus. His bloodline is much higher than people like us." Rex shrugged and spread his hands, saying, "Ben, if someone forced you to admit that you are more useless than that fat guy, would you accept it?"
Ben was silent for a moment, shaking his head stiffly.
In the past, maybe.
But now... Every day he works with Mia to prepare meals for the thousands of prisoners in the militia, and he has seen the ugly appearance of this fat man countless times... He thinks that any child from a better-educated family in the town is better than this fat pig.
Ban was from the lower class and had never had any serious contact with aristocrats in his life. After accepting this logic, he didn't feel anything was wrong.
Rex has noble blood, but he is not qualified to rely on the nobles - he is just an illegitimate child who does not receive any family resources.
The comrades from the national team opened the door to the new world for Rex, and he even took the initiative to go in...
"Ji Tang said that Westham belongs to our territory. We don't need to follow the rules that are common outside."
Rex concluded in a relaxed manner: "People outside think that people with glorious surnames are truly noble, but we all know that the glory of our ancestors cannot prove the strength of our descendants. There are not many jobs outsiders can compete for. Screening out women and prioritizing the income sources of men can ensure the city's public security to the greatest extent. We don't need to worry about this, and of course there is no need to send women who can work back home."
Ben nodded repeatedly after hearing this. That's right. There are hardly any drunks causing trouble in the town now.
