Chapter 665: Carrying a Sharp Weapon, the Desire to Kill Arises on Its Own

After training ended in the afternoon, the Ministry of Revenue transported more grain to the Slave Battalion camp. This time, they brought sacks filled with oil dregs directly. The tents that had not been punished happily took their grain jars to collect the food, while the punished tents could only watch with longing. Furthermore, they were forced to stand outside their tents and watch, watching others carry their refilled grain jars back into their tents.

It was not until the grain distribution was finished that they were allowed to return to their tents to rest, which dealt them a certain blow both physically and mentally.

Early the next morning, the slaves, who had not eaten for a whole day, felt very uncomfortable in their stomachs and felt a bit sour and weak. However, they were still able to endure it; after all, starvation was the norm for them, and they were fully capable of handling the pressure mentally.

After waiting for them to wash up, the instructors did not have them perform their usual training, but instead had them line up. All the men were divided into one Large Team and stood together waiting for orders, while the women were divided into another team.

Yinyang, who had already discovered that the Huaxia Soldiers would not do anything to the women, now felt at ease letting Cangyun go to the women's team. The Huaxia Soldiers were relatively approving of these two people who possessed love, and there was no shortage of food for the two of them, which showed they were quite obedient, leaving the soldiers with a better impression.

As for Baifeng, he also learned about these two people. He was also surprised; could there actually be love among savages? But upon reflection, although the probability was low, it was not impossible, right? Plus, that Yinyang, according to the report, was someone with a relatively high status in the Yanhu Tribe. Regardless of whether that woman admired strength or was forced, there was still a bit of love to speak of between the two of them, so Baifeng did not interfere and let the soldiers handle it themselves.

The slaves were all confused about what they were going to do today, and looking at their instructors, they were also wearing their full sets of Weaponry today, and there even appeared, for the first time in a long while, soldiers wearing Iron Armor. After this period of learning, they also knew that this special metal of Huaxia was called Iron.

Not only that, they also saw several strange-looking wooden frames placed on the open ground not far away, and they did not know what they were for; the construction was very strange.

At this time, the Company Commander, who was their chief instructor, walked over to call out to them.

"You have also felt that the weather has been getting colder these past two days. You are wearing very little, and it is not comfortable, right? The firewood given to you is not much left either. To ensure that you have firewood to cook and keep warm later, today, you must do the work yourselves and chop firewood for yourselves."

"It won't be long before a batch of logs drifts over from the river. We Huaxia people will fish the logs out of the Dahe, and then you men need to do is to carry the logs from where they are fished out to here, to that open ground."

The Company Commander pointed to the open ground where the strange wooden things were installed; that was the place prepared for them to stack firewood. As for the strange wooden things set up, they were Bed Crossbows. Because they needed to chop wood, they had to issue axes and saws to the slaves. Saws could hardly be made into weapons, but an axe was a Weapon in itself, and it was an Iron Axe of very good quality.

In the past, these slaves dared not resist because they knew they had no ability, no strength, their bodies were too poor, and most importantly, they had no Weaponry.

After the slaves moved into the camp, their personal belongings were searched, and all Weaponry was confiscated and processed. Although most of them were just small things like stone blades that wouldn't count as Weaponry in Huaxia and could only be called sharp stones or stone flakes, these things could still kill people. To avoid accidents, everything was confiscated.

As for their personal ornaments, such as strung-together stones or bones, they were ignored. Huaxia had no use for these things. If they were forcibly confiscated, it might cause dissatisfaction among the slaves; no one could say whether those ornaments had any special meaning to them. Only the larger ones that would affect the slaves' work and training were required to be taken off and kept in their tents; they were not allowed to be worn normally, but they were not confiscated.

Slaves without Weaponry were certainly very well-behaved. After all, the Huaxia Soldiers would show the slaves Huaxia's Weaponry and combat power at certain times. A single Knife could cut through a log as thick as a wrist, and cutting off their heads would be effortless. There were also long-range Weaponry kills, all of which gave the slaves enough deterrence. The soldiers did this to tell them: do not think about resisting; resistance means death. Before you even run over, we will kill you from a distance.

But today was different. A huge number, several thousand axes, were to be distributed. Huaxia was not short of axes or tools. Ordinary families had at least one axe, and they had other Weaponry as well. After all, in this era, Weaponry was more important than grain. They would rather go without grain than be without a sufficiently good piece of Weaponry.

Carrying a sharp Weapon, the desire to kill arises on its own. With a handy Weapon in hand, there was no guarantee the slaves wouldn't have crooked thoughts. Plus, there were far fewer soldiers stationed here than there were slaves; with over ten thousand slaves, according to the plan, three thousand axes were to be distributed.

Among the slaves, those who did not steal food did not have to participate in today's labor and only needed to clean the camp. Later, they would be allowed to step out separately and stay behind to guard the camp, which was considered a reward for them.

The women would stay here waiting for the tools to be transported over. They needed to saw the whole logs into pieces and then hand them over to the men holding the axes to break them open and chop them into firewood that could be burned.

What they needed to guard against were the men who received the axes. To avoid them colluding and connecting, they chose an extremely open piece of land nearby, so that the men, apart from the few people they were cooperating with, would find it difficult to plot with others.

At the same time, fully armed soldiers would patrol everywhere, and the Bed Crossbows would be aimed at the work site. As long as there was any suspicious situation, they could directly carry out an attack.

On the side of the Ministry of War, over a thousand soldiers were also transferred to support. This time, the formation was very large, but this was also a necessary thing to do. Huaxia did not have that much labor force to chop firewood for the slaves. If the Company Commander dared to report up that the slave camp needed so much firewood, the Ministry of Revenue would probably chop him up like firewood. With so many slaves, not using the ready-made labor force and instead torturing Huaxia people was not something a normal person should do.

The axes also had to be given; they could not let the slaves chop wood with their bare hands. Huaxia had Stone Axes, but the quantity was negligible. Even if there were enough, there was no need; there was no difference between giving Stone Axes and Iron Axes, and the work efficiency of Iron Axes could be a little higher.