Chapter 187: Fugitive Slave
Chapter 187 – Escaped Slave
The Purple Blood Vine was also considered a relatively rare plant in the Northern Frontier.
It had been about four years since Richard discovered that the goat-bodied people used the purple blood vine to stop their bleeding.
In the past four years the territory had not only researched the formula of the hemostatic ointment, the efficacy.
Sophia also researched the biological properties of the Wisteria and used the power of magic to successfully catalyze a large number of Wisteria seeds.
Because the Hemostatic Ointment formula research was about to mature, sixty acres of Wisteria was planted on the hillside last year, and this year it was prepared to expand to two hundred acres.
Two hundred acres of purple blood vines with a yield of forty thousand pounds.
Forty thousand pounds of Purple Blood Vine, together with all the royal jelly in the territory, could be made into 80,000 portions of Hemostatic Ointment.
Being able to sell these 80,000 copies of the Hemostatic Ointment was also a considerable amount of income.
Grant Kingdom was a magic desert, and due to the lack of the number of magicians, the healing power in the army was also very insufficient.
When war broke out, only officers could be prioritized for treatment. A lot of veterans died from bleeding and infections.
If the hemostatic ointment didn’t have too many side effects, there shouldn’t be a lack of sales.
Richard could sell the Hemostatic Ointment to the Northern Legion through William’s connections.
Richard clapped his hands and made a decision, accelerating the progress of advancing the human trials of the Hemostatic Ointment.
Some time ago, Adrian took the hospital doctors and had already done a large number of animal tests.
In addition, the hospital used some hemostatic ointment for goat-bodied people and dog-headed people, and the effect was also very good.
But animal testing and human testing is not the same, used in animals without problems, not necessarily used in humans without problems.
We may need to observe hundreds of human patients before we can figure out the side effects.
When he came out from the hospital, Richard met Jennings and greeted the siblings.
Just after leaving the hospital, he only saw Hayden running towards Richard.
“What happened that you chased them to the hospital?”
“The territory has recently been the scene of a major event that needs to be reported to you immediately. In the last two days, the territory has been flooded with a lot of foreigners, all of them are escaped slaves of the nearby lords, how to deal with this matter? Need you to take an idea immediately.”
Since last year, a large number of free people had appeared in the Harland Territory.
Because Richard had set a relatively low field tax, in a year’s time the free folk had already accumulated a certain amount of income, and their standard of living had improved a lot.
Even though Richard had made a decree prohibiting migration, the changes in the territory naturally could not be hidden from the serfs of the neighboring noble collars.
After the Goddess Birthday Festival, a lot of serfs started to escape and flooded into the Harland Territory. In the last two or three days, a massive influx began.
“Are they all escaped slaves from which lord?”
“The most numerous is the Barony of Dilam, in the last two days there have been over three hundred escaped slaves from the Barony of Dilam.”
“The Dillam family hasn’t elected a new baron yet?”
“Indeed not, the two consecutive orc invasions have caused this family to decline very badly, and it is estimated that it will fall from the hereditary nobility this year.”
“Barony Dilam doesn’t have much of a population, does it?”
Hayden nodded and said, “Indeed there isn’t much of a population, it adds up to just over two thousand people, and it is dominated by the old and weak.”
“You send someone to Barony Dilam to incite the remaining serfs to come to Harland’s Collar.”
Hearing Richard’s words, Hayden slightly hesitated and said, “Will this have a bad impact.”
“I can kind of see that all nobles are interest animals, what’s the use of wanting a good reputation?” “What about the runaway slaves from the other lord’s houses?”
“There are fugitive slaves from other territories?” Hearing this from Hayden, Richard was a bit skeptical.
The population movement in the Morning Glory Realm was very small, especially in the Gerda Province, where many serfs had almost never left the house in their entire lives.
Barony Dirham because it bordered Barony Stopa, and in recent years, Richard had utilized a large amount of the population to develop the Stopa territory which had better agricultural conditions. So there was contact between the border lords on both sides.
It was because of the relatively close contact that there were escaped slaves from Barony Dirham.
“Yes, there are dozens of Baron Sharp’s collar serfs alone, and there are also a few scattered fugitive slaves from Baron Rice and Baron Bazel’s collar.”
“All the fugitive slaves from Baron Sharp’s collar are sent back, and the fugitive slaves from Baron Rice’s collar, Baron Bazel’s collar are treated as private slaves and let the merchants of the territory take over. If Baron Les sends someone to pursue, you directly say that they are all slaves purchased in the market.
We did not send people to other territories to capture slaves, they lost their serfs is their own management laxity problem, this dumb loss they are sure to eat.”
“Will this offend Baron Les these nearby nobles?”
“What can I do if I offend them? I’ve tried to pull these people together before, and as you can see, what’s the point?
Even our uncle, Baron Dak, runs over when there are benefits, as if he were a dog eating shit. Without the benefit of kicking you out of the way, there is no mercy to speak of.
I am through with these people, I can only utilize them and not make deep friendships.”
“In that case, I will immediately arrange for manpower to go to Baron Dillam’s collar.”
After Hayden went back, he immediately dispatched intelligence officers into Barony Dilam to incite the remaining serfs.
In order to obtain a good life, there was a ready-made model to refer to, and the support of Viscount Richard was also obtained. The remaining serfs gathered courage and left Barony Dirham in a group.
In a short span of ten days or so, the Harland territory was flooded with more than two thousand people.
This year, although Richard did not have the money to buy slaves, relying on the territory’s private purchase of slaves, coupled with the influx of fugitive slaves from the Dirham territory, the Harland territory still increased its population by more than four thousand outsiders.
Counting the natural population growth of the territory, Harland territory already had a population of more than fifty-five thousand.
There are also about fifteen thousand adult young adults.
Fifteen thousand men and women, more than three thousand of them were in the army, and according to normal, it was called militaristic.
But to survive in the Northern Border Region, every lord needed to find a way to be militaristic.
Otherwise, it would really be someone else’s food, my gun, someone else is my granary.
After Harland’s territory received a wave of fugitive slaves.
The hemostatic ointment also began human trials.
The first to use it were army personnel.
Military training is intense, and there are a lot of injuries from the daily crawling and fighting.
Then came the miners in the quarries, coal mines, lime mines, etc., and finally the freedmen and serfs.
As the number of human trials increased, the side effects of the hemostatic ointment were basically figured out.
The side effects of the Hemostatic Ointment were minimal, with most users not experiencing any discomfort, and only about three percent of users experiencing slight numbness of the mouth and teeth.
Harland’s territory had used several hundred copies of the Hemostatic Ointment without any accidents.
After the successful development of the ointment, relying on William’s relationship, it quickly passed the appraisal of the Northern Legion’s medical team and ushered in the Northern Legion’s purchase order.
Shortly after the Northland Legion’s purchase, the Berserkers, Grizzly Bears and other mainline legions also received news and placed purchase orders for Richard.
(End of chapter)