A new day dawned. At the border of the Smith Kingdom, the support force led by Li Ce had just arrived after a long and arduous journey.
After entering the city, Li Ce dispensed with the pleasantries and first confirmed whether the agreed-upon payment had been delivered.
When doing business, one had to act like one was doing business and set one's position straight: take the money and do the job, without putting on airs.
The Smith Kingdom, which was counting on Great Zhou to save it, acted with remarkable efficiency, hurriedly delivering the resources and slaves it had prepared long ago.
One hundred thousand able-bodied young slaves had gathered there, yet the scene was not chaotic in the slightest.
That was because they already understood that they were being paid to Great Zhou as compensation.
Great Zhou's reputation among the slaves of the Smith Kingdom was excellent. This was not merely because of the prestige it had accumulated during the Republic era, but also because Great Zhou's spies had been helping to build its reputation among the slave population all these years.
Now that they had heard they were going to be paid to Great Zhou, every one of them was incredibly cooperative.
Escape was impossible. Not only did none of them flee, many slaves from outside even tried to sneak into the hundred thousand so they could be taken away by Great Zhou.
With one hundred thousand slaves, no one would notice if a few more slipped in. Even several hundred or a thousand extra would go unnoticed.
Faced with this situation, the Smith Kingdom soldiers simply gave anyone they caught a vicious beating.
Later, they discovered that beatings could not stop the slaves. After all, to these slaves, being sent to Great Zhou was, in round numbers,