Chapter 2679 Inheritance

What Joan taught her daughter did not exactly match Inanna's genetic experience.

Especially the attitude towards slaves, Joan's approach is obviously different from the tradition of the beholders treating slaves as livestock.

When Inanna raised this question to her mother, Joan did not try to preach to her from a moral perspective. After all, there is no moral consensus among the beholders to treat others kindly. Such preaching will only bring more confusion to Inanna.

"Inanna, my mother didn't want to treat my servants kindly from the beginning. The reason why I formed my current concept is that I discovered in the process of managing the territory that treating my servants well can bring me more benefits."

"Mother, can you tell me specifically why treating your servants well can bring you more benefits?" Inanna asked curiously.

Joan was waiting for this question. Before answering Inanna's question, she turned her head and looked at the housekeeper Lawen who was accompanying the mother and daughter to inspect the territory, deliberately changing the topic.

"Laven, do you still remember the mine disaster that happened in the neighboring territory last time?"

"Of course I remember, respected master!" The steward replied humbly, "At that time, Nokomis, who was in charge of the mine area, was frightened, so he specifically asked me to report to you, please personally rescue the people who were trapped at the scene of the accident. How could I not remember, miners!"

"Laven, you were in charge of handling the aftermath of the mine disaster, and it was a good job."

The master's praise flattered the butler, and he immediately humbled himself.

"It's all thanks to the master's leadership and perfect safety and welfare measures. The little one is just running errands for the master—"

"Okay, okay, stop flattering, how is the situation after the new system is implemented in the mine?"

"Excellent! My respected master, the dwarf miners are very satisfied with the current working environment and meals. They always spontaneously sing in the cafeteria to praise the master during their lunch break. They really love you!"

Laven's slapstick skills are really not a cover-up. If there is no opportunity to create an opportunity, I will blow a wave of rainbow farts!

Joan shook her head helplessly, and asked her directly: "Compared to the past, has the output of the mine decreased?"

"The output has not decreased significantly, but the statistics of work-related injuries and diseases have dropped significantly. On the contrary, the profit of the mine has increased after a comprehensive calculation."

Lawen came prepared today, and brought the account book with her, and showed it to Joan while talking.

Joan glanced at it, nodded, and said to Laven, "Tell Inanna about the changes before and after the mine disaster, and tell her why increasing the benefits for the miners will increase the mine's income instead of decreasing."

"Okay! Dear master, you probably don't know yet? I tell stories to children! Miss Inanna, listen to me, the thing is like this..."

Laven compared the situation of the magic crystal mine before and after the owner took over the Vayu territory, and compared it vividly.

How dark and cruel it used to be, the slave miners seemed to be living in hell, the number of casualties due to work was horribly high, the food was so poor that it was hard to swallow, and the unbearable slaves either risked their lives to riot, or destroyed tools in private, and changed their ways to be negative Sabotage, no matter how hard the supervisor squeezes, the income of the mine cannot break through the bottleneck. Instead, a lot of management costs are added due to the casualties and resistance of the slaves.

After the mine disaster, the wise and far-sighted Mitra scrutinized the situation and carried out a comprehensive reform of the mine, strengthening the safety measures of the miners, improving the food, and reducing the working hours at the same time, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the miners and greatly promoted the production efficiency. promote.

The one who changed the most was Nokomis, the leader of the overseer. She was turned into a dwarf by her master and went down to mine the mines herself. After experiencing the hardships of this industry, she also felt a little more sympathy for the miners. It is estimated that she will never be like that again. As in the past, wantonly insulting and beating his miners.

Laven is really not bragging, the story is vivid and interesting.

Inanna was fascinated by what she heard, and later she had a deeper understanding of the reasons why her mother treated her slaves leniently, and realized that even if it was only for the sake of protecting her own interests, the way of controlling her subordinates with both kindness and force was more effective than pure coercion.

After the inspection, Joan arranged a new job for Laven, asking her to be Inanna's nanny. In the future, when Inanna went hunting or playing, Laven would accompany her.

Laven readily accepted the job, and said half-jokingly: "Thank you, master, for giving me this opportunity to display my strengths. This servant will definitely live up to the entrustment and serve Miss Inanna with all my heart."

At first, Joan thought she was complimenting her on being a good person, but after a closer look, she found that this guy was clearly bragging about herself, she really had a thick skin!

But having said that, among all the subspecies of beholders in Joan's territory, there is indeed no one who has a kinder heart and a brighter personality than the "Eye of Insight" Laven, and is more suitable to help her take care of children.

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The strange creatures living in the Underdark region are restricted by the harsh habitat environment. In order to avoid extinction, after countless generations of natural selection, they show the characteristics of "convergent evolution".

According to Qiao An's observation, different from the mainstream intelligent races in the surface world, all kinds of strange monsters in the underground world generally have the following three characteristics.

First of all, most of them are hermaphroditic or parthenogenetic, and they can handle the mission of reproducing offspring by themselves, without having to bother to find a partner of the opposite sex.

Secondly, the monsters in the underground world can more or less obtain some genetic knowledge about their own traditions and survival skills from their mothers, thus greatly reducing the time and cost of acquired education.

In this regard, the model of evolution to the extreme is undoubtedly the aboleth. The offspring can almost completely inherit all the memories and knowledge of the ancestors, and they are infinitely upward compatible!

If the level of prior knowledge acquired by aboleths through genetics is set at 100 points, then in the mind flayer community, the "mastermind" can score 80 points for this ability, and citizens can only score 5 points at most.

Except for the special case of "Master Brain", ordinary mind flayers don't really need to acquire knowledge through innate inheritance.

Mind flayers have the most advanced community civilization in the underground world, the most harmonious compatriot friendship, and the best mentor and perfect education system of "Master Brain". The principle of retreat, of course, this score can not be high.

In contrast, beholders scored better than mind flayers, scoring 15 points.

The community building of the beholder clan and the solidarity and cooperation among compatriots are far inferior to those of the mind flayers.

Take Udinos as an example. As one of the largest hive cities in the Underdark, not only does it not have a systematic education department, even the concept of family is almost non-existent.

In such an environment, if the beholder larva wants to survive, it has to rely more on the innate knowledge and skills acquired through inheritance.