Chapter 357 Manor Banquet 2

"Lord Fergus? What are you thinking about?"

The shouts of other people interrupted Fergus's thoughts. He looked up and saw that it was a person sitting opposite him calling him.

The style of northwest people is so rough, even for wealthy families.

"Haha, Mr. Shank, I just heard you talking about last year's war. It makes me feel ashamed to think that I, a retainer of Graiman, did not serve under the earl."

"So that's what happened. Lord Fergus doesn't need to think so."

Lord Wallen, who was sitting at the head table, raised his glass to comfort him, "I heard that apart from the gentlemen who are still serving as officers in the army, Earl Grayman did not summon other knights at home. Now Arda has a strong army, even if there is no war. There are also thousands of soldiers, and they are trained every day. I think even His Majesty the King's army is nothing more than this, right? With these soldiers charging into battle, do we need to bother an expert like you? Isn't that just overkill? "

After hearing Mr. Warren's description, everyone at the banquet burst into laughter. In this era, knights are the decisive ones on the battlefield, but everyone seems not to have considered that the Kent family, as the enemy, will almost certainly send their knights to the battlefield. It can only be said that they are immersed in the huge victory and glory and forget about it.

The man named Shank who was talking to Fergus just now clicked his tongue and said: "They support thousands of soldiers. I really don't know how Lord Grayman can afford them. Even with Bailding." And the taxes in Emden are also very difficult! ”

A person next to him said: "With food, you can raise as many soldiers as you want. Think about it, let alone Baildin and Emden, just talk about us in Arda. Lord Greiman has just taken the seat of lord." How much new farmland was opened during the period?”

This sentence caused everyone at the banquet to discuss it.

"I guess it's twice as much, right? I bought the harvester, soil crusher, thresher and other machinery from the Huxin Town Machinery Factory. Who doesn't want to grow more crops? Praise Lord Graiman, he invented it These are great machines.”

"There are more farmlands, and the crop rotation system has been promoted. The output of this field has increased a lot compared to two years ago."

"A lot of water conservancy projects have been built in the past two years."

"Iron farm tools have also become cheaper, such as sickles, hoes, forks, shovels, etc., especially the iron plow. Don't worry if you don't use it, you will laugh. A few years ago, the farm tools I used there were all made of wood. Speaking of which, It feels weird. The iron in Arda has become so cheap in recent times. The shops in the town are full of iron items, and it doesn’t cost much to buy them.”

Fergus couldn't help but laugh when he heard this. Nowadays, manors are almost self-contained and self-sufficient. These landowners stay at home all day long, drink the wine they brew, and eat the food grown in their own fields. They wear cloth woven by their own servants and rarely interact with the outside world. Only when they need to use things that they cannot produce themselves, they will go to the town or city to purchase. In terms of experience, they are no more knowledgeable than the farmers under them. How many.

It is estimated that most of the people in this room do not know that Earl Greyman has used new technologies to build several ironworks. There is one in Alda, one in Bairding, and even Emden, which has recently taken over, is also intensively exploring for mineral veins. , inspecting water conservancy and preparing to build a new iron plant.

Now Alda-Bailding has monopolized the supply of iron in nearly half of the territory of the Northwest Gulf. The traditional iron-making method is vulnerable to the impact of new technologies. Private mine owners and iron-making plants have gone bankrupt, and their original workers A large number of people moved to Arda or Bailding to make a living. Many lords who also mined themselves relied on raising tariffs or directly imposing a ban to barely keep the iron tools of Arda out of the door. Why do you say it was reluctant? Because there is still smuggling. In today's era, smuggling is a phenomenon that cannot be banned.

The host of the banquet, Mr. Warren, raised his cup and said with great admiration: "In previous winters, a lot of people would freeze and starve to death. Although this winter also happened, fewer people died. This is all thanks to Lord Graiman." Well managed.”

Someone suggested: "Let us toast Count Grayman again!"

"To Earl Grayman!" Everyone agreed and raised their cups to drink.

Everyone at the banquet had already drank a lot of wine. Although the alcohol content was not high, it was a lot.

A man with a drunken face shook the cup and said crookedly: "Speaking of our current little lord, he is good here and there, but there is one thing that is not good about him."

Fergus frowned after hearing this and said to the man: "Eldo, you are drunk."

The man named Erdo shook his head vigorously and laughed a few times, "Lord Fergus, I have no intention of blaming the lord. I support Lord Grayman a hundred times and wish him a long life." . But... people will always complain a few times, so just think of me as drunken nonsense."

Seeing that everyone in the room was turning their attention to him, he continued to speak on his own: "The bad thing about Master Graiman is that he is too indulgent to those businessmen who fall into the pile of money and can't climb out. ”

Someone asked: "Master Erdo, what does this mean?"

Eldor shook his head and replied: "It's not right to say that Mr. Grayman is conniving. It's not our lord's fault. It's the businessmen who relied on the lord's attention to do illegal things. This was a month ago. Something happened. Several escaped farmers from my manor came to Fulan Port. I took people to find them and found them working in the salt field. "

"Then what?"

Erdo laughed, "Of course he tied them back, he took the lead to kill the public, and the others were punished severely to show others the end of the random running."

The farmers of the Northwest Bay and even the Kingdom of Oldo have no personal freedom. They cannot leave their villages without authorization. They are ruled by the owner of their own land or the owner of the manor. Although none of the regulations promulgated in the past The formal [serf] is called, but their situation is indeed the same as serfs.

This serf system is the residue of the ancient slave system. With the development of the times, especially the intervention of the church, the living conditions of the serfs have improved. Find a spouse to get married by themselves and be blessed by the church. They can even have their own meager savings and pass it on to the next generation.

Of course, everything above is without violation of the interests of the local landlord. The landlord can use the serfs on their own land to trade with other landlords. If the serf escaped without authorization, the landlord also had the right to catch it back and punish them.

However, there is a [benefit] of serfs now, and there will be a [Gongda] in each village or manor. The gains in the Gongtian will be distributed to the serfs on average.

"But what I want to say is -the owner of the salt field -what is the name -hiccup -what is Ge Hudewen, but stopped me from letting people not let people, what kind of mud legs have signed the contract, I went to him to go to him Uncle's! "

"Eldo, how did you do it later? How did a person come back?"

Erdo's face was flushed, and he seemed very excited. "I was too lazy to argue with him at the time, making people return to the manor and called a large number of people, smashing his salt field directly, and grabbing people. I didn't expect this idiot. I do n’t know how anyway, but the town mayor Shi Odo.

Ferguson's face was stunned and asked, "How did the head of the Town of Epono deal with it?"

Erdogo smiled, "What else can you do? How can I say that I have reasonable, but that Ge Dewen does not see who is just recruiting casually. The ridiculous guy is still talking in front of the mayor. What personal freedom, hahaha ""

There is no mistake, one, one, one, one, one, one, one, one 619, one book, one, one, one, one, one, one, a book!

The crowd also laughed with coaxing.

Shan Ke patted or laughed, "I think the Ge Dewen was dumbfounded by Dean Morrison's preaching team!"

Morrison is the priest encountered when Paul eliminated the pirate shark gang in Fulan Port, and promised to help him conceal the colorful experience of being forced to participate in the pirate gang. After the work of Father Anderson took over his teacher as the dean of the monastery of the North Bank, Paul arranged Morrison to "help" him. Father Anderson who was obsessed with research all day pushed the actions of the monastery to Morrison. Gradually, Morrison was called the dean.

Under Paul's advice, Morrison organized several preaching teams to go to the countryside under the name of the church to attack the serf system, but the effect ...

"What the preaching team walked away soon after coming to my ground! Don't talk about the good scriptures, what JB is equal, the mud legs still have farm work to do, which one has a hard work to listen to them nonsense. ! Let's talk about them again! "" "" "" "

"I am there, I really don't know how to do it, and make some heresy."

Listening to the talk at the banquet, Valen snorted at the main position, "We work with our heads, farmers work with their bodies, and people who work with their brains to rule with their bodies. The truth, even the church with equal slogans has not changed since the establishment of the establishment of an equal slogan. "

There was an immediately attached to him next to him: "That is, the mud legs of the elm -like head of the mud legs will not even work well, and the control is not good at all. The messy things are naturally to be managed by our agent. "

A group of people stunned.

"This group of businessmen in Fulan Port, relying on a few smelly money in the past two years, dare to put up a shelf in front of us."

"I think they are brought by the peers on the other side of the bay!"

"A group of vampires!"

Nympho

The theme talked about at the banquet gradually turned to scolding businessmen. Fergus shook his head. He just wanted to drink quietly, how could it become like this.