Putting his hands in front of Liang Lidong, if it were on Earth, children of this age would generally have white and clean hands, but here, he only saw a pair of brown and yellow little hands covered with calluses. Even Belin, the girl beside him, had big calluses on his hands. The common people in this world are always hardworking, but they will never be able to fill their stomachs. As long as there is a small drought, someone will starve to death. They worked hard to cultivate their small land, and 60% of the harvested food was handed over to the lord, and the remaining 10% to the village chief, and only 30% of them remain.

After Liang Lidong became the lord in the game, he only collected 20% of the grain tax. In his opinion, this was already very high and he didn't even want to collect grain. But the policy of Holewen did not allow him to do this. The lord must start 20% of the grain collection, and 60% of the grain tax... All the NPC lords of Holewen collected the highest grain tax. Liang Lidong's territory had the lowest grain tax and the lowest commercial tax, which attracted a large number of NPC civilians to move to his territory to live and develop.

His territory has transformed from a wilderness village that is unknown to a commercial town within a few years. Not to mention the migrant population, more than 400,000 local residents, although they are not as good as those historical ancient cities with a population of one million, it only took about ten or twenty years to develop and become a population of one million after another. However, because of the relationship between too many civilians from nearby to his territory, the NPC lords bordering his territory were very hostile to him and joined forces several times to attack his territory for inexplicable reasons.

Unfortunately, he has many player friends. He has only 4 people who can become lords as players, all of whom are professions of god-born nobles, and he is one of them.

Generally speaking, players prefer to gather in the territory of the player lord. Because of the intimacy, the four player territories are called the four main cities by players. Players spontaneously gather in these four cities to conduct various communications or commercial activities. Every time those bordering nobles attack Liang Lidong's territory, players will spontaneously protect their territory. Professionals are not objects that ordinary soldiers can fight against, and there is also a large guild stationed in Liang Lidong's territory.

For players of large guilds, every time the enemy army attacks, it is an excellent opportunity to "get experience". They wish that the enemy will come to harass each other every day, and Liang Lidong is also very good at implementing the policy of far-reaching and near attack. He has a good relationship with other nobles in Holewen, but he has always spoken harshly about the several lords who border him. He takes a small group of cavalry to other people's city every day, and uses magic to harass him in the air. Since the other party is on the first day of the first day, Liang Lidong will do the fifteenth day, which makes those lords miserable.

Several lords had wanted to block the commercial route of Liang Lidong's territory, but because of the existence of players, this matter became a dream. Merchants went to the Mercenary Union to issue escort tasks, and players formed small groups to receive tasks to protect the safety of merchants. If they dared to make things difficult for the level, they would pass by A. Players could be resurrected when they died, but NPCs were not. After a period of time, several lords privately signed a peace agreement with Liang Lidong, with a low attitude and paid a lot of money.

Liang Lidong's war against several lords almost all ended in victory, except for a certain prophetic incident.

In the game, Liang Lidong implemented low grain tax and low commercial tax. He also used the lord system to publish many tasks to maintain public security for players to undertake, making the public security in the territory very good. Ordinary civilians lived well, at least they were full and dressed warmly.

Now he saw these children with yellow faces and thin faces and dirty bodies, and his mood was a little uncomfortable: "In the future, not only should you wash your hands before writing, but you should keep your hands clean in normal times. Labor is a glorious act, but after labor, you should also wash your hands and try to keep your hands clean. Also, you should take a bath every day in the future... If you are dirty, it is disrespectful to the words. Let's do this today, but from tomorrow, you have to wash them clean before coming over. The clothes can be old and patched, but not dirty. Do you understand if I do not accept students who blasphemous words here?"

The children nodded vigorously.

Liang Lidong did not tell these children any great truths. In this era of low productivity, acting in the name of religion was better than simply preaching. In the initial origins of many civilizations, the so-called rituals were actually self-cleaning behaviors before worshiping the gods, which were the process of religious rituals. Clean people always had a lower chance of getting sick. Humans vaguely felt this benefit, and later they gradually evolved into the daily life of ordinary people. It can be said that it was the initial religion or ancestor worship that made humans become clean.

Seeing that all the children listened to their words, Liang Lidong erected the sign that he placed aside, took out the plant pigments sent by the village chief, and then wrote three light red characters in Holewen on it:

'I'

'you'

'he'

The characters of Holewen are also pictographic characters, so each character can represent one or several meanings. Moreover, the writing of these three characters is simple enough, with only two to three strokes, which is very suitable for enlightenment textbooks for writing.

The children listened very seriously. After Liang Lidong explained the meaning and writing of the three words, he asked them to practice on the sand, which was also the reason why they came to gather by the river. Of course, if they were rich enough, they could indeed practice writing with paper, but the problem here is all children from poor families. The normal price of a piece of parchment is thirty-eight copper coins... Except for a few extremely rich nobles, no one would like to practice using parchment from the beginning.

By noon, all the children had mastered the meaning and writing of the three words. Liang Lidong asked them to take time to practice and get familiar with them in the afternoon and announce their disbandment.

At this time, all the young and strong laborers who went up the mountain to quarry had returned. They poured the stones on the flat ground in the center of the village, forming a small hill. After eating the dry food and well water they brought with them, they began to lay the foundation. Whether a house can be built depends on whether the foundation is solid. Some older students did not rush to go home, but followed the group of adults to help build the temple.

At this time, naturally, adults asked them how they were studying. These children told Liang Lidong what they asked. If other people in the past asked their children to take a bath every day and wash their hands before and after meals, these adults would not spit and scold the person to death: You guys have seen the poor children from poor families taking a bath once a day.

But Liang Lidong is different. He is a pastor, a spellcaster, a special group that is more noble than a noble. And most importantly, now that their children have begun to read, they can barely be regarded as half a "scholar" in the future. They are no longer a bitter untouchable. Scholars have the etiquette that scholars should abide by. It is necessary to practice the most basic etiquette from now on. This shows that the pastor did not fool them at will, but was teaching the children very seriously.

There is no saying in this world that "sell me to you and repay me to you", but they understand that writing cannot be learned by money. If the pastor is willing to teach it, it is the gift of the goddess Wojin. Moreover, if you go to the city to learn writing, you will have to collect a gold coin for a hundred words, and you will not be able to write it, let alone teach you how to recognize it. Even if you can't recognize it, it doesn't matter to them.

The priest wanted to teach the children 540 words, which were converted into gold coins, which was 5 gold and 40 silver. This amount was not necessarily collected by everyone in their village without eating or drinking. The village chief of Seri Village sold his family's top-quality beast skin, but he could exchange it for a lot of gold coins, but that was his decades of accumulation. It can be said that it was something he exchanged for with his life, and he was not willing to exchange it for money.

Since the priest is so generous, they can only repay this kindness by using their efforts to build the temple well.

Liang Lidong did not feel that he was generous. In the eyes of players, a simple literacy tutorial is not worth much. For them, what is really valuable are various combat skills, talents, magic, and character experience... Teaching students to gain character experience is actually a win-win situation. For players, character experience is much more important than that little money.

After lunch, Liang Lidong asked the village chief: "Old Reed, can you lend me Kyle for the afternoon? I plan to go to Dongfeng City to buy some necessary magical alchemy items."

In the game, the Wind Wind City was destroyed by the players' hands, so although Liang Lidong heard about the famous Wind Wind City, he had never been there.

"Grandma Beta, Kyle is your student now, and it is natural for students to serve their teachers. If you have any questions, you can send him, and I have no right to ask about it."

Kyle chewed the steamed eggs made by Liang Lidong while nodding hard. As a lively boy, he naturally hoped to travel around, but he had to pay a capitation tax every time he entered the city, which made him unhappy. So if he was fine, he rarely went to the city. However, if he followed the teacher, he would not have to pay a capitation tax. The soldiers guarding the city gate bullyed the weak and were afraid of the strong. They dared to collect money from ordinary civilians, but if they encountered mercenaries, professionals, and spellcasters, they would not dare to give a single fart.

"Well, call Belin by the way." Liang Lidong said after thinking about it.

Just now, he discovered that Kyle is the smartest among all children. He can read the word and write easily. Belin almost, but compared with other children, he is also very valuable for cultivating. If these two children are trained to be believers of the goddess Wojin, on the one hand, he can get the piety value given by the system, which can be used to exchange for low-level magic. On the other hand, he can get two helpers to help manage trivial matters in the temple.

"Okay, I'll call Belin over now." Kyle stuffed the remaining bread into his mouth, then wiped his mouth and ran out of the door.

"Old Master Beta..." The old village chief hesitated for a while, looking a little embarrassed, and finally said: "If you encounter something inconvenient to deal with in Dongfeng City, you can go to the Black Iron Tavern in the East District and find an old man named "Iron Hook". He is good at it and was also a professional before. As long as he gives enough money, he is willing to do anything."
Chapter completed!