In mid-March, the early spring season, the winter wheat harvest has been completed, and the time has come for the annual spring plowing. Spring plowing is everywhere in the Earl of Glamorgan.
In the master bedroom on the third floor of the castle, the Earl was enjoying a leisurely afternoon tea with his fiancée and the maid.
Emilia was wearing a black and white maid outfit. The girl had her long golden hair tied up. Under the black pleated skirt were her beautiful calves wearing white stockings and black leather shoes. After following Ryan for several years, the girl had already
She is in her early twenties and looks as graceful as a lily.
After following Ryan, Emilia gradually regained her lively and cheerful personality under Ryan's protection. She even went to Winford College to study, received higher education, and lived a noble life.
The girl's face was red, and she leaned beside Ryan to serve him. She also peeked at Ryan from time to time, with a happy look on her face.
All this fell in the eyes of the female knight Sulia. The female knight did not say anything. She thought that Emilia had been following Ryan for a long time and took good care of her. After the wedding, she would definitely give Emilia
A female courtier and her title of maid.
Lidya Su was wearing a coniferous floral lace gray shirt and a one-step skirt today, with a long windbreaker wrapped in white fox fur. Her slender and straight black silk legs stretched out under the table, and a pair of black silk jade feet
She was still wearing her favorite bear slippers, holding in her arms the teddy bear that Ryan and she had bought in Bordeaux.
Ryan's favorite pair of female knight's stockings have long legs, full thighs and slender calves. The transparent black stockings are made of unicorn fluff from the shores of Fairy Lake. The soft and fine texture can be felt with the eyes. Because of this, the Earl's
The hands and eyes are a bit dishonest.
When Sulia saw this, she rolled her eyes at Ryan. In fact, growing up in the palace, female knights were used to wearing stockings because all the female nobles wore them. This was a symbol of female nobility, and Ryan obviously liked it very much.
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"It seems that there are fewer escaped slaves during this period." Sulia changed the subject. The female knight looked at the envelope on the table. The envelope was stamped with the king's seal and had been opened.
"During this period, our earldom has already eaten up a population of nearly 20,000 people." Ryan complained. The earl himself only wore a simple shirt and trousers at home. He looked at the envelope on the table and smiled: "Even if it is 20,000
How long has it been since a pig disappeared that even the stupidest nobles would notice it, let alone a human being?"
"Then... Ryan, will you agree to His Majesty the King's request?" Emilia asked curiously.
Ryan stood in front of the table, thinking about the recent situation.
Judging from the news he received, the serf rebellion had seemingly been put down.
After Duke Bohemond went to the royal capital of Curona for arbitration, the kingdom's great nobles finally turned their attention away from the negotiations. Faced with the serf escape and serf riots that broke out in their respective territories, the knights and nobles hurriedly hurried to
When I returned home and looked at my destroyed house and warehouse, I was extremely angry.
The rioting serfs were quickly suppressed and the serfs were hanged and executed in large numbers. Many villages even lost half of their population.
The knights' forcible suppression soon caused a larger wave of escaped slaves and riots. However, the mob could not be the opponent of the knights. It took nearly a month for the riots to finally subside.
What was left were countless destroyed villages and abandoned farmland. The national strength in the north of the kingdom was seriously affected. After quelling the riots, the lords even found that they could not find enough manpower to harvest winter wheat, so they had to issue orders.
The escaped serfs came back to harvest wheat, and even approached merchants from Marienburg to hire workers to harvest the wheat.
At the same time, for the remaining serfs who did not escape, the knights considered the situation and gave the remaining serfs a certain degree of tax relief to ensure that they would not starve to death.
There is no way around it. There are actually very few fools among the knights and nobles. The knights of Britannia have to learn the ways of knights from an early age. Few people are so stupid that they don’t know the relationship between serfs and nobles. Serfs
It is the foundation that supports the nobility. The land of the nobles needs people to cultivate it.
This is different from the Empire. The nobles of Britannia own the land, and they give the land to the serfs for cultivation. As the owners of the land, they have the obligation to protect the serfs.
In the empire, the yeoman farmers do not have to pay such high taxes, which also means that no nobles will send troops to protect them. These yeoman farmers can only arm themselves to protect themselves and fend for themselves. This is not the case in Britannia.
exist.
Regarding the serf rebellion, the nobles also felt aggrieved. It was their villages and property that were damaged, their guards who died, and it was obviously them who suffered the loss.
The nobles in the north soon discovered that Lane was sheltering escaped slaves everywhere, and incorporated them to expand the population. After Lane took the lead, Boderick, Duke of Bordeleaux, Francois, Duke of Winford, and Barstow
Duke Bohemond and others also learned to do this and tasted the benefits. Everyone was secretly taking in the population.
Under normal circumstances, the nobles would definitely come to claim them. Serfs were the property of the nobles.
The problem lies here, Ryan is now in the limelight in the kingdom, and he is the divinely chosen champion of the Fairy of the Lake. He killed the Red Duke and expelled the Great Demon of Nurgle, so the nobles dare not provoke him openly.
Richard had no choice but to bite the bullet and send an official letter asking Lane to conduct an inventory of the population in his territory, subconsciously intending to repatriate the escaped slaves.
But Ryan is not a fool. Needless to say, the importance of population, he will definitely not repatriate escaped slaves.
"Repatriation will not happen, and it will never be repatriated in this life." Ryan looked at the king's letter and smiled at Emilia: "It is too slow to have children. Only by taking in escaped slaves can we expand quickly.
What the population looks like.”
"Hateful! Why are you talking about this all of a sudden, giving birth to a baby or something..." Amelia's face turned red, and she obviously thought of something strange: "Ryan, you are really... we are obviously talking about business!"
Where did his little maid go? Ryan frowned and turned his attention to the female knight.
As a result, Lidya Su's face turned red and she was obviously thinking wrongly.
"In short, I will definitely not repatriate these escaped slaves. It is not easy to get such a large population." Ryan quickly added.
"But... what about His Majesty the King's order?" Sulia frowned.
In Britannia, although Richard's royal power is weak, the spirit of chivalry has penetrated into the bone marrow of the country. Compared with the empire, the powerful elector can ignore or even reject the emperor's orders. As a vassal of the king, Ryan
At least give a superficial explanation.
"Actually, it's very simple. Everyone is responsible for this." Ryan said with a smile.
Yes, it was unethical for Ryan to take in escaped slaves, but what was the reason for the appearance of escaped slaves? It was because the nobles themselves failed to control their serfs, which led to this incident.
You can't manage the serfs yourself? Now you blame me for taking in the escaped slaves? What's the point?
"It is indeed the case. None of His Majesty Richard's official letters mentioned a word about the escaped slaves." Sulia picked up the king's letter and read it again: "Look, Ryan, His Majesty Richard just requested
You conduct a population census, ensure public security, guard against bandits, and pay attention to the movements of refugees, but he didn't say anything about escaped slaves at all."
"That's true." Ryan nodded, and he began to talk about his speculations with the female knight and the little maid.
Richard's letter reveals a lot.
First of all, there is no doubt that the rebellion of the northern serfs has been put down by the nobles, or at least the situation has been basically controlled. Only then did the nobles have time to conduct population checks and found a large number of escaped slaves. At the same time, they also discovered that the southerners led by Ryan
The nobles were secretly absorbing escaped slaves.
Secondly, Ryan is now powerful, and the northern nobles are obviously afraid of him, so they don't dare to ask for it by force, but just talk to him in a roundabout way.
"I have an ominous feeling that this serf uprising may have been temporarily suppressed." Ryan said to Sulia: "The nobles' strong suppression and appropriate concessions can temporarily suppress the serfs, but the fundamental
The contradiction has not changed or transferred."
The little maid and the female knight both nodded silently. They all knew that as long as the fundamental contradiction of the tithe remained unchanged, even if the serf uprising was suppressed, it would only be temporary. The losses of the nobles needed to be compensated, and the serfs
The situation of not having enough to eat will continue in the future.
Lane believed that the harvest of winter wheat could temporarily alleviate the conflict between the nobles and the serfs, but as the spring plowing season passed and after the spring plowing, and the lean season of May and June arrived, the serfs would still have insufficient food to eat.
At this time, when the conflict is stirred up again, it will cause greater riots and commotions. Ryan does not think that Chaos will be indifferent to this matter.
He told the female knight and the little maid his judgment.
"Lian..." Lidya Su looked at her fiancé with some worry.
"Let's organize the army. I want to train an elite infantry regiment that can withstand the line. It's too late to train more knights now." Ryan gently took the female knight's hand: "The riot is not an accident, we can do it
The best thing is to be prepared.”
"Yes!" Sulia nodded firmly. The female knight quietly looked at Amelia who was still in the room, and decided to kiss Ryan on the face: "Let me help you."
"good!"
Emilia held the hem of her skirt, and the girl's expression changed. Finally, she stood up quietly and kissed Ryan on the face as well: "Lian, don't worry, sister Lidya Su and I will help you."
After doing this, Amelia was so embarrassed that she ran to the sofa and covered her head with a pillow, pretending to be an ostrich.
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Ryan's reply arrived at the Corona Palace at extremely fast speed.
The earl's attitude in his reply was very ambiguous. He first asked the northern nobles why they failed to control their own people, which caused a large number of people to go south, affecting the security of his territory and causing serious chaos.
Then Ryan's reply was that he was considering the overall situation, and he did not intend to cause trouble with the northern nobles on this matter. He said "magnanimously" that he would not hold them responsible and that he would solve the public security problem himself.
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Finally, Ryan said very "kindly" that the flow of escaped slaves into my territory is not as many as you think, but it is still a little bit. He said that he would repatriate a group of about three to five hundred escaped slaves and send them to
Return to your original principality.
But in fact, all the escaped slaves repatriated by Ryan were found to be lazy and idle men who were lazy and lazy. Ryan did not want these people at all, so they were repatriated.
Richard was so angry that he couldn't speak. The Dukes and nobles in the north did not have the energy to trouble Ryan for the time being. Many of the winter wheat in their territories had not been harvested yet, and the chaotic public order also caused the lords to send out troops.
A large number of troops solved it.
At this time, no noble dared to trouble Ryan.
What no one knows is that while Britannia is busy dealing with its own internal affairs, across the sea in the northern wasteland, the Skarins tribe.
The Skarins tribe is known as one of the most cunning and powerful tribes in the north. Since the advent of Chaos in the north, this tribe has faithfully surrendered to the Dark God and has become a believer in the Evil God.
This is a desolate tundra zone located in the north of the old world. According to legend, this is a place inspired by the immortal gods, and it is also the eternal home and lair of countless nameless and invisible monsters.
The men and women of the northern tribes dedicated themselves to the God of Chaos. These men were furry warriors and furious, hairy men, and all were powerful warriors.
But even among the powerful warriors, Egil "Red Eyes" Stirbjorn, the king of the Skarins tribe, can still be regarded as one of the greatest warriors. He believes in the blood god Khorne and calls himself
"Soul Hunter" and "Norscan Slaughterer", after he challenged and killed his father
Leading the entire tribe for centuries, this great king slaughtered all the Chaos Champions of other barbarian tribes, the powerful Doomsday Dragon Demon, the terrifying beastmen of the north, or the giant sea serpent.
A new addition to Khorne's bloody halls.
As a result, he won the love of the blood god Khorne, who named him his chosen champion. The blessing from the blood god gave him extraordinary longevity and immortality.
The chosen champion of Khorne has only one regret, that is, he does not have an heir. Countless barbarian female warriors are willing to become his concubines and share their beds with him, but they can only give birth to daughters. Egil is angry at this
No woman could give him a true barbarian warrior.
He has killed tens of thousands of enemies for the Blood God, but he has never been able to get a son.
So, the God-chosen champion of Khorne decided to set out alone. He crossed the Chaos Wasteland and killed countless monsters and a Chaos Demon. After that, he returned to the Skarins tribe, wearing red Chaos armor, holding a hell axe, and using iron.
The strips of golden hair and beard were decorated to the point where they sprouted from the armor, and the pale eyes shone with the anger of Khorne. The gorgeous armor hung the skulls of his defeated enemies in commemoration of the cruel and bloody victory, and dedicated these heads to the blood god Khorne.
Then, he prayed to the supreme Blood God on the altar made of countless skulls.
The chosen champion of Khorne wants a son.
His prayers were answered by Khorne, and the Blood God's oracle descended upon him.
"The woman who can give birth to a son for you is in the south, in Britannia."
"Go, destroy the inferior people in the south, and bring true civilization to them, my champion." (To be continued)