Pinnacle player

Chapter 217 Following the Oath

The population of Ajaccio Village is 1532, while the minimum population standard for large villages is 1000, and the minimum population for giant villages is 5000, which can only be regarded as just passing the line.

Among the villagers, the human race is the largest, accounting for about 28% of the total population of the village. There are other races, elves account for 23%, dwarves 19%, orcs 18%, and goblins 12%.

For NPCs, the management of such a complex division of races is relatively confusing, but for players, although there will definitely be some troubles, considering the advantages of recruiting soldiers, troubles are not troublesome at all.

Recruiting in a racially complex place like Ajaccio Village makes it easier to recruit servants with special talents and better qualifications.

There are not many buildings in the village. There are 2 farms, 1 fishing ground and a small dock outside the village.

The village is also simple, a blacksmith shop named "War Maiden", a barracks, a church, an inn named "Sleeping Giant", and a grocery store named "Golden Brilliance". These buildings are all medium-sized villages The standard equipment, some buildings that can only be owned by large villages do not have any.

From the perspective of architecture, "Ajaccio Village" means that the population has reached the standard of a large village, and the number of buildings is not as good as that of Xinshou Village, which is only a medium-sized village.

The only thing that surprised Yun Xiaohan was that there was actually a library in the village of Ajaccio. This is a building that can only be found in medium-sized cities. Not every medium-sized city has one, and this library has a good name—— "explore the world".

However, this library is a private library, owned by an old mage NPC, and not owned by Yun Xiaohan. Without the owner's permission, he doesn't even have permission to visit it.

This library is currently only open to the public from 16:00-24:00 every day. In fact, according to the game time in "Choice", it is open one day every three days.

Most of the houses in the village are log cabins, and there are only a few more high-end wooden houses. Because the island is rich in wood resources, there is no third stone building except for the library and the internal affairs hall.

However, this kind of wood used as a building material comes from "Azuka tree" (Note 1), which is also called "fire extinguishing tree" by local people. When a fire is lit under the tree, a large amount of sap will be sprayed on the tree to extinguish the fire. Its branches and leaves are dense, and there are many bracts the size of steamed buns. The bracts are densely covered with small mesh holes. Once there is light or light, the juice will spray out.

"Azusa tree" is fast-growing, easy to close canopy, and has high water content. In fact, it is also one of the main raw materials exported from Corsica, and it is an excellent shipbuilding timber.

There are four gates in total in the village, and the west gate is near the pier.

The road is a gravel road, and there are 40 wells in the village. The whole village is surrounded by a small amount of boulders and a solid three-layered wooden fence. Yun Xiaohan tested it, and the height exceeds 1 meters, and it is very strong, and the defense is not bad. reliable.

Yun Xiaohan walked near the interior hall, and a person suddenly walked out from the shade of a big tree outside the gate of the interior hall, and walked towards him quickly.

Yun Xiaohan took a closer look, and it turned out to be Giuseppe Garibaldi.

Giuseppe walked up to Yun Xiaohan, knelt down on one knee suddenly, and said, "Sir Yun Xiaohan, I admire your performance in the battle for Sardinia. Now that you have become a real noble, I hope you can To be your follower, I wonder if you are willing to accept me?"

Needless to say?Yun Xiaohan clicked the accept option almost instantly.

"It is my honor to have a warrior like you become my follower. You will become my No.1 follower. I will fulfill all the responsibilities of a lord! If my title and territory are promoted again, you Will become my No.1 vassal."

"My lord, I will be your blade, dedicate all my loyalty to you, and follow behind you forever."

After a short plot of following the oath, Giuseppe Garibaldi officially became Yun Xiaohan's follower.

Followers are different from retinues, followers do not occupy the quota of retinues to play.The two are completely the difference between retainers and servants. The master has the leadership over his followers. While the followers need to fulfill their obligations to the master, the master must also shoulder their due responsibilities.

The lord is obliged to arm his followers and promote them. For example, if Giuseppe proposes to go to a certain military academy for further studies, as long as the request is reasonable, Yun Xiaohan must satisfy him even if he sells iron, otherwise he can be justified Break away from Yun Xiaohan.

Once Yun Xiaohan obtained more fiefs, and Giuseppe Garibaldi made enough contributions, he must be rewarded.

To put it simply, a follower is a different kind of vassal, but the relationship between a follower and the lord is closer than that between a vassal and the lord. If the lord dies unfortunately, the vassal can take refuge in other lords.But if the lord dies, the followers must avenge the lord. If they are unable to avenge, they should follow the lord to another world.

The following oath is proposed by the followers, not imposed by the lord on the followers. It is a very solemn and serious oath in "The Choice". No betrayal is tolerated, and it is no exaggeration to describe it as life and death. Any betrayer will be despised and spurned by all intelligent races in the whole continent, and will be wanted by all nobles.

Therefore, since the appearance and maturity of the following oath, there has not been a case of followers actively betraying the following oath. On the contrary, it is not uncommon for followers to choose to leave because the lord failed to fulfill their responsibilities, but most Under certain circumstances, followers will still be a little sympathetic to the difficulties of the lord and allow him to delay for a while.

However, as a player, Yun Xiaohan must have difficulty enjoying the NPC's understanding. As long as he dares to delay, Giuseppe will definitely lose his loyalty.

The following oath itself is a more beneficial oath for the followers, because most of the followers are from civilians and lack education and promotion opportunities, and once they become followers, the lord, as a formal noble, has the responsibility to provide the followers with educational resources and promotion opportunities , so at least a field baron can have followers, and no territory or baronship can satisfy the following conditions.

Therefore, generally speaking, nobles will not accept followers casually. Only when the other party is extremely capable or can bring great benefits to themselves will they follow the oath. In most cases, the other party It is enough to accept as a private minister.

The essence of this oath is that the common people offer their loyalty to the nobles in exchange for the opportunity to become nobles themselves.Once the following relationship is established, the interests of the master and the followers are completely tied together.

Of course, following the oath is not the privilege of the common people. There are also a few low-ranking nobles or down-and-out nobles who follow the big nobles to expand their family territory or gain further opportunities.

PS: Note 1, this tree is designed for the needs of the plot. The reference is an evergreen "Calpa tree" in Angola, Africa, and the common fire-resistant tree "Qinggang Quercus". Fire-resistant trees are not suitable as Shipbuilding materials.

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