Extraordinary Earl

Chapter 45 Discussion of Serfs

Teacher Qiao Xiu and everyone present smiled relaxedly.Only Luther's father, the contemporary Pompeii knight sitting on the main seat, the corner of Old Sol's mouth twitched.

He cursed involuntarily in his heart.

"Luther, this kid, said that I have prepared gold coins. He looked relaxed. I don't know how determined I was to ask the old guys to borrow money. I have grown up so much, and I haven't borrowed money yet. .”

That's right.

According to the original financial resources of the Pompeii family, it is impossible to support such a huge plan of Luther.Although Pompeii wine sold a lot, it cost a lot of gold coins to hire knights and scholars.

The monthly salary of each junior knight is ten gold coins, while the monthly salary of the middle-level knights in Ston and Pompeii is one hundred gold coins.

As for the guard knights currently employed in Pompeii, there is a total of one intermediate knight and 13 junior knights.

Old Saul and Luther had no money to take.

230 gold coins are required to be paid every month.

The original population of Pompeii's family was only about 1, but now [-] people will be introduced at once, which is equivalent to five times the original population.

Plus the rations, cattle, farm tools, seeds and so on to feed the serfs in the later period.

Even selling old Sol is not worth the price.Under such circumstances, borrowing money has become the first choice.This time it wasn't Luther who borrowed money from Old Saul or Madam Sophie.

Instead, Old Sol borrowed money from the other five major families, which can be said to have given up his old face.

God knows old Saul never borrowed money in his life.Fortunately, his old Sol's face was quite useful, and he borrowed five thousand gold coins for the family in total.

Otherwise, such a huge plan cannot be supported.

This meeting was such a big event, and since it was decided, there was nothing else to say.Next, Luther selected several knights as assistants for Ston and Pompey, and some scholars as accounting and bookkeeping.

And allocated fifty guards.

They arranged for Ston Pompeii and others to take action.

Afterwards, the meeting was dissolved, and Luther and Lu Luxiu had a private talk for a while.Because the introduction of population is just the beginning, the later logistics still needs to be done.

For example, buying food, building houses and so on.

But the things involved are not only so simple.

Because Luther and Luluxiu are the only two people who know that Luther has the ambition of being a nobleman.

The place of conversation was in Lu Luxiu's mayor's office, a very large office with a rather simple decoration.

After arriving at the office, Lu Luxiu asked Luther if he needed tea. Luther shook his head. Immediately, Lu Luxiu sat on the mayor's seat. Luther took out his chair and sat at the desk casually. ahead.

"The plan is being promoted little by little. The construction of Pompeii is under my watch. Luther, I can assure you that when those freedmen and serfs come in, I will not let a single person starve to death or freeze to death. But besides cutting down forests and adding farmland, do you have a plan for building a city?"

Lulu Xiu asked.

Both of them knew very well that what Luther needed was not just a town, but a city.

Pompeii.

The development of a town and the development of a city are two completely different concepts.Now the construction has just started, but it is necessary to plan a city.

For this, Luther had actually vaguely planned in his heart.Now that Lu Luxiu mentioned it, Luther might as well explain it.

After pondering for a while, Luther said to Lelouch: "I plan to use Pompeii Castle as the center, abandon the fields that originally belonged to the Pompeii family, and build houses. These houses can be given to the current Pompeii family. The vassals, officials, and the rest are for sale. Of course, these houses cannot be sold for a while. After all, Pompeii is still a countryside in the countryside, and it cannot attract free people to settle. But you can store it first, and wait Once the city is well developed, people will naturally settle there. Then build a city wall on the outside. This is my current plan. When the population increases further, it can expand towards the outside. Let the original town become an inner city and expand out. As an outer city, it became a veritable Pompeii town."

After Lu Luxiu heard this, a few smiles flashed in his eyes, he nodded and said, "It's similar to my idea, let's build it little by little. After Pompeii really becomes Pompeii City and the Pompeii family has strong financial resources , we will attack the House of Nobles, get rid of the control of the Barton family, and become the king's vassals, a real title of nobleman."

The two looked at each other and both smiled.

Two careerists who cherish each other are about to show off their grand plans.

"Building a city is the business of the mayor of Pompeii. I won't interrupt here, but there is one thing I have a little idea about."

After laughing, Luther said.

He raised his right leg and placed it on top of his left, leaning his back against the back of the chair, taking a more comfortable position.

"What do you think?" Lu Luxiu felt a little hot, got up and opened the window wider, and asked by the way.

"About serfs, I think serfs are an unnecessary class in this world." Luther easily said some shocking words.

Lu Luxiu felt extremely astonished, he suddenly turned his head to look at Luther, showing an extremely surprised expression.

"Why do you have such thoughts?"

The so-called serfs were slaves directly belonging to the family.It was not only lords who could use serfs, but also big landlords and rich merchants.

This is officially legal human trafficking.

There are many sources, and children born to serfs are still serfs.War with the empire, captive population, can also become serfs.

There are also those who deceive free people and kidnap and sell them into serfs.

The advantage of serfs is that they work for nothing and do not get paid.

Just like the benevolent noble lords like the Pompeii family, the same is true for serfs.Every year, the serfs worked hard, and when the harvest was good, all the grain was handed over.

Then only the rations and daily necessities necessary for life are issued every month, so that the serfs will not starve to death.

Under such circumstances, as long as there is land and serfs, wealth can be continuously generated.

Because of this kind of huge profits, many brutal nobles also killed the free people in the territory, and tried every means to take back the land and let the serfs plant it.

Then squander wealth recklessly.

It can be said that the existence of serfs is a class that serves the entire nobility, big landlords, and rich merchants. No nobleman would dislike serfs.

But now Luther said that serfs are an unnecessary class, how could this not surprise Lu Luxiu.

Facing Lu Luxiu's surprise, Luther smiled slightly.

As a modern person, do you have some kind of pity for creatures like serfs?
As a modern person, do you hold a kind of contempt for the serf system?

There may be some factors, but it is definitely not the case.

Because Luther is the heir of a knight lord's family, the next generation of Pompeii knights is in the privileged class, standing in the privileged class, he is not hostile to the current system of the Kingdom of Prussia, but a natural ally.

In order to continue to maintain privileges, it is natural to maintain the system.

That's why the nobles hate rebellion, and Luther also hates rebellion.

Luther actually had his own considerations when he opposed the serf system.

(End of this chapter)