Working Prophet.

Chapter 584 Resting Only Makes People Insatiable

"Master Graymane, please think again." Herbert almost blurted out, seeing Wilde glance at him, he hurriedly added.

"I know that Prophet Merlin saved Donia's life, so of course we should give him some rewards, such as two thousand golden lions, and the friendship of the Singleton family.

But I don't think it's appropriate to send Miss Donia to the green field.I mean she's your only granddaughter and you should keep her with you. "

Wilder's face softened a little, but he still shook his head and said, "I can't protect her for the rest of my life, and she's not young anymore, it's time to go out and see the world and learn something."

"Then you can come to the Church of the Earth and Grain to study. We will send the most knowledgeable priest in the church to teach Miss Donia." Herbert suggested.

"Oh, what can you teach her, can you help her improve her martial arts? Or can you teach her how to manage the territory, or remove the curse for her subjects?" Wilder asked.

Herbert was dumbfounded.

Improving martial arts, Dadi and Grain Church are definitely not as good as Shuangxiu Teaching, after all, the latter just helped Ilea win the championship of this martial arts competition.

And they are not the opponents of Shuangxiu Church in managing the territory. Since the Arias family converted to Saturday, they are now thriving, as long as they are not blind, they can see it.

Not to mention getting rid of the curse, syphilis, which made the church helpless, was defeated by Li Yu just like that.

Herbert racked his brains and only came up with one aspect in which the Church of the Earth and Grain was dominant.

"We will not indoctrinate Miss Donia with such toxic ideas as 'rest is a birthright'."

The priest said seriously, "That will only make your subjects lazy, and you and your family will suffer heavy losses, and you also know those greedy untouchables, if you give them a little sweetness, they may be grateful to you at that time, but time Over time, they'll just ask for more.

"Once you set that precedent, things will go so badly that no one will give you a good job."

Donia couldn't help but interjected, "But we went to the capital together with Sir Ilea and Prophet Merlin, and we haven't seen the guards of the Arias family and the Hughes of the Shuangxiu Church slacking off for a few days. .

"Hmm... You want to say that you always run outside all day long, especially there are two people who go to the tavern, but they are bards, and they are still bards after Saturday. Their job is to go to the bard." All kinds of banquets."

"That's because what you saw was the elite of the Arias family, of course they are more obedient than ordinary people, and they are right under the noses of Sir Ilea and Prophet Merlin."

Herbert looked at Wilder, "Master Gray Mane, I remember that the old castellan asked you to manage several farms when you were young, so you have dealt with those farmers.

"Then do you think if you let them rest for two days out of seven, they will work hard for the remaining five days?
"Or is it that they will also be immersed in the two days of rest in the future, lazily unable to raise their spirits, and just constantly looking forward to the arrival of the next rest day?"

"This..." Wilder couldn't help but hesitated a little. Indeed, those warriors who have undergone rigorous training, and nobles with relatively strong self-discipline may be able to live strictly according to this new routine.

But the common people, especially those serfs, will definitely become more and more slack.

Wilder turned his attention to Li Yu again, wanting to see if the latter had any good solutions.

In fact, similar things have already happened in the green field.

Long before Li Yu and Ilea set off for the capital, Jin Tong and Ma Ke from the court had dealt with a case of compulsory work.

The reason was that a housekeeper of a farm felt that the serfs were being lazy in their usual work, so he ignored the precepts of the weekend religion and forced them to work overtime in the field.

Later, he was punished by the referee, but the young referee named Marco also became confused after that.

Because in his opinion, the fat butler was wrong, but those serfs were indeed lazy and caused the owner of the farm to suffer losses.

Jin Tong's answer to this is that we are the referees, and we only care about things that violate the precepts, and we don't care about the rest.

Later, when Li Yu found out about this, he called all the referees together and praised Jin Tong for his actions.

In Li Yu's view, the answer to this question is actually very simple.

As long as all the land is leased to the peasants, those lords will only focus on collecting rent from now on, and naturally they will not worry about such things anymore.

To put it bluntly, the labor system of serfs is relatively backward. Even if there are no weekends, those serfs did not work hard in their own fields when they worked for the master's house.

This is not even considered lazy or slick, it is just a rational choice of an economic man.

Of course, this is easy to say, but it is very difficult to reform it.

Because the nobles on the continent of Bratis are already used to this method of production.

Even if renting seeds can bring them greater income, it will be difficult for them to turn around for a while. Second, due to various reasons, many self-cultivating farmers go bankrupt and become serfs every year.

Especially when there is a lot of harvest in a disaster year, the number of serfs in the major families will increase greatly, and even because of too many refugees, some bankrupt self-cultivating farmers will not be able to become serfs even if they want to.

And after collecting so many serfs, the nobles must of course have a place to house them. This is also an important reason why those farms exist.

But now Li Yu has produced a pedal-operated textile machine, and has also opened a textile factory. Besides, he also has a paper factory, a brick factory, and an iron factory and a glass factory to be built in the future. etc.

There is no need to worry about no place to absorb those bankrupt peasants, so the only thing that hinders the nobles from abandoning serfdom is the local tradition.

Li Yu didn't intend to push forward this matter forcefully, because it would probably arouse strong dissatisfaction among the nobles. In comparison, he still preferred to adopt a relatively mild method.

By telling the nobles which method is more profitable, guide them to slowly transform into pure land renters.

But this kind of thing can't be said in person now, it may scare the nobles in the city.

Li Yu just said to Ilea who was on the side, "Tell Sir Wilder about the output of the Arias family's estate this year."

Miss Rabbit nodded, "This autumn my farm has harvested one and a half times more crops than in previous years."

"How is this possible?" Herbert was shocked, "Why are there so many? Did your farm suffer a disaster last year?"

"No, it's all thanks to Saturday."

(End of this chapter)