Warhammer Seal

Chapter 37
Scaritz.

There is indeed a problem with the name of this village. Not only did it crash into the Novice Village in "Heavenly Salvation", but it also crashed into the territory of the protagonist Lailun in "The Lords of the Medieval Warhammer" next door.

In addition, the name was too difficult to pronounce, so that the newly appointed Lord Baron changed the name of this village with only a dozen families. . .

"Village Chief, what's your name?"

"My name is Mike, my lord, my name is Mike."

"Okay, from tomorrow, this will be called Maijia Village. Go and inform everyone about the name change, and then gather everyone at the head of the village. I want to dance, no, I want to talk."

To be honest, before coming here, Wende thought about becoming a good lord.

But when the farmers here open their mouths, their mouths are full of stench.

There are fleas all over the body, and I don't know how many years I have worn inappropriate clothes. Most of them don't even have a pair of shoes.

His hands were rough, his nails were full of mud, and his hair stinks.

God, this is just the peasants of the empire. I really don't know what kind of inhuman life the old Bretonnian peasants live next door.

Under the leadership of the village head, a total of 82 people from [-] households in the village gathered at the head of the village to listen to the speech of the new lord.

"Everyone, how much tax did the previous lord collect in advance?"

"My lord, a total of 58 silver coins and [-] copper coins have been collected."

Wende looked at the sky and felt sad. The empire did not collect much taxes on farmers. If he wanted to owe twenty silver coins, at least he had received 40k in advance.

Just kidding, the previous lord was not that courageous, he just collected taxes three months in advance when he was about to run away.

As for the next lord, there are other ways to squeeze money out of these peasants anyway.

The peasants were also downcast. Once the lord came to the law, the new lord who came now was afraid that he would have his own tax quota again.

"In this way, tax exemption for three months after that."

Wende waved his hand, greeted with excited shouts from below, what a good lord this is, he actually admitted that the tax collected in advance by the previous lord was valid.

"Don't be too happy, you farmers, everything in this world has a price, and your price is very simple. Tomorrow morning, you must send girls and boys over six years old and under 16 years old in your family Send it to my mansion, if not."

Wende fired a shot into the sky while speaking, and the explosion caused by the black powder was indeed shocking enough.

First night tax, the peasants all understand what it means to send their children to the lord's house.

But why do you want a little boy? It is probably because the lord has some special hobbies.

"Next, do you have anything urgent to do?"

Everyone shook their heads. Although their essential work was farming, once the lord gave an order, everyone had to go out immediately.

I really envy the farmers in Bretonnia next door. No matter how much the war is fought, many farmers will still be left at home to farm.

"Okay, since there is nothing urgent, everyone is queuing here."

After all, Ruixi has already picked up a lot of clothes and put them next to Wende, all of which were bought with Ruixi's bonus.

There are two purposes, the first is to create some consumption for the newly built weaving room in Altdorf, and the second is to give it to these farmers.

Of course, Wende had prepared a shower room in advance. Several wooden boards were combined to form a room, and there were fixed cleaning machines outside.

The water source is from a nearby river.

One by one the peasants walked into the showers, undressed at Wind's orders, and were scrubbed back and forth by a giant brush.

Every time a person is washed, the river water that flows out turns gray.

After going through this pig-washing process, they can wear the clothes prepared by Lord Lord Wende for free.

Clean, brand new, with smooth hair and no odour.

Before, I always saw that the traversers started to build infrastructure and economic development after obtaining the foundation.

As a person who has really done grassroots construction, Wende is more aware of what the village needs most at present.

If you don't want to be corrupted by Nurgle and poisoned by corrupt clans, public health is the most important issue.

From a selfish point of view, Wende himself is just an ordinary person, and malaria, plague, and even high fever can directly take his life away.

Once you need to stay in a place where humans gather for a long time, you must be prepared for epidemic prevention and control.

Time flies, and all the residents have washed their bodies and put on new clothes.

An ordinary piece of clothing made them so grateful to Wende that they even wanted to kneel down a few times.

"Don't kneel!"

Wind fired another shot into the air.

"Here are five strong young men, and I will take you to do sanitation construction!"

Due to the three-month tax exemption, these farmers do not have too urgent a task.

In addition, the sanitation construction that the lord said is beneficial to every villager, naturally makes all the young men in corvee full of energy.

However, this so-called sanitation construction is just a big hole dug behind each house and then covered with wooden boards.

"Ah, don't poop everywhere in the future, you can only poop into this septic tank. You dig another squatting hole, so that it is convenient to go to the toilet."

Why does a dignified lord care about shitting.

This is because Wen De has learned political knowledge in high school, and at the same time has a little, a little bit of economics.

In some common novels, when a lumberyard is knocked, a quarry is built, a mine is dug, and farmland is reclaimed, money comes rushing in. It's just a novel.

(As if this is also just a novel)
If you really want to develop the economy, you must first understand what the economy is, right?

Imperial humans in this period had not escaped the mercantilist concept that the accumulation of gold and silver reserves was the key to personal and national prosperity.

What really measures the level of the economy is the quantity of national and individual labor products.

The more products there are, the richer the people's material life will be, and vice versa.

The key to the prosperity of nations and individuals is to increase their productive capacity, not to accumulate gold and silver.

Many policies aimed at accumulating gold and silver are not conducive to the improvement of production capacity, but will restrict the development of productivity. As a result, not only is it not conducive to the prosperity of the country and individuals, but it also hinders the road to wealth.

Then, here comes the problem.

How can Wende increase the production capacity of Maijia Village, that is, the village production capacity?

(End of this chapter)