I was regarded as a demon god by a witch

Chapter 202 Ivetar's Lord's Decree
A day and a half later, Evita and Christine returned to their territory.

To Christine's surprise, it was only then that she realized that Iveta's territory was so special that it was located on the only main road into Ambrose's territory in the west.

At that time, two carriages passed by the village, and Ivita noticed that the leaders of the four villages had basically rebuilt the village, and the rest were just some small problems such as the division of farmland. They rebuilt it with red bricks and bluestones. The village composed of tall buildings seems to live in a fairy tale world, with red walls and green streets, beautiful.

Compared with the villages built with hay, mud and wood in the past, it seems to be in two worlds.

From the current village, it is impossible to see the village that used to be the Baron of Moluo.

Christine said to Evita, "I've been to many territories of Ambrose, but yours is indeed the richest."

"I really didn't expect that you are still a good lord."

Ivita raised her brows at her, "People don't look good."

Christine nodded thoughtfully.

Passing through the village, two carriages came to the gate of the castle.

The butler Akalia greeted Ivita at the gate of the castle with five servants. When Ivita got off the carriage, the butler hurried up to say hello and told Ivita that everything was fine in the territory, except for the sudden There is an extra castle.

The steward said that he had asked Knight Griffin to assign ten militiamen to garrison the castle that suddenly appeared on the other side of the mountainside.

After all, the castle is big and luxurious, and it is full of fortifications.

Therefore, Knight Griffin immediately went to protect the castle that suddenly appeared.

The steward also reported to Ivita that the iron foundry could already earn [-] gold pounds for the territory every month.

This number is increasing every day, because it is not that the output of cast iron is not enough, but that the market is not very wide.

However, cast iron is actually a very good commodity, so it was only a matter of time.

As for the soap factory, it is still in the stage of investing and losing money.

Ivita casually took off the dirty coat and handed it to the male servant beside him. The butler gave the male servant a wink and asked the tall male servant to help Ivita put on the clean clothes.

Ivita refused the servant to dress herself, but put it on herself, and said to the steward, "This is Miss Christine, the hunter I invited for the territory. Christine, this is my housekeeper."

Christine pouted, why did you invite me here.

Say it as if you paid for it.

But she didn't choose to expose Iveta in front of the servants.

No matter how personal she is with Ivata, she can't speak casually to Iviata in front of the servants.

Christine still has a sense of proportion.

The butler hurriedly took the lead to salute Christine, and then asked a servant to help Christine get things.

Ivita asked the steward to arrange for Christine to stay in the castle, and then he said to the steward: "From today onwards, we must strengthen the awareness of the people on guarding against wolves. And, if there are people in our territory who plant aconite, we can follow a The price of 3 shillings per mu is subsidized."

"But if it exceeds 1 mu, there will be no subsidies."

Don't give too much subsidy to the residents, otherwise everyone will plant aconite, and things will be very troublesome.

When walking with Christine before, she told herself that aconite is not poisonous to humans, but only highly poisonous to werewolves and wolves.This is different from the aconite on the blue star, which is also a highly poisonous plant to humans. Perhaps this has something to do with the druids' curse on the wolves.

Although the housekeeper didn't understand why Ivita asked the citizens to plant aconite, he didn't say much, but bowed his head to Ivita and said, "Master Ivita, I will announce your intentions. But this kind of thing requires you to sign a territorial decree."

Evita nodded. "If there is nothing else, let's do it first, Mr. Akalia."

"Later, I will ask Raleigh to give you the territorial decree I signed."

He decided to go back to the study first, and study the Cloak of Destruction again while he had time, so as to improve his abilities in order to deal with the war that was about to be waged against the cemetery.

The butler hesitated for a moment, and said to Ivita, "Master Ivita, there is a small matter that you don't need to deal with, but I think I should tell you about it."

As Ivita walked, she said to him, "Speak."

The butler lowered his head, carefully considered the sentence, and then said to Ivita, "That's right, this matter is rather strange."

"The day before yesterday, a team of explorers from the north passed through our territory and wanted to enter Ambrose. The guards at our toll booth had warned them several times not to act recklessly, but this team of explorers actually robbed the edge of our territory in the middle of the night a villager."

"Of course, this team of explorers has been captured by our patrolling guards and imprisoned in the territorial prison."

"only……"

Ivita raised his brows and glanced at the butler. If this is the case, then why should he tell himself if he needs to be exiled according to the rules, and if he needs to be executed.

Ivita said, "What happened?"

The housekeeper immediately said: "The more difficult thing to deal with is that the team of explorers went to harass the villagers in our territory and broke into their homes in the middle of the night. Instead, they were treated as thieves and killed two of them with a sickle."

"The murderer was the man from that family."

"That's why the more troublesome thing is here. According to Ambrose's law, the murderer must pay with his life."

"But... Anyway, the man is already in prison now, but many villagers jointly begged me and Knight Griffin to spare his life."

The steward explained: "According to Ambrose's law, if someone outside someone's territory invades your territory and violates Ambrose's law and your law, you have the right to kill the intruder."

"But if your subjects committed capital crimes, then the lord of the territory has no right to sentence the subjects to death."

The butler said in embarrassment: "You have to report the situation to the eldest viscount, and then wait for the eldest viscount, or the secretary team of the eldest viscount, to decide the fate of this citizen."

Ivita frowned and said: "Ambrose is already very chaotic now, and Ambrose's central government is divided into two, so there is no need to report to Ambrose City."

"Anyway, even if we don't report it, who will know."

The butler smiled. "Of course. In fact, the report will not report the situation, it all depends on the consciousness of the local lords."

"It's just Lord Ivita, how do you deal with the man who killed someone."

"Although it is understandable for that man to kill the explorer. But if a person has killed someone, he will break through the moral limit in his heart. In this way, letting him continue to stay in the village is a disservice to other citizens. threatened."

Evita is also having a headache, how to deal with this person.

Kill him, he just rebelled against the robbers who invaded his house;

If you don't kill him, the citizens will fight for a small reason in the future, and everyone will have the courage to kill him.I also have to take into account the authority of the lord and the law. If I don't deal with him at all, I can't justify it.

This is the difficulty of being a lord.

When your words and deeds hold the fate of thousands of people, you have to make a careful decision.

A legal misconduct, very likely, will have very bad consequences, far worse than killing one or two people.

Christine glanced at it, and said to Ivita who was hesitating: "In order to protect your family, you killed a robber. As a lord, what can you blame him for?"

"It's better to pardon him innocent."

Evita shook her head at Christine. "What you said is indeed not wrong. I also agree with what you said emotionally."

"However, according to the law of the Independent Viscount Country of Ambrose, the death penalty will be imposed on the subjects who kill people."

"Although this law is basically ignored for refugees like explorers and nobles."

"But if he is acquitted today, it will undermine the majesty of the law. After that, people in the territory will follow suit. If there is a slight conflict, they will pick up farm tools and kill those who insulted his mother or father, or If someone else occupied half an acre of his land, he would have a reason to kill someone."

"The order in the territory will be chaotic."

"From the perspective of order, the act of killing cannot be taken lightly."

"But he can't be sentenced to death just because of this kind of thing." Ivita patted his forehead and said, "He didn't commit any crimes to die."

"Ah, why don't you find him a job that doesn't need to stay in the village, and can redeem his sins and support his family." Ivita said to the steward, "Well, I happen to have the idea of ​​​​expanding the guards of the territory. Now the guards in our territory There were not even 200 guards."

"You let him go into the army for free for three months, and gave him board and lodging, but you didn't give him any food subsidies or military rewards."

"Also, confiscate the belongings of those explorers to compensate the loss of the leader's family, and give all the money on those explorers to the leader's family. Then, all the explorer team who committed the crime will be sentenced to death , to warn other explorers who want to cause trouble with me."

The butler's eyes lit up, and he said to Ivita, "My lord, it's better for you."

"This not only punishes the villager, but it's just a small punishment, and it can save you a lot of money."

Evita coughed, then glanced at Christine.

Butler, can you delete the last half of the sentence?
Am I being embarrassed?
The butler was also a smart person, so he immediately changed his words and said, "My lord, you are the most generous. Of course, the small sum of money saved here could not be your goal."

Christine gave Evita an amused look.

For the lord, thrift is also a virtue, so why does Ivita need to hide it.

A lord must be a good lord if he is frugal with himself but generous with the people in his territory.

Christine has seen too many second and third generation nobles of Ambrose, who were forced to sell their ancestral properties and manors because of gambling and poor management, so she did not dislike Ivita's frugality, but rather An attitude of appreciation.

Ivita said to the butler again: "It's better to solve this small matter as soon as possible."

"By the way, in addition to this, you can also discuss with Griffin Knights and recruit professionals such as wandering knights, wandering knight attendants, wandering warriors and wandering hunters from outside the territory. The first-level professionals can give about 48 A salary of 150 gold pounds, and a second-level professional can give a salary of about [-] gold pounds per year."

The salary is actually not that high.

Because the knights who follow Ivita now allot the land to them and let them be loyal to themselves.

This is actually using land instead of money to pay them.

In other words, in this process, land is actually used as currency.

But if you use currency to hire jobs, then the price given by Iveta is already too low, and it is basically difficult to recruit any serious professionals.

Recruiting professionals is something that a baronial territory cannot do. If it weren't for the huge wealth brought by the cast iron business, Ivita would not dare to be so proud.

The housekeeper obviously understood this, and he was a little embarrassed: "These conditions may not be so attractive to serious professionals."

Ivita said to the steward: "Then you can still declare to the outside world that I still have a viscount territory occupied by pirates overseas. This time they recruit them to plan to gather troops to retake my overseas territory."

"So, they have a chance to seal the land."

When the butler heard this, although he was puzzled by Lord Ivita, where did he get an overseas viscount when he went out this time, he still said excitedly: "With this condition, even formal knights may be recruited. The conditions are very generous.”

What the knights are thinking about is to establish military exploits in order to seal the soil.

Although the condition given by Ivita is a big cake, it is a round and fragrant cake that makes people linger and forget to return.

No knight can resist this temptation.

In this era when the commodity economy was not very developed, land was the most valuable thing and the most expensive currency.

As long as he said that, Custodian can recruit many professionals.

But Evita wasn't lying to them either.

Although the expansion of the city guards was more to prevent wars in the cemetery and Ambrose, it was also for the purpose of taking back the Viscounty that Milani had transferred to him in the near future.

Ivita said to the steward: "Besides, you can also recruit some young and middle-aged men inside and outside the territory. As ordinary soldiers, their salary is four gold pounds and 12 shillings a year."

"Approximately 200 more recruits."

"I will give you a few lord's decrees signed by me later."

Ivita originally wanted to go to see his new castle first, but now that there are so many things, he should go back to the study and make a signature robot.

The butler weighed it in his heart, and the price that Ivita offered to ordinary soldiers was much higher than the normal price.

Generally, the lords pay the price offered by the soldiers, which is two and a half to three gold pounds a year.

This is roughly equivalent to one year's money of a young skilled worker, which is considered an upper-middle income among local civilians.

Of course, soldiers have other additional income after all.

Ivita glanced at the steward and said, "I just want to give those ordinary soldiers some more money, so that I can manage them with strict laws, so that they will not offend the people of the territory."

"If I don't increase their salaries and let them cherish their current positions, then no matter how strict laws I issue, the effect will not be very good."

The butler suddenly realized, showing admiration.

Ivita walked into the castle and entered the second floor of the castle. He came to the study, picked up the documents and started working.

After signing a lot of documents and letting the servants bring them to the steward, he began to read the magic book of the Cloak of Destruction. When he learned this magic before, he found that no matter what he did, there would always be some details that went wrong.

At that time, he knew that he might have gone astray, so he didn't practice forcefully.

"Pan God, the Hearthstone Witch, and the Ice Witch should be coming back soon. I can use the name of the alliance to let them try as a reference for me."

Evita thought about it. "The spell Milani gave me should be fine, but why is there always an inexplicable resistance?"

The battle was imminent, and he had to learn at least one defensive spell.

It's better that this defensive spell should be more powerful, so that he can protect himself well.

(End of this chapter)