Lord of Rot

Chapter 24 The Master and the Dog
The black pig fell to the ground, and the blood stained his face, which was half buried in the soil, and formed a pool of blood on the ground.

The heavy breathing blows out a pocket in the pool of blood, and when the breath stops, the pool of blood fills up the pocket again.

The slaves in the distance watched this scene and saw Ake holding the bright red stone, and stopped their actions in fear.

"Call everyone over here," Li Qi said.

Ake's two sons ran away tremblingly, and soon the slaves gathered together. They looked at the lord's boots in fear, probably trying to count how many dusts were stained on them, and the name "class" on their heads The weight weighed on them, making them afraid to raise their heads.

The black pig's body was lying there, the blood slowly turning black.

All are quiet, and death reminds them of fear, especially when they are full, and no one wants to die.

"In Porcupine Collar, slaves don't have nothing. Although you are slaves, I allow the top three people with the most harvest next year to own their own private property!" He was riding on the horse, and his eyes swept across the faces that couldn't hide the fear in the dirt. : "Slaves can also have their own grain here. I, Li Qi Clarence, the Baron of the Porcupine Collar, can promise you here that the top three people who will harvest the most next year will get [-]% of the grain harvest one!"

The whispers of the slaves grew louder and louder.

Ake, holding a big blood-stained stone, looked at the scene with a wry smile. He knew that he had to play the role of a manager: "Quiet!"

The bloodied stone made his breathless cry intimidating.

He will act as a vicious manager. Under the leadership of the benevolent lord, the slaves will hate him more and be more loyal to their master Li Qi.

Ake also understood what Li Qi said just now. Maybe the baron really planned to support the black pig to become the manager just now. No matter who becomes the manager, it is the same for the noble lord.

It was just Ake's ferocity and the wrong judgment of the farmers that made him kill the black pig first.

A noble needs a dog that can bark.

Facing the slaves with fiery eyes, Li Qi said: "So, cultivate the fields as soon as possible, and you will live better here."

He clamped the horse's belly between his legs: "Drive!"

The fiery-maned horse hoofed away, leaving only the fiery slave and the cold corpse lying on the ground.

……

The black raven spread its wings and quickly shuttled through the woods.

The yellowing leaves are like a natural flight training ground.

After flying for a while, it landed on a tree branch, raised its left black wing and pecked.

Inside the Porcupine Castle, Baron Li Qi's consciousness returned.

He deliberately released a raven, and released the "Eagle Eye" magic on it. Unfortunately, the uncontrollable raven made Baron Li Qi always see some things he didn't want to see, such as eating bugs.

The consumption of "Eagle Eye"'s spirit is not serious, which is roughly equivalent to the mental consumption of reading a Lurea geography book with breathless concentration and forcefully memorizing most of the awkward geographical names, and this consumption is only You need to drink a sip of strong tea and take a short rest to recover.

The butler Simon knocked on the door and entered.

"Forgive me for disturbing you, my lord." Simon's expression showed no apology at all.

"what happened?"

"You are the most generous lord I have ever seen"

Simon said: "Although I'm just your housekeeper, I still want to remind you that almost all the grain you asked me to buy was robbed by the farmers of the porcupine collar... Well, it was borrowed."

He considered his own words, and Li Qi could still hear a typo he intentionally left behind to express his dissatisfaction.

"Did you do what I said?" Li Qi picked up the teacup. After the little maid found out that the wild chrysanthemum tree was praised last time, all the servants in the castle knew the lord's habit of drinking strange flowers and herbs to make tea. After persistent searching , now there is another kind of tea on Li Qi's table.

This is a tea that tastes like jasmine but is red all over, perfect for cleaning greasy intestines.

"Of course, I ordered people to follow your request." Simon nodded: "There is an upper limit on the amount that each person can borrow. Families with a large population can borrow more food, but that's just the case. They don't even have milk Children are included in the quota... Your food has now become stacks of paper."

"We just saved a census," Li Qi said half-jokingly, but the expression of the deep-rooted housekeeper didn't change at all.

"Okay," Li Qi said, "If you lend them food, they will repay us 1.3 times in the coming year, and everyone in the porcupine collar is my private property. I can make money and let them survive this winter. Why? Wouldn't it be fun to do it?"

"The premise is that they can really have a good harvest next year." The steward hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The porcupine collar may have been abandoned by the four gods. There is not much food grown here. Those farmers know this, so they come here as much as possible." Borrowing food from the castle is because of your kindness."

"They will have a good harvest," Li Qi said with certainty.

If he doesn’t want to starve to death a group of people this year, he has to find a way. The dead porcupine collar civilians are also his property. He has to make some trade-offs between food and population. "You don't want people to starve to death, they're laborers.

Improvements in farming methods and fertilizers will play a lot.

Of course, the most important thing is that the baron doesn't care about the meager rental income of the porcupine collar at this time. If the research on the herb of life pill is successful, he will have a huge income.

The research is slowly coming to an end, as long as the potency of the medicine is continuously attenuated until it can be worthy of "pitching a tent".

Seeing that the butler wanted to say something, Li Qi interrupted him by raising his hand: "How do the slaves use those plows?"

"Your wisdom is enough to impress the Heavenly Father." Simon sighed sincerely: "That magical thing is much faster than digging a hole by hand. Two slaves can do the work of ten people together! Those slaves even want to apply Open up more wasteland.”

"Although I am happy to see them being so active, it's okay to continue to open up wasteland." Li Qi shook his head and rejected the slaves' request: "They want to win the final victory by reclaiming a large number of fields. What I want is to take good care of the farmland. It's about caring, not wasting land, and tell Ake he'll know what to do."

It is impossible to use all the land to grow crops. According to Li Qi's prediction, the porcupine collar still needs development planning instead of all farming.

There is too much land, and people can't take care of it. In the end, they just planted and let the land grow by itself. The result is nothing more than repeating this year's autumn harvest.

Moreover, in order to get the first place, slaves may not do anything out of the ordinary.

If you can't be the first, then others can't be the first, or steal, or rob, or worse... He needs to vaccinate Ake so that he can take precautions as soon as possible.

Death can restrain slaves, but it can also restrict development. There must be correct guidance, and punishment and spurs must not be forgotten while stimulating vitality.

"Yes" the butler nodded.

After the new baron woke up from a coma, the butler found that the baron seemed to be a different person, his thoughts were more eccentric, active, and he had endless new ideas.

Of course, there are some bad changes, such as being more tolerant towards servants' mistakes, and being too kind. If it weren't for the fact that the baron had executed a slave who led a strike, he would have worried that Porcupine Castle would not survive the second winter. The vicious lord It may not make the territory rich, but an overly kind and cowardly lord will definitely not be able to hold his own land.

It didn't matter that the plow was destined to accelerate the development of agriculture, and of course it might soon be copied by others.

Li Qi found that the soil in the porcupine collar was thick and moist, and the light plow could not penetrate deep enough into the soil. It was necessary to use the light plow to turn over the soil several times, and even part of the land required people to step on the plow and use their weight to step the plow into the soil .A heavy plow will be more suitable than a light plow, but everything needs to be done gradually, and the porcupine collar currently does not have enough animal power to use a heavy plow.

(End of this chapter)