My farm does not raise idle dragons

Farms have a completely different meaning to nobles.

A nobleman without a farm may or may not have money, but a nobleman who owns a farm is definitely very rich.

This is about what the farm represents. The farm is actually equivalent to various factories on the earth, such as food and other things. A small part of the source is grown by civilians. This food feeds most urban residents. , but more food sources are noble farms.

In addition, there are fruits, wine, etc., which are basically linked to the farm. A noble who owns a farm is equivalent to having an assembly line that can produce money.

However, the ability of a farm to "generate money" actually depends on the nobles who manage it. Some nobles have outstanding skills and are able to produce unique products and increase the value of the farm, while some nobles can only rely on the profits of the farm's production. , earn some "hard-earned money".

But even just hard-earned money is enough to make most nobles jealous, and the value of the farm is evident.

Of course, not everyone can own a farm. The main sources of a farm are "inheritance" and "reward". These two conditions make the farm almost a symbolic item of the nobility.

Suppose there is a very wealthy businessman who buys a piece of land and establishes a "farm". Is this "farm" the same as the farm above?
No, it’s completely different, because the premise for the formation of every farm is inseparable from three parts.

First, it is a security guarantee that is enough to protect oneself from the tide of monsters. Unlike a town, a farm can rely on those thick walls to block it, so more powerful "elemental mages" are needed for garrison defense.

Needless to say, the "huge" salary paid every year, without a certain status, it is completely impossible to invite these "elemental mages" to take on defense work.

As for the Lingbo Farm in Lu Xi, some people may subconsciously overlook one thing, that is, there is a small Holy See, a "Pope" and a "Saint" in the Lingbo Farm. This level of security has been compromised. Beat 90.00% of the farms in the different world.

Second, there is a high tax to be paid to the country where the business is located. If the farm is established by a businessman himself, the annual tax that needs to be paid is as high as 50%-80%. If the profit from selling the goods is not enough, it will completely lose money in business.

Farms obtained through inheritance and rewards have the preferential treatment of "tax exemption". Therefore, in fact, the number of farms in other worlds is not too many. If a noble has a farm, his status will not be too low.

Thirdly, there are people. Even on a farm in another world, there are absolutely indispensable slaves to work. In addition to nobles who can "legally" buy and sell slaves without restrictions, those with status such as merchants, for the slaves under their hands, are absolutely indispensable. Quantity is limited.

In other words, if you raise more than a certain number of slaves, you will have to pay a tax, which is still a very high poll tax. For people who are not members of the aristocratic class, the laws of the other world will always strike hard.

Therefore, most businessmen will adopt the "employment" method. Although this requires paying wages to those "employees", this is more appropriate than paying taxes. As long as the wages are set relatively low, sufficient profits can be guaranteed.

In fact, to put it bluntly, when nobles open farms, they only make money, while when businessmen open farms, they spend money. The money is not earned yet, but there is a lot of money lost.

However, even though there are various strict requirements for non-nobles, there are always people who can find "loopholes" in these regulations.

For example, if you spend some money to bribe a noble and put the farm in the noble's name, although it is not a formal reward or inheritance, you still have to pay taxes, but you only need to pay 10%-30% tax. This is the preferential treatment of nobles.

Similarly, although merchants cannot own too many slaves, they can give money to nobles and then borrow slaves from nobles. Hiring has to worry about the negative effects of overwork and exhaustion, but there is no need to worry about borrowed slaves. The most that can be done with this problem is to give the nobles more money.

After all, slaves in another world are just property that belongs to the master. Whether life or death, they are in the hands of the master.

What makes civilians better than slaves is probably the illusory "freedom".

However, you have to be wary of monster attacks all year round, and you have to drag your family with you from time to time. You may not be able to eat two bites of the food you grow all year round, and many civilians will starve to death on the road.

Is it really much better than those slaves whose life and death are not controlled by themselves, but do not need to avoid monsters and have a stable source of food?

Cross was filled with uneasiness, waiting for the trial from the other side. They really had no other choice.

It can be seen from the body shape of this group of people that the most valuable men are young and strong, but they all have their own shortcomings. The only two who can deal with it are Cross and the young Tie Ya.

Darcy Village is willing to keep Cross, but Cross is the leader of this group of people. He can't leave these companions who rely on him and stay alone selfishly.

Tie Ya is young and is growing tall. He eats too much and may not be able to do much work yet. Although Daxi Village expressed their acceptance for their pity, Tie Ya did not stay because his His sister is here too, and he can't abandon her.

Tie Ya's sister is a girl of thirteen or fourteen, and she is at an awkward age. If you say she is a child, it doesn't count anymore, but if you say we are married, it is too early. It will take two years to raise a child. , although child brides are good, no one can afford a free breadwinner. How can anyone with no family conditions dare to do this?

Another girl who is about the same age as Sister Tie Ya can get married directly, but there is no young man of the right age to marry in Kexi Village...

In the end, there was only a widower whose wife died in childbirth, leaving behind a widow with a two-year-old boy in Wamuda Village. It can be regarded as a successful blind date.

After all, Daxi Village is just a small, poor village with a population of 200.

Later, an elderly village head of Darcy Village told Cross that there was a noble farm in the north. If they were willing to become slaves on the farm, they might be able to survive.

Cross hesitated for a moment, not that he was unwilling to become a slave. For people like them, becoming a slave might not be a "happy" choice.

But the key is, will this group of people who are not even willing to take in Darcy Village be favored by the nobles on the farm?
The old village head of Darxi Village shook his head, "The noble on the farm over there is an extremely kind lady. She has never had a slave who died from exhaustion. She will distribute thick clothes to the slaves in winter, even when the harvest is not good. , when someone goes to the farm to beg, she will give out enough food.”

As he said that, the old village chief of Darxi Village couldn't help but let out a long sigh, "In the early years, there was a severe drought, and the food harvested in my field could not feed the family. My brother was only that old at the time, and I I couldn't bear to let him starve to death, so I went to the farm alone. Even if I become a slave, if there are fewer people in the family to eat food, my brother will be more likely to survive."

"But I didn't expect that the lady didn't take me as a slave. She just gave me a shovel and let me work on the farm for a month. Finally, she gave me two bags of grain to take away. We took it home, and later on, our family relied on those two bags of grain, and we all survived."

Cross also looked shocked when he heard this, "That's really a kind-hearted lady."

The old village head of Darxi Village had water in his eyes, but his expression suddenly dimmed a lot, "Some time ago, the noble lady passed away. I heard that the person who inherited her farm was one of her granddaughters, and she should be the same as that. She must be as kind as a lady."

Cross wasn't sure, but people like them had no better choice. Not to mention the food that could support them on their way, they just had to eat and sleep in the open air every day. If they couldn't find a place to live, their bodies couldn't bear it.

There are also monsters that need to be vigilant at all times. Although there are very few monsters around here due to the farm, it is not completely absent.

As long as they encounter a slightly larger monster, these people have almost no ability to resist.

Therefore, Cross didn't hesitate for long before he immediately made his decision, "Which farm is it?" The eyes of the old village chief of Darcy Village were suddenly blank for a moment, but soon returned to normal, and there was no strange sound in his voice. Place, "Lingxin Farm."

The time was, five days ago.

After Lu Xi listened to Cross's account, it was difficult to describe her feelings.

No, that Darxi Village is hundreds of kilometers away from Lingxuan Farm, and the village is poor and backward... How on earth did he know that the owner of the farm had died and had a new owner?

The most important thing is that it seems that it has only been seven days since Lu Xi named the farm "Lingxin". During these seven days, Lu Xi has not left the farm, and no one else has been in the farm. How did the news of the name change spread? ? ?

Lu Xi really wanted to find the old village chief of Darxi Village and ask, are you also an NPC?
However, the main reason why Lu Xi ignored Cross was not because of this, but because of the system notification that suddenly popped up in front of her.

[System notification: Congratulations to the player for completing the "Side Mission: Unknown Crowd" and receiving the mission reward "100 experience points". The next side mission has been opened for the player. 】

[Side mission: Displaced people: Players met this group of people and learned their identities. It turned out that they were a group of displaced people who had lost their homes. Players are asked to decide where this group of people belong. 】

[Task reward: 200 experience points, depending on the player's choice to start the next side task. 】

Choice...what else to choose? Lu Xi sighed and touched her conscience. If she was so hungry that she couldn't even eat herself, then she would definitely ignore this group of people.

However, her system backpack is full of food. In just ten minutes, she can plant and harvest enough food to feed hundreds of people.

But at this time, a group of people who were too hungry to survive appeared in front of her. What other choice could she make?

Cross waited anxiously for a long time before he sighed like an illusion, "Okay, okay, go and bring your companions over."

The meaning of the words was self-evident. Cross raised his head full of surprise, then woke up and quickly lowered his head, not daring to look directly at Lu Xi.

Lu Xi looked at Cross's naked upper body and felt that it was not good to let him go back like this. Without the protection of clothes, he could easily be cut by blades of grass.

So she searched around in the system backpack and contract package, and finally took out a bathrobe... She had almost no clothes for Cross to wear.

On the other hand, Lu Xi has several bathrobes produced by this system in his backpack, which were part of the clothing design drawings he purchased from tailor Dai Wu.

I can’t believe that bathrobes are also a type of appearance clothing.

But considering that many large-scale online games also have a "white inner library" appearance party, the appearance of bathrobes does not seem very strange.

"Put this on before you go back." Lu Xi chose a gray bathrobe and threw it to Cross. The bathrobe had ties in the middle and was wrapped tightly. It was a good coat, plush and very warm.

Cross subconsciously took it, feeling the soft touch of the bathrobe in his hand, and for a moment he didn't know how to react.

"By the way, how did you guess it was me...forget it, I know." Lu Xi was about to ask, but as soon as he spoke, his mind turned around.

Despite the fact that Lingxun Farm covers a small area, in fact, hundreds of kilometers around it should be included.

Lu Xi thought she was leaving the farm, but in fact, from other people's perspective, she was having a picnic in the "yard" of her home.

When meeting an aristocratic lady with luxurious clothes and an aura that is not ordinary at first glance, there is no other choice except the owner of Lingxin Farm.

Is it possible that other aristocratic ladies would travel hundreds of kilometers to have a picnic on someone else's farm?

Cross didn't hear what Lu Xi said clearly, and was shocked by the clothes in his hand. The material was softer than he had ever seen before. The money sold for just one piece of clothes could even feed them for a year. of.

But Cross definitely didn't dare to sell it. He raised his head and glanced at Lu Xi, who didn't care about the clothes. He knew in his heart that this was a reward from a noble person. If he refused, it would be disrespectful, so he gritted his teeth and put it on himself.

The soft and warm touch made Cross couldn't help but rub it a few more times, as if he wanted to remember this feeling.

Lu Xi looked down at the red dandelion stalks on the ground. There was originally a patch of red dandelions growing in this area, but they were scattered and there were only a few dozen in total.

She picked up a dozen mature trees and played with them, leaving only stalks on the ground. Many of the remaining trees had not grown yet, so they were not a great threat.

But be careful of those red dandelion seeds that she blew out. Who knows where they landed, in case they accidentally get on someone...

When you don't know, you can still be a toy. After you know it, the goose bumps on Lu Xi's body can't go away for a long time. That's blood-sucking!How terrible!

Fortunately, she wore the elemental robe, which acted as a protective circle, and those red dandelion seeds were unable to come into close contact with her.

"Isn't Zhuo Zhuo back yet?" Lu Xi raised his head and looked at the sky.

Just now, Zhuo Zhuo was flying in the sky and monitoring this group of people when he saw a monster.

There are only so many kinds of meat that I can turn over in the farm, and I miss the taste of the monster meat that I met along the way.

So after saying hello to Lu Xi, Zhuo Zhuo ran to catch the prey. Counting the time, he should be back by now.

Zhuo Zhuo is a dragon with the element of fire. Wait for it to come back and let it roast the surrounding area. It will also save the group of ordinary people from accidentally touching the red dandelion seeds when they come over and having their blood sucked.

I have wanted to write about the setting of the farm for a long time, but I have never found the opportunity to write it out completely.