Transcendent Noble

"My lord, we used to live in the mountains in the Chebman family territory. We usually depended on hunting for a living. We exchanged animal skins and herbs for Chebman's village for living supplies."

"Three years ago, more and more free people flooded into Chebman's territory, and we also took in some. Later, we were expelled by the Chebman family, and we had to live in your territory."

In the barracks of the hill camp, an old mountain resident respectfully answered Victor's questions.

As soon as the temporary resident matter was over, Victor took Lilia, Linda, and a few village leaders back to the barracks in the hill camp, and summoned this old mountain resident named Kunt .

"Chebman family guard, did you open up wasteland in the mountains when you drove you away?" Victor asked the veteran, this question is very important.

"Yes, my lord, we are taking in more and more people. Hunting can no longer feed everyone. Those newcomers will start farming." The old mountain man replied somewhat surprised. .

Victor nodded, clearing wasteland is the reason why the mountain people were expelled by the Chebman family.

Imagine the complex terrain of the mountainous area, with numerous beasts, and it is not easy for humans to survive, but the mountainous area is also rich in products, including various animal skins, game, precious medicine ingredients, delicious fungi, and mountain people. We exchanged these valuable products with the Chebman family for cheap survival supplies, and the Chebman family made huge profits. Therefore, the Chebman family will allow these tough mountain people to live in the mountains.

The mountain folks just start to farm the land! Because food is the means by which the Chebman family controls these mountain people. Once these mountain people achieve self-sufficiency, it means that the Chebman family loses control of the mountain area, and these mountain people will grow as a result, which is intolerable by the lords.

Originally, although the mountain people were sturdy, they didn't know how to farm, but now they obviously have learned to farm. Therefore, the Chebman family simply drove them away, lest they become a disaster for the territory in the future.

For the lord, the uncontrolled power in the territory is a curse, and Victor has such a curse!

"Kwent, after you return to the temporary station, tell the mountain people in the station that I plan to form a hunting team to hunt and kill the wild boars in the territory. The candidate is you mountain people. So, you don't have to worry about it. Squeezed out. Now you can go back."

The wild boars in the territory have been flooded. These greedy beasts are not afraid to eat purple cane, but also the roots of purple cane. Eat it, how can this be tolerated!

"Yes, my lord, I will go back now." The old mountain man showed a relaxed smile. They can't do farm work, but they are good at hunting.

After Quint left, Lilia asked Victor in a puzzled way: "My lord, why did you drive away the young and strong mountain people today?"

Linda And several villager group leaders also looked towards Victor one after another, this question is also what they want to ask.

"The distance between the mountain people and the ordinary farmers is too great. Keeping them will only become a trouble for the resident. It will be easier to drive away." Victor replied with a smile.

The difference between mountain people and farmers lies in the fact that one is unreliable and has a small number, and the other is obedient but has a large number, Victor naturally chooses the obedient farmer.

"However, those mountain people are strong in body and temperament, and they can become qualified guards after training. Isn’t it a pity to drive away like this?" Lilia, who was a mercenary, valued those more. The strength of the mountain people.

"The land strength of the mountain people is much stronger than that of the ordinary farmers, but why did other lords not recruit these mountain people, but instead select soldiers from the farmers?"

Does not wait for Lilia In answer, Victor explained: "Because these mountain people have a wild temperament and do not have much respect for the lord, such a person cannot be a soldier no matter how strong he is!"

"Soldiers focus on loyalty , Obedience, and unity, personal strength is not the most important thing. Can a soldier be stronger than a trainee Knight? What happened today, as you all see, those three mountain people could not withstand a single blow in the hands of a big man .Although the farmer is a bit weaker and less courageous, these all are can be exercised. What use do you think those mountain people who don’t obey orders do to us?"

Victor’s words, Make a few villager group leaders smile, they are all farmers with red seedlings.

"It's no wonder that the mountain people recruited by our war bear mercenaries die the most in battle. Those who survive are obedient." Lilia also said suddenly.

"My lord, will the mountain people who have been driven out be a problem for us? Or will they take refuge in Pinghu Village?" Linda asked worriedly, but she knew that the ferocious wolf It's just Victor who used it to bluff people.

"Don’t worry, those mountain people can’t escape from my palm! As for they may go to Pinghu Village, then let them go, I have my own plan." Victor said confidently, the ferocious wolf is He used it to frighten people, but the alchemy war mastiff who obeyed his orders was not to frighten people.

As for Pinghu Village, it is no longer a threat to Victor. Victor has 6 alchemy militias comparable to the trainee Knight, 5 alchemy war mastiffs, plus Nelson, such a power It was enough to push Pinghu Village, but Victor would not do it, because he wanted to swallow Pinghu Village whole!

Lilia looked at Victor's hands. They were slender and white, with perfect proportions. They were the most beautiful hands she had ever seen, but she did not see those mountain people in the palms of adults!

Victor didn’t notice Lilia’s confusion. He said to everyone, “I will naturally clean up the mountain people who left, but the free people who stayed are mostly farmers who led the people. They are familiar with the affairs of the territory and are submissive to the lord, which is the strength we must absorb. At present, they dare not leave our shelter under the threat of ferocious wolves, but everyone knows that it is just to scare people."

Speaking of Victor, everyone laughed.

"Our territory is very wide, and we can’t control it by just relying on a hill camp, so we need villages, and the villages need these honest and timid farmers. They can plant land, cut wood, and mine. After training, you can become a militia or even a guard. So how to get these people back is what you need to do."

Victor’s serious attitude made everyone smile. They have Feeling Victor's dissatisfaction.

Victor turned his head to Linda and asked, "Linda, how do you punish those freedmen who make mistakes?"

"My lord, they all whip. Fights People who use their hands first draw ten lashes, then three lashes, the stealer draws 20 lashes, the stealer draws 30 lashes, the bully draws 40 lashes, and the murderer hangs. Oh, yes, the murderer was killed today." Linda was replied in an imposing manner.

"In the future, for those who have made mistakes, change to draw a whip every day, until they run out." Victor instructed.

"My lord, can I ask why this is?" Linda was a little unwilling. Her childhood experience made Linda hate those villains.

"This is humane. Well, let me put it another way, if a person steals something and gets so many lashes at once, will he just die? If he is not dead, can he Work? Not only can he not work, he has to let people take care of him, right? He has to eat and drink for nothing, right? After one time, after the pain, will he do it again next time?"

Victor's series of questions made everyone's mind a little confused.

"So, if you take a whip a day and make those criminals hurt once a day, they can remember, and they have to work to support themselves. Do you all understand?"

Everyone is nodded again and again, they think their fief lord is really wise and can't raise those villains in vain.

"For those criminals who have not corrected themselves, not only have to whip them, but also put them in fetters. If they don't change, they will be hanged or exiled." Victor said coldly.

Everyone is a socialized animal. No one wants to be despised in the group. Wearing fetters is actually a kind of mental punishment. If this is useless, then Victor can only follow the traditional method. Ways to solve the crime problem.

"As you wish, my lord." Linda was already convinced by this moment.

"Also, you usually lead these free people to work, do you think they count as hard work?" Victor asked the village leader again.

"My lord, they work much better than the mountain people, but much worse than us." A villager group leader replied. For his words, he got several other villager group leaders. Recognition, obviously this is a common phenomenon.

"This is natural, and that's how people eat big pot of rice, so they have to have private property."

Free people in temporary camps are provided with food and protection by the camp, and they do The motivation to live is to become a leader, but Victor is not prepared to increase the number of leaders for 20 people a month. Lowering the threshold will only cause more trouble.

"My lord, do you want to send them money?" Maureen asked cautiously.

"I don't have money."

Victor has a stern face. He now has less than 3,000 goldsold in his hands. He is a standard pauper lord.

"Let's send them meat!"

"Send...meat?"

Think of the smelly hangings everywhere in the shanty towns of the freedmen The roasted wild boar has wonderful expressions on everyone's faces.

Victor took out a box from under the table and took out a handful of wooden discs, each with a number and a different color.

"These wood chips are meat. Free people who work hard, reward them with these wood chips. With this thing, they can exchange for meat in the cafeteria. You can also exchange clothes, boots, and fur in the future. , Even purple cane wine.” Victor said triumphantly, this kind of closed interest system will firmly hold those free people. Victor was able to come up with this idea and was also inspired by various points systems on Earth.

"Also, starting today, the supply of free meat in temporary residences has begun to decrease." In order to increase the demand for meat by the freedmen, Victor very shamelessly added.

"By the way, I will tell the Vice Group Leader to listen to the demands of the freedmen every time the Moon Wheel is changed. The injustice and exclusion suffered by these freemen will be passed on. So, for your sake Don’t let me down, the throne of the village chief.” Victor glanced at several village leaders.

The implementation of the wood chip exchange system will definitely increase the power of the village leaders. Victor felt that they must be beaten.

"My lord, I will definitely not let you down." Several villager leaders trembled and expressed their opinions.

"Go and do everything." Victor waved his hand, indicating that everyone can go.

Everyone retire one after another, only Lilia stayed, Victor asked a little surprised: "Lilia, what do you want?"

Lilia squeezed the red glow With a small mouth, blinking bright and intelligent eyes, he said thiefly: "Victor, can I look at your palm?"

Victor stretched out his hand with a somewhat unfathomable mystery Lilia grabbed Victor's palm, looked at it carefully, and touched it back and forth with her small hand, and said disappointedly: "I don't see anything special, why can't those mountain people escape your palm?"

Victor was embarrassed, but he saw Lilia's confused face. It was really charming. When his heart was hot, he held the girl in his arms with his backhand, in her delicate little face. After giving him a kiss twice, he said fiercely: "You can't escape from my palm!"

After that, Victor smiled and left the barracks, leaving only Lilia in his arms. The flushed face stamped his feet in the barracks.

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"King, I made a plan to annex Pinghu Village. Please help me analyze it. , See if it's feasible." Victor asked Tower Spirit in Alchemy Tower.

"According to the Golden Crow's investigation, I have confirmed that Bayer and Dick have reached a compromise. Although they are still paying me the offerings, they are also taking in the free people who have dispersed."

"So, I plan to block their camps with alchemy war mastiffs and limit their range of activities. Soon they will fall into a food shortage situation. They either ask me for help or cannot pay me offerings. At that time, they can only be at my mercy."

Now Pinghu Village pays the offerings on time in the name of the leaders. Victor really has no excuse to clean up them. If they can’t pay the offerings, Victor can naturally attack them, but Victor impossible really slaughters them, but accepts them all. If that Bayer is acquainted, Victor can't accept him.

"My lord, the Chebman family camp, the probability of supporting Pinghu Village is more than 70%." The king reported to Victor.

"Why? I have temporarily abandoned the Eastern Territory. What reason do they have to interfere in my internal affairs?"

"Because, you get into internal troubles, you So there will be no time and energy to solve external troubles, which is in the interest of the Chebman family." The king responded.

Victor was silent. The king's analysis was right. Pinghu Village might have been infiltrated by the Chebman family. However, when Victor mentioned Chebman's family, he thought of the old mountain man again, and his heart was divine light flashed, and he immediately had another idea.

"Since the Chebman family wants me to get into trouble, then I will create a problem for myself!"

"I can build another free private camp near the Eastern Territory, just Recruiting those mountain people who have left out, I believe the Chebman family will definitely turn to support the mountain people camp, because they are very familiar with it."

"But they never expected that the camp was actually controlled by me. !"

"At the same time, using the alchemy war mastiff to restrict the activities of the villagers in Pinghu Village, resulting in a shortage of food for them, I will use food to control them. This gentle method will not cause Chebman. In the end, Pinghu Village could only be annexed by me. Hehe, this is still a method learned from Chebman's family. Food is indeed a good noose."

Victor squeezed his fist and came up with one in an instant. The solution made him a little airy.

"My lord, how are you going to control those mountain people? Homunculus is powerful, but EQ is too low to control a camp." The king asked.

"Of course not relying on alchemy militia alone. However, I have two good candidates to be the camp leader, and the alchemy militia only needs to assist them." Victor is confident.

"My lord, one more question, do you have food?"

Yes, do I have any food? Victor was suddenly messed up in the wind, and he seemed to have seen a noose around his neck. . . . . .