MTL - Sword of Daybreaker-Chapter 44 Serfs and free people

Gao Wen stood on the stone and looked at the numbness and the cowering face below, taking a deep breath.

People are not ignorant, but that doesn't mean they are not ignorant.

Ignorance is an assertion made by prejudice and contempt, but ignorance - it is only telling the truth.

The civilian and serf classes of this era are ignorant. The social structure determines that they have little access to knowledge growth. The heavy cost of living also makes them have no energy to pay attention to things other than survival. In this case, long-term in this case. Survival, they will not appear to think, will have the illusion of "ignorance." But in fact, they will think, but ignorance makes it difficult for them to understand things that are too far away from life.

Therefore, we can't talk to them about things that are fake and empty, can't talk to them about ideals, talk about the future, talk about the relationship between the prospects of the territories and the development of productivity. Once they say this, they will immediately put these to the concept of "high on the top". Go to the "owner's side" and draw a line with yourself, so the best way is to tell them something about their lives.

"The people of Cecil's collar," Gao Wen said loudly. "You should all know who I am - so you should also know that I am the most talkative person in this territory today," I said. The words can represent Cecil's laws, which will protect you and what you must obey.

"We are opening up new territories and we need some new rules, so I am here to announce three things:

"First, since the old territory has been destroyed, all past wealth has been cleared. Therefore, I declare in the name of the Cecil family ancestor that all debts involving the lord in the collar are written off - whether it is a free man or a serf. From today, no longer bear any debts to the lord.

The following crowds are a bit commotion, but the commotion is not obvious, because although the civilians and serfs of this era are more or less owed to the debt of the lord, today, in the construction of the territory, everyone has no ability to repay debt, according to The reverence of Rebecca’s former lords, they have long guessed that they will be free of debt.

Gao Wen went on to say: "Second, all serfs in the territory have the opportunity to become free people. The lord will issue a series of tasks, such as building houses, building roads, digging mines, and participating in the army. All these tasks will have corresponding The scoring method, as long as the corresponding work is completed in strict accordance with the requirements, can accumulate contributions. After reaching the standard, the serfs can become free people. However, they are already free people, and after completing these tasks, they can get the corresponding remuneration. The way I calculate the rewards will be announced in the near future. I can assure you that any hardworking and reliable serf can become a freelancer if he works hard for two or three years, and a freelancer can work for five or six years. Get your own home!"

This time, the following turmoil has completely become an irrepressible discussion.

Serfs became free people – this is a fairly challenging routine in this era. Although the laws of the kingdom of Ansu do not strictly prohibit the serfs from becoming the rules of the free people, and there is no clear provision in the territorial laws of the aristocrats everywhere, in fact, almost no nobles will let their serfs freely - For them, serfs mean cheap, meaning that they can squeeze out the last drop of blood on their body without any burden. Those who only know how to raise taxes and labor time to search for wealth are simply not to let the serfs get freedom. What are the benefits.

When Rebecca first proposed that the serfs gained freedom by joining the army, it also caused a lot of turmoil, but this time Gao Wen obviously made a big step.

As for getting paid for work, even getting a house... Many civilians who are themselves free are almost unbelievable.

Give the lord to work and have money to take? Who believes!

Gao Wen did not give them time to continue discussions, but then went on to say the third article:

"Third, the tents and fences to be built today, as well as the gutters in the camps, are the first tasks that the lord gave you in the new law. I have already recorded the scope of responsibility for each of you. Only those who have completed the work in strict accordance with my requirements can complete the work. In addition, as an incentive for serious work, the top ten people who have completed the work can eat meat."

After saying this, Gao Wen did not care about the following reaction, jumped directly off the stone and returned to where Heti and Rebecca were.

The civilians and serfs who gathered together, after a moment of screaming, suddenly shouted and rushed to the camp that appeared to have been completed - they were going to reinforce the loose ropes and nails and the fence into the ground. Go inside!

For them, Gao Wen’s calculations of contributions, scoring standards and the like are still too difficult, and they do not believe that the soldiers and knights responsible for the supervision will really help them to calculate their work. Quantity, but there is a saying that they can understand: there is meat in the evening!

Only those who have done their work in advance, but who have to work hard to get a living can have meat!

As Gao Wen thinks - only when it comes to personal interests, people will be motivated to give the greatest motivation.

Looking at the civilians and serfs who were running away, Herti felt that there was still some sensation, until Gao Wen stood in front of her and she reacted with an unbelievable question: "The ancestors... you just said that they are all true. ?"

Gao Wen looked at each other with a smile: "Which specific?"

"...the part of the serf who became a free man through work," Hetty said with a frown. "Of course, I don't object to this, because Rebecca had previously issued a decree for the promotion of serfs, but you said that you have built a house. Things like road construction can be regarded as contributions, and they only need to be two or three years to become free people... is this true?"

"Of course it is true," Gao Wen looked at each other. "What do you think is wrong?"

"If it is so easy, it can become a free people. I am afraid that it will not take long. All the serfs in the territory are civilians." Herti looked arrogant. "The children of civilians are also civilians. Is it true that Cecil will later Is it a place without serfs?"

Gao Wen continued to look at her, the smile on her face remained the same: "Is there a problem with no serfs?"

Starting from her own thinking habits and worldviews, Herti instinctively felt that something was wrong, but from her far-reaching insights and thoughts of the nobles, she felt that even without the serfs, there seemed to be nothing wrong with it. Suddenly caught in contradiction.

Instead, Rebecca said after frowning: "In fact, I think... the serf system is not so necessary today. It’s really nothing bad."

Gao Wen looked at the descendants of this iron-clad iron a little unexpectedly and nodded: "Go ahead."

"The serfs are the labor force. The purpose of the labor force is to provide labor. But if they are allowed to become free people, they can get more labor. Then why should we retain the concept of 'slavery'?" Rebecca scratched his hair. "My father told me that the main reason for not allowing serfs to be free is that once they are free and there is no whip, they will become lazy and no longer work, but I think the whip is not necessarily the best... ..."

Gao Wen looked at her with approval. For the first time, Rebecca, who was encouraged by his ancestors, suddenly became bold and said fluently: "And I also noticed that if a serf is to work, they will always find ways to be lazy. But if you let the two serfs do the same job and tell them to get a piece of bread when they finish doing it, they can complete the workload of three or four people at once - the value is much more than the piece of bread... so I was Just thinking, letting them not be lazy does not have to use a whip. It might be better to use other methods."

"This is already a very good enlightenment." Gao Wen couldn't help but laugh, this is quite easy to understand, but in this era, almost no one will pay attention to this aspect - in fact, the nobles will not observe at all. How do the serfs and even civilians under their own work work, and there is no concept of statistical work efficiency. Using whip and sending soldiers to supervise is the ultimate embodiment of their ruling skills, Rebecca...

It can only be said that this poor and sour country viscount is usually very leisurely.

Thanks to her leisure, she can think of it.

Only she can only think of these shallow things according to her own observations. In fact, Gao Wen is very clear that the emergence and abolition of slavery is not only a question of "whip and bread", but also the deeper reason is whether productivity is Enough, is society really going to the point where it needs to change?

Through this period of observation, he believes that at least within the scope of his own vision, the serf system no longer matches the productivity of the world - a large population is piled up in a repetitive and inefficient low-end work, relying on the population All kinds of materials are produced with minimum efficiency to support the upper class, and these people will never have a rising channel. It is clear that the upper-level people who mastered the magic have entered the stage of watching the fireworks and listening to music in the castle, and the lighting uses fluorescent lamps (magnetite). The civilians below are not much stronger than the original people, and the whole society is almost deformed.

At the time of the earth, there has been a revolutionary change, but here, the existence of supernatural forces has prevented this process.

Because a hundred civilians with grass forks can't beat a low-ranking mage or knight, even if they don't fear death, the number is doubled.

Perhaps the world will continue to develop one day, one day will break this deadlock, but Gao Wen does not intend to wait, he must change this in advance, and then start his own big development plan.

Because he has a feeling - the magic tide, I am afraid it is really coming.

In the heyday of the heyday, the Gangbuk empire could not hold back the magic tide. Now all aspects have regressed to the mainland countries in the Middle Ages, and use their faces to swear?

And even if you don't think about the magic wave, Gao Wen has something else to care about.

Those "eyes" in the sky that don't know the details.

A medieval backward world is hard to break away from gravity. It is covered by gravity, so there is no qualification for looking up at the sky, let alone studying the secrets of the stars.