Chapter 84 Rectification of the Territory (I)
"This lord is polite...... a middle-aged man who looks like the head of a hunter just saluted, and a young man with a blue head on the side shouted first: "This lord, those demons and the people of our mountain and gorge villages also have a part in the fight! Why do you have a monopoly? Hurry up and return our share!"
As soon as these words came out, it was immediately like a honeycomb, and all the young men behind the young man shouted in a mess: "That's right! That's the spoils of our village! Quickly hand over the demon core! You can't swallow it alone! That's more than a hundred demon cores!"
The women and children who gathered around behind them all became boiling when they learned that Chen Shihao had taken possession of all the demon cores, and one said, "Oh my God! More than a hundred demon cores, how many gold pounds can this be exchanged for?!"
"Damn! I'll just say that the nobles are greedy and shameless! He dared to take it to himself?! No, he must be asked to give our share back!"
"What do we have to do?! If it weren't for the young man in our village who forgot to die! Would he be a noble lord alone and be able to survive this demonic tide? It would all be the spoils of our village!"
"That's right! We are his saviors! Why does he dare to take it alone? I don't have to give him any money! We should hand it all over!"
"Yes, yes, let him spit it all out!"
Chen Shihao looked at these menacing villagers with an indifferent expression, saying that they don't know the truth, as soon as they look at the fighting situation at the scene, they know who is the main force, and they can be considered to be ghosts, otherwise where would they be so upside down, and actually say that they were rescued by them? It's ridiculous!
But in this way, the demon core should be very valuable, which is good news.
Of course, when Chen Shihao looked at the situation, he obviously found that although the men dressed as hunters were a little disgusted with the villagers' behavior of reversing right and wrong, and they were also a little ashamed to be together, several hunters gathered alone, but they did not say anything, obviously acquiescing to the villagers' statement.
In this way, these hunters are a little ashamed, but they probably live here, or are they used to following everyone.
Looking at these villagers who were spitting their saliva at each other, Chen Shihao smiled coldly and said in a very flat voice: "Guess how much time it will take me to kill your whole village?"
Although Chen Shihao's voice was very soft, it was reasonable that it would be impossible for people to hear it in this noise, but what was very strange was that when Chen Shihao opened his mouth to speak, everyone happened to close their mouths, so everyone heard this sentence.
The women and old men who came out of the stone house after the battle were immediately furious, and the women directly scolded, while the old men stomped their feet and pointed at Chen Shihao and shouted: "Arrogant! Too arrogant! You want to slaughter so many people in our whole village? Who do you think you are? Do you have the ability to kill all of us?!"
Chen Shihao shrugged, pointed at those young men and smiled at the old men: "Look at your faces, come and talk to me again." ”
The old men and women immediately looked at the young men in the village, and this sight made their cold sweat immediately flow, because all the young men, including those hunters, were all pale, and even had a look of cowering and retreating!
It's no wonder that these young men are like this, because after Chen Shihao asked those words, these people who were fighting with the little devils suddenly remembered the process of the young aristocratic lord in front of him who easily killed dozens of little devils!
Since you can kill so many little demons, it is not difficult to kill the hundreds of people in the whole village, don't think that the noble lord can't do such a thing, everyone knows that the noble lord is synonymous with cruelty and ruthlessness!
How could he have such a bastard idea just now? Was it because there was only one person on the other side, so he felt that he was being bullied? Or was it because the bag full of demon cores was dazzling? But no matter what, he provoked this noble lord, and now it's too late to regret it!
The audience was silent, most of the people even began to tremble, the atmosphere of the scene froze for a while, an old man came out boldly, and said in a trembling voice: "This lord, our Shanxia Village is willing to apologize for the offense to you just now, please extinguish the Thunder Fury, after all, we Shanxia villagers are also a member of the Jinlan Kingdom, and they are also the subjects of the Earl of West, please forgive us for these reasons." ”
"Do you mean that if I kill you, it will be tantamount to infringing on the property of the Earl of West?" Chen Shihao said very indifferently, the old man smiled a little embarrassedly, and the villagers immediately breathed a sigh of relief, because in this world, except for the free people, all the tenant farmers and hunters and other people have owners, and they are all the private property of the lord of the land where they are located.
Although they have to endure the exploitation of the lord, they are also very safe, because except for the lord and the heir of the lord, no one else has the right to infringe on them, because violating these lords is tantamount to infringing on the property of the lord! It is impossible for the second son of the lord, the officials under his command, and the children of the officials to oppress the people in the territory, because the lord and the heir of the lord will not allow others to touch their cheese! Of course, in a place like a city where there are many free people, such bloody things are inevitable.
Therefore, don't look at the fact that the freedmen have no masters to belong to, and can walk freely in various territories, but because there is no master, there is no backstage, and any aristocratic steward can make it difficult for them to turn around, and the hired merchants or other institutions have to accept exploitation?
It is because everyone knows this situation, so the villagers are relaxed, because no matter how powerful this noble lord in front of him is, he will not dare to offend Lord Count West, not to mention the status of Lord Earl, there are three major golden knights under his command alone, and this noble lord in front of him is obviously not even a knight, where can he dare to be arrogant in front of the earl?
"Hmph, your memory is really bad, have you forgotten that I am the lord of 800 acres of land in Shanxia Village?" Chen Shihao snorted coldly and took out the lord's waist card again.
The faces of the villagers changed again, but the old man who came forward to speak had already expected this now, he smiled slightly and said: "We didn't deny the identity of the master, don't we always call you the master?" Speaking of this, several anxious villagers were already ready to pull the old man back, because as long as he recognized Chen Shihao's sovereignty, then he had the right to legally clean up his own people! According to the principle that the lord is the lord of the territory, it is legal for a lord to kill all the tenant farmers in the territory, and it is another matter whether the lord escapes or the lord is crusaded because of the anger of the heavens!
The old man waved his hand back to calm everyone down, and then smiled very indifferently: "This lord, if the old man is not mistaken, Lord Chur's territory in Shanxia Village is 300 acres of fields, 500 acres of woodland and a pond, right?"
"That's right, but don't tell me that my 300 acres of land is somewhere else, and the certificate of territory shows that the pond and the field outside the village belong to me. Chen Shihao pointed to the field outside where the wheat was about to be harvested and smiled.
The faces of the villagers present were much more ugly, Baron Chur is the only lord of Shanxia Village except for Count West, and even the only lord of the entire Mao'er Town, so the best fields in Shanxia Village are all under Baron Chur, which means that Chen Shihao has the best fertile land in Shanxia Village!
The old man's face also trembled, and his next words were equivalent to sending out the fields that the villagers had worked hard for half a year and were about to get the harvest, but in order to prevent the young noble lord in front of him from finding an excuse for slaughter, he really had to do this.
He took a breath and nodded with a smile: "Yes, sir, that piece of fertile land adds up to more than 500 acres, of which the best 300 acres are indeed your land, we do not deny this, but what the old man wants to remind you is that many of the people in our village are the lords of the Earl of West, and only a very few people are the lords of your ownership." ”
"When Baron Chur transferred his territory to me, he also transferred it to me, along with the 30 tenant farmers and 2 hunters on the land, so now I want to know, who among you are my lord?" Chen Shihao looked at the villagers present with cold eyes. The look in his eyes made the villagers, who were originally completely relieved, couldn't help but take a step back.
The old man sighed and said: "This old man, because Shanxia Village has often suffered various attacks and disasters, the original population has either died in battle or fled, so ......" Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Chen Shihao: "It doesn't matter, as long as it belongs to me now, just stand up, even if I go through more battles and escapes, I believe there are still one or two, there shouldn't be any need for me to go back to the town office and bring the household registration information to compare one by one, right?"
As soon as these words came out, the old man glanced back helplessly, most of the villagers looked happy, and only a few villagers had a dead gray face, because as Chen Shihao said, the town office naturally had the household registration information of these 30 tenant farmers and 2 hunters, as long as they did not die and did not escape from the Earlde of West, they could not hide their identities at all.
The old man persuaded a little weakly: "Since the noble lord wants to return to his own people, you should know in your own hearts, come out by yourself, and don't anger your lords anymore." ”
The villagers were silent for a while, and then there was a commotion, many villagers dispersed, leaving dozens of villagers to stay in place, looking at the population structure of these people, Chen Shihao couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, 1 youth, 2 middle-aged, 3 little boys, 4 little girls, 2 girls, 4 women. What surprised Chen Shihao was that 5 hunters actually stayed in this group of people, and there were 5 women, 3 teenagers and 2 girls behind them, 2 old ladies and 1 old woman. Now all of them were pale, and several of the children were choking with fright.
Seeing that the villagers were missing 3 young men and 3 boys all of a sudden, the old man's heart was dripping blood, but he could only say to Chen Shihao: "This lord, these are your people." ”