The more samurai a nobleman has, the better, and whether he can afford it or not.

During the Spring and Autumn period, it was common to support one samurai for every twenty households.

This offering was not that the commoners directly gave food and money to the samurai, but only their own lords who paid taxes.

The samurai, on the other hand, only paid taxes, not taxes.

The number of samurai in the feudal domain has increased, which means that there are fewer people who pay taxes to the lord.

And once the output is insufficient, it is not a tragedy that the lord cannot pay the endowment?

This endowment must be given to the state, not to serve the king.

In the Jin Kingdom, the power of the monarch is actually not very good, and it is those "Qing" who really exercise the power of the state, and the monarch is more often a seal.

Normally, the service of the nobility, that is, the endowment.

For example, one quarter of service a year.

And within a reasonable period of service, they have to prepare everything themselves, and if they can't borrow enough from the state, they must pay it back, and they also have to pay rent (or interest).

After a reasonable period of service, the state should bear the cost of the conscripted nobles, the samurai who went to war, and the people who were brought with them.

Of course, if the monarch is shameless, he can also refuse to supply the nobles more than the consumption during the service.

The old Lu family only has a feudal territory ten miles long on all sides, and there are more than 500 subjects.

Under normal circumstances, it would be reasonable for Lu Wu to have no more than twenty-five warriors under his name.

He had previously increased the number of samurai to eighty, which was seriously beyond the limit of what the old Lu family could reasonably afford.

The so-called burden, while the old Lu family's output is insufficient, they also have to set aside land for samurai families to cultivate, and even give a basic number of slaves.

Lu Wu dared to do this, naturally because the old Lu family did not rely purely on farming income, they were selling pottery, and they also cooperated with Wei's catering.

If you really rely entirely on farming and accumulation, believe it or not, when the old Lu family needs to pay taxes next year, they will directly declare bankruptcy?

The Liang clan in the next village, they are also engaged in a side business, and the number of family warriors is not small.

"Yes." Lu Wu looked at Cheng Ying calmly and asked, "There are also calculations." ”

He didn't ask Cheng Ying why he didn't take the baby with him today.

Cheng Ying looked at Lu Wu in surprise and asked curiously, "How?" ”

The old Lu family's feudal domain is so big, and it looks like there is no rest of the output.

If you buy and sell, can you guarantee that the pottery will continue to sell well?

Then, cooperating with a big aristocrat like the Wei family, you will be excused to postpone dividends anytime and anywhere.

Cheng Ying didn't understand where Lu Wu got his confidence.

In fact, even if Lu Wu is confident that he can afford to pay the endowment, the most important thing for the old Lu family now is that there are too many slaves, poor management, and even negligence in monitoring, and something big will happen at any time.

"[I] want to make a covenant with my subordinates." Lu Wu stood up, walked to the corridor outside, and after standing still, said, "Shi Li is the people, is it okay?" ”

Cheng Ying opened his mouth wide when he heard this, looking at Lu Wu as if he was looking at an alien.

Becoming a slave now does not have to be a slave for the rest of your life, in fact, if someone is willing to redeem themselves, they can become a free people.

The nations were constantly at war, and the captured soldiers became slaves of the victorious powers.

However, once the defeated country paid for the redemption, the captured soldiers were restored to their freedom.

And everything that a slave has is the master's, including their life.

Therefore, it was impossible for a slave to accumulate enough wealth to redeem himself.

The lord could have shown mercy and relieved a person of his status as a slave.

Just, right? There are fewer examples of nobles taking (or buying) people to be slaves and voluntarily freeing slaves without compensation, than meteorites falling from the sky.

Cheng Ying made a gesture of plucking her ears very impolitely, looked at Lu Wu with wide eyes, and said, "I'm afraid that I will be the enemy of the crowd!" ”

Even if a nobleman really took the initiative to release the slave, it was the slave who did something earth-shattering, or used the slave's to get the approval of the master.

From ancient times to the present, has there ever been any agreement between nobles and slaves to restore freedom to slaves in large quantities?

Some. Di Xin, and then he was united and destroyed by Ji Chang and a group of slave owners.

Cheng Ying was surprised by what Lu Wu's brain contained, not to mention reducing his own property, it would also arouse the hostility of the rest of the nobles.

Lu Wu knew from Cheng Ying's reaction that he was doing something shocking.

He was a little confused.

If I'm not mistaken, the first person in history to release slaves in large numbers was the Zhao family?

And Lu Wu is not mistaken.

The Zhao family was a very strange aristocrat for his kind, not only took the lead in freeing slaves in large numbers, but also did a lot of major things that made the rest of the nobles feel that they were crying (hating) laughing (hating) (no) wrong (comparison), including the reform of Hufu riding and archery.

Is Cheng Ying a retainer of the Zhao family? Whether he has the belief in revitalizing the Zhao family's main sect, how can he not even know the concept of the Zhao family.

In fact, during the Zhao Dun period, the Zhao family was already freeing slaves in batches.

However, because the Zhao family itself was not unified internally, and the nobles outside were also hostile to Zhao Dun's act of freeing slaves, the news was blocked in all aspects, causing Cheng Ying to not know at all.

"Wu Zhili, Zhimin ......" Lu Wu roughly guessed that his behavior was very inappropriate from Cheng Ying's reaction, but he had the arrogance of the traverser, raised his head slightly, and said stubbornly: "All martial arts!" ”

Grass!

Didn't you say that I would be in charge of my territory?

Pay the tax, pay!

The endowment of Na, Na!

Even the monarch can't control what he wants to do.

If there are nobles who are unhappy, come and lick my belly!

That's going to happen, what's the matter!?

Lu Wu flicked his long sleeves and left his room, while instructing Qing, who was following firmly, and said, "All the subordinates, gather in Guang." ”

Gather the slaves in an open place, and the main leader will make a speech!

Slaves were scattered out to work, and it was a long process to concentrate them.

The first to gather around the wide open space were a large number of subjects, who did not yet know what their lords were doing, and whispered whether they were going to go out again.

Although Lu Wu came back with a harvest every time he went out, the subjects were still not happy that their lords would go out.

The main reason is that the old Lu family only has such a lone seedling as Lu Wu, and the overall strength of the family is not good, so it cannot provide better protection.

If there are three long and two short, wouldn't their little days that have just improved come to an end?

Lu Wu took advantage of this time to reflect on it.

It seems that the release of slaves in large numbers at one time really cannot be done lightly, or it will be met with hostility by the nobility if it is not spread.

But if you don't give the slaves hope, the demographic class composition of the old Lu family is too dangerous.

The slaves who had been in various places had been escorted and gathered.

Lu Wu was shouting to his subjects first, mentioning that he had brought back many young slaves when he went out this time, explaining what the distribution arrangement was.

The subjects listened very carefully, and if they were single or had old bachelors in their families, they prayed that the lord would give them a female slave.

Lü Wu's distribution plan was very simple, whichever or family performed the best would get a female slave.

There are 10 places in the first cohort and will be available until the end of winter.

Farming, the enthusiasm to listen to the call, and even the good advice you can give are all good performances.

When the subjects had heard this, they continued to whisper.

Lu Wu looked at the more and more slaves gathered, glanced at Cheng Ying, who was obviously watching the play, turned his head and swallowed his saliva.

Made!

In short, the pride of being a traverser is not allowed to be trampled on!