"Alright, lads, there's going to be a banquet later, I think you'll want to attend," said Baron Comos, raising his voice, to the knights.

There were not many people at the banquet, and it couldn't be compared with the banquets held by those big nobles, after all, there were only eight knights and their families attending this kind of banquet, plus Baron Comos's family, so it was not particularly lively.

Since Hu Cong couldn't attend the banquet, Nuwen and Hu Limu couldn't attend the banquet, resulting in William not having a single acquaintance.

However, there are quite a few knights who came to William with wine glasses to get acquainted with him, as future colleagues and comrades on the battlefield in the future, it would not hurt to know each other earlier.

After drinking this round of wine, William was a little dizzy, but not to the point of being drunk, and he still remained sober.

The families of the knights, all of whom were wives and children, caused the hall to be very stuffy and noisy.

At this time, a man who looked elegant walked up to William, William knew him, and when he introduced everyone just now, William deliberately remembered everyone that this was the eldest son of Baron Comos, Valoran. Comos, this name made William laugh, and spoofed in his heart, could it be that Baron Comos also crossed over, maybe League of Legends played too much.

"William, can I talk to you?" Valoran not only has an elegant temperament, but even her voice is magnetic.

Seeing William and Valoran chatting, the people who originally wanted to come and mingle with William didn't come to bother.

"Of course, my pleasure." William bowed and made a chest salute that seemed to him very elegant.

"This is not the place to talk, follow me!" Valoran smiled inexplicably.

William didn't know why, nodded and followed him.

The two men walked out of the hall door, through the hallway, and into a small garden, where Valoran stopped, and William stopped to look at him.

He turned his head and said to William, "William, you know what? My sister had been talking to you yesterday that you were very good and that you would protect her from harm......" He paused, as if the following words were something unspeakable.

But William had already guessed what he was going to say.

"But I still want you to stay away from her, I don't want her to marry a poor knight who has nothing, you understand? Maybe you will be upset when I say this, but please understand the heart of an older brother. Valoran's tone softened.

William and Valoran are about the same height, both have light blue eyes and blonde hair, and William looks at Valoran's eyes lightly.

He said, "I won't be a poor knight forever, I'll do enough to marry Wella!" William's tone was firm.

"Whatever you want! Anyway, I wouldn't agree to a poor knight marrying my sister, and I still have a say in her marriage. Valoran's tone began to agitate.

William did not answer, and the conversation between the two men broke up unhappily.

However, after returning to the hall, the two did not show any performance very tacitly.

The next morning, William, Norwen, and Urimu wandered around the manor for a while, found a blacksmith's house, and spent sixty-five silver coins, three sets of iron-embellished chain mail, three semi-enclosed helmets, and three knight's shields of good quality, and the remaining seventy silver coins for reserve funds.

There are also some necessities for life, after purchasing, since William has not yet learned to ride a horse, the three of them led the war horse when they came, took the map, and walked to William's Caiyi Stream Village.

William was ecstatic in his heart, he finally had his own territory, even if it was not a hereditary fief but a fief recovered by death, even so, it made William very happy.

The group walked outside the village, and William carefully took a look.

"Yes, it seems that Baron Comos is quite thick, and this village for me is not bad." William thought to himself, because this place was much stronger than the village he had just crossed and saw.

At least, the people here still have clothes, even if there is pudding, and the houses are walled, although they are still low, but at least, these farmers and their families are not skinny, although they are not as strong as they are.

But on the whole, William believed that the village was in the upper middle class of Baron Comos.

According to William's estimate, the tax drawn here can initially arm the three knights, but Baron Comos obviously did not expect that they had a lot of savings before, or Baron Comos knew that in order to show his sincerity, he gave William this nice village.

William and the others wore armor and walked into the village, and the villagers saw the three people leading the horses, and they all showed angry eyes, after all, this was once the direct territory of the baron, and it was rare to encounter the aggression of foreign armed personnel, so when they saw the fully armed William, the three did not leak a frightened expression.

"What's the matter? Military master? William stopped a villager.

"I am a knight under Baron Comos, and now the village of Stream is under my jurisdiction, and everything in the village is at my disposal, you go and call the village elder, I have something to ask him.

Although the villager was a little surprised when he heard this, he did not reveal a disbelieving or sad expression, in his opinion, it was just a change of tax object.

After a while, the village elder bent over and came to the three of them.

"Three masters, do you have any instructions for coming to Stream Village?" The village elder said in an aging voice.

"I, William. Wallace, who was knighted yesterday by Baron Comos, gave me this village of the stream as my fief. ”

As he spoke, William took the document from the hand of the villager, regardless of whether the village elder was illiterate or not, put it in front of his eyes, and said, "This is the document, the certificate given to me by the Baron, from now on, this village is my legal fiefdom." "William doesn't understand this, but Norwen does, and he has already told William what to say, so what William says is full of formulas.

The village elder bent his waist even more, and said humbly: "Of course, my lord, no one in the Stream Village dares to rebel against your rule, we will pay taxes and go to the battlefield when you are called.

"Very good, you can report to me the situation of Xiliu Village, the population, the grain stock, the young and strong, the tax rate, and the annual income." William continued.

"There are a total of 224 people in Xiliu Village, of which 60 are young adults who can go to the battlefield, there are still 2,000 kilograms of grain left over from last year, enough for our village to eat until next winter, the current tax rate is 50%, plus tithes, it is 60%, if the weather is good this year, it can produce goods worth 40 silver coins." The village chief replied truthfully.

"Well, it's not bad, you go and gather all the villagers, I'm going to announce something." William commanded.

Taking advantage of this time, William and Novin Limu discussed: "I think we should make some changes, after all, we have to assume the military obligations of the baron, if we recruit all farmers who are completely ineffective, then our achievements on the battlefield will be much smaller, after all, we can't rely on us for everything, what do you think?" ”

"Well, you go on." Norwen and Urimu seemed to be more interested in what William was saying.

"My idea is that we will gather these farmers who can go to the battlefield to train them during the slack time, so that they can have a certain combat effectiveness and not collapse on the battlefield! And in return, we can reduce their taxes by 30%. William said.

"But none of the other lords and knights have made changes, and besides, the tax cut will also reduce our income, and it will also accelerate the consumption of our stock!" The more Norwen listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he was the first to raise objections.

"Although the income has decreased, but our combat effectiveness has increased, on the battlefield, the baron will be impressed with us, and the loot after winning the battle is also a large piece of income, what I have to do is to win the battle, not to mention that I have already thought of a way to make money.

"Okay...... It's up to you! Norwen actually wanted to say something, but he didn't continue, I don't know if he was persuaded or considered William's identity.

Now there is a subordinate relationship between them, although William does not regard them as subordinates, but the two of them are still very consciously obedient to William.

With no resistance, William made up his mind to carry out the plan.

After a while, the villagers were gathered in the open space in the center of the village by the village elders, and William, holding the hilt of the one-handed sword at his waist in his right hand, stood on a makeshift high platform, exerted all his strength, and shouted to the people below in a loud voice.

"Villagers, I'm William. Sir Wallace, you are all rightful rulers, and I hereby declare that I will protect your villages, and that you will be called upon by me to join my army as a duty to you. ”

The villagers did not speak, and seemed to be used to it.

"However, my army is different from the previous ones, different from anyone else's, my army has high-intensity training, and you must be trained by me when you are not farming."

The villagers below immediately began to whisper, there has never been a lord who has asked his subjects like this, and the farmers who go to the battlefield don't need to be trained, why is this lord so much to do?

"As a reward, I will distribute a suit of armor and weapons to those who join my army, and I will reduce his tax by thirty percent, and distribute five copper coins a year, two copper coins for each expedition, and you can take thirty percent of the spoils of war!" William drops a bombshell.

Now the farmer below has blown up, and such a good treatment is enough for them not to fear death, although only before they go to the battlefield.

And this knight even said that he would arm his own people, which is simply unthinkable, the knights of the past would not give the farmers armor weapons when they were recruited into battle, and they would not spend a penny more on these people.

This knight is willing to spend money to arm these villagers, you know, although the price of leather armor is not as expensive as leather armor, but a leather armor costs five silver coins, and the income of the entire village is only forty silver coins a year.

The income of the whole village can only buy eight pieces of leather armor, and it cannot buy weapons, if you want to arm the peasants, no one needs at least eight silver coins, and sixty people are four hundred and eighty silver coins, which is a huge amount of money, even if the baron has a rich manor, and a dozen directly subordinate villages, the income does not exceed a thousand a year.