006 My Territory
"My lord, there are three wells like this in the village, these wells are not used very often on weekdays, most of our villagers drink the river water from the northern tributary, the living water is relatively clean, these three wells are mainly used to deal with the drinking water problem during the freezing period of the small river in winter.
In addition, we have dug a surface aqueduct to irrigate the fertile soil around the village, and based on the current growth of the wheat fields, we should have a 'harvest festival' if nothing else.
Within a mile of our village, there are patches of bushes and groves, and I have ordered two lumberyards to be built there, and on weekdays some firewood is cut for heating, and when it is necessary to build houses, a large number of villagers can be sent to directly use the tools in the lumberyards to harvest a large amount of timber in the shortest possible time. ”
It's called Joseph. Zhugashvili's village chief said, pointing to the lush woods in the distance.
The appearance and skin color of the villagers in the territory obtained by Shu Zifeng are very similar to those of himself, and the rules of naming are the same as those of the commoners of Muscovy in the parallel world.
Some people may think that the names of Slavs and even Europeans are cumbersome and long, mixed with a large number of family names, compound surnames, honorary 'nouns', etc., that kind of name is actually only owned and used by the big men and real nobles in Europe, and in Europe, the name itself is an honor, because it means that the person has or is a superior person, or his ancestor is a traditional and ancient nobleman, no matter how poor, there will be a knight ancestor.
On the contrary, the common serfs at the bottom of European society, who were not treated as human beings, had unusually simple names, often inheriting only one surname from their father and a prefix name.
Some orphans who have no father or mother, do not even have a surname, but only have a name-like 'number' to distinguish their identity.
However, as long as the people at the bottom of Europe have obtained the true meaning of 'freemen' or citizenship, they will give themselves a decent surname, and some people who have made meritorious deeds will even be given surnames or given some honorary surnames.
For example, most of the Junker nobles in Germany have the word 'von' in their names.
Before the completion of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, citizens and freedmen were not ordinary freemen in the imagination of later generations, every citizen and freedman placed in the society of later generations, equivalent to a 'propertied class', at least a small merchant and small landowner, in order to obtain the status of a freeman and a citizen, of course, if there is no capital, you can also become a mercenary or other blood-licking business to accumulate capital and reputation, and obtain the status of a freeman and citizen.
There are many European aristocratic territories, and many aristocratic lords are short-tempered, often because of some quarrels or even simply to pretend to be forced, they can be angry, and if they lose the battle, they can also use the ransom to buy their own lives, and those who die are lowly serfs......
Therefore, as long as it is not a real war of state and annexation, armed conflicts between nobles are as frequent as fighting games, except that fighting games between nobles pay a lot of lives for free.
For the nobles, the serfs at the bottom are like leeks in the vegetable field, and if they have nothing to do, they will wield a sickle to harvest a batch of cannon fodder for their own hobbies and interests, and there is no military pay and remuneration for conscripting peasant soldiers, and some stingy lords even require conscripted peasant soldiers to carry their own military rations, otherwise they can only sit and wait for starvation to death......
As for the revolt?
Well, then it's not just a matter of dying yourself......
Anyway, the common people of that era did not have any entertainment activities, or they were not allowed to have entertainment activities, and after the labor was over, they were still pa......
Naturally, it is really not an exaggeration for a couple to have a baby a year, but the medical conditions at that time were too poor and the infant mortality rate was too high, but even if the baby can avoid the premature death, most of them will not grow up, and hunger and disease will become the second ghost gate for the children of ordinary people!
This is the reason why the European continent has a large amount of fertile plains suitable for cultivation, but the population has not been able to increase significantly, and it is impossible for the population to grow explosively under frequent wars and backward agricultural production technology.
Although the people under Shu Zifeng's command ate much better than the serfs in the ordinary sense, their hearts were no different from the serfs in the parallel world, and naturally, the names became extremely simple, generally one name and one surname.
Even many villagers have the same surname......
In Joseph. Under the introduction of the village chief Zhugashvili, Shu Zifeng basically understood the building purpose of the village except for the wooden houses, and I have to say that although the appearance of this territorial village given by the conquest system looks very simple, it is full of organs.
Warehouses for storing supplies such as food and furs are scattered around the village, with a large wind-driven mill swaying slowly through the fields, and a bakery next to the mill.
There is also a thatched hut where the village blacksmith worked, and a leaky thatched hut where the village leather seam worked...... Let's call it a blacksmith shop and a tailor's shop......
In short, except for the commercial and trade markets, there are all civil facilities and buildings owned by normal towns in this world, but these facilities and buildings are all the private property of the lord Shu Zifeng in 'de jure', and all the villagers are just working for Shu Zifeng alone, and he can take and ask for it anytime and anywhere.
Since they all belong to Shu Zifeng's property, there is naturally no need for commercial trade, and the distribution and dispatch of materials among the villagers all depend on Joseph. Zhugashvili also adheres to the principle of distribution according to work, but it has a little bit of the meaning of Datong society.
Fortunately, the people given by the conquest system did not cheat and cheat, and this mode of survival complemented each other.
In fact, this conquest system territory village is just a base for Shu Zifeng to train the army to recruit loyal staff, not a real city in the ordinary sense, even if this territory village is upgraded to the ultimate war main city, it is all Shu Zifeng's personal property, as long as Shu Zifeng is not open to the public, he can always maintain his 'pure loyalty' by supplementing the system subjects, and provide Shu Zifeng with a steady stream of various talents and loyal soldiers!
As for enjoyment, it is necessary for Shu Zifeng to take the army to expand on his own, anyway, the world is so big, just capturing a big city is enough for Shu Zifeng to squeeze the people without scruples to satisfy his selfish desires......
Through the communication with the system elves, Shu Zifeng also holds this kind of idea, conquering other peoples and enslaving them to satisfy themselves, although this kind of thinking is relatively reactionary, but it is the norm in this parallel world today, otherwise, how can a small number of aristocratic classes regard the civilian serfs who account for ninety percent of the population as two-legged livestock?
Shu Zifeng is not a saint who is compassionate and saves all people from fire and water, his ambition comes from the desire for rights and enjoyment.
Shu Zifeng is a very realistic and ruthless person!