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First, Count Don Jr. didn't have that much manpower.

This is very easy to understand, the contract production to the household, the contract responsibility system, this kind of 'advanced' idea in today's era is only in the head of Count Xiao Tang, and only Count Xiao Tang can develop and promote. But promotion, this is not to say that only Earl Tang can do it, it needs a lot of grassroots, a lot of knowledgeable, fair grassroots to guide and supervise.

Without knowledge, how can we be sure that each serf receives approximately equal land? If you are unjust, there is a crop field, this land is good, that land is poor, and everyone wants a good one, what should we do?

But for now, the only people who can accept Count Xiaotang's thoughts and help him do this kind of 'contrary to heavenly principles' are only his sixty students - no, eighteen boys, as for girls, unless Count Xiao Tang can truly liberate women, those forty-eight female students can teach in Count Tang's castle, which is the limit of their achievements in this life.

As for the second, it was that Count Don did not want others, including his knights, to know about it.

After the implementation of the tuntian system, the increase in grain production was certain, but now in this day and age, there are all vultures and hyenas outside. Think about it, it's just the Grand Duke of Murchid, he has to come to fight the autumn wind twice a year, once in the summer and then after the autumn harvest, and he is usually so shameless, so if this year's autumn harvest is bumper, this Grand Duke doesn't just tear his face to rob it?

When the time comes, I only hope that the three hundred pikemen of the Count of Don Jr. will be useful to Prince Tad's deterrent.

Then there are the knights, for the knights, the little Count Tang really loves and hates. Undoubtedly, the knight was the most powerful force of this era, and the charge of the knight in full armor was like a large truck full of fifty tons rumbling into it, and the enemy had already lost half of his courage before he could engage in battle.

However, although the knight is a sharp knife, it is very easy to hurt himself. Violent temper and bloodthirsty nature make blood, killing, and intrigue the daily routine of these knights - to take the simplest example, isn't the real-life King Arthur first seduced by the 'perfect knight' Lancelot and then betrayed?

Lancelot is the 'perfect knight'!

To be honest, this kind of scum can be called the perfect knight, and you can imagine what kind of knights they are!

So if possible, Count Don Jr. hoped that he would be able to raise a group of knights himself, similar to the Eastern European hussars of a few hundred years later, united by military merit and medals, rather than a group of uncrowned kings with great autonomy in their own villages, as is the case now.

But these are all later words, people are not machines, it takes at least ten years to train a qualified knight, even a cavalry takes two or three years, well, for now, let's do the right thing first.

Little Count Tang thought with discouragement.

The most important thing is the distribution of land.

Only by a fair distribution of land could the serfs know the determination of the lord and understand that this was not the whim of the lord, but the result of careful consideration. With this result, the serfs were able to farm in the fields with peace of mind, without worrying about not knowing when the land would be taken away.

At this time, it was time for the students of the little Count Tang to come into play.

Each of these students received a set of measuring tools - a long wooden stick about six meters long, which was a defective product left over from the failure of the previous super long spear, and now it happened to be reused.

The task of the students was to measure, and each student had to measure five plots of land, each thirty acres of land, of which twenty acres were for farming, five for clover, and five for the serfs, and they could do whatever they wanted—just pay taxes.

After the students had taken measurements, the Earl of Tang would personally inspect the fields to make sure that they were roughly equally divided. This is also an exam for male students, even if Count Xiao Tang passes the exam, if he doesn't pass, I'm sorry, there will only be black bread for lunch in the next week.

As for the examination of female students, Count Tang gathered all the servants and miscellaneous servants in the castle, and asked each female student to take one to teach, as long as they could read and write 500 words in fifteen days, it would be considered a pass.

But there is another thing worth mentioning, that is, when the male students measure the land, they all measure the land in a boxy way according to the requirements of the Earl of Little Tang, which is pleasing to the eye at a glance, which is completely different from the crooked and crooked strips of ordinary serfs.

Of course, this is not the obsessive-compulsive disorder of Earl Tang, but it does make sense: human beings themselves are the most realistic animals, for example, airplanes, which make people look good at first glance, and beautiful airplanes, its aerodynamics must be no different. Because people have seen birds, the aerodynamics of birds are the most in line with the laws of nature, people will compare with birds when they see airplanes, and the more like birds, the more beautiful they are.

And the square ploughland, which looks better than the long one, also lies in this.

In medieval Europe, under the open land system, a farmer's arable land was spread over many places, and these narrow strips of land were about half an acre to an acre in size. One is separated from the other by rows of stones or uncultivated grass ridges. Each farmer may be allocated several narrow strips of land. These plots of land are often scattered throughout the village rather than contiguous in a single piece, and in fact, this is the most obvious feature of the "open land system".

Because the cultivated land is narrow and small, and the ridges between the cultivated land are dense, it is not conducive to irrigation and drainage, and the cultivation method can only be ploughed and harrowed along the way, and cannot be ploughed and raked horizontally. As a result, farming is often subject to trampling disputes, which wastes time and labour, thus affecting the productivity of the land.

As for improvement, because of the narrow and thin nature of the cultivated land, any improvement will undoubtedly affect the neighbor's land, and then affect the neighbor's harvest. Therefore, once this open land system is implemented on a large scale, it will be very difficult for Earl Tang Xiao to correct it.

In this case, it is better to plan well from the beginning of Count Tang, and save trouble in the future.

Therefore, Count Tang chose the square, and the biggest advantage of the square is that it is not troublesome.

Whether it is when ploughing the land, or when irrigating, or when digging ditches and improving them in the future, due to the geometric superiority, the square arable land is very convenient, and because a farmer has all his land together, so that whether it is spring ploughing or autumn harvest, he no longer needs to run back and forth in the field, so that the time saved does not know how much.

Spring plowing and autumn harvest are competing with God for time. Even in modern countries, with chemical fertilizers and large-scale combine harvesting machinery, the government must emphasize every day: "Fight the battle of spring plowing and planting, and prepare for the war of autumn harvesting."

After the land is demarcated, it is time to divide it.

divided the land, and the little Earl Tang took the most fair and almost impossible to cheat by lot.

Because of these lands, although they are still only wasteland, and they must be cleared before they can be cultivated, but the fertility of a piece of land can sometimes be distinguished just by looking at whether the weeds and wild trees grow well or not, and the desires in people's hearts will always be good, good, and better.

Under such a desire, even Count Xiao Tang can't think of any good solution, so it's better to just leave it like this, draw lots, and under God's guidance, each has a destiny, and no one is allowed to complain about what he catches.

There were ninety serfs on the entire estate - that is, ninety families, nearly five hundred. Under the watchful eye of Count Xiao Tang, he caught the lot on the spot, and then opened it on the spot, and with the help of the students who helped on the side, he counted and understood where his field was.

Finally, it's time to sign the contract.

There are five contracts in total, and it reads as follows:

Under the gaze of the Father in Heaven and the Son of Mary and Holy Spirit, Donchester Mackaffaye, Earl of Desmond, enter into the following agreement with the serfs

First, the land was originally owned by the Earl of Donchester, and the serfs only had the right to use it, not the right to buy and sell.

Second, the Earl of Donchester leased the land to the serfs by contract, so that the serfs were to pay taxes after the autumn harvest each year. Thirty per cent of all the harvest in the field was to be paid in the first two years, forty per cent in the third year, and fifty per cent in the fourth year and thereafter, and if a serf rented the tools of the Earl of Donchester and his cattle, the tax was to be increased by an additional tenth.

3. This contract shall be valid for twenty years, during which the Earl of Donchester shall guarantee that the serfs shall be able to farm in peace and not be troubled by war, and shall not recover any of the serfs' land for any reason.

Fourth, after twenty years, if the serf still wants to cultivate the land, he shall pay as rent twice the value of all the harvest in the twentieth year, in order to obtain the right to use the land.

5. The Earl of Donchester reserves the right of final interpretation of this agreement.

It is such a five-article contract, the first stipulates the ownership of the land, the second and third articles are the obligations of the serf and the earl, the fourth is the future planning, and the fifth, to be honest, the little Tang Count does not know what the use is, but it is added just in case.

All these rules were explained three times, and before they were signed, everyone was told to repeat them again before they were signed.

This is done in consideration of the fact that they are all uneducated people, and some of them can't even count their fingers.

But fortunately, there is nothing these serfs do not fail to understand about land, the most precious treasure in the world.

So all of them took an oath and made a vow before the statue of the Holy Father and the priest Philip, and then they solemnly came up one by one, and signed and signed on the parchment.

So this contract, later known as the 'Serf Land Treaty' and the 'Emancipation Proclamation', was signed now.

As for the impact of this treaty on the future and on future generations, Count Tang neither knew nor cared, anyway, he would not live to that time, after his death, no matter how the flood would be monstrous. His eyes are now full of only the serfs who are elated and enthusiastic about production, and they are about to stay up all night to open up the wasteland with a hoe, which is the beginning of the great emancipation of the productive forces!