Bang!

Wu Ming leisurely walked through the crowd as if he were walking, waving his sword scabbard at will, and every time a farmer fell, unable to get up for half a day. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"A real knight!"

When Lady Amelia saw this, she leaned limply against the door, utterly desperate.

She originally thought that Wu Ming was just the second son of a nobleman, and she was lucky enough to take advantage of this opportunity to plot her husband's territory, but she couldn't imagine that such a young nobleman was already a real knight!

In fact, even if it is a real knight, it is quite difficult to deal with dozens of people in one go.

But the difference between a farmer and a trained warrior is too great, and they are simply tied up and dare not fight back, so even if any knight comes, they can easily suppress them, just like Wu Ming is doing now.

Shout!

Wu Ming finally unsheathed his long sword and looked at the remaining farmers, his eyes flashing with a fine light.

"What is it that gives you such audacity to me! William Wallace, a noble knight who had slain against the wildlings, the champion of the spring jousting tournament, and the man who had defeated the glorious knights of the Church? ”

Of course, because of the inconvenience of transportation, the results of the spring martial arts competition have not yet been transmitted here, otherwise Wu Ming estimates that his takeover will be much smoother, but shouting it out by himself is also a little shocking.

"Now, punish yourselves with your disrespectful hands towards the lord, and kneel down and kiss the ground under my feet, and I will forgive you for your previous infidelity, or your souls will only go to hell and cry!"

The sword flickered, showing that what he said was true.

"You are a true knight! The people need your protection! ”

Something happened that made Amelia even more desperate.

The first to succumb was the old soldier Jof.

He knelt on his knees, kissed the ground at Wu Ming's feet, and said in a reverent tone.

As one of the few broad-minded people in the territory, he already knew that Madame's plan had failed completely, and ...... This is a dark and dangerous world, and there must be a strong lord to protect the people! Women can't do it after all!

This is very helpless, but it is also a reality!

"Excellent! As punishment, you only need to whip ten lashes, and I forgive you for your previous sins! ”

Wu Ming looked to the side: "Who wants to be executed?" ”

"My lord, I am willing to offer you my loyalty and be your humble servant!"

Many tenant farmers immediately turned against the water, knelt down one after another, and kissed the land under Wu Ming's feet.

Amelia's whole body softened, and she deeply felt the betrayal, and the sorrow of that woman enveloped her deeply, and even made the world spin in front of her eyes.

The exclamations of her two daughters came to her ears, and her eyes went black and she was completely unconscious.

……

"Mom!"

"Mom!"

I don't know how long it took for her to open her eyes and see the furnishings of her bedroom and the anxious faces of her two daughters.

"O gods...... I seem to have had a terrible nightmare! ”

Lady Amilia murmured, "I dreamed that a young devil came and wanted to take everything from me......"

"I'm sorry...... Madam! ”

The old butler, with the bridge of his nose broken, stood aside, his face wrapped in gauze, and reminded in a voice that had changed his tone: "I'm afraid it's not a nightmare!" ”

Amelia sighed, half-sat up, and saw Wu Ming.

"When you're fainting, it's this...... Your Lord has saved you! The butler continued.

"Alright! You win! ”

Amelia said helplessly, "I will leave with my two daughters!" ”

"Ma'am, I think you misunderstood me!"

Wu Ming said with a smile.

"Will you marry my daughter, or ......?"

Amelia's face flushed: "You insist on your previous request?" ”

"I do need you...... Be my housekeeper! ”

After teasing enough of this beauty, Wu Ming finally said.

"Butler?!"

Lady Amelia blinked, looking a little cute.

"Not bad...... I need someone who is familiar with the territory and has prestige to assist me in managing the territory, and as my steward, I will pay you, and you and your daughter can continue to live here...... Of course, if you wish, I am willing to adopt them as adopted daughters, and when they grow up, I will prepare a rich dowry for each of them, how about it? ”

Treating the widows of the previous lords well is also an unspoken rule in the circles of the nobility.

Wu Ming didn't want his reputation for being mean or cruel to circulate in the circle, and in comparison, a possible little peach rumor was nothing at all, which was very important.

"I promise!"

Almost without thinking, Lady Amelia agreed.

After all, she is only the daughter of a commoner, she has no maiden family to rely on, and there is really nowhere else to go except for the territory.

"Celis, Cecil, come, meet your godfather!"

She immediately had the spirit to let her two daughters salute Wu Ming.

Although he knew that in this way, Wu Ming had custody of his two daughters and could exercise all his power before they became minors, but there was nothing he could do.

"Godfather!"

The two loli screamed sweetly, causing Beatrice next to her to snort even more dissatisfied.

"As for you......"

Wu Ming looked at the poor old butler and made a decision casually to knock him down one level: "Just serve as the housekeeper's deputy!" ”

……

The people of the Karos Lords soon learned the shocking news that they had a new lord.

The lord was mighty, a true knight, and had defeated the Glorious Knights of the Church and joined forces with an entire mercenary group—rumors were always exaggerated.

With the protection of this powerful knight, you should be safe from those damned bandits and wildlings, right?

After being led by the butler's deputy and Joff, who swore allegiance to the new lord in batches, the hearts of all the people were settled.

The lords offer their loyalty and taxes to the lord, and the lord is responsible for protecting the lords under his rule, which is also a mutual power and duty.

In the Dark Age, a powerful lord, even if he is brutal, but as long as he has power, there will still be an endless stream of lords to take refuge, just for a little safety!

The scourge of a lord is nothing compared to the entire group of savages, with its ferocious beasts and treacherous environment.

"This is my Carlos Collar!"

Wu Ming rode a horse and began to inspect his territory, while the butler's deputy next to him kept explaining to him.

After a lap, he had some intuitive understanding of his territory.

The area of the entire Lokas Territory is nearly a thousand acres, which is much larger than the fiefdom of ordinary knights in the previous life, which is converted to nearly four million square meters, six thousand acres of land.

Of course, most of these are mountains and hills, and the cultivated land that has been reclaimed is only about 2,000 acres.

Throughout the territory, there were ninety tenant farmers, two freedmen, one skilled in the trade of blacksmiths, and one scholar.

In addition to these, there were water mills, cattle pens, storehouses, and manor courts on the territory, all of which were public buildings that nominally belonged to him as a lord.

But the most important thing is that as a lord, in addition to Wu Ming's ownership of all the mountains, forests, rivers, and grasslands, 1,000 acres of the 2,000 acres of cultivated land are his private land.

The people under his command, or serfs, had to plough his land before they went to work in their barren land.

Even those portions of land did not belong to the serfs, but because they paid taxes, the lord could not take them away at will.

"This is even more ruthless than the exploitation of big landlords in ancient times!"

Wu Ming sighed in his heart.

It can be said that on top of the lord's estate, except for a few freemen who have a certain amount of private property, everything else belongs to the lord.

"The efficiency of this exploitation is also a little too low-level......

As an experienced traveler who has experienced the influence of his previous life, Wu Ming is naturally very dissatisfied with this efficiency: "I can't wait to tie all serfs to the land and all the people into slaves, why don't you just exercise slavery?" It's really a step backwards in history. ”

He naturally has a lot of golden ideas to make money, but all of this needs people! A craftsman is needed, a guy with a skill to work for him!

"Now...... I already have a knight's canonization, which can be regarded as the threshold of entering the noble circle, and some of the previous plans can be started ......"

Anyway, it's just farming, as well as the development of handicraft products, glass, refined salt, improved wrought iron, etc., Wu Ming is not familiar with it, but he is also seventy or eighty percent sure.

"Of course...... First of all, it is necessary to promote one's authority first! ”

What can make people feel authoritative is naturally iron and blood!

If you do this internally, you can only gain fear and resentment, but externally, you can get cheer and wealth.

"Joff!"

Wu Ming said to the old soldier: "Call all the stick boys in the territory!" ”

In the territorial court, Wu Ming looked at the many curious, awe-inspiring, and uneasy young faces below, and suddenly smiled: "From today onwards, after your daily farm work, you can choose to go to Qiao Fu to receive training as a warrior, and those who do so will be rewarded with an oat loaf bread after the training!" ”

"And when the spring ploughing is over, I will take you to crusade against the bandits and savages around you!"

His words stirred up a thousand waves, but he raised his hand again and suppressed all his voice: "As a lord, I promise you, those who excel in future battles, will have the opportunity to become free people and own their own land!" ”

Half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and one step is a madman!

Although Wu Ming wanted to directly liberate everyone in the territory into free people, he also knew that it was impossible, and he had to take it slowly.

In the future, refinement and division of labor are the general direction, and these require a free population!