Chapter 28: Determination
It has been a month since Alan returned from Yaheng's house, and this month has given Alan an an understanding of all aspects of the territory, and he knows what a tattered mess Yarman has left behind now.
The whole domain was made up of tenant farmers of the lords, all of them rented the land of the lords, and there were almost no yeoman farmers, so to speak, the world was basically made up of nobles, clergy, merchants, and tenant farmers, because the merchants did not need land, and they could not get land at all, because land could only be the private property of nobles and clergy, and it was obtained by the king's reward, and could not be obtained through sale.
The land annexation is serious, but it is only a war annexation between the nobles, the entire country, and even the entire continent, the land belongs to the nobles and the clergy, and no land belongs to the commoners and merchants, Alan is a little puzzled how this system exists, and it has existed for so long.
However, existence is reasonable, when the system is not solidified and decayed, commoners can also become knights, attached to knights, obtain their own land, and do not need to pay taxes, but since the solidification of social classes and the solidification of population flow between classes, commoners have almost no way out, and becoming merchants is basically the only way out, but they can only be rich, without corresponding identity and status, if merchants are not attached to the nobility, I am afraid they will not directly pick the fruit, or even attached to the nobility, and they are just harvested one stubble after another, becoming a nobleman"Leeks" in general.
When the aristocracy and clergy were in the hands of the armed forces of the world, it was impossible for the commoners to resist, and there were no tools and no sufficient food, which allowed this almost deformed society to survive forever.
A well-equipped knight can kill hundreds of farmers, and how can a scrawny farmer be a knight's opponent.
Take the farmers of the El Collar as an example, after Baron El fell ill, Alger fell out of favor, Yarman took over the territory, the tax rate of the territory became more and more stringent, the tax rate from the previous ten taxes to three, and all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have also been introduced, taking the former Allen family as an example, renting 100 acres of arable land, only 40% can only be harvested, and it is impossible to feed the family at all, so you can only add some wild vegetables to barely support the family, you can imagine how high the tax rate is.
Not only is there a high tax rate for the territory, but there is also a gratitude tax for the church, which is also a lot, five taxes and one.
A total of sixty percent of the tax, Zhou Papi is nothing more than that.
There is also the service of the territory, military service, it is even more onerous, even if the military service is forgotten, the population of the territory is not large, and it is understandable that everyone in the territory participates, but the conscription is very heavy, and in the past, it was only necessary to repair the castle and cultivate the wasteland when the farm was slack, Yarman directly increased the number of conscription each year, regardless of the busyness of the farmers when the farming was busy, and directly forcibly conscripted the conscription.
A series of tax laws have greatly hit the enthusiasm of farmers, and the output of farmland has decreased year by year, from more than 1,000 tons in the past to more than 7 million tons.
Alan rubbed his head, the territory has not been overthrown by man-made counter-revolutions so far, which is really surprising.
No, Alan denied in his heart that all the laws of the territory must be changed, otherwise the people will not be able to make a living, how can they talk about wealth and nobility, and oppress the peasants? His conscience can not pass, even if he has been an agent, but he will be killed if he is not deeply involved, and this is only when he has come to this world, and he has not been ruthless to the point of ignoring people's lives.
However, this matter has to be tried to be taken lightly, and Alan has to give in, because at this time, Arlin has just become a baron and controls the territory, so it is the time when his desire to control is the strongest, and at this time to challenge his authority, I am afraid that the consul he just obtained will fly, and if he thinks about it, I am afraid that he will only become a bandit.
However, you can first grasp the military rights of the territory, and then wait until Uncle Gna arrives, the population of the entire Black Bear Village abandons the women and children, and there are fifty people who can fight, plus the wealth accumulated in the past, and can also afford to equip more than a dozen sets of knight equipment, and wait until the people in the village are integrated into the territory, and then change the military service to the recruitment system, standing military strength, divide the power of the knights, and even use the private property of the territory to equip the people of the Black Bear Village, so that the majority of the military power of the territory is in their own hands, thinking of this, Allen shook his fist, and it is not necessarily who has the final say in the territory at that timeใ
After making up his mind, Alan hurriedly went into the house to write a letter to Gna, writing a plan on the coarse cloth to let Gna move to the territory as soon as possible, believing that Yarlin was very willing to have "outcasts" Take refuge, because it means the reclamation of wasteland, as well as new sources of taxation, but the control of the population in each territory is still somewhat strict, so generally speaking, if you want to expand the income of the territory, you can only recruit bandits, but how can the bandits be so good at recruiting An, they basically have to fight, maybe the population they get in the end is not as much as the population lost.
If there is a bandit group that can recruit the territory without harm, it is a happy thing.
Looking at the carrier pigeon flying into the distance, Allen's heart was full of pride and ambition for a while, since the old era has been so faint, reform is inevitable, as a traverser, how can he do nothing in this world of great controversy.
Knowing the poverty and chaos of the territory, and combined with his own experience, this world is so dark, the struggle between the church and the royal power is continuous, the church has always had an advantage, the reason why the royal power between the kingdoms does not leave the royal city, I am afraid that the church has a lot to do with it, after all, the unified kingdom is not very friendly to the church, which can be based on the medieval period of Western Europe, the style of the Holy See is almost the same, only the chaos between the kingdoms, can reflect the importance of the Holy See.
This is a world similar to the ancient dark ages of the West, where the power of the church is higher than that of the king, and even the church has its own soldiers, which means that the church not only rules people's minds, but even has the support of force, which is similar to the Crusaders.
But Eren wasn't timid, so that's interesting, wasn't it?
A traverser, coming from a world with a relatively perfect system and endless advanced knowledge, will have a great impact on this backward and ignorant world, and how big a wave will it set off?
Alan is looking forward to it, this is the only fun that can be obtained in this world in addition to letting his family live well, otherwise in this small territory for the rest of his life?
Then try to fight, the heroes of this world, and see if they can withstand the tide brought by an advanced world! Can they stir up waves in the wave they have set up!
Allen's deep eyes looked out the window, as if he saw the world turned upside down by the wave he brought.