Chapter 58: Nobility
"The merchant Deustua once sold at least thirty young children to use as alchemical ingredients for necromancers. As Wu Jianshi spoke, a bloated businessman turned pale and collapsed on his chair, and two melee soldiers walked through the crowd, dragging him off the chair from the left and the right, and erected him all the way out of the room.
"Baron Diokno and Baroness, believing the nonsense that bathing in the blood of maidens can regain youth, killed at least forty slave maidens. ”
"Bastards, they are all bought by me! They are all my slaves, and what I want to do with them is my business! You have framed a serious nobleman like this in order to rob us of our land......" An old man over half a hundred years old stood up and scolded. But he was immediately dragged out by the rushing warriors.
"Rest assured, I have all the evidence here, and we will present it one by one in the subsequent trial. A good person will never be wronged, nor will a bad person be spared. At this moment, the house of the Baron de Diokono has been breached, and soon the Baroness and the Baron will be together in the dungeon. ”
Only then did everyone notice that there was a slight but continuous sound of gunfire coming from the window. There must have been more than one house that had been attacked by the Guards. And the backbone of these families is still sitting in the room, and one can imagine how much will their family still has to resist.
A tall man in his thirties suddenly burst out of his fighting spirit and slammed out of the window, but before he could run three meters, a spiritual arrow shot out of Xiao Chen's hand and directly penetrated his head, and the man fell to the ground as soon as he was weak, and he was silent.
"The knight of Decombe, in order to rob the property, assassinated six merchants who came from other places, and also seized the daughters of two merchants. Hmph, it's more than innocent to die. Wu Jianshi said.
When the two warriors went to pull people, they found that a fat merchant on the side was already wet under his feet, and he also emitted a stench. The merchant stood up tremblingly and said, "I confess, I confess, I killed two of my trading partners with poison and took their business, but I confess, I, I want to pay to atone for my sin." ”
Wu Jianshi said: "I'm sorry, even if I plead guilty, I still have to arrest you, as for whether surrendering can reduce your crime, that's for the judge to see." And when you become a criminal, all your assets are frozen. After saying that, the fat merchant was also taken out together.
Wu Jianshi read the list one by one, and more than a dozen of the more than fifty family heads in the field were taken out, and the rest of the people all showed the expression of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe when he announced the end of the list. Xiao Chen could feel that when he stepped onto the podium again, the expressions of the people around him were much more focused and humble.
Xiao Chen said: "Next, we want to talk about the nobility. First of all. In our kingdom, nobles are not recognized, and they will not be recognized, as well as the fiefs and privileges of the nobles, and all of you here, like me, have now become commoners.
As for your land, we will not take it in vain. We will use a redemption plan to complete the replacement of the land from your hands to us. ”
"Ransom, are you going to buy our territory with a golden axe?" asked Viscount Josza, who had survived the disaster just now.
"No, redemption is not the use of cash. For the land, we take the assessment according to the size and area of the land, and then convert it into shares in the National Land Development Corporation. The National Land Development Corporation will be responsible for the development of a portion of state-owned land, including farmland, forestry farms, mines, fisheries, and later industrial and residential land. A portion of the company's profits will be distributed to you. ”
"Your Excellency Xiao Chen, according to your wishes, we will hand over the land to you to take care of, but we can only take a small part of the output?
"Do you know that the yield of our farmland near Hewan City is many times that of your regular farmland?" Xiao Chen saw that everyone looked dazed and ignorant, and smiled slightly, "Five times." ”
Amid the exclamations of the crowd below, he continued: "We have adopted a variety of newly developed agricultural technologies such as synthetic fertilizer technology, magic-assisted growth, and new insect repellent agents, which have greatly reduced pests and diseases and increased yields. This makes our harvest more than five times that of yours on the same piece of land. And with the continuous improvement of our breeding technology, the gap in this number will become wider and wider, and if a piece of land is handed over to us to take care of, excluding government taxes, farmers' wages, and the profits retained by the National Land Development Corporation itself, the money will still be distributed to you. The income will be better if a variety of cash crops are grown. If it involves the secondary processing of agricultural products, such as sake brewing, the profitability will increase again. And you don't have to collect taxes anymore, and you don't have to deal with the peasants anymore. ”
"Do we mean that we earn more every year?" said Viscount Josza.
"That's right, and if there are untapped forest farms, mines and other resources in the territory, after we develop them, the income will be even more. But this sharing is for a limited period of time. We have set the redemption period at 10 years, and if the income of the National Land Development Corporation meets our expectations every year within 10 years, the 10-year share will be enough for us to redeem the land at market value. Under normal circumstances, there will be a lot more profits. Xiao Chen said.
Viscount Josa said, "What if I give up being a Chinese?"
"Then you will be a national of the enemy whom we have captured. If we vet you not to fight us in the war, you will be released, but as an enemy, all your possessions in Suero will be confiscated. ”
Viscount Josa pondered for a moment and said, "It seems that there are two choices, but in fact, there is only one way to go. Don't you think that's unfair?"
Xiao Chen said: "Will you go and negotiate fairness with the conquerors? I believe that compared to many aggressive imperial nobles, we are already very amiable and care about your interests. If you follow Marquis Bardini's plan and let Suero fall into the hands of the Empire, when the Imperial army arrives, I'm afraid your fate will not be optimistic, right?"
Viscount Josa naturally knew what kind of virtue the people of the empire were, and on the northern border of the kingdom, the armies of the kingdom and the empire would often raid each other's towns, and the two sides would often refresh each other's bottom lines. If it were the Imperials, they would definitely consider taking refuge. Thinking of this, he really had nothing to say.
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