There are also many provisions in the contract, so I will not repeat them here.

But that's all there is to it: the territories that Login has acquired are Sherlock's gratitude and reward. It is only nominally a monarch and a vassal relationship.

As long as it doesn't harm Sherlock's interests, Sherlock has no right to do anything he does. Although he has an obligation to help Sherlock, this obligation is very limited, and it is perfectly fine if he does not work, unless Sherlock offers to pay him to do his best, he can consider a slight discount for the sake of the "everlasting friendship".

Even the annual tax that needs to be paid to Sherlock is only half of that of the other knights, and it is "never added". Even if Luo Ming made a fortune, he still paid taxes at the original price.

To tell the truth, this is simply a land cession, and in some countries it will be scolded as a loss of power and humiliation - the Qing Dynasty's land cession is almost at this level.

But Sherlock's lords, in fact, are similar to the ancient Chinese landlords, they all regard the land and even the population above as their own family property, and give it away if they want to give it away, sell it if they want to, and no one can control it.

She didn't have much disgust with Luo Ming's lion mouth, after all, she had witnessed the danger of this cultist incident.

Without Luo Ming's presence, she would have been killed at least four times.

No matter who inherits the family business, colluding with the cultists will not end well, and the ending will be worse than that of a simple loser.

And now, although this contract stipulates that her jurisdiction over Luo Ming is very small, she still has the status of a monarch and a minister.

Besides, after this period of getting along, she also knows that Luo Ming is not a ruthless and unscrupulous guy, there is no shortage of human touch, and she really takes care of herself as a younger brother (sister...... She didn't hesitate, she signed this contract, which can be regarded as selling Luo Ming a favor.

Both sides have their own calculations, but this does not prevent them from looking very enthusiastic on the surface. As for how many points are true feelings and how many points are calculations, no one will care.

Now, the contract clearly stipulates that Luo Ming has obtained these commons:

Two small estates and a medium estate, one of which was adjacent, and the middle wasteland was also given to Lormin. The other small estate is a little further away, but it is just over an hour away.

The total area of cultivated land is 4,600 acres. There are more than 6,000 acres of wasteland as a gift, and Sherlock has added a fraction of it, which is exactly 11,000 acres of total territory for Luo Ming.

The population of the territory, as well as the houses and buildings, etc., were all assigned to Luo Ming's name.

In total, there were two hundred and thirty-six people in these territories, of whom one hundred and thirty-two were serfs and ninety-one were tenant farmers. The remaining thirteen are considered free people, but their property and families are all in this land, and they can't leave easily.

Among the freedmen were small landowners, squires, manor stewards, grooms, bakers, and so on. There was also a servant and two soldiers who were out of work.

However, there was another servant and five other full-time professional soldiers in this territory, but now Sherlock has temporarily left them in his hands, and he will return them after three months, during which time he will pay rent - after all, this civil war has caused a lot of military losses in the territory, and Sherlock must capture a few more soldiers in his hands.

Lormine and Grant are both strong men, so they don't care so much about it. If possible, Sherlock actually wanted to borrow it from Granty...... However, the value of the sword master is so high, she thought about it and forgot it.

After thanking Sherlock, Lockin took office, or rather, to inspect his own property, his own territory.

To be honest, a total of 11,000 acres of land, although it is not small among the knights, in the eyes of the people of the Celestial Empire, it may really be nothing.

Landlords of this level, that is, rampant in the township, put up a shelf in the county, and it is nothing when they leave the county.

But unlike the ancient Chinese landlords, Luo Ming can be regarded as the number one monarch in this land.

It is difficult for the higher nobles, even the Grand Duke, or the divine power, to infiltrate the power into a mere knightly domain.

In this land, Luo Ming was free to make any local regulations that did not seriously contradict the laws of the principality, he could serve as a judge to open a court to decide cases, he could train the army in the name of justice, collect armor and military weapons, and even dispose of serfs casually, and even use them to slash and practice swords or sell them to others.

The main thing in China is that he dares to do these things, either because the Tiangao Emperor is far from being able to control them, or at the end of the dynasty, when the order collapses.

At that time, he either rebelled, or formed a township militia to guard against the rebels, and no one could control him. Peacetime is certainly not going to work.

Even the Shaolin Temple, one of the most famous landowners, had only fifty or sixty monks who could dance with knives and sticks to guard against thieves and intimidate tenants. As for bows and arrows and armor, it's just a little bit of secret, if there are really a dozen pairs of armor, it is a capital crime.

Compared with the landlord, this is the difference between the head of the chicken and the tail of the ox. Besides, the nobility could rely on many means to increase their power and expand their territory.

If you acquire a lot of new territories, your titles will naturally be promoted - after all, knights, barons, viscounts, counts, etc., have completely different obligations to the higher nobles.

In wartime, a knight may only need to send a few soldiers, and a count should lend a small army to his superiors.

And if the big landlords want to further engage in land annexation, they will have to be targeted by the county officials, divide up their families and property, and find all kinds of reasons to obstruct them.

Because the annexation of land to a centralized state is a potential danger, and this was well known to the ancients.

To put it bluntly, the landlord Haoqiang is only one of the ruled who is suppressed under the big power. If you want to sit big, you will be regarded as mountaineering, unless there is a high-ranking official in the family, you will wait to be stabbed.

And the aristocracy ...... The feudal state can actually be seen as a joint-stock system, and every nobleman is a large or small shareholder. Or rather, a close-knit confederation formed by a large group of semi-independent small states. There are high and low ranks, strong and weak, but all of them are rulers.

Of course, this does not mean that it is advanced or not. But in terms of privileges, the aristocracy certainly had the upper hand.

And Luo Ming, a traverser, has knowledge in his head that others don't know, and wants to do things that others can't think of, so of course the more privileges the better, otherwise in an environment bound by rules, he has to be restrained when he says a word, and what else can he expect to do?