Chapter 70: The Collapse of the Ancien Régime

Today's Agadir, to paraphrase one of the more fashionable phrases of later generations, is 'undergoing profound social change'. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Kobolds don't mind locals doing some business, but you have to have a serious job that is recognized by kobolds, even if it's a gatekeeper, or you'll just wait to enjoy 'forced labor'.

The first to be unlucky are the 'nobles', who are not short of money and can sit on the mountain, but generally do not have a suitable occupation: the kobold do not approve of the job of 'master'. I want to find a light job to hang a job, but a radish is a pit, and the old and young women and children have priority, so these healthy unemployed vagrants were pulled by the kobold to move bricks.

Of course, it is also possible not to move, it just so happens that the 'Kobold Magic Academy' lacks 'human experiment volunteers', and they can experience innovative magic such as 'Thousand Years of Mage's Hand Killing', 'Intracranial Illusion', and 'Flashing on the Retina'.

However, most of the 'nobles' are smart, and at the same time, none of them really love to move bricks, and most of them change jobs in a blink of an eye: sharpening scissors, shaving heads, cooking, embroidering, anyway, those 'handicrafts' are not difficult, and they quickly learn to smash down a lot of gold.

There are even people who are self-taught to work in high-end jobs such as carpenters and blacksmiths: kobolds have a scary high order volume, and even if they only have a little fur, they can mix a place on the factory assembly line.

In the Middle Ages, traditional craftsmen originally had guilds, each with its own price alliance, and used various powers to force their peers to execute. But I never thought that such a large group of people would come to grab jobs, and many guilds would collapse on their own without even using kobolds.

Then, during the slack period, a large number of strong laborers also rushed into the 'talent market' to grab jobs, so the traditional handicraft tradition was also finally extinguished - in order to avoid moving bricks, the craftsmen had to honestly join the guilds established by the kobolds - also known as the 'dog version guilds'.

This guild is relatively pitted, it can only be an ordinary assembly line screw, and the world-class cancer of 'guild monopoly' does not exist here.

However, they don't have much resentment, because most of the craftsmen are the beneficiaries.

Agadir was originally a subsistence small-scale peasant economy, but due to the high sales of 'Koizumi brand munitions', it has now transformed into 'one of the industrial centers of North Africa'. After half a year, the major 'dog version guilds', as well as those grass-roots factories, have a scary number of orders, everyone is exhausted, and the benefits are even more amazing. Combined with very stable local prices, the real standard of living of the artisans is much higher than that of the agricultural population.

The changes in agriculture are not small.

After the autumn harvest, the kobold people really purchased grain, collected agricultural taxes according to the original agreement, and paid a large amount of copper as remuneration according to the number of additional jobs made by everyone.

At the same time, the 'unified supply and marketing' has firmly stabilized the prices of agricultural products, and there will be no bad things that will hurt the peasants, and the aborigines of Agadir have finally put their hearts back in their stomachs.

At the same time, after all, rural areas have their own special circumstances, and some small-scale loans are unavoidable, so Xu Ping'an also began to engage in small loans as appropriate, and unexpectedly helped many people who wanted to start their own businesses.

It can be said that the 'degree of security' and 'support' here have finally exceeded the passing line.

The seeds are still the same seeds, and the varieties of crops have not changed much, but in the past six months, the dry land has generally been changed to irrigated land, and the cultivation habits of each other have changed, and as a result, the agricultural products and copper in the hands of the peasants have unexpectedly increased at least twice.

Everyone thinks of the days when they were free, but they were frugal, and they were really happy!

The majority of aborigines temporarily put aside some prejudices about the 'little devil' and gradually adapted to their current life. And some people who are not willing to be lonely, as well as people who are ingenious, are also studying the rules and regulations of the 'little devil'.

"Xu Ping'an's version of agricultural cooperatives" should be regarded as a combination of the 'land contract system' and the 'large plantation economy'.

The production brigade system in the early days of the Celestial Empire was very stupid and naïve: everyone worked honestly according to the regulations, and then calculated the 'centimeters' according to the labor intensity, and finally distributed them according to the 'centimeters' after the autumn harvest.

If people are as honest as the robots in the game, this system can still work, but the reality is that human nature is such a thing, it is inevitable that there will be moths, and everyone doesn't like to be restricted too much, so everyone has complaints about the production team system.

Although the 'land contracting' that was later carried out was better, it was not perfect. Due to some problems of 'political correctness' in the Celestial Empire, most of the villages in later generations were changed to the 'contract system'. The result is "individuals sweep the snow in front of their own doors": no one repairs the canals, widows and widows are lonely, and how the crops are planted depends on personal preferences.

On the basis of 'land contracting,' the 'new cooperative' that Xu Ping'an and Liu Jingtian drummed up, they also required 'members' to participate in some collective activities on a regular basis. Those tasks that are difficult for individuals to do individually, such as harvesting, digging ditches, and ploughing the ground, are done collectively in a unified manner, and at the same time, in order to facilitate management, the land of the same cooperative and the varieties of crops grown are strictly planned.

It looks a bit like a plantation economy.

Economically savvy people find that families with a lack of strong labour benefit the most under this system: the most laborious work is already taken care of by the collective, and the rest is easier. Although you have to pay some money for the part of the collective work, it is better than not being able to do it at all.

However, people with a large number of family laborers actually have a bit of a surplus of labor: there are people to help them in the busy farm work, but there are not so many people in the idle farm work, so do they have to sit still? The kobold are not allowed to play pornography, gambling and drugs......

Some people began to look around for opportunities to work short-term, which also hit the hearts of the traversers, so they built shops for rent, built bridges and paved roads, and assembled lines to recruit workers.

Therefore, in the urban and rural areas after the autumn harvest, the leisure of previous years is gone:

This year, the fields are not burning, and the straw must be handed over to the kobold in exchange for farm fertilizer. And the kobold gave some chicken and duck cubs to the farmers on credit, and asked everyone to raise them with their hearts.

Not to mention the never-ending digging of ditches, reclamation, and the fermented compost piled high on both sides of the road, the most leisurely winter of the previous year may also be spent in a busy way.

During this period, a major event that the kobold was looking forward to was finally implemented - after organizing research and deciding, the kobold was assigned a husband!

The kobold was stunned! Why is he a husband? Isn't it time to send a daughter-in-law?

The Great Demon King said: After going to the dead and dying the group, it's not right, after organizing research, it was decided that the kobold people adopt the matriarchal clan model, and they love to do it or not!

The male dog said: No, there are more men and fewer women, so I can only beep the dog in the future!

The female dog said: Wang Wang, give me a dozen dragon brothers~