"Hey, have you heard, the Viscount's Mansion is recruiting, and I heard that the treatment is quite good. ”

"I heard yesterday that a notice was posted at the city gate, and there was a consul's seal, and I heard that I was going to immigrate and could be exempted from annual rent, but I just didn't know where to go. ”

Little Locke stood on the side of the road, watching the miners pull the carts past him, talking about the recruitment of people in the Viscount's Mansion, he knew that Molly, the eldest lady of Anslowa, married to the Barony of Bode, and heard that there was a lot of wasteland there, so Miss Molly was going to find someone to open up the wasteland.

Little Locke's father was also a miner, called Old Locke, and in the villages and towns near the mine, there were a lot of people named Locke, and when Locke roared in a crowded place, it was estimated that four or five out of ten people would look back at the shouting person.

Old Locke has three sons, the eldest son Andy inherited Old Locke's ore truck, Little Locke is the second son, originally Old Locke arranged for him to go down the mine to mine, but Little Locke has been very smart since he was a child, learned some arithmetic with others, and can write a few words, so he quickly came out in the mine and became the leader of a mining team.

As soon as Locke's third son came of age, Locke wanted to give up his miner's position to his younger brother, and the owner of the mine must have been pleased, because then he could appoint one of his own men to be the leader, and Locke Jr. only asked for the position of a miner for his younger brother.

Little Locke left the mine, with the ability to write and count =, and have a certain amount of contacts, mixed into a mining team, learned to do a small management, old Locke was very comfortable with Little Locke's behavior, originally his third son could not take care of much. At first, he wanted him to go to the city to find a job on his own, but now Locke Jr. gave up his place. Then there is no need for the youngest son to leave his hometown.

Little Locke had his own ideas, and now the mine was under the coordination of the Viscount's Palace. The treatment of miners has been improved, and the quality of life has been improved compared to before, but little Locke feels that the iron ore will be dug up one day, and the family has a few acres of land, but it is inherited by his eldest brother Andy, and it will not be distributed to him.

So he was going to find a way out. Don't roll in the pit, at least have a piece of land of your own, because now that he is married and has children, and he has to plan for his son, when he grows up, do you want him to roll in the mine?

But to have land, in addition to money, you must also have freedom. Only by being a freeman can you get ahead, to be a tenant farmer of the nobility or to rent the land of a rich man to cultivate, that is to find death, and rent and taxes alone can pay all the income of your hard work for a year.

After work......

Little Locke returns to his home. In the distance, in front of the courtyard of the house, his wife was holding her son and waiting for him to come back, and little Locke put aside the troubles in his mind. He hurriedly walked up two steps and took his son from his wife's hand. A family of three walked into the house very warmly.

In the evening, I had dinner. After putting their son to sleep, the couple lay down on the bed,

Although his wife Mary is not the most beautiful girl in the village, the husband and wife have been looking at each other since they were children, and they are both relatively intelligent people, so little Locke gave up his position as the head of the miner to help his brother prepare for a better miner position, and Mary also agreed, because she knew what little Locke was thinking.

Little Locke pretended to chat unintentionally, and told the Viscount's Mansion about recruiting people, Mary nodded lightly when she heard it, she also heard the news in the village, she hugged her husband's arm, and said softly: "Locke, I know what you think, if the conditions given by Miss Molly are good, we can go, as long as you are there, I don't care if you leave the village." ”

Little Locke's worried heart was immediately settled, with the support of his wife, he dared to fight, and the most important thing is that the reputation of the Anslow family has always been very good, and he is not the kind of nobleman who eats people and does not spit out bones, he turned his head and said to his wife: "Then I will ask for leave tomorrow, go to the city to see, see what conditions are prescribed over there, just listen to what others say is not reliable enough, it is safer to go by yourself." ”

Mary leaned her head on her husband's shoulder and whispered, "If only I really told those people in the village that a young man with ten acres of land, plus my words is five acres, and our family of three has fifteen acres of land, that is already very good." ”

Xiao Locke turned around and hugged his wife and said: "The key is not the land, but the three-year rent-free promised by the Viscount Mansion and halved in five years, with such a transition period, it is enough for us to maintain a stable life." ”

"I heard that the eldest lady also provides cows and horses for rent, so that she won't be too tired when farming, but I don't know how much the rent will cost. ”

"Just ask tomorrow, it's useless to think about it now. Little Locke turned and blew out the oil lamp, and soon there was an imaginary sound in the room......

Zina stood on the edge of the boat, watching the fleet drive against the edge of the volcanic island, she felt a little incredible, this island she had seen before, at that time it was a crater that came out of the volcanic crater, a very small island, and there was no fresh water resources, no one occupied it, and no one lived on it.

But now, she looked back at the place where the fleet sailed, and the edge of the volcanic island was cliffs as far as the eye could see, although some rocks blocked the view, but she had just estimated that the coastline of the island was at least ten miles and eight miles long, which was much larger than before.

After a period of cleaning, the silt in the harbor was pushed to a specific location by Molly under the command of the sailors, and this is the location of the garden square in the harbor from now on, and now it is much easier to pile up the silt here, and it will be much easier to plant trees or something on it in the future.

Zina came this time, mainly to replace Molly, to recruit people in the viscount, Molly must come forward, she is the eldest lady of the Anslow family, and her reputation has always been good, and the lords have a sense of trust in her, and with her presence, the lords will believe that the immigrants this time are safe, not to sell them as slaves to other places.

In the dock area of the port, with the support of the Barony, a row of wooden houses has been built here, and there are quite a lot of sailors who know how to work as carpenters, and many sailors on the ship must know a little bit of carpenter's skills, and when the ship needs to be repaired, they can also take a hand, especially after the emergency maintenance after the storm, it must be repaired as much as possible, otherwise the ship will sink and everyone will die together.

"Young Master Ades, eldest lady, after more than half a month of announcements, basically every village in the territory has been notified, as of the day I came out, a total of five hundred and thirty-seven families are willing to go to the open sea to open up wasteland, the number of people is more than 1,900 people, including adult men......" Zina was in the wooden house, reporting to Adès and Molly about the Viscountdom's recruitment of people to the entire territory during this time.

Ades listened to Zina's report, and knew in his heart that this was Anna and Molly's greatest support for him, this is not the center of the continent, there are not so many land annexations, there are few people in the land, there are many places that are abandoned and no one cultivates there, and now Anna has taken more than 1,000 or 2,000 people from the territory to herself, and she is really doing her best.

Think about Evis's hometown of Hekou Town, there is a big wasteland outside the town, and it is a wasteland by the river, no one goes to open up such a place, you can imagine how worthless the land in this area is, but the average poor people themselves do not dare to go outside to open up the wasteland, this is the world of high magic, there are beasts outside.

What's even more terrifying is the humanoid race, such as goblins, gnolls, ogres, etc., these humanoid races are the most terrifying, villages without a certain defense ability, they will be plundered by these murderous races at any time, and when there is a lack of food, they will even eat people.

These two thousand people, according to the past practice, Anna can completely open up a safe town, find a wasteland in her own territory to open up, fill in those people is a productive town, the nobles here have always done this, the national anthem comes once every ten or eight years, and slowly can digest all the wasteland in her territory.

Now that Anna is doing this, it is tantamount to abandoning the interests of her own territory and fully supporting Adès, but fortunately, the Anslow family has gone through some hardships, and Anna and Molly in the family can be said to be the same, and they can support Adès like this without the hindrance of the family.

"Young master, I will discuss with Madame, in addition to going to Jinshui Bay to continue recruiting people, we are also going to organize the armed fast sails here, bypass the Golden Val next to Jinshui Bay, and go to the Lulun Bay in front to plunder the population, so that the population on the island can be filled up soon, Madame asked me to ask you and Miss if this thing can be done." After reporting on the population and the fleet, Xena told Adès and Molly an important thing, which was to plunder the population and become human traffickers.

Ades thought for a while, this thing can be done, but he can't come forward with his own fleet, even if he goes to plunder in person, don't do too much, he groaned for a while, and said to Zina: "Don't come forward to do this thing directly, after all, Lulun Bay is relatively close to us, and it is only a two-day voyage from Jinshui Bay, if you do too much, it will be easy to be noticed." ”

As soon as he said this, Molly knew what to do, during this time the two of them had established a tacit understanding when building the port, and the eldest lady continued Adès's words and said: "Zina, you are like this, after I go back, you will break up the sailors here, exchange the sailors with the fleet of the viscount and the fleet of the barony, and then arrange a fleet of armed fast sails, with a few merchant ships, to explore the city of Luren Bay."

Krenariel and Beruye were the more prosperous towns there, and they were there to see if there were any slave traders, buy some back, and then explore the road, and talk about plundering the population. ”

Xena nodded...... (To be continued......) R1292