The law upholds fairness and justice.

Whose fairness, whose justice?

In the eyes of the homeless hired people, Cali deserved death by deceitful means to take credit for Severin's papermaking and push Severin into the pulp pool. As for Cali's efforts to save Severin's life without intention, the homeless hired workers would not care. Because Cali deceived not only Severin, but also them.

In the eyes of the merchants, Cali's behavior was justified and reasonable, the lord said that he wanted to make paper, Cali paid for it, the lord said that he wanted to protect the water source, and Cali built the papermaking workshop at the mouth of the Silver Moon River and squatted for more than half a year, but the lord did not say that he could not learn from other people's ideas. Cali offered to rent out eight copper soles to the paper-making workshops, but he was just following the rules of the merchants and caravanserais, "telling the buyers to be careful" (note), and only eight copper soles could rent a paper-making workshop? Cali not only gave Severin 200 gold soles, but was also going to negotiate with Wright and Tunan, who was already a trustworthy businessman. As for Severin's almost innocent death, the merchants turned a blind eye.

The public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable. According to the rules of the homeless, the murder cases were supervised by the church, and the sheriff judged them, but if the church ignored them, the sheriff did not dare to pronounce the sentence. The village chief of Randall had no law enforcement powers, and the two parties asked people to intercede, and the church secretly added fuel to the trouble, and the matter finally got out of control, and Munch had to hand over the case to the lord's table.

At this time, the village chief George showed his true colors, don't look at his usual hot fight with the Sid family, the villagers were angry, he had to maintain the authority of the village chief, and decisively abandoned the Sid family, thinking that the paper-making reward should be given to the Robert family.

The merchants paid a lot of money to bribe the Sheriff's Office, but Munch didn't want the Rand Family to have too many vassals, which would weaken the power of the Sheriff's Office. So he suggested that the lord take back the paper-making rewards of the two families.

The mercenary legion is the brainchild of the War Bear mercenaries, and Legion Leader Nelson is unequivocally in favor of his soldiers, believing that Marcy is not guilty of murder.

Linda's life is now rich and stable, with a territory, a title, and children, and her husband is shirtless, so she has to leave a way out for the family. Objectively state the facts, expose the husband's old background, and do not express any opinions himself.

As the head of the family, Lilia is reluctant to give up the wealth and connections of the merchants, and she does not want to snub the members of the War Bears, so she plays an emotional card, admitting Marcy's guilt but begging her husband to forgive her sins.

The boar was the most wronged one, he was killed when he saved people, and if Miller hadn't come to his rescue, he would have died at that time. But no one did justice for him, because he was not a fool even when he prayed.

A hundred people have a hundred justices, a thousand people have a thousand justices, but in Randall there is only Victor's fairness and justice.

On the surface, this case was a conflict between two families, but in essence it reflected the contradiction between the vassal system and the lease and employment system.

The advantage of the vassal system is that it reduces the administrative and military costs of the vassal system, and the influence of the vassal can be increased by dividing the land and titles, for example, the king canonizes the pioneer knight as the lord, and the king does nothing to do it, and the territory of the kingdom expands.

However, it will not be efficient if the feudal monarch wants to save trouble. The vassals were created into a rigid class, the position was hereditary, and the ascent channel of the vassal was narrow. If the Rand Collar had adopted a sub-sealing system, it would not have been possible to reach its current scale without decades. Victor had an alchemy militia and an alchemy dragon lizard, and he gave up the knightly feud and embarked on the path of centralization.

The tenancy system is a centralized system dressed as a vassal system, and there are still vassals, vassals, and freemen. However, Victor separated military power, political power, and legal power, broke the hereditary position, cultivated and promoted talents, and turned fiefdoms into land leases. If officials slack off, they will be replaced by others, and they can only go home to farm.

The leasing and employment system is dynamic because of the fierce competition, and its upward path is open to everyone, but everyone doesn't know it!

The homeless people who poured into Randall's territory only thought that they could build a house by marrying a wife and having children, and they could become a lord by building a house, and the leader could become a steward and a soldier, and they would be vassal masters after 30 years. In the concept of the exiles, the lord's vassals will never be too many, and if they miss this opportunity, they will regret it for the rest of their lives.

The vassal system has been practiced for thousands of years and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it has shown great inertia in the Rand Territory.

The division of work families first began to form a group, and they sent their children to the Silvermoon Manor as attendants, either marrying the house maids trained by Alina, or marrying each other, so as to achieve the purpose of monopolizing resources and consolidating their own positions. Even if a squire cannot inherit his father's position, he can become a steward or centurion.

There is no way to do this, Victor can't let other forces infiltrate the backbone members of the Randall family. Therefore, he is ready to stop building a house and move in, and the future backbone of the family must marry the indoor maid cultivated by Silvermoon Manor, otherwise he will not want to hold an important position.

The people interpreted this signal as saying that the lord of the lord limited the number of vassals to the last batch. They ignore the two paths of militia promotion and study promotion, and only want to squeeze into the last train to build houses and enter households.

The bachelor is busy buying wives and children, and the homeless family wants to please the recommender. The merchant family suddenly fulfilled the quota for building a house and entering the household, and the contradiction between the two sides broke out in an instant. Although the Robert family looked down on homeless families and bachelors at all, they would be supported by everyone as long as they fought with merchants.

No matter how efficient the administrative efficiency of the lease employment system is, it is impossible to change a person's behavior and habits in a short period of time, and the rapid development and population explosion of Randall's territory have brought many unstable factors.

The merchants, the families of hired workers and the bachelors still follow the rules of survival of the homeless class, they are used to fighting, just like that Marcy, who has already built a house and moved in, but she doesn't care about the indiscriminate situation, and directly overturns the two people, ruthless and ruthless, leaving no room for error. She was convinced that Cali would kill people for the sake of being a vassal, because she would definitely do it herself.

Cali is the standard freeman merchant consciousness, and Marcy is the standard outcast leader consciousness.

For thousands of years, the ideology and legal system of vassalage continued to influence everyone in Randall's realm, and the economic basis of the rent-hire system was being built, and the superstructure was still far away.

If Victor left this case unchecked, the bloodshed would intensify, and the end result would be a vassal system instead of a fragile tene-hire system.

Unable to accept such a defeat, Victor wanted to take in all the merchants, artisans, homeless families, and bachelors. Nicole's verdict was unbiased and balanced, and very much in Victor's interest.

Victims?Who are the victims?Are victims important to the liege?

Of course, the problem of the inertia of the vassal system was not solved. Victor's opening of an additional 200 places to build houses can temporarily alleviate the conflict, and he needs time to build the superstructure of the Randall family, especially the laws and regulations.

In this regard, there is no one who can help Victor yet, and he has to personally handle many typical cases, developing relevant policies and regulations.

For example, the vast majority of the bloodshed in the past two years in Randall's leadership has been related to women. Singles hired workers save money to buy wives and children, but some women go to Randall and take the initiative to join the families of the people and the families of hired workers. Migrant women are accustomed to seeking a partner with a higher status, but the hope of promotion for single-handed hired workers is almost cut off, and they dare not challenge the families who build houses, and they inevitably draw swords against the families of hired workers.

After several murderers were hanged in the police station, Victor promptly issued a decree on the marriage of the exiles: the marriages of the exiles were protected, the husband was not allowed to abuse his wife and adopted sons, otherwise he would be punished with flogging and the marriage would be automatically dissolved, and the woman who remarried on her own initiative must pay 20 gold soles to compensate her spouse.

After the marriage decree was introduced, the bloodshed and violent conflicts in Randall's territory decreased significantly, and the bachelors who were ready to leave stayed behind to continue working, and the wages they saved naturally remained in Randall's territory.

The law is like a fence, and if the fence is not well tied, your own sheep will run away to other people's houses.

Victor didn't expect that he was busy building a fence, and His Majesty the Pope would actually stir up a stir in the flock.

He pondered for a long time, and then said in a deep voice: "My dear, the Lord of Radiance is a real god, how can I weaken the faith of the displaced people in Him......? Is there any misunderstanding about me by His Holiness the Pope?"

"Do you believe what you say?"

Sylvia glanced at Victor and said lightly: "You even have to take care of the homeless people wiping their butts, and you don't allow the Pope to lose his temper?"

Victor said displeasedly: "The worldly will be worldly, and the divine right will be theocracy." ”

"yes. So the church backed down, and they are now concentrating on doing their best work, for example, reminding believers to stay away from danger and not to fall victim to Viscount Randall's exploration of the Southern Continent...... All they have to do is say that mercenaries are not blessed by the Light, what can you do?"

If you take care of the homeless people, I don't care, you do the first year of junior high school, I do the fifteenth, there is nothing wrong...... Victor was silent, leaning back in his chair in despair.

Sylvia said softly, "My dear, the secular and the theocracy are not distinct, and the exiles have always been a buffer between the lord and the church. The lord is accustomed to using the outcasts to manage the outcasts, and you and Nicole's men directly manipulate each of the outcasts, arranging their food, clothing, shelter and transportation. Now, the buffer is gone, and of course the worldly and the theocracy collide. If you go further, the church will take a step back, how could Clement not react?"

"You don't really think that theocracy is just faith, do you?" asked Sylvia, a little amused.

Victor suddenly realized, shook his head with a wry smile, "The church has the strongest army and taxing power...... It's me who was naïve. ”

"Even if it's faith, you've moved the cheese of the church!" said Sylvia, "and I noticed a confession in which Clement asked Severin if he wanted to attend the morning and evening prayers, and Severin refused. A child of exiles refuses to participate in the prayer of the Light?What does Clement think in his heart? He must now determine whether your policy of converting the exiles is temporary, or if it will continue forever? ”

"But Bishop Pero knows everything about us. We converted the displaced people and recruited mercenaries, and he did not object. Perot is a disciple of the Pope, why does the Pope have to embarrass Victor now?" Nicole said unconvinced.

"Nicole, you can ask this question to show that you're becoming more and more like a lord. Sylvia nodded in satisfaction, and turned to Victor and asked, "What do you say?"

Victor's heart moved, and he muttered: "Bishop Pero is Clement's confidant, and it is impossible for the Pope not to know about Randall's affairs." Perrault's support for me is probably also at the behest of the Pope, but the bishop is the bishop and the Pope is the Pope, and the two have different positions and different patterns...... I understand that the Pope wants to support me and give an account to the Church. So, he waited for me to give him an explanation. ”

"Hehe, my dear, Viscount Randall is not qualified enough to attract the attention of the Pope. Sylvia covered her mouth and smiled, "Clement is waiting for me." As long as I say Mass in the presence of the Pope, your problem is not a problem. ”

"The Pope wants to ally with you?!" Victor asked in shock, "Why?!"

"Or because of you. ”

Sylvia explains: "The Church is divided into three major forces, the Knights of Radiance, the Cardinals, and the Presbyterians. Clement, the most prominent episcopal leader of the last three hundred years, clearly put forward the idea of eliminating civil wars and opening up outward. The Knights of Radiance and the Elders thought it was empty talk, but the new farming and pastoral pasture in the Centaur Hills gave everyone hope. Clement used barbarian diplomacy to resolve the contradictions between the three southern kingdoms and the Sassangian Empire, changed the existing diplomatic pattern, and expanded outward to become the consensus of the kingdoms. However, Clement was about to face an internal struggle. ”

"Clement is an advocate for outward expansion, which, if successful, will reach the peak of his power and prestige, and even if the Council of Cardinals is unable to regain control of the Templars, they will be able to expand the Templars and compete with the Knights of Radiance. So, the Knights of Radiance had to take down Clement first. Unfortunately, the Council of Cardinals is not monolithic, with both the Knights of Radiance and the Presbyterian having their own agents in the Council. Clement must first subdue the voices inside the Cardinals......"

Sylvia pursed her red lips and said arrogantly: "Hmph, no god knight has ever done mass since the Radiant Calendar, if Clement can bless me with the Holy Light, who in the Cardinal will dare to disobey him?"

Victor's eyes lit up, he took Sylvia's slender hand, and said with a smile: "I have to convince you first?"

"It's not that simple. Sylvia gave her lover a blank look, withdrew her jade hand, and said in a good manner, "We have differences. ”

"When the ant plague broke out, the Auguste family recruited 8,000 militiamen from among the displaced people and promoted their families to the rank of lords. But these exiles were tenants and servants of vassals for several generations, and Auguste could have regarded them as subjects. ”

Sylvia took a sip of coffee and said softly, "You and Nicole are both nascent lords, and there are not enough vassals under your command to promote deacons and soldiers from among the outcasts, and the church is beyond reproach. The question is, are you doing this expediently, or are you going to keep it going?" she put down her coffee cup and said, "Look at the way you look now, it's definitely going to last." So, what is the purpose of your insistence?"

"I need a steady stream of soldiers. Victor graciously admitted: "It's expensive to raise a mercenary army, but I have a tax policy." Randall's population exceeds 300,000, I can form 5 legions, break through 1 million, I have 12 legions, and if a soldier dies, I will replenish a soldier. They have land, they are vassals, and the Church has no right to sanction me. ”

"Are you determined to use soldiers as consumables?" Sylvia asked, her pupils constricted, and she raised an eyebrow.

Victor was silent for a moment, nodded, and said with a smile: "Ci is not in charge of the soldiers. Are you worried, my dear?"

"Worried? No! My vassal soldiers will be very happy. Sylvia chuckled lightly and said with burning eyes, "But you must prove that the mercenary army is not a showpiece that can be broken at the touch of a button, and can expand its territory." Only then will I be willing to follow the example of the Randall family and recruit an army of outcast mercenaries. ”

Nicole frowned and asked, "Ma'am...... So, what if the Pope forbids the outcasts to join Randall's mercenaries?"

Sylvia said, "If Victor can prove that his methods are useful for pioneering, the York family will follow suit, and Clement will have the capital to form an alliance with me." Before that......"

"Victor, you can do whatever you want. Clement would never embarrass the Randall family, perhaps...... He will also give you some help. ”