Chapter XVIII Internal Affairs
Relatively speechless, Lin Feng didn't think about breaking the contract, but the price of breaking the contract was a bit high, not to mention the 60,000 gold coins paid in advance, this loss of credibility was priceless: this first task was to break the contract, and then you were still in the trade union system? The prestige of the trade union has not increased a little, this is directly a negative number, and the consequences are really unbearable.
Although Tyranya didn't think about it so much, her arrogant elf couldn't accept this in her heart: the first mission ended in breaking the contract, how can she answer her child's questions in the future?
Both parties are unwilling to break the contract by themselves, so they can only find a way to complete the agreement. Eventually, in an atmosphere of friendly negotiation (well, with the screams and cries of the elf girl and the popping sound of Lin Feng's beech tabletop as the background sound), the two reached a memorandum of mission supplement.
The "Jinghai" was assigned by Lin Feng to Tailanya for direct command, and asked her to return to Polya to recruit a group of members. Yes, Tyranya is going back to register a tree-planting party called "Puran" and recruit a new group of members. And Lin Feng paid another 10,000 gold coins for this, and he wanted to cry without tears.
With money in his hand (the funds just given by Lin Feng), someone (the two servants sent by Lin Feng to help), and a ship (the Jinghai medium-sized sailing ship), Tailanya returned to Polya in high spirits, and with the assistance of Lin Feng's servants, he quickly recruited a group of druid young apprentices with Yizhi expertise and several middle and low-level druids.
Lin Feng planned the approximate range of the grange to be reclaimed on Nanlin Island, and also chose the location for planting windbreaks. The fifteen hundred or so slaves were also taken away from the old docks and scattered to settle in the new farms that were to be cultivated, and the first thing they had to do was to build the houses in which they would live in the future.
During this period of time, Nanlin Island can be said to be full of rumors, all kinds of gossip and nonsense are full of the ears of the people. Lin Feng also knew that these were all provoked by a handful of people, and Lin Shan's uncle was the biggest black hand behind the scenes. At the very least, this rumor of "breaking the ancestral precedent and will be punished" is inseparable from him.
And because of the rumors, to punish a group of people, that is the most undesirable stupid way, maybe Lin Shan is waiting for Lin Feng to do that. "The mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan", Lin Feng still understands this truth, so the first step of Lin Feng's reform of the territory began.
First of all: Lin Feng summoned the guardian knights and servants of the entire barony, listened carefully to their opinions, answered their questions, and finally rewarded them with some gifts, thus calming their emotions and enhancing their loyalty to Lin Feng.
After pacifying the lower-level nobles in the territory and stabilizing Lin Feng's ruling base on Nanlin Island. Lin Feng also gathered together the stewards of the various estates directly under the Baron's Mansion. This time, Lin Feng didn't just use Huairou means.
For them, there are rewards and punishments, and those who work diligently are rewarded and increase their private land and goods; those who perfunctory and mixed up will be reprimanded and their salaries will be deducted; a very small number of people who have taken bribes and perverted the law and the people have great grievances will be reduced to slavery for three years and reformed through labor.
In the end, only those distant relatives in the Lin family remained. Over the past hundred years, in addition to Lin Feng's lineage, there have also been a number of collateral clansmen. Only a few of those members of the collateral clan have small private farms, and most of the rest have only a dozen acres of family land.
These clansmen are also a concentrated outbreak of gossip, Lin Feng can't punish his relatives greatly, right? If he does that, the other lower-level nobles and lords will be even more panicked, and Lin Feng doesn't want to wear a hat called "Cruel and Unkind".
After thinking about it for two days, Lin Feng was ruthless and decided to bleed once, and he only kept 3,000 acres of fertile land outside the South Limburg of the nearly 20,000 acres of fields directly under the Baron's Mansion. The other nearly 17,000 acres were divided into small plots of land, and each tribe was divided according to the relationship between relatives and distant people.
Note that the target of this partition is everyone of the clan, regardless of gender, old and young. Adults can naturally take a piece of land alone, minors can be managed by their parents, and in old age, they can choose to be managed by their children or by the lord's house. At this time, most of the clansmen were happy, and Lin Feng was also very happy, "Push the grace order, brother also pushed the grace once." ”
The few branch leaders were very unhappy, and after the separation, there was not much left of their right to speak. If you want to make trouble again, there is no reason, and not many people will follow.
Lin Shan was also very aggrieved, he was sealed by Lin Feng to the Second Manor, and since then he has stayed away from Nanlimburg. But Lin Shan couldn't complain about anything, because Lin Feng gave him the entire Second Manor in the name of raising merit, which was nearly a thousand acres of land, equivalent to the area of two knights.
At the same time, Lin Feng also gave him a promise: as long as he could break through from a fifth-level warrior to a sixth-level knight, he would officially be appointed as the guardian knight of the territory, thus becoming the ninth hereditary knight of Nanlin Island.
But Lin Shan knew that he had no hope of becoming a knight in his life, and was it really so easy to comprehend the fighting spirit and break through the warrior-level barrier?
The reason why Lin Shan was aggrieved, in addition to the above reasons, was because he was excluded from the management core of the territory after he was sealed. Lin Feng's reason is very sufficient, "Uncle should manage his fiefdom first, and by the way, try to break through to the sixth level knight, and then it will be the time for uncle to contribute to the territory." ”
Of course, the envy, jealousy and hatred in the eyes of outsiders also stimulated Lin Shan's nerves once, at this time, if he accused Lin Feng of something, then he would not be able to get along on Nanlin Island. Even if he wanted to simply sell the Second Manor, he would not be able to go to the mainland for development.
At the end of the feudal decree issued by Lin Feng, there may be a prohibition: all feudal fields are prohibited from all forms of private trading from now until the next fifty years, and the Baron's Mansion has the right to recover the territory if it is violated.
This ban not only gave the people the necessary protection, well, to prevent some people from being tricked into selling their land, and in the end they ended up with no food and clothing. At the same time, it also prevented forces from outside the island from invading the island by buying a large amount of land.
As for the limit of fifty years, well, if there is another ten or eight years, Lin Feng will be able to run Nanlin Island into a monolith, and at that time, what Nanlin Island needs is to go out, and Lin Feng still has this confidence.