The torrential rain was pouring down, and the dense rain obscured the sky and the sun, and everywhere was a white expanse.

Victor stood calmly on the balcony, looking at the misty rain outside, listening to the rustling of rain falling on the rubble, and feeling the cool dampness, but his heart was in turmoil.

Victor's lords would regard this sudden rainstorm as a gift from heaven, and they would stay at home to talk with their relatives and friends, enjoy candied pastries, and enjoy the rare rain scene. After this rainstorm, the weather will definitely be much cooler. Today, all of Victor's villages and camps are made of bricks, even the former freedmen's temporary settlement, and the villages have adequate drainage facilities that make it impossible to worry about stagnant water.

But what about the freedmen gathered in the northeastern part of the territory, who didn't even have enough shacks, and the improvised shacks couldn't withstand the torrential rains, and the more than 2,000 freedmen were still shivering in the torrential rain.

"Victor. ”

Lilia hired Tingting to walk towards Victor, the thin white linen dress clinging tightly to the delicate body, showing a graceful curve, the damp wind lifted the girl's long chestnut hair, and her bright face was full of worry.

"Are you still worried about the outcasts?" Lilia said softly as she leaned into Victor's arms.

Holding the girl's slender waist, Victor nodded and said, "How can you not worry, after all, we are all human beings, not beasts." ”

"As you commanded, my brother took fifty guards and sent 20 canopy wagons and 700 garments. Lilia raised her hand and rubbed the side of Victor's face, which was already wet with rain and mist.

"When the rain is over, we're going to send some meat, weeds, and jaggery to make some hot soup to warm the people and prevent them from getting sick. ”

Victor smiled and patted Lilia's little hand, the girl's affectionate and warm gesture made him feel that he was not alone.

"Victor, why be so nice to them? We've given a lot. I mean, do we have that responsibility to them?" asked Lilia reluctantly.

As more and more freedfolk poured into the camp, Lilia was visibly feeling the increasing pressure, and the realm was not only providing them with free food, but now also providing them with meat and herbs, which made the maiden increasingly unhappy with these uninvited freedmen, and in fact, this sentiment had spread to all the lords.

Victor sighed and said, "Whether we like it or not, we do have a responsibility to them because we are capable. ”

Looking at Lilia's puzzled eyes, Victor continued: "Ability will form responsibility, and responsibility will form power, and the relationship between them is complementary and mutually reinforcing. You see, our soldiers, farmers who didn't even know how to use a sword a few months ago, but they were physically strong, and Nelson thought they had the ability, so he selected them to be guards. As a result, they had the responsibility to defend their territory, and for this responsibility they trained hard, and in just a few months, they had become qualified soldiers. When they became soldiers, they did not have to work, and immediately obtained 10 acres of fiefdom and became vassals. That's their right. ”

"Look at your brother again, he is the most powerful warrior in the territory, so he became the captain of the guard, responsible for the security of the entire territory, and has jurisdiction over all the soldiers. Is it true that with great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great power?"

Lilia nodded thoughtfully, and then said angrily, "I was almost confused by you, the guard and my brother are our own people, what do those free people have to do with us?"

Victor shook his head with a smile: "Lilia, you are now more powerful than your brother, and you are the superior in the territory, how can you still look at the problem with the same eyes as before?"

"As a leader, the abilities, the responsibilities, the rights, need to be looked at backwards. As a lord, I have the highest power in this territory, and I control all the affairs in the territory, so I have the greatest responsibility for the territory, and if I want to take on the responsibility of the lord, I must have the corresponding ability, so I have been working hard to improve the strength of the territory, in order to truly control the entire territory. ”

"The freedmen who have poured into our territory are also the people of the Kingdom of Gambis, and I, as the lord of the kingdom, must give them a certain amount of help within my ability, and if I am not willing to take on this responsibility, I choose to stand by the cold eye, I am afraid that I will either be imprisoned by the church or impeached by the senate, and eventually lose the rights of the lord. ”

"Victor, you know a lot. Lilia looked at Victor with a look of adoration in her eyes.

Being adored by his own woman made Victor quite proud.

He learned the principle of power and responsibility in middle school, if you are poor, you will be good alone, and if you are good, you will help the world, and the wisdom in it is by no means a joke. It's just that he didn't understand it at the time, until he worked part-time, he didn't know a little ignorance, he was patted on the shoulder by the boss when he worked in a small express company, and said: Xiao Zhang is good, add a burden to you, and the express delivery of the other two buildings will be handed over to you. At such times, he will only feel joy, and his colleagues will only feel jealous and knock him a meal. The reason is the recognition of ability, the assumption of responsibility, and the expansion of rights.

After traveling to this world and becoming a lord, Victor also has a further understanding of power and responsibility. In the end, if he wants to keep his rights, he has to take on the responsibility of the lord, so he does everything he can to improve the strength of the territory. However, the more profound experience was the exchange between them when he went to Blackcastle to ask Sylvia for help this time.

Thinking that the princely party was eyeing him, a haze appeared in Victor's eyes, and he said to Lilia: "Lilia, you are now my legal partner, the superior of this territory, and you can no longer look at the problem with the same eyes as before. Rather, it is necessary to think from the perspective of the whole territory. I need your help. ”

The biggest flaw of the territory is that there are too few staff, Victor doesn't even have a person to consult when he encounters problems, the middle class of the territory is either a mercenary or a farmer, and Lilia is not very old and has a strong plasticity, and is more knowledgeable than a farmer, and people are also ice and snow smart, Victor taught her some knowledge, and she got started quickly, and took care of the territory in an orderly manner. Victor has high expectations for Lilia, and he hopes that Lilia will broaden her horizons and become his qualified assistant.

"Victor, I'm going to do my best. Lilia nodded firmly, and then asked, "Victor, the paladins are ready to take people back to Blackcastle, should we take over that camp?" ”

At the mention of the Paladin, Victor was annoyed. By these days he had understood the whole reason for what had happened, and Barol had told him that it was Baron Verpin who was behind the scenes, and that they were trying to make Victor overwhelmed and thus deprive him of his lordship. As for the paladin, it was purely a personal act, and the two priests in Blackcastle were completely unaware of it.

But it was this brainless paladin who brought Victor huge trouble. The Princes' methods are indeed vicious, but they did not expect Victor to understand the presence of ferocious wolves. As long as the news of the ferocious wolves spread, the scattered freedmen would never dare to go to Victor's territory, and their plans would be in vain. Now the paladins have given these people a hope, and they are counting on the lord and the paladin to join forces to destroy the ferocious wolves, and stay in that camp, which is now close to 3,000 people.

For these people, as long as Victor sits in the position of lord, he has to take care of it, otherwise he will inevitably be impeached by the princes. Unless he declares independence and is then crushed to slag by the kingdom's Swift Dragon Knights.

Seeing the increasing number of freedmen, Victor hurried to Blackcastle, and the first person he visited was Father Conley. After a long time, the priest and Victor hummed and said that as long as the population of Victor Territory exceeded 6,000 people, the Church would immediately build a small church in Victor Territory to help Victor manage and rescue these people, and the Church would not provide assistance to Victor Territory before that.

As soon as he heard that the church was going to enter his own territory to preach, Victor immediately became anxious, and he said that he did not need the church to provide food, as long as the church took people away. Conley flatly rejected Victor's request, and demanded that Victor properly settle those people without major casualties, otherwise the Church Inquisition would interfere.

Victor finally understood that all along, the lords had been left to do the bad things, and the church had only done the good things. The main right of the leader and the church should have faith, and a tacit understanding has been formed between the two. The priest's reluctance to provide food was to prevent the population from exploding, because they had not yet had a pastor to harvest the faith, otherwise it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of Conley and Ivan.

Victor said: You don't need to come forward to help, give me food, I will come forward, so that the population will not gather so quickly.

Conley: Dream, to ask the freemen with the food of the church, and the freedmen must know that this is the gift of the Lord of Light, this is the iron law.

Victor: I'm a Pioneer Lord, and I'm applying for assistance.

Conley: We've helped.

Victor: Where is it?

Conley: An integrated squad of paladins is helping you fight against the ferocious wolves.

Victor:...... I bought a watch last year.

Victor rushes to Rose Manor and has an intimate conversation with Sylvia, who asks her to control the flow of free people. Sylvia told him that apart from the 1,300 men, no freedmen had moved to his territory in Blackcastle. Sylvia also told Victor that the turmoil caused by the division of work system was even bigger than he imagined, and that the freedmen of other territories wanted to try their luck in Victor's territory, and if it weren't for the wolf plague that happened to be there, his territory would have been washed away long ago.

Victor pleads with Sylvia for help to get him through this difficult situation. Sylvia tenderly told him that the lack of an increase in the price of food was the greatest aid to him.

Victor finally realizes that even if he is impeached, Sylvia has nothing to lose, because his successor must be of Wimbledon blood, and he cannot overturn the impartiality of God.

Depressed, Victor returned to his territory, but he didn't know that Sylvia had done a lot of work behind the scenes to ensure his safety, and she now wanted to appreciate the performance of her little lover, which was her pleasure and a training for Victor. Even if Victor fails, this powerful woman will take him into his pocket. As the leader of a large family, gathering talent is a must, and Sylvia has become more and more interested in Victor.

Victor plunged one arm into the continuous rain curtain, felt the feeling of the rain washing over his skin, and said, "We can't take over that camp, taking over the camp means taking in the freedmen, and we don't have the ability to accept more than 2,000 people at once." Lilia, remember not to take on more responsibility than you can handle, it will only hurt others and yourself. ”

"What then, do you want to let them be in chaos?" asked Lilia, puzzled.

"We can learn from the methods used by other lords to deal with the tide of exiles. Victor said.

"Freedmen and lords are really just a thin line, and most lords will convert freedmen within their means, but slowly. A barony has a population of about 10,000, of which 3,000 are vassals, about a few hundred vassals, and the rest are freedmen. ”

"If there is a sudden influx of displaced people, it is beyond the capacity of the territory. The lord will provide assistance within his ability, absorb useful people from it, and use some means to control the outcasts, but the lord will often not send guards to control the camp, but choose bandits. Bandits will use brutal tactics to lead the remaining population out of their territories, which is why many territories have bandits. Sylvia had told Victor many of the lord's tricks, and now Victor had taught Lilia one by one.

"Lilia, why do you say the lords are rescuing, absorbing, and secretly controlling the outcasts?"

Lilia tilted her head and thought for a moment, then said, "It's for order." Helping displaced people can prevent unrest, recruiting useful people is to strengthen themselves, and covert control is to orderly repatriation. ”

Victor laughed and said, "Lilia, you already understand the core of the lord's governance of the territory. That's right, it's order, we build order, we maintain order, and anyone who challenges our order is our enemy. So, in the future, you try to think about the problem from this perspective. ”

Lilia's eyes lit up, and it seemed that Victor had opened a new door for her.

"So, it's a good thing that the paladins are out of the camp, and without them in the way, we can secretly control the free camp. Victor said.

"How do you secretly control it? we don't have bandits here?" Lilia wondered, she knew that some lords would raise bandits, but they had only been able to conquer their territory for too little time.

"Who says we don't have them? Not only do we have bandits, but we can also bring in a group of aid. Victor smiled slyly, and he was ready to pull the Chebman family into the pit.

Digging up my Mithril and stealing my purple cane is something you should pay for.