"Shep, servant of the Lord greets the most venerable abbot of Dora.

It has been more than two years since I received the priesthood on your recommendation, and now blessed by the Lord, I am a priest in the Barony of Brad, and I am in charge of a chapel for the Baroness. The Baroness is a philanthropist, and you may have heard of her devotion to the church and abbey of Tournest. But, apart from your witty teachings, I feel my own inadequacy in the service of God, if I can......"

As the priest wrote this, the quill in his hand shook and a drop of ink fell on the paper.

Calm, he warned himself that the Demon King would not come back until the evening today.

Luo Yi set off early in the morning to direct the sorting out of the land.

There were two hundred inhabitants in Brad's land, one hundred of whom were freemen who did not serve the lord, and the other hundred were serfs, each of whom had to work for the lord free of charge for three days a week.

This is a very heavy obligation, but Luo Yi feels that it is difficult for the lord to say what benefits he has gained from this.

One-third of Brad's cultivated land owned by the lord was self-camped, and was cultivated by the serfs, but this one-third of the cultivated land, when the lord was in possession of the heavens, with cattle and tools, had to rely on additional strict overseers to barely catch up with the average of the territory.

In other words, if it weren't for the fact that the serfs' work was free, it would have been a loss of money to operate the land.

Therefore, although Luo Yi was very short of labor, she still canceled the compulsory labor of the serfs, changed to employment law, hired some free people, and also hired some hard-working serfs.

In view of the explosive nature of this move, she described the reason as religious, and that no one except the clergy could read or write, and it was impossible to check the holy books and find out that she was a believer.

Then, this initiative was "piloted" in only one village.

John of Jesco, having taken the Baroness's sword, and the promised benefit of the tithing tax return, decided to ignore the Baroness's whims, thinking that if she found out that she had suffered a loss by the end of the year, she would naturally correct it.

By the end of the year, the measure was rolled out in six villages in the barony.

Then, she started to do the work of tidying up the land.

Brad Territory is an irregular strip of land, but this land has different droughts and floods.

Bounded by the road from the Abbey of Alban to Tournest, the land near the majestic "Grey Mountain" to the east was high dry land, with streams and springs, but no irrigation canals to bring water to the land. In the event of a drought, some water can only be carried by human and animal power.

Closer to the west, there are swamp-like low-lying wetlands, and those who like to be cool and moist like flax and hemp have a good harvest, and those who like to grow wheat and rye like dry crops have a good harvest.

Drainage facilities must be dug up.

If possible, build a dam, build a few more waterwheels, and turn the swamp into fertile land—a task that the Romans did and later the Dutch took over.

She wanted to do these things in the first year, but in the second year, she could barely say that she had the foundation to start work.

Of course, she could also use the power of the baroness to force hundreds of serfs to give her compulsory labor, but in doing so, the loss of manpower was very huge.

A person, the overseer threatened him with a stick and told him to do heavy work, and there was nothing good for him to eat, on the surface, it may be nothing, but the loss of inner vitality is very great.

Just like women in ancient times, they were inferior from childhood, worked outside the home, gave birth to babies in a litter, were beaten every once in a while, and ate what was left over from others, it seems, it doesn't seem to be anything, so that today, some women refuse to live this kind of life, and they will be scolded for being "squeamish", but of course, there is a price to do so - the average life expectancy of women in ancient times was shorter than that of men.

And to pay wages, to give them bread, meat, and milk, and to gather dozens of people to spend a few days building a stove and a brick kiln, she can't afford to pay more.

So, she didn't do these things in her first year.

At the end of the second year, after a bumper harvest, the peasants' stomachs were full for a few days, their bodies had accumulated some energy, and her cash box and grain depot could withstand the consumption of hired laborers, so she began to do this work of tidying up the land.