Victor spent 30 days at Cogstone City, far exceeding his expectations.

Dozens of scholars from the Silver and White Towers visited the Rock Castle, and King Rex and Archbishop Vespucci held a tea party for 27 consecutive days, arranging for them and Victor to exchange new academic theories in various fields, such as hydraulic engineering design, new methods of integrated agriculture and animal husbandry, and "the relationship between productivity and social system".

For the most part, of course, it was Victor who made the point, and the scholars took notes. They are also keen to ask Victor questions and elicit their own scholarly opinions. However, before Victor could answer, the scholars blew their beards and glared, sneered at each other, and quarreled first.

Although Victor was willing to spread his ideas to the aristocratic academic community, if he continued like this, the dispute between scholars would not end in half a year. Victor was overwhelmed and simply walked away, refusing to attend the Rockcastle's scholars' tea party again. However, Master Edwin and Master Sterling of the Auguste family came forward many times to ask for help, and Victor reluctantly agreed to continue to participate in the scholars' tea party, and made an agreement with the silver and white scholars for three chapters, only speaking for half a day and answering four questions, and the scholars' questions had to be discussed on their own before they could be raised at the tea party the next day.

Thirty days later, everything that should have been said had been spoken, and everything that should have been asked had been asked, and Viscount Randall anointed the soles of his feet, led his retinue, and plunged headlong into the south-central mountains of Naville. Master Edwin did not follow Victor further, but returned to the Silver Tower in the capital of the El Kings with the scholars.

Another four months passed, autumn went to winter, and the season of water came as scheduled. During this period, a far-reaching event occurred in the human kingdom.

The Silver and White Tower held an academic summit, and 21 scholars and masters unanimously voted to award Viscount Randall the title of "Silver and White Tower University Scholar". The Silver and White Tower also clearly put forward the theory of social productive forces, saying that the emergence of the tenant system conforms to the changes in social productive forces, conforms to the needs of the pioneering era, and does not depend on individual will. At the same time, the Silver and White Tower classifies the freedmen into two groups: the freedmen of the towns and the tenants, while the displaced people who illegally occupy the land are directly classified as bandits by the tower.

This is the first time since the establishment of the Silver and White Tower that the homeless camp has been openly and unanimously referred to as bandits. The Church has not taken a position on this issue for the time being, and it is reported that the cardinal and the presbytery have already discussed this issue. However, all human countries, including the Sassangian Empire, began to redivide the freedmen community and build a legal basis in advance to crack down on the homeless camps that occupied the land.

The issue of camping camps has always been sensitive. The local lords insisted on using trade to exploit the camps of the exiles in their territories and refused to accept their offerings, resulting in the camps of the exiles not forming a relationship of protection, redemption and dedication, and they did not have legitimacy in themselves. However, it is difficult for the clergy of the church to abandon the increase in the number of believers brought about by the increase in the number of displaced people, and strive to reconcile the relationship between the vassal villages and the homeless camps, and try to transform the displaced people into legitimate subjects.

Today, the lords are willing to open their doors to the illegal squatters and turn them into tenants before they come under their rule. There was no reason for the Church to harbor the camp camps of exiles who refused to act as tenants. The church has not expressed its position for a long time in order to buy a buffer time for the dissolution of the camp. In fact, the church and the lords had reached a tacit agreement, the lords put pressure on the camp camps, and the priests stationed there came forward to appease and persuade them to disband and relocate. When the time comes, the stubborn and careerist in the camp will be severely punished by the lord.

The Silver and White Towers and the White Towers are completely different concepts, and there are also scholars from the Sassan Empire inside the Silver Tower. Ostensibly, the Silver Tower is a neutral academic organization, but in reality, it is the mouthpiece for secular lords to unite and give voice to the Church. The ancient Covenant of Thor and the bright New Testament three hundred years ago were both examples of the Silver Tower's fight for the benefit of secular lords, and until then, coinage and aristocratic sanctions were entirely in the hands of the Church. But both the Saul Covenant and the Bright New Covenant went through a long period of negotiation and even bloody struggle before the two sides compromised with each other. On the question of tenants, it was the first time that the Silver Tower had reached an agreement with the Church so quickly.

Although the Cardinal Council has not yet made a clear statement, the bishops of the major dioceses and the lords of power have jointly guided the academic theory of Viscount Del to become the hottest topic at the moment. The so-called "productive forces determine the evolution of the social system, and are not subject to individual will" implies that no one can stop the tide of history. This laid the theoretical foundation for the great lords to implement the tenant system downward.

At the same time, the theory implied the idea of "popular determinism", and the reformers in the church took the lord's first defense of the interests of the people as the starting point, and blocked the opposition of the old guards.

The theory of political economy in modern society coincides with the idea of "the people are the most important and the king is the lightest", but in practice, it is not an absolute truth. In fact, even in the 21st century, there are still many countries and polities with sufficiently developed productive forces but relatively backward relations of production. The ruler has always controlled the social form and ideology of his country.

The social nature of human beings determines the pyramid-shaped social structure, and no political system can get rid of the realistic pattern of "a few people ruling the majority". Once this pattern of reality is broken, everyone will have to realize their own ideas, which will lead to catastrophic consequences, human civilization will immediately collapse, social order will be wiped out, and the destruction of the country and species will be imminent.

This is still the case in the earth world, where there is no significant difference in the level of life, let alone the other world where there is a huge disparity in individual strength?

If the core members of the church were unanimously opposed to the reform, then the tenant system would not be able to be carried out at all, and it was the common good that brought the secular lords and the clergy together.

Kings and high lords wanted to strengthen central power through tenant systems, common lords and vassals regarded tenants as the wealth of their domains, and the clergy saw tenants as an efficient way to harvest their faith. For Victor, this is the first and most crucial first step towards success.

For thousands of years, the Church has sanctioned the lords in the name of salvation, and the lords have held the Church hostage in the name of protection, and the infiltration and struggle between the two sides has never stopped. If Victor closes his door and sets up his own centralized system of fiefdoms and mercenaries, the church can beat him back to his original form at any time. Victor pulls everyone in to play, and everyone benefits from it, and it will be difficult for some people to use the power of the church to sanction Viscount Randall.

Closing loopholes and eliminating risks in advance was the main reason why Victor spread new ideas and grafted the tenant system onto the head of the vassal system.

On the other hand, the Silver and White Towers took the lead in advocating the tenant system, indicating that the secular lords had mastered a political solution of "coercing the people for their own respect". From now on, the secular lords will consider themselves the spokesmen of the interests of the people, and will have the initiative in the game with the clergy.

In addition to this major event that was enough to change the course of human history, there was another major event in the human kingdom.

Sophia has returned from the Arret Plateau and has arrived in Bronze Halberd, the trading capital of the Sassan Empire. According to the Church's notification, Sophia made a new trade pact with the barbarians on behalf of the human kingdom, and the fortress of Harlotus banned the quadrennial barbarian rally, and replaced it with an annual unlimited trade, which was handled by Sophia Urusa at full discretion.

After 10,000 years, humanity has once again established diplomatic relations with the alien race, and has actually influenced their decision-making.

This is definitely good news, but the exact details are unknown to Victor at the moment.

In addition, the gold-rank gnolls that ravaged the kingdom of Neville were surrounded in the southern mountains...... This isn't the first time it's managed to break through.

King Rex was furious at the repeated failures of the Sword Mantis Knights, and Rock Castle issued a royal decree offering a reward of 200,000 gold sol and a barony in exchange for the head of the Wind Fang. The church spread the bounty order of the Neville Kingdom to all dioceses, and for a time, many rangers and mercenary groups who wanted to try their luck gathered in the mountains and forests south of Neville, with a total number of more than 7,000.

However, Victor believes that the Neville royal family deliberately sent out the message of the bounty. It's certain that the gold-level ferocious gnoll is difficult to catch, but to say that the Neville Kingdom has no way to take it, it won't be. In the past six months, the number of active attacks on human settlements by the Wind Tooth has plummeted, and it has fled from the relatively densely populated central part of the kingdom to the sparsely populated southern mountains, and it can actually be surrounded by sword mantis knights.

These signs indicate that everything is under the control of the Neville Kingdom, and even if the Rex Kingdom immediately takes out the head of the Wind Fang, Victor will not be surprised.

A kingdom in Nuoda will always have some wizards with special abilities, right?

The mountain people in the south of Neville have never been very concerned with the local lords, and Rex just used the name of rounding up Wind Fang to teach those arrogant wild people a good lesson, and completely bring them under the rule of the kingdom, and by the way, recruit more than 7,000 mercenary groups and knight rangers.

Rex issued a bounty order, saving even the cost of holding a knight's jousting tournament.

Victor estimates that the 200,000 gold sol bounty and the barony are already in full swing...... If King Rex can't do this, he will simply hit his head and die.

Neville's little trick of fame and fortune has nothing to do with Victor, who is now busy with his work.

The lords of south-central Neville gave Victor a gift, and the gold ingots alone weighed nearly two tons. The gold is of varying fineness, but it is also worth 187,000 gold soles when sold to the royal family of Gambis, and if Victor mints them into gold soles, it will be at least a million more!

After collecting so much money, how can you do it without selling some effort?

After more than 8 months of trekking through mountains and rivers, eating and sleeping in the open, Victor basically completed the task of surveying the terrain and replanning the water conservancy and agricultural and animal husbandry facilities, leaving only the county of Dekaeser who has not yet arrived.

Victor ranked Lady Dolly's domain last, firstly because the county of Decaeser was the most remote, secondly, he could not be too enthusiastic about Neovester's neighbors in front of Catherine, and thirdly, of course, to delay the time, when the season of water came, people hid in the towns for the winter, so that he could collect the rune crystals of the Grand Canyon of Akimosen.

That evening, Victor deliberately led the team to camp in a leeward col in the central forests of Neville.

Viscount Randall's entourage is made up of some of the strongest arcane warriors with a wealth of experience in the wild. They cut down trees, built many shelters out of canvas and wood, and then went their separate ways, hunting and gathering, carrying water and chopping firewood, feeding the birds, starting fires and cooking, and taking care of everything.

After dinner, everyone gathered together to chat a few words, arranged the order of the night, and then went back to the shack to rest, and prepared to leave early tomorrow morning to return to Cogston.

The Knight Conrad of the Knight of the Kite Castle and his Arcane warriors were in charge of keeping watch in the middle of the night. It was a rare good weather tonight, with no clouds in the sky, only a silver moon hanging high in the light of a quiet and cold light, and Knight Conrad simply did not light a bonfire, lest a large amount of smoke rise from the damp firewood and smoke his companions who were resting in the camp. He set up three guard posts on the periphery of the camp, each with two arcane warriors on duty, using oilwood torches to transmit messages, and he and the remaining three arcane warriors divided into two groups to patrol around the three guard posts.

As the night grew darker, and a cold mist rose in the col, Conrad held the hilt of his sword in his hand, stopped to listen to the howls of wild beasts in the distance, and looked at the light of the fire at the guard post, and saw that there was nothing unusual, and continued to patrol forward with his companions.

At night, the howling of wild beasts in the mountains and forests means that they are safe, and if they are quiet, it means that they are being targeted by powerful and ferocious monsters. Conrad has never encountered this situation in the Neville Mountains, the team led by Viscount Randall is very strong, the fierce monsters have sharp instincts, and they generally avoid it from a distance, and the people who come to send them to death are some ordinary goods, even if they are strong, no matter how fierce they are, without a keen battle instinct, Conrad can easily clean it up, without the need for Lord Randall or the adjudicators of the Holy Knights to take action.

However, the most reassuring thing for Conrad is Caligula "The Cowardly Giant", whose instinct for danger has reached a transcendent level, and he does not have to worry about being attacked by powerful monsters. Although Caligula did not have the courage to fight monsters, Conrad believed that with his superior intuition and loyalty, His Highness Goron would also treat Caligula as a confidant and give him the status of a knight of oaths.

It's good that Caligula is Randall's personal bodyguard...... Conrad smiled and walked incessantly, his crocodile boots crunching as they trampled on the dead leaves. The knight of the Ministry of Internal Affairs thought to himself at this moment:

In the future, I will serve Lord Randall and the heir of His Majesty Catherine, and I will also be a confidant of His Royal Highness Randall's royal bloodline.

Suddenly there was a slight sound of footsteps in the direction of the camp, and Conrad turned his head to look over, only to see a slender and tall figure in the cold fog gradually becoming clear, and suddenly secretly complained.

Viscount Randall was dressed in two-headed dragon lizard skin armor, with two pure gold swords hanging from his waist and a silver winged bow on his back, and walked towards Conrad alone. The knight of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stepped forward with the arcane warriors, bowed, and asked respectfully:

"My lord, are you going out alone again?"

Viscount Randall smiled slightly, lifted the corner of his cloak, and showed the knight of the Ministry of Internal Affairs the two red-eyed letter crows tied under his ribs.

"yes, the moonlight is nice tonight, just in time for me to go out for a walk. ”