A huge swift bird, purring discontentedly, and the saddle on it was very uncomfortable, but when it saw one of Busso's gestures, it lay down honestly.

"And then what to do? Is it to feed the ground lizard?" Nicole, holding a half-dead ground lizard in her slender hand, asked Busso next to her, that she could test ride this big bird right away, which made her both excited and sweet.

You know, this is the first time someone has ridden such a big bird, and even Nelson is a little red-eyed, but Victor gave her this opportunity with a word.

Nicole is wearing a tight-fitting women's rhino leather soft armor, which lacks defensive power, but is light and flexible, so it must fit the human body and wear it on the tall female knight, which sets off her long legs and waist, and her chest and hips are upright, which makes Victor's eyes particularly hot.

With Busso's approval, Nicole fed the ground lizard in her hand to the swift bird lying on the ground, quickly rolled over and climbed into the saddle, and shook the reins. Xunniao also stood up immediately, swallowed the ten-pound ground lizard whole into his stomach as soon as he raised his head, let out a loud scream, spread his legs and ran.

Seeing Nicole's vigorous figure and agile movements, Victor also secretly sighed.

In the end, it is a knight, the recovery ability is amazing, and it hurts when it lingers last night, and today it is like no one, and I have to rush to test ride the swift bird...... Actually, I want to ride it too.

"Victor, I really didn't expect you to really domesticate the Swiftbird?!" Edwin exclaimed as he saw Nicole ride the Swiftbird up a hill in the blink of an eye.

"Well, to be honest, I was also surprised, I didn't expect the domestication progress of the villager group to be so fast. Victor said with some smugness.

The Swift Bird was originally the mount of the mountain light cavalry of the Nairel Empire, and the auxiliary soldier Busso knew the habits of this chocobo very well, so it was naturally natural to domesticate it.

Bruce carefully observed the swift bird's running movements, his eyes solemn.

He found that the Swiftbird was slightly faster than the warhorse, but it did not have much advantage, but its balance was excellent, and it could perfectly navigate through difficult terrain, for example, it carried Nicole up a hill with no effort, and when it descended, its huge wings could help it slow down and maintain its balance, and the rider could sit firmly on its back without falling at all. The swift bird is taller than a war horse, and its feathers are tough, which means that it can easily cut through thorny bushes without being scratched, and its large and strong claws firmly grip the ground, which makes its body very stable, and the rider will not feel too jolted even when making sharp turns, which will make it easier, faster and more accurate to ride and shoot.

Although it is not yet known how endurance the Swiftbird is, Bruce can also be sure that in a hilly environment, this mount is worth far more than a warhorse!

"Knight, would you like to give it a try, and we can lead another one. Seeing the knight's burning eyes, Dean, the leader of the villagers standing aside, said earnestly.

Dean's words startled Bruce, who had some impression of the farmer, who three months ago had been a lowly and cowardly freedman, and now dared to speak to him.

"No need, you go get busy. ”

Dean bowed to Bruce, and was rejected by the knight lord, not frustrating him too much, but loudly beckoned his villagers to do something.

Bruce had already felt that the civilians who had traveled with him had begun to become more confident, more active, no longer as submissive and gloomy as before, as if the sky had sunshine after a rain, and began to have their own color. And this change is only three months.

"Victor, you're surprised, but I'm not surprised at all! Look at your men, a few months ago they were half-dead freedmen, and they didn't even dare to raise their voices in the face of the villains' bullying, but now, they have domesticated swift birds, established camps and villages, reclaimed wasteland, and found several crops that have never been found, and I know that freedfolk are as wise as we are, and my colleagues in the White Tower are blind to this!" Edwin said to Victor with some excitement that the old scholar had been trying to convince his colleagues in the White Tower to collect and organize the knowledge and skills that had been circulating among the common people, but most of them had been ridiculed.

"Master, you haven't answered my question yesterday about the freedmen and the church, you know that I don't know much about the church, and I am not an experienced lord, please tell me how I should deal with the church. With that, Victor solemnly saluted Edwin.

"Victor, as a lord, you have agreed to join the White Tower faction, and there are some things that are time to tell you. Edwin adjusted his emotions and said to Victor.

Without waiting for Victor's orders, Nelson dispersed the crowd and beckoned the guards to stand on guard around him.

"Master, I'm listening. Throwing an appreciative look at Nelson, Victor said to Edwin.

"Let's talk about the freedmen first, the freedmen are the homeless, these people are actually landless civilians, they have a hard time surviving, but there is an endless stream, do you know why?"

Edwin didn't wait for Victor to answer, and continued: "The root cause is land, land is limited and the population is always growing, and when the land of a territory is not enough to feed all the people, the surplus people become freedmen who need to fend for themselves. You see, a barony, after several generations of lords, this territory will gradually be divided, and there will be no extra land, and at this time, even the children of the vassal family may need to fend for themselves, let alone the lower level of the lords. ”

But the vassals did not want their children to become lowly free people, and their will would affect their lords, so development and annexation became the only choice for the lords, and war broke out. If it is a war between two lieges, the loser loses his land, and his vassals and lords become freedmen. ”

"Don't expect the victors to take in their subjects and vassals, their own vassals won't allow this to happen, these people need more land to feed their offspring, even if their offspring is not yet born, all vassals are xenophobic. ”

Hearing this, Victor nodded, and he finally understood why Emperor Rand had seized the lands of the three provinces in the eastern part of the Gambis, but instead of taking in those lords, he had driven them all away. Because he needed these lands to appease the lords and generals who had worked for him.

"That's true, after the fall of the Eastern Three Provinces, more than 120,000 people were displaced, and most of them migrated to the Centaur Frontier Territory, and our York family only accepted more than 18,000 people in addition to the original more than 50,000 people, although the land here is more than the Eastern Three Provinces combined, but the reality is that the vast majority of lords are not willing to accept more free people. Bruce nodded.

Victor was silent, when he came to take office, there were still countless freedmen waiting to be recruited outside Blackcastle Town, but unfortunately, there were very few lords willing to recruit.

Think about it, if a family doesn't have enough land reserves, it can't even keep its own blood knights, how can it face the attacks of other families when the time comes?

"Victor, don't think that your territory is vast enough to accommodate freedmen at will, you must know that our York family's territory is several times larger than yours, with more than 60,000 lords and vassals, but our soldiers are only more than 3,000 people, Lady Sylvia thinks that this is already the limit, and any more will affect the potential of the family's development, and you can't control more freedmen with your current strength. You'll need to use your land to recruit knights to defend your territory before you can consider recruiting more people. ”

Fearing that Victor had made another mistake with kindness, he went to Blackcastle to recruit more freedmen, and Bruce sincerely warned that he had come to regard Victor as a friend during this time.

"If land is so precious, why don't we open up more territory?" Victor nodded gratefully at Bruce and couldn't help but ask again.

"Hehe, little Victor, I told you a long time ago that the Centaur Hills are not wild places, and there are few monsters here. You can't imagine the dangers of the wilderness. Edwin laughed.

"Beyond the mountains in the northern part of the kingdom of Neville, there is a vast expanse of land, but over the centuries, the kingdom of Neville has built numerous forts in the mountains, not to defend against the Sasan, but to defend against the powerful alien races. ”

"You've seen goblins, but I'm afraid you don't know that there are countless pioneer knights who have died at the hands of goblins for thousands of years, and in the real wilderness, there are thousands of goblins in any goblin tribe, and the big goblins and bear goblins account for a large proportion. Not to mention the terrible ogres among them. ”

Victor had seen goblins, but he hadn't seen goblins or bear goblins, but he knew that goblins were intelligent, and bear goblins were all violent monsters!

"If it weren't for the forest centaurs themselves withdrawing from the centaur hills, the Gambis Kingdom wouldn't have dared to fight the idea here, and even when the Rand Empire was at its strongest, it was also bleeding in front of the forest centaurs, you must know that the proportion of orcs being ferocious is amazing. ”

Edwin's words shocked Victor, and he finally realized that the difficulties of human beings in this world were beyond his imagination.

"Therefore, the cost of war between lords is much lower than the cost of opening up the wilderness, no wonder the Sassan Empire did not open up the eastern wilderness, but chose to go south to wage war. Victor muttered.

"That's true!" Edwin said heavily.

Victor could understand the meaning behind this heaviness, the most common soldiers died in the lord's war, and the knights died very little.

First of all, knights are far stronger than ordinary people, it is difficult to be killed by ordinary soldiers in battle, even if soldiers fight in formation, knights can't beat, they can run away, ordinary people can't catch up with the speed of knights at all, not to mention the knight's perverted physical strength. And the battle between knights, unless it is a knight duel, it is rarely fought to the death, and even if it is captured, it can be ransomed by the family.

In short, such a war reduces the number of civilians regardless of whether they are won or lost, thus alleviating the contradictions caused by population growth, and as long as the knights of the clan are still there, even if they lose the war, they have a chance to make a comeback.

If it is to open up the wilderness, then the situation is different, those monsters are all cannibals, they will not talk to the lord tacitly, the knight can eat them the same, and the taste is better.

The knight is very strong, but in the face of a herd of bear goblins, the possibility of escape is not great, one is to rely on the fighting spirit to burst out of terrible power, the other is to rely on his own perverted physique, when the knight's fighting spirit is almost consumed, he can only drink hatred on the spot.

Therefore, in the absence of unity in the human world, there will be no lord to open up the wilderness on a large scale, because once he consumes his own strength, he will not be able to escape the end of being annexed, and the war within the human race will become a choice to alleviate the contradiction.

Because of this, there is an endless flow of free people, and this is the status quo.

"Victor, this is the world of the lords, it is completely different from the luxurious and comfortable life of the royal capital, you must become strong as soon as possible, otherwise ......"

"I see!" Victor said in a slumped voice, Bruce's deep eyes sending him a shiver.

After a while, Edwin broke the silence between the three of them and asked Victor, "Victor, do you know what a nobleman is?"

"A nobleman is a knight!" said Victor in a deep voice, a question he had already pondered.

"Yes, knights are nobles, nobles are knights, we are the natural leaders of mankind, because we have the talent and strength that ordinary people do not have, this power continues in our bloodline, and gives humans the confidence to fight monsters and orcs, so we become nobles and lords. Edwin nodded and said, of course, rightfully said.

Victor couldn't help but want to cover his face, and the old scholar seemed to forget that he, like Victor, had not awakened the knightly talent.

"Why don't we spread this bloodline talent to more people?" asked Victor with a snort.

From a modern person's point of view, Victor is really a cow, since he is so good, why not let more people also get up, when the time comes, what orcs, what monsters, not all of them will be swept away!

I'm really thinking about the future of humanity! I don't want to be a stallion, oh no, I don't want to be a breeder!" Victor said to himself.

Victor had just listened to Edwin's passionate preaching that he wanted to cover his face but didn't, but Edwin listened to Victor's words and covered his old face......

"Victor, the purer the knight's bloodline, the greater the possibility of awakening the talent, and the higher the degree of elemental affinity, and the knight's bloodline is also high and low, for example, the bloodlines of the three major royal families frequently appear Golden Knights, and the royal family of the Rand Empire has even appeared Golden Knights who have stepped into the legendary realm, and twice!" Bruce explained to Victor.

"I really don't know, what did Sophia teach you, and didn't even tell you such basic common sense?"

Edwin said angrily: "You have to know how many lords have even sacrificed their daughters and wives in order to obtain the blood of the Golden Knight! Some of the broken nobles will even intermarry with their relatives in order to regain the glory of the family! You can imagine the importance of the pure blood of the knights!"

"Moreover, knights have a hard time giving birth, and if you impregnate Nicole, I guarantee that she will give birth to the baby!" Edwin said coldly, and he added in his heart, especially for an ancient bloodline like you, it is even more difficult to give birth to a child.

This time Victor really covered his face......

After a night of bonding, the last bit of youthful temperament on Nicole's body has completely faded, and the current female knight's smile is really soft as water, even a blind person knows what happened last night.

"Common sense has already made up for you, and now I'll tell you an open secret of the White Tower camp. ”

Edwin coughed and continued, "Actually, in the era of the Chosen One, we knights were all wizards' subordinates!"

"What did you say?!"