"Guys, work hard, cut hard, yesterday the six groups of people cut down 20 iron oaks, we can't be compared to those animals!" A rough voice echoed in the forest, the startled gophers hid in their burrows and did not dare to make any noise, and the birds in the woods no longer knew where they had flown to.

Twenty or so muscular men, in pairs, shirtless and showing their bulging muscles, wielded the shiny axes in their hands, and diligently sent the sharp blades into the thick trunks of trees that were as hard as stone.

Although the weather was still as cold as ever, these people didn't care, sweat beads flying, steaming, loud slogans and the "bang" and "bang" sound of iron axe logging, intertwined, showing the diligence and strength of human beings.

"Okay!

After a tree creaked, the middle-aged man in the lead motioned for the people to pull the thick rope that had already been attached to the treetops. The tall trees, which were already crumbling, fell to the ground with a bang under the hard pull of these men, and the thick trunks of more than ten meters long smashed on the ground, stirring up a large cloud of dust.

"The big ones rest first, come and drink some hot soup, Hans, you boy, put on a sheepskin coat for me, if you get frostbitten, you won't be able to earn the work below." The middle-aged man in the lead shouted loudly.

"Tell us again, what's that for? I still haven't figured it out. A shirtless young man asked the middle-aged man with a grin as he put a sheepskin coat over his body.

"What's the head?!How many times have you said it??Call the team leader!" Drinking the soup boiled with salt and root grass in the dry bowl, the middle-aged man glared at the subordinate who always called the wrong job dissatisfied.

"The work is the credit. The lord said, when the territory is on the right track, we will pay each of us according to the work share, one work point is a copper sol, and more than 1,000 work points will also be issued an acre of land, this is not the land rented to us, it is directly sealed to us land, which can be passed on. For example, yesterday each of the four groups earned at least 20 points, how much did everyone calculate? In short, if you want to earn more points, you should work hard for me. ”

The middle-aged man's name is Dean, and he is the leader of the village group appointed by Victor. At this time, in order to boost the motivation of the team members, he is tirelessly explaining to his subordinates the division of work system implemented by his lord.

In fact, this is the seventh time that Dean has explained to his subordinates what labor is, but these honest farmers especially like to listen to Dean's explanations over and over again, and their eyes are full of hope and enthusiasm after listening to each one.

"Our lord is good at everything, just let us work for six days and rest for one day, which makes people unbearable, and we have lost more than a dozen jobs in vain. ”

Tomorrow is the rest day for the villagers' group, and one farmer mutters quietly, his complaint echoed by everyone.

Victor decided that the villagers would work for six days and take turns to rest for one day, when the six village leaders asked him puzzled: What did they do on the day off?

Victor's answer was: you can sleep, you can hang out, you can fish, you can catch birds, you can dig wild vegetables, you are not allowed to work, even if you work, you don't get any work, and everyone has to take a bath!

The six village leaders left in a daze, they didn't understand, but it didn't matter, the lord's orders, understanding must be carried out, and if you don't understand, you must also carry it out.

Edwin once described to Victor the relationship between the lord and the lord, and his conclusion was that of the protector and the protected, and this conclusion is deeply rooted in this world.

In the case of the Kingdom of Gambis, for example, the law provided that all wealth in the domains of the nobility belonged to the lord and his vassals. The wealth here refers to the land, forests, flora and fauna, minerals, water sources, and people of the territory.

That's right, the lords are also the wealth of the lords. Therefore, the lords could only keep 20% of the grain they grew on the lord's land as their own rations, and the lords had to do unpaid labor for the lord, and in times of war, the lords also had to help the lord guard the castle.

However, the lord also has his own obligations to the lord. The first is of course that the lord protects the safety of the lord, and if the lord is threatened by monsters, beasts, bandits, or even wizards, the lord must send an armed force to protect the lord. The second is to ensure the livelihood, and when the lord encounters force majeure and has no livelihood, the lord has the obligation to assist the lord.

It was these two lordial duties that the nobles self-proclaimed as noble virtues. However, after comparing the provisions of the law that treat the people as wealth, Victor only finds this so-called virtue ridiculous.

There is a reason why the act of protecting one's wealth is called a virtue.

In Victor's eyes, the people of this world are semi-serfs who have been oppressed by the aristocracy.

However, most of the lords approved of this relationship, as the lords could rise up a class and become vassals.

It is not easy for a lord to become a vassal, and it takes three generations of dedicated service to the lord family before they can be rewarded with land by the lord and become vassals.

Fifty percent of the output of the land needs to be handed over to the lord, and the rest of the harvest is enough to grow the family, and the children of these vassal families are also the source of the lord's army.

Vassals are hardcore supporters of the lord family, and they will serve as the guardians of the realm, and the magistrate, tax collector, village chief, and town mayor become the middle class of the realm.

When Victor announced that he could exchange his labor for inheritance, all the people couldn't believe their ears. It wasn't until they discovered that Captain Nelson's sister, Lilia, would keep a careful record of their work after each day's work, that they came to believe that it was all true.

Their enthusiasm for their day-to-day work erupted, knowing that they would become vassals of the nascent realm.

Victor did not do this to be a savior or a moral emperor, but because he had insight that the indigenous nobles of this world did not have.

Everyone in this world knows that knights have great power, and Victor thinks so too.

But Victor also believes that ordinary people have great power, which can build towering castles in the mountains, build magnificent cities on rich plains, create brilliant civilizations in the wild world, and defeat any invincible enemy, this power is enough to create miracles.

Victor, of course, will not ignore this great power, and all he has to do now is to stimulate this power.

In Victor's previous life, it was his motherland that was the best at gathering great strength and constantly creating miracles, so now he is poor and white, and he has copied the production system at the beginning of the founding of the motherland in his previous life: the production team division system.

For the tenants who were passive and slack, the common practice of the nobles was to hang them up and whip them, and if that didn't work, then drive the tenants out of the territory and let them become freemen.

Victor agrees that punishment is necessary, but rewards are more powerful for his lords, who unfortunately have no wealth to use to reward their hard-working lords.

But it doesn't matter, you can give these people a credit for their work, and when they accumulate enough wealth in the territory in the future, they will be rewarded according to their work.

As a result, Victor's division of work system has been embraced by all the people, and in just seven days, an eight-meter-high fence has been erected around the camp. This kind of progress is amazing even to Master Edwin.

And Victor himself was heartily supported by the people, which made his control over the people very smooth, and naturally eliminated the risk of being hollowed out.

While the peasants were discussing the wise decisions of their lords, there was a noise at the other end of the woods.

Dean glanced at his people, and after seeing that everyone had the axes in their hands, he asked loudly, "Who's there?"

"It's me, Gru. A muffled voice came from the other side of the woods, and then Gru, clad in chain mail, emerged from the woods with four heavily armed guards.

"It's Captain Gru, who just scared us. Dean smirked and put down the axe in his hand.

Because it is a pioneer leader, when the villager group goes out to work, Nelson arranges for the guards to be responsible for guarding and protecting the perimeter, and Gru is the team leader who leads the team to carry out the escort mission today.

"Well, I've just caught three sneaky freedmen peeping in the woods, and they have information on them, so I'm going to take them back to the camp now and report to the captain. Gru said grimly.

It was then that Dean and the others noticed that Gru's guards were escorting a man and two women with their arms tied, their clothes ragged, their faces yellow and thin, and their faces and arms were covered with scratches, obvious from the bushes.

However, Dean didn't care about that, he only cared about Gru leading the team back to camp.

"Captain Gru, what should we do now that you lead the team back to the camp?" Dean asked anxiously.

"What are you afraid of?!The beasts and monsters within fifty miles of the camp have been cleaned up by us. Besides, there are still a few brothers in front of the forest who are sentry, so you can do it boldly, and I will be back in a while. ”

After glancing at Dean with disdain, Gru led the three captives towards the camp.

"Alright, alright, everybody, let's get on! We've cut down 17 iron oaks, and we'll have to go over six groups today. Dean shouted to his crew.

"Okay, head!"

"Damn, it's called the team leader!"

Victor is watching Nicole practice her sword on the camp's martial arts arena.

Dressed in leather armor and armed with a shiny silver sword, Nicole is facing a target made of iron oak and practicing thrusts. I saw her beautiful long legs on the ground slightly, and her whole body immediately shot forward like an arrow, following this momentum, her waist turned hard, condensing the strength of her whole body, and the long sword in her hand stabbed straight forward, and a sound like a cloth being torn suddenly sounded in the air, and then the hard and thick target was pierced by the long sword.

Nicole's movements are simple and focused, and with her toned and bewitching figure, there is a heroic beauty that is pleasing to the eye.

Physique 16, Spirit 11, Perception 12, Life 16,

This is the data that Victor observed on Nicole, but this is the data after she used her vindictiveness.

When there is no fighting spirit, Nicole's stats are 11 physically, 10 mental, 9 perceptual, and 12 life.

After observing the farmer, mercenary, and trainee knight over the past few days, Victor has a general understanding of the strength of alchemy creatures.

The attributes of the alchemy auxiliaries should be comparable to the elite soldiers of this world, and the attributes of the alchemy militia reach the water of the trainee knight.

And these alchemy creatures are just the baggage soldiers of the Nairel Empire who are responsible for logistics, so how powerful will the alchemy creatures that the Alchemy Empire is responsible for fighting be, and what are the alien races that are fighting against the Alchemy Empire?

Victor shook his head and put these thoughts behind him, because he was worried about the events of tens of thousands of years ago, it was better to appreciate the heroic beauty of the beautiful woman practicing the sword.

These days, Nicole practices martial arts every day, and every time she doesn't exhaust her fighting spirit, she doesn't stop, and the solid ground of the martial arts arena has been covered with her delicate footprints.

In terms of appearance and style, Nicole is not as charming as the charming and charming Countess Sylvia, nor as good as the glamorous Marquis Sophia, but Victor is indeed attracted to Nicole, perhaps because of his grassroots career in his previous life, Victor has a special sense of affinity for this girl who is sensitive and inferior and strives to change her fate.

This girl with noble blood and low background, if she awakens the knight blood in an ordinary aristocratic family, she will definitely be valued by the family and have a corresponding status, but it is a pity that she is from the top wealthy York family.

For this thousand-year-old family, it is not worth making a fuss about a female trainee knight who has awakened the blood of knights, if she can't become a knight, her destiny is to become a tool for the family to win people's hearts.

Nicole is not willing to be manipulated like this, so she wants to become a knight.

When Nicole finished the thrust practice again, Victor stepped forward with a smile, handed Nicole a sweat-wiping silk scarf and said, "Nicole, rest for a while and drink some water, you have used up four iron oak targets today." ”

Nicole took the silk scarf handed over by Victor and whispered, "Thank you." The flushed face became more and more delicate.

Because of her background, Nicole particularly yearns for the elegant life of the aristocracy, and the young and handsome Baron Victor, who has been trained in strict etiquette, fully fits her fantasy of her lover and gives her her first taste of lovesickness.

But that fierce jackal raid shattered Nicole's long-standing pride and her illusions of love, and she realized that if she couldn't become a knight, there was an insurmountable gap between her and her sweetheart, so she practiced harder these days.

Victor was very worried about Nicole's state, and whenever he had time, he accompanied Nicole to hone his martial arts, serve tea and water, and cared for him.

Victor's diligence gradually melted the ice in Nicole's heart, touched the softest place in the female knight's heart, and let a seed take root and sprout in her heart. However, because of this, she became more and more determined to become a knight.

Looking at Nicole's bright, determined and slightly shy eyes, Victor couldn't help but murmur, "Nicole, you are so beautiful!"

The affectionate praise made the girl's bright face instantly flushed, and the look of shame and joy made Victor feel intoxicated for a while.

Just as Victor was about to go further, an inopportune footstep sounded, and Nicole immediately jumped backwards like a frightened rabbit.

"My lord, we have discovered a new situation, please come to the barracks and deal with it. Nelson said as he hurried over.

"Got it. Victor replied angrily and walked straight to the barracks.

Seeing his lord's stinky face, Nelson looked suspiciously at the female probationary knight with his back to him.

Could it be that Nicole just the adult?Nelson scratched his head and turned to chase after Victor.