The Sinking Snow Moon [December] is approaching.

In the evening, the crimson sunset pierced through the thin evening clouds, sprinkling the tide color on the city.

If Ian hadn't been in the South Ridge, but in the Imperial Capital or somewhere else, he would have seen snow falling, and silver-white ice crystals covering the ground.

Even in Nanling, the weather has cooled down, and the ground of the square will be covered with a thin layer of frost.

Ian stood at the top of the renovated Lord's House, sitting on the shoulders of the Cyclops, overlooking his own territory.

The new Lord's Mansion Fort has a metallic texture throughout, it is a fortress made of germanium steel stone, which is essentially indistinguishable from a steel fortress, and looks solemn and majestic.

A month after the end of the war with the rebellious mountain people, Xiahui City has fully resumed normal operation, and this alchemical material powerhouse on the west side of the Agate Stone Plain, under the guidance of Ian, has received several potion orders from the Nineteenth Legion of the Empire, and no one has been in the past

The forest avenue is now gradually filling with the lively bells of the caravans.

Because the lineage of Baron Ryan was completely banned, and Ian's mandate had been served, the place was restored to its original name of 'Xiahui Land', that is, 'Xiahui Territory' under the will of the boy.

The reason why it is not called 'Ian Ling' or 'Aljomon Ling' is mainly because Ian feels that this place is too small/too small to put his own name on, and if it is called Xia Hui Ling, it will have a calming effect on some mountain people.

In fact, because of the names 'Messenger of the Dragon God' and 'Prophet of Thunder', some mountain people have already tentatively come to meet Ian, and they live in the wasteland on the edge of Victory Square in the west of the domain, and these people have brought their own tents, as if they are planning to stay for a little longer.

Ian welcomes these people, whether they are war refugees, ready to go to Ian to live, or really think that they are some kind of dragon god emissary, they can become the labor force of the territory.

However, it was only the paperwork that arrived.

The official ceremony had to be sent by the imperial capital, and now they are still on the way.

Theoretically, it should be the ceremony clerk and the host to arrive together, but the situation of Xia Hui is special, and the Marquis of Batun asked for a special case, so there is a situation where Ian first receives the certificate and then makes up the ticket.

The Xiahui Territory is roughly divided into four parts, and because the western part of the domain was originally in response to the attack of the mountain people, it was also the direction of the mountain pass, so most of the military camps and defense facilities are located here, and there is a lot of wasteland at the edge, which is the area that Ian left for future expansion.

To the north of the city is where the city hall and the lord's mansion are located, as well as the lord's private estate, where many alchemy workshops that handle Xiahui grass are located, which is considered the richest area in the Xiahui Domain.

The operation of the city has returned to its original state, food prices have been calm, production has resumed, and farmers have begun to reorganize their fields, planting some turnip and beetroot, and trying to have some more food by next spring.

Under Ian's command, the cut was in good order.

However, when it comes to fields, there have been some funny things.

Based on experience on Earth, Ian intends to carry out an agrarian reform after taking stock of the population and arable land.

No matter how the people below objected, he had to take all the fields that could be planted with glow grass for himself, so that he could arrange the next development.

For this reason, I even plan to borrow some money from Isengard, so that the lord's palace will not take all the money to recover the land.

Isengard generously lent 7,000 thalers as the first batch of loans, so that Mande did not have the confidence to gather the planters and tell them their plans, but I found that the expressions of the planters did not change in the slightest when I talked about the measures of land reform

No one is moved.

It was not until City had finished speaking, that the growers, who had not understood what the lord man meant, suddenly dawned on each other, and we looked at each other, and the youngest old farmer stood down and bowed without hesitation to the old lord.

"Master, you may have planted a land in the future, right?"

The old man carefully considered the vocabulary, and I hurriedly said, "So...... You probably know? "

"Those lands of Leyon... Uh, you mean, those lands that Xia Hui leads...... It's all yours, right? "

"You've had a little bit of your afterglow, so you don't have a chance to help you farm your property...... Uh, what do you mean...... You don't need to take back the land from you......... It wasn't yours, was it? "

The old farmer's cautious words still stimulated Manyu's old heart.

"What's that? All the land in the territory belongs to the lord? "

Because it was indeed too old to pay attention to the rules and regulations in that aspect, Manyu only found out that everything was like that before consulting a few classics.

Terra's system of land is not a retreat, but an extreme primitive dictatorship, where the lords have 100% power over everything in my domain.

In other words, the land is all the lord's.

If Mande wants to use it, others must be conditionally obedient.

But, in the same way, the lord is responsible for the danger to the lives of all the people in his realm and the danger to the land.

For example, if there is a Warcraft or an invader, the Lords cannot completely resist under the theory of the Lords, the only thing we may need to do is to go to the Lord to expel the Warcraft and the invaders.

If the invader defeats the lord and becomes the new lord, the original lord can blame his own lords for this.

Because it is useful for the people to resist one by one, as long as they destroy the enemy's sublimator leader, even if they are half-barbarians like the mountain people, they will engage in guerrilla warfare and street warfare to resist to the end, because once they anger the enemy for a long time, the sublimator will really destroy the enemy

'Physically dig eight feet into the ground to find out and destroy it.

Moreover, it is only without such a system that the lord has no incentive to protect his own things.

It's a strange custom that can only be figured out in the world of the sublimators.

"That's land reform!"

The land policy that Manchester City wants to preside over is actually very complicated, it is not about opening up scattered fields, opening up wasteland, linking all the land suitable for cultivation as high as possible in Xiahui's territory, and then allocating arable land according to the actual needs of each village and population to ensure that it is not lost

Anyone who doesn't need it can farm nearby without their land.

However, the right to the land was confiscated by the lord's palace.

Private buying and selling of land was prohibited, and the use of land was subject to the arrangements of the lord's palace.

But everything was like that, and the farmer's land was not only unusable, but also nominally belonged to the lord.

One side is the primitive feudal dictatorship, and the other side is the plan to retreat first.

But the world is not spiraling backwards, and the primordial will also become the first to retreat, and Manyu is forbidden to complain before confirming that point: "You haven't borrowed the seven thousand thalers of Ethan yet!" Is it difficult to return it? "

Of course it will be.

If you borrow it with your ability, why should you pay it back? At least not for the seventh time.

Manchester City put the 7,000 thalers into the development of the territory, invited several professional teams to explore the soil and terrain in the territory, and these mining areas in the Bisson Mountains also explored, and by the way, purchased a batch of first-retreat mining equipment driven by the alchemy furnace to prepare for mining and development.

At present, the exploration team is still exploring, but the news reported is not very exciting: the eight mining areas are rich ores, iron, copper and tin are gone, and the most exciting thing is that the exploration team found 'grain iron' from the Xiakou mining area, which is a kind of natural belt without a part

Minerals with a divisive structure, there are no layers of extremely regular lines under the ore, and the common heavy iron, red steel and fluorescent copper are all refined and processed from the iron and its associated minerals.

The appearance of iron means that there is no more rare sublimated metal vein in the Xiakou mining area.

Although Li Xu was unhappy, it was also generally strange, and Bi Jing's conditions for Xia Hui to lead, even if there was a Mithril mine, it was unusual.

Everything is stable and improving.

Terra 773, December 1.

Xia Hui led the first tax officer/civil service examination to end.

Moda Steward.

"Dad, do you feel better?"

―An old man's voice rang out in the room with the lights on and the windows closed, and the old man's faint grunt echoed me.

Later, Lady Ryan's chief steward Moda sat up from under the bed in a daze, and when I opened my eyes, I found that my last son, Anling, was holding a cup of medicine, looking at me with concern.

Silently picked up the medicine and drank it in one go, the old man, who was a little more energetic because of the bitterness, took a breath, and then said, "Don't look at you like that...... Didn't you allow him to take the test yesterday? "

"I'm afraid you're worried."

The old man touched his head and replied mentally, "And you did drink medicine in the morning, that's okay."

The old man glanced at the other man.

Steward Moda has always been very disgusted with his eldest son.

I am a rebellious fellow, and as the first girl in the family, I have longed for the life of a small city since I was a child, because I have inherited the position of steward.

Li Frame had just become an adult, so he stole a sum of money from outside his home and went to Nao Li Xu, and when the Moda steward led someone to chase Nao Li Xu, that guy hadn't even retreated from the caravan and left the Golden Plains.

No matter how much you chase it, it is possible to chase it, and before the angry Moda steward returned home, he swore that he should have that son, and it was distressing to die like that.

But when his smiling son returned to his doorstep seven years ago with his diploma as a mechanical alchemist, the old man's initial heart flashed with ecstasy.

Then I hung up the collar and smoked it hard.

Moda is in charge not because of An Ling's rebellion, but because Li Xu is always too adventurous.

Ji Ru said that when the Moda steward wanted to move his family to Nauroland, Li Xu did the opposite, and he must stay in the Xiahui Domain and work for the new lord.

"Dad, he has served the old lord all his life, so it's okay for you to try to be a tax collector who can be the new lord?"

Those were An Ling's exact words: "And you think that with your knowledge of mechanical engineering and inscriptions, you can play a small role in the hands of that new lord, which means that your achievements are lower than that of Dad!"

Thinking of that, the face of the Moda steward was even worse.

Yiyi, that stupid kid understands that his family is the steward family of the next lord.

One lord and one official, take a look at these chamber presidents, captains of the guards, and others in charge of old Leyon, which one was expelled? Xilin's head was burned directly!

It's not that Amber is also loyal, and the madman who has been soaking outside the laboratory all day has been retained.

But even so, the new lord was parachuted in—a new alchemy steward as the leader, who was not even his own grandchildren, but Amber treated me with all the respect and courtesy of a disciple all the time.

Humble to that point, he was still kicked out of the laboratory, and he could only go to the four major alchemy workshops every day.

In that case, which craftsman would be from the present Amber?

How am I in charge of the small and big things of the Alchemy Workshop?

Although Steward Moda had known Mande since then, and knew that the other party was a good-hearted knight, there was a world of difference between a good horseman and a good lord.

In particular, the matter of suppressing the lord officials after the suppression is not something that a good lord should do.

He himself is afraid of death, and he is very confident, and he feels that he will be buried...... There's nothing you can do but let him go? "

With a wave of his hand, Steward Moda stood up on his child's arm.

"Why be afraid of death..."

Helping his father, An Ling muttered, I used to learn mechanical alchemy and inscriptions from a scholar in the Falling Star Hills, and it wasn't until after the upheaval that Leyn came back to take care of the old man

Originally, An Lingdu planned to leave when his father was in a better state and go to the imperial capital to continue his studies.

As a result, I never thought that this alchemy genius Manyu that I had heard about in the Falling Star Hills was actually coming to his hometown to be a lord!

One by one, with the light, God gives you good luck.

Is that opportunity seized or is it human? So I thought about it and signed up for the tax officer exam directly, as for my own inexperience, I said otherwise.

Anyway, with his own knowledge, even if he is a good tax officer, he can't teach, in short, he will be able to be instructed by Manchester City.

Who knows, my father was angry about this, and he persuaded the other party for a long time before he relented and promised to go to the city hall for the exam.

Moda really didn't have a headache with the overly straightforward eldest son, and Mandhu was obviously a very useless lord, and he had directly pulled out the baroness after only one day and one night since I first came to Leyne; The truth behind the petty sin can be seen, and before I was against Rai

The decisive killing of the middle class in the Anyu and the thunderous means against the mountain people even more mean that my means are superb.

The best way to work in the hands of that kind of person is to have no ideas of one's own and seriously disobey the other party's orders.

But is it impossible for his son to meet Manchester City's conditions?

Moda is not pessimistic.

But I also plan to persuade An Ling, and the old man can see that An Ling will listen to his own opinions at all.

I was allowed to use my identity outside the home to take the exam, and that eldest son would use a fake identity to take the exam, and then there would be less trouble.

What's more... I died slowly.

Turning his head sideways, the old man looked at his closed window.

My house has a window, and I haven't been out for a long time, because Moda is afraid that when I open the window and go out of front of the door, I don't see a completely familiar domain city.

The old man knew that with the arrival of a new lord, everything would be turned upside down, and that the streets and the past that he had memorized would disappear and most importantly, I was afraid.

Fear that I will end believing that these memories of the past are all hallucinations and all false......

I'm dying, Moda steward is vague.

Taking the medicine every day will help me to live for at least a few months.

I died in my heart, not really at the end of my life.

As soon as I knew it in the morning, I listened to the words of this Huaiguang cultivator, and went to the holy mountain to recuperate with us who reported on our work and cured our heart disease......

But what's the point of living? Distinguish between reality and falsehood, and also have the sustenance of his life's struggle.

Steward Moda wanted to see the new domain city inside, because I wanted to keep all the memories of the past in my own mind, and die with the memories of the old Rayne...... Then I can rest in peace.

But... But I still want to know......

Shaking his head, the Moda steward said in a loud voice, but the voice was too loud for An Ling to hear vaguely.

"Father?"

An Ling looked up, and then heard the old man muttering: "It's for you."

"Li Xu, if he must go and meet this new lord."

The old man turned his head sideways, and I looked at a pair of old and present eyes, which were not close to death, and the owner stared at me, and said in a healthy tone: "Then take your share and see it."

"Look at the territory I will take that domain city, that territory...... What will become the hometown where you have lived all your life......

"Yes, father."

Hearing that, there was a smile on his face all the time, and An Ling, who wanted to worry his father, finally showed a solemn expression.

I nodded earnestly and shook my father's hand, "You'll help you see it."

"Look... The future of the hometown. "