Chapter 45 Conditions
After getting Yin Leiya's promise, Li Yu further discussed some of the details with her.
After reaching a consensus, Li Yu walked out of the castle as soon as possible and returned to those lizardmen.
Although he had only been away for less than an hour, the lizardmen outside the city had already been looking forward to him, and when they saw him come out, they immediately surrounded him, all looking at him with blank eyes.
Seeing this, Li Yu didn't sell it, and said directly, "From today on, you are the lords of the Arias family, and Yin Leia assigned two pieces of land near the swamp to the Order, and allowed the believers of Saturday to settle on it. ”
Hearing this, the lizards' faces all showed excitement.
They certainly didn't live in the swamp because they liked it, and according to Ononder, the first people to enter the Gegu Everglades and decide to live in them are no longer known where they came from.
Some say that they are peasants who can't stand the tyranny of the lord, some say that they are cornered bandits who are surrounded and suppressed, and some say that they are nobles who are hunted down and killed by their enemies......
In short, no matter what their identities are, they all have one thing in common, that is, they can't survive outside the swamp, and they have to break into the swamp to find a way to survive.
However, the cost of this path was also high, and most of the first people who entered died not long after, and for the few who remained, the nightmare had just begun.
"The swamp is full of malice towards outsiders, the ubiquitous poison of poisonous insects, the extreme scarcity of food, clean water, and other necessary means of survival, and all kinds of horrible diseases that cannot be seen or touched, which the lizardmen call cursed, not to mention the dangerous predators.
In such a terrible environment, it is very reasonable that they would worship the unkillable Sosokus.
Even if they make it a little more comfortable through the efforts of generations in the future, it will definitely not be as good to live as the land outside.
Some of the young lizardmen had begun to imitate Li Yu's words, and they were now completely convinced that the self-proclaimed prophet in front of them was really Saturday, or that Sosokus had sent him to save them.
But Ononder remained calm.
When the noise was a little quieter, Ononder asked, "What are the conditions?" How many taxes do we have to pay to that rabbit man every year, and will the warriors of the clan be driven by her to fight her enemies, and the women and children will become her slaves? ”
Li Yu glanced at Onon again, and found that this tall and strong lizard man actually had a meticulousness and caution that did not match his appearance, no wonder he could be selected by these lizards to be the leader.
"The Point Guard Is Here"
"Yin Leia is your lord, she has her own name, from now on don't call her that rabbit man, that rabbit man calls her, you can have a place to settle, except for sending me to save you on Saturday, and her tolerance and kindness are inseparable.
"Not long ago, you killed a lot of her people and warriors, and if she can put aside her hatred and accept you, you should give her some respect."
After a pause, Li Yu continued, "Of course, there are conditions, first of all, the most basic one, you will have to rely on your own hands to fill your stomachs in the future, and you can't hurt other people in the territory anymore." ”
"What about people outside the territory?" A lizardman asks a soul question.
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"Neither can it outside Yin Leia's territory." Li Yu said, "All the lands in the western realm are owned, if you go out and plunder others, the lords of those people will come to question Yin Leiya, if you don't do it, it will cause a war, don't make trouble for her." ”
"And what if someone else comes to mess with us?" Another lizardman asked.
"Hold people down and wait for me to come back and deal with them." Li Yu said simply, "For the time being, I will set up a court to deal with this kind of thing."
"You just remember the following principle, people are polite to you, you should also be polite to others, if people are not polite to you, be reasonable first, if the other side does not listen but will detain people, in the case of ensuring their own safety, try not to cause death."
Since he lives within the territory of the Red Lion Empire, the laws of the empire must still be obeyed.
However, the "Imperial Code" is too thick, and Li Yu hasn't even bothered to turn it up, let alone show it to these lizardmen, but fortunately, at this stage, Li Yu doesn't plan to let these lizardmen have too much communication with the outside world.
According to his agreement with Yin Leia, these lizardmen are not allowed to leave the territory of the Order, and the attitude of the people nearby towards the lizardmen is generally fear and hatred, and they will definitely not lean towards this group of plague gods if they have nothing to do.
Miss Rabbit's territory is very barren, with nothing but carrots and other subsistence food crops, and few outsiders come here on weekdays to be full-fed.
Li Yu could have popularized the precepts first and then implemented the law.
After looking around and seeing that no one asked any more questions, Li Yu continued, "As for taxes, since this land belongs to the Order, Miss Yin Leia will hardly directly levy agricultural taxes here, nor will she send additional conscription, but in return, when she is in trouble, you must respond to her call to fight for the Arias family. ”
The lizardmen's faces were shocked, they didn't seem to expect the rabbit lord to be so relieved.
But this is actually an unwritten rule of the Red Lion Empire, and the land that is generally sealed by the big nobles will no longer collect taxes on the commoners on this land, which is equivalent to completely delegating the management power to the small lords in exchange for their loyalty.
It has nothing to do with them whether the little lords lose or make money, and once they want to fight in the future, the little lords must bring their own weapons and dry food and send troops to accompany them.
This was the case with the Arias family themselves, whose ancestors swore allegiance to the Figuerola family in exchange for green fields.
Of course, the big lords will also collect a certain amount of taxes and fees from the small lords in some names later.
Some people who are very short of money do not rule out that they will come up with all kinds of strange names to get wool from the little lords, and even bankrupt the small lords, but once they do this, their reputation will naturally become very bad, and in serious cases, they may even cause rebellions.
Unless it is absolutely necessary, basically no family will do this.
After talking about taxes and military service, Li Yu's voice also deepened, "Also, the Arias family insists that you hand over the murderers of the Trinidad Knights' family. ”
Li Yu thought that this last request was the most difficult, but he didn't expect the lizards to accept it quickly, and three of them took the initiative to stand up.
Although there was a little reluctance in his expression, there was no struggle.
This only made Li Yu's mood more complicated, because he realized that this was the group consciousness cultivated by the lizard people who had lived in an extremely harsh environment for a long time.
For the survival of the race, any individual can be sacrificed.