85_85536 Compared with the fruitless reform of fertilizer and sanitation, the second reform in William's plan was unexpectedly successful—that is, a small reform of the relations of production, that is, serfdom.

William had thought about this before this. In addition to the reform of the manure system, there may be material reforms, but he absolutely does not know. But there is another way to increase production.

In philosophical terms, it is to increase people's subjective initiative. To put it more colloquially, it is to make people more active in farming, more like farming, and more willing to farm. Work harder to farm.

This is actually very, very simple. It seems that he can't learn what kind of corporate culture in the 21st century. But the vulgar reward system can be used for a while.

William promised the peasants of the small estates he managed. In addition to the normal 50 percent tax rate, the average annual output will not be counted as an average annual output, but from this year onwards, the tax rebate will be added to the income.

William announced that for every kilogram of grain produced on the farm he managed, fifty grams, or one-twentieth of the grain, would be returned to the farmer in charge of that acre.

After enforcing this policy, William calculated.

First of all, most of the land on his farm is dry land, and the average income per mu is 80 to 100 catties of wheat. The summer and autumn seasons add up, which is an increase of 160 to 200 catties.

After a series of reforms, such as the construction of watermills, the use of green manure and the four-nursery rotation system, as well as agricultural implements and ploughing, William expected to at least triple the yield of his fields. That is, 480 to 600 catties of grain are harvested per mu of land every year.

Based on the average care of 20 mu of land by a family, after the implementation of the new system, each peasant household can increase its wheat income by 240 to 300 catties. The loss after shelling is about 10%, and there are more than 200 catties.

With such a large amount of grain available to those peasants in the case of a piece of white bread that could make their heads beat out of their dogs' heads, William believed that the peasants would definitely be desperate.

It's like all the evil capitalists. William's ill-intentioned plan received the widest and most enthusiastic support from the farmers. On the other hand, William's small reform of the relations of production was much more successful than the unsuccessful reform of health.

Most importantly, he was not stopped by anyone, such as Baron Otto or the Church of Radiance. And mobilizing the production enthusiasm of the serfs did not arouse the hostility of the nobles around the territory. It's like the kind of "your tax is 10% less than ours, deliberately buying people's hearts, those poor sticks are all towards you, let buddy how can I mess up?"

William thought about it carefully, and most likely understood the reason for this matter.

This is mainly because of the serfdom that is now prevalent throughout the continent. The most crucial point of this system is the binding of serfs to the land. These serfs have no personal freedom.

Generally speaking, the movement of people in this era of the world is only among displaced people, landless peasants, and other bandits and hooligans. These serfs, who were engaged in agricultural production and labor, usually survived on a piece of land for several generations, a dozen generations or even longer. They are basically the same type of thing as the land, with the crops on the land, with the cattle and horses and the tools on the farm. They were the private property of the aristocracy.

They are not free, they do not generate population movements per se. That is, they themselves do not move from one land to another because "the tax conditions here are good" or "the value of the land here is good".

There is only one way to break this stalemate, and that is war, or a natural disaster like Cheng dù*. And whether it was war, or natural disasters*, it was not included in the scope of the nobles' thinking about the loyalty of their serfs. That is, they did not need to care about William's policies, nor did they need to care what their serfs thought. If you dare to run, just grab it and hang yourself.

Of course, this kind of thing rarely actually happens. Because of these serfs, their ability to receive information is also very poor. It was as if something new had happened in the neighboring aristocratic realms, such as the reform of some kind of production system by a certain aristocratic young master named Wilhelm von Hereford. They may never hear about it for the rest of their lives.

And even if they knew, they were uneducated, illiterate, and uninformed. Guys who have never been to a place more than a dozen miles away in their lives have a hard time thinking of "running away" or something like that.

What will I do with my life after I run away? What will I do with the land? What will I do with my family, wife and children? Can I run to that place? Are the rumors of that place true or false? Even if it is true, and we run away to that place again, will the lord of that place accept us as his serfs?

These things need to be thought about. And the vast majority of serfs will immediately die down as soon as they think about the first two items. A small number of ambitious guys, after thinking about three or four items, the brain capacity is not enough. A very small number of people who are smart enough will be influenced by other people who are not smart enough before they make a decision, and then give up. Calculated in this way, among the tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of serfs in the whole continent, the probability that they may give up their lives and run to William because of this influence is probably the probability.

"It's zero. ”

William performed the above deduction on his own when he was idle, and then he became very depressed in an instant...... His desire to leave a name in history seems to be a bit difficult...... At least such a series of agricultural reforms alone is not enough.

"But no problem. Yes, no problem. Didn't you say that the Gothic Knights would escort the homeless people over to replenish their manpower?"

Then, after thinking about it, William cheered up again:

"More displaced people, more wasteland, more food. Then gather more manpower. Back then, King Goujian of Yue gathered ten years of lessons for ten years, and then took the people of Yue to slap Wu Guo. This is something to learn, yes. It's worth learning......

But maybe the cycle doesn't need to be that long. Well...... I'll be fine with half of it...... In ten years, the displaced people were recruited to open up wasteland, grow grain and train new troops. In ten years, I have to do a ...... Well, it's just a grand duke. In ten years, how can I mix up with a duke.

It's not that difficult, is it? Or for me, it's a bit low.

Wait a minute. The Centaur Khan had said that his father was the equivalent of a Daru Huachi. In other words, I am now equivalent to a duke. A duke struggled hard for ten years, and the result was still a duke.

That sounds so frustrating. Well, yes. That's the king. Ten years later, he became the king of the kingdom of Wende. I remember that in history, there were two kings named William before the Kingdom of Wende. So conventionally, I should be William III. His Majesty King William III. Uh-huh.

In addition to that, I remember that people in this world have a habit of giving the king and duke, or honorific titles. For example, what long-legged bald emperor, lionheart, red-bearded fox, sun, etc. So what kind of nickname should His Majesty King William III have? All in all, it should sound good, right? Reformer, Liberator, Great, Emperor? Maybe I can have many titles, or maybe I have a lot of nicknames in front of me, let me pick whatever I want?"

That is, while William was lying on his bed and "imagining the future", he heard someone outside the room shouting: "It's raining!"

William jerked his head up and saw a dark cloud pressing down outside the window. Then there was lightning and thunder, and the rain fell with a bang.

It rained, the wheat was watered, the wheat sprouted, it didn't grow, it didn't increase its yield, and there was nothing else......

His Majesty King William III, who woke up from a sweet dream instantly, exploded with a "buzz" in his head. Then he wailed and fell down .......