"Boom, Boom......" A carriage led by two horses at the same time swayed along an unsteady country road.

The earthy brown path was dotted with stones that had been stored for an unknown number of years, and in the distance, I don't know which nobleman's castle stood on the steep terrain, and a few tenant farmers who didn't know who the knight was waiting for the wheat in the field.

The iron scythe harvested the ripe ears of wheat and smelled of grain, if Chu Nan was a painter......

He'd rather draw the eighteen forbidden books than these boring things.

Under the feudal system, most of the grain produced by these tenant farmers had to be handed over to the knights who provided them with armed protection, and then the rest was their own, and in the previous era, a tenth of the output of the land was given to the church, which was called "tithing." ”

Tithes are a religious tax levied by the Church of the Cross on its inhabitants, mainly for the salaries of the clergy and for the daily expenses of the church, as well as alms, and this tax requires believers to contribute one-tenth of their income for religious causes, as required by the church authorities or by law. The system established by the collection of tithes is also known as the tithing system, or tithes for short.

That's a well-reasoned tax rate, well, why would it be convincing?

Because this convincing argument comes from the Bible......

Isn't this nonsense! It's like Xiao Ming doesn't look like his father, but Uncle Wang next door came out to admit his mistake. This seems completely unfounded and unconvincing! Wait, it seems to make sense, it is completely full of convincing charm!

A man as charming as Uncle Wang next door............

However, although the current tithes are not collected by the clergy, they are divided into the names of the local nobles, which means that after the religious wars, the tithes have undergone a long period of change, and finally the clergy have become nobles.

That seems reasonable......

What's reasonable, don't you see the tenant farmers working in the fields with bitter gourd faces, most of the harvest in the fields has to be handed over to the local nobles. The political system of the Roland Continent was more inclined to the medieval feudal system in the original world of southern Chu, and then changed a little to the modern era.

In the history of ancient China, or in the whole world in the East Asian cultural circle there is a special revolution - peasant uprising, in all dynasties and generations in China can see the figure of the peasant uprising, they are like a death knell, as long as the peasant uprising begins to mean that the dynasty is basically finished, from Chen Sheng Wu Guang's famous sentence "Princes will be Xiang Ning has a kind" to the green forest heroes, red eyebrows uprising, Du Tao uprising, Sun En uprising, Tang Dynasty Huangchao, Then to the Taiping Rebellion, which had a specific revolutionary program, these peasant rebels dominated the revolutionary tide in Chinese history, although this group of people rarely succeeded in the end......

In contrast, in the West, however, there were few peasant uprisings, but rather revolts of the burghers and merchants. From the perspective of its system, thanks to the hierarchical sub-feudal system, the same is true of the Roland Continent.

Since most of the countries in the Roland Continent practiced a feudal system, the king divided the land to the big nobles, and the big nobles divided the land to the small nobles, and the small nobles then gave the land to the knights who provided military services for themselves, and the knights relied on small pieces of manors, and the peasants who cultivated the manors were the tenants of the knights.

Large and small estates are dotted on the Roland continent, and most of the peasants are landless, that is, there are very few yeoman farmers, and if they are placed under the absolute monarchy, most of the landless peasants will become homeless. But the peasants who did not have land in the Roland continent were tenant farmers on the estates, they were not the owners of the land, but only the cultivators and leasers of the land.

Moreover, the fundamental reason for the peasant uprising was that the land was too concentrated and occupied by the gentry and wealthy households, and the reason was that because of the exchangeability of the land, the land could be deprived of monopoly, but the land of the lords in the Roland Continent could not be transferred, bought and sold, and was divided with the peasants, so there would be no large-scale outcasts, and small-scale outcasts would not have much of a problem.

In addition, most of the land on the entire continent is manors, and there is no soil for the survival of the displaced people, even if there is an occasional small number of peasant uprisings, the impact will not be too great. At best, it overthrows the lord of the manor at his head, and because the various estates are controlled by different nobles, there is no contact between them, and there will be no chain reaction.

In fact, the peasant uprisings in Europe in the world where Chu Nan is located cannot be said to be less, but the impact is not as great as that of China, for example, from the end of the Middle Ages to modern times, it is the peasant uprising in Europe, but even the influence of the ** period in history is not as strong as the bourgeois revolution and religious reform of the same period, just take a 1524-1526 involving 150,000 people, with a specific revolutionary program, covering almost the entire German Germany, which has dealt a heavy blow to the German economy.

Chu Nan sat in the carriage and looked at the farmers who were working hard in the fields, and felt a kind of afterthought pleasure from the future.

If he publishes a book about social development, will he be listed as the first divine book in the Roland Continent? Chu Nan thought very boredly in his mind.

Chu Nan shook his head and threw away the boring thoughts in his head, this time he came to the west for business.

Shalama's energy was so great that she was able to arrange a carriage to take Chu Nan to the west at such a time of war. Not to mention that in this era of inconvenient transportation and checkpoints, there are very few carriages willing to go from the east to the west of the HRE Empire, and now that the west is at war, what coachman would be stupid enough to get into the flames of war?

But Sarama just smiled and arranged such a carriage at noon the next day, although the driver was Sarama's own.

Along the way, Chu Nan has gained a lot of knowledge, and the architectural styles in the western and eastern parts of the HRE Empire have not changed much, except for the language......

The HRE Empire was a decentralized government, and although there was an official language, the dialects of each region were the same as those of China. The tenant farmers of this era had no personal freedom, but the oppression of tenant farmers by the aristocracy was not very frequent, after all, the idea that "my vassal's vassal is not my vassal" is very popular in the Roland continent.

A few more days along the way came to the place where it was said to be a battlefield, and there were no accidents along the way, but......