Chapter 173: Half-Elf (3)

Ninety-five percent of the land in Zhenbei Fort belonged to Su Lun, and more than ninety percent of the remaining land was exchanged by Su Lun's soldiers, and a small part was exchanged by those displaced people, and the cultivation mode of the territory was now collective production.

The advantage of this farming method is that it is easy to manage, does not occupy too many human resources, and at the same time the efficiency is good, suitable for large areas of farmland or large farms, and the disadvantage is that the cultivation is extensive, and the yield is lower than that of intensive cultivation in the previous life.

A place like Zhenbei Fort with few people and a lot of land is suitable for this farming model, of course, this situation is not bad in the short term, and when Zhenbei City develops in the future, Su Lun will definitely change this model and sell the land in his hands to more free people.

Su Lun did not divide the nobility in the territory, this is because he does not have a definite title now, and he only has a noble status, and this noble status is also limited, only for life, and cannot be inherited to future generations.

Of course, none of this matters now, as long as Su Lun can develop Zhenbei City, any country is willing to give him a knighthood, and even he can claim a knighthood on his own. To put it bluntly, the title still depends on your own strength.

Su Lun also divided the title when formulating the territorial system, but it is not easy to get the title, and now there is only one military merit award, with the gradual emergence of the military merit aristocracy system, the hierarchy in the territory will gradually improve.

In Sulun's vision, the classes in Zhenbei City were divided into three classes, namely nobles, citizens, and free people, excluding slaves.

The aristocratic system consisted of generals and officials of all ranks in the army, all of whom had to be talented enough to help Suren manage the domain, citizens were powerful professionals and soldiers, and there were those who contributed to the domain, who owned the land and high social status, and could hold some official positions in the domain.

Commoners are ordinary free people, who own land, live in their territory, and have no right to speak.

Suren will do this in his territory unless he has a brain cramp, you must know that even gods do not have equality before gods, and the Holy Spirit priest and the divine favor are higher than ordinary believers, and the Pope is higher than ordinary priests.

The status of the devout is also higher than that of the literate and the literal. This world is not the kind of gods in the previous life, the church is just a spiritual belief, and the gods are real here. And the gods also have preferences, and they will act according to their likes and dislikes.

Moreover, the gods need to collect faith, and a devout believer can provide ten times more faith to the gods every day than a shallow believer, and more than a hundred times more than a pan-believer. Faith is the source of the power of the gods, and the more faith there is, the stronger the power of the gods, so the power of faith provided by shallow believers and devout believers is different, and you expect the gods to treat everyone equally? Do you want to eat peaches.

In the same way, if you enforce equality in your territory, the ordinary people will not be grateful to you, and your followers will be very dissatisfied. These followers have fought for their territory, spilled their blood on the battlefield, and enjoy the privileges they deserve, but what about the ordinary people? they have nothing to contribute, but they enjoy the same treatment as those soldiers, generals, and even heroes.

This is unfair to those soldiers, generals, and heroes. More seriously, there are a number of consequences associated with this practice.

The status that was originally earned by blood and hard work can be obtained by others doing nothing, so at this time, who will be willing to die for you, and the brave warriors who once gathered under your hands will leave one after another.

People are also reluctant to join the army, since you can get a good position without having to pay anything, so why should you go to the army, you know that fighting a war will kill people.

So Su Lun wouldn't think about what kind of equality for all, human rights, freedom, etc., in this world, it was definitely himself who got into the final pit.

The hierarchy he divided was relatively simple, that is, after the territory had developed to a certain extent, Suren would introduce a policy to divide the first class citizens and the second class citizens, so as to stimulate the motivation of those freemen to strive for higher status.

At present, there are only military merits that can be obtained, because the environment in which Zhenbei City is located now, there will be various battles every day in the Northland Wasteland, so it is necessary to pay attention to military merits, and Su Lun also intends to raise the social status of the soldiers.

For example, as long as someone in a family joins the army and successfully passes the examination to join the army, then the whole family will become a citizen class, own a certain amount of land, and pay less taxes than civilians.

After joining Zhenbei City, the half-elves began to officially integrate here, and the half-elves are still very curious about this city that was established in a short time.

For example, the "long dragon" outside the city with a length of more than four kilometers and a height of more than 35 meters was also amazed by it, such a majestic building was actually built by humans, and later learned that this was actually the water supply channel of Zhenbei City. After coming here, the half-elves realized that there was water that could go directly to the house.

The house here is also very good, although the decoration is simple, the shape is not good-looking, but spacious and bright, clean and comfortable, as for the bad looks, they can decorate it by themselves.

In addition to these, the most profound thing for them in Zhenbei City is that it is really clean here, and the elves like to be clean and tidy, so the half-elves have also inherited this habit, and they are also surprised after seeing such a clean and tidy city.

George joined the city as a half-elf in recent adulthood and his sister Paipa, a half-elf archer and brother-in-law a ranger, but had died in a skirmish with orcs two months earlier, leaving behind a child who was less than a year old.

After coming to Zhenbei City again, George and Page were obviously relaxed, at least they didn't have to worry about the sneak attack of those orcs here.

"Sister, what do you think it is?"

The most striking and spectacular building in Zhenbei City is undoubtedly the Harvest Altar, the 27-meter-high Harvest Altar is the tallest building in the entire Zhenbei City, the entire altar is made of stones of the same size, and there are many smart marble statues on it, and a strange energy surrounds the altar, making it look more sacred and majestic.

They didn't know what the tall building was used for, but that didn't stop them from being in awe of the altar. The road in the north of the town is very flat, and interestingly, everyone only walks on the right side of the road.

The whole city is still under construction, and there are many construction sites around it, and in addition to humans, there are a large number of goblins, gnolls, and even orc slaves, many of whom are curious about these half-elves, but no one dares to step forward.

In the team responsible for leading them, George also saw the rumored and evil Drow Elves, but they also looked like half-elves. Mistress Grace had already told them that the drow elves believed in the Dark Maiden, not the evil Spider Goddess, and had come to the surface to survive in order to escape the Spider Goddess.

The half-drow elves were all expressionless, ignoring the others, and were almost completely silent along the way. George noticed that there was something complicated in the eyes of the drow elves looking at them.

Although these drow elves were cold and expressionless, they were very responsible, and they explained all the rules and regulations of Zhenbei City. It's a forbidden area, you can't enter it, you can't enter the inner city without a permit, and the same is true for some artisan workshops, if you know how to craft and want to become a craftsman, you need to report to the officials of the Consul Hall first.

The barracks are also not allowed to enter, and the majestic harvest altar is also forbidden to approach, and if you approach without permission, you will be directly arrested and tortured by the security forces.

The drow elves took them to a courtyard, and it is said that because the Mother of Grace had negotiated terms with the lord here, all their half-elves were assigned to a house, which was not very large, only forty square meters, and it did not look pretty, but it was clean and comfortable. It was a bit more comfortable than the wooden house I used to live in.

In addition to the house, each person is also divided into a piece of land, the land is not large, if you want to get more land, you need to work hard, and if you want to get a better place to live and more land in Zhenbei City, you need to exchange something called points.

The way to earn points is to work for the lord or join the army.

After the half-elves had allocated their houses, a clerk came with his retinue to register their names and places of residence, which they said was called household registration. After counting the household registers, the clerk gave them a metal tag and told them that they could take it to get some food ration every day.

There are not many foods, and there is only one staple food, which is potatoes, steamed potatoes, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, etc., choose one, of course, you can also choose to mix and match.

In addition to potatoes, there is also a bowl of crystal clear fish soup per person. You can't fill your stomach, but you can't starve to death, and if you want to eat better, you also need to exchange points for it.

George had no problem with this rule, living in the northern wilderness, covered in snow and ice for at least four months a year, they knew how precious food was in the wilderness, especially in winter, where it was not allowed to work for nothing, and if they wanted to live a good life, they had to work hard themselves.

In fact, George was very grateful to His Excellency the Lord, because this Lord provided them with a safe environment where they could live and develop.

The whole city looks orderly, the inner city is not visible because of the city walls, but the outer city is more like a huge construction site. Construction is going on everywhere, so it seems that there are many jobs to choose from in Zhenbei City, and they don't have to worry about starving because they can't find a job.