Chapter 578

Bang!

Wu Ming walked leisurely in the crowd, waving his scabbard at will. Every time, a farmer fell down and couldn't get up for a long time.

"The real knight!"

Seeing this, Mrs. armilia leaned against the door and was in utter despair.

Originally, she thought that Wu Ming was only the second son of an aristocrat. She took advantage of this opportunity to plot her husband's territory. However, she could not imagine that such a young aristocrat was a real knight!

In fact, even if a real knight has to deal with the encirclement of dozens of people at one time, it's very difficult.

However, there is a big difference between the farmer and the trained soldiers. In addition, they are not willing to fight back. Therefore, even if any Knight comes, they can easily suppress them, just like what Wu Ming is doing now.

Whew!

Wu Ming finally got his sword out of the scabbard and looked at the rest of the farmer, his eyes shining.

"What gave you the courage to tell me! William Wallace, a noble knight, a champion of spring martial arts contest, and a man who defeated the glorious Knights of the church

Of course, because of the inconvenience of transportation, the results of the spring martial arts competition have not yet been sent here. Otherwise, Wu Ming estimated that he would be able to take over a lot more smoothly, but he would be a little shocked to shout it out.

"Now, punish yourself severely with your disrespectful hand to the Lord, and kneel down and kiss the land under my feet, I will forgive you for your previous infidelity, otherwise your souls will go to hell and cry!"

The flicker of the sword showed that what he said was not true.

"You are a real knight! The leader needs your protection

What made Amelia even more desperate happened.

The first one to give in was the old soldier Joe.

He knelt on his knees, kissing the land under Wu Ming's feet, in a pious way.

As one of the few people with broad vision in the territory, he has already known that his wife's scheme has completely failed, and... This is a dark and dangerous world, and there must be a strong Lord to protect the people! Women can't do it after all!

This is very helpless, but also a reality!

"Good! As punishment, you only need to whip ten times. I forgive you for your previous sins

Wu Ming looked to the side: "who is willing to execute?"

"Lord, I am willing to offer my loyalty to you and become your humble servant."

Many tenants immediately turned back and knelt down one after another, kissing the land under Wu Ming's feet.

Amelia's whole body softened and deeply felt betrayal. That kind of women's sorrow enveloped her deeply, even made her eyes whirl.

Two daughters screamed in their ears, and she was in a complete coma.

……

"Mom!"

"Mom!"

I don't know how long later, she opened her eyes and saw the furnishings of her bedroom and the anxious faces of her two daughters.

"Gods... I seem to have had a terrible nightmare!"

Mrs. Amelia whispered, "I dreamed that a young devil came to take everything from me..."

"I'm very sorry... Ma'am!"

The old housekeeper with a broken nose stood aside, his face wrapped in gauze, and reminded him in a tone changed voice: "I'm afraid it's not a nightmare!"

Amelia sighed, half sat up and saw Wu Ming.

"When you fainted, it was... Lord who saved you!" The housekeeper continued.

"All right! You won

Amelia said helplessly, "I'll leave with my two daughters!"

"Madam, I think you misunderstood me!"

Wu Ming said with a smile.

"Would you like to marry my daughter, or..."

Amelia's face flushed: "you insist on what you asked before?"

"I really need you... To be my housekeeper!"

After teasing the beauty enough, Wu Ming finally said.

"Housekeeper?"

Mrs. Amelia blinked, looking rather silly.

"Yes... I need someone who is familiar with the territory and has prestige to help me manage the territory. As my housekeeper, I will pay you, and you and your daughter can continue to live here... Of course, if you like, I will take them as foster daughters. When they grow up, I will prepare a large dowry for each of them, How's it going? "

It is also an unspoken rule in aristocratic circles to be kind to the widow of the former Lord.

Wu Ming doesn't want to spread his reputation of being mean or cruel in the circle. Comparatively speaking, the possible peach gossip is nothing at all, which is very important.

"I promise!"

Almost without thinking, Mrs Amelia agreed.

After all, she is just the daughter of the common people. She has no family to rely on. There is really no other place to go except the territory.

"Celise, Cecil, come and meet your Godfather!"

She immediately had the spirit to let her two daughters salute Wu Ming.

Although Ming Ming knew that Wu Ming had the custody of his two daughters and could exercise all the powers before they were minors, he had nothing to do.

"Godfather!"

The two Loris cried sweetly, which made Beatrice next to her snort coldly.

"As for you..."

Looking at the poor old housekeeper, Wu Ming made a decision and knocked him down: "just be the housekeeper's deputy!"

……

The leaders of Karos soon learned a surprising news that they had a new Lord.

The Lord is very powerful. He is a real knight. He once defeated the glorious Knight of the church. He joined hands with a whole mercenary regiment. Rumors are always getting more and more exaggerated.

With the protection of this powerful knight, you should not be harassed by those damned bandits and savages, right?

After being led by the housekeeper's deputy and chauffeur to pledge allegiance to the new Lord in batches, the hearts of all the people settled down.

It is also a kind of mutual power and obligation that the Lord is responsible for protecting the people under his rule.

In the dark age, a powerful Lord, even if he is cruel, will have an endless stream of people to take refuge as long as he has strength, just for a little safety!

Compared with the whole group of savages, the ferocious beasts and the dangerous environment, the harm of a lord is not worth mentioning.

"This is my Carlos collar!"

Wu Ming rode on a horse and began to inspect his territory. The Assistant Housekeeper kept explaining to him.

After a lap, he had some intuitive knowledge of his territory.

The area of the whole Rocas collar is nearly one thousand acres, which is much larger than that of the previous ordinary knights. After conversion, it is nearly four million square meters and six thousand acres.

Of course, most of these are mountains and hills, and the cultivated land is only about 2000 mu.

In the whole territory, there were 90 tenant farmers, two freedmen, one proficient in the skills of blacksmith, and one scholar.

In addition to these, there are water mills, cattle pens, warehouses, manor courts, all of which are public buildings, nominally owned by his Lord.

But the most important thing is that as a lord, Wu Ming owns all the mountains, forests, rivers and grasslands. Of the 2000 mu cultivated land, 1000 mu is his private land.

The people under his command, or serfs, must first plow his land, and then go to work in his own barren land.

Even those shares of land did not belong to the serfs, only because they paid taxes, so the Lords could not deprive them at will.

"It's worse than the exploitation of big landlords in ancient times."

Wu Ming sighed in his heart.

It can be said that on the manor of the Lord, except for a few free people who owned certain private property, everything else belonged to the Lord.

"The efficiency of exploitation is a little too low..."

As an experienced and nurtured traveler, Wu Ming was naturally dissatisfied with this kind of efficiency: "I wish all the serfs were tied to the land, and all the collar people became slaves. Why not just exercise slavery? It's really a retrogression of history. "

Naturally, he has many golden ideas to make money, but it all needs people! Need a craftsman, a guy with a skill to work for him!

"Now... I have been canonized as a knight, which is the threshold for me to enter the aristocratic circle. Some previous plans can be carried out..."

In any case, it's only farming, but also developing handicraft products, glass, refined salt, improving forging iron and so on. Wu Ming has a 70% or 80% confidence, not to say that he is proficient in farming.

"Of course... First of all, we should carry out our own authority first!"

Can let a person feel authority, nature is iron and blood!

If you do this internally, you can only get fear and resentment, but if you do it externally, you can get cheers and wealth.

"Joe!"

Wu Ming said to the old soldier, "call all the good guys in the territory!"

In the territory court, Wu Ming looked at many curious, awed and uneasy young faces like a judge, and suddenly laughed: "from today on, after your daily farm work, you can choose to go to chauffeur to receive the training of soldiers. Those who do so will get a loaf of oatmeal bread as a reward after the training!"

"When the spring ploughing is over, I will take you to fight against the bandits and savages around you!"

He stirred up a thousand waves, but raised his hand and suppressed his voice: "as Lord, I promise you that those who are outstanding in future battles will have the opportunity to become free people and own their own land."

Half a step ahead of the times is genius, one step is madman!

Although Wu Ming wanted to liberate all the people in the territory directly, he also knew that it was impossible and he had to work slowly.

In the future, refinement and division of labor is the general direction, and these need free population!