Chapter 375

The law upholds fairness and justice.

Whose fairness? Whose justice?

In the eyes of migrant workers, Kali took fraudulent means to try to take the credit of Severin's papermaking and push Severin into the straw pulp pool. He deserved to die. As for Kali's unintentional injury and his efforts to save Severin's life, migrant employees don't care. Because Kali lied not only to Severin, but also to them.

In the eyes of the merchants, Kali's behavior was just and reasonable. The LORD said he wanted to make paper, and Kali paid for it. The LORD said he wanted to protect the water source. Kali built the paper mill at the mouth of the Yinyue River and squatted for more than half a year, but the Lord didn't say he couldn't learn from other people's ideas. Kali proposed that eight copper sols rent paper mills. He was just following the rules of merchants and caravans, "let the buyer beware" (note). Can only eight copper sols rent paper mills? People who don't have brains deserve to be cheated! Besides, Severin didn't do anything, and his success in papermaking had nothing to do with him. Kali not only gave Severin 200 gold sols, but also prepared to negotiate with Wright and Tunan. He is already a trusted businessman. As for Severin's near innocent death, the businessmen turned a blind eye.

The male says the male is reasonable, and the female says the female is reasonable. According to the rules of refugees, murder cases are supervised by the church and judged by the sheriff, but the church ignores it and the sheriff dare not pronounce a sentence. The village head led by Randall had no power to enforce the law, and the two parties entrusted people to intercede everywhere. Coupled with the church's secretly fuelling the flames, things finally got out of control, and Munk had to hand over the case to the Lord's table.

At this time, village head George showed his true face. Although he usually had a hot fight with the SID family and the villagers were angry, he must safeguard the authority of the village head, resolutely abandoned the SID family and thought that the paper reward should be given to the Robert family.

Merchants took out a lot of money to bribe the police station, but Munk didn't want too many vassals of the RAND family, which would weaken the power of the police station. So he suggested that the Lord take back the papermaking reward of the two families.

The mercenary Corps is the painstaking work of the War Bear mercenaries. The army head Nelson clearly supports his soldiers and believes that Marcy is innocent of murder.

Linda now lives a rich and stable life, with territory, titles and children. Her husband is shirtless. She will leave a way back for her family. Objectively state the facts, expose her husband's background, and don't express any opinions.

As the chief manager of the family, Lilia was reluctant to give up the merchant's wealth and contacts, and didn't want to ignore the War Bear members, so she played a love card and admitted that Marcy was guilty, but asked her husband to forgive her.

Mountain pig was the most wronged One. He saved people but was killed. If Miller hadn't helped, he would have died at that time. But no one did justice for him, because he was a fool who couldn't even pray.

A hundred people, a hundred justice, a thousand people, a thousand fairness, but in Randall's collar, only Victor's fairness and justice.

On the surface, this case is a conflict between two families, but in essence, it reflects the contradiction between vassal system and rental employment system.

The advantage of the vassal system is that it reduces the administrative and military costs of the monarchy, and can enhance the influence of the monarchy by enfewing land and titles. For example, when the king canonizes the pioneering knight as the Lord, the Kingdom expands without doing anything.

However, Feng Jun will not be efficient if he wants to save trouble. Vassal created class solidification, hereditary position and narrow rising channel for leading the people. If Rand collar adopted the enfeoffment system, it would not be possible to reach its current scale for decades. Victor had alchemical militia and alchemical dragon lizard. He gave up Knight enfeoffment and embarked on the road of centralization.

Lease employment system is a centralized system dressed in the cloak of vassal system. There are still vassal, collar people and free people. However, Victor separated military power, political power and legal power, broke the hereditary position, trained and promoted talents, and the fief became a simple land lease. Officials who are slack will be replaced by others and can only go home to work in agriculture.

The rental employment system is full of vitality because of fierce competition. Its rising channel is for everyone, but everyone doesn't know!

The refugees who pour into Randall's collar only think that they can build houses and enter households by marrying and having children, become collar citizens by building houses and entering households, become stewards and soldiers, and become vassals after 30 years. In the concept of refugees, there will never be too many vassals of the Lord. If they miss this opportunity, they will regret all their lives.

The vassal system has been implemented for thousands of years and has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It shows great inertia in the RAND leadership.

The work point system family first began to hold a group. They sent their children to Yinyue manor as servants, either marry the indoor maid trained by Elena, or marry each other, so as to monopolize resources and stabilize their position. Even if the little servant can't inherit his father's position, he can become a steward or Centurion.

There is no way. Victor can't allow other forces to infiltrate the backbone members of Randall family. Therefore, he is ready to stop building and enter the house. The future backbone of the family must marry the indoor maid trained by Yinyue manor, otherwise he will not want to hold an important position.

The public interpreted this signal as: the Lord limited the number of the last batch of vassals. They ignored the two paths of militia promotion and learning promotion, and only wanted to squeeze into the last bus for building houses and entering households.

The bachelor is busy buying his wife and children, and the refugee family wants to please the recommender. The merchant family suddenly covered the quota for building a house, and the contradiction between the two sides broke out in an instant. Although the Robert family despises the refugee families and single men at all, they will get everyone's support as long as they fight with businessmen.

No matter how high the administrative efficiency of the rental employment system is, it is impossible to change a person's behavior and habits in a short time. On the contrary, the rapid development of Randall's collar and the population explosion have brought many unstable factors.

Merchants, hired workers and single men still follow the survival rules of the refugee class. They are used to fighting, just like that Marcy, who has built a house and entered the house, but she doesn't ask for anything, but directly turns over two people, ruthlessly and without leaving any room. She firmly believed that Kali would kill people in order to become a minister, because she would definitely do so herself.

Kali is a standard free merchant consciousness, and Masi is a typical refugee leader consciousness.

For thousands of years, the ideology and legal system formed by the feudalism system are continuously affecting everyone in Randall's collar, while the economic foundation of the rental employment system is being built, and the superstructure is still far away.

If Victor let the case go, the bloody conflict will become more and more intense, and the final result is that the vassal system will replace the fragile rental employment system.

Victor couldn't accept such a failure. He wanted to pocket businessmen, craftsmen, refugee families and singles. Nicole's judgment is impartial and balanced, which is very in Victor's interests.

victim? Who is the victim? Is the victim important to the Lord?

Of course, the problem of the inertia of the vassal system has not been solved. Victor opened an additional 200 housing quota, which can temporarily alleviate the contradiction. He needs time to build the superstructure of Randall family, especially laws and regulations.

At present, no one can help victor. He must personally handle many typical cases and formulate relevant policies and regulations.

For example, most of the bloody conflicts in the past two years in Randall's collar are related to women. Single employees save money to buy wives and children, but some women go to Randall and take the initiative to join leading families and employee families. It is normal for migrant men and women to go on and off. Migrant women are used to pursuing partners with higher status, but the promotion hope of single employees has almost been cut off. They dare not challenge the families that build houses and enter households, and they are bound to draw swords against the families of employees.

After several murderers were hanged in the public security office, Victor issued the refugee marriage decree in time: the refugee's marriage is protected; The husband shall not maltreat his wife and adopted son, otherwise he will be whipped and automatically dissolve the marriage relationship; Women who take the initiative to remarry must take out 20 kinsol to compensate their spouses.

After the promulgation of the marriage law, the bloody and violent conflicts in Randall's collar were significantly reduced. The single men who were ready to leave stayed to continue their work, and the wages they saved naturally remained in Randall's collar.

The law is a fence. If the fence is not well tied, your sheep will run to other people's homes.

Victor didn't expect that he was busy putting up a fence, and the pope would stir up sheep commotion.

He pondered for a long time and said, "dear, the glorious Lord is a real God. How can I weaken the refugees' faith in him? On the contrary, I encourage the people to worship, set up public carriages, donate a lot of materials to the church, plant thorn kidney beans, pay for a medical team to help the priest carry out academic affairs... Does the Pope have any misunderstanding about me?"

"Do you believe what you say?"

Sylvia glanced at Victor and said faintly, "you even have to take care of the matter of wiping the ass of the refugees, and you don't allow the Pope to lose his temper?"

Victor said unhappily, "secular belongs to secular, and theocracy belongs to theocracy."

"Yes. So the church retreated. Now they are concentrating on doing a good job in educational affairs. For example, they remind believers to stay away from danger and not to be the victims of viscount Randall's exploration of the southern continent... What can they do if they say that mercenaries are not blessed by the Holy Light?"

If you take care of the refugees, I don't care. You are the first day of junior high school, and I am the fifteenth. There's nothing wrong... Victor was silent and leaned back in his chair dejected.

Sylvia said softly: "Honey, there is no clear distinction between secular and divine power. Refugees have always been the buffer of the Lord and the church. The Lord is used to managing refugees with refugees, and you and Nicole's men directly manipulate every refugee employee to arrange their food, clothing, housing and transportation. Now, without the buffer, secular and divine power will collide. If you go further, the church will step back. How can Clement Can there be no response? "

"You don't really think that theocracy is just faith?" Sylvia asked a little funny.

Victor suddenly realized, smiled bitterly and shook his head. "The church has the strongest army and tax power... I'm too naive."

"Even if it is faith, you have moved the cheese of the church!" Sylvia said: "I noticed a confession. Clement asked Severin if he wanted to participate in morning and evening prayers, but Severin refused. A refugee child refused to participate in the prayer of light? What did Clement think? He must now determine whether your policy of converting refugees is temporary or sustainable? Dear, although the canons have faith, there are not many devout believers."

"But bishop Perot knows all about us. He has no objection to our conversion of refugees and recruitment of mercenaries. Perot is a disciple of the Pope. Why does the Pope embarrass Victor now?" Nicole is unconvinced.

"Nicole, if you can ask this question, you're becoming more and more like a Lord." Sylvia nodded in relief and turned to victor and asked, "what do you say?"

Victor's heart moved and murmured: "Bishop Perot is Clement's direct confidant. The Pope cannot be unaware of Randall's leadership. Perot supported me, I'm afraid he was instructed by the Pope. However, the bishop is the bishop and the Pope is the Pope. Their status and pattern are different... I understand that the Pope wants to support me and give an explanation to the church. Therefore, he waited for me to give him an explanation 。”

"Oh, dear, viscount Randall is not qualified to attract the attention of the Pope." Sylvia covered her mouth and smiled, "clement is waiting for me. As long as I have a mass in front of the Pope, your problem is not a problem."

"The Pope wants to make an alliance with you?!" Victor asked in shock, "why?!"

"Still because of you."

Sylvia explained: "The church is divided into three forces, the Knights of glory, the Privy Council and the old order of abbots. Clement is the most outstanding bishop leader in the past 300 years. He clearly put forward the idea of eliminating the civil war and opening up abroad. The Knights of glory and the Presbyterian believe that this is empty talk, but the new farming and animal husbandry in the man horse hills let everyone see hope. Clement uses barbarian diplomacy to liberate the south The contradiction between the Three Kingdoms and the Sassanian Empire has changed the existing diplomatic pattern and opened up to the outside world, which has become the consensus of the kingdoms. However, Clement will soon face internal strife. "

"Clement is an advocate for outward development. Once the development is successful, his power and reputation will reach the peak. Even if the Privy Council can't regain the dominance of the temple army, they can take the opportunity to expand the Templar and compete with the shining knights. Therefore, the shining Knights have to overthrow clement first. Unfortunately, the Privy Council is not monolithic and shining knights Both the magistrates and the Presbyterians have their own agents in the Privy Council. Clement must first subdue the voice inside the Privy Council... "

Sylvia pursed her red lips and said proudly, "hum! Since the glorious calendar, there has been no mass for the divine knight. If Clement can hold the holy light blessing for me, who in the Privy Council dares to refuse him?"

Victor's eyes brightened, took Sylvia's slender hand, smiled and said, "I must convince you first?"

"It's not that simple." Sylvia gave her lover a white look, took back her jade hand and said, "we have differences."

"When the ant disaster broke out, the augustian family recruited 8000 militia among the refugees and promoted their families to leaders. But these refugees, as tenants and slaves of vassals, have been regarded as leaders for several generations. Augustian can completely regard them as leaders."

Sylvia sipped her coffee and said softly, "you and Nicole are new lords. There are not enough vassals under your command. The church can't blame the promotion of deacons and soldiers from refugees. The question is, are you an expedient or are you ready to continue?" She put down her coffee cup and said, "look at you now, you must continue. So, what's the purpose of your persistence?"

"I need a steady stream of soldiers." Victor generously admitted: "it's really expensive to raise a mercenary corps, but I have a tax policy. Randall's population exceeds 300000. I can form five corps, exceeding 1 million. I have 12 Corps. If one soldier dies, I will add one soldier. They will have land when they die. Even closing 10 mu of terraces is a vassal, and the church has no right to sanction me."

"Are you determined to use soldiers as consumables?" Sylvia asked, raising her eyebrows as her pupils contracted.

Victor was silent for a moment, nodded, smiled and said, "don't be kind. Honey, are you worried?"

"Worry? No! My vassal soldiers will be very happy." Sylvia chuckled and said with burning eyes, "but you must prove that the mercenary Corps is not a frivolous airs and can expand the territory. Only in this way can I be willing to follow the Randall family and recruit the exile mercenary Corps."

Nicole frowned and asked, "Madam... What if the Pope forbids refugees to join Randall's mercenary army?"

Sylvia smiled: "if Victor can prove that his method is useful for development, the York family will follow suit, and Clement will have the capital to form an alliance with me. Before that..."

"Victor, you can do whatever you want. Clement will never embarrass the Randall family. Maybe... He will help you."