Chapter 452

In the 15th year of Guanghui calendar 7569, there was a refugee riot in Dengshi city in the southeast of Dodo Kingdom, resulting in more than 3700 deaths and injuries. Hora Ludwig was led by deweimick and was killed by a bandit gang running around.

When the news of the murder of the count of the golden finch came out, the aristocracy was in an uproar. After a joint investigation by the Dodo royal family and the church, it was determined that the unrest led by the Marquis de Wemmick was caused by sheriff vamon of Dengshi city Lord de Wemmick broke up the refugee gathering place without authorization.

King dodo severely reprimanded Lord valmon's Lord, Marquis de Wemmick, and ordered the de Wemmick family to compensate Hora's heirs for 200000 gold sols and materials worth 300000 gold sols. Marquis de Wemmick deprived vamon of his title and family name and handed it over to the Inquisition for trial. According to the New Testament of light, the referee trigowal sentenced vamon to the maximum penalty for knights and sentenced him and his relatives, a total of 376 people, to garrison the twilight forest defense line for 25 years. After the end of his sentence, the survivors will be exiled to the Eastern League. At the same time, Pope Clement expressed his anger at the tragedy in Dengshi city. He removed bishop solz from his post, recalled him to the Holy See and demoted him to a monastery priest. The three chief priests of the Privy Council jointly signed a decree prohibiting local lords from dispersing refugee camps without authorization. The Privy Council is fully responsible for the migration of refugees.

When Victor received the order, he and Sylvia had returned to Rose Manor.

After three days of heavy snow on the man horse hills, the mountains and rivers were bleak, the world was white, and the quiet and Chic Rose Manor was changed into silver.

The crystal flower house of the manor is as warm as spring and full of vitality. Under the green brick floor, there is a flue for floor heating, and red copper water pipes with scattered heights are also distributed in the flower house. The servant uses a special crank mechanism to pump the hot water into the copper pipe. The dense hot steam through the copper tube holes renders the colorful crystal flower house like a fairyland.

"Did you do it?"

Victor took back his eyes from the snow outside the crystal flower house and turned to see Sylvia sitting on a rattan chair with her slender legs tilted, tasting coffee. She was wearing a goose yellow low cut waist skirt, with sunny blond hair on her shoulders, revealing a tall and beautiful neck and a greasy and full chest.

Her sitting posture is not dignified, but very friendly, full of lazy and attractive charm, just like a wife facing her husband.

Facing Sylvia's clear blue eyes, Victor shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know she was asking about it.

"There was a big fight among the refugees in Dengshi city." Sylvia reminded me as she stirred the coffee with a silver spoon.

"It's not me..." Victor hesitated, shook his head and said, "I'm not sure if it's mine yet."

Jinshui city is more than 400 kilometers away from Dengshi city. The alchemical crows released by barrol can only fly to the alchemical tower. Victor won't see the mercury report until he gets back to Randall. He really doesn't know the details of the big fight in Dengshi city now.

However, even if mercury secretly planned the big fight among the refugees in Dengshi City, Victor would not feel guilty about it.

Since ancient times, as long as it involves the competition for land and water, it often leads to bloody conflicts. It is war externally, and it is a big fight between local clan forces and foreign refugee forces internally. This kind of thing is not transferred by individual will. It belongs to the problem of social structure and political system. The enfeoffment Lord and the church could not stop the conflict between the leaders and the refugees. They could only wait for the conflict to break out and mend it.

From Victor's point of view, there is no difference between a big fight in Dengshi city or other territories. He just needs to ensure the stability of Randall's collar and the man horse hills.

"The king of Gambis changed his fiancee and died a palace minister. The court Earl of the kingdom of Dodo was killed. Dengshi killed and injured thousands of refugees." Victor sat down opposite Sylvia, smiled and asked, "the nobles of Gambis pay attention to Anna. The nobles of Dodo pay attention to the truth of Hora's attack... Honey, why do you pay attention to the big fight of refugees that everyone is not interested in?"

Sylvia sipped her coffee, provoked Liu Mei and asked, "honey, do you think I shouldn't leave Anna alone in kite castle?"

The matter of blinor city was settled, and the Lords returned to their respective territories. The York family returned to the horse hills, but Anna stayed alone in the palace. Sylvia didn't even arrange a family attendant for her. Although the four royal families are unlikely to murder the noble daughter of the York family, Victor was impressed by the decision of the bastern palace to fight with death.

The cruelty of court struggle is by no means comparable to that of ordinary families. The four princes have countless ways to clean up a little girl who is not familiar with the world.

Victor shook his head and said, "Roland told me that the former king Ryan couldn't even protect her mother. If Anna had a problem in the palace, she didn't even have a person to discuss."

"Ryan can't protect the first queen Irene. What can I do to protect Anna?"

Sylvia put down the silver cup and said faintly, "that guy Basten dares to offend my dignity. Isn't he afraid of the York family interfering in the royal family's internal affairs? He died, but he also won... If there are York family people around Anna, the four kings will eradicate them first. Therefore, Anna is now the child of the Augusts, so she will be safer."

"From the standpoint of the family, Auguste made a marriage agreement with York. Kite Castle got the formula of gold potion, and we also got the formula of washing potion made by kite castle. As for Edward's and Anna's private affairs, it doesn't matter. If Anna is murdered, I'll send another child to kite castle and kill a court marquis."

"I'd like to see how many marques in the four royal families are enough for me to kill." Sylvia turned her eyes, smiled and said, "this kind of thing doesn't need to be warned in advance, only the facts."

If Victor realizes something. Sylvia glanced at him and said, "it's so easy to be a queen? Anna can only rely on Edward now. The pressure of court life will make the two little guys establish deep feelings. It will help them on their path of extraordinary knight."

"If you care about Anna, you care about the York family now... I'm glad."

Sylvia smiled, took her lover's hand, frowned and said, "however, we now face a major hidden danger. I need your advice."

"What hidden danger?" Victor blinked and asked in surprise.

"At present, what is the most difficult problem of the dweimick family?" Sylvia poured a cup of fragrant hot coffee and handed it to victor.

Victor took a sip of coffee and said tentatively, "they are isolated in diplomacy and trade?"

Sylvia shook her head gently and said, "how did more than 400 elite attack the convoy of Hora in dwemik? How did they retreat? Hide there? How to solve the supply? Will such a raid happen? Any leader can't sleep well without understanding these problems first."

The Baron leader of 20000 people can mobilize thousands of militias, but the elite who can really pull out to fight will generally not exceed 500. Otherwise, there will be big problems in the operation of the territory. An army like the bear regiment, which can cross countless territories and attack thousands of miles, can't be taken out by any powerful Lord.

Of course, the bear group can achieve this degree mainly due to the backbone role of alchemists. Without the alchemy tower, Victor had great ability and could not throw an army thousands of miles away. It's just that Victor can't tell anyone the secret of the alchemy tower now. He thought for a while and said proudly, "don't you know all this? My smuggling caravan has taken over many mountain strongholds as the transportation node and logistics supply station of the bear group. In the back, no matter where Sophia expands the golden group, my bear group can take root in the nearby mountains."

Sylvia pondered for a moment and said, "regardless of the combat effectiveness of the bear regiment, it is indeed a very deterrent army."

"Honey, are you interested in the bear group?" Asked Victor, pretending nothing had happened.

"Not interested."

"Ah?"

Sylvia shook her head slowly. Victor was surprised. She smiled and said, "relying on the development of Shanzhai, the bear group will face two problems, which are destined not to last long."

"I'd like to hear it in detail." Said Victor positively.

"If an army used the stronghold near Randall's command to threaten the safety of Randall family, what would you do?"

Victor was stunned and said reluctantly, "but..."

"But what?" Sylvia lifted her hair and said with a smile: "However, you just want to do business with local lords through the mountain people and are not prepared to coerce them by force. Do you believe this statement? In the past, the Lord tolerated your smuggling Caravan and the mountain stronghold, and also valued smuggling trade. But the bear group attacked and killed a great Knight under the Marquis of dweimick. Now who dares to say that the smuggling Caravan and the mountain stronghold are no threat to you? Wait for Sophia What's the use of smuggling caravans when the gold regiment and the Lords reach a secret trade agreement? The first thing that local lords need to solve is the surrounding strongholds. "

"This is the external problem faced by the bear group." Sylvia paused and asked with a smile, "did you spend a lot of gold coins to maintain the smuggling node?"

Victor sighed, shook his head and said, "most of the profits of smuggling trade are used to maintain smuggling nodes."

"If I were Sophia, I would trade with my left hand and arm mercenaries with my right hand. First, I would force and lure local lords to join the gold regiment. After the gold regiment is formed, does she still need to spend a lot of money to maintain the mountain people's armed forces? Even if she wants to keep the bear regiment, the Lord of the gold regiment will not agree!"

"You don't know if your men planned the big fight of the refugees in Dengshi city. This shows that you can't effectively control things thousands of miles away. You can't support the mountain people in time when the Lord cleans or buys the surrounding strongholds. They either flee or surrender." Sylvia shook her head, looked into Victor's eyes and said softly:

"Honey, don't treat the Lord as a fool. The stronghold is too far away from you and too close to the Lord. If you stretch out your hand too long, it will be cut off."

Victor was silent for a moment and said reluctantly, "if there is a problem, I'll solve it... I'll always think of a way."

"I have no doubt about it."

Sylvia reached out and rubbed Victor's face, smoothed the wrinkled eyebrows, squeezed a smile, and said, "honey, the bear group is insignificant... The migration of refugees is the big problem. Please help me find a way."

Victor reluctantly said, "then you have to describe the problem clearly first."

Sylvia loosened her lover's face, frowned and said, "the main reason why the bear group can smoothly penetrate the deweimick collar is the chaos of the deweimick collar."

Dewemik led the exile camp, breaking the original balance, resulting in confusion in the territory's monitoring system. The bear regiment took advantage of the defense loophole led by dweimick to sneak into the attack position. If dwemik's army had refugee camps as ears and eyes, the bear regiment could not send hundreds of people into the territory of a powerful marquis.

Victor nodded in agreement with Sylvia.

"The big fight in Dengshi city proves that the refugees led by dweimick are not united with the people led by dweimick." Sylvia said with a sad face, "those refugees have lived in the dwemik for hundreds of years, and they are not recognized by the dwemik family, not to mention my people?"

"Because of the big fight in Denver, the Privy Council completely took over the migration of refugees from various kingdoms. Clement's political influence suddenly expanded several times. Renma hill and Neville kingdom are the resettlement places envisaged by clement. According to the original agreement, Renma Hill will receive at least 400000 refugees..."

Victor's eyes flashed and whispered, "can't the man horse hill accommodate 400000 refugees? I think the man horse hill now receives 500000 people. It's not a big problem."

"Too early, too fast." Sylvia shook her head and said, "although Clement has a great momentum in the event of an accident in Denver, he must make achievements in organizing the migration of refugees as soon as possible. And I'm not ready yet."

"The York family originally had more than 60000 collar people. When the ant people invaded the horse hill, other families gave up guarding their territory. I took over their collar people, a total of more than 50000 people. Up to now, I haven't completely digested these people. After the horse hill, 120000 migrant workers were recruited. If Clement brought me another 400000 people, with our more than 60000 collar people of the York family People, how to control more than 500000 refugees? "

"... it's a problem that customers are strong and hosts are weak." Victor nodded and immediately said with a smile, "there are more than 80000 refugees in the Renma hills, and I haven't had any trouble. Don't worry, the church can't migrate so many people at once. As long as the refugees enter the Renma hills in batches and organized, we will have time to settle them."

Sylvia glanced at Victor angrily, stroked her forehead and sighed: "It's bad for the church to organize the migration of refugees... I have plenty of ways to deal with those loose refugees. But there has just been a big fight in Dengshi City, killing and injuring thousands of people. Now who dares to deal with the refugees with tough means? These refugees have the backing of the church, and there are a large number of them, which will inevitably form a huge force. How do you let my leaders control them?"

"If someone encourages these exiles to fight against the York family... The consequences are unimaginable! Moreover, the exile force of 400000 people can even control the priest's opinion. There will be a political force beyond my control in the man horse hill!"

Sylvia turned her blue eyes, changed a weak expression, took Victor's wrist and said pitifully, "honey, you have rich experience in managing refugees. I can only rely on you now."

"Depend on me!"

Victor smiled, patted Sylvia's boneless hand, stood up and said in high spirits: "I have a belly case... But before solving this problem, you must believe that population resources are the greatest wealth in the hands of the Lord! The ultimate goal of the Lord and the church is population growth..."

Sylvia didn't say yes or no, but lacked interest. Victor immediately scratched his head. His countermeasures involved a major change. Although Sylvia was as wise as a sea, she was limited by the times, and I'm afraid she couldn't accept it for a moment and a half. Victor walked back and forth for two steps and decided to change the way of conversation.

"When I was a child, I had a nightmare. I stood under a tree and was surrounded by a red queen. A wolf was coming from a distance. I was scared to run forward. However, I ran for a long time, but I still stayed where I was. I shouted: why is this? The Red Queen said arrogantly: here, you can only stay where you are at your current speed. If you want to reach another place, you must do it at your current speed Run at double speed! "

Sylvia, holding her pointed and charming chin, asked with interest, "later?"

"Later, I woke up."

Sylvia chuckled and shook her head. "The queen in red... Must double her speed... What are you trying to say?"

The Red Queen's law of the earth world was shamelessly borrowed by Victor.

"I think there are two meanings. First, I must run faster than the wolf to survive. The bad wolf must run faster than me to not starve to death. Therefore, animals that run slowly are either eaten or starved to death. Failure to move forward is retrogression, and stagnation is death. This is competition."

"Competition is everywhere, both for individuals and families." Victor said: "if the York family wants to win the competition, they can only follow the changes of the times and put themselves in a leading position."

Sylvia smiled, "very interesting dream... What does the Red Queen represent?"

Victor smiled faintly: "if you run too fast alone, there will be a force to drag you back to where you are."

"For example, when a knight chases the enemy, the knight team can't keep up with his speed. If a knight chases down alone, he and his team are in danger. Therefore, the speed of the knight team limits the speed of the knight. Similarly, the family change is affected by the inherent forces."

Victor said with burning eyes, "I mean leading the people and vassal."

Sylvia sat up straight and asked brightly, "do you want to change the vassal system?"

"No! If you run too fast, you will be dragged back..."

Victor shook his head and said, "honey, do you know why I don't want to accept the saber toothed tiger knight? Because the knight's thought and tradition will hinder the development speed of Randall family." After a pause, he said with a bitter smile: "however, with the development of Randall's leadership to this day, my followers also began to hinder my footsteps... The feudal ministers and leaders of Randall family are not willing to accept more refugees."

Sylvia's eyes were shining and her jaw said, "not too fast or too slow... What's your solution?"

"Under the leadership of the people and above the refugees, set up a transitional class." Victor shook his slender index finger and said, "I'm not going to give up population resources. At the same time, I have to take into account the interests of the people."

"The traditional village is the most basic administrative unit of the family. The village produces food, manufactures goods, builds armaments, breeds offspring, trains soldiers, cultivates craftsmen and controls territory. If you go back, the people of the village come from a family. They are very united and have a family concept. Even the Lord can hardly shake a village power." Victor shook his head and said with a smile, "the problem is that they are exclusive."

"Yes." Sylvia nodded and encouraged, "honey, go on."

"How did the village transform the refugees? Persuade Jin to adopt... The village forces only absorb the children of the refugees who are good-looking and healthy. Their parents and relatives will always be refugees." Victor said, "persuading Jin to adopt and convert refugees is too slow to keep up with the changes of the times. If 400000 refugees pour into the hills, the leaders of the York family really can't digest it."

"You are worried that the refugee groups will form forces similar to the leading villages. Then we can't let the refugees hold together to keep warm, nor can we let the leading people exclude foreigners." Victor said his countermeasures.

"Break up the refugees into small families attached to the leading villages. I call these families tenants."

"Tenant?" Sylvia chewed for a moment and asked, "how do you explain?"

"A family that rents land is a tenant."

Victor said in detail: "First of all, the tenant family must obtain the land lease document issued by the Lord. This is to separate them from the church. Secondly, the tenant family adopts monogamy, which shall not exceed 12 people, so as not to form a small power. The tenant family with more than 12 people arranges redundant family members by themselves, or the Lord classifies him into the ranks of migrant employees. Finally, the Lord designates the distribution of tenants In this way, the leading families can get rid of the heavy agricultural work and have more time for military training, learning craftsmanship, producing goods and armaments. "

"Very wonderful!" Sylvia smiled like a flower and urged, "honey, go on."

Victor smiled and said, "we should distinguish between tenant families and migrant employee families, so that tenants can rely more on the Lord and avoid the power of refugee gangs. Therefore, we must give tenants some special rights."

"First of all, the children of tenant families have the right to education."

"Children aged 4 to 8 have no ability to work and need Limited food. They can lodge in a general education school jointly organized by the church and the Lingmin village to receive free education and cultivate a loyal family concept. Only other members of the tenant family have time to work and expand production. The Lingmin family can only choose the object of persuasion and adoption in the general education school. In addition, we have to Set up military schools and craftsman schools. If the tenant family wants to stand out, they have to pay for their children to receive further education. Both schools point to the mercenary Corps. That is, the children of the tenant family have the opportunity to join the mercenary corps and eventually become leaders or vassals. "

"Second, tenant families have the right to rent land." Victor touched his nose and said in horror, "in this way, we help tenants accumulate family wealth and establish a dependency relationship with their neighbors."

Sylvia knocked on the table and shouted, "specific, specific, don't try to muddle through!"

"This... They get 30% of the harvest." Said Victor carefully.

"Thirty percent?" Sylvia's beautiful slender eyebrows gradually rose and asked, "the church takes 10%, the leader takes 30%, the tenant takes 30%, how much do I have left?"

"Thirty percent... In fact, ten percent. You have to consider vassal and kingdom annuity." Victor moved back without moving.

Sylvia stared at her beautiful blue eyes and said angrily, "ten percent? My Lord is not as good as a tenant?"

Victor showed his amazing desire to survive and quickly remedied: "baby, don't worry. You have to look at the total amount. The cultivated land in the human horse hills is yours. You also have minerals, forests, cattle, sheep and pigs, all kinds of commodities... By the way, there is transaction tax."

"That won't work! Grain reserves are very important!"

"There is no shortage of food. They are all stored in the bakery of the village office... Take it out when you need it." Victor disapproved and said, "besides, what's the use of food in the Lord's name? What can't be eaten is not to be donated to the church?"

Sylvia stopped, holding her chest in one hand and her chin in the other, "that makes sense... But the Lord can't take it by surprise and ignore his reputation?"

"Buy with money." Victor smiled cunningly. "Don't forget, we can make coins."

Sylvia was stunned for a moment. Her eyes were bright, she bit her red lips and said, "honey, you are really a genius... How can I reward you?"

"Why don't you stay at Rose Manor and let me serve you well. When trisley comes back, you can go back to Randall to get it."

Victor held the beautiful and charming divine knight in his arms, shook his head and said, "honey, I'm not in a hurry to get back to Randall, but I need to visit Raven town."