Pairs of small hands were placed in front of Liang Lidong. If it was on the earth, children of this age would usually have white and clean hands, but here, he only saw pairs of brownish yellow hands covered with calluses. Even Belin, the girl next to her, had callouses on her hands. The common people in this world are always hardworking, but they will never be able to fill their stomachs. As long as there is a small drought, some people will starve to death. They are working hard on their small piece of land, and the harvestable food is six Chengdu is handed over to the lord, and the remaining 10% is handed over to the village chief, and I only have 30% left.
After Liang Lidong became the lord in the game, he only collected 20% of the grain tax. In his opinion, this was already too high, and he didn't even want to collect grain. However, the policy of the Hollevin Kingdom does not allow him to do this. The lord must collect 20% of the grain, and it must be 60%... All the NC lords in the Hollevin Kingdom charge the highest grain tax, and Liang Lidong’s territory has the lowest grain tax , the business tax is also the lowest, so it attracts a lot of NC civilians to migrate to his territory to live and develop.
His territory has transformed from a penniless wilderness village into a commercial center in a few years. Not counting the floating population, there are more than 400,000 local residents. Although it is not as good as those historical ancient cities with a population of one million, it will only take about ten or twenty years to develop at this rate and become a population of one million. question. However, because too many civilians had been moved from nearby to his territory, the NC lords bordering his territory were very hostile to him, and they united several times to attack his territory for inexplicable reasons.
Unfortunately, he has many player friends. As a player, there are only 4 people in the whole server who can become a lord, and all of them are god-born nobles, and he is one of them.
Generally speaking, players prefer to gather and act in the territories of the player lords. Because of the intimacy, the four player territories are also called the four main cities by the players. Players spontaneously gather in these four cities to conduct Various exchanges or business activities. Every time the bordering nobles attacked Liang Lidong's territory, the players would spontaneously protect his territory. Professionals were not something ordinary soldiers could fight against, and there was also a large guild stationed in Liang Lidong's territory.
For players in large guilds, every time an enemy army attacks, it is an excellent opportunity to 'gain experience'. They wish the enemy would harass them every day. Wen's other nobles have a good relationship, but they have always spoken ill of the several lords bordering him. Every day, they take a small group of cavalry to other people's cities and use magic to harass them. Since the other party was in the first day of the junior high school, Liang Lidong would do the fifteenth day, making those lords miserable.
Several lords once wanted to block the commercial route of Liang Lidong's territory, but because of the existence of players, this matter became a dream. The merchants issued escort missions to the mercenary union, and the players formed small groups to accept the missions to protect the merchants. Be safe, if you dare to embarrass yourself when you encounter a checkpoint, just pass it with a wave of A. Players can be resurrected after death, but NC cannot. After a period of time, several lords signed a peace agreement with Liang Lidong in private, with a very low attitude and paid a lot of money.
Liang Lidong's wars against several lords almost all ended in victory, except for a certain prophecy event.
In the game, Liang Lidong implements low grain tax and low commercial tax. He also uses the lord system to release many tasks to maintain law and order for players to undertake, making the law and order in the territory very good. Be full and dress warmly.
Now that he sees these children's yellow, hungry, and dirty bodies, he feels a little uncomfortable: "From now on, you will not only wash your hands before writing, but also keep your hands clean at ordinary times. Labor is an honorable act." , but after working, you also have to wash your hands, try to keep your hands clean. Also, you will have to take a shower every day... If you are dirty, it is disrespectful to the text. Let’s do it today, but tomorrow, you will all You have to wash them clean before you come back, clothes can be old and patched, but they can’t be dirty, I don’t accept students with profanity, understand?”
The children nodded vigorously.
Liang Lidong didn't explain any major principles to this group of children. In this era of low productivity, acting in the name of religion is more effective than simply preaching. In the initial origin of many civilizations, the so-called etiquette is actually an act of self-cleaning before worshiping the gods, which is the process of religious rituals. People who are clean always have a lower chance of getting diseases. Human beings have vaguely felt such benefits, and then slowly evolved into the daily life of ordinary people. It can be said that it was the initial religion or ancestor worship that made Human beings have become fond of cleanliness.
Seeing that all the children had listened to his words, Liang Lidong erected the sign on the side, then took out the plant paint sent by the village head, and wrote three light red words on it in Huo Levin language. in big characters:
'I'
'you'
'he'
Huo Levin's characters are also pictographic characters, so each character can represent one or several meanings, and the writing method of these three characters is also simple enough, with only two or three strokes, which is very suitable as an enlightenment teaching material for characters.
The children listened very carefully. After Liang Lidong explained the meaning and writing of the three characters, he asked them to practice on the sand, which is why they were asked to gather by the small river. Of course, if you are rich enough, you can use paper to practice writing, but the problem is that all of them are children from poor families. The normal price of a piece of parchment is thirty-eight copper coins... Except for a few very rich nobles, No one wants to practice on parchment when they first learn to write.
By noon, all the children had mastered the meaning and writing of the three characters. Liang Lidong asked them to spend time in the afternoon to practice and familiarize themselves, and then announced the dissolution.
At this time, the young and strong laborers who went up the mountain to quarry the stones had returned, and they dumped the stones on the flat ground in the center of the village, forming a small hill. After eating the dry food and well water they brought, and after a short rest, they began to lay the foundation. Whether a house can be built well depends on whether the foundation is solid. Some older students were not in a hurry to go home, but followed the group of adults to help build the temple.
At this time, some adults naturally asked them how their studies were going. These children told Liang Lidong's request. If other people asked their children to take a bath every day and wash their hands before and after meals, these adults would not spit. It's strange to scold that person again: that person of you has seen a poor child from a poor family take a bath once a day.
But Liang Lidong is different, he is a priest, a spell caster, a special group that is more noble than nobles, and most importantly, now that their children have begun to read, they can barely be regarded as half 'scholars' in the future , no longer a bitter pariah, scholars have the etiquette that scholars should abide by, and it is necessary and necessary to practice the most basic etiquette from now on. This shows that the pastor did not fool them casually, but taught the children seriously them.
In this world, there is no such thing as "throw what you give, and return what you give," but they understand that writing is not something that can be learned with money. If the priest is willing to teach, it is the gift of Goddess Wojin. Besides, if you go to the city to learn characters, you will be charged a gold coin for a hundred characters, and there is no guarantee, let alone teach you how to write, just teach you to recognize, even if you can't recognize, it's none of their business .
The pastor has to teach the children 540 characters, converted into gold coins, it is 5 gold and 40 silver. This amount, all the people in their village may not be able to make up for a year without eating or drinking. The village head of Seri Village sold his family's high-quality wild animal skins, which can be exchanged for a lot of gold coins, but it was accumulated by him for decades, and it can be said that it was something he bought with his life.
Since the pastor is so generous, they can only barely repay this kindness if they work hard to build the temple well.
Liang Lidong didn't feel how generous he was. From the players' point of view, simple literacy tutorials were not worth much. To them, what was really valuable was various combat skills, talents, magic, and character experience. … Teaching students to gain character experience is actually a win-win thing. For players, character experience is much more important than that little money.
After lunch, Liang Lidong asked the village chief: "Old Reed, can you lend me Kyle for an afternoon, I plan to go to Winterwind City to buy some necessary magic alchemy items."
In the game, Dongfeng City was destroyed by the players, so although Liang Lidong had heard of Dongfeng City's name, he had never been there.
"Your Excellency Beta, Kyle is now your student. It is only natural for a student to work for the teacher. If you have something to do, you can send him, I have no right to ask."
Kyle nodded vigorously while chewing the egg steamed meat made by Liang Lidong. As a lively boy, he naturally hoped to be able to play around, but every time he entered the city, he had to pay a poll tax, which made him I'm not happy, so if I have nothing to do, I seldom go to the city, but if I go with the teacher, I don't have to pay the poll tax. When it comes to mercenaries, professionals, and spellcasters, they dare not fart.
"Well, let's call Beilin by the way." Liang Lidong said after thinking for a while.
Just now when he was teaching the children how to read, he discovered that Kyle is the smartest among all the children. He can recognize the characters as soon as he recognizes them, and he can learn to write easily. Belin almost, but compared with other children, he is also It stands out from the crowd and has great training value. If these two children are trained to be believers of the Goddess Woking, he can get the piety points given by the system, which can be exchanged for low-level magic, and on the other hand, he can get two helpers to help take care of the trivial things in the temple matter.
"Okay, I'll call Belin over now." Kyle stuffed the rest of the bread into his mouth, wiped his mouth, and ran out the door.
"Your Excellency Beta..." The old village chief hesitated for a while, looking a little embarrassed, and finally said: "If you encounter something inconvenient to deal with in Winterwind City, you can go to the Black Iron Tavern in the East District and find someone named The old man of 'Iron Hook', he has good skills, he was also a professional before, as long as he is given enough money, he is willing to do anything."
Liang Lidong raised his head, looked at the old village head, and asked with some puzzlement: "Why did you suddenly tell me these things?"