Chapter 146: Inadvertently inserting willows
The hiring workers were dismissed, and Arthur spent the next two days dealing with these chores. It was easy to talk about the lord and the nobles' families. Even if they were not dismissed, they would be summoned.
There is no problem with self-cultivating farmers. Even if their families are poor and encounter such a big event, self-cultivating farmers never say anything. Even if they only have one acre of land in Morado, you have to respond to the call of the lord and pick up weapons to prepare for battle.
But the problem is that some farmers who already have their own fields are in trouble.
"We can all agree that Mr. Peter Ryder, working for 4 silver coins a winter, why don't you want it now? My family owes a lot of money. If you don't have this wage, how can you let my family survive!" The farmer came to complain one by one with a bitter face.
Unlike tenant farmers who don’t have to bear their own burden of seeds and farm tools, they not only have to pay a considerable agricultural tax, but also have to bear the cost of farming, seeds, farm tools maintenance, and food rations.
Farmers usually have small land, often with several family members, and the land they cultivate is less than acre. If there is any major event at home, they will have to farm with debts the next year.
In a bad year, I am afraid that the only way to go bankrupt and sell your own land is to go bankrupt. If you can pay off your debts, you can take the risk of going to those unguarded villages to reclaim the land again.
But if you can’t even sell the land and can’t settle the debt, then you can only sell yourself and become a tenant under the command of the nobles. This is an option.
Whether you owe any debts, the nobles will not care about it. The orc invasion can only be considered bad luck. If the other party is a self-cultivated farmer family, it may be able to slow down for a few years, but if it is an ordinary farmer, there is nothing to discuss.
Once they become tenant farmers, they are not miserable. In fact, many tenant farmers can restore their freedom after saving enough money. However, compared with extremely high risk choices, most of them will continue to stay under the lord and become senior tenant farmers with more freedom and income. If they have promising children at home, they will not be able to own their own land and even become glorious self-cultivated families.
But before that, the trouble had to be dealt with. Arthur and Uncle Vinock were also very annoyed. In the end, Arthur decided that if he really had debts, he could wait for the orcs to invade and continue to work here, and ensure that he would not go bankrupt and sell land because he could not repay it.
But if anyone wants to rely on him for this? I’m sorry, although Arthur is not a ‘magic’ and Melissa will not help Arthur for this matter, but don’t forget that Lilia is given the title of Fire Magician, with Frank Canon behind her, and is definitely not a soft persimmon that anyone can control.
"Arthur, you are too soft-hearted. You shouldn't be polite to those tricked farmers. You can't make money and only know how to bet. You deserve to lose your land and become a tenant farmer." Uncle Vinok looked at a group of hired workers who left in a lazy walk and said in extreme dissatisfaction.
"Forget it, uncle, this is their own choice." Arthur shook his head and comforted him.
Farmers are freer than self-cultivated farmers because they pay taxes, unlike tenant farmers who are completely dependent on the nobles, so they are not the first to be recruited for forced recruitment.
In the eyes of self-cultivated farmers, these guys are borers to the towns, and they have no effect except for the meager agricultural tax.
Although Arthur was not so extreme, he still agreed with the uncle's opinion in his heart, not discrimination, but the form of this world is like this.
Large-scale agricultural production is actually controlled by the nobles, while self-cultivated farmers, merchants and powerful professionals are the middle class, while farmers can only serve as subsidies for the first two, and there are signs of gradually being annexed and eroded by the nobles.
This often leads to the fact that ordinary farmers do not have strong centripetal force on the town, and do not have the inheritance of the cultural traditions and martial arts of the family inheritance of self-cultivated farmers. Many of them cannot even write their own names, and they will inevitably become a discriminated class.
The proletarian revolution has no market in this world. It is not people who have combat effectiveness, but professionals. The most successful professionals also have the opportunity to advance to the aristocratic class, and they will become self-cultivated farmers at the second level.
As long as the lowest-level professionals can retire alive and save some money to go to villages and towns in the desert, they will also have a good status.
Those with strength and culture have their own places to go, so naturally no one will look for the so-called way out for those self-degenerate groups.
"It's all about productivity... It's a pity." Of course, Arthur didn't think so. From the perspective of another world, these farmers are not only productivity, but also markets, and what he lacks now is these strong labor.
If there are enough staff, he may not be worried about drainage channels and land cleaning. He can hire more staff to directly shorten the construction period and complete all the work before it snows.
After dismissing these hired workers, the uncle's family began to practice swords and guns like other self-cultivated farmers. However, from Arthur's perspective, the uncle's sword might not be as powerful as Aunt Leedna's.
However, the guns are not bright even when they are sharpened in the battle. After all, it is not necessary to fight against the orcs directly on the battlefield, relying on the city walls and fortress defense. As long as the orcs do not attack the town, it is Morado's victory.
Unlike the uncle, Arthur did not stop his busy pace. The magic was accumulated and the goblins had to gather together.
"Lilia, have the goblins in the forest gathered?" It's not wise to enter the mountains in the middle of winter, but this is not a succubus with wings. Arthur can grasp the overall situation without having to work hard.
"It's all in that ravine. There are many caves dug out from small green skins, and they are all hiding inside after a snow." Lilia looked disgusted, obviously the smell of those caves might not smell good.
Lilia doesn't have to drill holes in person, and even if she gets in, she can't order the goblins. But it doesn't matter. She has a special action under her. These goblins with strong bodies and high intelligence, as creatures of the same contract, can convey his orders on behalf of Arthur.
A large number of goblins were called out from the mountains by Arthur. Fortunately, the snow had stopped in the past two days, and the snow on the ground had melted. It would not freeze these goblins, nor would it delay their trip, so that they could not catch up with this gathering.
Arthur did not expect that when he summoned these reserves in the later stages, he actually had a psychological guarantee that when he first made a contract, he would have a more psychological idea that when Morrado used a large-scale goblin to hire workers, he could quickly replenish his team.
But now it has become a reserve service ready to be put into the battlefield, which is really a coincidence that it is unintentionally planting willows and willows to form shade.
Chapter completed!