"Guys, work harder and chop harder. Yesterday, six groups of people cut down 20 iron oak trees. We can't be beaten by those animals!" A rough voice echoed in the forest, and the frightened gophers hid in their caves.

He didn't dare to make any noise, and the birds in the woods no longer knew where they were flying.

More than two dozen strong men, working in pairs, were shirtless, exposing bulging muscles. They waved the sharp axes in their hands and worked hard to drive the sharp ax blade into the thick tree trunk as hard as stone.

Although the weather is still as cold as ever, these people don't care, beads of sweat are flying, steam is steaming, and the loud slogans are intertwined with the "bang" and "bang" of iron axes cutting wood, showing off human diligence and strength.

"Okay! Now pull harder!"

After a tree squeaked, the leading middle-aged man signaled people to pull hard on the thick rope that had been tied to the treetop. The already crumbling tall tree fell to the ground more than ten meters under the strong pull of these men.

The long and thick tree trunk hit the ground, stirring up large amounts of dust.

"Everyone has a rest first. Come and have a drink of hot soup. Hans, please put on your sheepskin coat for me. If you get cold, you won't be able to earn the following work points." The middle-aged man in the lead shouted loudly.

Shouting.

"Boss, tell us again, what are those work points for? I still don't understand." A shirtless young man put a sheepskin coat on his body and smiled at the middle-aged man.

asked.

"What the hell?! How many times have I told you? I need to call the team leader!" He drank the soup boiled with salt and ground grass in one gulp, and the middle-aged man glared dissatisfied at the subordinate who always called him the wrong person.

"Work points are credit. The lord has said that when the territory is on the right track, each of us will be paid according to work points. One work point is one copper sole. If the work point exceeds 1,000 work points, one acre of land will be given. This is not land rented to us.

, it is land that is directly sealed to us and can be passed down. You all understand it! Like yesterday, everyone in the four groups earned at least 20 work points. How much do you think it was? In short, if you want to earn more work points, just give it to me.

Work hard."

A middle-aged man named Dean is the leader of the village group appointed by Victor. At this moment, in order to boost the enthusiasm of the group members, he is taking the trouble to once again explain to his subordinates the work-point system implemented by his lord.

In fact, this is the seventh time that Dean has explained to his men what work points are. It’s just that these honest farmers especially like to listen to Dean’s explanation over and over again. After listening to it, their eyes are full of hope every time.

with enthusiasm.

"Our lord is good at everything, but it is unbearable for us to work for six days and have one day off. We have earned more than a dozen work points in vain."

Tomorrow is the rest day for this village group. A farmer muttered quietly, and his complaint was approved by everyone.

Victor decided that the village groups would work for six days and take turns to have one day off. At that time, the six village group leaders asked him in confusion: What did they do on the rest day?

Victor's answer was: You can sleep, you can hang out, you can fish, you can catch birds, you can dig wild vegetables, but you are not allowed to work, and even if you do work, you will not get any work points, and everyone must take a shower!

The six village leaders left in confusion. They didn't understand, but that didn't matter. The Lord's orders must be implemented if they understand them, and they must be implemented even if they don't understand them.

Edwin once described to Victor the relationship between the lord and his subjects, and he concluded that it was the relationship between the protector and the protected, and this conclusion was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in this world.

Taking the Kingdom of Cambis as an example, the law stipulates that all wealth in the noble territory belongs to the lord and his vassals. The wealth here refers to the land, forests, flora and fauna, minerals, water sources and territorial residents in the territory.

Yes, the subjects are also the wealth of the lord. Therefore, the subjects can only keep 20% of the food grown on the lord's land as their own rations. The subjects must work for the lord for free, and during the war, the subjects must help the lord defend the castle.

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However, the lord also has his own obligations to his subjects. The first is of course that the lord should protect the safety of his subjects. If the subjects are threatened by monsters, beasts, bandits or even wizards, the lord must send armed forces to protect the subjects. The second is that the lords must protect the security of their subjects.

The article is to ensure livelihood. When the subjects encounter force majeure and lose their livelihood, the lord has the obligation to assist the subjects.

It was these two territorial obligations that the nobles self-proclaimed as noble virtues. However, after comparing the legal provisions that regarded the territorial people as wealth, Victor only felt that these so-called virtues were really ridiculous.

There is reason to call the act of protecting one's wealth a virtue.

In Victor's eyes, the people of this world are semi-serfs who are exploited by the nobles.

But most subjects recognize this relationship, because subjects can move up a level and become vassals.

It is not easy for the people of the lord to become vassals. Their families need to serve the lord's family for three generations before they can be rewarded with land by the lord and become vassals.

The feudal land can be inherited but cannot be bought and sold. 50% of the output of the land needs to be handed over to the lord, and the remaining harvest is enough to gradually grow the family, and the children of these vassal families are also the source of soldiers for the lord's army.

Vassals are die-hard supporters of the lord's family. They will serve as guards, peace officers, tax collectors, village chiefs, and town chiefs in the territory and become the middle class in the territory.

When Victor announced that he could exchange work points for inheritable land, all the people in the territory couldn't believe their ears. Until they discovered that after finishing their work every day, Captain Nelson's sister Lilia would carefully record their work points.

, and then gradually believed that this was all true.

So they burst out with great enthusiasm for their daily work, because they knew that they would become vassals of this new territory.

Victor did this not because he wanted to be a savior or a moral emperor, but because he had insights that the indigenous nobles in this world did not have.

Everyone in this world knows that knights have great power, and Victor thinks so too.

But Victor also believed that ordinary people have great power. This power can build towering castles in the mountains, build magnificent cities on the fertile plains, create dazzling civilizations in the wild world, and defeat any enemy.

An unparalleled and powerful enemy, this kind of power is enough to create miracles.

Of course Victor will not ignore this great power, what he has to do now is to stimulate this power.

In Victor's previous life, it was his motherland that was best at condensing great power and constantly creating miracles. Therefore, now that he is impoverished, he copied the production system of the motherland in his previous life at the beginning of the founding of the country: the production team work point system.

For those who are passive and slow in their work, ordinary nobles usually hang them up and give them a whip. If that still doesn't work, then drive the passive people out of the territory and let them become free citizens.

Victor also believes that punishment is necessary, but rewards can inspire the people's strength more. Unfortunately, he now has no wealth to reward the hard-working people.

But it doesn't matter. You can record work points for these territorial residents. When enough wealth is accumulated in the territory in the future, rewards will be given according to the work points.

The current result is that Victor's work-point system is welcomed by all the people in the territory. In just the past seven days, an eight-meter-high solid fence has been built around the camp. Even Master Edwin is amazed by the progress of this project.

As a result, Victor himself received the heartfelt support of the people in his territory, which made his control over the people in his territory very smooth and naturally eliminated the risk of being ignored.

Just as these farmers were discussing the wise decisions of their lords, there was a noise from the other end of the woods.

Dean winked at his subordinates, and after seeing that everyone had the ax in their hands, he asked loudly: "Who is there?".

"It's me, Gru." A muffled voice came from the other side of the woods, and then, Gru, dressed in mail, emerged from the woods with four fully armed guards.

"It turns out to be Captain Gru. He just scared us." Dean sneered and put down the ax in his hand.

Because it was a pioneering territory, Nelson arranged for guards to guard and protect the surrounding areas when the villagers' groups went out to work, and Gru was the team leader who led the team to perform the guard mission today.

"Well, we just caught three free people who were sneaking around in the woods. They have information on them, so I will escort them back to the camp now and report to the captain." Gru said sternly.

At this time, Dean and the others discovered that Gru's guards were escorting a man and two women whose arms were tied up. They were in ragged clothes, with sallow faces and thin skin. There were scratches everywhere on their faces and arms. They had obviously been in the bushes.

The traces left behind after traveling through.

However, Dean doesn't care about these, he only cares about Gru leading the team back to the camp.

"Captain Gru, if you lead the team back to the camp now, what should we do?" Dean asked anxiously.

"What are you afraid of?! We have cleared away all the wild beasts and monsters within fifty miles of the camp. Besides, there are still a few brothers standing guard in front of the forest. You can go ahead with confidence. I will be back in a moment."

After giving Dean a contemptuous look, Gru led the three prisoners toward the camp.

"Okay! Okay! Everyone, let's keep working! We have cut down 17 iron oak trees, and there must be more than six groups today." Dean greeted his team members loudly.

"Okay, head!"

"Mom, call the team leader!"

Victor is watching Nicole practice sword practice on the camp's martial arts field.

Nicole was wearing leather armor and holding a bright silver sword. She was facing a target made of iron oak, practicing thrusting. Her long and graceful legs paused slightly on the ground, and her whole body immediately shot towards the target like an arrow.

Shooting forward, following the momentum, he turned his waist hard, condensing all the strength of his body into one, and stabbed straight forward with the long sword in his hand. A sound like a piece of cloth being torn suddenly sounded in the air, followed by a hard and thick sound.

The target was pierced by the long sword.

Nicole's movements are simple and her expression is focused. Combined with her toned and voluptuous figure, she has a heroic beauty that is pleasing to the eye.

Body 16, Spirit 11, Perception 12, Life 16,

This is the data that Victor observed on Nicole, but this is the data after she used her fighting spirit.

When fighting spirit is not running, Nicole's statistics are: Physique 11, Spirit 10, Perception 9, and Life 12.

After these days of observing farmers, mercenaries, and trainee knights, Victor had a rough understanding of the scope of the alchemical creatures' capabilities.

The attributes of the alchemical auxiliary soldiers should be equivalent to those of the elite soldiers in this world, and the attributes of the alchemical militiamen should be as high as those of trainee knights.

And these alchemy creatures are just the logistics of the Nairel Empire, so how powerful will the alchemy creatures that the Alchemy Empire is responsible for fighting be? And what are the alien races that fight against the Alchemy Empire?

Victor shook his head and threw these thoughts to the back of his mind. Instead of worrying about things that happened tens of thousands of years ago, it would be better to appreciate the beauty's heroic posture while practicing swordsmanship.

These days, Nicole practices martial arts every day, and she won’t give up until she exhausts her fighting spirit. The solid ground of the martial arts arena is already covered with her delicate footprints. Seeing Nicole working so hard to hone her martial arts and fighting spirit every day, it makes her maintain her strength.

Kedo felt pity for him.

In terms of appearance and style, Nicole is not as good as the charming Countess Sylvia or the stunningly beautiful Marquise Sophia. However, Victor is indeed attracted to Nicole. Perhaps because of his grassroots career in his previous life, Victor is attracted to her.

Kedo has a special affinity for this girl who is sensitive and has low self-esteem but is trying hard to change her destiny.

This girl with noble blood but low birth, if she awakens the knight blood in an ordinary noble family, she will definitely be valued by the family and have a corresponding status. Unfortunately, she comes from the top wealthy York family.

For this family that has been passed down for thousands of years, a mere female trainee knight who awakens the blood of knights is not worth making a fuss about. If she cannot become a knight, her destiny is to become a tool for the family to win over people's hearts.

Nicole is not willing to be manipulated by others, so she wants to become a knight.

When Nicole completed another thrusting practice, Victor walked forward with a smile, handed Nicole a silk scarf to wipe sweat and said: "Nicole, take a rest for a while and drink some water. You have already used it today."

Four iron oak targets were broken."

Nicole took the silk scarf handed over by Victor and whispered: "Thank you." Her flushed face became more and more delicate.

Because of her background, Nicole had a special yearning for the elegant life of the aristocracy, and the young and handsome Baron Victor, who had received strict etiquette training, completely fit her fantasy of a lover, giving her the first taste of lovesickness.
To be continued...