Chapter 12 "The Conflict of the Lords"
After helping the woman, Zhou Ming was successfully fired from the construction site and returned to the rental house happily.
Of course, the salary contractor still gave him the salary, not because he felt sorry for him, but because Zhou Ming did the work alone these days, almost one and a half brick mover, and he could handle it for more than ten days in a row. His physical strength and endurance were so amazing that the contractor hadn't seen many of them in so many years, so how dare he deduct his salary?
In fact, it’s not that Zhou Ming has strong physical strength. He is indeed a little too late to withstand the next few days. Fortunately, he found a trick to playing "Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life" in the injection mode. By playing tricks, opening the harem, forcing and robbing, he got a 3s-level score in three consecutive games, earning more than 8,000 achievement points.
All these achievement points were exchanged by him as [Strength Point Card], which added 8 power attributes to the body, so it was naturally much easier to move bricks on the construction site.
I returned to the rental house and spent a day cleaning the room inside and outside, and then went to a nearby supermarket to buy a large amount of instant noodles, biscuits, bread, ham sausages and other convenience foods to go home. The amount was enough for him to eat for a month or two.
After taking a comfortable hot shower, Zhou Ming, who was relaxed, lay comfortably on the bed, closed his eyes, and opened the game panel in his mind.
"System, enter the game."
"Drip~"
"Players start to enter the game..."
Game background introduction:
This is an absurd, ignorant and conservative era. The lords are selfish, the knights are addicted to force, the farmers are unable to feed, the priests spread hypocrisy, and the slaves survive... In this world where wars are frequent, plagues are prevalent, and thieves are everywhere, how should you, as the son of an ordinary farmer in the Rose Town of Granling, intervene in this lord dispute...
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“Wow~Wow~”
A crisp and loud cry spread throughout the entire Qiangwei Town from a dilapidated and crooked earthen house.
"@#¥#…¥%" said a woman with dark yellow hair and white skin weakly.
"@#¥#@!¥#!" A wave of white man hugged the baby in his hand excitedly, whispering, obviously very excited.
"What are these two people talking about?"
Zhou Ming was confused in the baby condition, but when he saw these two men and women with typical white characteristics, he knew that these two must be their parents.
"If you don't understand, learn slowly. Anyway, I'm just a baby now."
After eating the breast milk that the white woman fed her, Zhou Ming, who felt a little drowsy in his mind, entered a sweet sleep.
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In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.
Sitting on the wooden stake in front of the fence, Zhou Ming swung his calves and looked at the environment of this world.
Green fields with wheat seedlings, peaceful and peaceful towns, clear rivers, towering castles on the hills...
"It's such a paradise."
Yes.
If there were no lords and knights stationed in that castle, no damn tax collectors and lords stewards, no thieves who came to harass the town from time to time...then this was a paradise.
Zhou Ming's name in this world is "Ryan", his father's name is Derek, his mother's name is Julina, and a one-year-old little sister named "Alice".
A pretty happy family of four.
But this kind of happiness is also based on the good weather and good years in recent years, and the family can barely maintain food and clothing.
Derek, the father of the farmer, rented a hundred acres of land for the lord Baron Connor.
One-third of this 100 acres of land will be used for fallow, and the other two-thirds will be used to grow crops such as barley, oats, wheat and rye, as well as a small amount of peas and grass.
The crop yield in this world is generally very low. In a better year, the return rate of seeds is about 4 times, that is, planting a kilogram of seeds can harvest four to five kilograms of grain.
This kind of harvest looks pretty good, but half of it is the land rent to be handed over to the lord.
In addition to the lord's land rent, the church also has to collect tithes taxes. Although not much, the rest can only ensure that the farmers do not starve to death.
In addition, his father Derek also has the obligation to do weekly work for the lord. Three days a week, he had to do plough the land, transport, sow seeds, and thresh until he entered the warehouse. Only then could he drag his tired body and return to his own field to work.
After serving his labor, his father Derek also served in the military service for the lord. Whenever Baron Connor wanted to fight with Baron Howard or Baron Garcia around Glen, his father Derek had the obligation to be recruited. He stood at the front of the queue and acted as cannon fodder for the Knights in the rear.
In the past two years, his father Derek has been recruited twice, once against Baron Garcia in the west. After winning by chance, he received a small bag of black flour (the flour made from rye is made into black bread, with a hardness comparable to bricks)
The second time I was not so lucky to hit a group of robbers. I was shot with an arrow on my right hand. Although it was not deep, it affected my normal work for three months and it has not been easy to do so.
If the land rent is high, the labor service is heavy, and the military service is dangerous, it is fine. There are all kinds of strange and diverse people involved in farmers like his father Derek, and even the tax on a chicken, an egg, and a firewood.
Fish in the river cannot be caught, wild beasts in the mountains cannot be caught, rabbits in the fields cannot be caught, and even the doves in the lord's house are ruining the crops in your field cannot be touched... because all of these are the lord's.
Even his father Derek himself cannot leave this town at will and marry his daughter at will...
In short, for my father Derek, except for farming honestly, paying taxes, and serving in military service, nothing is allowed, unless the kind lord master is merciful.
Zhou Ming was extremely surprised that this feudal serf system, which had reached its extreme exploitation of farmers, was even more miserable than slaves who regarded as private property, could exist in this world.
Are those lords not afraid that these farmers will join forces and rush up to tear them to pieces on a desperate and angry day?
but……
Look at the tall and sturdy castle, look at the knight covered with bright armor, and look at the malnourished and weak body of his father Derek...
A farmer with this kind of physical condition may be able to gather a thousand, but he will not be able to capture the tall castle with only ten knights, right?
Zhou Ming frowned.
It's so difficult to deal with, it's really hard to deal with. This picture simply doesn't give the lower class a way out. Compared with these lords, Li Shouzheng in "Zhang Ergou" is just like a Bodhisattva. Zhang Ergou's living situation is much better than himself.
Chapter completed!