Lord: Marry the villain's daughter at the beginning?

The next morning, Linde got up early and came to the temporary platform built by the river.

At this time, everyone in the territory was crowded under the platform, waiting for the speech from this lord whom they had never seen before.

Lena did not run away with the knights as she did before, but stood aside to see what Linde was going to do.

Linde standing on the high platform sighed. Originally, Linde had made many plans for the future, but he never expected that he would gain power so easily. Then the next task would be very simple, to develop the territory while avoiding Lena from dragging him into rebellion.

However, Linde was a little confused about what was said in the future about Rena rebelling. After spending the past two days with her, Rena didn't seem like someone who would rebel.

"Hello, fellow citizens. Although many of you may not have seen me, I want to tell you that I am your lord. From today on, everyone will follow my orders."

After hearing Linde's words, many knights around Reina became agitated. To them, Reina was the real owner of this land. Although Linde was the lord in name, he was actually just a working son-in-law.

If Lind's identity on the marriage certificate was indeed a son-in-law, these knights would probably have started shouting, "Oh no! Lars' son-in-law is biting his master!"

Reina stretched out her hand to stop the restless knights around her. Linde and Reina talked for a long time last night. Although Reina fell asleep not long after Linde started talking, Reina still vaguely remembered that Linde talked about "Zhengbuermen".

If authority is dispersed, there will be no prestige; if government orders cannot be formulated in a unified manner, they will easily contradict each other.

Reina didn’t really understand, but who cares? She was so happy that she had someone to help her govern the territory.

"Today, I came to Gray Collar only for three things."

"First, in the name of the lord, I declare that all debts involving the lord, including Grand Duke Lars and Miss Lars, will be written off. No matter why you came to this place, no matter whether you are serfs or free people, from today on, you will no longer bear any debts to the lord and the Lars family."

The cheers and shouts of "Hail!" that had been imagined did not appear, because to these indebted serfs and freemen, the high debts were of no use to them. Grand Duke Lars knew that they could not pay them back, and in fact no one came to collect the debts.

Ironically, these debts, which were impossible for serfs and freemen to repay, were just a fraction of Reina's pocket money.

Many of the subjects that Lind brought with him owed money to the original owner of Lind's body. However, because both Lind and the original owner were relatively generous lords, these former subjects were not surprised that Lind forgave their debts.

"Secondly, all serfs on the Gray and White Collar have the opportunity to become freemen. In the future, I will issue a series of tasks and jobs. As long as you complete these tasks and jobs as required, you can get corresponding work points. After these work points reach the standard, you can apply to become a freeman."

There was a commotion among the crowd, mainly among the people that Lind had brought out from his original territory, because they were more convinced of Lind, the lord who was willing to lead his people on the escape.

But the serfs of the Lars family were somewhat skeptical and most of them were rather indifferent.

It's not that there weren't lords who had converted serfs into freemen, but most of the time the conditions were extremely harsh and it was basically just empty talk. Only a few serfs who became confidants of the nobles could be turned into freemen.

However, the importance of the support was revealed at this time. The veteran that Laurie had planted among the people immediately asked Lind, "Lord, what are the specific tasks? How long will it take me to become a freeman?"

Lind smiled and tried his best to appear approachable. Perhaps it was because Lind inherited the heroine's skills as well as some of her charm. In everyone's eyes, Lind did have an approachable temperament, which made Lind's next words more credible.

"The main tasks and jobs are repairing bridges, paving roads and building houses. Those who are physically strong can also choose to mine or join the future army, which will earn more work points. For women, children and those with weak health, there are also easier tasks such as fishing and weaving."

"I swear in the name of the goddess that any hardworking serf can become a free man after working hard for about one to three years. And for those who make significant contributions to the territory, I will personally burn the slave contract and grant him the status of a free man."

After hearing about the specific work content and the oath in the name of the goddess, the serfs of the Lars family finally began to whisper. These were things they could do, not like the empty and false conditions of other nobles such as killing a dragon. At least they seemed really feasible.

At this time, the people in the audience started asking questions again.

"Can we free people also do these tasks?"

"Of course, anyone can do these tasks. After completing them, you will get corresponding work points, which can be exchanged for food and items in the territory, or directly exchanged for money. If the freeman's points meet the requirements, there will be additional rewards."

Then Lind added: "I have sent people to post notices of the specific system and terms in the center of the territory. People who can read will take turns standing guard to explain them to you. If there are people who don't understand, you can go to the center of the territory to learn about it in your free time."

After Lind finished speaking, the first people to go to the center of the territory to learn about the system were not the serfs, but the knights around Lena.

The female knight next to Reina ran back breathlessly and said to her, "Miss, this guy actually intends to turn serfs into freemen. I checked and found that for knights like us, it only takes half a year to reach the standard of becoming freemen."

Reina was a little confused and asked doubtfully: "Isn't this good? Is there anything wrong with turning serfs into freemen?"

Perhaps because of Reina's clear stupidity, she did not realize what serfs meant to the nobles. She just put herself in the serfs' shoes and thought that if she were a serf, she would definitely try her best to become a free citizen.

"Miss!"

The female knight said anxiously: "If all the serfs become freemen, and no serfs or freemen owe any money, who will work for the territory? In my opinion, this Linde Roll knows nothing about governing a territory."

To the aristocracy, serfs meant cheapness and could be exploited at will until the last drop of blood was squeezed out of them.

These nobles, who only knew how to increase taxes and labor time to plunder wealth, were completely unable to understand what benefits would come from liberating the serfs.

Reina couldn't understand it either, but at this time she showed amazing wisdom and the ability to think from other people's perspective.

"Knight Susan, are you a serf?"

"Of course not! Miss, I am a noble knight of the Lars family!"

The knight named Susan didn't seem to understand why Reina suddenly started asking this.

"So do you owe our family money?"

"No, you and your family have always been very good to me. I have never been in any debt."

"Then why do you work for me?"

Susan was stunned when she heard Lena's deafening question. It took her a long time to say some difficult words such as knight's belief and family honor.

"Then why can't serfs have faith and honor? I think what the lord did is fine. Those who can persist in completing those tasks are qualified to become freemen or even knights."

Susan finally stopped after hearing what Reina said and retorted, "But Miss, we are nobles with noble blood flowing in our veins, and those serfs are just slaves."

"What's that?"

Lena said nonchalantly: "Grandpa also said that our Lars family's ancestors were blacksmiths."