Transmigration of the bastard lord

The castle is not short of food, but its hands are too short—even if the Rennes engineering team has repaired the main road, the speed of food transportation is still not optimistic, and the nearest villages near the farm to assist the village is the limit of what the castle can do with its current manpower.

This small village that has become a dead village is not within the scope of the farm's responsibility. If Davis and Fu Youguang hadn't lost their way and bumped into each other, what happened in this village would probably be followed by those few cannibals. The human villagers died and vanished in the world, and turned into dust in the history of the human kingdom—just like the many weak souls who were not lucky enough to be saved during this long winter.

Fu Youguang and Davis searched the entire village, but failed to find any more survivors.Empty and cold houses, discarded agricultural tools, incompletely burned wet wood, dry bones with only skeletons left... The free people who were already struggling to survive were helpless under natural disasters. Although it is not a chaotic world, it is even more desolate than a chaotic world.

Collect the dead bones and the few corpses in the village and burn them. Before dawn, Fu Youguang and Davis left this small village that might disappear from the map soon.

On the back of the ghost horse, the two of them no longer had the same interest in teasing each other as before.After a long silence, Davis said: "The town of Alsop in this area has [-] residents. Because there are not enough nobles with titles, they cannot be promoted to city level..."

"This neighborhood is under the jurisdiction of the nobles of that town." Fu Youguang sat cross-legged with his hands folded as before, with an unpredictable expression and a cold voice. At first he thought it was Sig talking, "Daxue It starts after the annual tax is paid, and the guys who 'manage' these areas are naturally reluctant to send out the hard-earned grain."

"You know what's in your mind, Your Excellency. Nobles don't watch their serfs and tenants starve to death, because it's their wealth; but the average freeman...they don't care so much." Davis sighed, "I see There was a similar scene. When I was a magic apprentice, there was a flood in my hometown Innadali Territory... It was a terrifying scene like annihilation. Half of the mountain beside the farm collapsed, and muddy water rolled stones , trees, and the bones of beasts instantly flooded fields and houses..."

After a pause, Davis sneered jokingly and sarcastically as if thinking of something funny: "...the flood doesn't care who is a tenant farmer, who is a serf, or who is a freeman; the 'property' of the nobles The loss was heavy. I remember that that year, the lord of the Innatrix Territory burst into tears at the local noble council, sympathizing with the sufferings of the nobles... The 'respectable' lord believed that for the sake of the nobles, the loss, the annual tax for that year should be raised.”

"Innad killed 10,000+ people immediately... the nobles were laughing and laughing. The free people who occupied the fields died, and the serfs were driven out to occupy the empty villages to become new farms; the free people who survived did not pay enough annual taxes. The only way to survive is to join a noble lord as a serf forever."

Fu Youguang raised his eyes and looked at Davis. The caster was sitting casually, with one leg crossed and the other hanging in the air; With contempt and hatred, he didn't talk about the dignity of the so-called spellcaster, and his tone of venting anger was no different from those angry youths he met in his previous life.

"A sage in my world... mentioned it in his writings; looking through the history, there are only two words between the lines: Cannibalism." Fu Youguang sighed, "This world... is similar. If someone carefully reads In history, when future generations read it, they can only see the word cannibalism."

"...Natural selection, the weak prey on the strong, there is nothing wrong with it." Shaking his head, Fu Youguang said softly: "But how can a race with intelligence learn the rules of wild beasts?"

Davis seemed to be touched somewhere, his body froze for a moment, and then gradually eased; he silently glanced at Fu Youguang, who was depressed, and the caster didn't make a sound.

The small village they strayed into was not far from the town. After walking for more than an hour in the direction of Peggy's farm, they saw the town's city walls and arrow towers in the distance.

This generation is very close to the border. Although Alsop Town is only a small town, it is more formal in structure and defense than Amp City in the interior.It was much easier to find this town and find the way to Peggy's farm, without having to bump around like before.

Near the outskirts of the town, the population gradually became denser, and the two put away their ghost horses and walked along the road.The taverns in the single courtyard by the roadside and the family hotels near the avenue have opened their doors for business, and the scattered villagers living nearby are tightly packed, and when they pass by these two "thinly dressed" strangers, they will look curiously at them from time to time. Sweeping over; after seeing Davis' attire as a spell caster, he suddenly realized that although he didn't dare to approach him, his attitude was very respectful.

The market for briquettes seems to be good here. When you get to the distance where you can see the gate of the town, you can see burnt cinders piled up in the corners of some houses, and some people move the coal stove to the door and put an iron pot on it to start the morning. The people who work in the town sell hot soup.

"Please don't do this, Lord Godwin, our family doesn't owe you the annual tax, and now we don't have much food in the family. If you take my husband away, how will we survive the rest of the day?"

A mournful female voice attracted the attention of the two of them. Following the sound, there were several strong men dressed as servants standing on the compacted dirt path in front of several houses that were close together. Wearing a weapon.In front of these guards and the like, an aristocratic middle-aged man dressed in fine clothes, a fur cloak, and a flat fur hat was riding on a horse, impatiently scolding the bold woman who stood in the way. Person: "What an honor it is to serve me, Lord Godwin? What do you know, woman, why don't you hurry up and get out of the way?"

The thin woman with a frightened face shouted loudly: "We are willing to serve you, Lord Godwin. But now my husband has to go to the town to work in order to have money to buy food for our family to live on, please." master!"

"Shameless woman, can you excuse being lazy if you don't have food?" Godwin shouted displeasedly, "Your family is planting my land, so it should serve me! Get out of the way!"

The nobleman waved his hand impatiently, and a nurse immediately stepped forward and pulled the woman away.Amid the woman's cries, her husband was dragged out of the house and taken away together with several other tenant farmers who had been dragged away.

Fu Youguang and Davis glanced at each other, and their expressions were not very good.The passers-by who also stopped to watch what happened were full of sympathy, and one of the old people shook his head and sighed: "Kamp finally got a job as an odd job in the deli in the town, and Godwin took him to do a white job... That job looks I can't keep it. Poor boy..."

Another boy said indignantly: "Yesterday my elder brother was also called away. Grandpa Ruili, why did Godwin call so many people away?"

The old man waved his hands again and again: "This is not something we should care about. I just hope that the old man will not make it too difficult for the boys because of the fact that we have served their family for many years."

Fu Youguang couldn't help asking: "That master Godwin let the tenant farmers do the work without paying them?"

The old and the young looked at Fu Youguang strangely for a long time, and some knowledgeable old people noticed the style of his clothes, and said carefully: "Sir, are you... an employee of Peggy's Farm?"

The uniforms of employees of various companies in the castle system are generally similar, but there are differences in the depth of color and details.For example, the colors related to catering such as food companies and delis are lighter, while the colors of agriculture and breeding are darker.The White Farm, which is more than 30 miles away from here, has employees who occasionally come to the town. The old man has seen this dark blue uniform several times, so he asked this question.

"Er... yes, old sir."

The eyes of the old man and the young man were full of envy. Before the old man could reply, the young man said a lot: "I have heard about the treatment on your farm, sir, it is really good. But not every master is like a lord Your Excellency is so kind and generous, everyone in our area is a tenant of the Godwin family, but before, I mean, when I was young, at least the fields our family cultivated belonged to us..."

"Merger." Fu Youguang understood in an instant.The young man continued to vent his dissatisfaction: "This year's winter is over, I think the number of tenant farmers in Master Godwin's family will increase a lot. So many people have died, how much open space does their family have to take over..."

"Cough, cough!" The old man interrupted the young man's chatter, and gave him a reproachful look; the young man realized that he had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly shut his mouth.

"In Master Godwin's farm, it is said that the newly built shed collapsed badly... a lot of chickens died, and the serfs were severely frostbitten. Perhaps it is because of this that they urgently need to call in manpower..."

The old man rambled on and on for a while, before Fu Youguang and Davis finally understood, and they were quite dumbfounded.It turned out that the large-scale breeding of chickens and ducks by the breeding company on Godwin's hot-eyed farm also built a chicken farm according to the gourd.The problem is that this guy started working with only a superficial understanding, and the internal organization is a complete mess; the survival rate of chickens and ducks is a problem, let alone eggs for meat.Godwin, who spent a lot of money in it, was very anxious, and after the chicken shed was crushed by snow, he recklessly and unrestrainedly smoked among the tenants, causing complaints.

Saying goodbye to the enthusiastic old man and young man, the two continued to move towards the town.Based on what he saw just now, Fu Youguang made a small joke: "That guy is considered a heart to the sun, but I don't appreciate this kind of 'follower'."

Davis glanced at Fu Youguang: "I thought Your Excellency was going to interfere with that little nobleman's actions."

"It's not difficult to put on a lord's show to make that guy restrain himself, but it's a temporary solution, not the root cause. If he's obedient and obedient, how can he continue to do his own thing after we leave? We can't keep an eye on him, can we?" Fu Youguang shook his head and said, "Here we are. Peggy's farm will clean up the guys who are trying to get our food team's idea first, and keeping this hidden danger will be detrimental to our development."

"...Do you already have a goal?"

"This is something that is obvious, isn't it? It is impossible for the small group of bandits and bandits to get their ideas on us, and it is impossible to know the route of the food transportation team." Fu Youguang sighed, "Although this This kind of speculation is unbelievable... But after eliminating redundant clues, no matter how unbelievable the truth is, it is still the truth. I think Lilith has guessed it a long time ago. You see, she directly sent me the ins and outs of the matter. Without any hesitation."

Davis walked in silence for a while, and said with a lingering fear: "...I can't help but think about whether I offended Mrs. Lilith in the past few years..."

"...You lost your integrity too quickly..."

The two of them didn't enter the town, and walked half a circle along the city wall to find a wide road leading directly to Peggy's farm, and walked directly up.The roads leading from various farms to nearby cities and towns are the main commercial roads, and they are the key targets of renovation by the Rennes engineering team. The width and smoothness of the road surface are quite excellent, which is very different from other dirt roads that only tamp the ground.

"The mayor of Alsop Town is just a mediocre old man, and his role is at best to act as a human seal. Although there are only more than 20 powerful nobles in the town, it is close to the border and far away from the political center. It is much smaller; in terms of force, this town is not necessarily weaker than Anpu City."

Davis talked eloquently. He was not the otaku of Seager, and he knew Hydersay much more deeply.

"Well...they should also be more confident in their own strength, otherwise they wouldn't use this direct conflict to challenge us." Fu Youguang nodded.

Davis squinted at Brother Guang: "You...well, I apologize if you guessed wrong; you don't intend to find out the real murderer, but you have a one-size-fits-all idea, right?"

Fu Youguang grinned: "Brother doesn't have that patience anymore. The village more than 20 miles away from the town is full of starvation, and the guys in the town are still fighting each other and gesticulating at me... Keeping them is not only useless to our development, but very It may drag us back."

"... Mrs. Lilith also considered this, so she specially asked me and Li to come to Peggy's Farm... right...?" Davis felt his scalp numb.

"She is very good at judging the situation. When we attacked Amp City, our foundation was too shallow, so we had to be gentle. Now, although our hands are not long enough, our influence and reputation are enough; plus Sig personally went to Mary Qicheng went to stir up the muddy water, it is not surprising for her to guess that Seeger and I have become more aggressive. The most important point is that there are dead people on our side; human life is at stake, and she knows that Seeger and I will never take this matter lightly Let it go."

Both Fu Youguang and Sig spoke highly of Lilith, otherwise they would not have directly let her sit in the position of senior consul; the other ladies who are close to her status have all worked hard at the grassroots level for a long time. For a while.

Davis turned around and glanced at the town of Alsop, which was gradually being left behind, and muttered, "...Come on, so many people have died anyway... If they die, they will die."

"If weeds are not removed from the field, crops cannot grow."

Fu Youguang made an attributive sentence.He is no longer the first brother who would have sweaty palms when he executed a criminal who raped a young girl to death. For a leader who has reached the pinnacle of power and assumed a future leader of a territory, meaningless kindness is the last quality he needs.

Relying on the food delivered by the city police superintendent, the soldiers of the People's Army and the reserve team of the Ministry of Security worked together to effectively assist nearly [-] victims in free folk villages around Peggy Farm.The food and cold clothes provided by the farm have made these victims who have never received official assistance, and have never eaten or used these good things very grateful; to this day, except for some severely injured people with severe frostbite and a very small number of lazy women, A large number of disaster victims who have been assisted have taken the initiative to participate in the work on the farm and do what they can.

When Fu Youguang and Davis arrived at Peggy's Farm in the afternoon, they saw such a bustling work scene.Under the leadership of the farm staff, the victims cleared the snow, maintained the greenhouse, repaired the roof and walls, dug the permafrost to build houses, and deepened the canal before the snow melted to prevent the farmland from being flooded... There will never be a farm that does not fall asleep. Dislike when there are too many manpower.

The current director of Peggy Farm is an employee of the Bentley Fertilizer Company. He has just turned 20 years old, but his skin is as rough as Mullen, a former serf who is over [-] years old.The upright Mullen originally planned to enter the People's Academy for further studies, but unfortunately, the previous two directors of Peggy Farm were in trouble, so he had to be aggrieved and come to the rescue first.

With a grin, he was a standard old farmer. Maren, who was not much younger than Brother Guang at all, saw the two people who arrived after a long wait, and the first sentence showed the guy's stunned nature. : "My lord, Mr. Davis, are you lost?"

Fu Youguang & Davis: "Uh..."

Mullen patted his thigh: "Let me just say, with Mr. Davis' ability, you should have arrived yesterday. Is it too snowy and the road is covered?"

Fu & Dai: "..." You've already guessed it, so what are you asking!

Ma Lun, with a very simple and honest smile, led the two uncles through the busy crowd to the office converted from the warehouse. On the way, he did not forget to explain the robbery of the grain team last time in his own style: "...the white flower grain It's so attractive, especially we have such a large group of people here; it's not like a dog's nose has to be led by this smell for ten miles..."

Mr. Light Ferlandy and Mr. Davis listened strangely to the last year's model worker scolding those "dog noses" with a strong Hydsay accent, but they couldn't get a word out.

Walking into the narrow compartment belonging to the director of the farm, Marlon quickly poured out half a sack of documents: "... when I came to take over, the earl asked me to pay attention to collecting the information of Alsop's gang of masters, now, these details The street map and the topographic map of the house were obtained from the Hunter Association as a reward..."

Fu Youguang was speechless. The guy who co-authored Sig had made up his mind a long time ago, even the preparations were done, and he just waited for the right time to do it? !Yaya bah, don't give me a breath!

After handing over the information that should be handed over to Mr. Guangda and Mr. Davis, the director of Peggy Farm, the very simple-looking and friendly Maren smiled at the two big men, and made up the knife again: "The brother of the security department said, the superintendent Mr. Ryan Bartlett will also rush over to assist... Fortunately, the road from Amp City to here is well-trod by the brothers of the City Superintendent, so it is estimated that Superintendent Ryan will not get lost."

——Who arranged this thing!who! !

The author has something to say: Little Theater

Davis: ...Damn it, there is an unreasonable demigod, a fighting god-level earl on top of his head, the pressure is already great, okay?Don't have another one!

Mrs. Lilith, who has the potential to be a female BOSS, but is currently gentle and harmless, is sitting in the office drinking tea in the afternoon after a busy day.

Those thieves... it's better to hand them over to the earl for higher utilization rate, right?Lilith, who was sipping tea gracefully, thought so.