This gunslinger is too reckless

Simple wooden fences surround Yimer Village, and occasionally there is a stone wall covered with moss. Unfortunately, the local residents have been unable to repair it.

It was not safe to live in this place. Bandits could easily blackmail them. The king's tax collectors could take away whatever they wanted, but what could be done?

Zhao Dong and his army poured in from the village entrance with ease. Zhao Dong looked around. This damn summer has not passed yet. There are cracked dry land everywhere. Even though the wheat is quite drought-resistant, the villagers still have to brave the scorching sun. Go carry water for irrigation.

In the game, no matter how poor the village is, if the villagers take off their clothes, they will always have eight-pack abs.

But in this real plane, they were naked from the waist up and wearing tattered pants. They were so thin that their bones almost protruded from their thin skin. They were obviously Caucasian, but they were tanned by the sun.

As soon as they saw the army, they immediately threw down their simple wooden farm tools and hid in panic - anything with iron was often looted by tax collectors, cast into weapons and shipped to the front line.

Zhao Dong reckoned that if they were trained to fight with sticks like in the game, let alone seven, even seventy would be trampled to death by robbers like a mouse.

But relying on himself and these dozen or so subordinates, he would only bleed out in one battle after another, and he would not be able to complete what he boasted in front of the king.

Local forces must be mobilized!The first step in the plan is to convince the local powerful.

Zhao Dong's army stopped in front of a stone house, and a well-dressed middle-aged man came out. Zhao Dong guessed that there were also a group of young men with spears inside.

"I am the mayor of Ymel Village, where are you a knight?" The middle-aged man is the village chief. His skin is also dark, and he is not pampered, but his arms have unusually bulging muscles.

"Your Excellency Aluqi, I am the special envoy appointed by the king, specifically responsible for suppressing bandits." Zhao Dong stretched out a hand, and while shaking hands, he was also testing his strength. The village chief Aluqi was quickly defeated.

After Zhao Dong had used his power, he loosened his grip and stopped embarrassing him.

Before Zhao Dong arrived, work had already been done. Not only did he find out the name of the village chief, but he also found out what kind of person the village chief was.

In earlier times, there were no village chiefs. The knights assigned to the village were responsible for collecting a year's tax and giving it to the earl, who then handed it over to the king.

Later, the war became more and more intense, and it was no longer able to end in a few dozen days.It is impossible for the knights to fight on the front line while taking care of the civil affairs in the village. They can only hand over the power of tax collection and management to the respected people in the village, so the village chief came into being.

The so-called high morality does not refer to high moral standards, but that there are many strong sons in the family, who own a lot of land and wealth.

Therefore, the village chief is usually the most powerful man in the village.

If Zhao Dong wants to suppress the bandits, he must first mobilize the village; if he wants to mobilize the village, he must first mobilize these tyrants; if he wants to mobilize the tyrants, he must first mobilize the village chief.

"Military resources and rations will be prepared for you..." Arucci lowered his head, anyway, these people are no different from bandits, they are asking for money and food anyway.

"Military rations and military resources must be provided, and people must also contribute! But I am not those bandits. They want money and food, which will only make you poor, but I will make you richer." Zhao Dong Grinning, showing a smile.

He doesn't like to pretend to be a hypocrite. I not only want money and food, but also manpower!But only when everyone gets rich can things be done.

"I wonder what you have to say, sir?" When the village chief heard that Zhao Dong still wanted someone, he wanted to punch him.But in these troubled times, he had to be respectful to all military leaders.

After all, even if Zhao Dong violated the king's law and slaughtered their whole family, it would be a big deal to go up the mountain to cast bandits or stand on the top of the mountain by himself.In this troubled world, the constraints of law are nothing compared to the power of swords.

"Your Excellency Aluqi, I don't want a grain of grain or a dinar from you now. I just want you to make a small investment with other village sages."

Aluqi's eyes were straightened, the military chief asked for everything just now, why did he change his words now and said that he didn't want every ration and money?What does investing mean?He couldn't help being curious.

Zhao Dong even deceived the king. Facing these country bumpkins, it was even easier to deceive him, and he immediately lifted their hearts.

"Lend food to other villagers, pay attention to borrowing, not giving. When they can't pay back, use their land to repay the debt! The serfs of the local knight don't have land, but they can also borrow and use themselves to repay the debt! Sir Knight It may not be possible to come back from the battlefield, even if you come back, as long as you don't do too much, it is very normal for his men to "escape" a few serfs."

Land annexation and population hiding are tactics that have been used badly in history. However, in this era when the feudal system has just collapsed and land sales have just emerged, they are extremely new.

"Then the farmers in this village..." Arucci seemed to have thought of something and opened his mouth.

"They will all become your "sons", cultivate fields for you, and pay you land rent. Even if you sit at home, wealth will pour into your treasury. As long as you don't do too much, in the Rescue them in a disaster year, and this kind of life can continue..." Zhao Dong talked endlessly, and a smile gradually appeared on Aluqi's face

These early powerful men were still too young compared to Zhao Dong who understood the feudal society of 2000.

"And my military rations come from here. The Lord Knight charges [-]% tax, and now it even rises to [-]%. Well, we only pay [-]% and hand it over to him completely. It's better than before when he couldn't collect it. How many, there are still people fleeing to be stronger." Zhao Dong planned to join forces with the powerful to divide the interests of the knights.

These feudal knights are worse than rural landowners. At least rural landowners understand the output of the fields. Once these knights run out of money, they will blindly increase taxes, as if the higher the tax rate, the more food they will receive. Similar.

There is little risk in dividing the interests of these fools. Anyway, they don't even know how much food a piece of land produces.

"The remaining [-]%, leave [-]% for farmers, after all, you can't kill the chicken to get the eggs. [-]% is yours, only [-]% is mine, but there is a small condition..."

"Please tell me!" Aruch used the honorific this time, but he meant it sincerely.

This king's envoy has the face of a Kugit barbarian, but Aruch believes that it is likely to contain the soul of one of Rhodok's most astute businessmen.

"These farmers are obliged to accept my training during the slack season. When the village is attacked, they must stand up and fight," Zhao Dong cleared his throat, intending to use another profit to buy these tyrants.

"If they die in battle, I will give you thirty dinars as compensation. Of course, fifteen of them are yours. And they don't need much money in the countryside. You can "help" them exchange money for food." and salt, and take a little more out of it, they won't know the market price."

When he heard that even the wealth of the dead can be distributed, Aluqi smiled happily, but he thought of a worry: "Master Special Envoy, I am willing to make this "investment" as you called it, but others may not think so. There are two Old misers, they'd probably rather hang on to the wheat and dinars in the barn..."

"It doesn't matter. You go and call other decent people in the village to come over and have a meeting. I will "persuade" those who don't know how to adapt." Zhao Dong showed his fangs, holding a money bag in his left hand and a debater holding a weapon in his right hand. is invincible.

After some "persuasion", all the powerful people unanimously agreed to the proposal of the king's special envoy and began to "invest".Unfortunately, two powerful family heads suddenly died of sudden illness, and Zhao Dong expressed deep regret.

Under Haoqiang's mobilization, the peasants were quickly "persuaded".Although most of the benefits were divided by Zhao Dong to Hao Qiang, the peasants had to hand over their fields and be forced to receive training and combat.

But I heard that in the future, I don’t have to pay so much money and food to the knight master, and I don’t have to pay the bandit’s share at all. I can also receive a lot of food from the wise men in the village, and I can eat two meals a day.Many poor farmers happily handed over their fields and accepted Zhao Dong's reorganization.

As for the unhappy ones, it was the traitors of the bandits who were beheaded and hung at the entrance of the village. The widows and children were divided up by the powerful and prepared to be sold to slave traders or "for their own use". The remaining people were also happy.

In this way, the power of Yimer Village was integrated by Zhao Dong.