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Chapter 69 The Merciful Lord Hudson
The team moved forward unsteadily, and Hudson was sitting on the carriage while stroking the bear, while admiring the "creak, creak..." sound made by the carriage.

The road was still as bumpy as ever. In order to ensure the smooth passage of the convoy, they had to stop to level the road from time to time, but these small episodes did not affect Hudson's good mood at all.

After several months of trembling, he finally had a piece of land of his own. Hudson now finds everything pleasing to the eye.

"Go away!"

"You idiots, with a few broken logs, dare to rob like others. If you bump into the great Hudson, you will definitely..."

Hearing the voice from the front, Hudson got out of the carriage full of anger. Someone dared to rob him, it was simply a bad idea for him.

After getting out of the carriage, Hudson realized something was wrong.The so-called robbery is purely a farce. It is more appropriate to say that it is a refugee than a robber.

The soldiers mainly reprimanded them, and did not directly kill them. The main reason was that most of the people blocking the way were old, weak, women and children, and only a few were young and strong. They really didn't look like bandits.

"Tom, what's going on?"

"Who are they?"

"Why do you want to intercept the convoy?"

Hudson asked three times in a row, Tom was about to answer, but the crowd on the opposite side spoke first: "Dear Lord Hudson, we are all the subjects of Viscount Alphonse.

Unfortunately, I encountered a military disaster and was robbed of food, and now I can't find the lord, so..."

"Enough, I know what you want to ask! Viscount Alphonse was unfortunately killed, and his whole family was lost by the rebels.

The new lord is from the Northland, and it will take another month to arrive if it is as fast as possible, and it will not exceed three months at the slowest, and we will naturally arrange for you at that time. "

Hudson said pretending to be indifferent.

The former statement that Viscount Alphonse's family suffered is true, but the latter statement is pure nonsense.When the northern nobles will be able to arrive, we will only know when they arrive.

Nobility is not only an honor, but also a responsibility.Different from idlers like them who are ready to take office at any time, the nobles who hold military positions in the frontier, even if they get a fief, they have to complete the handover with the substitutes before they can leave.

It would be even worse if war broke out.Whether he can leave alive is still unknown.Even the children of big families cannot slip away during the war.

Shocked by the bad news, the crowd quickly fell into panic, their faces were ashen, as if the sky had fallen, and two of the old men even passed out directly.

They have always depended on Viscount Alphonse for survival, and they never thought about how to live without the lord.

Serfs basically had no private property, and all production tools belonged to noble masters.The corresponding clothing, food, housing, transportation, birth, old age, sickness and death are naturally also the responsibility of the noble master.

The food and goods of the noble lord were robbed by people, and everyone can support themselves until now, they are all relying on wild vegetables, grass roots, and bark to make ends meet.

Don't say it's three months, even if it's a month, they won't be able to survive.When the new lord arrives, it is estimated that it will be difficult to collect their corpses.

Seeing everyone crying and crying, Tom, who lost points in front of Hudson just now, hurriedly stepped forward and reprimanded: "The benevolent Master Hudson has told you, why don't you hurry up and get out of the way!"

Perhaps it was because of the flashing sword, or perhaps because of the natural fear of the nobles, the terrified crowd silently moved out of the way with the two old men who fainted.

Surely it wasn't the remnants of the rebels, the benevolent Master Hudson also came up with sympathy, and said generously: "For the sake of your loyalty to Viscount Alphonse, this master will not care about you.

Tom, leave them a pound of bread each.Whether you can survive or not depends on your good fortune.

Forget it, who made me feel good!If you want to follow and leave, just follow behind the convoy!As long as you come to my territory alive, I will take you in as citizens. "

After speaking, Hudson got into the carriage without looking back.A nobleman must look like a nobleman, and playing courteous corporals to serfs will only frighten them.

Although they want to win over this group of low-quality labor, the aristocratic attitude of the nobles still needs to be handled.

Leave the choice to this group of refugees, even if it spreads, people will only say that he is kind, instead of spraying him for robbing other people's territories.

These people were all fleeing famine as refugees. Even if the new lord arrived, it was not easy to entangle in this issue.

Sitting in the carriage again, Hudson's thinking became active again.The war caused a significant reduction in the population of the two counties, but in the end there were still lucky people who recovered their lives.

The leaders of the local nobles can't be touched, which doesn't mean that the leaders of the outsiders can't touch either.As long as he fools people over, he will be his leader.

Although there are very few young and strong men inside, most of them are women and children, but they are still laborers after all.

Mining is indeed a bit difficult, but it is not a big problem to follow the fire to cook and farm the bastard.

Especially women of the right age among them can also marry bachelors in their own army to stabilize the morale of the army.

After making a decision, Hudson immediately summoned his knight servants and assigned the task of deceiving people.

This kind of technical work can only be done by the group of teenagers who have studied with him for a few months.The remaining big soldiers are basically boring gourds.It's okay to let them go into battle to kill the enemy, but it's too embarrassing to inspire people.

It's all karma planted by Hudson himself.Before setting off, for the convenience of command, a group of simple and honest soldiers were specially selected from the territory.

On the battlefield, the group really did well.Hudson is what he says, and he doesn't have many ideas of his own, so it's easy to manage.

With such a general environment, the serf soldiers who joined the group later were also affected.Especially after Hudson fiddled with the continuous sitting system and cut off a few uneasy guys to stand up, those who had ideas had no ideas.

I've been so busy fighting the war that I don't have time to think about it.So much so that now, Hudson realizes the lack of talent in his hands.

Dig a wall?
As soon as this thought arose, he was decisively suppressed.Those who can dig are not capable, and those who are capable cannot afford to dig people.

Not only is Hudson lacking talents, but almost all minor nobles are facing the problem of lack of talents.

The high degree of monopoly of knowledge has led to the concentration of talents in the upper class.Everyone is aristocrat, how could they be moved by three melons and two dates.

Ask the tribe for help?
Just think about it, as an adult, you should know that there is no free lunch in the world.Brothers have to settle accounts clearly, let alone clansmen.

The two unlucky children in White County are an example. How much help they get from various sources now, they will have to pay back in the future.

Even if their generation doesn't make it, when the next generation grows up, they still have to pay it back.In case of an accident, it will be paid by their successors.

Among other things, the Kingdom encourages the responsibility of guarding the land, and takes care of the nobles who died in battle. The specially increased exchange quota for life essence is estimated to have been paid as wages.

There are comings and goings, giving and returning are equal, and it is also one of the important reasons why the loose Koslow family can maintain centripetal force for a long time.

If you don't want favors and have a high debt, don't ask for help easily, or you will have no friends.

Great nobles can also make cakes for their subordinates, but Hudson is not even qualified to paint cakes.If you can't give people what they want most, you can only rely on krypton gold.

As long as the money is in place, there will still be talent.Among the free people living in big cities, there are also some talents who are willing to accept employment for money.

It is a pity that the talents recruited by Krypton Gold usually only follow part-time jobs, but they will leave whenever there is a better opportunity.

Among them, for the sake of profit, there are not a few who betray the original owner, and the loyalty is really worrying.

As an early entrepreneur, Hudson feels that loyalty is more important than ability.

Betrayed by his subordinates in the peaceful world of his previous life, he would lose a little money at most; being betrayed by his subordinates in the continent of Aslante would cost his life.

Hudson is not ready to take risks until he has the ability to resist risks.If there are no talents available, then cultivate them slowly.

Anyway, his territory is only a barony, and it is still the most primitive feudal rule. There are not so many messy things, and he can be busy with a little bit of diligence.

……

Under Hudson's deliberate manipulation, the change of power at the top quickly spread among refugee circles.It's just that in the details, there have been so many changes.

Originally, the nobles from the north came to take office, but they became the new lords, and the main leader took them to the northern border to be neighbors with cruel orcs.

Thanks to the long-term publicity of the Alpha Kingdom, in the minds of ordinary people, orcs are creatures more terrifying than devils, and they panicked for a while.

At this time, there will be clever "refugees" who propose to leave the territory to join a benevolent lord.

Anyway, the old lord's family is dead, and the new lord has not yet accepted their allegiance, so leaving is not considered a betrayal.

The fast-moving convoy soon attracted refugees along the way.For no other reason than good Lord Hudson's rations.

When it's time to eat every day, the food is distributed on time.Although they could barely eat seven or eight percent full, that was enough to make them determined to keep up.

(End of this chapter)