Arcane Lord

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Having arrived at the cooperative so soon, Xia Duo noticed that there were quite a few pages folded in the "Agricultural Book" on the table. If he combined the book itself and retraced his memory, he could even find out which pages the other party had folded.

But at this time, as soon as Master Yerevan said these words, Xia Duo immediately realized that Master may not know how to work hard, nor how to deal with natural disasters, or other problems.

Maybe it's just using such a pretext to open the topic, or maybe want to check the quality of his author, the other party may really want to hear about the cooperative!

While Xia Duo was surprised, his mind turned extremely fast, his expression remained unchanged, and he asked the master, "I don't know what the master wants to know about the cooperative?"

In the "Book of Agriculture", he has clarified the organization of cooperatives, if you just ask the details of cooperatives, then you can read the book.

"Let's talk about why you thought of the cooperative organization. You must know that private land ownership has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Now that such a cooperative is created, do you want to take back the land in disguise in this way?"

Master Yerevan's questions are insightful, and almost at a glance the inner core of this organization is seen.

It is true that if Nexerel is currently engaged in such a cooperative, even as a farmer providing means of production, after the cooperative is established, it may not be able to enjoy all the benefits.

After all, above them, there is a lord watching, and even in Xado's "Book of Agriculture", this kind of organization was taught to the lords to organize farmers to form cooperatives.

The process and results will definitely not be as ideal as Xia Duo expected.

If there are lords who use the form of cooperatives to recover the land that has been enfeoffed and sold, and turn the original landed farmers into landless serfs, then Xia Duo will not be surprised at all.

So how to answer this question?

Master Yerevan may have genuinely cared about ordinary people, or, like most other lords, although he was born in ordinary people, he thought he was no longer a member of ordinary people.

Their care and love may be more out of classical lordship duties, or simply a hypocrisy used to demonstrate benevolence.

But since this kind of behavior can still be called "good", even if it's just hypocrisy, it means that in the cognition of most people, or strictly speaking, most spellcasters, they are still a member of ordinary people.

The few superiors failed to break that layer of window paper after all, or rather, they haven't been able to break until now.

Thinking like this, Xia Duo said slowly: "Actually, the question that the master asked is a bit too far in my opinion.

"As far as I am concerned, I am more concerned about whether ordinary people can have enough crops to cope with the famine under the current abnormal climate, especially when the current abnormal climate does not know how long it will last.

"The most important role of the cooperative organization method I propose is not to increase the production of the fields, but to unite many farmers to jointly bear the risk of famine.

"It is impossible for all lands to significantly reduce production at the same time due to abnormal climate. There will always be land that maintains a certain amount of production even under abnormal climate. The cooperative uses the output of this part of the land with high yield to cover the output of the original production-reduced land."

Of course, this is only the first intention in Xado's plan. He really needs to use this method to let more ordinary people survive the natural disaster smoothly.

But above this level, he hopes to use this method to improve the productivity of agriculture and generate more surplus population.

And this part of the surplus population, in addition to being able to turn to other more profitable industries under the planning of the local lord, Xia Duo himself can also recruit some from it.

After all, Netheril has never been short of lords who don't treat their lands as human beings. As long as they find that the population needed for the normal functioning of their lands has decreased, they will always find ways to reduce these unnecessary burdens in their opinion.

In addition, when industries other than agriculture develop, new markets that can afford mass-produced magic items may emerge.

The current mass-produced magic items of the Tower of Time are mainly sold to spellcasters. If the purchase group is expanded to a wider range of ordinary people, it will undoubtedly greatly reduce the time for early resource accumulation for Xado.

The key to this is to a large extent to find a way to let wealth flow from the caster to the ordinary people.

Agriculture alone is basically impossible to achieve. After all, casters have the ability to build arcane gardens. Even if they don't eat a bite of food grown by ordinary people, they will not starve to death.

Only industries other than agriculture, such as Chinese clothing, food, art and other industries that spellcasters are unwilling to engage in directly, can be consumed by spellcasters, thus completing the transfer of wealth.

Of course, if it is in Daxia, Xiaduo will also transfer wealth downwards in the name of the official, such as building new public facilities, opening compulsory education, increasing jobs, raising basic wages, etc.

However, there is no need to explain to Master Yerevan about the future planning of Daxia Ling.

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In Shado's opinion, just mentioning a little "risk sharing" is enough to deal with Master Yerevan, and the actual situation is similar to what he thought.

After hearing this explanation, Master Yerevan couldn't help but exclaim, "You are really a gracious and kind lord. I see the figure of my former companion in you."

In Yerevan's youthful era, being a spellcaster was certainly sought after, but those spellcasters seldom gained a more detached status and added additional responsibilities.

At that time, spellcasters might work with ordinary people during the day, and at night, they would also serve as a night watchman.

In their view, magic is just a novelty derived from elves, or just a tool that can be used for development.

Although there are reasons why elf magic is not suitable for human beings, it at least shows that most of today's spellcasters have forgotten their original intentions and regard magic as a superior capital.

Thinking of this, Yerevan felt a little sad in his heart. Because of his long lifespan, he watched with his own eyes the establishment and improvement of the Nishite magic system, and the power of magic continued to grow.

It's just that in the process, the spellcasters are a little lost, no longer as simple as they used to be.

Seeing such an empire, Yerevan had a very strong premonition in his heart. If this continues, Netheril's spellcasters may completely separate themselves from ordinary people, and even develop into two completely different races!

If he can still live until then, perhaps it is better to die at this moment, because that Netheril is no longer his country!

At this moment, Yerevan suddenly asked a digression:

"Lord Shado, why do you care so much about the survival of ordinary people?"