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Looking at the old farmer who was about to leave after throwing the whip, the Sun King was confused.

He really couldn't figure it out. Not to mention that we are from the Southern Wilderness, the identity of this noble is enough to make an old farmer stop the car and answer some questions, right? In Elda, anyone who dares to be disrespectful to the nobles will be whipped!

People are beaten to death in the street from time to time. I have done a lot of chivalrous things.

But the people he met today, no matter what their identity, seemed to be indifferent to him. It seems that they are very confident in the nobles and don't care about the authority of the nobles at all.

I was going to ask something, how could I let him go? Seeing that the car had left, the Sun King coughed and quickly reached out to pull the carriage.

This giant was very strong, but after holding the shaft with one hand, the horse raised its hoof and didn't pull the car.

The old farmer frowned and turned his head, and saw the smiling face of the Sun King.

"But I came here with Prince Rodunk Red Dragon. I am a member of the delegation, and we will participate in the martial arts competition together."

This time, the old farmer was finally moved, and even his family members turned their heads and stared curiously at this fat man who was one or two heads taller than a horse.

"Oh~ So you came with the great lord. Good, good!" The old farmer nodded repeatedly, his eyes full of respect.

"Grand Lord? You call him 'George'?" The Sun King was a little surprised: "Why call him Grand Lord, not Lord of Heaven, Prince, or His Highness? What does this Grand Lord mean?"

"Because he is the Grand Lord of everyone." The old farmer nodded and sighed: "How can he be compared with those nobles who eat and wait for death."

The Sun King's eyes moved slightly, and he muttered in his heart: 'Grand Lord of Everyone'

The old farmer seemed to be interested in chatting, and took the initiative to chat with the Sun King: "Seeing that you are so tall, I thought you were a ranger, or a warrior of the Dawn Guard."

"Haha, it can be said." The Sun King straightened his face and said: "But, old, old (call me Old John), Old John, I have heard these two words a lot along the way. Dawn Guard, I know, is the Templar Knights, right? But what are these Rangers?"

Hearing the Sun King's question, the old farmer pointed to the 'mercenaries' who had already left not far away and said: "Aren't those Rangers?"

At this moment, the Sun King finally understood.

No wonder these mercenaries look so different. They are fake mercenaries and real rangers. They blend in with the people at the bottom of Eldar, so that outsiders can't tell them apart.

All kinds of strange phenomena in this city should also be caused by these mercenaries - I don't know what they have done.

"Old John, are all these cars yours? How much land do you need for so much food? How many people are there in your family?" The Sun King asked while looking at the old farmer's sons and daughters-in-law.

In the following chat, the Sun King learned that this family has not yet split up. The old farmer has three sons, one went to the battlefield, one got married at home, and one is not married yet. The two sons and a daughter-in-law are now living with the old man, and there are also several grandchildren in swaddling clothes - the children have no land, so it is a formal family of five.

After chatting again, the Sun King found that this family of five did have 50 acres of land, but not a single acre of land was their own - their family was refugees from outside and tenants! So he himself had no land.

However, their family lives in the Dawn Farmers Association. They rented the land, so they have land to plant.

This year's grain, after being handed over to the Farmers Association, there was a lot left. And these two carts of grain are only part of it - after exchanging a lot of utensils and clothes, there are still nearly 300 bushels of grain left!

Enough for this family to eat for a few years!

And this family also has cows and horses - they are also rented. Or public. Because it's free. There will be some subsidies. But the calves, as well as the dairy products produced, are all shared with the Farmers Association! So the whole family treats these cows and horses as their own treasures and serves them carefully.

During the busy farming season, these cows and horses are pulled together for public use. Usually, the villagers who belong to the same farming community will also borrow from each other. Three of the four pulling horses of the old farmer were borrowed from other families.

Moreover, the house of this old farmer's family was also repaired by others - there are many uninhabited villages in the local area with vacant land. But they need to be repaired. People who come to repair are all helping each other. Occasionally, when passing mercenaries rest in the farm, they will lend a hand and help.

".This year's surplus food is indeed a lot! I have never seen so much food. Thanks to the Rangers and the Farmers' Association." Speaking of this, the old farmer wiped his tears excitedly: "It seems that I can eat meat this year and change clothes. Look, this year's output is good. This month, I plan to plant potatoes and other crops. After the autumn planting, I can harvest several carts. When the time comes, I will build another house next to my house for my son and daughter-in-law to live in."

The old farmer said a lot of things. But the Sun King was confused. He couldn't help but ask: "Don't you have to pay taxes? Two hundred bushels, how come there is still so much food left?

"My son has joined the army!" The old farmer was proud when he mentioned his son: "The Farmers' Association has a policy preference, and he has to pay less grain than other families. By the end of next year, my son will have 15 acres of his own land! I heard that my son has made meritorious deeds. Some time ago, he participated in a battle near the capital of Elda to eliminate the source of disasters. He saved a large number of noble lords. After the military merits come, these 50 acres of land will basically be ours. At that time, we only need to pay 10% of the tax to the Farmers' Association."

"Then what about the rest as grain?" The Sun King asked in disbelief.

"Of course, the Farmers' Association will collect it with money - but each of our households has also discussed that we are going to donate some of the extra grain. In this world now, there are refugees everywhere! Natural disasters and man-made disasters. We have a good life, but we can't forget the times when others helped us. Just like our little village chief from the shelter said, we have to help each other to overcome difficulties together!"

The Sun King fell silent and thought of the tsunami in the southern wilderness. In the future, many people from the southern wilderness will become refugees and come to the north - aren't these the people who need help that Old John mentioned?

The Sun King couldn't imagine what the reason and what kind of belief made an ordinary Dawn citizen thousands of miles away also think about the hungry people in the world!

However, these people don't believe in God.

The Sun King was silent, and a princess dressed as a servant next to him couldn't help but ask curiously: "After paying the share to the Farmers' Association, what about the lords and the king? And the church, don't they collect grain?"

"You mean 'exorbitant taxes'?" The old farmer brought up another word that the Sun King and others had never heard of: "Now there are no exorbitant taxes, and the taxes in the laws and regulations are also in the share paid to the Farmers' Association. The Farmers' Association rented the fields from the nobles, and how the Farmers' Association paid taxes to the nobles, there is an agreement between the Farmers' Association and the nobles. We don't need to care."

The servants and princesses didn't understand. But the Sun King understood.

First of all, the grain production of Elda is indeed good, and secondly, the nobles were blocked by the Dawn Parliament.

However, although there is an agreement between the farmers' association under the Dawn Parliament and the nobles, how to calculate it will be strictly in accordance with the agreement and the law. But the noble gentry can go back and find an excuse to plunder the people! They have many tricks.

These common people are illiterate and have no knowledge. When they see the soldiers coming, they naturally believe what they say. So maybe they should have paid one part of rice, but they actually paid two or three parts. As a result, the farmers themselves don’t know that they have paid more.

But when the Sun King asked this question, he got an extremely surprising answer?

"You are such a strange person. Didn’t I say that the grain of our farms is harvested uniformly and handed over to the farmers' association uniformly-those bastard nobles dare to come? They deserve to be beaten to death!" After leaving this sentence, the old farmer no longer paid attention to this inexplicable Nanhuang noble-still know the great lord? He brags. Knowing the great lord, can you ask so many strange questions?

He drove away in a carriage.

The Sun King was stunned.

An old farmer dared to say to beat the gentry to death?

King Smoke couldn't help but look up at the sky - could it be that the sky has turned around?

"Uncle, I've been calling you for a long time." George came over at some point and patted Smoke's big belly: "Let's go to the industrial area in the city. 'Wenxiang Castle' is the alchemy industrial city of Elda. Many workshops here have started to upgrade their technology in March this year. Most of the magic sails used in the south this year come from here, and many land ships used in Sun City are also produced here."

George said while pulling the Sun King, and the Sun King became interested when he heard this.

The old-school nobles around didn't know about factories, magic sails, land ships and other things, and their concept of alchemy was only in the concept of 'turning stones into gold' and quacks. So when they heard George speak, they were confused.

But several young nobles stood up. Acting as guides, they talked about everything.

These young nobles were dressed very strangely - short clothes, short hair, and tuxedos. They are clearly separated from the old nobles.

The old nobles and the new nobles also dislike each other, especially the leader, the ‘Duke Wenxiang’, who is a thorn in the eyes of the old nobles and even regarded as a shame of the nobility by the old nobles.

But he is regarded as an idol by people like Gale.

Because he is a real new noble - except for a few farms under his command that were inherited, all other lands and castles were bought by him. So his title is an empty title.

The father of Duke Wenxiang is very famous, and his rise is very similar to Brenda. However, Brenda got the title of earl through adventure and fame, but the father of Duke Wenxiang was through trade - he was a member of the Public Assistance Association.

The father of Duke Wenxiang was originally an ordinary businessman. In the first enclosure movement in Elda, he gradually rose and bought a lord's title. And became a leader among the new nobles - in the whole of Elda, in addition to the Canglan family's caravans that can pass through the southern wilderness unimpeded, it is this new noble.

Later, in order to win over this upstart, Alfonso married one of his sisters to him, and through the relationship of the Council of Nobles, he gave this guy a duke title that should have been taken back by the royal family. So the father of Duke Wenxiang became the first generation of dukes who rose from commoners, and the Duke Wenxiang in front of him was a second-generation noble.

He is only in his thirties this year. He just inherited his father's title, but he has been in the business field for more than ten years.

In China, Duke Wenxiang belongs to the firm reformists, and the leader of this faction is His Highness Alfonso.

Under the idea of ​​"divine right of kings", the old king practiced autocracy, which greatly damaged the interests of the rising bourgeoisie and upstarts in Elda. And the autocracy of the Holy Court has long been unbearable for the upstarts-the Holy Court treats "pagans" harshly, especially the believers of the sun god. Even the nobles of Elda are not allowed to trade with the Southern Wilderness.

Therefore, the new nobles have been unable to trade openly with their big customers at home, and can only take a detour to the Moon Country. However, on this Silk Road, there are only bandits from the Southern Wilderness. If they can't buy goods, they will naturally rob.

Whether it is Alfonso or the new nobles, they need food, cattle, horses, leather, plush, and cotton from the Southern Wilderness. Some raw materials imported from the Sand Country require Avali to open ports.

And Avali and others need textiles, various daily necessities, and even magical items such as magic sails. Therefore, there has always been a secret transaction between the new nobles and the Southern Wilderness.

For this matter, the old king and the Holy Court - or the Cathedral of St. Wilmick, naturally jointly suppressed it. I wish I could kill these new nobles and newly emerging capitalists. Therefore, the contradiction between the new nobles and the old king and the Holy Court is extremely sharp.

If Elda will have an industrial revolution or a "glorious revolution" like the Moon Country in a few years. These people are the new nobles that the bourgeoisie must go back to unite! And these guys will certainly overthrow the old dynasty under the leadership of Alfonso, establish an Elda and XX United Kingdom, and let Elda enter the real industrial revolution era.

In fact, since Elda was defeated in the Dusk War, parliamentary struggles, civil wars, etc. have been going on in Elda for more than 20 years. The old nobles headed by Robert want to restore the glory of the Thorn Dynasty and annex Rodunk, and the new nobles and capitalists headed by Alfonso want to establish a great United Kingdom like the Moon Kingdom.

The Black Tide War in the City of Clear Water is a climax of the struggle between the old and new forces in Elda! It is a final duel between the two factions!

But in this fight, there is no winner in the end. The so-called restoration of the dynasty and the rise of the United Kingdom are also trembling under the shadow of the devil. And if this direction is taken, the entire Elda may never see the day when the industrial revolution succeeds.

But history was still changed by one person.