Lord of Rot

The black pig fell to the ground, his face half-buried in the soil stained red with blood, which pooled on the ground.

The heavy breathing blew a hole in the pool of blood, and when the breathing stopped, the blood filled the hole again.

The slaves in the distance looked at this scene and Ake holding the bright red stone, and stopped their actions in fear.

"Call everyone over," Li Qi said.

Ake's two sons trembled and ran away, and soon the slaves gathered together. They looked at the lord's boots with fear, probably trying to count how many dust particles were stained on them, and the number of "classes" on their heads. The weight kept them from raising their heads.

The black pig's body was lying there, its blood slowly turning black.

Everyone is quiet. Death will remind them of fear, especially after eating. No one wants to die.

"In the Porcupine Territory, slaves don't have nothing. Although you are slaves, I will allow the top three people with the largest harvest next year to own their own private property!" He was riding a horse, his eyes sweeping over the faces that could not hide their fear even in the dirt. : "Slaves can also have their own food here. I, Li Qi Clarence, the Baron of Porcupine Territory, can promise you here that the top three people with the largest harvest next year will receive ten percent of that batch of food harvest. one!"

The slaves whispered, growing louder and noisier.

Ake, who was holding a blood-stained stone, looked at the scene in front of him with a wry smile. He understood that he had to play the role of a manager: "Quiet!"

The blood-stained stone made his breathless shouts full of menace.

He will play a vicious manager. Under the leadership of a benevolent lord, the slaves will hate him even more and be more loyal to their master Li Qi.

Acker also understood what Li Qi just said. Maybe the Baron really planned to support Black Pig to become a manager. No matter who becomes the manager, it will be the same to the noble master.

It was only Ake's ferocity and the farmers' misjudgment that allowed him to kill the black pig first.

A nobleman needs a barking dog.

Facing the slaves with fiery eyes, Li Qi said: "So, cultivate the fields as soon as possible. You will live better here."

He put his legs under the horse's belly and said, "Drive!"

The fierce-maned horse stepped away, leaving only the fiery slave and the cold body lying on the ground.

……

The black raven spread its wings and quickly shuttled through the woods.

The yellowing leaves are like a natural flight training ground.

After flying for a while, it landed on a tree branch, raised its left black wing and pecked at it.

In Porcupine Castle, Baron Reach's consciousness returns.

He deliberately released a raven and cast the "Eagle Eye" magic on it. Unfortunately, the raven was uncontrollable and Baron Reacher would always see things he didn't want to see, such as eating bugs.

The mental consumption of "Eagle Eye" is not serious. It is roughly equivalent to the mental consumption of him holding his breath to read a Lulea geography book and forcibly memorizing most of the unpronounceable geographical names, and this consumption is only You need to drink a sip of strong tea and take a short nap to recover.

Butler Simon knocked on the door and came in.

"Please forgive me for disturbing you, sir." Simon's expression showed no apology at all.

"what happened?"

"You are the most generous lord I have ever seen"

Simon said: "Although I am just your housekeeper, I still want to remind you that almost all of the grain you asked me to buy was robbed by the farmers in the Porcupine Leader...well, it was borrowed."

He considered his words, and Li Qi could still hear a typo he deliberately left to express his dissatisfaction.

"Did you do as I told you?" Li Qi picked up the teacup. After the little maid found out that the wild chrysanthemum tree was praised last time, the servants in the castle all knew that the lord liked to drink tea with strange flowers and plants. After perseverance in the search, , now there is another kind of tea on Li Qi’s table.

This is a tea that tastes similar to jasmine but is completely red. It is perfect for cleaning the greasy intestines.

"Of course, I ordered people to follow your request exactly." Simon nodded: "There is an upper limit on the amount that each person can borrow. Families with a larger population can borrow more food, but that's why they can't even feed milk. Children are included in the quota...your food now turns into stacks of paper."

"We just saved one census," Li Qi said half-jokingly, but the butler's expression did not change at all.

"Okay" Li Qi said: "Lend them food, and they will pay us back 1.3 times next year, and everyone in the Porcupine Territory is my private property. I can make money and let them survive this winter. How can I Are you happy but not doing it?"

"The premise is that they can really have a good harvest next year." The steward hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The Porcupine Territory may have been abandoned by the Four Gods. Not much food can be grown here. The farmers know this, so they come as much as possible. The castle borrowed food because it was because of your kindness."

"They will have a good harvest," Li Qi said with certainty.

If he didn't want a group of people to starve to death this year, he had to find a way. The dead civilians of the Porcupine Territory were also his property. He had to make some trade-offs between food and population. There were always various problems in the early stages of development, and the "Benevolent Baron" “I don’t want anyone to starve to death, they are all laborers.

Improvements in farming methods and fertilizers will play a big role.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Baron looks down on the meager rent income of the Porcupine collar. If the research on the Herb of Life Pill is successful, he will have a huge income.

The research is slowly coming to an end, as long as the potency of the medicine continues to weaken until it can be used to "pitch a tent".

Seeing that the housekeeper was still about to say something, Li Qi raised his hand and interrupted him: "How do the slaves use those plows?"

"Your wisdom is enough to impress Heavenly Father" Simon sighed sincerely: "That magical thing is much faster than digging a hole by hand. Two slaves can do the work of ten people! Those slaves even want to apply Open up more wild land.”

"Although I'm happy to see them being so active, it's better to forget about continuing to open up wasteland." Li Qi shook his head and rejected the slaves' request: "They want to win the final victory through large-scale land reclamation. What I want is to take good care of the farmland. It’s about taking care of it, not wasting the land, tell Ake and he’ll know what to do.”

It is impossible for all the land to be used to grow crops. According to Li Qi's expectation, the Porcupine Territory still needs development planning in the future, rather than all the land being cultivated.

There was too much land for people to take care of. In the end, they just planted it and let the land grow on its own. The result was just a repeat of this year's autumn harvest.

Moreover, slaves may not do anything outrageous in order to get first place.

If you can't be the first, then others will not be the first, and they will steal, rob, or worse... He needs to inoculate Ake and let him take precautions as soon as possible.

Death can restrain slaves, but it can also limit development. There must be correct guidance to stimulate vitality while not forgetting punishment and spurring.

"Yes" the butler nodded.

After the new baron woke up from a coma, the housekeeper discovered that the baron seemed to have changed. His thoughts were more out-of-the-box, more active, and he had endless new ideas.

Of course, there are also some bad changes, such as being more tolerant of servants' mistakes and being too kind. If the baron hadn't heard that he had executed a slave who led a strike, he would have been worried that Porcupine Castle would not survive the second winter. The fierce lord It may not make the territory rich, but an overly kind and cowardly lord will definitely not be able to defend his land.

The advent of the plow was destined to accelerate the development of agriculture. Of course, it might soon be copied by others, but it didn't matter.

Li Qi discovered that the soil in the Porcupine Territory was relatively thick and moist, and light plows could not penetrate deep enough into the soil. The soil needed to be turned over several times with light plows, and even part of the land required people to step on the plow and use their weight to step the plow into the soil. . A heavy plow will be more suitable than a light plow, but everything needs to be done gradually, and the Porcupine Territory does not currently have enough animal power to use a heavy plow.