Civilization spreads to another world
Chapter 6 6. Serfs
Shi Yu was taken aback by Duo Jin's action, and almost dodged. How could modern people have encountered such a big gift, so Huo Cing squeezed his hands to stabilize him.
The two named the three slaves in turn. Big Foot was changed to Chongshan, Wuwu was changed to Qingfeng, and Short Black was changed to Mingyue.
In order to raise Duojin and Bujinyi, they were not given surnames, only first names.
Sure enough, Jin Yi showed a hint of pride when he looked at the three of them.
The envoy only gave him a surname, which meant that the envoy valued him the most!
While the fish porridge was cooking, Shi Yu saw the village chief take out a small pot, dug out a spoonful of earthy brown stuff and poured it in.
"What's that?" Shi Yu asked.
Jin Yi: "It's peanut butter."
Shiyu was a little surprised, first, he heard a familiar name, and second, the village chief actually had peanut butter.
Huo Ci also showed surprise.
Jin Yi said: "Baishan Village and the three surrounding villages cultivated peanuts for the baron, and the leftovers after handing over to the baron were exchanged for grain. I used to buy their peanuts and help them go to the town to exchange wheat."
Shi Yu didn't understand. If he understood correctly: "Baishan Village only grows peanuts?"
"No."
Just as Shi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Jin Yi say, "We still need to plant cabbage, but all the cabbage must be handed over to the baron. Baron Baimu likes to eat cabbage very much. After he takes over as the lord, I can't even buy cabbage."
He looked regretful that he had missed a deal.
Shi Yu was speechless.
Huo Ci asked, "What else? Only these two?"
Jin Yi shook his head: "No more, only these two."
He looked at the expressions of the envoys, as if he understood what they meant, hesitated for two seconds, and said: "Without the baron's permission, you can't plant anything else. If you are accused, you will be taken back to the land, and you will have nothing. If the lord Mercy, you can stay and redistribute some land, if the lord gets angry, he will be driven out of the territory, and the serfs who are driven out can only be slaves."
Shi Yu roughly guessed the shape of this society from the words lord and serf, but he didn't expect the reality to be more cruel than he imagined.
He didn't understand why the villagers would rather starve to death than catch fish, and eat as soon as they ate it. Could it be that the baron could go into the river and count the fish one by one?
Now he understands.
The two insinuated and asked about something else.
A simple refinement summarizes the existing system in this world.
Generally speaking, the so-called common people are composed of slaves, serfs and free people. Wandering businessmen like Jin Yi are considered half free people.
Slaves are the lowest level, they have no freedom and no human rights, everything belongs to the master, and there is no responsibility for killing slaves.
Serfs are slightly better. They are protected by the lord, they farm for the lord, and they have relative freedom, but they still belong to the lord. Just like the villagers in Baishan Village, they must obey the lord's wishes and cannot violate any orders of the lord. Once they are driven out of the territory by the lord , can only be reduced to a slave.
The free people are the real common people, the composition is very complex, there are merchants, craftsmen, tenant farmers, etc. Simply put, except for slaves and serfs, all people without noble titles are free people.
And all classes are hereditary, that is to say, unless there is an accident, one generation is a serf, and the next generation is a serf.
As for the nobles, Jin Yi knew very little. He had never even seen Baron Kashiwagi, only the knights around him.
Shi Yu and Huo Ci were very interested in the knight he was talking about.
Yesterday, when they made indirect remarks, they learned that this world, like the earth, has relatively mature myths and legends. Well, it remains to be considered whether it is a legend or not.
Perhaps the village head and Jin Yi were out of touch, so it was a legend to them.
At least the Holy See is real.
Is this Holy See the modern Holy See?
In many online articles that Shi Yu has read, the Holy See is the representative of villains, but whether they are villains or not, they all contain magic or other mythological elements.
So according to the net article, is this world a magic-free world or a fantasy world?
If it is the former, as long as they develop slowly with golden fingers, they don’t have to be afraid. If it is the latter, they must either find a way to learn to master this power, or win over or control the people who have this power, otherwise the city construction will be done with great difficulty. As a result, the Holy See Throwing a spell over and smashing it into slag, what else is there to play.
And who doesn't yearn for power, from Ultraman the Doraemon when he was a child to Iron Man the Spider-Man when he was a teenager, and the supernatural cultivation system that sprung up like mushrooms in the Internet...why everyone likes to read it is not because of yearning.
When the two of them found out they had the golden finger yesterday, apart from the confusion and uneasiness of the sudden time travel, there was unavoidable excitement and excitement.
It's a pity that the Golden Finger they got didn't have any secret books on immortality. Although it had military skills, according to the Golden Finger's routine, it was impossible to involve the level of extraordinary fantasy.
If this world really has magic and vindictiveness, they must find a way to learn it.
But for now, Shi Yu would rather not have it.
Even if they learn it, who can guarantee that they can quickly catch up with the local mages and knights who have learned since childhood?
Shi Yu didn't think he had a certain aura of a hero, and if his domineering side leaked, countless strong men would cry and want to be his little brother.
He would rather this world be an ordinary world like the earth.
As long as safety can be guaranteed, he is willing to work hard to develop a technology tree for this world.
As if he heard his heartfelt voice, the knight described by Jin Yi did not have the flashing grudge of Brin Brin, nor the sword aura of killing people with a sword in the air. Be respectful and arrogant.
The two made indirect remarks again, making sure that there was no extraordinary power that people had seen before. The Holy See was similar to the Holy See in the previous life, relying on a mouth and a book to preach, not some kind of bright magic healing technique, and the so-called holy water was not able to Cure all diseases.
They looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it is not 100% sure, as long as they keep a low profile, it is safe for a short time.
While talking, the village chief came over with cooked fish porridge.
"You eat, we've already eaten." Shi Yu and Huo Ci refused again. First, they didn't want to compete with the villagers for food rations. Second, as the saying goes, diseases come from the mouth. For the safety of the two of them, even if they wanted to eat, they would eat it themselves. Do.
They don't trust anyone now but each other.
Jin Yi took Chongshan and Qingfeng to cook, and did not forget to bring back a bowl for the injured Mingyue.
Shiyu had never eaten fish porridge with peanut butter, and the presentation was really not very good, because there was not enough seasoning, and it had a faint fishy smell.
But for the villagers, it is already a great delicacy.
He didn't care about picking the fishbone at all, he just crushed it and swallowed it.
Shi Yu took a glance and saw that the adult chewed up the fish in his mouth, spit it out and stuffed it into the child's mouth. The child held the adult's hand and wolfed it down, licked it clean, and then looked at the parents expectantly.
He sighed silently when he thought of the little ancestors in modern times who had to be chased and fed by their parents.
After eating, the two called the village head, and first counted the tools in the villagers' homes. This count found that there were quite a few, like a shovel for turning the ground, and almost every household had one.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a closer look. This world is more skilled in the use of iron than he thought.
The village head explained: "This is temporarily loaned to us by the baron, and we need to pay the rent for the harvest of one mu of land."
Huo Ci asked, "How many acres of land do you have?"
The village chief got stuck, and Nana said he didn't know, he only knew that his family had [-] mu.
Shi Yu was startled: "A hundred mu?"
There are only five people in the village head's family plus two children under ten years old. How did one hundred mu grow?
Shiyu had never planted land before, and in his opinion, one hundred acres was an amount that could not be accomplished by manpower and required the help of machines, but the village chief said that the three of them had planted one hundred acres.
To be precise, two youths and one old man.
This baron is comparable to Huang Shiren.
Huo Ci understood a little bit, and said: "Extensive planting and low harvest. I have read some records. In ancient times, one person cultivated [-] mu and a couple of [-] mu. Because the yield per mu is very low, it is estimated that it is not even half of it in modern times, so more varieties are needed."
"Moreover, it is generally not possible to plant a hundred acres. In ancient times, there was no chemical fertilizer, and most of them were cultivated in rotation. Part of it was planted, and the other part was left fallow, and then replaced when the soil was restored."
"If you don't need to fertilize, the most tiring thing is plowing the land and harvesting. In ancient times, the sky depended on the sky, and the survival rate after planting was not high. I am afraid that less than half of a hundred acres survived to maturity, and the few that can be harvested will naturally consume less manpower. .”
Shi Yu expressed his knowledge.
I asked the village chief, and it was true.
They can only grow cabbage and peanuts, so they don’t cultivate all year round. They plant cabbage in January and harvest in March, plant peanuts in April and harvest in October, and stay at home in November and December when the weather is cold.
During the planting period, they will not squat in the field 24 hours a day.
Most of the time they are doing things for the lord, and the lord will send people to give them work at different times, sometimes they are spinning thread, sometimes they go to other villages to harvest horse grass, or build roads and houses, etc. In short, they can't be idle.
This year is the only exception. Since the grain was collected in autumn, no one from the manor has been sent over. They have been idle for two months.
Jin Yi knew a little bit, he said: "Many villages have no food. The baron sealed up the manor and drove the serfs outside, letting them find food by themselves. They can go to the mountains and rivers near the manor. It's their own."
So he was not at all surprised that the envoy took everyone to catch fish.
The village head showed envy in his eyes, and at the same time let go of the fear of breaking the rules.
Only then did Shi Yu realize that there was a chain of contempt among the serfs.
The serfs who lived in the manor despised those who lived outside the manor, and the serfs on the outskirts of the manor despised those who gathered far away from the manor, such as Baishan Village.
It really is……
I don't know what to say.
After counting the things, Shi Yu and Huo Ren asked the village chief to take the villagers with them. In order to show the "miracle" and to relocate, all men, women and children went together.
When they arrived at the back mountain, the villagers who were used to obeying the rules trembled tremblingly, even if there was an angel, they were still trembling with fear.
Jin Yi immediately told the news that the baron allowed the serfs outside the manor to enter the mountains.
With the guarantee from the village chief, they crossed the boundary with one support.
Shi Yu and Huo Ci shook their heads. In the final analysis, they are still not powerful enough as envoys. Only the village chief and some villagers saw the miraculous vision when they traveled yesterday. Most of them just followed them. If the fish is caught, it is estimated to be another situation.
They are naturally more willing to obey the deep-rooted cognition since they were young than the envoys who suddenly appeared and didn't know the truth or falsehood.
After all, they don't know the fate of offending the envoy, but they have seen the fate of offending the lord.
One cannot ask how alert the serfs who have not received education and have been brainwashed since childhood are.
Seeing the thatched huts in the open space from a distance, the village head and villagers were very surprised.
Some people looked around and looked around, as if they thought that someone built it to live here, and the commotion crowd suddenly calmed down. Since someone came in to live here, they didn't count as breaking the rules.
Shi Yu and Huo Ci didn't explain much, and the villagers might not understand the high-sounding words, so they walked directly to the side of the thatched hut - they clicked OK to build the house in order to show the flat land they had sorted out by the "miracle".
In an instant, a triangular hut appeared out of thin air, and within a second, it turned into a thatched hut exactly like the one next to it.
This time without the village chief taking the lead, the villagers knelt down one by one, shocked and terrified.
The two named the three slaves in turn. Big Foot was changed to Chongshan, Wuwu was changed to Qingfeng, and Short Black was changed to Mingyue.
In order to raise Duojin and Bujinyi, they were not given surnames, only first names.
Sure enough, Jin Yi showed a hint of pride when he looked at the three of them.
The envoy only gave him a surname, which meant that the envoy valued him the most!
While the fish porridge was cooking, Shi Yu saw the village chief take out a small pot, dug out a spoonful of earthy brown stuff and poured it in.
"What's that?" Shi Yu asked.
Jin Yi: "It's peanut butter."
Shiyu was a little surprised, first, he heard a familiar name, and second, the village chief actually had peanut butter.
Huo Ci also showed surprise.
Jin Yi said: "Baishan Village and the three surrounding villages cultivated peanuts for the baron, and the leftovers after handing over to the baron were exchanged for grain. I used to buy their peanuts and help them go to the town to exchange wheat."
Shi Yu didn't understand. If he understood correctly: "Baishan Village only grows peanuts?"
"No."
Just as Shi Yu breathed a sigh of relief, he heard Jin Yi say, "We still need to plant cabbage, but all the cabbage must be handed over to the baron. Baron Baimu likes to eat cabbage very much. After he takes over as the lord, I can't even buy cabbage."
He looked regretful that he had missed a deal.
Shi Yu was speechless.
Huo Ci asked, "What else? Only these two?"
Jin Yi shook his head: "No more, only these two."
He looked at the expressions of the envoys, as if he understood what they meant, hesitated for two seconds, and said: "Without the baron's permission, you can't plant anything else. If you are accused, you will be taken back to the land, and you will have nothing. If the lord Mercy, you can stay and redistribute some land, if the lord gets angry, he will be driven out of the territory, and the serfs who are driven out can only be slaves."
Shi Yu roughly guessed the shape of this society from the words lord and serf, but he didn't expect the reality to be more cruel than he imagined.
He didn't understand why the villagers would rather starve to death than catch fish, and eat as soon as they ate it. Could it be that the baron could go into the river and count the fish one by one?
Now he understands.
The two insinuated and asked about something else.
A simple refinement summarizes the existing system in this world.
Generally speaking, the so-called common people are composed of slaves, serfs and free people. Wandering businessmen like Jin Yi are considered half free people.
Slaves are the lowest level, they have no freedom and no human rights, everything belongs to the master, and there is no responsibility for killing slaves.
Serfs are slightly better. They are protected by the lord, they farm for the lord, and they have relative freedom, but they still belong to the lord. Just like the villagers in Baishan Village, they must obey the lord's wishes and cannot violate any orders of the lord. Once they are driven out of the territory by the lord , can only be reduced to a slave.
The free people are the real common people, the composition is very complex, there are merchants, craftsmen, tenant farmers, etc. Simply put, except for slaves and serfs, all people without noble titles are free people.
And all classes are hereditary, that is to say, unless there is an accident, one generation is a serf, and the next generation is a serf.
As for the nobles, Jin Yi knew very little. He had never even seen Baron Kashiwagi, only the knights around him.
Shi Yu and Huo Ci were very interested in the knight he was talking about.
Yesterday, when they made indirect remarks, they learned that this world, like the earth, has relatively mature myths and legends. Well, it remains to be considered whether it is a legend or not.
Perhaps the village head and Jin Yi were out of touch, so it was a legend to them.
At least the Holy See is real.
Is this Holy See the modern Holy See?
In many online articles that Shi Yu has read, the Holy See is the representative of villains, but whether they are villains or not, they all contain magic or other mythological elements.
So according to the net article, is this world a magic-free world or a fantasy world?
If it is the former, as long as they develop slowly with golden fingers, they don’t have to be afraid. If it is the latter, they must either find a way to learn to master this power, or win over or control the people who have this power, otherwise the city construction will be done with great difficulty. As a result, the Holy See Throwing a spell over and smashing it into slag, what else is there to play.
And who doesn't yearn for power, from Ultraman the Doraemon when he was a child to Iron Man the Spider-Man when he was a teenager, and the supernatural cultivation system that sprung up like mushrooms in the Internet...why everyone likes to read it is not because of yearning.
When the two of them found out they had the golden finger yesterday, apart from the confusion and uneasiness of the sudden time travel, there was unavoidable excitement and excitement.
It's a pity that the Golden Finger they got didn't have any secret books on immortality. Although it had military skills, according to the Golden Finger's routine, it was impossible to involve the level of extraordinary fantasy.
If this world really has magic and vindictiveness, they must find a way to learn it.
But for now, Shi Yu would rather not have it.
Even if they learn it, who can guarantee that they can quickly catch up with the local mages and knights who have learned since childhood?
Shi Yu didn't think he had a certain aura of a hero, and if his domineering side leaked, countless strong men would cry and want to be his little brother.
He would rather this world be an ordinary world like the earth.
As long as safety can be guaranteed, he is willing to work hard to develop a technology tree for this world.
As if he heard his heartfelt voice, the knight described by Jin Yi did not have the flashing grudge of Brin Brin, nor the sword aura of killing people with a sword in the air. Be respectful and arrogant.
The two made indirect remarks again, making sure that there was no extraordinary power that people had seen before. The Holy See was similar to the Holy See in the previous life, relying on a mouth and a book to preach, not some kind of bright magic healing technique, and the so-called holy water was not able to Cure all diseases.
They looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Although it is not 100% sure, as long as they keep a low profile, it is safe for a short time.
While talking, the village chief came over with cooked fish porridge.
"You eat, we've already eaten." Shi Yu and Huo Ci refused again. First, they didn't want to compete with the villagers for food rations. Second, as the saying goes, diseases come from the mouth. For the safety of the two of them, even if they wanted to eat, they would eat it themselves. Do.
They don't trust anyone now but each other.
Jin Yi took Chongshan and Qingfeng to cook, and did not forget to bring back a bowl for the injured Mingyue.
Shiyu had never eaten fish porridge with peanut butter, and the presentation was really not very good, because there was not enough seasoning, and it had a faint fishy smell.
But for the villagers, it is already a great delicacy.
He didn't care about picking the fishbone at all, he just crushed it and swallowed it.
Shi Yu took a glance and saw that the adult chewed up the fish in his mouth, spit it out and stuffed it into the child's mouth. The child held the adult's hand and wolfed it down, licked it clean, and then looked at the parents expectantly.
He sighed silently when he thought of the little ancestors in modern times who had to be chased and fed by their parents.
After eating, the two called the village head, and first counted the tools in the villagers' homes. This count found that there were quite a few, like a shovel for turning the ground, and almost every household had one.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a closer look. This world is more skilled in the use of iron than he thought.
The village head explained: "This is temporarily loaned to us by the baron, and we need to pay the rent for the harvest of one mu of land."
Huo Ci asked, "How many acres of land do you have?"
The village chief got stuck, and Nana said he didn't know, he only knew that his family had [-] mu.
Shi Yu was startled: "A hundred mu?"
There are only five people in the village head's family plus two children under ten years old. How did one hundred mu grow?
Shiyu had never planted land before, and in his opinion, one hundred acres was an amount that could not be accomplished by manpower and required the help of machines, but the village chief said that the three of them had planted one hundred acres.
To be precise, two youths and one old man.
This baron is comparable to Huang Shiren.
Huo Ci understood a little bit, and said: "Extensive planting and low harvest. I have read some records. In ancient times, one person cultivated [-] mu and a couple of [-] mu. Because the yield per mu is very low, it is estimated that it is not even half of it in modern times, so more varieties are needed."
"Moreover, it is generally not possible to plant a hundred acres. In ancient times, there was no chemical fertilizer, and most of them were cultivated in rotation. Part of it was planted, and the other part was left fallow, and then replaced when the soil was restored."
"If you don't need to fertilize, the most tiring thing is plowing the land and harvesting. In ancient times, the sky depended on the sky, and the survival rate after planting was not high. I am afraid that less than half of a hundred acres survived to maturity, and the few that can be harvested will naturally consume less manpower. .”
Shi Yu expressed his knowledge.
I asked the village chief, and it was true.
They can only grow cabbage and peanuts, so they don’t cultivate all year round. They plant cabbage in January and harvest in March, plant peanuts in April and harvest in October, and stay at home in November and December when the weather is cold.
During the planting period, they will not squat in the field 24 hours a day.
Most of the time they are doing things for the lord, and the lord will send people to give them work at different times, sometimes they are spinning thread, sometimes they go to other villages to harvest horse grass, or build roads and houses, etc. In short, they can't be idle.
This year is the only exception. Since the grain was collected in autumn, no one from the manor has been sent over. They have been idle for two months.
Jin Yi knew a little bit, he said: "Many villages have no food. The baron sealed up the manor and drove the serfs outside, letting them find food by themselves. They can go to the mountains and rivers near the manor. It's their own."
So he was not at all surprised that the envoy took everyone to catch fish.
The village head showed envy in his eyes, and at the same time let go of the fear of breaking the rules.
Only then did Shi Yu realize that there was a chain of contempt among the serfs.
The serfs who lived in the manor despised those who lived outside the manor, and the serfs on the outskirts of the manor despised those who gathered far away from the manor, such as Baishan Village.
It really is……
I don't know what to say.
After counting the things, Shi Yu and Huo Ren asked the village chief to take the villagers with them. In order to show the "miracle" and to relocate, all men, women and children went together.
When they arrived at the back mountain, the villagers who were used to obeying the rules trembled tremblingly, even if there was an angel, they were still trembling with fear.
Jin Yi immediately told the news that the baron allowed the serfs outside the manor to enter the mountains.
With the guarantee from the village chief, they crossed the boundary with one support.
Shi Yu and Huo Ci shook their heads. In the final analysis, they are still not powerful enough as envoys. Only the village chief and some villagers saw the miraculous vision when they traveled yesterday. Most of them just followed them. If the fish is caught, it is estimated to be another situation.
They are naturally more willing to obey the deep-rooted cognition since they were young than the envoys who suddenly appeared and didn't know the truth or falsehood.
After all, they don't know the fate of offending the envoy, but they have seen the fate of offending the lord.
One cannot ask how alert the serfs who have not received education and have been brainwashed since childhood are.
Seeing the thatched huts in the open space from a distance, the village head and villagers were very surprised.
Some people looked around and looked around, as if they thought that someone built it to live here, and the commotion crowd suddenly calmed down. Since someone came in to live here, they didn't count as breaking the rules.
Shi Yu and Huo Ci didn't explain much, and the villagers might not understand the high-sounding words, so they walked directly to the side of the thatched hut - they clicked OK to build the house in order to show the flat land they had sorted out by the "miracle".
In an instant, a triangular hut appeared out of thin air, and within a second, it turned into a thatched hut exactly like the one next to it.
This time without the village chief taking the lead, the villagers knelt down one by one, shocked and terrified.
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