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1674 passed, 1675 came, Leon was nine, Eldy was eight, and it was another year before their ages reached double digits.

On the first day of the new year, Leon held up a hand mirror and carefully looked at his face in the mirror. He still didn't notice any changes in his head from the main body, which was different from when he first came to this world three years ago. Same.But now is the time for a real well-nourished nine-year-old to start developing, like Eldy...

Leon turned his head to look at Eldy who was sitting on the side eating peanut candy. This kind of careful looking for differences and traces of growth is different from seeing people every day.Eldy's changes are noticeable, and not just in size.

Generally, boys should develop a little later, but Eldy is obviously the earlier one. He is now 1.3 meters five, not to mention children of the same age, even some ten-year-old children are shorter than him.The baby fat on the face has completely disappeared, and it has begun to change from a child to a teenager.His skin had turned a shade paler again, to light wheat, and his hair had also lightened, from golden brown to dark flaxen, and if seen in sunlight, his hair was almost golden.

Eldy seems to be... "bad"?Not bad, nasty, ugly, bad, he's still a pretty boy.The bad is that he looks like a bad guy, the kind of pretty bad guy.

"What's wrong?" Eldi licked his fingers. He has a pair of big hands and long fingers. At this age, his joints can already be described as thick.The original round green eyes were opened, and the corners of the eyes were slightly raised. When he looked at people, he would subconsciously squint his eyes (not to mention being a good person). He had a smile on his mouth, but no matter how you look at it, this smile looks like contempt .

——But no matter whether it is good or bad, his face matches his height well. After all, he grows up as a whole, but even if Leon secretly increases his height, his height is almost out of tune with his appearance.

Leon stretched out his hands, put two index fingers on the corners of Erdi's lips, pushed the corners of his lips upwards, and Erdi opened his hands.

"You look like an arrogant villain." Especially like the kind of arrogant nobleman who looks down on everyone.

Eldy pursed his lips and looked at Leon helplessly: "Then what? Do you have an opinion on my appearance? Do you object to my appearance?"

"I have no objection or objection, just a feeling. I thought you would grow up like that, but you ended up like this."

"What is that? An angel? Like this? A demon?"

Leon felt that Eldi's eyes were a little dangerous, the danger that if he said something wrong, he would immediately draw out his sword and cut people: "It's not an angel or a devil, it's just that I planted a white rose, but it turned out to be a white rose. The feeling of seeing a black rose, unexpected, but also joyful. And the more you look at the black rose, the more beautiful you can appreciate it."

Eldy smiled, his green eyes brightened, and the corners of his lips curled up: "I heard that there is a kind of rose that is golden."

"When we have money, we can buy seeds to cultivate."

"Okay."

The New Year's holiday was only three days away. On January [-]th, Leon announced the land lease list. Jack and Tom were on the list, and there were ten other people. Each of them got a house and five acres of land. Leon was considering ten acres of land, but was persuaded by others.

Most families now have only one man farming. If more land is given and farming is difficult, then when the land is taken back, it will not only hit the farmers themselves, but also hit Leon's personal authority.If there is less to give, then more land can be distributed as a reward for excellent cultivation in the future.

"...This year is the first year, so this autumn, you only need to hand over [-]% of the total harvest. You can save the rest of the harvest yourself, or you can sell it to me. The rent of your house is not included in the tax. The rent is two silver coins. There is no furniture in the house, you are free to buy and add furniture. I will provide you with free farm tools later, but the livestock are not free, you can rent them or buy them directly. In addition , the slaughter of cattle and horses is prohibited.”

Farmers, including Jack and Tom, were a little nervous about getting land. Regardless of the country in this world, as long as you are a tenant farmer, the biggest desire in your life is to have a piece of land of your own, but now this land is your own. ?If the land is cultivated next year, will it be directly taken back by the lord?Although the little lord was very good last year, it was only half a year, and no one knew what the little lord was like.

There is also accommodation, their family is now separated, but no one is making a fuss, because the accommodation is so good that it is a wooden house.Shareholders are different from hired farmers, who can build villages and own their own houses.Because the tenant farmers are completely subordinate to the lord, the lord is generally too lazy to let them build houses.The sharecroppers live in shacks and burrows, and some live in caves.Many sharecroppers have never slept in a bed, sat in a chair, let alone owned other furniture in their lives.

Now they can live in wooden houses and sleep on beds, even with quilts and mattresses.Darkly, even if they can't see the situation of their family members now, and even know that their family members are suffering, as long as they can live the current life for the rest of their lives, everyone is willing to give everything including their souls.

But now it is said that the new land needs to pay land rent, and the new house also needs to pay rent.Even if the land is good and the house is good, can these really last long?

The sharecroppers looked at Gaining Jack with complicated eyes, including envy, fear, and sarcasm.

What Leon announced was actually the main part, and there were some other arrangements that were not mentioned.For example, wasteland can be reclaimed. The land reclaimed is not taxed in the first year, and [-]% tax is charged in the second year.The registered land must have a certain proportion of cultivated food, but it must be divided according to the type of land and the amount of land.

The land allocated to Jack and the others now means that four acres of land must be cultivated for grain. This is a rigid rule. If it is found that the land cultivated is not grain, the land will be taken back.

When Leon was talking about this regulation to the first batch of real farmers in the territory, Eldi was looking at his sword, because he did not agree with this condition, and the whole world has never heard of any country doing this.Even those lords who, like Leon, leased their fields to farmers have never done this.What to plant on the field is either the freedom of the landlord or the freedom of the landed peasants themselves. The upper class only needs to collect land rent.

Leon didn't convince Eldi, but they agreed to manage the internal affairs while managing the military.Land is considered an internal affairs category, so he disagreed, but he only put it down after expressing it.Leon asked him to cooperate, but he just cooperated, Leon did his own, and Eldi didn't speak.

But there are still others who will ask questions, such as Morifio.

"Now there are very few people in the village, you can assign the cultivation area in this way, but in the future when there are more people, this kind of thing will be handed over to the officials. Do you think there will be officials who can understand such a complicated matter?" Farmer and worker After they all dispersed, Morifio came over, "Actually, I think if there is an official who can figure this out, then he must be trying to collect more money from the farmers, or deliberately frame someone some people."

"..." Is it really good to think of officials like this?But thinking about the officials I saw in the City Hall of Diller City, it is understandable that Morifeo would say this, "Then deal with it as corruption, dereliction of duty, or fraud."

"Handling... do you mean dealing with officials?"

"Correct."

"Aren't you afraid that no one will work for you?"

"If there are many people in my city, why am I afraid that no one will work for me?"

Morifio sighed, and looked at Leon with the eyes of an innocent child: "Well, as you like." The other people who were watching and listening had similar expressions and attitudes.

Leon... was a little upset, he felt his chest was holding his breath, even though he didn't need to breathe.Back home—it was just a small house, which was enough for Leon and Eldy, but for their status as lords, it was actually very simple—Leon sat on the sofa in the living room with his arms around his shoulders .

Eldi touched Leon's forehead: "It's okay, when you manage the village well, Morifio will apologize to you."

"From your tone, I can only hear a feeling of coaxing children. Why do you all think I can't do it?"

"Uh...not that you can't do it, actually we all know what you want to do, but we think you are too idealistic. Say something you don't like to hear, you give too much to the sharecroppers and to the workers , and these extra efforts not only did not make the village develop rapidly, on the contrary, these efforts slowed down the development of our village. Especially you said that the new immigrants will be treated similarly, so now we must anticipate Set aside a lot of money to prepare for the next wave of immigration."

Although the village now has some income, such as supplies for passing ships, Leon refuses to do non-ferrous business, and the tavern is still under construction, so at this stage they can only resell food, and they can't make much money.The other is to sell ready-made clothes to Yarman City, but such a small city has already entered a saturated state, and now it hardly makes any money.

The current self-produced food in the territory is mushrooms and wild vegetables. Although the weather is not cold, the seeds sown in summer can be harvested after a while, but they have not been confiscated now, so they can only buy flour. There are also salt, sugar, ham, cheese, etc., which are rewards for outstanding farmers and workers, and are normal food needs for Leon and the others.

In short, Hope Village has been in deficit since its establishment.

"...Say what you want to say in one breath."

"Okay. Money is rationed, so the current practice in most countries is to concentrate the money at the bottom and supply it to the top. One hundred gold coins can make a person live a rich life for a year, but at most one Thousands of people have enough food for a day. We know that you now hope to let the lower classes live a good life, but it will be very difficult. The Church of the God of Nature is willing to support us at this stage, but this old love is the most We can only let him give us blood transfusions for ten years."

This should be a very serious matter, but Eldi smiled, and his tone was very relaxed: "Mumbe's face is ugly these days, although the [-] gold coins given by Modosu have not been spent yet, the new machines and immigrants are coming soon. It's almost here, and he knows exactly how much we will have to spend. These expenses should be temporarily paid by the Principality of Gretel. Hogan has been avoiding you these days, because he also likes what you do, but he knows this Doing it won't last long, so he is distressed and doesn't know how to face you."

The others, Eldi, didn't say anything, but they probably didn't agree, but they didn't have a close relationship with Leon, so at most they just offered their opinions to other people who were close to Leon.

Leon was thinking about how to explain it. This is different from common sense.Leon's mind was filled with: people-oriented, food is the most important thing for the people, if the territory can develop stably, there must be sufficient food reserves, and the people in the territory can also achieve basic food and clothing.As for the amount of money that Eldi said, Leon didn't quite agree: "It's just to let everyone have enough to eat. It's true that the investment is a bit big now, but when the fields are reclaimed, there will be no such problem. This is not the case. Too much investment, right?"

"In the past, people in the Principality of Gretel were not hungry. What you are doing now is not to make them not hungry, but to make them eat well. If this is not too much investment, why not? Can a country do it? And..." Eldi paused, "And if a country wants to become rich and powerful, it depends on plunder and deceit, not only externally, but also internally. It can even be said that it should be especially Let them get used to suffering and not to plunder, so that they will become docile. Morality and rules should be the domain of religion."

Before today, Leon thought that his and Eldi's three views were quite close: "I, I thought you were very pitiful to those poor people."

"When we are on the same level as them, or just a little higher than them, then we should pity the lower classes. But if we stand at the highest level of governance, we should not pity anyone, but should rule for the sake of ruling."

Leon understood that this is not just a matter of three views, but also a matter of common sense.He touched his chin: "Let's do this. Give me five years, and I will completely manage this small village. After five years, let's see the situation?"

"Okay, I want to eat fried chicken today, let's do it together?" Eldy jumped off the sofa and waved to Leon.

Leon still maintained the posture with his arms crossed: "It seems that you don't really care about this matter?"

"Leon, you are a demigod." Eldi said, "You have willful capital. Do you know how many demigods in this world have done massacres? As long as they choose a god to convert to, or choose a big country Surrender, the thing that massacred the city before will be regarded as a 'foolish thing when you were young'. And what you are doing now, I don't know how many people are calling you an idiot, while envious of the Church of the God of Nature."

"Why...ah, I understand." Because he was also doing "stupid things when he was young", "So, from outsiders' perspective, I am a good-natured, but capable, potential stock with a promising future? "

"What are potential stocks? But what I said above is correct. If you stop after five years, the Church of the God of Nature will not lose patience completely, but will like you even more."

"Even you don't believe I'm going to build you a big castle?"

"No, I believe it, of course I believe it. Otherwise, I wouldn't cooperate with you." In fact, Eldy still believed in Leon a lot in the early stage, such as the situation on the road, but now... he doesn't believe it much.Leon pays too much and takes too little, which is unreasonable as a ruler.

But Leon is his, so what should be said is over, Leon is still unwilling to change, then on this road, he will walk with him.

"Let's go to fry chicken." Leon finally lowered his arms, but he was obviously annoyed.

Eldi was helpless, and was thinking of words to persuade him, when suddenly his heart beat violently.This weird feeling made him put the hand that was about to be placed on Leon's shoulder to his heart, and he bent down.

"What's wrong?!" Leon was frightened, and he immediately supported Eldi.

At the same time, his tentacles were frantically knocking on the doors of Morifio, Mombe, and Hogan, and countless mouths popped out of the tentacles, roaring hoarsely: "Come help! Eldi has a heart attack— —!!!”

"Egg... Egg..." Eldi lay on the ground, his heart was beating wildly, his limbs were weak, but something told him that the reason for all this was that Baidandan was about to hatch.This is also a very strange situation, obviously the egg didn't give him any feeling of "we are connected" before, and when it was about to break the shell, it suddenly...

Eldy's eyes turned black, and he lay on the ground short of breath.Leon's back split open, and a tentacle stretched out to the kitchen, violently pulling Eggy out of the flower pot that was planted next to the wash basin.After a few months, this egg has grown from the size of a human head to the diameter of two human heads, and now this white egg is writhing violently.

Not the shaking of a hard eggshell, but the struggle of a lively little thing wrapped in leather or cloth.The egg was brought over, and Leon looked at it not as if he was looking at a little life that was about to be born, but as if he was looking at a pest that would be stabbed at any time.

——Eldi is mine, and my connection with him has never made him so painful and powerless. How can this thing do it?

"What happened?!" Morifio, as a knight, was the first to arrive.

"If I hack it to death, will Eldi be fine?" Leon held up the struggling egg that hadn't shed its shell, his eyes made Morifio's steps froze when he rushed in, thanks to the knight's Excellent balance, otherwise Morifio would have thrown himself on the ground on the spot.

"It seems that this is a very powerful spirit beast." Morifeo's expression was stiff, and he wanted to show a smile, but Leon's eyes made him subconsciously mobilize his defensive instinct in the face of great danger, He couldn't laugh at all, and finally Morifio could only say dryly, "It will be fine when it is born."

"Why did you have a heart attack?!" Mombe and Hogan arrived together, and they rushed towards the door together. It turned out that even though they were both very slender, they couldn't squeeze in through the door at the same time, Mombe Taking a step back, Hogan was not polite, and hurried in, holding a box full of various alchemy potions in his hand.

"He didn't have a heart attack, he just lost his strength." Hogan pressed his hand on Eldy's chest, "and his fighting spirit is being sucked away crazily... If this continues, his fighting spirit core will collapse."

Morifio frowned: "It shouldn't be like this, the companion spirit beast should be the spirit beast that best suits Eldi, how could it exceed his current ability?"

Morifio and Hogan looked at Leon together, this seed was given to Leon by the God of Nature.Leon was also thinking about this question. The God of Nature bestowed two seeds, one for him and one for Archbishop Herta.The seeds will grow according to the grower, but is there an upper limit or a lower limit to the growth range?

If these two seeds were given based on his and the archbishop's lower limit, it is likely that their lower limit is higher than Eldy's upper limit, and it is not difficult to understand Eldy's problem.

The red sandwiched tentacles lifted up the twisted white egg, Morifeo immediately pulled Hogan back a step, Mombe looked at them, shrunk directly to the corner and squatted, and even moved a little bit. Put a chair in front of you to block it.

The tentacles shook, and the soil on Baidandan's root system was shaken off: "I know you are wise and can hear what I say. Now choose one of the two, or you can absorb power from me and serve Al Di share. Either I eat you, I count to ten and you have to choose. One, two, eight, ten."

It was agreed to count to ten, but Leon only counted to four, and the speed was extremely fast.At the first time, the thin plant roots were still pretending to be dead, at the second time they didn't move, at the eighth time, these roots were visibly shocked, and at the moment ten was said, Baidandan's root system had already come alive, competing Stretching towards Leon's direction in fear.

Leon stretched out his fingers, and the roots were entangled.Leon didn't feel that he had lost anything, he was worried that Bai Dandan would not be able to absorb his energy, Leon looked at Eldi, and waited another 2 minutes, because Eldi was looking forward to getting an excellent riding beast, if he No improvement, eat this guy immediately!

The tentacles seem to be stroking the white egg, but actually soften and wrap the white egg. As the time progresses to 2 minutes, the white egg is gradually wrapped in the transparent jelly-like substance with a red filling.In the eyes of the three onlookers, besides struggling, it seemed that the ball was still shaking?