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During busy farming seasons, the cattle and horses are pulled together for common use, and usually the villagers in the village belong to a farming community, and they will borrow from each other.Of the four pulling horses of the old farmer, three were borrowed from other people's homes.

Moreover, the house of this old farmer's family was also repaired by others-there are many uninhabited villages and open spaces in the local area.But in need of repairs.Those who come to repair are all helping each other.Occasionally, when a passing mercenary was resting in the farm, he would lend a hand and help.

"...There is indeed a lot of surplus grain this year! I have never seen so much grain...Thanks to the Rangers and the Farmers Association..." The old farmer wiped away his tears excitedly : "It seems that this year we can eat meat and change clothes. No, this year's output is good. This month, we are going to plant potatoes and other crops. After the autumn planting, we can harvest several carts again. At that time, I plan to build another house next to my house, for my son and wife to live in."

The old farmer said many things.But the Sun King was dumbfounded.He couldn't help asking: "Don't you have to pay taxes? Two hundred bushels, how come there is so much grain left?

"My son has joined the army!" When the old farmer mentioned his son, he became proud: "The farmers' association has a policy to pay less food than other families. When the year is over next year, my son will also have Fifteen acres of my own land! I heard that my son has also made meritorious service. A few days ago, he participated in a battle to wipe out the source of disaster near the capital of Eldar. He saved a large number of noble lords. Wait for military merit Come down, the fifty acres of land are basically our own. At that time, we only need to pay 1% of the farmers' association tax."

"Then the rest will be food?" Sun King asked in disbelief.

"Of course the farmers' association will use the money to collect it—but our families have also discussed it. We are going to donate some of the extra food. In this world, there are refugees everywhere! Natural disasters and man-made disasters. We have a day After that, we must not forget when others help us. Just like our little village head from the shelter said, we must help each other to tide over the difficulties together!"

The Sun King became silent, thinking of the tsunami in the Southern Wilderness.In the future, many people from the southern desert will become refugees and come to the north—isn't this the people who need help that Old John said?

The Sun King couldn't imagine what the reason and what kind of beliefs made an ordinary Liming citizen thousands of miles away think about the hungry people all over the world!

However, these people do not believe in God...

The Sun King was silent, but a princess dressed as a servant next to him couldn't help asking curiously: "After paying the share to the peasant association, what about the lord and the king? And the church, they don't collect money." Food?"

"You mean 'exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes'?" The old farmer brought up a term that the Sun King and others had never heard before: "Now there are no exorbitant and miscellaneous taxes, and the taxes stipulated in laws and regulations are also included in the share of the farmers' association Yes. There is an agreement between the peasant association and the nobles on how the peasant association rents the land from the nobles, and how the peasant association pays taxes to the nobles. We don’t need to worry about it.”

The servants and princesses did not understand.But the Sun King understood.

First of all, Eldar's food production is indeed good, and secondly, the nobles were blocked by the Dawn Council.

However, although there is an agreement between the peasant associations under the Dawn Council and the nobles, no matter how they are calculated, they will strictly follow the agreement and the law.But the nobles and squires can look back and find a reason to search for the common people!They have a lot of tricks.

These ordinary people are illiterate, do they have any knowledge? After seeing the soldiers coming, they will naturally do whatever they say.So maybe one meter should have been handed over, but two or three cents were actually handed over.As a result, the farmers themselves did not know that they had paid too much.

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

"You are so strange. Didn't I say that the grain in our farm is harvested and handed over to the peasant association? Those bastard nobles dare to come? They deserve to be killed!" After leaving these words, the old farmer Don't pay attention to this inexplicable Southern Wilderness noble—do you still know the great lord?He just blow it.Knowing the great lord, can you ask so many strange questions?

He drove away in his carriage.

The Sun King was dumbfounded.

An old farmer, dare to say that he killed the country gentry?

King Smoke couldn't help looking at the sky—couldn't the sky be reversed this day?

"Uncle, I've been calling you for a long time." George came over at some point, and patted Smoke's big belly: "Come on, let's go to the industrial area in the city. In the alchemy industrial city of Erda, many workshops here began to upgrade their technology in March this year. Our south...cough cough, most of the magic sails used in the south this year come from here, and now many of the land ships used in Sun City It's also made here."

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

The surrounding old-school nobles don't know anything about factories, magic sails, and land boats, and their concept of alchemy is only in the concept of "touching stones into gold" and charlatans.So when they heard George speak, they were stunned.

But a few young nobles stood up.Acting as a guide, he speaks eloquently about all kinds of things.

These young aristocrats were all dressed in strange clothes-short clothes, short hair, and tuxedos.It is completely different from those old-school nobles.

And the old nobles and these upstarts also dislike each other, especially the "Duke Wenxiang" who is the leader, is a thorn in the side of the old nobles, a thorn in the flesh, and even regarded as a shame by the old nobles.

But he's idolized by people like Gail.

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

Duke Wenxiang's father is very famous, and his path to rise is very similar to that of Brenda.However, Brenda got the title of earl through adventure and fame, but Duke Wen Xiang's father did it through business and trade - he is a member of the Guild.

The father of Duke Wenxiang was originally an ordinary businessman. During Elda's first enclosure movement, he gradually rose to prominence and bought a title of lord.And became a leader among the upstarts - the entire Elda, except for the caravan of the Canglan family, which can travel unimpeded in the southern wasteland, is this upstart.

Later, in order to win over this upstart, Alfonso married one of his younger sisters to him, and through the relationship of the noble council, he gave this guy a duke title that should have been taken back by the royal family.So Duke Wen Xiang's father became the first generation of Dukes who rose from common people all the way, and the Duke Wen Xiang in front of him was the second generation of nobles.

He is only in his 30s 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 staunch reformist faction, and the head of this faction is His Royal Highness Alfonso.

Under the ideology of "divine right of kings", the old king practiced autocracy, which greatly damaged the interests of the rising bourgeoisie and upstarts in Eldar.And the tyranny in the Holy Court has long been unbearable for the upstarts - the Holy Court treats 'pagans' severely, especially the believers of the Sun God.The nobles of Eldar are not even allowed to trade with the Southern Wilderness.

Therefore, for a long time, the upstarts had no way to make deals with the big customers at their doorstep, so they had to go to the Moon Kingdom by detour, but on this Silk Road, there were all bandits from the Southern Wilderness.They couldn't buy the goods, so naturally they wanted to rob them.

Whether it is for Alfonso or the upstarts, they all need food, cattle and horses, leather, plush, and cotton from the Southern Wilderness.Certain raw materials imported from Saudi Arabia require Awali to open up the port.

And Awali and others need textiles, various living utensils, and even magic items such as magic sails.Therefore, there has been a secret transaction between Xingui and Nanhuang.

Regarding this matter, the old king and the Holy Court—or St. Vermick Cathedral, naturally jointly suppressed it.I can't wait to kill these upstarts and newly rising capitalists.Therefore, the conflict between the upstarts and the old king and the Holy Court is extremely sharp.

If a few years later, Elda will have an industrial revolution, or a "glorious revolution" like Yueguo.These people are the new nobles who the bourgeoisie will inevitably go back to unite with!And these guys, under the leadership of Alfonso, will definitely overthrow the old dynasty, establish a United Kingdom of Eldar and XX, and let Eldar enter the era of real industrial revolution.

In fact, since Elda was defeated in the Battle of Twilight, parliamentary struggles, civil wars, etc. have been going on in Elda for more than [-] years. The old-school nobles headed by Robert want to restore the glory of the Thorn Dynasty The upstarts and capitalists headed by Alfonso wanted to establish a great United Kingdom like the Moon Kingdom after annexing Rodunk.

And the Battle of the Kuroshio in Clearwater City is a climax of the struggle between the old and new forces in Eldar!It's a final duel between the two factions!

But in this battle, there was no winner in the end. The so-called restoration of the dynasty and the rise of the United Kingdom also trembled under the shadow of the devil.And if it goes this way, the whole of Elda may never see the day when the industrial revolution succeeds.

But history was changed by one person.

0851 Enlightenment

Now the demons are harassing the borders of Landry and Elda, but Elda's side is blocked by the guerrillas of the sanctuary in the east of the Swan Lake.

This gave Eldar time for a revolution to get rid of the rotten old nobles, take away the food hoarded in their hands, and liberate the productivity of the people at the bottom.

At the same time, the magic technology of the shelter has also brought great stimulation to the Eldar people, making many Eldar people realize the importance of the magic industry to Elda. changed.

This made many upstarts become active again.Accelerated the industrial revolution.

But now Elda's trade routes have been re-opened, which allows new nutrients to flow into Elda, and also allows the things produced by Elda to flow into the Southern Wilderness, and even flow into the rest of the world.

Under such circumstances, the upstarts of Eldar are already seeing more and more hope.

As for the stubborn forces against the upstarts in the country, the old king is now scared and shrunk in the palace and pretended to be dead, and St. Vermick's Cathedral has also changed its mind now, because Avery's faction has regained control of this ancient cathedral. , and the representative of this faction in the Cathedral is George's henchman Wallace.

Today's Great Cathedral is also setting off a religious revolution, and it has been flirting with Sanctuary for a long time!

So the upstarts can be said to have finally found a leader, and it is reasonable to engage those old nobles.

George is extremely concerned about this city.Because it is a typical alchemy industrial city in Eldar.The lord of this city is the local old earl in name, but the actual master is Duke Wenxiang. Most of the things in this city are his property.

The city is also the first place to become a shelter factory since Alfonso started working with the shelter at the end of last year.Therefore, Duke Wenxiang has a lot of contacts with the sanctuary.And this city is also the only way to go from Qiongying to the capital of Eldar.

Originally, Duke Wenxiang planned to go to the royal capital early to have fun, but because he had been waiting for George, he never went out.Hearing that George planned to go around the city, he also changed into casual clothes and acted as a guide for George and others along the way.

As soon as the factory was mentioned, Duke Wenxiang became interested. The gradually rising industrial zone in the city has always been something the Duke is proud of.

Duke Wenxiang belongs to the reformist faction in Elda, and he is influenced by the thought trend of the Moon Kingdom. His thinking is also relatively radical.