Gao Wen stood on the stone, looked at the numb and cringe faces below, and took a deep breath.

The people are not ignorant, but this does not mean that they are not ignorant.

Ignorance is a judgment made with prejudice and contempt, but ignorance - it is just a statement of facts.

The civilians and serfs of this era were ignorant. The social structure determined that they had almost no channels to gain knowledge and gain knowledge. The heavy cost of living also made them have no energy to pay attention to things other than survival. Only when they survive in this situation for a long time can they seem to not think and have the illusion of "ignorance". But in fact, they can think, but ignorance makes it difficult for them to understand things that are too far away from life.

Therefore, we cannot talk to them about those fake things, we cannot talk to them about ideals, futures, the logical relationship between the prospects of the territory and the development of productivity. Once we say these, they will immediately define the concepts that sound "high" to the "Lord's side" and draw a clear line with themselves. Therefore, the best way is to tell them something related to their lives.

"The people of Cecil," said Gao Wen loudly, "you should all know who I am-and therefore you should also know that I am the most vocal person in this territory today. What I say can represent Cecil's laws, which will provide protection for you and are things that you must obey.

“We are developing new territory, so we need some new rules, so I announce three things here:

"First, since the old territory has been destroyed and all past wealth has been cleared, I declare in the name of the ancestors of the Cecil family that all debts involving the lords in the lords are written off - whether the debts are liberals or serfs, from today, no longer bear any debts to the lords.

The crowd below was a little turbulent, but the turbulence was not obvious, because although the civilians and serfs of this era would more or less owe the lord's debt, today when the territory was rebuilt, everyone had no ability to repay the debt. According to Lord Rebecca's previous kindness, they had already guessed that they would be exempted from debt.

Gao Wen continued: "Secondly, all serfs in the territory have the opportunity to become free people - the lord will issue a series of tasks, such as building houses, building roads, digging mines, and joining the army. All these tasks will have corresponding scoring methods. As long as the corresponding work is completed strictly in accordance with the requirements, contributions can be accumulated. After meeting the standards, serfs can become free people. They are already free people, and after completing these tasks, they can receive corresponding remuneration. I will announce the specific way of calculating remuneration in the near future. I can assure you that any hardworking and reliable serf can become a free people as long as he works hard for two or three years, and a free people can get his own house as long as he works steadily for five or six years!"

This time, the commotion below completely turned into an unsuppressible discussion.

Serfs became free people - this was a very challenging thing in this era. Although Ansu's kingdom law did not strictly prohibit serfs from becoming free people, and there was no clear provision in the territorial laws of the aristocrats in various places, in fact, almost no noble would let their serfs get free at will - for them, serfs mean cheap, and they could easily squeeze the last drop of blood from their bodies without any burden. Those nobles who only knew to constantly increase taxes and labor time to plunder wealth could not even think of any benefits of letting serfs get free.

Rebecca also caused a commotion when he proposed to allow serfs to gain freedom by joining the army, but this time Gao Wen obviously took a big step forward.

As for getting paid for work, or even getting a house... many civilians who are free in themselves almost do not believe it.

Is there any money to get for the lord to work? Who believes it?

Gao Wen did not give them time to continue the discussion, but then said the third article:

"Third, the tents and fences to be set up today, as well as the drainage ditch in the camp, are the first task given to you by the Lord in the new law - I have asked someone to record the scope of responsibility for each of you, and only those who have completed the work strictly according to my requirements will be considered to be completed. In addition, as an incentive for serious work, the top ten people who have completed their work can eat meat."

After saying this, Gao Wen, regardless of the reaction below, jumped off the stone and returned to where Hetty and Rebecca were.

The gathered civilians and serfs were stunned for a moment, and suddenly shouted and rushed towards the camp that seemed to have been completed - they were going to re-strengthen the loose ropes and nails, and to push the fence deep into the ground!

For them, the calculation contributions and scoring standards mentioned by Gao Wen are still too difficult, and they don’t believe that the soldiers and the Knight Master in charge of the supervisor will really help them calculate the workload seriously, but there is one thing they can understand: there is meat to eat at night!

Only those who finish their work in advance and who have to finish their work seriously can have meat to eat!

Just as Gao Wen thought - only when it is related to your vital interests will people be inspired to be inspired.

Looking at the civilians and serfs running away, Hetty felt a little confused. She didn't react until Gowen stood in front of her and asked in disbelief: "Ancestor... what you said just now is true?"

Gao Wen looked at the other party with a smile: "Which one is specifically meant?"

"... It is the part of the serfs who become free people through work," Hetty said with a frown, "Of course, I don't object to this, because Rebecca had issued a decree for the promotion of serfs to join the army, but you said that even building houses and roads can be considered a contribution, and you only need to work for two or three years to become a free people... Is this true?"

"Of course it's true," Gao Wen looked at the other party, "What do you think is wrong?"

"If you can become a free citizen so easily, it will probably not take long before all the serfs on the territory will be civilians," Hetty looked confused. "The children of civilians are also civilians. Will the Cecil leader be a place without serfs in the future?"

Gao Wen continued to look at her, the smile on his face remained unchanged: "Is there anything wrong with not having serfs?"

Based on her class-derived thinking habits and worldview, Hetty instinctively felt something was wrong, but based on her insights and thoughts that far surpassed the nobles of the same period, she felt that even without the serfs, there seemed to be nothing wrong, so she suddenly fell into a contradiction.

However, Rebecca frowned and thought for a while and said, "Actually, I think... the serfdom is no longer so necessary today, and there is nothing wrong with it if it is gone."

Gao Wen looked at this always-headed descendant with a little surprise and nodded: "Continue to say."

"Serfs are labor force. The purpose of labor force is to provide labor, but if they become free people, they can get more labor, then why do you have to retain the concept of 'serf'?" Rebecca scratched his hair. "My father told me back then that the main reason for not allowing serfs to be free is that once they are free and without whips, they will immediately become lazy and stop working, but I think whips are not necessarily the best..."

Gao Wen looked at her with praise. Rebecca, who was encouraged by his ancestors for the first time, suddenly became bolder and said fluently: "And I also noticed that if a serf was asked to work, they would always find a way to be lazy, but if two serfs were asked to do the same job and told them to get an extra piece of bread after finishing it first, they could complete the workload of three or four people at once - the value was far more than that piece of bread... So at that time I was thinking that they didn't have to use a whip to prevent them from being lazy, and it might be better if they used other methods."

"This is already a very good enlightenment." Gao Wen couldn't help laughing. This was a very simple and easy-to-understand thing, but almost no one would pay attention to this aspect in this era. In fact, the nobles would not observe how the serfs and even civilians under their rule worked, nor did they have the concept of statistical work efficiency. Using whips to whip and send soldiers to supervise are the ultimate manifestation of their ruling skills, such as Rebecca...

I can only say that this poor country viscount Miss Viscount is really idle.

Thanks to her leisure, she could think of these things.

But she could only think of these shallow things based on her own observations. In fact, Gao Wen was very clear that the emergence and abolition of slavery were not only a problem of "whip and bread", but the deeper reason was whether the productivity was sufficient and whether society really had a step that needed to change.

Through this period of observation, he believed that at least within his sight, the serf system no longer matches the productivity of the world - a large number of people are piled up in repetitive and inefficient low-end work, relying on the population to produce various materials with the lowest efficiency to support the upper class, and these people have no way to rise. Obviously, those upper class who master magic have entered the stage of watching fireworks and listening to music in the castle, and lighting uses fluorescent lights (magic crystals), but the civilians below are no better than the primitive people, and the whole society is almost deformed.

On Earth, a revolution has already taken place at this time, but here the existence of supernatural forces prevents this process.

Because a hundred civilians holding pitchforks cannot defeat a low-level mage or knight, it is impossible for them to double their number even if they are not afraid of death.

Perhaps the world will continue to develop sooner or later break this deadlock, but Gao Wen does not plan to wait. He must change all this in advance and then start his own big development plan.

Because he had a feeling that the Demon Tide was coming, I'm afraid it was really coming.

In his heyday, the Gondor Empire could not withstand the tide of devils. Now, all aspects have retreated to the ignorant state of the medieval world. Do the countries in the mainland with their faces to carry it?

And even without considering the issue of the Demon Tide, Gao Wen has other things to care about.

Those "eyes" in the sky that do not know the details.

A backward world in the Middle Ages was difficult to break free from gravity. If it was strangled by gravity, it would not even be qualified to look up at the sky, let alone study the secrets among the stars.
Chapter completed!