Empires Start with Lords - Chapter 12

William, who thought that Ross would kill himself, heard this statement as if he was reborn after being sentenced to death, his expression swayed gloomily.

At this moment, Ross suddenly said, he still has the chance to become a noble, or even an earl?

Ross immediately panicked: “You said you were going to attack the entire empire!?”

Ross nodded.

Crazy, this product is absolutely crazy.

William thought to himself that Ross would not be able to conquer the entire empire.

Just kidding, with your strength, you can’t even defeat a marquis.

William was thinking like this, but when he thought that an hour ago, William defeated the First Prince’s Royal Knights, and also wiped out his own army.

hiss…

William thought, maybe this guy really has the potential to achieve a lord’s career?

Ross stopped talking nonsense and brought William to his city.

When the people in the city saw their lord coming back, the nobles cheered, because it meant that William must have defeated Ross.

At that time, as nobles, they can get a lot of money without doing anything.

Continue to recruit more slaves for their use, and then become capitalists in one fell swoop.

But the next second, before they waited for their lord William to issue an order, they saw Ross standing behind William.

William has spoken, but it is not the appointment and nobility that all the nobles expect, but to make them surrender!

There was an instant uproar in the crowd. Those nobles who were waiting for the good news of William’s victory directly chose not to listen to Lord William’s words, and immediately began to gather temporary soldiers, trying to prevent Ross from entering the city.

Ross smiled slightly: “They don’t seem to listen to you?”

William blushed, his expression stiffened with shame.

Ross directly ordered, destroy the city!

Thousands of knights lifted a huge wooden pillar that five adults could not hold side by side. The pillar was 20 to 30 meters long. It was specially collected by Ross as a city-breaking device, and it was useful at this moment.

Whoops!

Hundreds of stones fell in an instant, rolling down.

He hit a dozen knights in the head and fainted.

However, Ross did not give the order to stop. Instead, he directed a squad of English longbowmen, 20 people, to aim at the top of the city gate, clap! clap clap!

In an instant, the gun was like thunder.

In a few minutes, the city gate was forcibly opened.

After a big purge, Ross entered the city.

On the ground were kneeling on the ground just now, the dozen or so nobles who had just disobeyed William’s order and surrendered without opening the city gate, but now they threw themselves on the ground, begging for mercy and surrendering.

Ross waved his hand and let the two squire knights behind them kill them.

There is no need to waste time with such people.

Ross soon came to the center of the city, where there were more than 5,000 civilians and more than 2,000 slaves.

There are also some free people in Ross’s territory, but there are not many, only a few hundred. So far, it is still a unified system presided over by military and peasants.

However, Ross intends to develop the two cities and territories into the same city, so that the population can be concentrated together.

The first step is to declare victory.

Ross’s army lined up in an orderly line, calling out all the civilians and slaves. Ross choked his voice and said, “From today onwards, this place will be renamed Ross Territory.”

The audience was silent, revealing a strong sense of depression and helplessness.

There are many people who want to resist, but are afraid of the surrounding soldiers.

Ross ignored them and just said: “You will not become slaves, but continue to live as free people, except that you regularly pay 40% more taxes than those in the original territory, and everyone’s status and Money will not be bound in any way.”

As soon as Ross said these words, the words just fell, and the applause immediately broke out, overwhelming the sky.

“OK!”

“It’s unbelievable. This lord’s system for the people is much better than William’s bastard!”

William was taken as a prisoner, and there were quite a few people who scold him.

It was only after Ross got to know him that he learned that all the taxes collected by William were used to buy high-end girls for himself.

Moreover, she is also a high-end royal girl, and a woman can fetch a sky-high price of 5,000 gold coins.

In less than five minutes, six graceful and graceful women with all kinds of face shapes knelt in front of Rose.

The swearing at these women kept ringing from the stands.

It turned out that these women not only needed hundreds of gold coins every month for living expenses, but also asked William to use taxpayer money to build various independent recreational facilities for them.

Seventy to eighty meters high water tower, free ski resort…

The key is not to open it up to others.

The construction of these facilities alone starved to death hundreds of slaves and poor people.

Ross gave an order, and the heads of several women were hung from the stands.

“Pride and extravagance are the root of all destruction.”

Rose raised his sword and said, all of this is to appease the hearts of these people.

“All private entertainment facilities will be demolished. From now on, all taxes paid by everyone will only be used for public use.”

Ross said with an expressionless face.

The cheers from the audience erupted again, and all the black heads expressed their support for Ross.

After the speech, Ross strongly encouraged all slaves to go to the stone fort’s territory to farm for three years. After three years, they could become free people, and there were many slaves who actively responded.

Ross circled the city again.

The residential area here is divided into civilian areas and noble areas, but the only problem is that more than 60 nobles enjoy more than ordinary housing resources.

When Ross saw it, he immediately ordered these houses to be used for public use.

After doing all this, Ross left 600 infantrymen and 100 knights waiting here and went back alone.

Indeed, the economy here is several times better than its original territory.

But the military cannot compare with Ross’s stone fortress territory. For a territory, military is the foundation of its foothold.

Ross returned to the territory and found a lot of slaves who came back with him, who had become farmers and started farming.

Ross found that although his strength was still limited to 1,500 people, the resources that the Earl could enjoy had been expanded to 3,000 people.

However, these do not include farmers. Ross now has more than 2,000 farmers, and the fields can continue to be reclaimed.

Ross arranged for 500 peasants to reclaim the land full-time, and then Ross found that three years was too long for them.

Now that the fields are catalyzed, the speed of harvesting can be greatly increased.

So Ross revised this rule, and all farmers who have harvested crops twenty times with diligence and logistics can directly receive the status of free people.

As soon as Ross amended the bill, hundreds of farmers were on the verge of becoming free men.