King’s Kingdom - Chapter 270

Theodosius cleared his throat and said loudly in a piercing voice: “Each of you gets 200 acres of land, but you don’t have enough cultivators. Before this, you must have known that the Kingdom of Lanyin is not There are noble fiefs!”

“So on this matter, but on this matter, I have discussed with the cabinet and decided to introduce a new law to improve the situation!”

“This law goes from top to bottom, all the land of nobles and commoners is listed in the law, and we have special regulations for the land of nobles!”

“First! There is too much land for nobles, and the problem of difficulty in farming can be solved by absorbing members. From today, the Lanyin Kingdom will open up the personal attachment of nobles and commoners, and nobles can absorb ordinary people into their own subordinates for labor. Among them Mainly agricultural labor!”

“This part of the people no longer pays taxes to the royal family, but the tax that the nobles should pay still has to be paid. The number of them is divided by the title. The rank of knight can absorb five households, the rank of baron can absorb 15 households, and the rank of earl can absorb 15 households. Twenty-five households are absorbed, and the number of households that can be absorbed can be increased through meritorious rewards, and it is not completely fixed!”

“Second! If the manpower is still insufficient, you can hire other farmers to help with farming, but the employer needs to pay one-twentieth of the laborer’s success as a reward, and the kingdom will also reduce farmers’ tax by one-third as an incentive!”

“Third! In addition to this, the lease system for the right to cultivate land is opened. If the land is really uncultivated and it is abandoned, you can go to the official Lanyin Kingdom for lease notarization with the consent of both parties. After notarization, the lease contract will become effective. !”

These three points are Theodosius’ reformation of the land cultivation system and the protection of noble rights.

First of all, the current situation of the Lanyin Kingdom is not particularly complicated, and the contradictions are relatively simple, mainly focusing on land cultivation and aristocratic rights.

Among them, aristocratic rights and land cultivation formed a huge factor of instability.

Compared with other fief aristocrats, the nobles of the Lanyin Kingdom have little power. Although this system has been implemented for a long time, but watching other regimes reverse the history and let the nobles start to own fiefs, these people say no Greed is fake.

However, the royal family has always held absolute economic and military advantages. They dare not resist and have no room to resist. Secondly, they have all received good arrangements. Especially after Theodosius came to power, the country was strong and expanded, and management positions increased. , the amount of land has also increased, and their belief in me will also disappear.

However, as the nobles either made achievements with the army or made achievements in management positions, the kingdom also gave a lot of land in addition to currency and physical objects.

However, the problem of uncultivated land also emerged.

The situation of the Lanyin Kingdom is special, and the law does not allow the nobles to buy serfs to help farm the land.

Although if you come to plant my land, you will inevitably have to pay me rent, and if it goes on like this, you will inevitably become a serf, but the problem is that the land resources of the Lanyin Kingdom are too rich, and there are institutional reasons.

No matter what kind of land the commoners want to go to, as long as you are still from the Lanin Kingdom, have a household registration in the Lanin Kingdom, and pay taxes to the king, then you can plant this land, and whoever can farm your own land will rent your land. Kind of?

Who can be a self-cultivator, who is a tenant is a fool.

The peasant class has always been the best source of soldiers. Cultivating a large number of peasants will not only have high national income, but also have an excellent soldier base.

Therefore, enslaving commoners is completely prohibited, and even oppressing commoners by virtue of titles of nobility is not allowed.

This direction is blocked, so is it okay to be willing to spend money to hire someone to help me farm?

Not to mention, the situation in the Lanin Kingdom is really not good.

so many wastelands,

A large number of unowned wasteland can be planted as long as it is opened. I work hard to plant a lot of money for a year, and in a few years, I can live a life of eating meat every day. Who will make you a long-term worker?

Just to make some money? I also have money to farm and sell food!

To earn you some food? Then I can harvest food by farming!

So this direction is also blocked.

Neither of these two methods will work. Except for the whole family to fight, they can only rely on high prices to hire immigrants from other places, but these immigrants are still a minority, and they will settle down next year and become self-employed farmers.

So what they are currently relying on is actually spending money to hire laborers composed of prisoners and criminals from the royal family for farming and harvesting.

The price offered by the royal family is not cheap. This is also the decision of Theodosius before. No one can feel that the royal family owes them, so if they want to help, no problem, just spend money to buy it.

But in the long run, this is not the case. It is impossible not to feel distressed when the silver and golden gold are spent. Who will this money be given to in the end? Royal family!

Theodosius clearly noticed the signs of dissatisfaction among these people, and this was indeed a huge social problem in the Lanine Kingdom at present, so long before he went to Ikopixi, when preparing for the war against the Northern Empire , he already had some ideas.

The introduction of this law is just to discuss with the ministers to determine whether it is feasible, whether it can resolve their dissatisfaction with the nobles, whether it will harm the interests of the common people, and whether it will damage the interests of the royal family. A decision was made to bring the law into place.

Opening up some personal attachment rights, but limiting the number, but not completely blocking it, this is quite a temptation for these nobles.

Rule over the commoners is something that all nobles aspire to, with absolutely no exceptions.

To be honest, this kind of behavior is helpless. If it is possible, he is not willing to open up this relationship of personal dependence~www.mtlnovel.com~ When there is no such relationship, the nobles want to gain complete new trust. people, it’s not that easy.

I can work for the king to pay taxes and become a soldier, and for a little money, I can be a cow and a horse for you, and make your dreams come true!

Even if they wanted to cultivate a few trusted cronies, it would have to cost a lot, at least the treatment should not be bad.

But after the implementation of this law, the cost of the nobles to obtain absolute trusted cronies has dropped a lot. As long as they can be a little kinder, have a better attitude towards them, and give them a little better benefits, they can even turn everyone into absolute trustees. Loyal retainer.

Even Theodosius doesn’t have to think about it, the political rights of the nobles will definitely be greatly extended, but if this is not done, the nobles will become more and more dissatisfied in the long run.

It is impossible to rebel in a short period of time, but it is a kind of harm to this country just by being passive and sabotage. What’s more, if most of the nobles start to resent the royal family, then the foundation of the royal family will be unstable.

Moreover, from a dialectical point of view, the implementation of such a system is not entirely without merit.