Urban Sims

Chapter 12 "The Lord's Dispute"

After helping the woman, Zhou Ming was successfully fired from the construction site, and returned to the rental room relaxed and happy.

Of course, the foreman still gave him the wages, not because he felt sorry for him, but because the work Zhou Ming did by himself these days can almost do the work of one and a half brick movers, and he can carry it for more than ten days in a row. It's so amazing, the contractor hasn't seen many of them in so many years, how dare he deduct his salary.

In fact, it's not that Zhou Ming's physical strength is strong. He really couldn't bear it in the next few days. Fortunately, he found a little trick by playing "Zhang Ergou's Counterattack Life" in injection mode. With unscrupulous means such as extortion, etc., he got a 3S score for three consecutive rounds, earning more than 8000 achievement points.

These achievement points were all exchanged by him into [Strength Plus Point Card], which added 8 points of strength to the body, making moving bricks on the construction site much easier.

Back at the rented house, it took a day to clean the inside and outside of the room, and then went to a nearby supermarket to purchase a large amount of instant noodles, biscuits, bread, ham sausage and other convenience foods for home. The quantity was large enough for him to eat for a month or two as long as.

After taking a comfortable hot bath, a relaxed Zhou Ming lay comfortably on the bed, closed his eyes, and opened the game panel in his mind.

"System, let's enter the game."

"Drip~"

"The player starts to enter the game..."

Game background introduction:

This is an absurd, ignorant and conservative era, lords are selfish, knights are obsessed with force, farmers are starving, priests spread hypocrisy, and slaves are dying...In this era of frequent wars, plagues, and thieves everywhere In this world, as the son of an ordinary farmer in Rose Town, Granville, how should you intervene in this lord's dispute...

……

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"Wow~Wow~"

A clear and loud cry spread throughout Qiangwei Town from an old and crooked earthen house.

"@#￥#...￥%" a woman with dark blond hair and fair skin said weakly.

"@#￥#@!￥@#!" A curly white man held the baby in his hands excitedly, chattering, obviously very excited.

"What are these two talking about?"

Zhou Ming, who was in the baby state, was stunned~ forced, but seeing the happy faces of these two typical white men and women, he knew that these two must be his parents.

"If you don't understand, learn slowly, anyway, I'm still just a baby now."

After eating the breast milk fed to him by the white woman, Zhou Ming, who felt a little dizzy, fell into a sweet sleep.

……

In the blink of an eye, three years have passed.

Sitting on a round wooden stake in front of the fence, Zhou Ming swung his calf, looking at the environment of this world.

Fields with green wheat seedlings, quiet and peaceful towns, streams with clear water, castles towering on hills...

"It's really a paradise-like world."

Yes.

If there were no lords and knights stationed in that castle, no hideous tax collectors and lord managers, no thieves who came to harass the town from time to time all over the mountains...then this place would be a paradise.

Zhou Ming's name in this world is "Lyan", his father's name is Derek, his mother's name is Julina, and there is a one-year-old little sister who has a nice name called "Alice".

A fairly happy family of four.

But this kind of happiness is also based on the fact that the weather has been good and the weather has been good in the past few years, and the family has barely maintained food and clothing.

His father, Derek, who was a farmer, rented and planted a hundred acres of land from the lord, Baron Connor.

Of the one hundred acres of land, one-third will be used as fallow, and the other two-thirds will be used to grow crops such as barley, oats, wheat, and rye, as well as a small amount of peas and grass.

The yield of crops in this world is generally very low. In a slightly better year, the return rate of seeds is about 4 times, that is, one catty of seeds planted can harvest four to five catties of grain.

This kind of harvest looks pretty good, but half of it is the land rent to be handed over to the lord.

In addition to the lord's land rent, the church also collected tithes. Although it was not much, the only thing left in the end was to ensure that the farmers would not starve to death.

In addition, his father Derek is also obliged to do weekly labor for the lord. Three days a week, he has to do chores for the lord plowing, transporting, planting, and threshing until it is put into the warehouse. Work on your own land.

After his labor service, his father, Derek, had to serve in the army for the lord. Whenever Baron Connor wanted to fight Baron Howard or Baron Garcia in the surrounding areas of Granville, his father, Derek, was obliged to be drafted into the army and stand at the front of the queue. , to act as cannon fodder for the knights in the rear.

In the past two years, his father Derek has been drafted into the army twice, once to fight Baron Garcia in the west. comparable bricks)

The second time I hit a group of wandering thieves, I was not so lucky. I was shot with an arrow in my right hand. Although it didn't go deep into the flesh, it also affected my normal work for three months, and I haven't been able to do it well until now.

If it’s just high land rent, heavy labor, and dangerous military service, that’s fine. Farmers like my father, Derek, are imposed on farmers like father Derek. .

You can't catch fish in the river, you can't hunt wild animals on the mountain, you can't catch rabbits in the field, even if the lord's pigeons are ruining the crops in your field, you can't touch them... because all these belong to the lord.

Even his father, Derek himself, cannot leave this small town at will and marry his daughter at will...

In short, for his father Derek, apart from honestly farming, paying taxes, and performing military service, everything else is not allowed or allowed, unless the benevolent lord lord shows mercy.

Zhou Ming was extremely surprised that this kind of feudal serfdom system, which oppressed farmers to the extreme, was even more miserable than slaves who were regarded as private property, could exist in this world.

Don't the lords fear that these peasants will unite and tear them to pieces in a day of despair and rage?

but……

Look at the tall and sturdy castle, look at the knight covered in bright armor, and look at the malnourished and frail body of his father Derek...

Farmers in this physical condition, probably if they gather a thousand of them, they won't be able to take down the tall castle guarded by only ten knights, right?
Zhou Ming frowned.

It's difficult, it's really difficult, this picture simply doesn't give the people at the bottom a chance to survive. Compared with these lords, Li Shouzheng in "Zhang Ergou" is as kind as a Bodhisattva, Zhang Ergou's The living situation is really much better than myself.

"Let's take a step and take a look."

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