Urban Sims

Chapter 50 Edward

"Ding~"

"The player has successfully used the [Son of the Baron] character card and is matching characters..."

"Role matching is successful! Start entering the game..."

……

"Wow~Wow~"

A loud cry resounded in a simple and tall castle.

"Dear Connor, it's a boy with a nose and mouth that resembles your boy." On the bed, a woman with a motherly face was holding the baby in her arms, and said to the young man beside the bed.

"Hahahaha, good, good! I, Connor, finally have a child who can inherit the glory and badge of my Burns family!" The young man hugged the child in his arms and laughed loudly. The eldest son, endless prayers and expectations.

……

six months later.

"I turned out to be Edward?"

Sitting quietly in the cradle bed, sucking his thumb, Zhou Ming did not know how many times he sighed like this.

In the last game, Edward, who was trapped by him and killed his whole family, has become himself in this life.

Zhou Ming understands the bad taste of the system. In the previous game, there is a connection with the default character of the game. In the new game, as long as the character card is used, it will generally be matched from these related characters to form a An illusion of ill-fated and misfortune.

In fact, this is the system being lazy.

"Forget it, Edward will be Edward. Although in the last game, he was an arrogant guy who made people extremely uncomfortable, he can't be said to be a bad guy. It's just that he has some common problems that all nobles may have. For the sake of the knight's dignity and decency, I naturally look down on those humble peasants who are struggling at the bottom..."

"However, I can be regarded as revenge for that arrow. Of course, this revenge is a bit too much. It took the lives of your whole family. I want to say it here. The grievances between us can be regarded as good." Smooth it out..."

"If this is not enough, then let me use your name to make a name for myself in this world. Not to mention the crown on my head and the top position, I must at least be king and hold a heavy handle."

After figuring this out, Zhou Ming didn't worry about it anymore. He should eat and sleep, and he also regarded Baron Connor and Madame Madeleine as his parents in this life. Within eight months, he yelled out his father and mother. , Let this couple, happy almost shed tears.

……

In a blink of an eye, it was three years old.

Zhou Ming, who has long been able to walk on the ground, has activities all over the castle, and often slips out of the castle and the fields, watching the farmers farming with great interest, and sometimes asks his father, Baron Connor, to take him to the north of the territory to find some Stone, in the woods to the east, I dug something, saying that I was looking for the coal mine below.

Yes, when Zhou Ming opened the two volumes [Mineral Resources Distribution Map] and [World Map] in his mind, this world was full of fun for him to explore.

In the small Granville, the underground resources are actually very rich. In the barren hills to the north, there is a limestone deposit with a reserve of over [-] million tons. Under the forest in the east, there are three coal resources with considerable reserves. There are gold mines in the south, and the underground is extremely deep in the west. There are diamond veins.

However, these mineral deposits, except the limestone mines in the north, have certain mining value, and the other mineral deposits are not of mining value because they are buried too deep.

But it doesn't matter, this is just a small Glandland, and in this world, there are countless places like Glanland, where endless mineral deposits are buried underground. Although only a small part has mining value, but It was enough for Zhou Ming, the wealth was there waiting for him, and he would get it back sooner or later.

The biggest gain is the [World Map] in Zhou Ming's mind.

This map gave Zhou Ming a glimpse of the whole world for the first time, and he knew what kind of planet he was on.

This planet is about twice the size of the earth, 70% of which is the sea, and the other 30% of the land is a fairly complete continent. The shape of this continent is a bit like two spindles with their ends put together. It is said that the pair of lungs in the human body are connected together by a "trachea".

The "trachea" between the lungs is what people in this world call the Devil's Mountain—the Ural Snow Mountain.

The Ural Snow Mountain, the middle uplift formed by the collision of two lung-shaped continents, has an average altitude much higher than the Himalayas on Earth. It is conservatively estimated that the average height must be tens of thousands of meters. It is indeed worthy of the name. A mountain of devils that only devils can climb.

To the west of the Ural Snow Mountain is the continent where Zhou Ming is currently located, with hundreds of kingdoms and a population of over 60 million.But the eastern continent, which is even larger in size, Zhou Ming doesn't know what will be on that continent. On this planet, it occupies the other [-]% of the land.

"In the future, let's explore behind the Ural Snow Mountain. Maybe there will be many surprises waiting for me there."

……

In the next few years, Zhou Ming began to show his talent in farming in front of his father, Baron Connor.

According to the principle of increasing the production of cow dung, Zhou Ming set up a test field in the territory manor to conduct a test of increasing the production of manure, and tripled the yield of barley per mu. It will be fully implemented in various villages and towns soon.

Then there is the improvement of agricultural tools, the installation of plow walls on heavy plows, the invention of ox yokes and sowing cogs, which greatly improved the utilization efficiency of oxen and the speed of farmers' sowing, and reduced their labor intensity and physical burden.

But even so, Zhou Ming discovered that the farmers who had relieved a lot of burdens did not have the desire to expand the planting area and increase food production~ and his father, Baron Connor, was afraid that these idle farmers would wander around without anything to do, so he killed them. When we arrived at the quarry in the north, we planned to increase the height and thickness of the outer wall of the castle. After a few months, the farmers who managed to grow some flesh were mostly skinny and ribbed. During the process of building the castle, I accidentally got stoned and killed two of them.

Seeing that this was not going to work, the six-year-old Zhou Ming suggested to Baron Connor: "Father, don't let these farmers build castles, otherwise, we will formulate a reward policy. If the grain can reach 50 talents (≈ 1 ton), then he will be exempted from three days of weekly labor a week. If it exceeds 50 talents, one-fifth of the excess will be returned to the farmers, so that they will have the motivation to plant landed."

Zhou Ming's plan is a way to stimulate labor with incentives without basically changing the original tax system, so as to increase the enthusiasm of farmers for labor.

After all, under normal circumstances, an adult farmer can grow a maximum of 80-100 talents a year, 40% of which is handed over to the lord, and the amount handed over is between 50-50 talents. Therefore, To complete the goal of [-] talents, it is enough to work harder.

Compared with being able to avoid the weekly labor of three days a week, it is really cost-effective to put in more effort to increase the variety of food.

"Can this work? Without the farmers to do weekly labor, the lord's fields will not be planted, and this will reduce a lot of income."

Baron Connor frowned, feeling that if he adopted this kind of incentive, he would not only lose money, but also suffer a little.

"Father, I did the math for you. Although your land of less than [-] mu is the most fertile river beach land, the yield per mu is not as good as that of the farmer's own land due to the labor of those farmers who are not very motivated to work. It is better to rent all these riverbank lands to farmers. Even if they only get [-]%, it is more than all the previous ones... Believe me, those farmers will desperately rent the land in order not to do weekly labor. Plant well."

The farming experience from his previous life allowed Zhou Ming to understand the characters of those farmers.

"But the weekly work is cancelled, what should I do if I still have to ask those farmers to work? There is more than just the field in the territory. In the future, we will need these farmers to build roads, bridges and castles."

"Then let the farmers come to work in the name of Thanksgiving Workers. It's just a different name. In the name of gratitude, invite them to eat some delicious white bread and drink some delicious mutton soup. Will they come? work?"

Zhou Ming felt that the baron's father didn't know how to adapt at all.

"Edward, you are my wisest son."

Baron Connor stared blankly at Zhou Ming for a while, and it took him a long time to hold back such a sentence.

(End of this chapter)