The Extraordinary Earl

The Pompeii collar is a typical knight collar.

The so-called knight collar is equivalent to miniature.

Among them, there were about 500 serfs directly under the Pompeii family, and about 1,300 ordinary civilians. This does not include people under the age of eighteen.

The total number of serfs and commoners was only 1,800 people.

If compared to Luther's previous life, such a large place is actually just a village.

But with such a small population, the land area is quite huge. Because the productivity of this world is very backward, food production is extremely low, and there is no huge cultivated land area to feed such a large population.

So the entire territory of Pompeii is roughly equivalent to half a small town.

Pompeii Castle is the center of this small town. According to Luther's memory, Pompeii Territory was surrounded by forests.

There is only one way out to the north.

To put it simply, the entire Pompeii territory is isolated from the world. The Pompeii family is a wealthy family that has been rooted here for generations.

Even if he is called a king, that is not too much.

Although the Pompeii-collared sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. The Pompeii family occupied about one-third of the cultivated land in this territory and gave it to their direct serfs to cultivate.

The so-called serfs are almost like slaves. Help the host family cultivate the land and work without paying wages. You only need to provide them with the lowest level of survival materials.

These lands were important financial income for the Pompeii family.

On the territory that directly belongs to the Pompeii family, there is also a brewing manor that produces ale of ordinary quality.

A ranch that supplied meat to the Pompeii family and the Magellan family.

Meat products in this world are very important, because knights need a strong body, and it is very important to consume meat every day.

There is also a wheat flour workshop.

A blacksmith shop.

A general store selling firewood, rice, oil and salt.

The blacksmith shop and general store are near the castle, and others are scattered around the territory.

These were properties that belonged directly to the Pompeii family.

Others were free people, that is, commoners, who were attached to the Pompeii family. The Pompeii family gave these civilians numbers and divided them into ten villages.

They are Pompeii Tunnel One and Pompeii Tunnel Nine.

By the way, there is also a village called Tiema Village. That is, the territory that the Pompeii family unofficially assigned to the Magellan family.

Therefore, although the Magellan family does not have an official surname, many people in private call them the Iron Horse clan.

The ten villages in the territory are basically responsible for farming, with a small number of part-time loggers and hunters. These freemen only need to pay a certain amount of tax on the territory, and their lives are much more comfortable than serfs.

However, because the grocery stores, breweries, blacksmith shops, etc. in the territory are exclusively operated by the Pompeii family, when the free people need to use these things, they have to spend a certain amount of money to purchase them.

In other words, in fact, the entire Pompeii territory, whether they were serfs or free people, was actually being exploited by the Pompeii family.

The Pompeii family is like a crab, a rampant existence.

But this is normal in this world. Nobles are inherently superior to others. Luther even heard that some perverted nobles made laws in their territories, called "first night rights."

As the name suggests, every bride who wants to get married in the territory must first have sex with the lord before she can have a bridal chamber with the groom.

This situation can be avoided unless the groom's family pays certain taxes.

It's really inhumane.

However, Luther also heard that this kind of ridiculous law could only be enacted by a very small number of cruel lords. Most nobles in the world are not that cruel.

Um.

All in all, it is great that Luther traveled through time and became the eldest son of a knight lord instead of a commoner.

It’s so cool that you don’t want it.

It is now the time of winter and spring, and the land is still very hard, because it is still frozen in some places, so it is not the time for farming yet.

At this time, both free people and serfs generally rested at home.

There are very few people even going hunting, because the prey are very thin at this time. Animals that have survived a long winter are starving and have no fat.

All in all, my wife is hot on the kang. Having nothing to do with your mother-in-law is the daily life of the people.

Therefore, it is rare to see people on the road in Pompeii territory. Occasionally, I saw people. When they saw Master Luther's formation, they immediately knelt down on the roadside and paid homage to the noble master.

Luther had never experienced such a battle, but he had never seen pork, and he had also seen pigs running.

There is a sentence said by a great person, which is very, very classic.

"Water can carry a boat but also capsize it."

Although Luther was the eldest son of a knight lord, the future knight lord and noble lord could expropriate money in the territory and even enact the law of "right of first night".

But as a visionary and knowledgeable future aristocrat, it is the right choice to show his people-friendly attitude.

Besides, if Luther wanted to climb up, developing his territory would become an important way. Only by raising your own people to be fat and white can you have the strength to help the Pompeii family and become a top family.

Therefore, Luther was very close to the people.

No, Luther happened to meet a group of people.

When these people saw Luther and his party, especially Luther and Xiu Xiuya on horseback, they quickly knelt on the ground with a thud.

The common people didn't know what to call these two masters, and they couldn't even tell the difference between the young master Luther.

Although Old Sol ordered a three-day carnival in the territory because of Luther's promotion to a knight, Luther, the young master, basically didn't show up.

All in all, the civilians knew that the two horsemen must be important figures in the territory, but they didn't know how to call them. They could only kneel down and kowtow.

Luther lowered his head and glanced at these civilians. The future minions and warriors of the Pompeii family.

Luther's memory in this life was that he had almost never left Pompeii since his birth. Therefore, Luther had little impression of the outside world and people's lives.

But seeing these people, Luther felt that the Pompeii family's rule was pretty good.

I saw that these free people were wearing thick clothes. Although they were full of patches, at least they would not freeze. People are fat and thin, tall and short.

His face wasn't too good, but it wasn't too bad either.

There was no case of malnutrition.

Luther felt that if the nobles in this world were divided into different levels, then the Pompeii family should belong to the conscientious noble lords.

Thinking of this, Luther immediately felt full of confidence.

The Pompeii family has fine traditions and a good foundation. It only needs a little guidance from him, the future knight lord, and it will become a towering tree in no time.

The future of the Pompeii family is at least a great nobleman like the Earl of Field.

Um.