Weird Wizarding World

  Chapter 424 promulgates the decree

  The situation of the Burleigh Kingdom is indeed not an exception.

  In the next five countries, Corinth more or less found serf displacement.

  This situation has reached a scale that can be called a disaster, bringing great pressure to every kingdom.

  In addition, many nobles also chose to leave because of the gloomy future of the Tilaimei Plain, which continued to increase the scale of the displaced serfs.

   Moreover, most of these nobles who chose to leave the Tilaimei Plain were not small nobles. After all, only if there were wizards in the family would they have the confidence to carry out long-distance migration.

  They are the mainstay of the noble class in the Tilaimei Plain, and they also raise the largest number of serfs.

   Fortunately, although this situation is serious, it is not irreversible.

  At least in Colin's view, it doesn't matter if the nobles leave, as long as there are enough people in the Tilemei Plain, then it's not a serious injury.

  However, in the face of displaced serfs, not all the other five countries were as benevolent as Burley.

  …

   "Dear Lord Tilami, there is nothing we can do. There are too many serfs who are displaced, and the grain saved by the kingdom is not enough to feed them..."

  In the center of Kanze, the capital of the Kingdom of Arman, in the resplendent palace, members of the Arman family were prostrate on the cold marble floor.

  Leaded by the first-order wizard Hogan, his body trembled slightly, and he couldn't stop explaining.

   "This is why you killed all the serfs?" Colin said in a deep voice.

  Thinking of the tragic scene he saw in the Tiankeng in the suburbs just now, his tone could not help but tinge with anger.

   Behind him, Jennifer's complexion was also slightly pale, and she hadn't recovered from the tragic scene.

  Flesh and mud, the aura soaring to the sky, these are all pale and weak to describe the mass grave. The behavior of the Arman royal family is really outrageous.

   "My lord, if the serfs are not dealt with, and the hunger spreads, uncontrollable riots will inevitably occur. At that time, the serfs will die, but the losses caused will undoubtedly be much greater than now..."

Hogan continued to defend himself. From the bottom of his heart, he never regarded those serfs as human beings. They were just slaves. If they were killed, they would be killed. Anyway, the farmland is polluted now, and they are useless. Just a waste of food.

  Colin's two sword eyebrows almost touched together.

   Regardless of the basic sense of morality and sympathy, from the perspective of interests, those serfs are also the resources he values ​​most in the Tilemei Plain, but at least tens of thousands of them have been wiped out by Hogan right now.

   Moreover, what Hogan said seems to make sense, but in fact, there is no need to do so in reality.

  He did not object to the Arman Kingdom solving those serfs for its own security and stability, but the premise was that those serfs really threatened the stability of the kingdom.

   But can those unarmed serfs really threaten the stability of the kingdom?

  Any knight in heavy armor can defeat them by one thousand, and a wizard can easily defeat them by one.

  With such a disparity in strength, what threat is there?

  The Yarman family just chose the simplest way to deal with it.

   "Take me to see how much grain storage Arman still has." Colin suppressed the anger in his heart, and finally ordered.

  As soon as he finished speaking, the members of the Arman family fell silent.

   "My lord..." Hogan raised his head, wanting to continue explaining.

   "If Yarman's current grain storage is allocated to support those serfs, at least how long can it last?" Colin interrupted his explanation.

   “…two years.”

"Um?!"

   "No, no...it's three years." Feeling Colin's gloomy gaze, Hogan crouched on the ground panicked, and quickly changed his words, his body trembling like chaff.

   "Bastard!" Colin couldn't help cursing angrily.

  He is not a moral saint, so he never wants to stand on the highest point of morality and accuse anyone.

   Selfish, cold-blooded, understandable, everyone is more or less selfish.

   But this kind of selfishness has a limit after all. If it breaks through the lower line of human nature, like the Arman family, they can no longer be called human beings.

  The ones killed by cruel methods were not tens of thousands of chickens and ducks, but tens of thousands of living human beings.

   Fortunately, the Kingdom of Yarman chose to take the initiative to clean up the displaced serfs, and the Kingdom of Burley chose to serve gruel to the serfs, both of which were unique.

  In the remaining four countries, basically they chose to drive the serfs out of the cities and let them fend for themselves.

  In fact, this is also the most normal choice. God knows why the Arman family chose to do such an inhumane act.

  However, everyone in the Arman family has been imprisoned, and everything is under investigation. If there is any conspiracy, it may not be long before the truth will come to light.

   Now it is more important to solve the problem of the entire Tilaimei Plain.

  Golden Wheat Spike White Tower, in a meeting room.

  Colin was telling everyone in front of him how he was going to deal with the crisis of serf displacement.

   After making a round of inspection, he knew that the current situation could no longer allow him to slowly think about how to deal with it.

   Every day it drags on, the situation in the Tilaimei Plain will get worse.

  If the population continues to lose and the serfs continue to die in large numbers, no matter how strong and capable he is, he will face a situation where no one can use him.

   "I plan to use decrees to temporarily restrict the nobles from expelling serfs." He looked at the three people in front of him and said.

  Participating in this meeting were his most trusted people, Atbold, Lillian, and Shelley.

   "I'm afraid such a decree can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause." Atbold shook his head.

   "So it's just a temporary move." Colin replied, paused and said: "My ultimate goal is to gradually accept these serfs."

   Atbold raised his eyebrows.

   Lilian showed a puzzled look, and subconsciously asked:

   "Does the junior plan to raise these serfs by himself?"

  Colin nodded lightly: "Population is the most important resource."

   "It sounds like you have some kind of plan," Atbold said.

   Population is important, but in this world, most people do not regard ordinary people as important resources.

  Wizards are the truly important resources, ordinary people are just gravel accompanied by gold, no one will care.

  Colin continued to nod, glanced at Shelley, and said:

   "The Tilaimei Plain cannot lose those serfs. Shelley and I are overcoming the difficulty of farmland pollution. If the farmland is restored by then, but there are not enough serfs to cultivate it, it will also be a disaster."

   "Are you sure to solve the farmland pollution?" Atbold was slightly startled.

  After following Colin here, he had a closer look at the Tilemei Plain, especially in terms of farmland pollution.

   That is the unique pollution that even the wizard sent by the Supreme Council to deal with this matter declared powerless.

   "It's not very sure, but it's not hopeless." Colin replied, "And even if those farmlands can't be restored in the end, I still have a way to resettle those serfs, and even let the Tilaimei Plain continue to prosper."

   Colin said calmly.

  The content of the discourse can be called arrogance.

   But no matter whether he is sure or not, as the master of Tilemei, he must at least have self-confidence.

  If he doesn't have self-confidence, then who can have self-confidence? The Tilemei Plain will eventually decline.

   But to be honest, Colin does have enough confidence to save the entire Tilemei Plain.

  Even if the pollution of farmland cannot be solved in the end, he can still use those serfs to try to promote the process of industrialization with the experience of his previous life.

  Although many rules in this world are different from those in the previous life, such as electric current, it is always violent and chaotic, and it is difficult to restrict its use.

   But at least in this world, water can still be boiled, and steam engines can obviously exist.

  The existence of witchcraft has made the world subconsciously ignore the great power contained in the little steam.

  People are keen to pursue the ultimate individual power, expecting great power to belong to themselves, and then solve all problems, while ignoring the power of mass gathering.

   Especially in the presence of external threats like gods, even if wizards study witchcraft, they mostly focus on attacking and defending witchcraft.

   Like the very practical wall-building technique that Shelley mentioned in the Far North, most wizards would just dismiss it.

  But Colin is different. The experience of his previous life let him know that ordinary people can collide with miracles no less than witchcraft when they gather together!

  Indeed, Colin's calm voice and confident look made Atbold calm down a little, and he stopped talking.

  If someone else said such arrogant words, he might sneer.

   But for Colin, for this student who repeatedly performed miracles, Atbold did not have the slightest doubt about the authenticity of his words.

  Since Colin has said that he is sure, he just needs to believe it!

   Lilian was also attracted by the confidence in Colin's words, subconsciously looked a few more times, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated slightly.

   It feels like it hasn’t been a few years, and the junior has grown into such a reliable appearance without knowing it...

   "Have you thought about the specific content of the decree?" Shelley also had appreciation in his eyes, and asked after a pause.

   "The detailed content has not yet been determined, but the main direction is two points." Colin replied.

   "One is to temporarily restrict the nobles from expelling serfs, and the other is to gradually accept serfs from them."

   "The key now is how to feed these serfs."

  The four people in the conference room fell into deep thought.

  Colin knew that it was impossible to completely prohibit the nobles from driving away the serfs, so in the end he still needed to accept these serfs and support them.

  He thought about directly relying on himself and the royal families of various countries to be responsible for resettling the evicted serfs, providing them with simple housing and daily food.

  But the Tilaimei Plain is vast, and the scale of serfs is also huge.

  Even if no shelter is provided, the daily minimum food is provided, and the daily consumption is an astronomical figure.

  Although after becoming an MP, Colin received a lot of valuable gifts, coupled with the support of the royal families of various countries, he should still be able to temporarily afford the consumption of these serfs.

   But this is obviously a last resort, and who knows how long it will take to get those fields back to normal...

  'Is there a way to make those nobles shed some blood? '

  Thinking of this, Colin suddenly moved in his heart, organized his words and said:

   "For the nobles, especially those who are about to leave the Tilemei Plain, their current appeal is to expel the serfs. I can restrict this behavior with decrees, but I can't eradicate it."

   "However, if I deliberately leave an exit behind the strict laws, for example-after paying a special 'expelling serf tax', their act of expelling serfs will no longer be illegal."

   "This tax decree, in conjunction with the previous decree prohibiting the expulsion of serfs, can restrict nobles from expelling serfs at will, and obtain part of the resources to support displaced serfs."

   "What do you guys think?"

   After thinking for a moment, the three of them nodded in unison.

  It is unrealistic to want those nobles to raise serfs for nothing, and Colin's fundamental purpose is not the same.

  His fundamental purpose is to gradually control most of the serfs on the Tilemei Plain, and even the fields.

  So these two decrees are obviously the best choice at present.

   "If you want to collect taxes, the specific amount may need to be carefully considered. If it is too high, the nobles may prefer to continue to support those serfs." Atbold continued.

  "Yes, and adding new taxes is not an easy task, at least it is much harder than promulgating decrees." Colin nodded.

  For MPs, it is easy to add a general decree to a controlled territory.

  As long as it is not particularly contrary to common sense, it will usually not violate the regulations set by the Supreme Council, and it can be implemented immediately without review.

  But it is not so easy to add a new tax order.

  A large part of the reason for this is because the taxation of the territory is basically linked to the income of the members.

  So in order to prevent members from abusing their power in order to make money, the Supreme Council has formulated strict regulations and review mechanisms in this regard.

  The next time, Colin called Jennifer and Joe, and the six of them discussed the details of the two decrees, especially the specific amount of the new expelling serf tax.

   After finalizing some details and producing the first version of the decree, Colin immediately passed the member's badge to the Supreme Council for review.

  The first decree restricting nobles from expelling serfs came with an affirmative answer after a while.

  Colin also pushed it to the entire Tilaimei Plain for the first time.

  The decree stipulates that the nobles drive away the serfs every year, including the number of accidental deaths, which is limited according to the proportion of the serfs they own, and the maximum number shall not exceed ten. Otherwise, they will violate the law and the punishment may be the death penalty.

   And the newly added tax order was not approved so quickly.

  Colin put it in the security tax, and the reason given for the application was to deal with the chaos and threats that the wandering serfs might bring, and all the tax money would be used for the resettlement of the serfs.

   During the waiting period for the review, Colin was not idle. He repaired the communication ring towers of the Seven Kingdoms through the Chasai Chamber of Commerce, and even added a few more in some important cities.

   This is the key to connecting the entire Tilaimei Plain. He can't always fly by the silver flow every time.

   During this period of time, the first decree was gradually showing its impact.

  (end of this chapter)