King

The team swayed forward, and Hudson was sitting on the carriage petting the bear while admiring the "creak, creak..." sound the carriage made while driving.

The road was still as bumpy as ever, and in order to ensure the smooth passage of the convoy, it had to stop to smooth the road from time to time, but these episodes did not affect Hudson's good mood at all.

After spending a few months in trepidation, he finally had a piece of land that belonged to him. Now everything he looked at was pleasing to the eye.

"Get out of here!"

"You idiots, holding a few pieces of broken wood, actually dare to imitate others and rob. If you collide with the great Mr. Hudson, you will definitely..."

Hearing the sound coming from the front, Hudson got out of the carriage full of anger. Someone dared to rob him. It was simply a disadvantage to him.

After getting off the carriage, Hudson realized something was wrong. The so-called robbery is purely a farce. Rather than being a robber, it is more appropriate to call him a refugee.

The soldiers mainly reprimanded and did not directly kill. The main reason was that most of the people blocking the road were old, weak, women and children, and only a few were young and strong. They really did not look like bandits.

"Tom, what's going on?"

"Who are they?"

"Why intercept the convoy?"

Hudson asked three questions in a row, and Tom was about to answer when the crowd on the opposite side spoke first: "Dear Mr. Hudson, we are all subjects of Viscount Alphonse.

Unfortunately, we encountered a military disaster and were robbed of all our food. Now we can’t find the lord, so..."

"That's enough, I know everything you want to ask! Viscount Alphonse was unfortunately in trouble, and his whole family was killed by the rebels.

The new lord is from the North. If it's fast, he will arrive in another month. At the slowest, it won't be more than three months. We will naturally arrange for you by then. "

Hudson said pretending not to care.

The former sentence about Viscount Alphonse's family being in trouble is true, but the latter sentence is pure nonsense. When the Northland nobles will arrive, we will only know when they arrive.

Nobility is not only an honor, but also a responsibility. Unlike these idle personnel who can take up their posts at any time, the nobles who hold military positions in the frontier fortress, even if they obtain a fief, must first complete the handover with the replacement personnel before they can leave.

It would be even worse if a war broke out. Whether he can leave alive is unknown. Even the children of a big family cannot slip away while the war is going on.

After hearing the bad news, the crowd quickly fell into panic. Everyone looked ashen, as if the sky had fallen. Two of the old men even fainted.

They had always relied on Viscount Alphonse for survival, and they had never thought about how they would live without the lord.

Serfs basically had no private property, and all production tools belonged to the nobles. The corresponding food, clothing, housing, transportation, life, old age, illness and death are naturally the responsibility of the noble master.

The noble master's food and belongings were all robbed, and everyone has been able to survive until now by relying on wild vegetables, grass roots, and tree bark.

Not to mention three months, they wouldn't be able to survive even one month. When the new lords arrive, it will probably be difficult to collect their corpses.

Seeing that everyone was crying and crying, Tom, who had just lost points in front of Hudson, hurriedly stepped forward and reprimanded: "The kind Master Hudson has told you, why don't you get out of the way quickly!"

Perhaps intimidated by the flashing sword, or perhaps out of natural fear of the nobles, the panicked crowd silently moved out of the way with the two old men who fainted.

After confirming that they were not remnants of the rebels, the kind-hearted Mr. Hudson showed sympathy and said generously: "For the sake of your loyalty to Viscount Alphonse, I will not care about you.

Tom, leave a pound of bread for each of them. Whether you can survive or not depends on your luck.

That’s all, who makes me feel good! If you want to follow and leave, just follow behind the convoy! As long as you reach my territory alive, I will accept you as my subjects. "

After saying that, Hudson got on the carriage without looking back. Nobles must act like nobility. Treating serfs like a corporal will only frighten them.

Although they want to win over this group of inferior labor force, the nobles' aloof attitude must still be controlled.

If the right of choice is left to this group of refugees, even if word spreads, people will only say that he is kind, instead of criticizing him for robbing other people's people.

These people all fled away as refugees. Even if a new lord arrived, it would be difficult to get entangled in this issue.

Sitting in the carriage again, Hudson's mind became active again. The war caused a significant decrease in the population of the two counties, but in the end, some lucky people still managed to save their lives.

The subjects of the local nobles cannot be touched, which does not mean that the subjects of the foreign households cannot be touched either. As long as he deceives people, they are his subjects.

Although there are very few young and strong men inside, and most of them are women and children, they are still a labor force after all.

Mining is indeed a bit difficult, but it is not a big problem to make fires for cooking and farming.

Especially the women of working age can also marry bachelors in their own army to stabilize their morale.

After making a decision, Hudson immediately summoned his knight attendants and assigned the task of deceiving people.

This kind of technical work can only be done by these teenagers who have studied with him for several months. The remaining big-headed soldiers are basically boring gourds. It's okay to let them go into battle to kill the enemy, but it's really difficult to encourage people.

It was all caused by Hudson himself. Before setting off, in order to facilitate command, a group of honest soldiers were specially selected from the territory.

On the battlefield, this group of people really performed well. Hudson does what he says and doesn't have many ideas of his own, making management very worry-free.

The general environment was like this, and the serf soldiers who joined behind were also affected. Especially after Hudson invented the continuous sitting system and killed a few careless guys to establish his power, those who had ideas had no more ideas.

I have been too busy fighting the war to think too much. So much so that now, Hudson has discovered that he lacks talent in his hands.

Poaching?

As soon as this thought arose, he killed it decisively. Those who can poach people are incapable, and those who are capable cannot afford to poach people.

Not only was Hudson lacking talents, almost all the small nobles were facing the problem of lack of talents.

The high degree of monopoly of knowledge has led to the concentration of talents in the upper class. We are all nobles, how can we impress them with just three melons and two dates?

Asking for help from the tribe?

Just think about it. As an adult, you should know that there is no free lunch in the world. Brothers have to settle accounts, let alone clan members.

The two unlucky children in White County are an example. The amount of help they receive from various sources now will determine how much debt they will have to repay in the future.

Even if their generation cannot afford it, they will still have to pay it back when the next generation grows up. If something unexpected happens, it will be up to their heirs to pay it back.

Apart from anything else, the kingdom encourages people to be responsible for defending their land and takes care of nobles who died in battle. The specially increased quota for the exchange of life liquid has probably been paid as wages by now.

What comes and goes, what is given and what is given in return is equal, which is also one of the important reasons why the loose Koslow family can maintain its centripetal force for a long time.

If you don't want to be in debt, don't ask for help easily, otherwise you will have no friends.

The nobles could still draw cakes for their subordinates, but Hudson was not even qualified to draw cakes. If you can't give people what they want most, you can only rely on krypton gold.

As long as the money is available, there will still be talent. Among the free people living in big cities, there are also some talented people who are willing to accept employment for money.

Unfortunately, the talents recruited by Krypton Gold usually only work part-time, and will leave whenever there are better opportunities.

Among them, there are not a few who betray the original owner for profit, and their loyalty is really worrying.

As an early-stage entrepreneur, Hudson feels that loyalty is more important than ability.

If you were betrayed by your subordinates in the peaceful world of your previous life, you would lose a little money at most; if you were betrayed by your subordinates on the continent of Aslant, you would lose your life.

Hudson was not prepared to take risks until he had the ability to withstand them. If there are no talents available, then cultivate them yourself slowly.

Anyway, my territory is only a barony, and it is still the most primitive feudal rule. There is not so much messy shit, and I can keep busy if I work harder.

…

Under Hudson's deliberate manipulation, the changes in power at the top quickly spread among the refugee circles. It's just that in the details, there have been some changes.

Originally, the northern nobles came to take up their posts, but now the new lords want to take them to the northern border and be neighbors with the cruel orcs.

Thanks to the long-term propaganda of the Alpha Kingdom, orcs are creatures more terrifying than devils in the minds of ordinary people, and people are panicked for a while.

Whenever this happens, there will be a smart "refugee" who proposes to leave the territory and seek refuge with a benevolent lord.

Anyway, the old lord and his whole family are dead, and the new lord has not yet accepted their allegiance, so leaving is not considered a betrayal.

The fast-moving convoy quickly attracted refugees along the way to follow. There is no other reason than that the kind Master Hudson has put out grain.

At meal time every day, food is distributed on time. Although they could barely eat until they were seven or eighty percent full, it was enough to make them determined to keep up.