Mortal Epic of Douluo

After beheading the horse bandit, Atreus and others entered the City Lord's Mansion. The City Lord's Mansion was not as luxurious as he had imagined, and the decoration was even a little simple, which made him very confused.

After asking about it, I found out that the previous city lords only stayed for a very short time. Some were transferred to other towns within a year or two, and some simply went to see angels and gods in heaven due to various accidents during their tenure.

.

The environment in Pan City may be worse than Atreus thought before, especially from the fact that he forced Jin Ge to chop off the heads of the horse bandits in the square. A normal city captain could chop off the heads in front of the people.

Removing the heads of the horse bandits who have been harassing cities and rural areas for a long time is something that will definitely win the praise of the people. Only fools would not do it.

But that Jin Ge seems to be afraid of doing this. What is he afraid of?

Is Zhang Mazi, the leader of that group of horse bandits, really strong enough to frighten the direct descendants of the three major families?

Or maybe it's not Zhang Mazi who really scares him, but someone else?

Atreus let Fraser and the others settle down on their own, while he himself called Chang Song aside and began to ask a question that he was very concerned about: "Taxman, your Majesty gave me two thousand households.

Where is the food court?"

Chang Song cupped his hands and said: "According to the regulations, the nobility's settlements are all located in the countryside, and each household must have less than twenty acres of land."

"That's right..." Atreus nodded, "So, my two thousand households can only be farmers, and they can only be farm laborers and poor and lower-middle peasants?"

"Um, Sir Earl, who do you mean by the poor and lower-middle peasants?" Chang Song asked doubtfully.

"Oh, that's right. In my opinion, peasants other than nobles can be divided into these types..." Atreus rolled up his sleeves and explained to Chang Song with great interest.

:

"1. Farmers: They have no land and can only sell their labor force in exchange for the materials they need for life."

"2. Poor peasants: They also have no land and rely on renting land from landlords to make a living."

"3. Lower-middle peasants: They have some land and rely mainly on self-cultivated land for their living needs. In addition, they will sell their labor force to subsidize their families or make up for the reduction in land production due to various accidents."

"4. Middle peasants: They have their own land, which is enough to meet their family's daily needs unless something unexpected happens, but they are at risk of becoming poor and lower-middle peasants at any time."

"5. Upper-middle peasant: He has more land and his life is slightly more prosperous than that of the middle peasant, but he has no hired workers."

"6. Rich peasants: They have more land, have a relatively prosperous life, and have the phenomenon of employing long-term and short-term workers."

"7. Landowner: He owns a large area of ​​land and relies on leasing land and collecting rent as his main income. At the same time, he employs long-term and short-term workers all year round."

"Besides that, there are the nobility. The situation of the nobility is quite special... Of course, compared to the poor peasants and farm laborers, there is actually a more miserable group, they are [serfs]. Of course, slavery is

The empire has been abolished, so we won’t mention it here for now.”

Chang Song was a little unimpressed at first, thinking that although this young man of sixteen years old was a very powerful soul master, he was probably a layman, if not useless, apart from martial soul cultivation.

But after listening to the two sentences carefully, Chang Song was immediately shocked. He quickly took out a pen and paper and wrote down what Count Pansen said word for word. After reading it, he felt that this summary was so insightful!

"Your Majesty the Earl is right. The people of your town can indeed only belong to three categories: farm laborers, poor peasants, and lower-middle peasants."

"That's not right!" Atreus suddenly raised his voice and took a picture of a household registration list, "The registered population in Pan City is only 43,617, and the residents of Pan City exceed 20,000.

, there are three major forest farms and six mines in the territory. There are nearly 10,000 lumberjacks and miners. There are also 2,000 military households and 1,000 craftsmen. If you calculate it this way, wouldn’t it mean that the remaining 10,000 people belong to me?

They are the people who live in the city? But isn’t there a middle peasant or a rich peasant among them?”

"This..." Chang Song hesitated for a long time, cautiously sticking out the door to take a look, and then came back and whispered: "Your Majesty, Earl, ten years ago, the total population of Pan City was more than 100,000. Later,

Because banditry was rampant, many villagers were killed. Some hid in the mountains because of fear of bandits, or... abandoned their fields and fled Pancheng."

"Huh? You mean, in addition to the registered farmers, those refugees who have lost their land can become my people as long as I can persuade them to come down from the mountains and give them land?"

"Your Majesty, the Earl, is wise." Chang Song bowed and praised, "Tomorrow, Your Majesty, the Earl, please send a few tax collectors and guards from the city lord's palace to serve as the villain's subordinates. The villain will lead them deep into the mountains, persuade the refugees to return, and register them as slaves.

The book is regarded as the people of the Earl's land."

Atreus originally wanted to say something, but suddenly received a secret message from Ennid, and asked Chang Song to retreat.

After Chang Song closed the door, Ennid's figure was immediately revealed. It turned out that he had come in a long time ago, but with his strength, let alone Chang Song, a great soul master, Atreus himself turned on the mental power detection.

There was no trace of Enned.

Before entering the territory of Pan City, Laennid took the initiative to hide because all signs indicated that their destination was full of unknown dangers.

"Sir, how are you? Have you seen that Wang Erlang?"

Ennid took off his hood, poured himself a cup of tea, moistened his throat and said, "I see, this soul master family is not as strong as you think, but it is not something you little guys can handle.

"Whatever you want to do, it's best to wait until reinforcements arrive before making plans."

Hearing the word "reinforcements", Atreus immediately felt confident and said, "Okay, until the reinforcements arrive, we will stay in the city lord's mansion. Unless they come to the door, we will stand still.

"

There were three "reinforcements" that Ennid mentioned, and two of them had already sent letters to them on the way to Pan.

The first support force is the caravan of the Qibao Glazed Sect. No matter where you are, to develop your own power, you first need money and food. They are not short of money for the time being, but food is very important.

The three major families of Wang, Jin, and Bai have almost completed a monopoly on all walks of life in Pan City. Atreus came here with no intention of colluding with them, making money from the poor, and squeezing the poor from their food. They have money for the time being.

, they have accumulated a lot of money after the Soul Master Competition, and naturally the goods and food cannot be choked by the three major families. The caravan of the Seven Treasures Glazed Sect will be one of the keys to breaking the situation.

The second supporting soldiers were the people from Schlaike, to be precise, they were Flanders, Zhao Wuji, Lu Qibin, Li Yusong, Shao Xin, and Flanders' disciple Ma Hongjun, a total of six people.

But this was an ideal situation. Lai Ennide just sent out a letter invitation. He himself had no idea whether Flanders and the others were willing to give up the stable life of Shrek Academy and come to this barren northern land.

end.

It is not yet clear whether the third group is a friendly force or an enemy, and they are in Pan City, so Atreus must come to win them over in person.

That's right, they are the Wuhun Halls all over the mainland. The Pancheng Wuhun Branch Hall is in the North City, only one street away from the city lord's palace. Atreus is going to come and bother him tonight.