Working Prophet

After establishing a cooperative relationship, Li Yu left the specific details to Zhang Yanlin to discuss with Coke Bear, and he could finally transfer more energy back to Bratis.

As early as a month or two ago, farmers in Greenfield were already talking excitedly about this summer's harvest.

Thanks to abundant rain and moderate temperatures after winter, the crops in the fields are growing well, indicating that this will be a bumper harvest.

Moreover, these winter wheat and carrots are just appetizers. The fruits of spring plowing will be seen in two or three months.

The new farm tools and farming methods vigorously promoted by Shuangxiujiao, coupled with a series of corresponding preferential policies introduced by the female lord, have greatly improved the enthusiasm and efficiency of farmers for farming.

At the same time, the use of composting technology has also significantly improved the environmental sanitation of Green Field.

After Ilea led her people to inspect Li Yu's dry toilets, she built 300 of them on her own territory.

Anyway, it is not difficult to build this thing. Just dig a hole in the ground. If you don't have enough bricks, you can build a shed with wood first. Although it is not that strong, it does not affect the use and saves money.

In order to encourage the people in the territory to relieve themselves in the dry toilets and get rid of the habit of open defecation, the female lord not only set an example, but also sealed up the high-altitude latrines of Teacup Castle and transformed them into small dry toilets. By the way, she solved the problem once and for all. The risk of assassination by people drilling into latrines.

Later, a group of toilet supervisors were appointed in the farms and villages, specifically responsible for patrolling and checking who did not defecate in the dry toilets.

These people were called defecation officers by the locals, but later the female lord found that it was unrealistic to rely on toilet supervisors to monitor whether everyone had a good defecation.

After all, Luye is not a modern society. There are cameras everywhere. In such a big village, there are hundreds of people running around everywhere. If someone really doesn't obey the rules and pulls a corner at random, the official won't be able to see it. arrive.

It is not feasible to count whether the villagers have ever been to the dry toilet every day. After all, physiological needs are different for each person every day. Some people have to pull several times a day, and some only go once in two or three days.

In addition, even if you are forced to enter and exit the dry toilet every day, it does not mean that you must relieve yourself in it.

In addition, the quality of low-level officials is generally worrying. Once some people have power in their hands, even if they only have the power to supervise whether everyone has the power to go to the toilet properly, they can play around and seek personal gain for themselves.

Therefore, the toilet supervisor only existed for less than a month, and was canceled by the female lord due to various shortcomings.

In the end, it was thanks to the monks who took advantage of the Saturday holiday to educate the believers on Saturdays that more and more people used the dry toilets.

There are also tragedies, such as a drunk who got up from bed at night to go to the toilet, accidentally slipped in and was drowned in feces.

Generally speaking, people's acceptance of dry toilets is still getting higher and higher, especially after the winter has passed and the temperature has warmed up, people are not so resistant to walking more to go to the toilet.

By June, the wheat, rye and carrots planted in February were finally ripe, and the fields were full of people working hard.

The Hughes of the Shuangxiu Church also have new tasks. Since the growth of crops has its own natural laws and does not depend on human will, farmers often need to work continuously when harvesting.

This requires counting each person's working time, and then adjusting and making up for the rest when he is free.

Especially for those farms owned by nobles, the working hours and intensity of the serfs are also the focus of the Shuangxue Education.

The court where Jintong is located is the busiest at this time. In addition to daily patrol inspections, they will immediately dispatch to the scene of the incident to investigate after receiving corresponding reports and complaints.

Contrary to what most people think, the living conditions of serfs in the Middle Ages were generally better than those of black slaves in later generations.

I don’t know if this is considered a regression of civilization in some sense.

Like black slaves, serfs in the Middle Ages were also attached to their lords, and they were not allowed to leave the lord's fief for the rest of their lives. They could be bought, sold, and mortgaged, but unlike black slaves, they could not be killed at will.

A serf had to be tried before he could be arrested or executed, although the trial was often left to the lord.

In addition, serfs were free to form families and own their own private property. In addition to paying land rent like free farmers, serfs also needed to work for the lord without pay.

According to the tradition of Bratis continent, serfs work for the lord four days out of every ten days.

This is also an important reason why most of the lords in the Western Region do not welcome Li Yu and his Shuangxiu Cult.

If the serfs in the territory join the Shuangxiu religion, abide by the precepts of the Shuangxiu religion, and rest two days a week, assuming that their working hours for the lord remain unchanged, the time left to cultivate their own land in a month is only The next ten days or so.

This is obviously not enough for the serfs to make a living, but if this part of the rest time is counted on the lords, it will undoubtedly cause dissatisfaction among the lords.

Even though Luye had Ilea's support, he still argued about this issue for a long time.

After all, Ilea is only the biggest lord of the green field, and there are knight fiefs below. If one is not handled well, it will easily chill the hearts of those vassals who have served the Arias family for many years.

Finally, after several rounds of negotiations, everyone in Green Field barely reached an agreement, and the lords reduced the monthly working hours of the serfs from 12 days to 8 days.

Converted to a week, it’s almost five days off and two days off, plus an extra half day of rest time.

When signing the contract, Pablo's hands were shaking with distress, but in the end he was cruel and wrote his name on the white paper.

After signing his name, Pablo said to Li Yu, "Lord Merlin, please tell the supreme Saturday that the Hogg family has devoted all its loyalty to it."

Li Yu replied, "You will not regret today's decision, Sir Pablo."

As Pablo, who had the toughest attitude and the most meritorious deeds, accepted the new serf labor schedule, the remaining nobles no longer resisted and stepped forward to write their names.

Later, the writing on this piece of white paper will be engraved on the stone tablet and stand forever beside Teacup Castle, binding all the nobles on this land and their descendants.

However, although the written oath has been fulfilled, it is not so easy to fully implement it.

Even if the little nobles themselves are willing to keep their oaths, the people below them may not implement them truthfully.

Jin Tong is going to deal with such a thing now.