Overgod Ascension

boom!

Wu Ming walked leisurely among the crowd, swinging his scabbard casually, as if taking a walk. Every time, a farmer fell down and couldn't get up for a long time.

"A true knight!"

When Mrs. Amelia saw this scene, she leaned against the door, completely despairing.

She originally thought that Wu Ming was just the second son of a nobleman who luckily took advantage of this opportunity to plot her husband's territory, but she never imagined that such a young nobleman was already a real knight!

In fact, even a real knight would have a hard time dealing with dozens of people surrounding him at one go.

But there is a huge difference between farmers and trained warriors. In addition, they are helpless and dare not fight back. Therefore, even if any knight comes, he can easily suppress them, just like what Wu Ming is doing now.

call out!

Wu Ming finally unsheathed his sword and looked at the remaining farmers with a glint in his eyes.

"What gave you the courage to attack me! A noble knight, a conqueror of wildlings, a champion of the Spring Tourney, a man who defeated the glorious knight of the church - William Wallace?"

Of course, due to the inconvenience of transportation, the results of the spring martial arts competition have not yet been transmitted here. Otherwise, Wu Ming estimated that his takeover would have been much smoother, but shouting it out by himself would also be a bit shocking.

"Now, punish yourself severely with your disrespectful hands to the lord, and kneel down and kiss the ground under my feet. I will forgive your previous disloyalty, otherwise your souls can only go to hell and cry!"

The sword flashed, showing that what he said was no lie.

"You are a true knight! The people of the territory need your protection!"

Something happened that made Amelia even more desperate.

The first one to succumb was the old soldier Qiao Fu.

He knelt on his knees, kissed the ground under Wu Ming's feet, and said in a pious tone.

As one of the few people with broad vision in the territory, he already knew that the madam's plan failed completely, and... this is a dark and dangerous world, and there must be a strong lord to protect the people! Women can’t do it after all!

This is helpless, but it is also reality!

"Very good! As punishment, you only need ten lashes, and I will forgive your previous sins!"

Wu Ming looked to the side: "Who is willing to be executed?"

"Lord, I am willing to offer my loyalty to you and become your humble servant!"

Many tenant farmers immediately rebelled, knelt down and kissed the ground under Wu Ming's feet.

Amelia's whole body softened, and she felt the betrayal deeply. The feminine sadness enveloped her deeply, and even made her eyes spin.

The exclamations of her two daughters came to her ears, and immediately her vision went dark and she passed out completely.

…

"Mother!"

"Mother!"

She didn't know how long it took, but she opened her eyes and saw the furnishings in her bedroom and the anxious faces of her two daughters.

"Gods... I seem to have had a terrible nightmare!"

Lady Amelia murmured: "I dreamed that a young devil came to take away everything from me..."

"I'm so sorry...ma'am!"

The old butler with a broken nose stood aside, his face wrapped in gauze, reminding him in a changed voice: "I'm afraid it's not a nightmare!"

Amelia sighed, sat up halfway, and saw Wu Ming.

"When you fainted, it was this...lord who saved you!" the butler continued to add.

"alright, you win!"

Amelia said helplessly: "I will leave with my two daughters!"

"Madam, I think you have misunderstood me!"

Wu Ming said with a smile.

"Are you willing to marry my daughter, or..."

Amelia's face turned red: "Do you insist on your previous request?"

"I do need you...as my butler!"

After teasing this beauty enough, Wu Ming finally said.

"housekeeper?!"

Mrs. Amelia blinked her eyes, looking a little silly.

"Yes... I need someone who is familiar with the territory and has prestige to help me manage the territory. As my steward, I will pay you, and you and your daughter can continue to live here... Of course, if If you are willing, I am willing to adopt them as adopted daughters, and when they grow up, I will also prepare a generous dowry for each of them, how about it?"

Treating the widow of a former lord well is also an unspoken rule in noble circles.

Wu Ming didn't want his reputation for being mean or cruel to spread in the circle. In comparison, possible romantic rumors were nothing at all, which was very important.

"I promise!"

With almost no time to think, Mrs. Amelia agreed.

After all, she was just a commoner's daughter. She had no family to rely on and really had nowhere else to go except the territory.

"Silis, Cecile, come here, meet your godfather!"

She immediately became energetic and asked her two daughters to salute Wu Ming.

Although he knew that in this way, Wu Ming would have the custody of his two daughters and could exercise all rights before they were minors, there was nothing he could do.

"godfather!"

The two lolita shouted sweetly, which made Beatrice next to her snort in dissatisfaction.

"As for you..."

Wu Ming looked at the poor old housekeeper and made a decision casually, knocking him down a level: "Just serve as the housekeeper's deputy!"

…

The people of Kalos Territory soon learned the shocking news that they had a new lord.

That lord was extremely powerful, a true knight, and had defeated the church's glorious knights and an entire mercenary group - the rumors always became more and more exaggerated.

With the protection of this powerful knight, I should be able to avoid the harassment of those damn bandits and savages, right?

After being led by the steward's deputy and Joe, and swearing allegiance to the new lord in batches, all the people's hearts settled down.

The subjects offered loyalty and taxes to the lord, and the lord was responsible for protecting the subjects under his rule. This was also a mutual right and obligation.

In the dark age, even if a powerful lord is brutal, as long as he has power, there will still be an endless stream of people who join him, just for a little safety!

The harm caused by one lord is nothing compared to the entire group of savages, ferocious beasts, and dangerous environment.

"This is my Carlos collar!"

Wu Ming rode a horse and began to inspect his territory, while the deputy steward next to him kept explaining to him.

After a lap, he had some intuitive understanding of his territory.

The entire Lorcas Territory covers an area of ​​nearly one thousand acres, which is much larger than the fiefdom of ordinary knights in previous lives. When converted, it is nearly four million square meters or six thousand acres of land.

Of course, most of these are mountains and hills, and the cultivated land is only about 2,000 acres.

In the entire territory, there were ninety families of tenant farmers, and two families of freemen. One was a skilled blacksmith, and the other had a scholar.

In addition to these, there are water mills, stables, warehouses, and manor courts on the territory. These are all public buildings and are nominally owned by him as the lord.

But the most important thing is that as a lord, in addition to owning all the mountains, forests, rivers, and pastures, Wu Ming also owns one thousand acres of the two thousand acres of cultivated land as his private land.

The subjects under his command, or serfs, must first cultivate their land before going to work on their own barren allotments.

Even those allotments were not owned by the serfs, but because they paid taxes, the lords could not take them away at will.

"In total, this is simply more ruthless than the exploitation of big landowners in ancient times!"

Wu Ming sighed in his heart.

It can be said that in the lord's fief, except for the private property owned by a few freemen, everything else belongs to the lord.

"The efficiency of this exploitation is too low-level..."

As an experienced traveler who has experienced the influence of his previous life, Wu Ming is naturally very dissatisfied with this efficiency: "I wish I could tie all the serfs to the land and turn all the people into slaves. Why not just exercise slavery?" Forget it? What a step backwards in history."

Naturally, he has a lot of great ideas that can make money, but all of this requires people! He needs craftsmen and guys with special skills to work for him!

"Now... I have been canonized as a knight, which means I have entered the aristocratic circle. Some of my previous plans can be started..."

Anyway, it's not just farming, but also developing handicraft products, glass, refined salt, improved forged iron, etc. Wu Ming is not only familiar with it, but also 70% to 80% sure.

"Of course... first of all, you must enforce your authority first!"

What can make people feel authority is naturally iron and blood!

If you implement this method internally, you can only gain fear and resentment, but if you do this to the outside world, you can gain cheers and wealth.

"Joff!"

Wu Ming said to the veteran soldier: "Call all the good young men in the general's territory over here!"

In the territorial court, Wu Ming was like a judge, looking at the many curious, awed, and uneasy young faces below, and suddenly smiled: "From today on, after your daily farm work, you can choose to go to Joe to receive warrior training, so Anyone who does will be rewarded with a loaf of oatmeal bread after training!”

"And after the spring plowing is over, I will lead you to attack the bandits and savages around you!"

His words aroused thousands of waves, but he raised his hands and suppressed his voice: "As a lord, I promise you that those who perform outstandingly in future battles will become free citizens and have their own Land opportunity!”

If you are half a step ahead of your time, you are a genius; if you are one step ahead of the times, you are a madman!

Although Wu Ming wished he could directly liberate everyone in the territory as free citizens, he also knew that this was impossible and had to be done slowly.

In the future, refinement and division of labor will be the general direction, and these require a free population!