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Chapter 1 The Manor

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In the afternoon, the wind is bright and the weather is clear, which is a rare weather in early summer.

Linchuanyi, outside a manor near a river bay, a 50-year-old man in his fifties stood in front of more than two thousand people in a dense array of neatly arranged hands, carrying his hands, as if he was waiting for something.

"My father, I heard from the warrior sent by the little gentleman to send a message that our new master is a young master. Is it really okay for us to do this?"

Behind the old man, he was a man in his thirties, and his clothes were just a little different.

"What kind of young master? Today, there is no such thing as the Snake Yu Kingdom. It's just a young master who is destroyed." The old man said disdainfully and said, "Besides, we are not going to fight him on the surface, but just show our control over the manor slightly, and then tell him that he should give him the harvest. A lot of money will be given to him."

"In this way, what else does he say?"

"Look at many other manors in Linchuan, where there are young gentlemen from other places or their families, but have you ever seen them come here in person?"

"These young men and gentlemen never come to take care of these things themselves, but they are all left to us servants. They only care whether the annual income of the manor is as normal and whether it can support them in squandering. As long as there is no problem here, nothing will happen."

"But my father, I always feel a little uneasy. Maybe it's not an ordinary person who can ask us a gentleman to give such a big manor?" The young man said worriedly. He had an instinctive fear of the superiors, especially those with the title of a young man, which made him even more unbearable.

"Ha!" The old man sneered: "Meng Ming, why do you think I did this? I ask you, if we don't do this, our new master, Mr. Snake Yu, will replace us and set up a new butler here again?"

"This is a large manor with a population of 600 households, 2,000 and more than 500 people. In addition to supporting the owner's income, as long as we manage it well on weekdays, we will get a little more for each of them. This is not a small number."

"I think those gentry and men who have been sealed off villages and towns may not have the glory of our family."

"Think about the brocade clothes you wear, imagine the food you say, and the beautiful women you freely choose in the manor. Our grandson can even go to the capital to learn literary and military affairs. If I can no longer be a housekeeper, these will be lost at that time."

"Sir, Father!" A trace of fear flashed across the man's face. It was obvious that he was frightened by that situation.

"So, we must do this, first slap the young master of the destruction and scare him." The old man said ruthlessly: "Give another sweet date to comfort him, and even give him more so that we can continue to manage the manor affairs here and continue to have everything we have."

"It's a pity, it's a pity that my grandson is too young."

"If he has already achieved the title and has become a talented man, and has the power of a sage, and has the power of a warrior, and can achieve merits, and my family has been working hard in managing the manor, it may not be a problem to enclose this manor to our Meng family with the love of Lord Luli and the young gentleman."

"By then, we will also have several gentry families in Linchuan City."

"Oh..." The old man sighed. It was obvious that the little gentleman of Luli gave the manor to someone, which had disrupted all his plans.

"That's all I can do."

While the two were discussing, a burst of dust suddenly rose from the distance. At first, there was not much, but later it seemed like a long dragon was pulled out and then raised it in the sky, covering the sky and sweeping towards the manor.

"Sir, look, what's there? What happened?" Meng Ming looked at it, and was shocked and shouted anxiously.

"What's the matter? It's so big, I'm not calm." The old man said distractedly, but he looked into the distance with his son's guidance. His eyes were no more than those of young people. He didn't see clearly until the dust and the person who stirred up the dust approached.

Then, he was shocked and said in shock: "No, this seems to be a large army traveling. Only by stepping on dry mud and stone roads can such a loud dust be shocked. It is because a military force has come."

"In Linchuan, only the young gentleman who has such a large military force and can be mobilized freely is the only one who has returned from receiving his bride. Could it be the young gentleman's chariot? He escorted Mr. Shi Yu to receive the manor?"

"How is this possible? The little gentleman is going to pick up the bride. When he returns to Jingguo, he must go back to Luli to get married first. How could he delay here?"

"Is it a bandit in the mountains?" Meng Ming said in disbelief.

"How is it possible? How do you have a brain?" the old man cursed: "Our Linan Manor is not in the mountains and fields outside the Linchuan area. There are no thieves. Even if there are thieves, if you want to come in, unless you break through the various levels of Linchuan first, there will inevitably be war fire."

"Now that the war has not started, of course it will not be the bandits entering the country." He said a little uneasy: "Maybe the little gentleman attaches great importance to Mr. Shi Yu, so he mobilized the Linchuan garrison, but it only took a manor, so he needed so many people?"

The old man thought so, but soon, the people coming from afar were getting closer and closer, and the convoys moving forward were gradually approaching, causing the wild people behind him to start riots, and finally asked him to see the flags on the four-horse chariot in the front row.

"Snake Yu." The old man carefully identified the words on the banner. As the manor's housekeeper, he had been rich for generations by managing the manor. Of course, he was literate, so he identified the words, and then his face changed drastically and his whole body became trembling.

"How is it possible? How could a young man from a country that was destroyed take out so many soldiers? There are at least ten cyclists. The Lu Li family is in Linchuan. Even if he initiates a convening order and gathers soldiers and peasants into an army, he can only gather hundreds or dozens of cyclists."

"Father, what should we do?"

Meng Ming had never seen such a military force before. Seeing a long dragon pressing towards him with murderous intent, his legs were a little weak.

The old man took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down. His eyes flashed with divine light and said to him quickly: "Hurry, go and greet everyone in the manor to kneel down to greet him."

"Young Master, this Huai River is really a fertile land, it is much more prosperous than the northern countries."

Along the river, a lane winds through Linan Manor.

Wang Yue was incorporated from the militia of the Black Hu thief and a team of soldiers and vehicles sent by Doctor Yin Yin. He marched and integrated in an orderly manner in the lane for a few days. The military was a little better than the initial incorporation. The militia had already seen blood with the Black Hu, and at this time it seemed that they had some elite troops.

What I just spoke was the big snake. Looking at the endless fields on the plains on the rivers and the left and right sides of the rivers in Linchuan, the manor sighed.

In the northern country of Shen, he had seen the most prosperous place he had ever seen, and the capital of Puyang was just like this.

"That's because you're only in Shen Kingdom, and you haven't seen anything else." said Zhao Wu (Chao You), a chariot warrior of Wang Yue.

"Shen Kingdom is located between the three forces of Chen, Cai and Jing. In recent hundreds of years, various countries have fought for hegemony. Several major wars have been in Shen Kingdom, and there are even more small wars, which can be said to be frequent wars. In addition, Shen Kingdom has many mountains and forests, so it cannot develop."

"It's different like the Chen State. It has been a prosperous place in the Central Plains in the world since ancient times. Although it also has many mountains, it is mostly in the west and east, with more vast plains, and a large river winds from the east and crosses the plains. With many tributaries, there is no shortage of water sources and it is easy to reclaim more arable land."

"The country's power is the most powerful in the world, and the battles for hegemony are mostly abroad, which does not affect the country. Instead, due to the war, the domestic doctors and lords have developed the territory with great prosperity. After hundreds of years of development, the population is still far above the Huai River."

"Although Cai State is second to Chen State, it is not bad."

Zhao Wu followed Heihu to the Kingdom of Cai and went to the north, but his experience was much richer than that of the snake. He had to nod and listen and no longer talked.

Soon after, the manor was already in sight, and the warriors sent by the little gentleman to guide the way to help the reception also came to repay them.

"Young Master, there is Linan Manor ahead. In front of the manor, the butler Meng Qi has led the manor under the manor to welcome the arrival of the young master."

Wang Yue had seen the scene in front of the manor and smiled and said to Zhao Wu: "The situation of welcoming me is really big. If I hadn't brought my army, wouldn't I be scared by these thousands of people?"

Zhao Wu sneered: "It's just that the butler of this manor wants to play tricks in front of the young master and show his power, so that the young master can't touch him easily when he accepts outside the manor, and asks him to continue to manage the manor affairs for the young master."

"I offended this young master, but he still wants to continue to be the butler?" Wang Yueqi said.

"That's natural." Zhao Wu said affirmatively: "I'm a big deal to deceive the master, and this kind of thing happens in the north."

"Many weak or not smart enough manor owners are often bullied by them. In addition, these slaves show their prestige, but they are not too much. The benefits they should give to the manor owner will still be given, and there may even be more, which is better than what they do on their own, so in the end they are mostly letting it go."

"Oh?" Wang Yue looked at the dense crowds in the distance, thinking in his heart.

Zhao Wu continued: "Where does this butler come from the owner's income that gives more money to the owner? Apart from their business operations for many years and having the skills to operate, they can only continue to exploit the owners who rented land in the manor."

"There was originally a burden on the owner of the manor, and the farmers were very burdened. The remaining food was not enough to eat. In addition, the housekeeper also needed profits to manage the manor, so they had to exploit it again. In this way, they would be even more miserable."

"Just just because the owner of the Zhiying manor doesn't have enough food to eat, and he is exploited by the housekeeper again, how can they survive?"

Wang Yue asked, all the things he communicated with Ziyu and Zijing were big things, but these things had never been discussed.

Zhao Wu sneered: "The merchants don't have enough food, so of course they have to borrow from the housekeeper, borrowing 100 kilograms of grain, and the interest rate is ten kilograms a month, and they will have to pay back 200 kilograms next year. In this way, they will not be able to pay it back at all, and they will become servants from wild people."

"Although the servants are still civilians, they are actually similar to slaves. They carry debts that they can never pay off. In order to repay the debt, they have to work for the manor for free for their lives until they die, and they will never see hope."

He sighed: "In the past, in many manors in the northern countries, this was the case. These servants were different from other savages. Once they were thieves, they would follow them wholeheartedly, even if they died, they were willing to die, because their previous lives were not as good as thieves, and even a dog was not as good as a cheap life."

Finally, he added in a low voice: "Before I was sent to the mine as a mining slave to become a samurai, my family first came from the Warrior House to the Savage House for some things, and later I went through this process, alas!"

Wang Yue nodded slightly, and he was actually not unfamiliar with the things Zhao Wu said.
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