Chapter 606: Wolf hunting and wool
“Fucking troublesome people, dare to hit my people?!”
Slapping his palm on the wooden table, Henderson cursed with a ferocious expression. .
Henderson really didn't expect that just because he was preparing to hunt wolves, he didn't notice any one of them. In just three weeks, more than 20 households of villagers actually turned against him.
Just because someone else cut two acres of land for you? Is this loyalty too cheap?
Holding his chest, Henderson suppressed his anger.
He turned his head and saw the morning light shining on the idle man's butt. A group of purple and blue was clearly visible, and even the outline of the footprints could be seen.
“Top Henderson, this kick is not my butt, this is clearly your face!” The idle man lying on the bench yelled, it seemed that he was injured due to too much movement. At this point, he couldn't help but howl again.
The other three or five idle men followed suit, as if the kick had hit them.
Looking at the idle man’s screams and bumpy buttocks, he turned his head in disgust and asked the villagers on the side: "Approximately how many families have joined his harvest team?"
With his waist hunched over, the middle-aged villager put his straw hat on his chest: "Take our family with you. There are more than 20 families."
"What do you do on weekdays?"
"Just helping each other harvest the wheat. If he doesn't take the initiative to ask about the permanent leasehold rights and Baihu District, he won't take the initiative to mention it." Then The villagers hesitated for half a second, then gritted their teeth and continued, "They seem to be announcing something at the village church tonight, maybe they are talking about permanent lease rights."
After listening to the villagers' narration, Hande Sen frowned and leaned back on the chair, closing his eyes and concentrating, still thinking about his next action.
After all, Ansel has two tricks up his sleeve, and he actually managed to win over more than 20 families by being so quiet.
Are these villagers really careless? Aren't they afraid of being deceived by these two people who don't know their true origins?
But no matter what he thinks, no matter what he wants to do, since he knows it, there is no reason to let him do it.
Henderson took out two dinars from the cabinet and put them into the man's hands: "It's for you. Go back and don't let anyone find out."
" Hey, okay.”
The villagers naturally left the courtyard with the dinar in their hands.
Watching the villager who reported the news walk out of the small courtyard, an idle man suggested: "Why not let him write down the names of the people involved?"
"With the support of the new church, the knight will not help, but We can't let anyone take advantage of it." Henderson picked up a chickpea and threw it into his mouth. "Besides, do you need him to tell me?"
The manor is so big, who is involved in the mutual aid? The small group of neighbors all knew it, and there was no need to ask from the farmer.
"Is he going to hold a prayer meeting tonight?" Popping a chickpea into his mouth, Henderson sneered, "Tell the villagers that we will be hunting foxes and wolves starting in mid-September. Anyone who wants to join this year’s Wolf Hunt team should come to my house to discuss it tonight.”
Henderson's eldest son agreed and was about to go out, but was grabbed by Henderson: "One more thing, please help me deliver this letter to the owner of Cosland Manor. You deliver it in person, don’t go into the manor, and wait in the hunter’s cabin.”
"Okay, Father."
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As a person from Pingyuan County, Ansel always feels like he is in a deep ravine when standing on the road at the entrance of this manor village. The feeling of falling.
The cold wood unique to Mountain County is known for its hardness and is often used as crude furniture and shields.
They grow tall and big, without many branches, so they are arranged so densely together.
Although there are steep slopes less than 20 to 30 meters on both sides, under the pressure of the towering ladder-like dark black cold trees on the slope, even the sky is just a narrow path, and it is inevitable to have a feeling of a quiet deep valley.
Bryson has long been familiar with this feeling. He has an acorn wine bag hanging around his neck and takes a few sips from time to time.
Lalor held the two wheelbarrows, and sometimes he would ask Bryson for a bite when he was greedy.
Occasionally, Bryson would pass the wine bag to Ansel's mouth: "Take a sip, there is ginger juice in it. Even though it is the end of August in the manor, it is already October in the woods. . ”
But Ansel always refuses. As a Holy Doctrine believer, although he does not prohibit drinking, he does not advocate it.
From 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., when the sun was almost reaching his forehead, even Ansel couldn't help but become impatient.
Fortunately, they didn’t wait much longer and the convoy finally arrived.
As the ringing sound of the horse bell sounded, Ansel, who had been huddled behind the wheelbarrow, perked up and quickly stood up and walked in the direction of the sound of the bell.
Two large carriages were escorted by about twenty soldiers. The wheels would run over the stones on the ground. The whole carriage would jolt or jump, and the wool loaded on the carriage would fly into the air. Stopping slowly at the entrance of the village, the horse snorted, while the soldier driving the car jumped down.
He hammered his left chest with his right hand, and then swung it parallel to the ground until it formed a right angle with his body. This was a military salute from the Salvation Army's restoration of Ayr, and it was quite different from the hat-raising salute commonly used in the Empire now.
"You have only arrived now, can you finish transporting the next few estates?" Ansel did not embarrass or question the leading soldiers.
The soldier complained: "The dirt roads in this area are either stones or potholes. The bridges over the creeks along the way are too fragile. We swam several times. Next time, we will send more vehicles and separate. Let’s go.”
“Thank you for your hard work.” From the carriage. An account book was turned out, and Ansel signed his name on it and pressed his fingerprint, "Two loads of wool, two gallons of salt and a bag of carpentry tools."
After the soldier confirmed, he commanded The laborers on the cart unloaded two loads of wool, and Lalor and Bryson immediately loaded and unloaded the carts.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ansel handed over the briefings and letters from the superior religious order to the soldiers. After submitting this week's report for signature, Ansel read the briefing on the spot.
After struggling to lift the four large bags of wool and throwing them into the wheelbarrow, Bryson put his head close to it: "Is there any new news?"
"Progress in Kasha County It went very well. I think one will be delivered soon. Approval of new people to help." Holding the front and back of this wide paper, Ansel glanced back and forth, "Saint Sun extended the deadline for us until the heavy snow closed the mountains, and gave important instructions on matters in South Mound County. I’d rather go slow than chaotic.”
< br>Speaking of this, Ansel's expression suddenly changed, even the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes were squeezed out, and then he cursed for the first time: "What happened? How did the superior religious allow this?"
"Huh?" Bryson quickly said I leaned my head over and saw that the briefing said "...the permanent lease of Coslan Manor has been successfully implemented. However, the armed peasants maliciously resisted the reform, refused to implement it in the face of investigation, and fled into the mountains. Monks, please pay attention to safety in recent days."
"Is there any problem with this?" Bryson's eyes even lit up. "Isn't this implementation successful? We might as well call the army."
"It's not that simple." Ansel said He folded up the briefing and stuffed it into his sack, then pushed the cart filled with wool with all his strength and walked towards the manor, "Saint Sun warned us before we started that the army is a last resort, and we don't need it if we can."
Zhanoli tried to send troops to arrest and interrogate for evidence when there was no evidence. It was good luck that nothing happened. This accident caused the entire South Mound County to explode
It is estimated that the card will explode. Xia County is progressing so quickly, and we are progressing so slowly, the chief priests are a little anxious."
In fact, the problem Ansel faced was the problem that Herman raised in the Council of Ministers.
The right seat of the Council of Ministers does not represent all knights and nobles. Horn and Meliati established the law with lip service, but the knights under this law may not necessarily implement it.
These laws put a lot of pressure on the knights, and all their tax, agricultural, military, and political powers were reduced.
Meliarty has a very clear understanding of the average acceptance limit of nobles, so she almost dances on the bottom line of knights.
It would be better if it was the Mound or Hotam area, but it is different in the mountainous areas of South Mound County.
The knights here all served and shed blood in the Thousand River Valley War, and Horn could not ignore their outstanding contributions.
It was fine without a reward, but instead the knights were asked to cut their flesh and bleed them.
Although the mountain knights recognize the prestige of Meliati, in this era of hierarchical enfeoffment, they cannot expect that prestige can bring much control.
The most important reason why they accepted the reform of the Hundred Household District was that they could not defeat Meliati and the Kingdom of Leia.
In the eyes of the nobles who had won but had to accept the reform of Baihu District, Meliati killed three birds with one stone.
He took his own people to Pingyuan County, brought his mistress Horne, and took these unlucky knights into his mouth.
Some extreme knights even shouted out extreme remarks that "Meliati is just one of Horn's dogs". Many mountainous areas are spreading rumors that "Forever Lease and Baihu District are selling dog meat with sheep's heads, and their essence is to cancel the knights." "
Once the pressure is triggered, the knights launch a rebellion. Although it will not succeed, it will ruin Horn's affairs.
Once they make a fuss, reforms in mountainous areas will have to be stalled for at least a year, because a large number of troops will be spent fighting guerrillas with the locals in the deep mountains and old forests.
How long is the window period left by the situation for Horn? Not to mention wasting a year in vain, half a year is not enough.
For the revolting mountain people, the other mountain counties may still have a sympathetic attitude.
If we try to continue implementing the 100-household district reform in other mountainous counties in the future, the resistance will increase exponentially.
Think of it on the bright side. If it expands, several mountain counties may unite to revolt. Only then will it be truly a bad thing.
Pushing the cart with difficulty, Lalor could not care about the conversation between Ansel and Bryson, and did not understand the twists and turns. He just gasped and asked: "Brother Ansel , What did you get so much wool for?”
Ansel didn’t directly. To answer his question, he took out a piece of salt from the bottle and threw it to Lalor: "In the evening, I will host a small group prayer. If the word spreads, every family who comes will receive half a pound for free. Wool.”
(End of this chapter)