Chapter 270 The Life of Demacia Serfs

Salerfanie's words made Lux and Sona's cheeks flush.

Is the Mianwei family and the Bouvil family who adopted Sona, who are considered a great charity who treats farmers well?

At this moment, Lux and Sona were embarrassed to say that, because they personally experienced the hard work of the workers at the bottom, and how meager the salary rewards received from this hard work were.

"But the problem is." Salefanie's tone became solemn: "In Demacia, the Mianwei family and the Bouvil family are really good people who treat farmers well."

In Demacia, being able to make the tenant farmers eat and wear well like the Mianwei family can certainly be regarded as the conscience of the nobles.

"This is the most helpless and terrifying thing," said Salerfanie.

Lux, Sona: "."

The two girls were already in shock, ashamed, entangled and confused complex emotions at this time, unable to extricate themselves.

Their worldview was shattered.

Lux even instinctively disbelief: "Does the tenant farmers of Demacia really live such a hard life?"

It is obvious that the tenant farmers in her family all look very happy.

They were smiling when they met themselves, and she could not see any pain in everyone's faces.

The pastoral life of studying and farming is a paradise that some people imagine in the aristocratic circle of Demacia Xiongdu, and even a paradise that some people imagine, is a spiritual sustenance comparable to that of Bander City.

So, Lux never felt that the life of Demacia farmers would be very hard.

The life she experienced today was after all, by Zuan apprentices, not Demacians.

Is there a possibility that Salefanie made a mistake?

The income of Demacia tenant farmers is really only one-tenth of that of Zuan apprentices? Or in other words, the income of Demacia farmers is less than that of Zuan apprentices, but their daily work may not be so tiring, right?

"Happiness is better than that," Salefanie said. "Your tenant farmers live better than 99% of the farmers in Demacia, and of course they will feel happy."

"But Lux, have you ever thought about what kind of life most Demacians live?"

Lux was silent again. She had never seen it before and could not imagine it at all.

Could it be that she is more tiring and desperate than the job she experienced today?

"Oh" Looking at the confused expression of the little girl, Salerfanie knew that her blowjob was not loud enough.

The Transformation Record can’t change anything. The noble lady experiences the life of the lower class workers for a long time, and after all, it’s just a quick look.

And her original thoughts were able to change so quickly, in addition to the guidance of Li Wei's theory, more importantly, she herself has the ability to listen to the voice of her soul and listen to suffering.

"Lux, Sona." Salerfanie thought for a while before asking solemnly: "Would you like to meet the most ordinary lower-level Demacian, how did you spend his first half of his life?"

"Aba?" Sona raised her head curiously.

So was Lux. She couldn't wait to figure out whether the Demacians were really as hard as Salefanie said.

So she asked anxiously: "How do you understand?"

"It's very simple." Salerfanie stretched out her hands and gently stroked Lux ​​and Sona's foreheads: "Close your eyes and listen to the sound of the soul."

The origins of the Zuan people are very complicated. They basically come from all over the world to Piltwolf, but they end up in Piertwolf, which makes them poor.

She happened to be in front-line publicity work these two days and encountered a serf who escaped from Demacia across the ocean.

The life memories of this former Demacian serf can be used to break the last fantasy of these two noble ladies.

"Are you ready?" asked Salerfanie.

"Yeah." Lux and Sona closed their eyes and nodded seriously.

A dream began.

Jan was born.

Born in a peasant family in the coastal city of Demacia, in the countryside of Dornhold.

Farmers in Demacia generally have two identities, free man and serf.

The bad news is that you are reincarnated as a serf.

The good news is that after hundreds of years of land annexation in Demacia, most of the free people in the countryside were bankrupt landless farmers, and they were debt tenants who could only rely entirely on the survival of aristocratic landlords.

Therefore, there is actually no difference between free people and serfs in terms of economic status.

Your fetus is not well-born, but it is not too much of a loss.

You are a girl.

This is bad news.

Because girls not only need to bear the cap tax like boys, but also wait until you grow up:

If you get married, your family will need to pay a fine to your Knight Lord to compensate for the loss of labor.

And if you continue to be single as an adult, you have to pay the ransom to the lord.

Because the marriage of female serfs is actually mainly dominated by the lord, and usually the butler will be betrothed out by the steward as long as you become an adult. If you want to make the decision by yourself, you have to pay for it.

In short, in the countryside of Demacia, girls are just money-losing goods. What's more, you are born with less physical fitness than boys, and you are not a useful laborer.

That night, your parents held you by the river and thought for a long time, but in the end they still felt sorry for you and did not throw you into the river.

You have grown up with the milk that is not full of mother and the mucus made of black bread soaked in water.

At about 5 or 6 years old, I can help with some work.

You start working with your father.

Every morning, you and your father get up early, and with the cold of the morning, carrying hoes, shovels, axes and sickles and other tools, you drive the bulls to work on the lord's farm.

You are very hungry, but you don't want to have breakfast. Because breakfast is an unheard of interstellar knowledge for serfs who eat two meals a day.

It was not until later when you went to the lord's house to help as a maid that you realized that people also had to have dinner in the morning.

In this way, you were hungry and helped your father carry a hoe that was much taller than you, and led the bull, and went to the lord's farm with you to work.

The gentlemen and literati in Xiongdu fantasize that the pastoral life of farmers is free, but in fact, as a serf, you are like a worker in the morning and you must report to the lord's farm on time.

Today, you and your father were a little late, and they were scolded by the housekeeper and said that they would punish them in public.

Fortunately, your father is a sensible person. He said in private that he would bribe the housekeeper with something, such as if your family had saved up for half a month and had not eaten an egg.

Punishment escaped. But work itself is like a punishment.

There are generally two types of jobs in which serfs need to serve the lord voluntarily, one is to cultivate the lord's public fields, and the other is to help with some miscellaneous work.

For example, cutting wood, planting trees, installing fences, pruning branches of fruit trees and vines, repairing and building houses. In short, you are obliged to do all the errands on the lord's territory.

Today, you and your father were not arranged to do these miscellaneous work, but were arranged to work in the farmland.

Together with your father, you yoke the horses and bulls, tie the plowshares and plows, and then plow hard in the plowland.

In order to drive the livestock to work as ordered, you and the other serfs must keep shouting. You shouted loudly and your throat was sore. The sun had already burned your and your father's skin to black and red, making you numb and not feel burning.

The good news is:

As a serf, you only need to do three days a week to cultivate public fields for leadership.

You can work with your father to cultivate your own land.

After all, serfs are better than slaves. Compared with slaves who have completely lost their human rights, serfs have at least economic freedom.

The outputs on these fields are your own, and are your private property.

So although you and your father are already very tired after working for the mission, you will have to work for yourself in the next time, and work harder and harder.

But the bad news is:

Most of the gains from farming in your family will be used to pay various taxes and fees.

There are taxes collected by the Kingdom of Demacia, such as military expenses, land tax, poll tax, etc.

Most of them are various taxes and fees collected by the lord, such as:

If you are alive, you have to pay another count tax to the lord.

If you own tenancy rights, you must first pay a land rent in the manor.

Living outside the manor requires payment.

Use the Lord's Mill and you have to pay the money.

Collect firewood and you have to pay.

Fishing in rivers within the territory requires money.

Raising livestock in the woods around the village requires money.

When the lord's eldest son becomes a knight, your father has to pay taxes to celebrate this ceremony.

When the lady of the lord's family gets married, your family will also have to pay taxes for her dowry.

Gradually, you grow into a girl and become sensible.

At the same time, you also found that after more than ten years of labor between you and your father, your family's financial situation has not improved at all.
To be continued...