A pair of small hands were placed in front of Liang Lidong, if it was on the earth, a child of this age, his hands were generally white and pure, but here, he only saw a pair of small hands that were brown and yellow, covered with calluses. Even Belin, the girl next to her, has a big calloon on her hands. The civilians of this world are always industrious, but they can never fill their stomachs, as long as there is a small drought, someone will starve to death, they work hard to cultivate their small land, and the harvestable grain, sixty percent of the grain will be handed over to the lord, and the remaining one percent will be handed over to the village chief, and they will only have three percent left.

After Liang Lidong became a lord in the game, he only collected twenty percent of the grain tax, which in his opinion was already very high, and he didn't even want to collect grain. But the policy of the state of Hollevon did not allow him to do this, and the lord had to collect the grain, which must start at 20% and stop at 60...... The NPC lords of the country of Holeiwen all collect the highest grain tax, and Liang Lidong's territory has the lowest grain tax and the lowest commercial tax, so it has attracted a large number of NPC civilians to migrate to his territory to live and develop.

His domain had gone from a penniless wilderness village to a commercial powerhouse within a few years. Not counting the floating population, there are more than 400,000 local residents, although it is not as good as those historical ancient cities with a population of one million, but at this rate, it will only be a matter of about ten or twenty years to develop and become a million-level population. However, because too many civilians have migrated from nearby to his territory, the NPC lords bordering his territory are very hostile to him, and have united several times to attack his territory for inexplicable reasons.

Unfortunately, he has a lot of player friends. There are only 4 people who can become lords as players, all of whom are gods and nobles, and he is one of them.

Generally speaking, players prefer to gather in the territory of the player lord, because of the intimacy, so the four player territories are also called the four main cities by the players, and the players spontaneously gather in these four cities to carry out various exchanges or commercial activities. Every time the bordering nobles attack Liang Lidong's territory, players will spontaneously protect his territory, and the professional is not an object that ordinary soldiers can fight against, and there is also a large guild stationed in Liang Lidong's territory.

For players in large guilds, every time the enemy army attacks, it is an excellent opportunity to 'brush up experience', they want the enemy to harass every day, and Liang Lidong is also very good, implementing the policy of distant friendship and close attack, he has a good relationship with other nobles in Holaiwen, but for several lords bordering him, he has always been vicious, running to other people's cities with a small group of cavalry every day, and using magic to harass in the air. Since the other party did the first year of junior high school, Liang Lidong did fifteen, which made those lords miserable.

Several lords once wanted to block the commercial route of Liang Lidong's territory, but because of the existence of players, this thing became a dream, and the merchants went to the mercenary union to issue escort missions, and the players formed small groups to take the task to protect the safety of the merchants. Players can be resurrected when they die, but NPCs cannot, and after a while, several lords privately signed a peace agreement with Liang Lidong, with a very low attitude and a lot of price.

Liang Lidong's wars against several lords almost all ended in victory, except for a certain prophecy incident.

In the game, Liang Lidong implements low grain tax and low commercial tax, and he also uses the lord system to release a lot of tasks to maintain law and order for players to undertake, so that the security in the territory is excellent, and ordinary civilians are living well, at least they are well fed and warmly dressed.

Now he sees that these children are yellow, hungry, and dirty, and his mood is a little uncomfortable: "In the future, you will not only wash your hands before writing, but also keep your hands clean." Labor is an honorable act, but after labor, you should also wash your hands and try to keep your hands clean. Also, you will have to bathe every day from now on...... If you are dirty, it is disrespectful to the text, let's do this today, but from tomorrow, you all have to wash me clean and come back, the clothes can be old, you can patch them, but they can't be dirty, I don't accept students who profane the text here, understand? ”

The children nodded vigorously.

Liang Lidong didn't tell this group of children any big truths, and in this era of low productivity, acting in the name of religion is more effective than mere preaching. In the original origins of many civilizations, the so-called ritual was actually an act of self-cleansing before worshipping the gods, which was the process of religious rituals. Clean people, the probability of getting disease will always be lower, human beings vaguely feel such benefits, and then slowly evolved into the daily life of ordinary people, so to speak, it is the original religion or ancestor worship that makes human beings love to be clean.

Seeing that all the children listened to their words, Liang Lidong put up the sign that was placed aside, then took out the plant paint sent by the village chief, and then wrote three large light red characters on it in Horlevin language:

'I'

'You'

'He'

The characters of Hollevin are also pictographs, so each word can represent one, or several meanings, and the writing of these three characters is simple enough, only two or three strokes, which is very suitable for the enlightenment of writing.

The children listened very carefully, and after Liang Lidong explained the meaning and writing of the three words, he let them practice on the sand, which is why they came to the river to gather. Of course, if you have enough money, you can practice writing on paper, but the problem here are all children of poor families, and the normal price of a piece of parchment is thirty-eight copper coins...... With the exception of a few very wealthy aristocrats, no one wanted to practice with parchment as soon as they learned to write.

By noon, all the children had already mastered the meaning and writing of the three words, and Liang Lidong asked them to take time to practice and familiarize themselves in the afternoon, and then announced the disbandment.

By this time, the young and strong laborers who had gone up the mountain to quarry had returned, and they poured the stones on the flat ground in the center of the village, forming a small hill. After eating their own dry food and well water, and after a short rest, they began to lay the foundations. Whether a house can be built well depends on whether the foundation is solid or not. Some of the older students were not in a hurry to go home, but joined the group of adults to help build the temple.

At this time, some adults naturally asked them how they were studying, and these children said Liang Lidong's request, if other people asked their children to take a bath every day and wash their hands before and after meals, these adults didn't take a sip, and then scolded that person to death: You have seen the poor family of the bitter child take a bath once a day.

But Liang Lidong is different, he is a priest, a spell caster, a special group more noble than the aristocracy, and the most important thing is that now that their children are beginning to be literate, they will be able to barely be regarded as half a 'scholar' in the future, no longer a bitter pariah, scholars have the etiquette that scholars should abide by, and from now on they should practice the most basic etiquette, which is supposed and necessary, which shows that the pastor is not fooling them at will, but is teaching the children very seriously.

There is no such thing as 'giving it to you and giving it a peach', but they understand that words cannot be learned with money, and that the priest is willing to teach them, and that is the gift of the goddess Waukin. Besides, if you go to the city to learn writing, you will have to charge a gold coin for a hundred words, and you will not be able to learn, let alone teach you how to write, but only teach you to recognize, even if you can't recognize it, it is none of their business.

The priest had to teach the children 540 words, which were converted into gold coins, which was 5 gold and 40 silver, an amount that everyone in their village could not make up for a year without eating or drinking. The village chief of Serry Village sold his family's fine-quality beast skins, but it was his accumulation for decades, and it could be said that he had exchanged his life for something, and he was not willing to exchange it for money.

Since the priest was so generous, they could only reluctantly repay the favor if they did their best to build the temple well.

Liang Lidong didn't feel how generous he was, in the eyes of the players, just a simple literacy tutorial was not worth much, for them, what was really valuable was the various combat skills, talents, or magic, as well as character experience...... Teaching students to gain character experience is actually a win-win thing, and for players, character experience is much more important than that little money.

After lunch, Liang Lidong asked the village chief, "Old Reed, can you lend Kyle to me for an afternoon, I plan to go to Winter Wind City to buy some necessary magic alchemy items." ”

In the game, Winterwind City was destroyed by the player, so although Liang Lidong had heard of the name of Winterwind City, he did not go there.

"Lord Beta, Kyle is now your student, and it is only natural for a student to serve his teacher, and I have no right to intervene if you send him."

Kyle chewed the egg tamales made by Liang Lidong in his mouth, and nodded vigorously, as a lively boy, he naturally hoped to play everywhere, but every time he entered the city, he had to pay a poll tax, which made him unhappy, so if there was nothing to do, he rarely entered the city, but if he followed the teacher, he didn't have to pay the poll tax, and those soldiers and ruffians guarding the city gate bullied the soft and feared the hard, they dared to collect money from ordinary civilians, but if they met mercenaries, professionals, and spellcasters, they didn't dare to put a fart.

"Well, by the way, call Belin." Liang Lidong thought for a while and said.

Just now when he was teaching children to read, he found out that Kyle is the smartest of all the children, he can recognize words as soon as he can, and writing is also very easy to use, Belin is almost, but compared to other children, he is also a standout, and it is very cultivated. If these two children are trained to become believers in the goddess of Waukin, on the one hand, he can get the piety points given by the system, which can be used to exchange for low-level divine arts, and on the other hand, he can get two helpers to help take care of the trivial things in the temple.

"Okay, I'll go call Belin right now." Kyle shoves the rest of the bread into his mouth, then wipes his mouth and runs out the door.

"Lord Beta......" The old village chief hesitated for a while, looking a little embarrassed, and finally said: "If you encounter something inconvenient to deal with in Winter Wind City, you can go to the Black Iron Tavern in the East District and find an old man called 'Iron Hook', he is a good skill, he used to be a professional, as long as he is given enough money, he is willing to do anything." ”

Liang Lidong raised his head, looked at the old village chief, and asked with some puzzlement, "Why did you suddenly tell me these things?" ”