After establishing a cooperative relationship, Li Yu left the specific details to Zhang Yanlin to discuss with the Coke Bear, and he could finally transfer more energy back to Bratis.
As early as a month or two ago, farmers in Greenfield were already talking excitedly about this summer's harvest.
Thanks to the abundant rain and suitable temperatures after winter, the crops in the fields are growing well, indicating that this will be a bumper harvest.
Moreover, these winter wheat and carrots are just appetizers. The fruits of spring plowing will be seen in two or three months.
The new farm tools and farming methods vigorously promoted by Shuangxiujiao, coupled with a series of corresponding preferential policies introduced by the female lord, have greatly improved the enthusiasm and efficiency of farmers for farming.
At the same time, the use of composting technology has also significantly improved the environmental sanitation of Green Field.
After Ilea led her people to inspect Li Yu's dry toilets, she built 300 of them on her own territory.
Anyway, it is not difficult to build this thing. Just dig a hole in the ground. If you don't have enough bricks, you can build a shed with wood first. Although it is not that strong, it does not affect its use and saves money.
In order to encourage the people in the territory to relieve themselves in the dry toilets and get rid of the habit of open defecation, the female lord not only set an example, but also sealed up the high-altitude latrines of Teacup Castle and transformed them into small dry toilets. By the way, she solved the problem once and for all. The risk of assassination by people drilling into latrines.
Later, a group of toilet supervisors were appointed in the farms and villages, specifically responsible for patrolling and checking who did not defecate in the dry toilets.
These people were called defecation officers by the locals, but later the female lord found that it was unrealistic to rely on toilet supervisors to monitor whether everyone had a good defecation.
After all, Luye is not a modern society. There are cameras everywhere. In such a big village, there are hundreds of people running around all over the place. If someone really breaks the rules and pulls a corner at random, the official won't even notice. arrive.
It is not feasible to count whether the villagers have gone to the dry toilet every day. After all, physiological needs are different for everyone. Some people have to go to the dry toilet several times a day, while others only go once every two or three days.
In addition, even if you are forced to enter and exit the dry toilet every day, it does not mean that you must relieve yourself in it.
In addition, the quality of grassroots officials is generally worrying. Once some people have power, even if they only have the power to supervise whether everyone goes to the toilet properly, they can also play tricks and seek personal gain for themselves.
Therefore, the toilet supervisor only existed for less than a month, and was canceled by the female lord due to various shortcomings.
In the end, it was thanks to the monks who took advantage of the Saturday holiday to continue educating the believers that more and more people used the dry toilets.
There are also tragedies, such as a drunk who got up from bed at night to go to the toilet, accidentally slipped in and was drowned in feces.
Generally speaking, people's acceptance of dry toilets is getting higher and higher, especially after the winter has passed and the temperature has warmed up, people are not so resistant to walking more to go to the toilet.
By June, the wheat, rye and carrots planted in February were finally ripe, and the fields were full of people working hard.
The monks who took a break from teaching also had new tasks. Since the growth of crops has its own natural laws and does not depend on human will, farmers often need to work continuously during harvesting.
This requires counting everyone's working time, and then taking rest and compensatory time when they are free.
Especially for those farms owned by nobles, the working hours and work intensity of serfs are also the focus of the Shuangxue Education.
The court where Jin Tong works is the busiest at this time. In addition to daily inspections, after receiving corresponding reports and complaints, they must immediately go to the scene of the incident to investigate.
Contrary to what most people think, the living conditions of serfs in the Middle Ages were actually generally better than that of black slaves in later generations.
I don’t know if this is considered a regression of civilization in some sense.
Like black slaves, serfs in the Middle Ages were also attached to their lords and were not allowed to leave the lord's fief throughout their lives. They could be bought, sold, and mortgaged, but unlike black slaves, they could not be killed at will.
A serf could only be arrested or executed after a trial, although the trial was often left to the lord.
In addition, serfs were free to form families and own their own private property. In addition to paying land rent like free farmers, they also needed to work for the lord for free.
According to the tradition of Bratis continent, serfs work for the lord four days out of every ten days.
This is also an important reason why most of the lords in the Western Region do not welcome Li Yu and his Shuangxiu Cult.
If the serfs in the territory join the double holiday religion, abide by the precepts of double holiday religion, and rest for two days a week, assuming that their working time for the lord remains unchanged, then there will only be time left to cultivate their own land in a month
About next ten days.
This is obviously not enough to make a living for the serfs, but if this part of the rest time is counted on the lords, it will undoubtedly cause dissatisfaction among the lords.
Even though Luye had Ilea's support, he still argued about this issue for a long time.
After all, Ilea is only the largest lord in the green field, and there are knight fiefs below. If she is not handled well, it will easily chill the hearts of those vassals who have served the Arias family for many years.
Finally, after several rounds of negotiations, everyone in the green field barely reached an agreement, and the lords reduced the monthly working hours of the serfs from 12 days to 8 days.
Converted to a week, that’s almost five days off and two days off, plus an extra half-day of rest time.
When signing the contract, Pablo's hands were shaking with distress, but in the end he was cruel and wrote his name on the white paper.
After signing his name, Pablo said to Li Yu, "Lord Merlin, please tell the supreme Saturday that the Hogg family has dedicated all its loyalty to it."
Li Yu replied, "You will not regret today's decision, Sir Pablo."
As Pablo, who had the toughest attitude and the most meritorious deeds, accepted the new serf labor schedule, the remaining nobles no longer resisted and stepped forward to write their names.
Later, the writing on this piece of white paper will be engraved on the stone tablet and stand forever beside Teacup Castle, binding all the nobles in this land and their descendants.
However, although the written vow has been reached, it is not that easy to fully implement it in practice.
Even if those minor nobles are willing to keep their oaths, the people below them may not implement them truthfully.
Jin Tong is going to deal with such a thing now.
This chapter has been completed!