In a manor castle only a few dozen kilometers away from Moscow, Wu Yan slowly woke up from his sleep. Looking at the snow-white beauties around him, he couldn't help but feel a slight backache.
After a whole night of madness and a whole night of fighting last night, my whole body was about to be drained dry.
As an officer who graduated from the Imperial Military Academy, he followed His Royal Highness on the Western Expedition this time and fought all the way. He fought bravely and commanded well, and made a lot of achievements.
Now when it came time to reward according to merit, the prince and the court did not let the soldiers feel cold and disappointed.
Even the most ordinary soldiers can basically allocate a piece of fertile land. Although many people now don't even know where their land is, they have already obtained their own land deeds and notified their families to send people back.
Come here, manage the land, and plant it.
In addition to land, the most allocated items were cattle, sheep and slaves.
The cattle and sheep were snatched from the three khanates. The three nomadic khanates, the Kazan Khanate, the Yinr Khanate, and the Crimean Khanate, herded a large number of cattle, sheep and horses.
Because the Ming army attacked so fast, most of their cattle, sheep and horses fell into the hands of the Ming army, and were eventually distributed to these soldiers.
As an officer, Wu Yan was also allocated hundreds of sheep, a dozen cows, a dozen horses, and the manor and castle in front of him.
This used to be a manor castle belonging to a noble of the Principality of Moscow, but now it has been confiscated, and the surrounding large areas of land belong to Wu Yan.
There were also dozens of slaves, including Tatars, nomadic tribesmen, Slavs, and Lithuanians, all of whom were randomly assigned to be slaves.
There are also more than a dozen women assigned to them, seven or eight of them are very young and pretty, and they are the wives and daughters of nobles.
This is equivalent to suddenly becoming the owner of this land. He wants land, houses, houses, cattle, sheep, slaves, cattle, horses and women.
This is also the old routine of the Ming army. The reason why the Ming army is eager to fight and war is simply because after winning the war, it can get rich rewards.
The surrounding large area of land, more than 10,000 acres of land, belongs to Wu Yan, which is a huge wealth.
As for the manor castle in front of him, to be honest, Wu Yan didn't like it very much, because this castle did not conform to the aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty people, and the various living facilities inside did not conform to the living habits of the Ming Dynasty people.
But this is already the best house here. The better houses are all in the city, and those places have been allocated to other officers and the like.
Wu Yan was quite satisfied to be assigned such a manor and castle.
In the later stage, the manor and the castle will be renovated and repaired to a certain extent, and some money will be spent on the decoration. In contrast, ordinary soldiers now do not know where their assigned land is, and even if they go
Well, I guess I have to spend my own money to hire people to build houses and so on.
This place is far away from the Ming Dynasty. If we want to truly develop it, it will probably take less than a few dozen to hundreds of years.
Of course, this no longer matters to Wu Yan.
At this moment, like countless Ming officers, he was enjoying the fruits of victory.
"Hmm~"
At this time, several beauties around him had woken up. When they saw Wu Yan was awake, they also made seductive sounds.
They don't speak Daming dialect yet, and Wu Yan doesn't understand the local Slavic language, but this doesn't prevent Wu Yan from understanding what she means.
"Okay, come and seduce me and see how I deal with you."
After saying that, Wu Yan turned over, and soon the whole room was filled with the sound of fighting on the battlefield again.
It was not until twelve o'clock in the afternoon that Wu Yan got up from the beauty's nest with great reluctance.
This day is really tiring and happy.
As soon as I got up, my female slave brought out the hot milk, porridge, noodles, roast lamb, lamb chops, etc. that had been prepared.
“The taste is really average~”
"The porridge is too cooked, and the bread is really unpalatable."
"The same goes for noodles. This slave girl has been learning for several days, but she still can't learn how to make them, and the cooking is not delicious."
"This roasted lamb lacks a little cumin, and the lamb chops are stewed without adding any ginger to remove the fishy smell."
While eating, Wu Yan couldn't help but shake his head. Everything is fine here, except for eating, which his female slave has not yet learned to do, and her level is really poor.
Of course, you can't blame these female slaves, because these female slaves used to be girls from noble families and didn't know how to cook at all. As for the women from serf families, let alone them, they were dirty, even Wu Yan didn't know how to cook.
Dare to use them.
Wu Yan's food didn't have much flavor, but several of Wu Yan's women ate it with gusto, and while eating they talked in words that Wu Yan couldn't understand.
However, after being together for a longer time, Wu Yan was able to understand some of the local language, and generally knew what they said about delicious food.
These slaves, female slaves, etc.
Those who were caught by the Ming army were of course given a severe beating and locked up in a damp, dark, moldy and ugly prison, or a group of people were locked up directly in a stable, pig pen, cowshed or the like.
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They only eat a small amount of very unpalatable food every day, and it severely sharpens these people's tempers. It doesn't take long, only two or three months, or almost a month.
After this was assigned to Wu Yan and other soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, each one of them knew that they should be obedient and able to accept their fate.
Many people who were nobles in the past can only silently accept their status as slaves. Slaves will treat you well and do well, and you will be free in the future. If you want to commit adultery or want to riot
Such people will definitely die miserably.
Of course, this is even more true for these women.
Being locked up in the cowshed and horse pen for some time, without eating, and even sleeping poorly, all their pride has been worn away.
It is already a great gift to be able to follow the master and live in the manor castle again, sleep on a comfortable big bed, and eat delicious food.
Of course they know what to do.
Because everything is given by the master. If the master doesn't like you, then you will continue to be a slave. Not only will your living conditions be poor, you will still have to work so hard all day long that you won't even be able to eat.
full.
Life is better now. As long as you serve your master well, you can naturally become the mistress here and help manage the huge industry for your master. As for other things, it doesn't matter at all.
After lunch, Wu Yan rode on his beloved horse and patrolled his land.
Now that winter has begun, the weather has become colder, and the fertile land is gradually freezing. We can only start farming until next spring.
Soon, Wu Yan came to a village where serfs lived.
When the serfs saw Wu Yan, they all knelt down and even came to take turns kissing Wu Yan's shoes.
They naturally regarded Wu Yan as the new noble here and the new owner of this land, even though the Ming Empire had now given them freedom and even given each household a little land.
There is not much land, and it is not enough for them to support their family. If they want to get more land, they need to continue to learn the language of the Ming Dynasty, learn to speak the dialect of the Ming Dynasty, and change their surnames and names to the Ming Dynasty, so that they can get more
land.
Therefore, they still need to rely on the Wuyan in front of them and rent some land from Wuyan for farming, so that they can obtain enough food to feed their family.
Although they were given very little land, they were still very poor.
But they are now full of gratitude to the Ming people, because they are now free, no longer serfs, and they also have their own land and property.
Everyone is full of hope and longing for the future, looking forward to living a better and more prosperous life in the future.
"If you want to rent my land, you only need to give me three percent of the food."
"In addition, I need to recruit some people to work in my manor and castle. I will give one person 10 kilograms of flour a day to work."
Wu Yan looked at the shabby and poor serfs in front of him, shook his head slightly, and then said to them that the female slave next to him had the most contact with Wu Yan, so she knew more about it, and she also acted as a translator.
After hearing the translation, the serfs couldn't help but knelt down again, saying words such as God's blessing and thanking the noble nobleman for his generosity.
After Wu Yan heard this, he also smiled and ignored them.
I continued to inspect my own land, and found that the land covering tens of thousands of acres was very flat and fertile.
"It seems that we need to spend some money to buy some cultivators and harvesters. Otherwise, how can we cultivate these tens of thousands of acres of land?"
"There is also a large area of unclaimed land outside. As long as it can be reclaimed, it belongs to me."