The situation in the Kingdom of Beth was indeed not an exception.
In the next five countries, Colin discovered more or less the displacement of serfs.
This situation has reached such a scale that it can be called a disaster, bringing huge pressure to every kingdom.
In addition, many nobles also chose to leave because of the unoptimistic future of the Tireme Plain, which continued to increase the scale of displaced serfs.
Moreover, most of these nobles who chose to leave the Tireme Plain were not small nobles. After all, only if there were wizards in the family could they have the confidence to migrate long distances.
They are the mainstay of the noble class in the Tireme Plain, and they also maintain the largest number of serfs.
Fortunately, although this situation is serious, it is not irreversible.
At least in Colin's view, it doesn't matter if the nobles leave. As long as there is still a sufficient population in the Tireme Plain, it won't be a big deal.
However, when faced with the displaced serfs, not all the other five countries were as kind as Bo Lai.
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"Dear Lord Tireme, we have no choice. There are too many homeless serfs, and the food saved by the kingdom is not enough to feed them..."
In the center of Kanze, the capital of the Kingdom of Arman, in the magnificent palace, members of the Arman family were prostrate on the cold marble floor.
The first-order wizard Hogan, the leader, trembled slightly and kept explaining.
"Is this why you killed all the serfs?" Colin said in a deep voice.
Thinking of the tragic scene he saw in the tiankeng in the suburbs just now, his tone couldn't help but be filled with anger.
Behind him, Jennifer's face was also a little pale, and she had not yet recovered from the tragic scene.
Flesh and mud, and the aura of apes rising to the sky, these are all pale and feeble words used to describe the mass graves. The behavior of the Arman royal family is really outrageous.
"Sir, if we don't deal with those serfs, when hunger spreads, uncontrollable riots will inevitably occur. Those serfs will also die by then, but the losses caused will undoubtedly be much greater than now..."
Hogan continued to defend himself. From the bottom of his heart, he never regarded those serfs as human beings, just slaves. If they were killed, they would be killed. Anyway, the farmland was now polluted and there was no need for them. It would be useless to continue to raise them.
It's just a waste of food.
Colin's two sword eyebrows almost touched each other.
Regardless of his basic sense of morality and sympathy, from a profit perspective, those serfs were his most valued resource in the Tireme Plains, but now Hogan had wiped out at least tens of thousands of them.
Moreover, what Hogan said seems reasonable, but in fact, it is not necessary to do so in reality.
He did not object to the Kingdom of Alman getting rid of those serfs for its own security and stability, but only if those serfs really threatened the stability of the kingdom.
But can those unarmed serfs really threaten the stability of the kingdom?
Any big knight wearing heavy armor can easily defeat one against a thousand of them, and a wizard can easily defeat one against ten thousand.
With such a disparity in strength, what is the threat?
The Arman family just chose the simplest way to deal with it.
"Take me to see how much food Armen still has in stock." Colin suppressed the anger in his heart and finally ordered.
As soon as he finished speaking, the Arman family fell into silence.
"Sir..." Hogan raised his head and wanted to continue explaining.
"If part of Alman's current grain reserves were allocated to support the serfs, how long would it last?" Colin interrupted his explanation.
"...Two years."
"Um?!"
"No, no...it's three years." Feeling Colin's gloomy gaze, Hogan panicked while lying on the ground, and quickly changed his words, his body shaking like chaff.
"You bastard!" Colin couldn't help but yell angrily.
He is not a moral saint, so he never wants to accuse anyone from the highest moral point.
Being selfish and cold-blooded is understandable, everyone is selfish to a greater or lesser extent.
But this kind of selfishness has a certain degree after all. If it breaks through the bottom line of human nature, like the Arman family, it can no longer be called a human being.
Those killed with cruel methods were not tens of thousands of chickens and ducks, but tens of thousands of living humans.
Fortunately, the Kingdom of Arman chose to take the initiative to clean up the homeless serfs, and the Kingdom of Bethleid chose to provide porridge to the serfs, both of which were unique.
The remaining four countries basically chose to drive the serfs out of the cities and let them fend for themselves.
In fact, this is the most normal choice. God knows why the Arman family chose to do such inhumane behavior.
However, everyone in the Arman family has been imprisoned, and everything is under investigation. If there is any conspiracy, it will probably come to light soon.
What is more important now is to solve the problem of the entire Tireme Plain.
Golden Wheat Sui White Pagoda, in a conference room.
Colin was telling everyone in front of him how he was going to deal with the crisis of serf displacement.
After a round of inspection, he knew that the current situation no longer allowed him to slowly think about how to deal with it.
Every day that is delayed, the situation in the Tilaimei Plain will worsen.
If the population continues to lose and serfs continue to die in large numbers, then no matter how strong and capable he is, he will face a situation where no one can use him.
"I plan to use a law to temporarily restrict the nobles from expelling the serfs." He said while looking at the three people in front of him.
Participating in this meeting were his most trusted people, Atbold, Lillian and Xue Lai.
"I'm afraid such a law can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause." Altbold shook his head.
"So it's just a temporary move." Colin replied, then paused and said, "My ultimate goal is to gradually accept these serfs."
Altbald raised his eyebrows.
Lilian looked puzzled and asked subconsciously:
"Junior, do you plan to raise these serfs by yourself?"
Colin nodded slightly: "Population is the most important resource."
"It sounds like you have some kind of plan," Altbold said.
Population is important, but in this world, most people don't regard ordinary people as an important resource.
Wizards are the truly important resources. Ordinary people are just gravel that comes with gold, and no one cares about it.
Colin continued to nod, looked at Xue Lai, and said:
"The Tireme Plain cannot lose those serfs. Xuelai and I are overcoming the problem of farmland pollution. If the farmland is restored by then, but there are not enough serfs to cultivate it, it will also be a disaster."
"Are you sure you can solve farmland pollution?" Altbold was slightly startled.
After following Colin here, he carefully learned about the Tireme Plain, especially in terms of farmland pollution.
It was a unique pollution that even the wizard sent by the Supreme Council to deal with this matter declared to be powerless.
"The certainty is not great, but it is not hopeless." Colin replied, "And even if those farmlands cannot be restored in the end, I can still find a way to resettle those serfs and even allow the Tireme Plain to continue to prosper."
Colin said calmly.
The content of his words can be called arrogant.
But regardless of whether he is sure or not, as the Lord of Tilaimei, he must at least be confident.
If he doesn't have confidence, then who can have confidence? The Tireme Plain will eventually decline.
But to be honest, Colin does have enough confidence to save the entire Tireme Plain.
Even if the farmland pollution cannot be solved in the end, he can still use those serfs and rely on the experience of his previous life to try to promote the process of industrialization.
Although many of the rules in this world are different from those in the previous life, for example, electricity is always violent and chaotic, making it difficult to control and use it.
But at least in this world, you can still boil water, and steam engines obviously can exist.
The existence of witchcraft has caused the world to subconsciously ignore this great power contained in small steam.
People are keen on pursuing the ultimate individual power, expecting great power to be attributed to themselves, and then solve all problems, while ignoring the power of mass gathering.
Especially when there are external threats like gods, even if wizards study witchcraft, they mostly focus on offensive and defensive witchcraft.
Like the very practical wall-building technique that Xue Lai mentioned before in the far north, most wizards would just dismiss it.
But Colin is different. His past life experience has taught him that ordinary people gathering together can create miracles that are no less than witchcraft!
Indeed, Colin's calm voice and confident look made Atbold's face soften slightly and he stopped talking.
If someone else had said such arrogant words, he might have scoffed at it.
But for Colin, for this student who repeatedly performed miracles, Altbold did not doubt the authenticity of his words.
Since Colin is confident about what he said, all you need to do is believe it!
Lillian was also attracted by the confidence in Colin's words. She subconsciously glanced at him a few more times, and her heartbeat suddenly accelerated slightly.
It feels like only a few years have passed, and the junior has grown into such a reliable figure without even realizing it...
"Have you thought about the specific content of the law?" Xue Lai paused and asked with admiration in his eyes.
"The details haven't been decided yet, but the main directions are two points." Colin replied.
"The first is to temporarily restrict the nobles from expelling serfs, and the second is to gradually accept serfs from their hands."
"The key now is how to feed these serfs."
The four people in the conference room were lost in thought.
Colin knew that it was impossible to completely prohibit the nobles from expelling their serfs, so in the end he still needed to accept these serfs and provide for them.
He had thought about directly relying on himself and the royal families of various countries to resettle the expelled serfs and provide them with simple residences and daily food.
But the Tireme Plain is vast, and the number of serfs is also huge.
Even if they don't provide shelter and only provide the minimum daily food, the daily consumption is astronomical.
Although after becoming a member of Parliament, Colin received a large number of valuable gifts, coupled with the support of the royal families of various countries, he should still be able to temporarily afford the consumption of these serfs.
But this is obviously the last option. No one knows how long it will take to return those farmlands to normal...
'Is there any way to make those nobles shed some blood?'
Thinking of this, Colin suddenly felt something in his heart, organized his words and said:
"For the nobles, especially those who are preparing to leave the Tireme Plain, their current request is to expel the serfs. I can restrict this behavior with laws, but I cannot eradicate it."
"However, if I deliberately leave an exit for them behind the strict laws, for example - after paying the special 'deportation tax', their behavior of deporting serfs will no longer be illegal."
"This tax order, combined with the previous law prohibiting the expulsion of serfs, can restrict the nobles from expelling serfs at will and obtain part of the resources to support displaced serfs."
"What do you think?"
After thinking carefully for a moment, the three of them nodded in unison.
It is unrealistic to expect those nobles to keep serfs for free, and this is not the fundamental purpose of Colin.
His fundamental purpose was to gradually control most of the serfs and even the fields on the Tireme Plain.
Therefore, these two laws are obviously the best choice at present.
"If you want to collect taxes, I'm afraid the specific amount needs to be carefully considered. If it is too high, the nobles may prefer to continue to support those serfs." Atbold continued.
"Yes, and adding new taxes is not an easy task, at least it is much harder than issuing a decree." Colin nodded.
For MPs, it is simple to add a general law to the territory they control.
As long as it is not particularly contrary to common sense, it usually does not violate the regulations set by the Supreme Council and can be implemented immediately without review.
But it is not that easy to add a new tax order.
A large part of the reason for this is because the taxation of the territory is basically linked to the income of the parliamentarians.
Therefore, in order to prevent members from abusing their power in order to make money, the Supreme Council has formulated strict regulations and review mechanisms in this regard.
In the following time, Colin called Jennifer and Joe, and the six of them discussed the details of the two laws, especially the specific amount of the new serf deportation tax.
After finalizing some details and producing the first version of the decree, Colin will immediately pass the parliamentary badge and pass it to the Supreme Council for review.
The first decree restricting the nobility from expelling serfs came a moment later in the affirmative.
Colin also immediately implemented it throughout the Tireme Plain.
The law stipulated that the number of serfs expelled by nobles every year, including accidental deaths, was limited according to the proportion of serfs they owned, and the maximum number could not exceed ten. Otherwise, it would violate the law and the penalty could be up to death.
The new tax orders will not be approved so quickly.
Colin placed it in the security tax, and the reason he gave for the application was to deal with the chaos and threats that wandering serfs might bring, and all the tax money would be used for the resettlement of serfs.
While waiting for the review, Colin was not idle. He repaired the communication ring towers of the seven countries through the Chasai Chamber of Commerce, and even added a few more in some important cities.
This is the key to connecting the entire Tireme Plain. He can't just rely on the silver current to fly there every time.
During this time, the first decree was gradually showing its impact.