Fantasy journey to the heavens

Chapter 76 We had a great time chatting (please subscribe for the third update)
"Subordinate? No, not really."

Katim smiled: "These are free people."

"Free people?"

Daru couldn't help but be stunned: "You let free people cultivate on your land?"

"Yes."

Katim nodded: "In my territory, anyone who is willing to register can receive a certain amount of land and seeds to cultivate in this area."

"Most of the harvest obtained from such farming will belong to themselves in the first few years, and the proportion will slowly adjust after a few years."

The reason for doing this is mainly because the land is vast and the people are sparse.

In this area, land is not difficult to obtain. What is truly precious are people.

In order to attract more people to come and cultivate the land, Katim offered a very preferential policy, allocating land to anyone who was willing to come, and they were also willing to lend out seeds and agricultural tools.

"If they are all free people, aren't you afraid of them escaping?"

Daru asked with great interest.

He is Earl Thorne's favorite child and is likely to inherit the entire Thorne family in the future, so he is very concerned about this type of issue.

After all, he will probably have to rule a large territory in the future, and he will also need to face similar problems then.

"I gave them the land and promised them possession of it. As long as they still want to own this land, they will not leave easily."

Katim explained: "People can leave, but the land and the food on it cannot escape."

"Besides, as long as people can live a stable life in a place where safety and basic life are guaranteed, they will not think of leaving easily."

"I agree with this."

Sean on the side also joined in the conversation.

He said: "My mentor once conducted a similar experiment."

"At some point in the past, for a certain experiment, my mentor would purchase a large number of slaves from the mortal realm and select some from them regularly to serve as experimenters."

"The experiment is cruel. Once selected, death will be certain. But after more than half a year, when the experiment is over, my mentor will prepare to send these slaves away and restore their free status."

"They will definitely be grateful." Daru said.

"No, quite the opposite."

Sean said: "After knowing that they would be sent away, these slaves began to cry and were unwilling to leave my mentor's territory. They would rather serve as dangerous experimental subjects and stay as slaves than leave as free people. "

"Why is this happening?" Daru was stunned.

"Because the circumstances are different."

Katim was silent for a moment and then said: "If they stay there, even though they are slaves and experimental subjects, they don't have to worry about safety and food. Except for a few selected people, most of them are safe."

"If they leave there, even if they have freedom, they will become slaves again sooner or later, and their fate will be worse than death."

Daru couldn't help but fell silent.

Being a freeman is worse than being a slave?
This was a situation he could never have imagined.

After walking through an area, the place in front was much more prosperous.

Many villages can be seen along the road, and pieces of land among them have been reclaimed and are being cultivated.

Further away, you can even occasionally see people organizing construction and building some water conservancy facilities.

"You manage things very well here."

After seeing this, Daru said sincerely: "Why don't other lords like you, who make their slaves become free people, but instead try their best to make the free people become their slaves?"

Katim glanced at Daru and opened his mouth at first, but looked at the curious look on his face and couldn't help but remain silent, not knowing what to say.

"Because they only regard everything in their territory as their own."

On the side, Sean said calmly: "Everything in the territory, whether it is people, prey or land, belongs to them."

"So they tried every means to turn people into slaves, and then kept them in captivity to work in the manor, with people guarding them, because in this way, all the produce in the land belonged to them."

He glanced at Daru and shook his head secretly: "If they can monopolize everything, why should they share the profits with you."

"So they will try their best to prevent slaves from escaping, and even actively use various means to force freedmen to go bankrupt and sell themselves to them as slaves, thus creating greater profits for them."

"That's right."

Katim nodded: "This is why, although there is a plague outside, Mr. Enri and the others don't care."

"Because their slaves live on the manor, they can be easily controlled."

"As for the free people outside, life and death have nothing to do with them. The more chaotic the outside world, the greater their benefits."

He began to explain: "Through the plague, they can confiscate the wealth of the dead free people and force the survivors to become their slaves, thus increasing their property."

"It's still like this."

Daru slowly opened his mouth.

He had also seen what Enli and others had done before, and was still confused in his heart.

I didn't expect the truth to be like this.In front of him, Katim and Sean continued to chat.

To Katim's surprise, the Sean wizard in front of him was very knowledgeable. He seemed to have many attainments not only in wizarding, but also in other subjects.

Whether we are talking about agriculture, social issues, or some basic research, the other party is always able to talk to them, and they cover a wide range of topics.

Of course, for the Sean Wizard, Katim's performance is equally surprising.

As a wizard, after a long period of study, the knowledge he masters is often extensive.

The same is true for Sean. As a third-class apprentice, he is already quite skilled in many subjects.

Even among the wizard apprentices, there were not many people who could talk to him, except for the same third-class apprentices.

However, Katim's performance surprised him.

Except for some lack of knowledge related to wizards, in other aspects, the other party was able to keep up with his own pace.

Unconsciously, they gradually changed from chatting to discussing.

"A wizard has conducted research and found that the reason why fire burns is actually a reaction of energy release."

Sean said: "In other words, the reason why fire can be formed is because there is energy in the matter itself."

"Probably."

Katim nodded in agreement: "Burning, this may be just one form of energy expression. In addition, there may be many other ways of expression."

"For example, after life energy is highly concentrated, once it is released in a specific way, it can easily cause the target to explode. This is also a form of expression."

"Yes, there are similar spells in the wizard's spells, which all use the characteristics of energy release."

Sean said: "For example, the fireball technique, because of the different energy release, there are many schools."

"Some fireball spells can directly condense into shaped flames, while others use spells to cause energy reactions within the material, causing the target to burn itself. They are called burning spells."

"However, at present, this spell still has many imperfections. The appearance of flames seems to be restricted by many conditions. For example, in water and other special environments, flames cannot appear, and the burning spell loses its effect. .”

He paused and said, "Some people speculate that in order for the flame reaction to be completed, in addition to the release of energy from the material, there may be other conditions that need to be met."

"It could be something in the air."

Katim said: "Fire cannot appear in water because water isolates the air, causing matter to be unable to combine with the air and release energy, so there is no fire."

"In some special environments, the content of certain substances in the air may be just low, preventing flames from being produced."

"Probably so."

Sean nodded with a smile and said: "Some people have already made relevant inferences, but the specific substance among them is still controversial."

"Can there be different substances in the air?" Daru on the side couldn't help but ask.

Neither Katim nor Sean paid him any attention.

They were minding their own discussions, and the topic soon changed from the field of physics and chemistry to other fields such as mathematics.

This time, Daru was even more dumbfounded.

Although he didn't understand some of the previous topics, he could still understand them to some extent.

But I really don’t know how to do math.

He couldn't even hear it.

As a nobleman, he was naturally well educated and had specialized in mathematics, but the difficulty was limited to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

For people of their background, this is enough. After all, the knight's main job is to kill people, not to do math problems.

And now the discussion between Katim and the two is at least close to high school mathematics.

It's strange that Daru can understand.

Looking at the two Katims who were chatting actively and happily in front of him, Daru began to doubt himself for the first time in his life.

He deliberately followed Sean and Katim.

Before setting off, Earl Thorne specifically told him that he should make every effort to build a good relationship with Sean and Katim as much as possible, and it would be best to become trustworthy friends.

At that time, Daru was also very confident and felt that with his identity and conversation, it should not be difficult to complete this task.

But looking at the situation now, he couldn't even understand what these two people were saying, and it was difficult for him to get a word in.

Can this task really be accomplished?
Daru couldn't help but start to doubt.

On the sidelines, the discussion between Katim and the two continued.

"It's a pity that you are not a wizard."

After chatting with Katim for a long time and looking at Katim in front of him, Sean said with some regret: "If you were a wizard, you would definitely be able to grow up in the shortest time."

"Does the growth of a wizard have anything to do with what we talked about before?"

Katim couldn't help but be curious

(End of this chapter)