Ch49.1 - Dissemination Of Knowledge (Part One)

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Priest William would never know how many people watching LJJ’s channel opened packages of assorted foods and ate along with him.

The program combined appetizing scenes, agricultural science, pet training, and other elements, and the audience was willing to deceive themselves, others, and each other to watch. It was akin to a turbid current among all LJJ programs. The audience here was already notorious.

Cui QiChao would also not know that he had a large number of strange audiences. The dessert he asked the cook to prepare for William is grape wine apples.

Half-cut apples were cooked in red wine with a little spice sprinkled on top. The dish was cooked over low heat until the smell spread through the air, the aroma of the two fruits mixed together forming a sweet taste. The originally light-yellow pulp had been soaked into an attractive purplish-red. 

William easily separated the soft, cooked pulp and put it into his mouth. This way of eating was really fresh, unique, and emphasizes the symbolism of his social status. Who can eat like this except the rich aristocrats?

With William’s assurance, Cui QiChao had a general understanding of the quality. This batch of red wine was pulled to the church’s trade place by the trade team. The other aristocratic Lords didn’t manage to even grab half a drop of the wine. All of them were bought by the church. This extraordinary and characteristic holy blood wasn’t even enough for the senior clergy to enjoy.

With a mere taste, Northumberland’s wine could form a deep impression inside someone.  And due to the wine being swept clean by the church, Northumberland’s brand seemed to become distinctive from other brands overnight.

The reputation of this remote Baron spread to the north. With more people paying attention to Cui QiChao, more people started to notice that Northumberland sold brown sugar and cotton cloth every time they went to the trade place.

It was fine if they only sold brown sugar. When the church first started trading with Lords with bigger territories, the Lords gave them beet seeds.

However, the cotton cloth made by Northumberland was as good as those from across the sea. In terms of style, it appeared to be more suited towards local aesthetics. It would be unjust to say that the quality of the cloth across the sea and the cloth of Northumberland is about the same. Obviously, the clothes of Northumberland are incomparable.

A small territory, reasonably speaking, will be short of manpower. There should be no spare energy for them to develop these.

Just like this, the hearsay confined to Northumberland’s neighbouring fiefs also spread. It turns out that the one who began to implement these changes was the new Lord of Northumberland, the nephew of the archbishop and the Cat Abuser Baron. He once travelled to the East. 

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It was inevitable for this to develop. And it should have even happened long ago, but such acts had been artificially delayed.

However, Cui QiChao did not even worry about it, not to mention Northumberland’s stewards. 

Was this a joke? Northumberland’s farm tools have increased greatly, including iron farm tools. Some of the pig-rearing methods were used as a reference and applied to cattle and horses. The survival rate of these animals has increased. Manpower that has been liberated was used in national military training. Now, even when they want to take a dump, these people will queue up. It can be said that there are not many soldiers in service, but all of them are reserves.

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The first large-scale invasion took place on the wedding day of the serf Dylan’s eldest son. The Lord was kind, exempted all taxes and fees for the couple, and even gave the new couple a quilt.

Dylan’s eldest son married the daughter of a freeman farmer. In the past, this was unthinkable. Everyone was a farmer, but they also belonged to different classes. 

But Dylan’s family was lucky. The eldest son joined the sugar mill as a worker and served in the military for two months a year. He could get a lot of benefits. In addition to the Lord’s remuneration, those beet dregs were enough for him to exchange for many necessities of life. The young man soon saved everything he needed for his marriage. In the past, it was not always possible to get married until you were 40, and the singles had to beat on their own stick.

In addition, the harvest of the sugar beets in the field gave him great payouts because Dylan took great care of them.

Dylan’s family used to live in a hut, but now they have changed into a wooden house. And the eldest son’s new house is also a wooden house.

After marriage, they would separate from their family. They would register their marriage with the Lord and plant a piece of land by themselves. But the eldest son didn’t feel afraid at all. Instead, he was full of confidence for the future. After all, he works in the sugar mill and has more contact with the steward and Lord than other people. 

Under such circumstances, although Dylan’s family were serfs, their situation was better than that of some freeman farmers. But this is only referred to the freeman farmers in Northumberland. Compared with serfs in other territories… It is best not to compare. After all, all slaves in Northumberland have houses.

In the final analysis, class is determined by wealth, so the Dylan family’s marriage with the freeman farmer’s family happened successfully.

On the wedding day, everyone gathered in Dylan’s eldest son’s new house to see the newlyweds show off the quilts sent by the Lord. The quilt was covered over them, making the young couple look particularly honourable.

Just because this is a new house, it is built nearer to the edge of the fief, almost near where the ranch was. 

——In the past, when there was no square, everyone lived scattered, far and near only relative to their own land. After the Lord built the square, it vaguely became the hub of the fief, because everyone was willing to gather here and loved to use it as a gathering point. The so-called “living far away” in the fief meant that one had to spend more time to head to the square.

Everyone had enough to eat and drink. When they were making fun of the newlyweds, they heard a commotion outside. Dylan went out and saw that 70 or 80 soldiers came with horses.

Dylan immediately shouted, “There are invaders, there are invaders again!”

If others heard what Dylan said, they would find that there was no panic in Dylan’s voice, but joy. 

Almost all the thieves that escaped to Northumberland submitted to Raymond. The last Northumberland invasion dated back to the time Gavin invaded.

But who doesn’t know that if you win the war, the Lord Baron would reward you greatly?

Northumberland farmers’ self-confidence expanded unprecedentedly after training. Many also secretly said that if Northumberland had more wars, many of them might have been knights long ago.

Dylan was overjoyed. “Go and get the weapons. Don’t let the others take the lead!” 

Dozens of people attended the wedding here. They were relatives and friends of the two families. All of them had the same intentions. Dylan’s eldest son jumped out of the quilt and picked up his own rattan armor and farm tools, “Go, go, go!”

As he was running, he remembered to turn back and comfort his wife, “You hide well at home, I’ll catch the thief!”

“Do a good job!” The newly married wife also shouted in encouragement.

The banquet guests who lived close to each other quickly returned and copied what the Dylan family did. Those who had many farm tools also shared them with their friends. 

In the beginning, the invaders heard the noise and thought it was the farmers in the fief running for their lives. Who would have expected that before long, the cold arrows whizzed straight to them, as if there had been an ambush, and a group of people rushed up.

The skies were dark. At first, they thought it was a knight who had ambushed them and cursed inwardly, chastising why Northumberland knights were so responsible. They soon ran to another side. But another group of people sprung up from nowhere, similarly brave and fierce.

Northumberland has thousands of manpower. Everyone has rattan armour, farm tools and equipment soldiers would need. They were lamenting in ordinary days about not seeing a thief or invader. But now, they could finally have a battle like what they imagined when other territories go to war.

Now, they finally have a chance to battle. From the freeman to the serfs to the slaves, when they heard the news, they picked up their things and rushed out. 

In ordinary times, they were also organized into teams when they were having their military training, and they are basically organized into one team based on where they live. Therefore, at this time, it was natural for them to split into their teams. Therefore, when they were hitting the invaders, they also argued: “Are you robbing my team’s credit? Today, Dylan’s son got married. We found them first!”

“Bah, they escaped from our team. I broke their leader’s horse’s leg first!”

“Your dog eyes must be blind. Come on, ask this beast, ask to see if it was me who beat him?”

The captured soldiers were raised high up by the farmers. Their noses and faces were swollen. They were forced to answer who hit them, “I don’t know. I didn’t see who hit me!” 

“Hey, don’t lie with your eyes open. Just now, I took you down with a rake, grabbed your collar and punched you in the nose.” The farmer said and practised what he did while punching him on his nose again.

The man’s nose became very fragile. Moments ago, the man already had no strength to fight back when the farmer hit him. Now he was hit again. The bridge of his nose was crooked and he screamed: “It’s you, it’s you, it’s you! Please, stop beating me!”

“Sigh, from what I see, these people appear like traditional soldiers. You see, they’re wearing cloth armor. This guy, and this guy’s body also has armor. The quality is average, but…”

“What damned traditional soldiers are you talking about, hahaha, didn’t you see them? They moved very chaotically. During ordinary times, they probably didn’t train well.” 

A group of so-called traditional soldiers were ridiculed by the Northumberland farmers. The knights are usually responsible for safety, but their numbers are relatively small. At this time, they have to maintain order and prevent the small groups of vigilantes from snatching credit and arguing.

Thousands of people nabbed the gang of fewer than 100 people. After the group brawl, the invaders were robbed by farmers who were like starving ghosts. They were disheartened and ashamed, and their hearts were full of fear towards Northumberland. What damned place is this?

They can only blame themselves for invading at the wrong time. Earlier, these farmers were not so crazy. They would have hesitated when they saw the invaders coming forward.

Because Dylan’s family discovered it early, his relatives and friends arrested more than ten people. Dylan’s eldest son was even more heroic and subdued two invaders alone. 

When it was time for the Lord to bestow the final reward, Dylan’s eldest son, who had just got married, had two lambs added to his family property. This made him very happy. He had just gotten married and had no livestock at home before. He quickly built a barn.