In April of the new year, Pastor Luo mainly solved some of the red tape that he hated. For example, the relationship between monarch and minister with Baron Enomu. Another example is officially accepting the earl enfeoffment from Archduke Malos. The specific enfeoffment was presided over by the new heir of the Grand Duke. This can be regarded as a deliberate arrangement. The new king still needs the support of an important figure like Reverend Luo to succeed. Enfeoffment is a sacred ceremony for two parties to establish a bond, and it has the effect of obviously increasing their closeness, at least on the surface. Therefore, the contract between Xinjun and Pastor Luo is tantamount to maximizing the value of Pastor Luo. Accordingly, the ceremony was naturally very elaborate. The dignitaries of the Grand Duchy also wanted to make friends with this legendary boss. They were all very considerate, and the scene was particularly grand. Interestingly, Grand Duke Malos was willing to spend a lot of gold coins on this matter, but he turned his face and told the king that the principality was living a very difficult life now, and the new king could only delay the tax payment before he succeeded to the throne. Generally speaking, the relationship between a principality and the king is a partnership, and there is no inheritance tax like between a vassal and a lord. But the Principality of Malos is unusual. It was established bit by bit from the northern expansion of the kingdom.
The original Lord of the Star-Gathering City's Glory Castle had a relationship of lord and vassal with the king. Although his power later expanded and he had equal qualifications, the agreement was an agreement and could not be broken except under special circumstances. To this day, one of the main reasons for the disagreement between the king and the grand duke is that the king still wants the grand duke to fulfill his duties as a minister, but the grand duke feels that the treatment should be changed. Both sides refused to give in. As a result, the dispute became more and more stalemate, adding to each other's difficulties, and there was almost no possibility of recovery. In Pastor Luo's opinion, the king is also a man who doesn't know how to behave, perhaps because he has capital and confidence, plus his different background and circumstances, so he is more crazy. There were rumors in the market that Grand Duke Malos used the money that should have been paid in inheritance tax to hold a lavish enfeoffment ceremony for him. The king actually sent people to collect everything at the enfeoffment site and gave it to him. Embarrassing. He didn't get angry on the spot, but he kept the account in mind. Time flies into May, everything is growing, the trees are green and the grass is green. There is nothing good to say about the free collar. The technical equipment is all ready and the knowledge of the personnel is instilled. Even if there are some problems, they are not major. The main focus is to "try your best to adapt." But outsiders don't know why. The old Duke and Ioanni both asked if they needed mines or food support. After all, there are no minerals in the Free Territory, and it is theoretically impossible for food cultivation to directly support more than 60,000 people and a large number of livestock. But in fact, the mine can be obtained through the Void Warehouse. With the production capacity of the Free Territory, the leakage in the teeth of Legion Robo is enough for him. If it weren't for the purpose of cultivating self-productivity, it would be more cost-effective to directly give out various finished products like recycling canned meat. In terms of planting, all developable land on the highlands will be developed at once. Supporting planting equipment such as three connections and one leveling, machinery and equipment, fertilizers and improved seeds are also in place. Coupled with the climatic protection of light, temperature, humidity and other aspects provided by the ecological dome system, even if this is the first year, a bumper harvest is still scheduled. Of course, Pastor Luo also admitted that his behavior was suspected of making a profit at a loss. Whether it is energy, equipment, or technology, it can be said that the backers behind it support him to burn money here. Even the economic purpose of burning such money is not clear. To talk about the most basic concept, artificial, barbarians in the Free Highlands, horizontal comparison, can be called a beast with extremely high treatment. And if slavery can be run from the perspective of capital's exhaustion, it will never be granted citizenship, let alone super-national treatment. Priest Luo's initiative to provide benefits can be regarded as a stain on the concept of 'exploitation'. The lords of this world can justifiably say: "We treat people as animals, you treat animals as pets, and you talk to us about artificial intelligence." Do you deserve the cost?”
Some people may say: "This is where you natives are short-sighted. The structure is too poor. If you treat me as a countryman, I will repay you as a countryman... How can the efficiency be the same if a foreigner is lazy and works proactively?" But here comes the problem. If you want to be a national scholar, you must first have the ability to be a national scholar. Beyond the upper limit of his abilities, how can he provide rewards at the national level? Even if you want him to repay you as a national soldier, it is more important for him to have a grateful heart than to be capable. But giving back gratitude involves concepts such as morality, the habit of perseverance, etc. These are contrary to people's selfish and lazy nature, and they need to be overcome and require constant self-persuasion, restraint, and encouragement to achieve it. Do barbarians have this moral foundation? Or do you have this acquired quality that shines like gold? Let the officials who are on the front line of management in this world express their opinions. They will say: "The mud-legged people are all cheap bones. From time to time, they have to be given a few whips to remember..." Their approach is to use criminal law and death to carry out coercive oppression. It is full of rough, arrogant and lazy management attitudes, which is indeed very problematic. However, the ignorance and barbarism of the people at the bottom cannot be ignored. Not having a good humanistic environment and social atmosphere is more terrible than not studying. Because schools are just places where knowledge is imparted more intensively, families and society are more important classrooms. In this magical medieval world, with a closed and backward environment, and a society where class differences are as huge and insurmountable as the chasm, it is normal to not know what gratitude is, right? To take an extreme example, in modern human society, there are wolf children born by accident. So in this magical Middle Ages, what the lower class lack is more than just the concept of gratitude? Although they are intelligent, the proportion of animality in their personality is high, and the brilliance of human nature is rare. Coupled with the rulers' rough management and harsh oppression, the cruel and dark Middle Ages were constructed. The lack of light in the heart is the core of darkness, not the poor and difficult material life. In this context, what Pastor Luo did in the Earldom is not even a shining figure in retrograde, but more like a kind of willful squandering of money. Just like the legendary Atlantis in Atlantis, or simply a utopia. The empty and false things created by burning money and the disadvantages of too low a level of spiritual civilization have actually begun to emerge. As the saying goes, when people are well fed and well clothed, they will think about lust. When the pressure of survival is no longer there, people will instinctively think about more things, including philosophical concepts, and then start to make trouble or even die. The barbarians in the Earldom currently have a clear trend of such development. Their schedules are actually quite full. Knowledge is instilled, but knowing is not the same as doing. The unity of knowledge and action still requires a lot of practice. Therefore, these chip cows labeled as interns have a high-intensity training task. But whether they are idle or not depends on how you compare and with whom. Compared with them in the past, now there is a huge difference in labor intensity, fear, and difficulty in making a living. In the past, they were responsible for their own profits and losses, and they were rolling in the wind. What about now? Many things are covered by the lord, and the mental pressure is at least reduced by half. After experiencing the initial panic period due to uncertainty about the future, now they obviously feel relaxed and even comfortable, which means that they have free time and have the energy to think about random things. Corresponding to this is the discipline that Pastor Luo can give, which is difficult to increase. To put it bluntly, if they add more, it is better to extract all souls and replace them with a super operation that absorbs dark power, while accumulating soul materials. Then they will all be transformed into zombies, and if they are not satisfied, they can also go to the virtual soul. The reason why they kept the living was because they valued their natural souls and free nature. After all, everything has both positive and negative sides. The circle of artificial puppets is called a tool empire, not a civilized country. Pastor Luo was too lazy to argue about this topic. At least he knew very well that it involved detailed concepts such as diversity, inclusiveness, and resilience. Compared with real civilization, let alone him, even the tool empire created by Hei Luobo is like a comparison between an artificial forest and a primeval forest. It is fragile and rigid. Perhaps an insect pest or a forest fire will kill it completely, while the primeval forest has tenacious vitality and the ability to be reborn from the ashes. This is not just because the relevant research is not thorough enough and the technology has not yet reached the top, but also because of the trade-offs, the balance between gains and losses, and the price paid.
The gift of fate has long been secretly marked with a price. This statement actually emphasizes the costs that have not yet been seen or not paid attention to for the time being. The higher the level, the more you can feel that it is not a "gift" but a "change". You can say that you don't care about the cost of "change", just like someone is sadder when the cat dies than when the mother dies, but you can't say that the gains and losses are not equal. In this regard, people who exchanged their lives for money when they were young, and bought their lives with money when they were old, or even those who have no money to buy their lives, will probably feel very touched. And recognizing this equivalent exchange means that whether it is Black Robo, the cult Robo, or the priest Robo, they all know that under the same conditions, tool people are not as good as free people. To elaborate, the lower limit of tool people is higher, and the upper limit of free people is higher. Of course, there are more details, such as the strengths and weaknesses of centralization. Centralization can be regarded as the culmination of node management, and it is very easy to be defeated by decapitation. Once the node is destroyed, the whole thing collapses, and once the master dies, the whole thing is over. If the free people can give full play to their subjective initiative, come up with golden ideas frequently, and perform miracles + miracles, they will continue to perform beyond expectations, which is really beyond expectations and unstoppable. This is not comparable to the relatively dogmatic and rigid tool man. In short, Priest Luo is not interested in the puppetization of soldiers and the tool man gameplay that has a sense of playing house. The free man society is the subject he wants to test. But at the same time, he also knows that freedom cannot be too extreme, especially for these barbarians whose bestiality and humanity are 50% or even 60% of each other. Therefore, the thinking steel stamp + brain chip is inserted, and professional skills are infused, but the spiritual civilization is not imposed, and then the deformed and strange little society of the Earldom is born. It is to practice and see what it is like to operate a free man society. Spiritual civilization involves cultural inheritance and covers too wide a range. In fact, there is no absolute standard answer in this regard. Take the famous Viking pirates on Earth as an example. The place where they live cannot support more people with the level of technology at that time, so they start to go out to sea to plunder, which gradually becomes a part of their culture. Those human groups who live in the fertile subtropical land and can fill their stomachs by picking up the gifts of nature naturally find it difficult to understand the cultural core that they have to fight against heaven and earth and people to survive. Long-term accumulation, cultural differences have brought differences in cognition and habits. It is as unreliable to force nomads to farm as to force carnivores to eat grass to survive? Of course, you can be stubborn and willful, terrifying and dictatorial, either change or die, choose. But this goes against the original intention of building a free society. It is not that freedom is given too much, but that the constraints are too much. In short, Pastor Luo also realized that this is not a project that can produce results overnight. Therefore, he also took a wait-and-see attitude. The main thing he is doing now is to let the barbarians open their eyes to the world while ensuring that their professional abilities are qualified and they are competent for the work assigned to them. On this basis, he is also waiting to see what kind of social atmosphere these people will form. At least he is not stupid. He did not take on too much responsibility in this matter. He just acted as a half-baked chief engineer, built the framework, set the tone, and then left it alone. Without being too deeply involved, he does not have so many things to worry about, and still has the energy to run the business. Collecting intelligence, obtaining resources, strengthening combat power, and continuing to be a conspicuous bag, this is his business. The cult Rob needs him to attract attention, so he can't stop making trouble. Of course, he used to be a lone wolf, but now he is the leader of the group; no one paid attention to him before, but now there are a lot of people watching him openly and secretly, so the cycle of making trouble is naturally prolonged, but the movement will be bigger. The new round of making trouble is paved with the PY transaction with Grand Duke Malos. He took up one-third of the northern frontier defense line alone, promised to provide timely military assistance when the neighboring star fortress encountered an enemy, and also thoughtfully shared the magic feather crow with the entire northern frontier defense line... This series of responsibilities that greatly benefited Duke Malos were not limited to the acquisition of the earldom and the purchase of additional territory in Gaotai Town. One of the prices that Grand Duke Malos paid to obtain these supports was to allow priest Luo to build a magic fence on the land directly under the Grand Duke. In the North, all lands outside the territories owned by the real-earth nobles who were enfeoffed by Grand Duke Malos belonged to the land directly under Grand Duke Malos. At least that's the case in legal terms. If you take a map of the Grand Duchy and cut off the territories of the real-earth nobles, the remaining Northland looks like a piece of paper cut into window paper. I don't know what the pattern is trying to express. It looks messy, but full of weird beauty.
Priest Luo was not interested in the fact that several baronies and knights of different grades could be carved out from the land directly under the Grand Duke. What he cared about was the construction of a fast logistics delivery network with magic enclosures as nodes. The Grand Duke should be the one who wanted this network the most. After all, it meant a great strengthening of the king's power of control. Instead of sending troops overnight, he could send troops to any vassal within an hour after issuing an order. This was also one of the main reasons why Grand Duke Malos agreed to Priest Luo's construction of a logistics delivery network. The ownership and operation rights were in the hands of Priest Luo. The Grand Duke had the priority right to use it, and the two parties signed an agreement, which specifically included that Priest Luo could not provide logistics delivery network services to those who were defined as criminal suspects by the Grand Duke. So, Priest Luo was running around the Grand Duchy almost throughout May, building magic enclosures. The number finally came to 177. Of course, he did not have so many extraordinary resources. 70% of them were obtained by applying for loans from above. When this wave of construction was completed, Priest Luo's ulterior motives were exposed. The extraordinary Internet of Things is actually only part of the purpose. More importantly, after tasting the sweetness of Free Highlands, Priest Luo relied on the path and successfully copied it. He tried to use the entire Northland as a stage to create a super-super magic circle. The magic fence is the node of this super-super magic circle. Such a magic circle operates and constrains the absorption of the extraordinary power of the entire Northland, and even the power of the soul. To exaggerate a little, the huge Principality of Malos has now had the blue sky and the underworld. The extraordinary power and the dead soul are no longer in the state of Mu Renguan. It’s just that you can fleece the entire principality, so you can do it. Forget it. Priest Luo didn’t make it public, and he started it secretly. The elephant is invisible. The outstanding wizards of the Order Spire, such as Yoani, have not noticed that the extraordinary power of this world is being constrained and regulated, let alone ordinary people. Due to the hidden use of the magic fence, it is naturally necessary to have professional maintenance personnel insurance. In particular, Priest Luo also signed a lease contract with the Order Spire, agreeing that some relatively good magic enclosures would be used as post stations and campsites for merchants. The Order Spire has directly affiliated business groups and closely connected partners. After all, such a large organization cannot be supported by simple production and employment transactions. It must have professional institutions, which specifically involve production planning, pricing and sales, logistics and transportation, etc. The air cavalry storage box is just one of its logistics methods, with high costs and high risks. Just as ordinary people can see the convenience and cheapness of water and sea transportation, the Order Spire also knows the value of caravans. Moreover, the Order Spire, which has sufficient deterrence and credibility, is really suitable for this project. Those lords will basically give face to the Order Spire, instead of my territory, I make the decision, and how much I take depends on my mood. But even so, the land is vast and sparsely populated, bandits are rampant, monsters are lurking, and there are dark and extraordinary forces such as cults. Caravan travel is still risky. This is also the main reason why most caravans follow the principle of traveling during the day and staying at night. The existence of the magic fence further eases the travel pressure of the caravan and reduces the risk. The commercial organizations under the Order Spire are also interested in developing the commercial logistics of the Grand Duchy of Malos. In addition, this is also the wish of the Grand Duke. When more people walk, there will be a road. Frequent use itself is a kind of maintenance. If you lay a brick today and kill a beast every day, the road will gradually become smooth and safe. Commercial circulation injects vitality into the territory's economy, strengthens mutual connections, promotes the circulation of wealth, and is also conducive to the rule of the king. Of course, the Grand Duke is willing. The rental business of magic enclosures involves the right to use magic, so it is safer to have professionals watching over it. So there are garrisoned corpse witches. This is not only a hard job, but also can help practice with the help of magic circles. The wishes of the corpse witches themselves are not important. What matters most is that Priest Luo feels it is suitable. Time slowly enters midsummer. The summer in the north is short, and you can't feel the heat in June. In the Ice Fortress, it is no different from winter, and there is an indescribable coldness.
Priest Luo, who controls the body of the legendary shaman, is in the private study of the Central Magic Tower, roasting the fireplace, drinking hot drinks, and reading the feedback reports below. The body of the Old Branch has been developed to the peak of the stage. Unless there is a major change, it is difficult to improve. And this major change mainly refers to his soul state. Completion has never stopped, but it is also divided into stages. The later the stage, the less obvious the effect, but the greater the difficulty, including the investment of time. Priest Luo is now increasingly using the bodies of legendary shamans. The use of the soul witch of the dark power will bring a strong sense of heaviness, while the old branch brings a sense of alienation. Using that body is often accompanied by a fall like falling into the abyss wearing heavy armor, which makes people helpless and panic. The body of the legendary shaman is much more comfortable. The profession of the life mage always makes him feel full of vitality. As long as the shaman steps on the ground, there is an indescribable sense of peace and confidence. No one likes to deliberately seek trouble, so the body of the legendary shaman is like his daily casual wear, even pajamas, while the body of the old branch is more like a dress armor. The bell rang softly, and the pink and blue glowing arcane servant walked in. This thing was made by Priest Luo when he was studying the extraordinary power of order. It is not very smart, but it is qualified to be a mouthpiece. The arcane servant presented a letter from Yoani, who had not seen it for several months. The main content was to invite him to go to the Great Swamp and help to see the fierce undead there as an expert.