Chapter 28 New Members and Reclamation
(4000 words! Thanks to the Guardian Wings for the reminder, the issue of the concentration of the moon's essence has been modified!)
After entering the house, Donald glanced around the decorations in the house, which were similar to those in ordinary civilians' homes, and were not as good as his house in Hongfeng Town. Although the Merliner family was in a down-and-out manner, there were some aristocratic items used to fill the scene, which was far from comparable to ordinary civilians.
William couldn't help feeling embarrassed when he saw that there were only two log stools in his home and there was no other place to sit.
At this time, Donald sat on one of the wooden benches without any disgust. Looking at William's face, he said:
"William, don't be inferior. A person's background is not something you can choose, but you can work hard to change your identity. The mages believe that although their identities are different, everyone's soul is noble, as long as he is not polluted by evil thoughts such as greed and jealousy! Even slaves should have their own pride!"
When William heard this, he felt even more ashamed of his performance just now.
Seeing that the fire was coming, Donald proposed his purpose.
"I have a certain responsibility for William, you were fired by the club. If you hadn't reminded me of the temperament of Master Nalong and others, I would have suffered a loss on the other party, but I would have implicated you and were hated by those two mages. This is the result I really don't want!"
William was very grateful when he heard Donald's explanation, but the subsequent words made him unbelievable.
"My manor is newly built, and the housekeeper is busy, so there is still a lack of a servant chief. If you are interested, you can manage all male servants and servants for me. Your wife can also temporarily serve as a kitchen manager. In this way, the wages of you two should be enough to support the family's life!"
William murmured as if he was dreaming:
"Is this true?"
Donald gave him a positive answer.
"Of course, if you decide to be a member of my Melina family, your two eldest sons should have some samurai foundation. They can serve as my knight attendants and receive some basic training in etiquette and literature. Although I have not yet obtained the official knight qualification because of my age, as a hereditary knight heir who inherited the glory of the knights of the ancestors of the Melina family, I am still qualified to recruit knight attendants."
"And I heard that you hope your youngest son can become a mage, so he can temporarily serve as my apprentice and get in touch with some basic mage knowledge. If his talent is good, I can accept him as a formal apprentice. If he does not have the talent to become a mage, you can also consider making him a scholar."
"Are you still satisfied with this arrangement?"
Faced with Donald's proposal, William couldn't speak even when he was excited, but just nodded repeatedly.
Then he heard Donald change his tone and said majesticly:
"Since you are satisfied, I will put my words in front."
"The benefits I give you need your family to repay with loyalty. What the Melinna family needs are loyal servants and subordinates, not diners who just say they come and go! If you can't do this, you can choose not to accept this opportunity, and then I will also give you a hundred Jinsor as the reward for your help before. These should be enough for your family to live a prosperous life for several years! How to choose depends on your own decision!"
William did not think much, and gritted his teeth and formally saluted Donald and paid homage to his new master.
Such an opportunity is so rare for a civilian like him. Ordinary civilians do not know that ordinary civilians have their own plans. They would rather become an adventurer or join the army to find opportunities for promotion than become a low-ranking servant to work hard for a certain nobleman.
There are also some people who are ashamed of being servants to rich nobles, but they know what a wrong idea of this kind of civilian pride is. Pride is good, but without the capital of pride, then his pride is ridiculous to the superiors. And as a civilian, how can he have the channels to obtain the capital of pride?
Unlike the civilians who were foolish because of their lack of education, William knew that under the gods, everything in this world was in the hands of the nobles and strong people. How difficult it was for civilians to be promoted through the experiences they had come into contact with in the Master's Club?
Whether it is literature, etiquette and other books, or the secrets of cultivation in professions such as martial arts, they are all mastered in the hands of the aristocratic class. The common people cannot receive relevant education at all. Since the history of mankind, they have continued like this. Over the years, the nobles are still nobles, while the common people are still ignorant.
Even with some exceptions, it is an encounter with very few lucky people.
Take joining the army to pursue military merits as an example! Civilians can only be the lowest-level soldiers, while nobles and professionals can be even more capable of being an officer. Once they make any contributions, they will be the officers who have made great contributions in command, and most ordinary soldiers will get some rewards. The soldiers fought hard, but the final merits were enjoyed by the officers, so there is actually no way out to join the army to find a way out. The best result is to retire with injuries and get a small penny of Kingsol and spend the rest of their lives.
In history, only a very small number of lucky people were promoted from civilians to military officers and received merits of continuing promotions. However, these promotions were achieved through the generosity of thousands of civilian soldiers. William, who understood this, had long since no hope for this.
He only hopes that his few sons can become professionals, and that he will become a high-level strongman without making a name for himself, at least he will live a better life than ordinary civilians.
Now there is a huge opportunity to be before him. To him, he has no such disgust as those civilians. Especially to become a servant of a nobleman who is kind and has great development potential, he has no doubts about him.
Generally speaking, servants with higher status under the nobles can not only be exposed to a lot of knowledge education, but also once their loyalty is recognized by their masters, perhaps a lower-class noble will emerge after several generations of development.
As long as you have a noble status, you will have a lot of opportunities to get in touch with more knowledge and climb to a higher status. This is something that ordinary civilians cannot achieve with money.
Moreover, once their two eldest sons become knight attendants, they will have a certain chance to be promoted to knights. Maybe their family will be able to produce two knight masters and become a noble class without waiting for a few generations.
In this way, the Williams and his family officially became servants under Donald. When the two children came back from this warrior cultivation, they would move their family to the newly established Dark Night Manor of the Meliner family.
Donald was very happy to accept the William family. The Meliner family rose again and everything had to start over. He had the book of truth in hand, so what he lacked the most was not various resources, but talents who were loyal to the family.
"William is safe in his work, and his knowledge is not comparable to ordinary civilians. He is also familiar with mage-related matters. If he trains it well, he will definitely be a good helper in the future."
On the way back, Donald talked to his housekeeper.
"Although you are capable, you have more and more things now. No matter how capable you are, you will feel that you are unable to do it. Therefore, some small things that should be handed over to your subordinates to do can improve efficiency, and you will be much more relaxed."
After returning to the manor, Donald took advantage of the afternoon to inspect the situation of the Dark Night Manor.
In addition to the villa under construction, all other places have been on track, including the last farm converted into a grape plantation, and grape trellis has been set up to plant several of the best wine-making grape varieties in the North County.
It is estimated that the villa can be built before the summer is over. In autumn, most of the crops and some poultry and livestock in the manor can be produced.
The development situation is very good, so naturally Donald's mood is also good.
So that night, he built two more farms on the remaining wasteland between the Dark Night Manor and the Tree of Life.
One was converted into a pasture for grazing, while the other was converted into a medicinal plantation to cultivate some rare medicinal materials and magical plants.
"Young Master, the farm has been sown. Should I invite a pastor from the town to come and bless you so that the crops can grow better?"
At night, after the butler Keder reported today's work before going to bed, he asked Donald.
When Donald heard this, he remembered the role of the priest of the goddess of agriculture, but he still shook his head and denied the idea.
"No, as a priest, I can study it. As a wizard, it should be fine. As a wizard, it is better not to ask for help from the servants of the gods if it is necessary!"
The priests of the Agriculture Goddess Church are generally less combat-effective than those of other true god churches, but they are very powerful in auxiliary aspects. Their unique natural divine magic can promote the growth of plants like the spells of the elves. There is a farmland taken care of by a junior priest, and the yield will be at least 30% higher than normal. This is also one of the reasons why the Kingdom of Celtic, a survivor of the ancient magic empire, has always been contrary to the Church of the Goddess Church, but can accept the Church of the Agriculture Goddess to enter the North to preach.
The Kingdom of Celtic had few people and had a lot of land. Although the land was fertile, it was not farmed properly. It was not until three hundred years ago that the great and wise Majesty Celtic established the temple of the goddess of agriculture in the capital and introduced the church to the kingdom that this situation improved. The population of the kingdom also broke from less than 30,000 to as many as 100,000 in just a few decades, and its national strength could barely match the old mainland kingdom.
Donald doesn't have any magical alchemy recipes, he is going to find a way from the Tree of Life.
The essence of the moon gathered in the Moon Well is a matter formed by pure moonlight energy and natural forces. It has a gentle nature and can not only restore life and magic, but also has a magical effect of giving birth to plants.
If the Book of Truth had not had the powerful laws mastered by higher artifacts, it would not be possible to realize this creation with an almost artifact-level effect with extremely low consumption.
In theory, this mutual transformation between matter and energy has surpassed the level of power of mortals. Under the true god, even those legendary existences cannot be easily achieved.
As I thought about it, the output of the three Moon Wells has also increased during the past period of time. In addition to the share of moonlight wine, there is still a lot of surplus.
Donald started the experiment that night, using diluted different concentrations of moon essence to water the crops on the farm separately.
Originally, the crops on the farm were planted nearly a month later than normal farmland, and several farmers in the manor speculated that the harvest of the manor this year might be reduced by 10 to 20% compared with other places.
However, under the influence of the vitality of natural forces in the natural barrier, the crops grew gratifyingly, which made the farmers look at each other differently and praised the employer's manor as a fertile land.
After a few days, the crops from the small test field watered with the concentration of up to twenty percent of the essence stood out one after another, and when they grew up in a much taller and stronger posture than normal crops, the farmers were all surprised and speechless.
Now I know that the employer's identity as a magical wizard is not fake. It is indeed a mysterious and powerful wizard. It can actually generate the growth rate of crops just like those farmlands blessed by the priests of the goddess of agriculture.
Peasants from all countries on the mainland, whether pious or not, are basically believers of the goddess of agriculture. After all, people rely on the land to make a living. This is also the fundamental reason why the goddess of agriculture, who has been a god for only a thousand years, has become one of the most powerful true gods of human gods.
Ten days later, Donald's experiment came to a basic conclusion.
"The two-thousandth moon essence is the best, which can speed up the growth rate of the crop by about three times. The one-thousandth moon essence will reduce the effect to only 15 times, and the one-thousandth moon essence will only reduce the growth time by about 100%. If 100% moon essence is used to water it, it is estimated that the crop will mature within a few days!"
Of course, this can only be thought about. The essence of the moon is now condensed in small quantities, and it also needs to be divided into two kinds of moonlight wines, so it can only be diluted tens of thousands of times before all the crops in the manor can be watered once a month.
Even so, with the effect of natural barriers, the crops in the manor that have been watered with the essence of diluted moon are all very lush, saving at least 30% of the growth cycle of normal crops. In other words, crops that originally only matured in three months can now be harvested in early two months, and harvested a little earlier than the normal farmlands planted outside.
Chapter completed!