Chapter 803 The serfs are wet!
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Author: Linjiangjun
Upon hearing those words, the loving father of the Rakshasa suddenly became interested.
To be honest, King Selim Gray I was really curious about what solution that bold serf could come up with.
The bold serf Mars said in the contempt of the small landowner: "My dear father, Khan, please declare that the entire Rakshasa will be liberated and all serfs will be given ten acres of land, and their status as serfs will be cancelled.
Lower taxes.”
"Then, dear and loving father Khan, he can guarantee that Tsar Sophia's army will fall apart!"
Mars is worthy of being a severely persecuted Rakshasa serf!
Does he really know the core issue of Rakshasa Kingdom?
I wonder if Selim Glei I really did that, or if he could turn the Rakshasa upside down and become the new tsar.
The serf problem in the Rakshasa Kingdom is not like the land problem in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It does not arise because there are more people and less land. On the contrary, it arises because there are fewer people and more land!
Because the land area of Rakshasa Kingdom is really too vast.
This leads to an extremely serious problem: there is too much land, but there are few people in Rakshasa country!
There is simply no one to work on the land owned by those noble men.
Let them farm on their own, and they will grow crops again.
You can find people to plant them, but the problem is that there is no shortage of land to plant them in the Rakshasa Kingdom.
If you hire tenant farmers like Ming Dynasty, it won’t work!
Because if serfdom is not adopted, once the nobles and lords mistake the peasants for exploiting them too harshly, those peasants will run away with their buckets!
The employment system and the constraints of Rakshasa peasants.
Therefore, when the nobles and lords needed different manpower, the Rakshasa serfdom came into being.
Rakshasa gentlemen tried their best to prevent serfs from escaping.
Otherwise, farmers will no longer be able to vote with their feet and move to a better place.
If the Rakshasa peasants were given the opportunity to run freely, they would most like to run to the Ming Dynasty.
Could the Ming Dynasty be a lighthouse country in that era?
Of course, even if you can't reach the Ming Dynasty, you can find a better place than Rakshasa, where even Rakshasa serfs can help!
If Selim Gray I really took the advice of the serf Mars and announced in a high-profile manner the liberation of the Rakshasa serfs, and then granted free land to the serfs, and promised not to plunder them as slaves again, then Sophia would cry to death!
"Okay, okay! This Khan listens to me. If it works, even if I am not a serf, this Khan will give me a title!"
The Crimean Khanate's cunning operation almost made Sophia, who was leading more than 30,000 shooting troops, tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry and Turgut cavalry, preparing for a decisive battle in the south, so angry that she died!
Sophia never expected that after the Romanov family had been in power for so many years, a large number of Rakshasa serfs who believed in the interests of the country and the country would flee to the south and join the Crimean Khanate.
"Those damn bastards actually defected to those damn infidels!"
Sophia just finished speaking.
On the side, the ministers and generals also nodded and gnashed their teeth.
They wished they could quickly lead the army and fly back to their own territory, watch out for those serfs and don't let them escape.
Although Khan, the loving father of all Rakshasa people, intended to liberate Rakshasa serfs, the effect was not as effective as serf Mars expected.
The kindness of the loving father Khan did not make those Rakshasa soldiers defect to him.
The reason is very simple. In the Rakshasa Kingdom, if you ask me to become a soldier, then I can't "raise the flag".
For example, the Cossacks in the army belonged to two different classes than the serfs.
And the soldiers of the Shooting Army are mainly citizens with musket legs.
The officers among them were all Boye nobles.
In other words, except for those soldiers who were born as serfs, every member of the entire military system of the Rakshasa Kingdom is a beneficiary outside the system. They have the responsibility and motivation to go to the rule of the Romanov dynasty.
Although this move failed to disintegrate the Rakshasa Kingdom's army, it did demoralize Sophia's army!
The Rakshasa officers, who were originally ambitious and wanted to fight the Tatars of the Crimean Khanate, no longer had the intention to fight.
Many of them planned to persuade Sophia to send the army home first and take care of their serfs.
The escape of the serfs directly affected the vital interests of those officer lords!
Those Boye nobles owned a large number of serfs, and Sofia mobilized a large number of troops on the front line, intending to fight a decisive battle with the nomadic cavalry in Crimea.
The serfs who had no one to look after them in the rear were so happy that they began to "moisten" with almost zero belongings.
They were also afraid of being caught, so if they were caught they would continue to be serfs.
People are rare and valuable, and if they join in a group to commit crimes, it won't be a big deal if the master catches them!
No, the Crimean Khanate's move directly opened Pandora's box.
Not only did they go to the areas controlled by the Crimean Khanate, there were also some who went to Central Siberia in the Ming Dynasty!
Are moist places full of strange things?
But it never changes from its roots.
Can the core escape the control of the Rakshasa lords?
The minds of everyone present were drifting to their own territory.
Sophia was a little at a loss as this was the first time she had encountered such a situation.
At that moment, how she wished her husband Kangxi Khan was by her side.
I saw her staring at everyone present with her mouth open, and then said.
"That time, they must get rid of those damn Tatars as soon as possible, otherwise, even if they can defeat them, their losses will be too great!"
No, if the war drags on for a long time, more and more serfs will flee in the rear.
Then, even if the war is won, the Rakshasa Kingdom will not have much "consumables" for exploitation.
Without those "consumables", the already weak national power of Rakshasa Kingdom will be further reduced.
Could those serfs be the fuel for the development of the Rakshasa Kingdom? In history, it was precisely because of those serfs that the imperialist cause of the Rakshasa Kingdom was established.
Without them, Rakshasa Kingdom’s broken car would be hard to drive!
Just when Sophia decided to make a desperate "blitzkrieg", the voice of the Orthodox Patriarch Adrian rang out at the right time.
I saw him frowning and saying to Sophia: "Your Majesty, forgive him, the reason why those serfs fled has a lot to do with their lives!"
As soon as Adrian's voice fell, the nobles present suddenly widened their eyes and became furious.
What's special is that the Orthodox Church occupies a large amount of real estate but does not pay taxes. Moreover, their serfs are non-believers and have firm beliefs. Even if they are wronged, they will not run away.
Adrian, can you stand and shut up without backache?
Adrian, however, caught the eyes of everyone present and gave a speech filled with righteous indignation:
"Why did the serfs flee? Isn't it because the confinement period was too painful and tiring?"
"They feel that their confinement in the Rakshasa Kingdom is worse than that under Tatar rule, so they beg them to improve the treatment of the serfs so that they don't have to worry about them fleeing!"
"They can no longer oppress the Rakshasa people!"
Chapter completed!