Urban Sims

"Ding~"

"The player has successfully used the [Son of the Baron] character card and is matching characters..."

"Role matching is successful! Start entering the game..."

…

"Wow~wow~"

A loud cry resounded in a simple and tall castle.

"Dear Connor, it's a boy with a nose and mouth that resembles your boy." On the bed, a woman with a motherly face was holding the baby in her arms, and said to the young man beside the bed.

"Hahahaha, good, good! I, Connor, finally have a child who can inherit the glory and badge of my Burns family!" The young man hugged the child in his arms and laughed loudly. The eldest son, endless prayers and expectations.

…

Six months later.

"I became Edward?"

Sitting quietly in the cradle bed, sucking his thumb, Zhou Ming did not know how many times he sighed like this.

In the last game, Edward, who was trapped by him and killed his whole family, has become himself in this life.

Zhou Ming understands the bad taste of the system. In the previous game, there is a connection with the default character of the game. In the new game, as long as the character card is used, it will generally be matched from these related characters to form a A kind of ill-fated illusion that fate plays tricks on people.

In fact, this is the system being lazy.

"Forget it, Edward is just Edward. Although in the last game, he was an arrogant and extremely unpleasant guy, he can't be said to be a bad guy. It's just that he has some common problems that all nobles may have. For the sake of the knight's dignity and decency, I naturally look down on those humble peasants who are struggling at the bottom..."

"However, I have avenged that one shot. Of course, this revenge is a bit excessive. It cost the lives of your whole family. I'm sorry to say that the grudge between us is okay. Smooth it out..."

"If this is not enough, then let me use your name to make a name for myself in this world. Not only do I need to hold the crown on my head to reach the highest position, I must at least be the king and hold a heavy handle in my hand."

After thinking about this, Zhou Ming stopped worrying. He should eat and sleep. He also regarded Baron Connor and Lady Madeleine as his parents in this life. Within eight months, they called out "Mom and Dad". , Let this couple, happy almost shed tears.

…

I turned three years old in a blink of an eye.

Zhou Ming, who has been able to walk in the fields for a long time, has traces of his activities all over the castle. He often sneaks out of the castle and goes to the fields to watch the farmers farming with interest. Sometimes he also asks his father, Baron Connor, to take him to the north of the territory to find some. Stone, in the woods to the east, I dug something, saying that I was looking for the coal mine below.

Yes, when Zhou Ming opened the two volumes of [Mineral Resource Distribution Map] and [World Map] in his mind, this world was full of fun for him to explore.

The small Glenland is actually very rich in underground resources. In the barren mountains in the north, there is a limestone deposit with reserves of over 100 million tons. Under the forest in the east, there are three coal resources with considerable reserves. There are gold mines in the south. The underground in the west is extremely deep. There are diamond veins everywhere.

However, these mineral deposits, except the limestone mines in the north, have certain mining value, and the other mineral deposits are not of mining value because they are buried too deep.

But it doesn't matter, this is just a small Glenland, and there are countless places like Glenland in this world. There are endless mineral deposits buried underground. Although only a small part has mining value, It was enough for Zhou Ming, the wealth was there waiting for him, and he would get it back sooner or later.

The biggest gain is the [World Map] in Zhou Ming's mind.

This map allowed Zhou Ming to get a clear picture of this world for the first time, and to know what kind of planet he was on.

The area of ​​this planet is about twice that of the earth. 70% is the sea, and the other 30% of the land is a fairly complete continent. The shape of this continent is a bit like two spindles joined together from head to tail. It is said that the pair of lungs in the human body are connected together by a "trachea".

The "trachea" between the two lungs is what people in this world call the Devil's Mountain - the Ural Snow Mountain.

The Ural Snow Mountains, the middle bulge formed by the collision of two lung-shaped continents, have an average altitude much higher than the Himalayas on Earth. Conservative estimates suggest that the average height must be tens of thousands of meters. It is indeed worthy of its name. A mountain of devils that only devils can climb.

To the west of the Ural Snow Mountains is the continent where Zhou Ming is currently located, with hundreds of kingdoms and a population of over 100 million. But Zhou Ming didn't know what would be on the eastern continent, which was even larger in area. He only knew that as long as he climbed over the snow-capped mountains that towered into the sky to the east of the Voorhees Kingdom, he would be able to spy. Go to this planet and occupy the other 60% of the land area.

"I'll go exploring behind the Ural Snow Mountains in the future. Maybe there will be many surprises waiting for me there."

…

In the following years, Zhou Ming began to show his talent in farming in front of his father, Baron Connor.

Based on the principle of increasing cow manure production, Zhou Ming set up a test field in the territorial manor to conduct manure production increase experiments. After the great success of increasing the barley yield by three times, Glenland Castle issued the "Manure Concentrated Treatment Ordinance". Soon it was fully implemented in every village and town.

Then there is the improvement of agricultural tools, the installation of plow walls on heavy plows, the invention of ox yokes and sowing cogs, which greatly improved the utilization efficiency of oxen and the speed of farmers' sowing, and reduced their labor intensity and physical burden.

But even so, Zhou Ming discovered that the farmers who had relieved a lot of burdens did not have the desire to expand the planting area and increase food production~ and his father, Baron Connor, was afraid that these idle farmers would wander around without anything to do, so he killed them. When we arrived at the quarry in the north, we planned to increase the height and thickness of the outer wall of the castle. After a few months, the farmers who managed to grow some flesh were mostly skinny and ribbed. During the process of building the castle, I accidentally got stoned and killed two of them.

Seeing that this was not going to work, the six-year-old Zhou Ming suggested to Baron Connor: "Father, don't let these farmers build castles, otherwise, we will formulate a reward policy. If the grain can reach 50 talents (≈ 1 ton), then he will be exempted from three days of weekly labor a week. If it exceeds 50 talents, one-fifth of the excess will be returned to the farmers, so that they will have the motivation to plant The ground."

Zhou Ming's plan is a way to stimulate labor with incentives without basically changing the original tax system, so as to increase the enthusiasm of farmers for labor.

After all, under normal circumstances, an adult farmer can grow a maximum of 80-100 talents a year, 50% of which is handed over to the lord, and the amount handed over is between 40-50 talents. Therefore, To complete the goal of 50 talents, it is enough to work harder.

Compared with being able to avoid the weekly labor of three days a week, it is really cost-effective to put in more effort to increase the variety of food.

"Can this work? Without the farmers to do weekly labor, the lord's fields will not be planted, and this will reduce a lot of income."

Baron Connor frowned, feeling that if he adopted this kind of incentive, he would not only lose money, but also suffer a little.

"Father, I did the math for you. Although your land of less than 2,000 mu is the most fertile river beach land, the yield per mu is not as good as that of the farmer's own land due to the labor of those farmers who are not very motivated to work. It is better to rent all these riverbank lands to farmers. Even if they only get 50%, it is more than all the previous ones... Believe me, those farmers will desperately rent the land in order not to do weekly labor. Plant well.”

The farming experience from his previous life allowed Zhou Ming to understand the characters of those farmers.

"But the weekly work is cancelled, what should I do if I still have to ask those farmers to work? There is more than just the field in the territory. In the future, we will need these farmers to build roads, bridges and castles."

"Then let the farmers come to work in the name of Thanksgiving Workers. It's just a different name. In the name of gratitude, invite them to eat some delicious white bread and drink some delicious mutton soup. Will they come? Working?"

Zhou Ming felt that the baron's father didn't know how to adapt at all.

"Edward, you are my wisest son."

Baron Connor stared blankly at Zhou Ming for a while, and it took him a long time to hold back such a sentence.