I, the yellow-haired noble, hypnotize the beautiful wife from another world

However, there are differences between good times and good times.

In the Golden Eagle Empire controlled by Aslan, more royal territories, those lands that were annexed after killing almost all the nobles, were rented out to farmers forever at extremely low prices in the form of perpetual tenancy.

These farmers, who were theoretically "royal tenants" but in reality self-employed farmers, became the latest supporters of the Golden Eagle Empire.

This is also Aslan's first step, to carry out the core of land and agricultural reform, to create more free people and self-employed farmers, to make them work and produce more actively. And these relatively conservative small farmers who are afraid of change will become the most staunch supporters of his dictatorship.

In addition, because the ownership of the land was still in the hands of the imperial family, it could not be bought or sold, which meant that these self-cultivating farmers could not merge land, upgrade to become landlords, or become poor farmers. This also ensured the stability of the empire.

At the beginning of the first five-year plan, facing more than 90% of the country's agricultural population, Aslan implemented two decrees: "The Abolition of Serfdom Decree" and "The Royal Land Permanent Tenancy Decree".

These decrees must be enforced not only on the lands directly under the Griffin family, but also on the lands of other lords and nobles.

After these two decrees were issued, the last group of noble lords on the land of the Golden Eagle Empire were forced to make a choice.

Or, as Aslan said, surrender the land and power, and only enjoy taxes from now on. There will be no impact on politics. Otherwise, you can only launch a rebellion and gamble on the fate of the country.

Chapter 8 Eastern Development

"Land reform, allowing more people to become royal tenants... Such a reform did not cause riots among the nobles?"

When the first step of Aslan's reform plan was sent to the desks of other rulers, many people could not help but complain about Aslan's outrageous policies. But after complaining, they came to their senses. Oh, by the way, all the nobles under Aslan were killed.

Although there are still two or three big and small cats left, rounding it off, there are still two duchies, as well as the territories of the Elector High Elves and the Elector Golden Dwarves, which are still not directly under the central government.

But with the power of these guys, it would be impossible to start another riot.

Aslan still implemented a separation policy for these nobles. He implemented autonomy for the territories of the high elves and the golden dwarves, and did not interfere too much with the governance of the two electors. But at the same time, the empire would send inspectors directly under the central government to enter the territories of these two foreign electors to supervise their administration in order to further enhance the loyalty of these foreign people to the empire.

All this, of course, made the elves and dwarf nobles feel dissatisfied.

However, no matter how dissatisfied they were, when they thought about the powerful fighting capability of the Crusaders, they could only hold their noses and endure it.

As for the other two dukes, one of them was defeated in the war with the Northern Norse family before the Crusades. The other one was always a nobody, not making a fortune quietly, but really weak, and no one cared about him.

So in the end, Aslan's agricultural system reform, the abolition of serfdom and the royal tenant system, was really pushed forward.

Although there were some deviations in execution and some small-scale riots and unrest in the process, in the end, 80% of the country's arable land was finally controlled by the Crusaders. The traditional aristocracy of the Golden Eagle Empire was almost wiped out.

Except for some original self-cultivating farmers, rich farmers and gentry, the entire rural area of ​​the Golden Eagle Empire has completely become the world of the imperial government. Large numbers of tenants and serfs have been allocated "their own land" and have become loyal followers of the Crusader government and the most fanatical Aslanists.

But, of course, this distribution was not entirely fair, and in fact there were still a huge number of serfs who did not receive enough land.

Aslan found out helplessly that 70 million people were still too many for the current empire. The empire did not have enough land to support them.

Before this, the remaining population in these rural areas were doing the most menial jobs, barely making ends meet. Or they were poor people without land. But now, there was still not enough land to distribute, and there were no nobles to raise servants for their own entertainment, so the entire empire suddenly had a lot of unemployed people.

But don't worry. Aslan has already thought of a way for the remaining rural population. He won't let them fend for themselves like the sheep eat people in the enclosure movement - although in fact, for the average moral quality of this era, fending for themselves is the normal situation. The European nobles do not have the tradition of disaster relief and relief. The tradition of disaster relief and relief is only in the church.

In a sense, the Catholic Church is not human, but compared with the feudal nobles in Europe, the Catholic Church has unexpectedly become humanized.

Of course, when it comes to personification, disaster relief, and relief, and using them as a source of legitimacy for rule, it is still the Eastern world.

After all, there are no governors or provincial governors or similar people here to spread the word: "In the face of disasters, only the strong can survive. Don't become a problem but become part of the solution. Disaster relief is something that only socialist countries do."

Even those who were most dissatisfied with the Golden Eagle Empire under the control of the Crusaders had to admit in this situation that the Crusaders' humanitarianism and care for civilians were better than all previous governments.

These people will be used to develop the northern region and the beast wasteland in the east, especially the beast wasteland in the east. The vast and barren land, after being developed, is enough to create two or even more Golden Eagle Empires. There are so many people that can be accommodated. There is no need to worry about the problem of overpopulation.

Of course, as mentioned before, there are two problems to be faced when exploring the Beast Tide Wasteland. One is being targeted by everyone, and the other is that it requires a lot of investment. This is still the case today.

However, now is not the same as before. Before, when Aslan was developing the Beast Tide Wasteland, he had to beg for sponsorship everywhere. But now, relying on centralization and concentration of power, it can be pushed forward with the will of the country.

A lot of investment has been made to clear this problem. And everyone has been targeting this problem, and it has been solved early.

The Crusaders are so strong that only the Crusaders can target others now, and it is not the turn of others to target the Crusaders. The various forces in the Beast Tide Wasteland are now too busy to lick Aslan, so how can they form an army to attack the Crusaders?

So now, many forces in the Beast Tide Wasteland are planning to surrender and lose half. As long as Aslan's army can give them relatively independent power, they can kneel down and lick the Crusaders. Become Aslan's vassal and cooperate with the Crusaders' Beast Tide Wasteland colonization plan.

If it was in the core area of ​​the empire, Aslan would definitely not be willing to feudalize his vassal. However, in the frontier development areas of the empire, it was not wrong to feudalize.

Aslan could promise them the right to autonomy if they surrendered. Anyway, with the power of the empire, it would be easy to suppress these small-scale feudal nobles, and most of the territory and interests of the Beast Tide Wasteland would eventually become the wealth of the central government controlled by Aslan.

With the support of these local bosses, we can expand the plate first, and then take it slow.

At the same time, ennobling nobles and granting them feudal territories would also attract the participation of frustrated nobles and the emerging industrial and commercial classes, which could help to channel domestic discontent.

What Aslan has to do now is to race against time.

The five-year plan must be exceeded.

After all, Aslan has many enemies but few allies.

In addition to the dark elf Jade Empire, the threat of demon invasion is also imminent.

Although the previous small-scale invasion proved to be an accident, it does not mean that the demons of hell will really sit back and watch humans become so powerful that they despair.

In fact, in recent times, Rami has given news that the demons in hell have begun to move unusually.

Chapter 9 More Slaves

"Those guys don't dare to attack the Empire directly. After all, the Empire is still too strong in their eyes.

So their target is other countries.

The demons of Hell are preparing to increase their offensive resources into the underground world, and to launch invasions in some small corners of the surface, establishing some outposts. Then, when the time is right, the demons of Hell will launch a large-scale invasion. This is much earlier than their original plan. "

Now, the little succubus, who had completely transformed into Aslan's shape, said to Aslan: "But the empire is becoming stronger and stronger, and even other countries in the world are implementing crusader-style military reforms and becoming stronger and stronger. The demons in hell can no longer sit still."

"Speaking of which, you have completely betrayed Hell, so how come you are still able to get news about Hell?"

After having sex with Nana's little succubus, Aslan got this news and felt a little curious.

"Of course, it's because there are also people in Hell who are betting on us. Everyone thinks that the Crusaders have a better chance of winning, so in order to prevent the Crusaders from rushing into Hell and killing them all, they surrender in advance, or hedge their bets." The little succubus said this confidently, without any sense of shame for betraying Hell. After all, she is a succubus. So Aslan also made up his mind to slap her hard until she surrendered and not relax his control over her.

"I see."

Aslan nodded thoughtfully.

"But it doesn't matter." He said calmly: "Those guys don't understand what kind of powerful existence they are about to face."

"Yeah, yeah," the little succubus showed a happy expression when hearing Aslan say this. Anyway, this child has completely become Aslan's shape from body to mind. It doesn't matter what the guys in hell are like, they are not too familiar anyway.

……

Of course, having said that, deep down in his heart, Aslan was still quite worried about the demons of hell.

Despite the huge number of low-level demons, they were no longer scary in the era of gunpowder weapons. Shrapnel, shotgun, and grenades would kill as many low-level demons as possible. No matter how many human wave tactics were used, they would all fail in the face of the terrifying firepower advantage.

However, there were not only low-level demons using human wave tactics in hell, but also a large number of mid-level and high-level demons. When these troops faced gunpowder weapons, even if they only showed half or even one-third of the combat effectiveness of the cold weapon era, it was still enough to make the army of hell a strong and invincible force.

More importantly, if the army of Hell did not engage in a major battle with Aslan after their massive invasion, but instead dispersed their troops and plundered everywhere, Aslan would suffer great losses.

……

“So first of all, it is very necessary to build up the militia and reserve forces.”

This is what Aslan decided at the military meeting.

"In the future, we may be involved in a full-scale war with the demons. All areas will be invaded by demons, without distinction between the rear and the front. In this case, we must ensure that each village and town has sufficient garrison forces. In case of an attack, they can hold out until our main force comes to rescue them."

"Yes, but this will definitely reduce our productivity..."

Agriculture is a relatively loose production behavior. It is based on days or even seasons, so there is time for some military training during the slack season. However, if the time for military training is used to build roads and water conservancy projects, which is the so-called "corvée", the value that can be generated must be greater.

Not to mention the urban industrial population. They can produce more goods in one day's work. So many capitalists expect workers to work hard 24 hours a day.

But now, Aslan said that it would take some time for the workers to undergo armed training and form armed militias and workers' pickets.

It's scary to think about this. They have spears and muskets in their hands today, and I dare not imagine what they will do tomorrow.

Wait, you said that the biggest capitalist in the entire empire right now is Aslan himself?

That's fine.

"But we do need more workers. More, cheaper, and more hardworking workers so that our empire can renovate its infrastructure."

Aslan lamented: "The empire's roads and water conservancy facilities, whether canals, aqueducts, or dams, have all fallen into disrepair. At the same time, the empire also needs more people to cut down trees, drain swamps, and open up farmland and mines."

In other words, where can we find a large number of hardworking people who are willing to work and work without pay? Think about it, who can do it?

Although Durin and his friends wanted to raise their hands and claim that the exoskeleton armor they made could make one person work as hard as a hundred people, Yelena's mother claimed that the puppets she made for various jobs also had powerful functions.

But the former is too unstable and expensive. The latter is stable but even more expensive than the former. Neither meets Aslan's needs. So Aslan just comforted them and ordered a small batch to pave the way for subsequent research and development. There is no intention of large-scale production and use.

Fortunately, in addition to these two, Aslan's empire has a third existence that perfectly meets the needs.

Of course - the hard-working green-skinned orcs! The slave-like green-skinned orcs! Through biochemical transformation, the resistance, dissatisfaction, and all kinds of negative emotions in their brains have been completely removed. They have become completely worker ants or worker bees, perfect, infertile, strong, hardworking, hard-working orcs.

While working hard to study all kinds of messy things, the Empire's research on greenskin slaves is also constantly deepening. Now three varieties of orc laborers have been produced.

The first type is the most basic model, a strong and sturdy laborer orc.

This type of orc is best suited for heavy labor, such as mining, logging, carrying goods, or even turning the millstone like a donkey. However, their IQ is not very high, so they cannot do jobs that require more skills.

The second type is an improved model, a smarter serf orc.

In addition to being able to perform heavy physical labor, this breed of orcs are also skilled in the techniques of watering and fertilizing, plowing and weeding, and harvesting crops.

In addition to basic agriculture, they can also pick cotton, pick spices, fruits and other crops, so in addition to farms, they are also suitable for use on plantations.

It can even patiently kill immature agricultural pests bit by bit to supplement protein for itself. It is a variety that many farmers like to raise.

Many people sincerely sighed that these serfs were more useful than the cattle and horses at home. It was simply amazing. In the colonies of the distant Old World, in those newly built plantations, the plantation owners also liked to buy these new varieties of orc serfs to replace the original slaves, the rebellious, disobedient and evil orcs.

The last and latest model is the Orc version that Aslan feels a little uneasy about, so he decides to only manufacture it on a small scale and not upgrade it.

These orcs are skilled in many manual techniques, whether it is bead making or woodworking, they are very good, and they are also very suitable to be thrown into the factory to be used as assembly line oxen and horses. But the disadvantage is that they are too smart, and can even communicate normally with humans. People are very worried that they will develop a rebellious consciousness.

Although the magician who created them assured Aslan that the brains of these orcs had been modified, Aslan was still not reassured, so these orcs were quickly killed.

Chapter 10: The Age of Slave Orcs

In this way, the production line of high-level puppet maids was difficult to manufacture. However, the production line of low-level slave orcs was very easy to manufacture. After Aslan implemented the first five-year plan, a large number of orcs who were hardworking, willing to work hard, ate less than cattle and horses, and worked more than cattle and horses made solid contributions to the Crusaders' imperial hegemony.

Thanks to their efforts, the empire's canals were dredged, canals and dams were built, hardened roads were built, mines were developed, and forests and swamps were turned into farmland and villages. More raw materials were produced and transported into warehouses, and then excellent industrial products were produced.

With the increasing number of orc slaves working hard, the infrastructure construction of the Golden Eagle Empire began to grow rapidly. The entire country was also thriving. Tax revenue and national industrial and agricultural output value also increased significantly.

Especially in the area of ​​industrial production, which Aslan cares about the most, the empire has developed extremely well.

In the middle and latter half of the first five-year plan, the productivity of the Golden Eagle Empire under the control of the Crusaders was greatly improved. Although it cannot be completely called an industrial country, after all, there are still a lot of handicrafts left. Many parts must be machined out bit by bit by craftsmen. However, it is completely correct to say that it is an early industrial country, or a semi-industrial country.

Various hydraulic lathes, hydraulic machinery, steam machinery, mixed with high-end magic crystal machinery and power generation machinery, make the entire Golden Eagle Empire look like a bizarre industrial revolution punk world.

But no matter what, the productivity of the empire has been greatly improved. In addition to meeting the needs of the Golden Eagle Empire itself, a large amount of cheap and high-quality metals, cloth, and various light industrial products and magic products have begun to spread all over the world, easily beating the local products to pieces.

Although the feudal lords were wary of all this and repeatedly refused to import these things and advocated domestic products, the wealthy citizens and farmers below still went their own way and regarded the purchase of excellent products from the Golden Eagle Empire as a fashion trend.

Not to mention, those feudal lords said they would support goods produced in their own countries, but in fact they still bought products from the Golden Eagle Empire.

If the master says one thing in front of you and another behind your back, don't blame the subordinates for following his example.

Under such circumstances, the Crusader Empire, which was in a state of trade advantage, gained the effect of siphoning precious metals - especially in the Old World, the traditional powerful country of Rennes with a large number of colonies.

These precious metals further stimulated the Crusader Empire's industrial development capabilities, becoming the lubricant of the Empire's industry and making the Empire's production more advantageous.

This is where the Empire's advantage becomes increasingly apparent in the middle part of the Third Five-Year Plan.

Many countries, including Lunsenau and Lotharingia, became dumping grounds for the industrial products of the Crusader Knights.

If they continue like this, they will inevitably fall into a state of deflation due to the drainage of precious metals, and eventually go bankrupt due to economic collapse.

Although the feudal lords were not very good at economy and trade, they could easily get away with it.

Such a simple and easy-to-understand thing can be understood by everyone.

Under such circumstances, it is natural that the resentment of various countries towards the Golden Eagle Empire has increased significantly.

Although everyone does not understand what economy and deflation will do to the national economy, everyone's money has been taken away by the Golden Eagle Empire, which has led to the country and the people being impoverished. This problem is still easy for everyone to understand.

If it is not properly resolved, then an encirclement against the Golden Eagle Empire will probably be established at a faster speed than before.

Although Aslan was not worried about the war, because the combat puppet maids that had begun mass production had begun to be equipped with rifled Minié bullets, and the old Napoleon cannons had also begun to evolve towards fixed copper shells.

Today, the Golden Eagle Empire has become incomparably strong. Many people's fantasy that "the Golden Eagle Empire is now completely obsessed with money. It is no longer the powerful and noble warrior it once was, and its combat effectiveness has greatly decreased" has never actually happened.

Just like the Japanese during World War II, they thought that the American army was completely useless. They had no spirit at all. Once they went to the battlefield, they would definitely be beaten to a pulp by the Japanese Empire brainwashed by Bushido. After a few casualties, they would be eager to surrender.

Everyone already knows the final result, so I won’t go into details here.

However, starting a war rashly is not in the interests of the empire.

Aslan's plan is to at least complete the first five-year plan. He will launch foreign wars after the empire has reached a certain stage of development. It would be best if he could unify the entire human world in one go...

Well, with the current size of the empire, it would be difficult to annex Lunsenor, which is about the same size as itself, and Lotharingia, which is just slightly smaller, and Wende. It is best to wait until the beast tide wasteland in the east is completely annexed and integrated before taking action.

Among all the human countries at present, the forces that are more suitable for annexation are Iberval and Korlia in the south.