Bringing the MC system to Middle-earth.

Chapter 99 Labor
After teaching the village chief how to work in the territory, Levi took him to do some special experiments.

For example, in diving, the properties of water are also effective for the citizens. Within the territory, they are all counted as "biological entities" and will follow the properties of MC to a certain extent.

In other words, it is not that they follow the characteristics of mc, but that the characteristics of mc influence them.

After temporarily ending the small characteristic experiment and labor teaching guidance, Li Wei said to the old village chief:
"If you want to stay here, you must reach the [resident] level within a year. When you become a resident, you can synthesize this tool yourself."

The village chief's expression suddenly became serious.

"You mean, as long as we become residents, we can also use this magic to make tools?"

He simply localized what Levi said according to his own understanding.

"You could say that."

Levi was too lazy to correct it, as long as he could understand it, that was enough.

"By the way, as my subjects, although you will never lack food and shelter, you must do some labor every day."

"Except for children, residents and below need to work at least six hours a day. Oh, you may not know how long six hours is. In most cases, it is roughly equivalent to half a day."

"This, so short?"

The old village chief frowned slightly, not because he had an opinion, but because he was a little bit unconvinced.

“You are so generous…”

Not only did the lord take them in, provide them with shelter and food, he was even willing to share his magic.

And the price is just to work -

It's all such easy work!

This sudden happiness is simply dizzying.

Six hours, according to the lord, is half a day. In the past, most villagers spent their entire day working, from sunrise to sunset, let alone half a day. Their meals and rest were basically tied to the workplace. There was no such concept as 'working a certain amount of time a day and then getting off work'.

This kind of territory management method is the first time I have seen it.

"I know this might be a little boring, but if you want to stay, this is what you have to do."

"Once you are promoted to a rank above [Resident], you can reduce this time."

Levi continued: "If someone doesn't want to accept it, he can leave at any time, but it should be noted that once he leaves, he is no longer a [resident] here and can no longer use anything here."

"No, I won't leave even if I die."

The old village chief swore an oath on the spot: "I am willing to join the Free City-State and contribute to the development of the territory to the best of my ability until the end of my life."

"Listen to me first."

Levi pressed his hand.

"I don't force you to choose the type of work. You can choose the work that interests you and do your daily labor."

“As your reputation level increases, you will be able to engage in more professions and do more things, and you will also be able to unlock the production of more things, just like me.”

Levi synthesized a wooden hoe on the spot to demonstrate to him.

"I probably understand."

The old village chief quickly turned his mind and concluded:
"You mean, as long as we do some simple labor every day, we can gradually learn more magic and be able to do more things with magic?" "Moreover, we can even use this magic to do what we are interested in?"

"You...yes, that's right, that's probably what you mean."

This old village chief is good at distilling the key points and is also a master at localizing words and sentences.

After thinking about it, Levi decided not to use those proprietary terms that only he understood to correct them. As long as they could understand it, it was fine.

After explaining the key points of the territory again and making sure that the old village chief understood, Levi continued to instruct:
"I have taught you the basics, and after that it will be up to you to tell the villagers what to do."

"This can also be considered as a contribution to the territory, and it can earn you some reputation."

"I understand, my lord."

The old village chief accepted the order and left in a hurry. According to Levi's instructions, he gathered the villagers - no, now they should be called subjects. He gathered the subjects according to Levi's instructions and explained and demonstrated to them how to work in the territory, how to throw things into the funnel, how to breed animals, plant trees, collect apples, and so on.

After the demonstration, he explained the promotion rules within the territory to these people.

"The Lord has a magical power that can see how much we have contributed to the territory."

"As long as our contribution is great enough, we can even use the magic shared by the Lord."

"oh--!"

The people cried out in surprise, and it took them a while to digest the news.

After understanding what the old village chief was talking about, some people rolled up their sleeves on the spot and prepared to find tools to get to work.

Every contribution you make will be clearly seen, which means that there will never be a situation where your credit is misappropriated, or that you do good things and no one knows about it.

The lord's eyes are the ruler, he will see everything clearly.

As long as you work hard and make contributions, you can steadily rise up, and even learn magic and use it to do what you want - this is not some false promise, but it really exists.

You can obtain it immediately as long as the specified conditions are met.

A few more ambitious people began to stir, while more people breathed a sigh of relief.

For most residents who have experienced wandering and hunger, having a long-term, stable place to live is better than anything else. As long as they can make a living and they and their families can have enough food, they are already extremely satisfied, and everything else is secondary.

At least it's secondary for now.

Now this part of residents just wants to live a peaceful life first and then think about other things.

Half a day's work time is not a lot, especially compared with the previous days, it is extremely easy. Many residents even feel that this life is a bit luxurious and they can live like this for the rest of their lives.

But this kind of thinking will gradually change as material life becomes more satisfying.

When people no longer lack material needs, they will begin to seek spiritual satisfaction.

When life is threatened, people will desire to live. When they are extremely hungry, they will crave coarse bread or rotten vegetable leaves. But when they have endless coarse bread and rotten vegetable leaves, people will begin to crave better things.

The demand will be progressive.

As residents live in the territory for longer periods of time and have recovered a little, they will gradually begin to have higher aspirations.

By then, even if there is no compulsory labor demand, there will be a large number of people scrambling to take the initiative to work and create the value they want.

(End of this chapter)