488 Half a meter of dignity
"You think my goal is a piece of land of 100 square meters in Greenland? Huh~ I have known you for a long time, Farid, but you shock me with your lack of ambition every now and then. But what do I expect from a fool who only cares about bragging in front of his kids about his golden armor? Will it provide food and drink for them, you moron?" The soldier named Ray shook his head as he said sarcastically
"Hmm? Lack of ambition? Wasn't it you who said you wanted a damn piece of land? Wait… Is it possible that you want to become a noble?" Farid raised his head slightly and said in a surprised and skeptical tone at the same time
Planet Greenland... It is the aspiration and hope of all those born in the commoners of Jura, why? Because they did not own a piece of land in their lives.
The land distribution system in Planet Jura as a whole depends on the distribution of nobles and not private property... For example, the Baron owns at least 10,000 square kilometers of land, and whoever wants to live in this space will be an unofficial follower of that Baron.
Of course, A Baron Family wouldn't be able to use all those lands by themselves so they accept some commoners and give them plots of land to cultivate whether by mining or farming it. But the thing is, most of the income of that land will be handed to the Baron Family as taxes, and even the houses of those commoners can be destroyed and be thrown again into the street at any moment, as they are closer to tenants without rights. This, of course, besides that he would have to join the army in the event of an attack on those lands even though he owns nothing in it
Sometimes it happened that armed groups seized empty plots of land belonging to the nobles and declared that it had become theirs, only small plots of land suitable for agriculture and feeding the group... But whoever dared to do something like this met immediate annihilation at the hands of the nobles.
Even the largest and richest of merchants can't escape this if they were commoners, Any noble can confiscate everything they own at any moment as long as he has sufficient reason
For this reason alone, the commoner will always remain the commoner.
There are a few cases in which a family of commoners was able to peel off a piece of land for themselves and became nobles, but every time this happened it was in a time of strong turmoil and wars, like those that took place thousands of years ago and enabled the Burton family to able to turn into a noble family!
As for here, the situation is different... When it was announced that lands from Greenland would be given away to anyone that is ready to pay points for it, everyone went crazy, especially since the hundred square meters cost only one point, which means that only ten points are enough to buy an area of land by establishing a small farm!!
Everyone in the army now who is not a noble one has already exchanged points or is thinking of exchanging points to take possession of a piece of land to be his own even if he doesn't really need it just to experience the feeling of ownership for the first time, and also to give his children something tangible to inherit.
It is true that the lands have not been distributed yet, and that whoever makes the exchange is handed only a document stating that he owns a piece of land of such and such size, but everyone understands that this is in order to study all requests and make a rational distribution at the end of the war.
It would be strange for someone to buy 100 square meters, for example, and try to buy another piece of land if he had more points, only to find that the land next to him has already been taken. And the generals refused to give the land to the ordinary soldiers blindly or far apart from each other, as none of the really powerful individuals would be able to find an intact large piece of land to establish his borders as a noble, this is why the distribution hadn't happened yet...
Of course, most of those in the army today could only carve out a small piece of land to build a house or a few acres for farming at the maximum, but not a single one of them dared to think of accumulating enough land to be a noble…
10,000 square kilometers to become a baron, If the price is one point per hundred square meters, doesn't this mean that they need a hundred thousand points to buy a plot of land sufficient for a barony!? Only the ten Generals can think of it!!
Ray looked at his owner disdainfully, "Are you only looking at your feet? Suppose I want to become an independent noble, is that too difficult?"
"Pdf, Impossible! Are you collecting enough for Baron's land? It's clear the system is made to serve high earners, little fish like us don't have a chance! Come and pee on my grave if you can do it even after a thousand years haha" Fred laughed loudly and went back to resting his head on the ground again
"Idiot! Who said you have to do it alone? They are not called *noble families* for no reason, all those noble families in our motherland fought together until they took the land and then appointed one of them to be the front of the family."
Farid raised his head slightly, "You mean...?"
"Hmph, do you know the Maserati family? They are participating in this war with more than five thousand knights and dozens of saints, and they are now all concentrating their daily points on buying bordering lands, do you know what that means?"
"The Maserati family? The affiliated family from the Ice Continent?" Fred twitched as if he had been bitten by a snake, "Those peasants who ran after the Frost family's cows day and night are planning to own shit now? Five thousand knights and dozens of saints... At this rate, A Barony... is not too far away!!"
"Damn it, why are we resting then? Come on, let's get ready to collect those damned corpses, I'll try to convince the bastards of my family of this idea!!" Fred jumped up and took a few steps before suddenly standing up and looking at his friend again, "...Wait, you don't have any family, you are an orphan, a few years ago your main source of food was rubbish, if you hadn't received the Emperor's favor you would be dead now, why would you seek to be a noble? This is illogical.."
"Who said anything about me wanting to be a nobleman in Greenland?" Ray shrugged his shoulders, then stood up and dusted himself off
"You..!!" Farid almost came back and grabbed his owner's neck
However, he heard him say, "What I want is to buy a piece of land on Planet Jura..."
"Jura? The same Planet Jura I know..?" Farid asked very surprised
"Sigh~ The list of redeeming points has changed this morning. The nobles of Jura Planet have agreed after much pressure to sell plots of land to the commoners as private property." Ray said it softly but his voice was trembling slightly
"Jura nobles… Are selling their lands? How… HOW?!" Even Farid took a step back as if he had heard the strangest thing in existence. This is an unprecedented incident in history.
Ray shrugged again, "I heard that the generals had convinced the families there that the number of experts among the commoners was too great now and that they should open up a buying opportunity or civil wars might start soon. The noble families were initially reluctant because their power also increased at great rates after the Emperor's revolution and their power was still not something that some divided commoners could stand against... But after arguing with them for about four years, most of the noble families in Jura agreed to sell, but with one condition. That the sale will be dedicated to the points system only, as they will not sell to anyone outside the system with all the gold and energy pearls in the world, and the price is five points for one square meter.
"Five points for one meter? That..." Farid spoke, his body trembling
Ray shook his head slightly and began to stretch out to complete the work, "We could work for years with all our might before we can gather enough land to set up the smallest house, is that what you're thinking? But at least there's hope now that I have a headquarters on the mother planet to leave my wife and children in without worrying about them, in addition to that I--"
"THIS IS AWESOME!!" Farid shouted at the top of his lung and ran pulsing into a nearby pile of corpses
When Ray saw this, he stopped stretching for a moment and smiled, then went to search with his owner.
He knew now that he didn't have to justify his decision in the first place.
Any piece of land on Planet Jura would be worth its weight in gold in the eyes of the commoners, even if they only took half a meter worth of land they would use it as a grave!