>>6082166Ouch ! What a roll !
>>6082248>>6082250>>6082352>>6082525Excellent ! Excellent !
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Enough, you rose from your seat and instinctively the bastard shivered, knowing what would happen. You rose your right hand and began.
-When, O bastard, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us ? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now ? Do not the weight of tradition of the noblemen—do not the good defense of the guards—does not the alarm of the people, and the union of all good men—do not the lessons of our brave Father François about our Lord Jesus Christ, not the looks and countenances of your lord and master here present, have any effect upon you ? Do you not feel that you are a shameless thieving little criminal born out of wedlock who thinks only of himself.
Before someone could say "but the law" you continued to speak.
-But the law tells the woman, and tells the second son ! What are these laws ? Some nonsense allegedly found in Justinian's institutes that some legist has found to impose to favour King Philippe ? NO ! There is no law but the good feudal custom, the custom of the Franks who were free and just men who conquered these lands. Well, not these lands in India per se but unchristian customs do not count ! Why do you think they exist ? Mhhh ?
You looked at the masses with a mad eye and they seemed to fear you too much to speak. Good. Bob Denarius who was in the public tried.
-Perhaps to advantage the first son and concentrate...
-Silence ! Fools ! All of you ! It is done for a simple, good reason, good customs do not exist if they are not just. How much can your farm sustain people ?
The first son answered, stuttering.
-T... Ten people m.. My lord...
-Ten people, so a family, while if you cut it in two it would be two couples, with three children each, and then if you share even more there would be less kids, people will make less kids ! It is all a plot of heathens to make you raise less children !
You continued to rant, seeing clearly in the fog of ignorance that corrupted these pagans. Truely, faith in our Lord and His holy Church and your newfound experience as a lord made you better at politics.
-So what will happen ? Less births, and less births means less lands colonised ! By the heavens I have more lands than I could dream of in France but they are infertile or full of a forest populated by spirits and Ghibellines ! Why in hundreds of generations have you not managed to push this back ? Because a family, even if deaths in childbirth are low here, has very few people. Only those like the Rabits who populate a hamlet with their descendents know.
-B... But we are a family of four kids and...
