>>6079409MEANWHILE IN LOCAL :
Seeing all these people work you thought about what to do. One part of you wanted to give the men a raise but you stopped yourself immediately, first the work had not been finished and secondly it was showing that India, with it's most barbaric characteristics was beginning to influence you. Dreadful... You should be an exemple of good Christian morals to your subjects, or at least an embodiment of the right and proper feudal order that these lands has forgotten and desperately needed. You had not only to behave virtuously but to encourage virtue.
You sighed, of course you would not pay them a rise because it would be properly amoral. In general, working for money was a bad thing in your opinion, it was why serfdom was to be preferred. Of course some royal administrator would tell "free peasants work more and are more taxable" but you were against this, it was a matter of principle. A man paid for his work will work for his pay, not for the chance of working hard by doing his duty. Not even to do it to get one day to paradise, being before Saint Peter who would say "I see Jean, you have been a good peasant it seems, you always obeyed your lord, only occasionally had been drunk and beaten your wife and children, and never tried to fuck your donkey, you tried hard to be a loyal subject, a stern but good father for your household and not to act out of pettiness, greed or selfishness, you can enter.". No, this was not the motivator for the paid worker : his motivation was his pay and his selfishness.
Yes, paid peasants expected to be paid, and where unhappy if not. It was disgusting ! As a nobleman you did not rule them for your personal greed or selfishness, you ruled and protected them because it was your duty, if you ruled them out of greed you would have doubled their taxes ! But no, you were a good nobleman, and so you had to set an example for them to follow, doing it's duty for it's own sake.
It was why serfdom, where no money but trust between a lord and his serf was far more preferable. A society without it like India seemed to be a society on the first step of moral corruption. Imagine a society where money would decide all ! Of course fat merchants would dominate it, and rule to extort the masses for anything to get always richer and not to try to bring the world closer to the Kingdom of God. People would not help eachother out of charity but expect to be paid for their services, hell even the right of glanage, of the outermost wheats on the fields will probably be suppressed, considered "theft of property" and poor people will starve for the marginal gains of some vile men. Everything would be dependent on money, every interaction a calculus : the realm of Mammon. The populace would follow it's most selfish and vile instincts instead of behaving itself and remembering it's place.
