"Bang, bang—"

In the early morning, before the sun rises, the sky has just lit up with a touch of fish belly white, and now when most people are still intoxicated with sleep, the medieval peasants have already gotten up early, had breakfast, and are ready to start the day's work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because this is the time of the autumn harvest, it is the time to compete with God, and if it is a minute late, God says that it will rain, and maybe the grain that can make a piece of bread will be gone--this piece of bread is enough for the peasants to feel sorry for a year.

An ordinary farmer in a remote village in Desmond had just had breakfast and was about to go down to the field when there was a knock on the door.

When the door was opened, standing outside the door was little Odega, who was leading a horse and holding a pen and paper.

"Uncle Ma, I haven't seen you for a long time, I'm here again this year, how is your family's harvest?"

"Wow! Little Odega! It's been a long time, and this time I'm here to investigate? Thanks to the blessing of the Grand Duke, this year's harvest is not bad, and the little cubs in the family can always eat enough, do you want to come and take a look? ”

"Then please uncle, this is official business, and it must be taken seriously."

Little Odegar said humbly, bowed his head and entered the low wooden house, and first asked if there were any new people in the family and whether there was enough food to eat. I went to the livestock pen again and looked at the livestock in the house, how many cattle, sheep and pigs there were, and even how many eggs the chickens laid, and then wrote them down on the paper word by word.

This survey is not an ordinary survey, and the annual grain income of the Grand Duke is hidden in such a small piece of paper. Little Odega, and the other students of the Little Duke of Tang, rode through the entire Grand Duke on horseback at the time of the autumn harvest every year, and inquired about every household in every village, and the data obtained was summarized to Klein, who sorted it out and submitted it to the Grand Duke of Little Tang, and finally, according to this data, the Grand Duke of Little Tang set the tax due for this year.

When the tax collector comes, he will collect as much grain as he wants, and how many chickens and ducks he will collect, all according to this.

Although this method is a little cumbersome, it can avoid the peasants from going hungry to the greatest extent, and the warehouse is solid and knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace, as long as the food is full, many problems will disappear by itself.

To put it mildly, it is the so-called food and clothing, lust, people must eat enough to have enough food in order to have the strength to create people, right? Otherwise, you will be out of breath and lose strength after two moves, how can this be done! The little Tang Duke was counting on the peasants to increase his population!

Besides, the whole Grand Duke's Territory is very exaggerated, but the Grand Duke's Territory of Munster is really not big, and the population is only a pitiful 300,000, after all, Ireland is just a small island, and this job is still very simple to complete. As for what to do if the territory expands in the future...... I'll leave this to a later date.

"It's just, it's ...... in general"

Looking at the paper in his hand, little Odega sighed inexplicably. The concept of 'average' is very general, a little richer can be called average, and a little poorer can also be called average. But whether rich or poor, in the Grand Dukeship of Munster, the word general at least means to be able to eat well, to be placed in other places, and the word is generally to kill people.

"How many people will freeze to death and starve to death this year?"

This is the reason why little Odegar sighed, the good days have only passed three years, and the feeling of hunger and cold is still fresh in his memory. At that time, it was almost the same as now, the same land and the same people, and the rest of the grain after paying the taxes was at most half full—and this was in the case of a good year.

Although this year is not a disaster year, within the scope of the island of Ireland, the only one where the peasants can eat is the only one who can eat well. The peasants in other places can only endure hunger, and then pray for the mercy of the lord, and God will give face and a good year in the coming year, at least, don't make a fuss and give a disaster year.

If it really comes to a disaster year, you will either starve to death or take a desperate revolt, and the end of both will be similar, only death. The lord spent a lot of money to raise so many knights, but he didn't just use it to watch.

"By the way, two days ago, several nearby earls sent envoys to buy food from the Grand Duke, so it shouldn't be that they suffered a disaster, right?"

The villages are not close to each other, and the Duke of Xiao Tang does not have the energy to equip each investigator with a guard, there is no need for that, and it is too laborious.

After all, the security here has always been good, and the bandits with more than ten people have long been hung on the road signs by the Count of Olcoba to warn future generations. A person's journey was always very boring, and little Odegar could only ride his horse and think wildly. As a person close to the Duke of Xiao Tang, he is still qualified to know these inside information.

"I don't know if it's really a disaster, but if it is, then there will definitely be a large number of new victims rushing over, and I have to prepare in advance and come up with a plan that works."

Little Odega, GOODJOB!

It's not a small matter to prepare for the last rain and a large wave of victims rushing over, after all, you can't expect all the victims to be obedient. Even if they are all obedient people, rabbits are anxious and kick the wall, if people are hungry and crazy, they dare to do anything, and when the time comes, any public security problems can be busy to death, so it is better to think about how to do it as soon as possible.

It's a very in-depth question, and it can't be figured out in a moment, but it doesn't matter, it's just right to kill the boredom of little Odegar on the way. It's just that little Odega can be regarded as passing the time, and on the side of the little Tang Duke, it can be regarded as a burnt out.

"If they can think of such a loss-making business by exchanging honey for food, they should really plant all the clovers in the land, right?"

"It's not that exaggerated...... though"

"Well, you don't have to say any more."

Seeing Klein's hesitation, Grand Duke Tang slapped his forehead and wisely stopped Klein from continuing, it is definitely impossible to plant all the clovers, and these three counts are not stupid to this extent. But the large-scale cultivation of clover must have squeezed out the original crops, and there was a shortage of food, so it made sense to exchange honey for food.

"And the reason? I have the impression that these counts are not good people, the honey is their own money, and the grain they buy is to be distributed to the peasants for free, why should they do this? ”

After a pause, the little Tang Grand Duke asked again, this is purely his own curiosity. After all, in his memory, the Earl of Leinster was timid and fearful, and it was understandable that he would exchange honey for food, but the two families, the Earl of Kildell and the Earl of Osoruny, did great things and spared their lives, and forgot their righteousness when they saw small profits, and the little Tang Grand Duke did not believe it, they would do such things for the life and death of the peasants in the territory.

"Actually, the Grand Duke ......" Klein hesitated, for he didn't know what to say about the three counts, "These counts have to do this, or the angry people will overthrow them!" ”

"What a joke! And what about their soldiers?! ”

Grand Duke Tang Xiao was stunned. Yes, what about the soldiers? Raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, isn't it true that the lords spend a lot of money to raise soldiers just to prevent the peasants from rebelling! This truth was given to him by these counts.

"You seem to have forgotten the fact that these counts suffered heavy casualties in Dehebas, Lord Duke......"

After listening to Klein's explanation, Grand Duke Xiao Tang realized that there were heavy casualties, and this heavy casualty certainly did not mean how many infantry died. In fact, the infantry can only be regarded as cannon fodder in the eyes of several counts, and only the little Duke Tang has trained the infantry vigorously in the whole of Ireland, and used it as a treasure as the main force.

To say that several counts suffered heavy casualties is actually to say that their knights are almost dead.

Knights, well, knights, knights who made the feudal lords of the Middle Ages love and hate, this is the main combat power of several counts. Unfortunately, in the Second Battle of Dehebas, their knights were wiped out because they did not obey the order and charged without authorization, and even the knight attendants were dumpled by King William.

Without such a major combat force as knights, it is no wonder that several counts lack confidence and hurriedly want to buy food.

"In fact, it is much more than that, in the past few years, Ireland has been at war, there is no peace, bandits are rampant everywhere, and the displaced people are swarming. In such an environment, it is impossible for the peasants to grow crops well, according to the intelligence of the insider, the people's anger has already reached an extremely dangerous level, and this time the three earls are confused, if there is not enough food to appease the people, this riot may be unimaginably large......"