Chapter 235: Pushing Goblins Again
"Arthur, you're finally back, this time thanks to you and your teacher, otherwise, I'd be in big trouble this time." Frick Canon smiled.
The timing of Arthur's support was just right, which made him not complain even if he knew that Arthur had actually been hiding in Fist Demon Town.
"Even if it weren't for me, the lord would have a solution, I've heard that the grain truck to Berry is already on its way back, and I think the food crisis in Morado will be lifted by then."
The snow melted, and Arthur also returned to Morado, and completed the territory handover with Aschuk, who had completed the mission and was appointed by the kingdom, and returned to his hometown alone.
The half-goblin did not accompany Arthur, and before Arthur left, Melissa seemed to have received some message and left Punch Demon Town in a hurry.
Of course, Arthur's safety was not neglected, and the defensive magic was set layer after layer, so he almost let Arthur stay in the wizard's tower and not come out.
Without Melissa, the existence with the highest combat power around Arthur has changed.
What the? Aschuk? Don't be kidding, this boxer demon almost didn't get scared when he saw the transformed little female dragon, and said that he finally became the number one person, who would have thought that the hidden boss would turn into a little Lo-Li.
"Nope! No! If it weren't for these people in your town, I wouldn't have been in chaos a long time ago, and without your food, I wouldn't be so calm. Frick Canon sighed to himself.
Don't look at the fact that the Takanon family has such a high prestige in Morado, but the critical moment is not as important as the interests of grain and homesteaders.
Especially with the return of the adventurers and mercenaries who survived the war and came from homesteader families, the cohesion that could still be barely maintained has completely disappeared.
The return of these men meant that the fighting in the south had completely subsided, and there was no longer any reason for the yeoman farmers to endure the displacement of their own food to remain in the town.
And the most unfortunate thing is that Canon and the other nobles knew that after this war, their tenant farmers would definitely lose a lot of their own tenants, although these homeless people ate a lot of food. But as long as they can become their tenant farmers, they can make up for everything.
But the idea is very beautiful, but the truth is very cruel, and Aschuk intervenes. Not only did they recruit a large number of local tenant farmers, but they also recruited most of the displaced people who did not have land and food.
And those who remain, most of them have food in stock, or land in more remote villages, and will not stay as servants of the nobles.
Home-grown farmers and townspeople are extremely repulsive to these outsiders. Even if the lord wants to speak out, it is difficult to keep it.
Although the war did not cause much damage to Morado, it also did not leave a benefit to the nobles, but rather a lot of losses.
"Yes, the people live on food, and only when they have food can they settle down, but Lord Lord, you should have noticed that there is too little labor in the town, and I am afraid it will be difficult to maintain this year's cultivation."
Arthur poked Canon's wounds, consciously or unconsciously, compared to his own large landowner of two hundred acres of uncultivated land. These have thousands of acres of well-cooked land with empty pits, but they can't find anyone, which is a real headache.
After the war, because of the credit of grain, the land of self-cultivated farmers will naturally continue to increase, from the original 100 to 150, and now it is directly to 200 acres.
Compared with the credit for relieving the food crisis, only 50 acres of land seem a little stingy.
But the nobles of Morado really couldn't give much more.
The entire land bordering Fist Demon Town, except for the road, has almost been allocated to Arthur.
If you want to talk about the area of land you own. The other two aristocratic families in the town, counting the arable land of the nobles and the land they bought that required taxes, did not add up to Arthur.
If you want to give Arthur a plot of land, you can only buy it from the farmers on the edge of Morado. But the question is that Arthur is willing to spend money, and those farmers are willing to sell at this time?
The former tenant farmers would leave, and the outcasts would be recruited by the Ashok, but as long as the treasure of Morado was not invaded by monsters, the farmers here would not choose to leave.
"But there is no way to do it, so I can only recruit some people from other places to take a look." Frick Canon was also helpless. In the past, manpower was cheaper than food, but now a war has been completely reversed.
The countries further south must have wealthy populations, but how many of them are willing to live in the Kingdom of Halfwinter, a country that is destined to be destroyed by orcs every few decades?
Unless forced to do so, or a person like Ashuk with a guilty body, even with a noble land reward, it is difficult for the Bandong Kingdom to keep people.
"My lord, I have a suggestion, I don't know if you would like to hear it, do you remember the idea I mentioned to you to integrate goblins into the whole of agriculture." Arthur mentioned it when recruiting goblins, but at that time there was still a lack of qualifications.
At that time, there were many people in Morado, and the use of goblins only reduced the tedious heavy physical labor, but now the situation has changed more instinctively.
Morado is short of people, even if the Fist Demon Town, which has recruited a lot of manpower, is also short of people, and it is obvious that the goblins, who are not important in the first place, can stand on the front stage with their heads held high at this time.
"Goblins...... Can they? "Even if he knew that Arthur had used goblins to fight orcs a few times, but ploughing the land, this is completely different, the former is manual work, there are enough of them, and the goblins can smoke the orcs to death with a single spit.
And cultivated land is a real technical work, without good technology, not to mention the production of hundreds of pounds of sweet potatoes per acre of land, even whether the sweet potato vine seedlings can survive is a problem.
"Don't worry, I'm sure, and this time it's not just you, but Lord Aschuk agrees with me.
He agreed to implement a farming scheme in Fist Demon Town, with farmers as the support and goblins as the labor.
And he also took out 1,000 gold coins as a guarantee, as long as he did according to his requirements, even if the cultivation failed, he would personally bear all the losses. ”
Arthur used Ashuk as an example, of course, those gold coins were naturally advanced by Arthur with those gold coins left by the Arikah family, and the shiny gold coins were piled up into a small mountain.
Not to mention the tenant farmers who had never seen the market, even the homesteaders who originally had some Fist Demon Town were dumbfounded.
You must know that when the mercenary group drove away the goblins, 35 gold coins made the homesteaders in the hall cry out for pain, and the mage of Winter Frost shouted 100 gold coins to buy Arthur's land, which almost made the envy of other homesteaders drool. (To be continued.) )