When everyone in the tavern was talking about these things, an old voice next to me said, "You people are still too young. ”

Xiao Chen looked back and saw that it was an old man with a white beard, holding a wine glass, sitting on a small table on the edge of the tavern, the old man's hair was gray, his face was wrinkled, but there was a shrewdness in his expression, he looked at those villagers with disdain, as if he looked down on their views.

"Daddy Anlock, what story are you going to tell again?" asked the tavernkeeper.

"You say this territory started to be like this from Parges? I said it was like this many years ago. The Feng Wen family has always had a tradition of being weird, but the father of the previous lord Parges didn't do it, and when it came to Parges, he began to use these old methods. Old man Amrock said with an oath.

"Nonsense, isn't it? Why haven't I ever heard you talk about this?" said the crowd in confusion.

"Nonsense or not, just keep a snack and you'll know. Didn't you notice that when you dug the ditch, there was an old ditch under the new one? The public warehouse...... Wasn't that old house an old ready-made house before it was made a warehouse? It hadn't been renovated much, so how could it be so suitable for public storage? And the weapons and armor of the Warrior Regiment, there are a lot of old things, where do you think they came from?" Anrok took a sip of ale and said, "I didn't say it before, because I said it was a fart for you?" but today I feel comfortable looking at this young man, and he asked me to say it. ”

"You mean, there have been lords who have done the same thing as Baron Parges before?" Xiao Chen asked.

Daddy Amrock said, "I'm the oldest in town, and I know more. Most of the people here are not natives of their parents, or even their grandparents, and many of them are homeless people recruited by Parges. ”

He touched his ear, and there was a protrusion on it, which was sharper than ordinary people, "My ancestors had elven blood, so they lived longer than ordinary people, and now they are more than a hundred years old. When I was a child, it was Palges's grandfather who was the lord here, and he did many things like Palges. ”

"Then why didn't he do it later when Palges's father was in charge?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Well, how do we civilians know what the nobles think?" said Daddy Amroch.

The tavern owner said, "Father, have I heard you brag that you used to be an accountkeeper for the Baron's father? If anything happened to the Feng Wen family in the previous generation, would you still not know? However, what you said is true? If we continue to do this to us, we will not be able to hold on to the good life of a generation?"

"Hehe, this seemingly good life is the most fragile, and it only needs a simple reason to make it unsustainable. For example, a war with a nearby lord, such as a disaster that killed a lot of people, such as a shit order from the kingdom, or ...... Spread to an heir who can't run a business. Father Anrook's expression was a little gloomy, he sighed: "But it's normal to think about it, if your father left you a particularly rich territory, the grain is full of warehouses, and the cattle and sheep can't be eaten, why do you have to work hard like your father? Parges's grandfather spent thirty years to make this place rich, and his father only spent ten years after his grandfather's death to lose his family's wealth, he is not a bad guy, and he is also very generous to the people, otherwise the Feng Wen family will not maintain a good reputation." But a lord who spends a lot of money and doesn't think about how to make money will always make the territory poorer and poorer.

Oh, by the way, it's not just him, it's his wife too. Parges's father relied on the wealth he had when he was young to marry a famous beauty in the circle of aristocratic ladies around him, but this beauty is also a very good spender. A lot of the wealth of the territory was used by them for things like paintings, sculptures, jewelry, etc. ”

"But what about the riches of the people?" asked Evans, "they must have amassed a lot of wealth in the good old days, right?" I heard from my father that when he was first recruited by Master Parges, it was a very poor territory, and many houses were empty and uninhabited. ”

Daddy Amrock shook his head and smiled bitterly: "If you are on a ship, the ship is going to sink, and you can swim again, will you stay on the boat, or run away?"

"Escape, of course. The people around him said.

"Wouldn't that be nice. Those residents who have the ability, ability, and some family backgrounds have already found a way to leave when they see that the momentum is not right. At that time, most people were free people, and there was no way to really go to the lord. However, the more people left, the more the territory could not be maintained, and in a few years, the previous baron would have to survive by selling his property. Do you know that many of the merchants in Suero were from this place a generation or two ago? ”

"So Pagras is different from his father again?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Parges...... I used to teach him arithmetic. This boy has not had a good life since he was ten years old, and by that time the old baron's family had already decayed. Often in debt, there would be surrounding nobles and wealthy merchants to send people to collect debts, and later the old baron could not hold on and died of illness. Even his mother died of illness. He was forced by his creditors to sell what was left of his family and go to work as a knight's squire at the home of a friend of his father in the royal capital. Later, he fought with the Empire and earned some military merits. When Parges returned to the territory, he began to govern the place, and many of your families were recruited by him and moved here. ”

"It seems that behind it is a matter of a young lord using the methods passed down from his ancestors to revive the family?" Xiao Chen asked.

"Yes, it's normal to be fed up with being poor and angry and want to go back to Grandpa's old path, right?" said Daddy Anlock. He wanted to add a few more words, but then the door to the tavern was pushed open. Two men dressed as warriors came in.

"It's the Warriors. Someone whispered.

An older warrior asked, "We heard that strangers are here to inquire about the territory and the baron. Didn't the baron say that no one is allowed to talk about things here, I heard your story very lively outside, what the hell is going on?"

The people in the tavern looked at each other, and they didn't know how to say it.

Just as the soldiers of the Warrior Regiment were about to ask these people, Xiao Chen stood up and said, "Actually, I asked too much that they told me the story. ”