So, since the castle is so uncomfortable to live in, why not live in the castle and build a holiday cottage out of wood in a nearby place with developed transportation and beautiful scenery? Anyway, it's a noble lord, and this money can always be obtained, so if you can't do it, you can still recruit the people to serve for free!

Well, this should have been feasible at the end of the Middle Ages, when aristocratic fighting was already very rare and relatively peaceful, and as mentioned above, many lords had already moved out of the castle and would only return to live in the fortified castle when the war was approaching.

But if you're too far ahead of your time, do it in the early and mid-Middle Ages...... You're killing yourself!

-- Europe was in chaos at that time, and there was no great unified nation-state. Whether it's England, France, Germany, or Italy, it's all full of princes. The authority of the kings of various countries was basically limited to the capital and the royal domain, and there was nothing they could do about the personal battles of the nobles under them.

If a nobleman's castle and territory were taken away by a neighbor, then he had better not expect to get the territory back by simply going to the palace to fight the royal lawsuit...... Unless you have a strong friendship with the king enough to have him send troops to war for you, it would be nice to be able to give you a position in the court. Therefore, in that era, every lord had to firmly guard his castle and did not dare to leave for a long time.

However, every lord is deliberately expanding his territory, looking for excuses to expand and invade abroad, often just because of a border dispute, a personal attack, an unintentional word, a failed marriage proposal, and sometimes even just a gesture, an expression, a gesture, can detonate a medieval war.

- The knights of the Middle Ages were very violent and brutal, so don't think of them as polite gentlemen. In medieval poetry and literature, many of their shameless deeds are recorded. For example, when a noble knight proposed to a wealthy widow and was rejected, he led his army to besiege the castle owned by the widow until the widow opened the gates and bowed down to marry......

In addition to the ill-intentioned lords next door, there were many vicious bands of thieves in the forests of medieval Europe, roaming around like swarms of locusts, and from time to time a manor was breached and sacked - Robin Hood in England was also one of them. You see, Robin Hood and his men can even break through a small castle, how long can your exquisite holiday cottage withstand in front of such a commando?

As for forewarning of the movements of these enemies, move back to the castle before they arrive...... Medieval Europe was sparsely populated and full of wilderness where small troops could pass, how many scouts did you have to block the entire territory?

Moreover, the territory of the medieval lords was generally not large, and there was a lack of strategic maneuver space, and it often took less than half a day to ride from one castle to another - such a short warning time was too late to evacuate and transfer.

Besides, even if they can be well defended on land, there are still elusive Vikings at sea!

Therefore, in that terrible era of chaos and chaos, rampant bandits, and precariousness, you left a strong and reliable castle instead of living, but moved to a beautiful villa that was not suitable for defense in order to pursue some kind of life...... I'm afraid that in a few days, a large number of assassins and bandits will come to the door, or kidnap you and your wife and children for ransom, or receive commissions from other nearby lords, and directly kill you!

So, for the sake of your life, let's continue to live in the castle honestly!