Earl Stark has been feeling very uncomfortable lately, and even a little anxious.

It has been more than three months since he took over as Lord of Satsuma as Lord of Bunta City, and he has not completely succeeded in doing anything he wants to do.

Before coming to Bangta City, he thought that it was overkill for the family to let him be the lord of the city.

In his opinion, the problem of Bonta City is a piece of cake at all, and it is not difficult to send someone to solve it, even if it is to let Baron Billier, who is already in Bonta City and has always regarded as a little hairy child, solve it.

He only came because Bonta City was now the center of the two factions in the kingdom of Lampari.

The Stark family paid a great price to finally win the position of this city lord, and naturally there is no room for loss.

Bonta City is just a small city, and it is of course impossible to directly let the head of the family, Duke Stark, be the lord of the city, so he chose to choose, and finally chose Count Manil Starr.

As the younger brother of Duke Stark, he has the absolute trust of Duke Stark, and because he is older, he is more stable and old, so it is naturally easy to reassure.

Before that, Count Stark was also reassured of himself, because he felt that he could accomplish his family's goal well, and prove to everyone that making Bonta City a city based on agriculture was definitely much more important than becoming a city based on commerce.

But when he really took charge of Bangta City, except for the surprisingly smooth when he first started to deal with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, everything he wanted to do was very unsmooth.

One of the first things he did when he came to Bonta was to reassess the land situation in Buntar and implement this impeccable policy. Drove the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of Sanchiton Manor. Let Xu Yi not even dare to fart a fart.

However, his implementation of this policy is not just to drive out the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. Rather, they are really going to use this policy to recount the land use around Bangta City, so that all the arable land in Bangta City can be measured and reclaimed before the autumn harvest, so as to achieve a significant increase in production during the autumn harvest.

However, when he got the measurement results, he almost spurted out a mouthful of old blood.

Because according to the results of measurement and statistics, the current Bang Ta City has actually reclaimed all the arable land within the Bang Ta City, and there is not even a single hectare of idle land!

In this way, it means that he is not able to make a fuss about the area of land reclamation, which makes the food production in Bangta City skyrocket. Thus losing the possibility of creating this greatest credit.

On the contrary, if the grain he harvested in this autumn harvest did not meet the standards of last year's autumn harvest in Bangta City, or even worse, it would mean that he had completely failed to serve as the lord of the city this time.

Not to mention that he will live up to the expectations of the entire family, and even cause the Stark family to be questioned by other nobles in the same faction.

More importantly, if he is unable to produce results and prove that the city of Bunta after his reign can achieve better results than when the Count of Satsuma is in power, then His Majesty will have enough reason to refuse the mention of their faction of nobles, and thus vigorously promote commercial development in the kingdom.

In this way, including the Stark family. Prestige within the kingdom is bound to suffer greatly.

And this is the most unacceptable thing for the nobles of their faction.

So even though he wanted to vomit blood, Earl Stark still tried to find the possibility to improve his grades.

Farmland cannot be multiplied out of thin air. Then the remaining room for effort is only manpower.

However, when plotting a solution to the problem of manpower, Earl Stark made a big joke.

According to the results of the statistics, the Earl of Stark found that there was a Cantona Chamber of Commerce in the city of Bonta, and he actually took the farmland they had rented from a large number of farmers outside the city, and contracted it all for cultivation.

According to the statistics in the City Lord's Mansion, this Cantona Chamber of Commerce now has subleased farmland from as many as 746 farmers, with a total area of more than 20 hectares, which is even much larger than the territory of the Stark family in Bonta City!

After seeing this question, Earl Stark's eyes lit up.

This Cantona Chamber of Commerce does not have any aristocratic background, and it is not only extremely unreasonable to dare to hold so much arable farmland, but it can even be said to be a great rebellion!

So the Count of Stark unceremoniously ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to immediately return the land to the peasants, guaranteeing them farmland to rent.

Count Stark thought that what he did would be embraced by everyone, because in his opinion, this Cantona Chamber of Commerce must have some improper relationship with the previous city lord, Count Satsuma, and with the power of Count Satsuma, he forced those farmers to hand over the farmland they rented to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

For all the ordinary farmers in the kingdom of Lampari, the farmland they rent is their only hope of supporting their families, and if they don't have these farmlands, these ordinary farmers will probably starve to death.

Therefore, Earl Stark felt that he had done this thing really righteously, and was confidently ready to accept everyone's praise and support.

However, the truth was completely unexpected.

When he ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to return the farmland to the farmers, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce protested, claiming that the farmland it rented had been approved by the city lord's government, without any procedural problems, and was completely legal. If the city lord's mansion ordered him to return the farmland, he had to give a reasonable reason.

Of course, the Earl Stark was prepared for the protest against the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, and directly used the agreement signed with the previous city lord to have nothing to do with the current city lord, and all agreements signed with the city lord's mansion would be automatically nullified, and all of them must be reconsidered before deciding whether to approve the legitimacy of the argument.

However, this reply to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was directly spread by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce in a fit of rage, so it was followed not only by the Bonta Daily but also by other newspapers in Bonta City and several surrounding cities.

This trivial matter, which seemed to be unworthy of mention, was caused by a stir in the city of Bonta and several surrounding cities in a short period of time. And support the reason of Earl Stark. But there was almost none.

Even the nobles in Bunta City, who must have been on the same side as Earl Stark, were silent on the matter. Even some nobles implicitly expressed their opposition.

The reaction of the commoners outside the nobility to this incident was a little more violent.

After the Bonta Daily reported the incident, countless chambers of commerce in Bonta City and even in several surrounding cities poured into the Lord's Mansion to demand a re-audit of the agreement signed between the two parties.

Many chambers of commerce even tactfully or simply made it very clear to Count Stark that because of Count Stark's actions, they had lost trust in the City Lord's Mansion of Bonta City, and the agreement signed by the two sides was directly nullified, and asked the City Lord's Mansion to immediately settle all the issues concerning the distribution of interests between the two parties.

For this situation, Earl Stark did not expect. When he asked the City Lord's Mansion Affairs Officer to count all these chambers of commerce that had agreements with the City Lord's Mansion, he was shocked to find that the number of chambers of commerce that had signed various agreements with the Bonta City Lord's Mansion led by Count Satsuma before was as high as seventy-three!

The seventy-three chambers of commerce deal in everything from the ongoing renovation of the banks of the Sandy River to a rag used in the kitchen of the city lord's mansion.

If the agreement signed between these chambers of commerce and the Lord's Mansion were nullified, and all transactions with the Lord's Mansion were to be stopped, then Bonta City would be paralyzed almost instantly.

At this time, Count Stark realized that he had done an extremely stupid thing, which put him and all the officials in the City Lord's Mansion into extreme chaos.

Actually, seriously. This can't be considered his stupidity.

Because according to the experience of other places in the Lampari Kingdom, there is no chamber of commerce that dares to directly confront the City Lord's Mansion. Because for the lord of a city, a small chamber of commerce is nothing at all.

However, Bonta City is completely different from the rest of the Lampari Kingdom.

Almost every chamber of commerce in this city dared to grin at the city lord's mansion for its own interests, and argued with reason.

A small chamber of commerce like the Cantona Chamber of Commerce would not be taken seriously by Count Stark at all, but in the face of the reasons given by Count Stark at will, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce did not choose to swallow its anger and obediently obey, but took the risk of angering Count Stark and directly exposed this matter to the public.

What's more, the newspaper industry in Bonta City and several surrounding cities is extremely well-developed, and the slightest trivial thing will be in the newspapers and known to everyone, let alone such a powerful piece of news.

When everything was clearly exposed in front of everyone, Count Stark naturally did not dare to use his brutal force to directly suppress the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, and he also had to deal with the demands of the other seventy-three large and small chambers of commerce.

However...... If you really want to talk about it, in the whole thing, it was the ordinary farmers who reacted the most to the Earl Stark.

Earl Stark thought that he had helped these ordinary farmers from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to take back the farmland that belonged to them, and that these ordinary farmers would be grateful to him.

Unexpectedly, when the affairs officer he sent informed these farmers that they would regain their farmland, they were met with cold faces without exception, and some farmers even directly scolded them for being nosy.

What's even more exaggerated, a few peasant families were deeply angry about this, and loudly scolded the city lord's mansion for not caring about the life or death of ordinary peasant households, and Earl Stark was not worthy of being the city lord at all.

In the face of the doubts and objections of others, Earl Stark could comfort himself that the fellows did not understand him at all, but in the face of the scolding of these ordinary peasants who were the most simple and unadorned, he could no longer be calm.

He didn't understand how these ordinary farmers would react when he helped them regain the farmland that allowed them to live.

Could it be ...... Don't these farmers want farmland? (To be continued......