Caroline's eating movements are elegant, there is no sound in her mouth, and the cutlery is handled gently, which is simply an elegant etiquette tutorial.

However, Philip always felt that his neck was cold, and Caroline's knife that cut the egg seemed to be about to cut into Philip's neck in the next moment, and with a slight stroke, the delicate skin on the outside was cut like a white, and then turned on both sides.

The sharp fork was gently pricked and plunged into the cut food, but Philip felt that the fork was clearly pierced in his heart, and his liver trembled in fright......

Finally, the egg whites were sent to Caroline's cherry mouth, where they were quietly chewed and chewed, and it was heard that when the Phantom Man organized the assassination of the enemy, those assassination targets also died quietly.

Could it be that the princess was angry and decided to kill me, my fiancé, quietly?

No, no, Caroline is not that kind of person......

However, in case......

Caroline's angelic beauty also hides the heart of an iron-blooded politician, as can be seen from her merciless persecution of Cheryl yesterday that the future owner of the Yellow Throne is also a master who will do whatever it takes to achieve his ends.

"Okay......"

Caroline swung her knife and fork, and metal and porcelain collided for the first time since she had eaten, sending shivers down Philip's body.

Is Her Royal Highness going to have a showdown......

Be careful with your liver......

Flutter and flutter and jump non-stop!

Otherwise, let's take a soft seat first, and the woman will coax it......

"Let's get down to business......"

Damn it. What do you want to say?

Praise her beauty first?

And then say that you don't take it as an example?

"I didn't expect the situation in Bithynia to be so eroded......"

Then go up and kiss it again, and it is estimated that you can be fooled...... Belch...... Wait, Bithynia? She didn't mention me coming out of Colleen's room?

Seeing Caroline frowning and looking at herself, obviously dissatisfied with a certain man not listening to her, Philip hurriedly said flatteringly: "Yes, Bithynia, the situation is indeed not good......"

The fiancée took the initiative not to mention it, so Philip naturally did not deliberately provoke this matter, and hurriedly followed Caroline's words.

"I was having breakfast when I heard someone talking. Tomei on the mines near this. The overseers appointed by the aristocracy often withheld the miners' salaries, making it impossible for them to provide for their families, and even their women were bullied by the overseers, as a small overseer. Not to mention the nobles who control the mines and overseers. ”

Caroline's face was rather serious. "This is just a symptom of the erosion of the situation. It's a lot more than you think. After sorting through the conversations between Cheryl and her deceased husband, I can deduce that many of the mines near Tome, the second largest city in Bithynia, have been mined out. There are simply no jobs to accommodate the city's hundreds of thousands of people, and Tomei's revenues have been declining instead of growing for more than two decades. In order to reduce costs, the mine owners have drastically reduced the wages of miners, and the current wages can only maintain a state of food and clothing, but even so, the aristocratic mine owners are still not satisfied, and still feel that the money is too much, so they also turn a blind eye to those things that monitor and deduct wages. ”

"This is really not good, the miners strike also makes sense, but this can only explain the strike in Tomei, there must be a deep reason for the strike in other places, such as Ankud's wages have not decreased, this is just that the workers think the wages are too low, I think the so-called low wages are all appearances, and the salaries were not much before, but they did not strike, why are they striking now?"

The worry in Caroline's eyes became more and more intense, and she said with a tense face: "Indeed, there are strong deep-seated reasons behind this strike, some cities are like Tomei, resources are depleted, and mine owners have drastically cut wages. But more often than not, like Ankud, wages have not fallen, but the cost of living has increased!"

A flash of light suddenly flashed in Philip's mind, "Food is more expensive?"

The people live on food!

This is an old saying on the earth, saying that in ancient times, the most important thing for civilians was to eat, and most of the expenses of an ordinary family were spent on food.

Presumably, this is similar to the Western Middle Ages.

"Yes, we also saw along the way, the lack of farmland in Bithynia, the cost of manpower and material resources to make terraces is too high, so, most of the grain here is transported from other provinces, but in recent times, the caravan of food transported from other provinces has been greatly reduced, I remember that the report I saw in the Executive Yuan said that several provinces near Bithynia have suffered a disaster, although the province has no worries about food, but there is no surplus grain sold to other provinces, and the transportation of grain from more distant provinces is naturally slow, and there is a lot of loss on the road, and the most direct result is that the price of food in Bithynia has skyrocketed, with the current wage level of the miners, it is naturally impossible to live. ”

Caroline took a deep breath, frowned deeply, and tapped her fingers lightly on the table: "Now Bithynia is like a pot of boiling water, boiling until it is steaming. The citizens of Tomei have begun to sell their sons and daughters, and according to Cheryl, the slave market has doubled the number of people who have sold their bodies compared to before, but the average price has fallen by thirty percent, and in other places, a large number of young and strong laborers have become beggars, women have entered the Fengyue places to sell themselves, and the old people have committed suicide in order not to drag down their families, but the nobles have maintained a luxurious life because they have not raised or even lowered the wages of the miners, maintaining their profit level,"

At this point, Caroline suddenly slammed the table so hard that the white porcelain plate fell to the ground and shattered, and the broken eggs fell to the ground, stained with black dust, like something broken.

"This is a rotten country!"

Philip walked up to Caroline and sat down, stretched out a hand to hold his fiancée's leaf, and a burst of warmth came from his palm, which made Caroline feel a little thoughtful.

"Don't worry, there's always a way. ”

"There is no way to save this province, the contradiction between the large population and the limited arable land cannot be reconciled at all, either the population decreases, or the arable land increases, the latter is obviously no way, but the former? Then there is only war......

There was a hint of sorrow in Caroline's voice, war, there is only one war in Bithynia,

Rebel!

Those who don't have the money to live will rebel sooner or later, even if Philip presses down this time and the fundamental contradiction is not resolved, chaos will still break out here again, and rebellion is inevitable.

In the heart of the empire, the appearance of a rebellious province will bring extremely great damage to the country, and at that time, the Mandal Republic will also make up for it.

Perhaps, Bugas will sink from now on, and can no longer be called one of the two great powers on the mainland, but can only be reduced to a second- or third-rate country.

Caroline ached, her heart ached like a knife, there was nothing more painful than watching her empire fall into inevitable decay, and at this moment, Caroline felt that the entire world was gray.

Hand, clenched, Philip held Caroline's weak little hand tightly with both hands, and said with a hint of firmness: "My dear, if I say that there is a way to increase the arable land, will this rotten country be saved?" (to be continued......)