With Hudson's return, the mountain collar soon became lively.

The boiling poisoning incident has long been fermented among the local nobles, and everyone is holding back the fire in their stomachs, and now there is a leader who is going to take the lead in stirring up trouble.

The truth is not important in front of interests. If you deduct from your competitors, who will carefully study whether you are wronged?

The locust plague has caused such a big loss, we have to find a way to make up for it, right?

The crying child has milk to eat, and if he doesn't make a big deal out of it, how can the big man above see it?

As the main figure of the local aristocratic faction, Hudson was naturally expected by everyone.

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"Ladies and gentlemen, the timing is not right. The kingdom is strictly investigating the locust plague, and it has been preliminarily determined that the mastermind behind it is a certain major force on the mainland.

Now we don't have enough evidence to prove it, it's just a matter of the severity of the disaster, and they can completely push the culprit behind the scenes.

The stakes are far greater than you think, and even the Governor's Office has little say in the matter.

At this juncture, we still strive to fight the disaster and do not set ourselves on fire. ”

Most of the people present were their own people, and Hudson didn't want them to be taken advantage of and jump out and step on thunder at such a juncture.

If the younger brothers were really involved, he, the boss, would not be able to escape.

Fighting with words and fighting with real people are two completely different concepts.

"Verbal war", Hudson has always been "dead" with the nobles of the Northland. It looks like it's going on and on, but it doesn't really affect both sides.

Business can be done as usual in private.

When you really do it, it's different. The outside world mistakenly thinks that the mountain leader is strong, but Hudson knows very well how weak his strength is.

Except for the veterans who had seen blood, who had been trained to become real elites, the rest were all appearances.

It's okay to set up a queue formation, but if there is a fight, they will kill cattle and sheep.

The combat effectiveness is higher than that of ordinary serf soldiers, and how far away from the real elite is, that can only be known after fighting.

If he didn't continue to train for a year and a half, Hudson really didn't have the confidence to let his own soldiers go to war.

"Baron Hudson, such a great opportunity, should we let it go?"

Baron Ezekiel asked unwillingly.

As the loser in the last round of the fight, Baron Ezekiel gained nothing but some fame.

With the passage of time, even these false names are slowly disappearing.

The real aristocrats, after encountering problems, first think of Baron Cayo and Hudson, two powerful factions.

Fame merely fame facilitates interpersonal communication with Ezekir, and when there is a tangible benefit, his opinion is no longer important.

"The kingdom needs stability, and that's what the big picture needs. As a nobleman, we must put the interests of the kingdom first.

The grievances with those guys in the Northland, we can slowly settle them in the future. The most important thing for everyone now is to fight the locust plague.

The autumn harvest has been greatly reduced, and we can still work hard to preserve the next spring grain.

This locust plague is extraordinary, and not only is this year's autumn grain output greatly reduced, but next year's autumn grain will also be difficult to harvest too much.

The food crisis alone was enough for those guys to bear.

Isn't it good to watch them unlucky?

Why do you want to jump out and relieve them?

Isn't the lesson of the last time enough? ”

Hudson sneered.

Trying to use him as a gunman is a dream.

Now that he is fighting with the nobles of the Northland, he has to fight hard. Only by winning the war will those guys have food to survive the famine.

As far as Hudson knew, in order to reduce food consumption, many of the Northland nobles were artificially reducing the number of slaves under their command.

Some of the cruel ones ground the locusts into powder and added them to the bread making, and many serfs with weak physical resistance also died with a whimper.

It's enough to prove how hard those guys are in life.

Although the production of locust powder was the first of the mountain leaders, Hudson only took the lone locust, and he did not dare to ask for the army of locusts gathered together.

Even if locust powder is made, it is only added in small amounts, accounting for less than one percent.

With such a small dose, even if there is a toxin, it can be carried through.

They were all forced out, and after cutting the ration supply, the nutritional supply of the slaves had to be guaranteed.

A grasshopper a day can be regarded as seeing meat.

Seeing that none of the nobles responded, Baron Ezekiel suddenly became embarrassed.

As I said just now, everyone put pressure on the baron of the mountain land, forcing this boss to take the lead in making trouble with the nobles of the Northlands.

As a result, Hudson only made a few words make a group of "temporary allies" who have not taken a firm position back down.

Whether he was persuaded or unwilling to fight against the mountain baron, no one could tell.

In short, no one wants to take the lead.

Faced with Baron Ezekiel's pleading eyes, everyone wandered as if they had seen nothing.

Feeling the importance of strength again, Baron Ezekiel became more and more eager to break the situation.

In the existing political structure of Lateshire, the local nobles are mixed with Hudson, and the northern nobles are mixed with the Sith barons, and there is no room for maneuver at all.

The situation is similar in Wyton County next door, although the nobles of the Northland are divided, most of the local nobles look at the face of Baron Cayo.

His background meant that Baron Ezekil could not play happily with the nobles of the Northlands, and among the native nobles, Hudson and Baron Cailliaud were on his guard.

In the small teams formed by each of them, there was no place for Baron Ezekil.

wants to form a gang, and is also targeted by all parties.

A neutral aristocrat is not stupid, how can he be mixed with a guy with an empty name like him?

No matter how powerful his flickering skills are, they can't afford to weigh the pros and cons.

If this pattern continues, it won't be long before the prestige he has worked so hard to accumulate will be consumed.

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In Dadir City, affected by the change in the situation, a group of Northland nobles also sat together to discuss countermeasures.

It's just that the topic of their discussion is not the question of who to fight with, but how to raise enough food.

"Dear Baron Sith, this day is really unbearable, please help me think of a way!

Affected by the locust plague, Bote's autumn grain storage was less than one-third of the normal output. Originally, the sown area was small, and it caught up with this wave.

In order to reduce food consumption, I have ordered all the people to stop giving birth and reduced the food supply.

Including me, the lord's food standards, have been lowered.

Now I don't even dare to eat a barbecue, so I change it all to stew, so that my subordinates can get a little meat.

But that's still a drop in the bucket.

According to the current grain stocks in the territory, if you hold on for another three months at most, you will run out of cooking smoke.

But now the locust plague is still raging, and all those in the territory who can move have joined the battle to exterminate the locusts.

But the locusts are like a steady stream, and after killing one stubble after another, they can't be killed cleanly.

Judging from the current situation, autumn ploughing cannot be counted on. I don't even know how I'm going to spend the rest of my life. ”

Baron Bazel said worriedly.

Although there is a suspicion of exaggeration after a three-month interruption, the food shortage does exist.

In order to deal with the crisis, Bazel really did everything he could. Now the slaves in the territory have begun to catch locusts and eat locusts.

Even if you know that locusts are poisonous, it is better to be poisoned than to starve.

With strong physical resistance, some of the orcs carried it, but more orcs were lying on the hospital bed wailing.

If nothing else, these lying down guys are now among the eliminated.

Not only are slaves miserable, but serfs are also unable to live. Food rations have been drastically cut, and many people have been driven by hunger to eat locusts.

Watching all this happen, Baron Bazel still turned a blind eye.

For Boteling, if no new sources of food are found, reducing the population is the only effective way to deal with the crisis.

"Alright, Bazel. There's also a small river in your territory where you can get some fish replenishment.

My territory is miserable, and there is nothing left but bare land.

Those damn locusts, even the wild vegetables.

If it goes on like this, I'll have to eat dirt. ”

Justin Knight teased bitterly.

There is no worst, only worse.

Perhaps in the eyes of the local nobles, the locust plague suffered by the Lords of the Northland was lighter, but the losses suffered by everyone were devastating.

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Listening to the constant complaints of the people, Baron Sith only felt his scalp tingle.

"If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight; If you want to hold a rose, you must bear its wounds. ”

Enjoy the dividends of being the boss, and also bear the obligation of being the boss.

Not to mention anything else, the commercial prosperity before Dadir City was supported by these little brothers.

Now that the younger brothers are almost hungry, how can he, the boss, not say it?

It's a pity that Baron Sith is also short of food, although he snapped up a batch in time, how can this locust plague not end at all!

With their own territories cutting back on food rations, how can they have the spare energy to help others?

"You're all in a similar situation, but in the end the biggest problem is the lack of food.

The locust plague was so widespread that the nobles in various places suspended the sale of grain to the outside world. In a short period of time, it will be difficult for us to procure enough food in the southeastern provinces.

For now, we can only organize caravans to other Terran countries to see if we can get something out.

The closest country to us is the Kingdom of Hesse, but unfortunately it is blocked by the Blackstone Mountains, so we have to take a long detour.

It was easy to send people to the past, but it was a big problem to transport a large amount of grain back.

Not to mention the long time consumed, the key is that half of the food will be consumed halfway through.

The easiest way is undoubtedly to take the waterway, unfortunately the coastal ports, most of which are controlled by the Dalton family.

With Governor Pierce's hostility to us, the possibility of borrowing it from us is slim to none.

Even if you can borrow the way, the vast sea is extremely dangerous. It's not surprising that a total army is wiped out at sea. ”

Baron Sith's words undoubtedly poured cold water on everyone.

It's not that the boss doesn't want to find a way, but he has thought of all the methods, or he doesn't have a set of reliable formulas.

There is not enough food to buy internally, but the outside world can buy food, but the problem is that it cannot be shipped back.

The combined population of the territories of the nobles of the Northlands present was seventy or eighty thousand, and if the slaves were included, the population would exceed one hundred thousand.

Livestock also have to be considered, regardless of the cattle and sheep, the rations of the war horses must not be deducted, right? To solve the food shortage, at least tens of millions of pounds of food must be imported.

With such a huge gap, it has to be detoured for nearly thousands of miles, and land transportation is purely nonsense.

By sea, unless the Dalton family has the support of the Dalton family, no matter how many people go out, they will all be wiped out.

In the kingdom, everyone needs to pay attention to the way they eat, and they can't go too far.

In the middle of the ocean, it is all too common for a fleet to go missing. Even if the kingdom wanted to find out, it didn't know where to start.

"Just because we don't have food doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't have food. Instead of sighing here, it is better to talk to them directly and honestly.

Either sell us food and get through this difficult time. Either everyone will stop and go to hell together. ”

Kate came to Baron Murderous and said.

There are too many grievances that have accumulated recently, and there is an urgent need for a channel to vent. Anyway, it is unknown whether you can get out of the trouble of the July Meeting.

The rest of the people were worried about the consequences of doing so, but Baron Kate didn't care.

If you win the bet, continue to be a noble lord here; If you lose the bet, it's a big deal to run away.

Anyway, once the thunder of the July Meeting explodes, he still has to die in the world.

It's not a good thing to have so many people with you a little earlier.

"It's not here.

We can also turn to the Kingdom for help.

Everyone mobilized the connections behind them and worked together to put pressure on the Dalton family, and our Governor General couldn't withstand such a lot of pressure.

When the time comes, he will naturally choose to compromise. ”

Baron Sith hurriedly reassured.

Reason told him that now was not the time to stir up conflict.

The local nobles did have grain in their hands, but it did not mean that they also had a large amount of grain stored in their newly opened territories.

"Neighbors hoard grain, I hoard guns".

The premise is that the neighbors have hoarded food.

If people don't have much food to stockpile, even if they win, it will be difficult to get the expected gains, and they will only get into trouble.

Baron Kate came to suffer continuous setbacks and was ready to break the jar, but Baron Sith, who still had a bright future, did not want to accompany him.

Background to background, Caesar III was not a lord to be messed with.

A guy who can only cause trouble and can't maintain local stability, why should he be a county guard?

Don't say that it is the illegitimate son of the Grand Duke, even if it is the son of the Grand Duke, if it is unbearable, he can only be a rice moth

A conflict provoked by someone with a heart was tacitly suppressed by the two giants of Lyte County.

The real problem of locust plague still needs to be solved.

If there is a relationship, if there is no relationship, you can only save yourself.

For a moment Hudson became busy, or Bear Stearns, to be exact.

In the face of an army of locusts, the efficiency of manual extermination of locusts is too low.

It is much easier to replace it with the Earth Bear, which can not only kill the current locusts, but also the eggs in the ground.

Especially locust eggs, that thing is even more stubborn.

The traditional method uses manpower and natural resources such as water and fire to kill, not to mention the low efficiency, and there are many fish that slip through the net.

After all, locust eggs are so small that they are mixed in the dirt and can easily be ignored by the naked eye.

Fire works best, but you can't burn all the land at once, right?

The effect of magic potions on killing insect eggs is also good, but unfortunately the price of that thing is high, and the production is pitifully low, and the big nobles are not enough.

Bear Stearns, who has the skill of exterminating insects, soon came into everyone's sight.

Under the shroud of gravity, the locusts can't stand it, and the eggs naturally can't parry.

Now there is a bare patch everywhere, and there is no trouble of accidentally injuring flowers and plants, and you can let the cub toss.

There is no doubt that there must be a fee for the extermination of locusts, and additional money will be required to get the eggs together.

Hudson was also very helpless when he encountered a bear that only recognized money. If it goes on like this, the outside world still doesn't know how to arrange him.

The monster is in trouble, and the master has to take the blame!

In order to facilitate bargaining, Bear Stearns learned to speak in advance, so that Hudson had no chance to act as a middleman to make the difference.

The harvest is not without it, everyone thinks that Lord Hudson's bear is an adult!

Mountain Collar Deterrence +10086......

No matter how much you try to hide it this time, the Earth Bear can only use the common language of the mainland when she is an adult, which is a "truth" recognized by everyone.

Bear Stearns, who was only two years and three months old, now has to announce that he is two hundred and thirty years old.

As for Hudson, he was naturally lucky enough to pick up an earth bear that was about to become an adult.

Regardless of whether Hudson himself believes it or not, the outside world believes this statement anyway.

This time, no one doubted that Bear Stearns was the Earth Bear captured by the Holy See, and his age was not right at all.

The Earth Bear, which is approaching adulthood, is also very strong in combat power, and it is almost impossible to capture it alive.

In this world of the jungle, the charm of the strong is unparalleled.

Hudson, who is a fake bear, will receive the warmest welcome wherever he goes now.

Even the aristocrats, who were quite complaining about the high fees, no longer said anything.

The top powerhouse in the mainland is willing to help exterminate the locusts, and it is too conscientious to only receive one silver coin per acre.

I don't want to, there are still people rushing to line up in the back.

If it is not everyone's territory, not in 10,000 acres, this kind of fee standard is really not high.

Although the speed is a little faster, it only shows that it is efficient. In any case, Uncle Bear Stearns had to go over and do it himself.

In one day, it can solve the troubles of more than a dozen nobles. Watching Bear Stenden make a fortune, Hudson suddenly found himself a poor man.

In the past, it was the bear who worked for him, but he didn't expect feng shui to take turns, and now it is his turn to work for the bear.

Although I got a good price, according to the highest appearance fee standard of "Divine Bow Knight", 500 gold coins per day and overtime pay are calculated separately.

But Hudson was not happy in the slightest.

Reason told him that Bear Stearns' coffers must be emptied as soon as possible, or else the goods would be made to heaven.

After some deep introspection, Hudson realized that he was not dark enough.

The cost of cultivation is too small, and the anti-positive energy is stored in his own compass. The consumption of magic crystals will not be known to Bear Stearns if he falsely reports more than ten times.

Reason: The strength has increased, and the purity of the energy required is higher.

If there is no problem, there must be a loss in energy purification, which is the common sense of the mainland.

Just need services, monopoly trading, no room for bargaining.

Grassland leasing and after-sales service can be added a little bit, and these visible expenses can not be deceived by bears now.

Maybe it's also a good choice to fool the bear into developing the swamp. As long as Bear Stearns is willing to contribute, the development progress will definitely increase significantly.

For example, before digging a ditch, use magic to temporarily harden the mud on both sides.

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