Fel doesn't lie to you

Chapter 256 A Town Out of Order

Li Ke took the farmer's family with him. After all, their family's money had been robbed, and now they didn't know that it fell into the soldier's pocket.

So Li Ke took them directly, otherwise they would die.

As for the wheat in their fields...

"I didn't expect that these people worked so hard and planted so much wheat, but they can only keep themselves from starving to death, and the wheat burned by Defias is their ration."

So this old farmer's family will definitely die if they continue to live here, and the tax collector doesn't care if you can eat or not.

Li Ke was riding on the horse, looking at the wet ashes, he felt more and more that the nobles here had no conscience.

Farming is very hard work, especially in this kind of land. When the water is scarce, farmers even have to fetch water bucket by bucket.

However, their annual labor is probably worth dozens of gold coins in the market, but how much can they get themselves?

One or two at most.

The rest belonged to nobles and kings.

And these old farmers not only have low incomes, but also spend money on various necessities of life and provide money to craftsmen from all walks of life.

For example, salt, iron, and various medicines and teas.

These are all bought with money.

"Actually, I didn't quite understand why I was starving to death at first, and I still wanted to drink tea. In fact, I didn't realize how important tea is until I got here."

Li Ke was riding on the horse, relaxing his body and mind, trying not to look very upset, because their next supply point was a manor of a tax collector, to be precise, it was a manor of a Stormwind noble here.

The benefits of the Western Wilderness are naturally visible to everyone. Food is a scarce commodity no matter what era it is, so it is really rare for nobles to come here to make a fortune.

And his words came to him because he saw the metal teapot that he cherished very much when the old farmer followed them to pack up the only things.

"what?"

Jennifer looked at Li Ke in surprise, she didn't expect that Li Ke could not understand it before.

This made her even more suspicious that Li Ke might be a prince of a certain country, because only a prince can have such treatment, and she doesn't need to drink tea so that she can excrete normally.

That's right, that's what tea does.Of course, it's just an auxiliary function, but even this auxiliary function is infinitely magnified in this era.

"Bread full of bran, dirt, and sawdust really cannot be digested smoothly after eating it, and the scarce vegetables directly make people cut off the idea of ​​eating vegetables."

Li Ke sighed lightly, even in this world, life in the Middle Ages is still so miserable.During the period when he just came, because of his inexperience, he really suffered a lot because of his stomach discomfort.

If it weren't for the lady owner of the bakery...

Thinking of this, his left hand that was tied to the necklace tightened, and then loosened abruptly.

"That's why I understand the importance of tea. In the past, I used it as a drink. I never thought it was so important."

After Li Ke said this, Jennifer was quite puzzled. She didn't understand what Li Ke was saying with these common senses. In this world, even people from poor families would always have some tea for themselves The stomach can withstand the invasion of all kinds of black bread.

That is to say, those who can eat white bread can enjoy the happiness of drinking tea.

Of course, this also made her more sure of her guess.

Li Ke, he might have been a prince before.

"so……"

She waved her hand in a 'please continue' gesture.

"So I was thinking, is there a possibility that we can get everyone to eat white bread? In this way, those people can save a lot of money to buy tea."

After his words came out, the whole team was silent for a moment, followed by a burst of laughter and a strange silence.

Even Jonathan couldn't help turning his head to look at him before continuing to observe the team.

The idea was too far-fetched.

"Not enough food, my dear."

Jennifer tried her best to find excuses for Li Ke in a calm tone, and she didn't think Li Ke would really be able to do this.

In her opinion, with the efforts of her and Li Ke, the tax revenue of this land can return to [-]%, and two months of corvee every year is already very good.

"Ok, I know."

Li Ke took a look at the performance of the people around him, then sighed, not planning to find like-minded people here.

The food crisis on the modern earth is avoided by relying on a large amount of non-staple food, fruits, meat and other things. In this way, the final solution to the food crisis is to use various methods to increase the production of food.

Needless to say here, I am afraid that what he said just now is almost equivalent to "why not eat minced meat" and "if there is no bread, they can eat cakes" such heaven-defying words.

But Li Ke knew that he could do it.

Just take your time.

As they advanced, the team gradually approached a small town, and as they approached, Li Ke gradually saw the town clearly.

This is a typical medieval town. The most central and tallest building in the town is the tall church. But around, Li Ke did not see guarding soldiers or watchtowers. At the place of the sentry tower, a piece of coke was seen.

There were several corpses hanging on the big tree at the gate of the town. Most of them were farmers in clothes. Some of them had rotted, and some had just died.

However, what attracted Li Ke's attention the most was the gray town.

Most of the residents in this town have numb expressions on their faces. They hardly see children, and after seeing their troops, they just move away numbly.

The charred trees fell by the well mouth in the center of the town, and the ground was full of sewage and filth, so Li Ke, who was planning to get off his horse, had to stay on the horse.

And when passing by a shop with a sign constantly shaking in the wind, Li Ke made a little identification and confirmed one thing.

This is a shop that sells salt and leather goods, but now it is completely scorched, and there are even some stumps and broken arms inside.

The most important thing is that after they have been here for so long, there is no mayor or pastor who came to greet them, which is enough to explain the state of the place.

"Is the order here almost finished?"

Just when Li Ke was thinking this way, he saw Jonathan dismounted and stopped a woman with a numb face, and asked them a common question.

"Ma'am, is this place attacked by Defias thieves?"

Li Ke felt that Jonathan was asking for nothing. How could this not be the fault of Defias thieves?
But the next moment, the lady shook her head, then pointed in one direction.

A direction with beautiful estates.

(End of this chapter)