I was regarded as a demon god by a witch

Chapter 72 The grain price reduction bill came from the cooperation of both the city and the nobles! !
It is really strange that a letter applying for the appointment of a knighthood has attracted two replies from different parties.

Ivita asked Griffin Knight to open these two letters.

Knight Griffin read the two letters, "This letter is from the Ambrose City Council—"

"Dear new lord Ivita, the ears of some of the children of the forest that you attached to your letter have been identified by our professionals to belong to ogres, centaurs and tauren."

"But it doesn't necessarily prove that the children of the forest are forming an army. This should be just a group of monsters wandering around."

"Hundreds of years of experience tell us that these monsters do not have the slightest social structure and what intelligent creatures should have. Wisdom is an exclusive thing bestowed by gods on human beings. Monsters without faith cannot obtain the wisdom that rivals human beings. "

"So you don't need to worry about this. But the Ambrose City Council is very happy that the Western Territory is guarded by a powerful noble from an explorer like you."

"We have confirmed your achievements and prepared a canonization ceremony for you."

"Please take your attendants to the city of Ambrose, we will give you such a powerful noble, the courtesy you deserve."

"At this precarious time, it is the opportunity for a powerful nobleman like you who was born as a commoner to show his talents. Please bring your army into Ambrose. This is a virtuous act that the god of all things will bless you."

Griffin Knight looked up at the people in the Ivie TC City Council with a strange expression, as if he thought you were from a commoner.Probably because you told the city council that you were a former explorer. "

"People in the city council have misunderstood this statement."

Evita smiled. "It seems that the Ambrose City Council very much hopes that the nobles guarding Baron Morrow's territory are of commoner origin."

"Besides, they want my friendship. No, they want my army."

"Read the next one."

Knight Griffin said: "This letter comes from Viscount Winchester in the East—"

"The new lord of the Baron of Molo, I appreciate your talent, but you said the children of the forest have an army?"

"You are exaggerating."

"Well, whoever wins the battle will boast a bit, this is the right of the winner."

"Bring your people to Winchester, and I will hold the canonization ceremony and loyalty ceremony for you."

"What I want to tell you is that my army needs someone as talented and young as you."

"The most beautiful woman in Winchester, my younger sister is still unmarried. I don't know how many talented young people are pursuing her. Maybe you can win her heart?"

"I also want to tell you that Grand Viscount Ambrose is dead, and your request for canonization from a dead person is an invalid act."

"The Ambrose family has become extinct. I am the patriarch of the branch of the Ambrose family. I have the right to inherit the position of Grand Viscount. Stay away from the city of Ambrose, which lost its status as the capital, and come to Winchester. Give me your allegiance and you will get what you deserve."

Knight Griffin probably felt that Viscount Winchester's words were exaggerated, so he said with some embarrassment: "Viscount Winchester with obsessive-compulsive disorder has always been a war madman."

"Proud and arrogant, but also attaches great importance to the honor among knights, and at the same time has great talent for war."

"That's the kind of guy he's talking about."

"His army has privately fought many times with some small lords on the edge of the Lombardy Principality on the Lombardy Plain in the south of the Ambrose Basin."

"I heard that if it wasn't for the duke of the Lombardy Duchy, who is no longer able to control the independent lords everywhere, then the Viscount Winchester must not be able to please him."

After listening to Knight Griffin's description, Ivita nodded. He probably understood the character of Viscount Winchester.

"Now it is obvious that whether it is the representative of the city capital, the city council of Ambrose, or the representative of the nobles, Viscount Winchester, all want to win us over."

"the reason is simple."

"Probably because, when we applied for canonization, in order to increase persuasiveness, we mentioned a part of our record."

"This makes both sides think that I am a very powerful lord."

"At least there is value in fighting for me."

Knight Griffin lowered his head and asked, "Which side do you want to choose, my lord, and where do you want to go?"

"Wherever you go to receive canonization, it represents which party you have joined."

"It's not a random choice."

Ivita rubbed between his brows, of course he knew he couldn't choose casually.

This is like the 30-year Reformation War in continental Europe, where you must be forced to choose a side.

Unexpectedly, after I came to this Ambrose Basin, I had to make a similar choice.

However, Ambrose's dispute was not due to religious cognitive conflicts, but because of the fighting between urban capital and feudal aristocrats.

"Why did the city capital of Ambrose and the feudal aristocracy conflict to such an extent?"

Ivita asked suspiciously, and at the same time glanced at the old witch, "Is someone provoking? Or for some other reason."

Griffin Knight shook his head, "My lord, I don't know."

This is also normal.

It would be abnormal if the minor nobles on the border of a country knew the reasons for the conflicts between the central factions.

The old witch said to Evita: "Your Majesty, my apprentice was really wronged. She is just a kind witch."

Evita was speechless.

Knight Griffin couldn't help looking away, because the combination of the two words "kindness" and "witch" made him, a warrior who is not sensitive to words, feel embarrassed.

Evita said, "Tell me something."

The Great Witch of Hearthstone immediately said: "According to the previous correspondence between me and my lover, the conflict between the urban capital and the feudal nobles has always existed."

"And with the first two serf uprisings in Ambrose, this conflict was magnified many times over."

"The nobles hated the city and hated the serfs fleeing to the city, so the nobles could only make concessions to the serfs in order to stabilize the situation."

"And the cities also hate the nobles, trying to violate the freedom of the city again and again."

"And this contradiction all exploded with one bill."

The old witch looked at Knight Griffin. "What bill do you think it is?"

Griffin Knight looked puzzled. "Has there been any bills issued to make the nobles angry? Why don't I know?"

"Because your Barony of Morrow didn't make much money from agricultural products before." The old witch sneered, "So of course you don't know, but most of the nobles in Ambrose are barons. The greatest source of wealth is the sale of grain."

"So, a [grain price reduction bill] that brings out all of Ambrose's contradictions."

Ivita asked: "The grain price reduction bill? Will a country really use legal means to force the price of grain in its own country to drop? Whose idea is this?"

"Who told the Grand Viscount to do this?"

The Hearthstone Witch is a little embarrassed. "The idea is from the capitals of Ambrose."

"At that time, the price of grain in Ambrose was too high for a period of time, which led to a famine in some poor areas, and starved to death many independent workshop apprentices, small workshop craftsmen and independent small businessmen."

"The nobles would rather let the grain rot, or export it at a high price, and would never sell it to poor urban areas."

"The city capitals of Ambrose, in order to obtain sufficient labor, put pressure on the nobles on the side of the poor to lower the price of grain."

"However, urban capitals soon discovered that after reducing the price of grain, they also reduced their labor costs."

"Then, there's the constant attempt to bring down grain prices."

"They also spent money to persuade my lover to let my lover blow pillow wind next to the eldest viscount all day long."

"As a result, the price of grain has dropped from 1p per bushel to 6.5p per bushel now."

"Then, the Grand Viscount died mysteriously, and my beloved disciple was framed as the witch who killed the Grand Viscount. This is a shameful slander."

Griffin Cavaliers heard it clearly and logically.

It turned out that the conflict in this country was actually due to the promulgation of a bill.

Ivita looked suspiciously at the old witch. "Do you believe your apprentice? Are you sure what your apprentice said in the letter is true?"

The old witch, who was still pretending to be sad and angry, suddenly became serious, and after thinking about it seriously, she said decisively to Ivita: "I don't believe it, I suspect that at least part of her is lying."

"..." Griffin Knight.

Knight Griffin always thought that the old witch and her apprentice had a very good relationship, otherwise, he wouldn't have been talking about her apprentice all day long, talking to Lord Ivita about her apprentice.

Unexpectedly, such a good relationship can't be exchanged for trust.

Ivita was not surprised by the old witch's answer at all. If she could trust others, she would be a ghost. "If this is the case, as long as the nobles and the city council have a good discussion, the matter can be resolved immediately, but this is the most impossible thing."

"Urban capital wants to reduce the price of grain, but the low price of grain hurts farmers. If the price of grain drops too much, the nobles' manors will not be able to make money."

"And the nobles want to increase the price of grain, but the price of grain hurts the workers. If the price of grain is too high, there will be a large area of ​​local famine."

"At this time, the Grand Viscount still died mysteriously. No matter what the truth of the death is, the long-accumulated conflict between the two sides will explode."

Ivita's heart sank. The most frightening thing was that the people in the forest intensified the conflict.

He remembered that before his death, the Grand Duke of the forest cursed all the farmland in the Ambrose Basin with the priest's prophecy system.

Soon, Ambrose's conflict over the Corn Bills would intensify with the famine.

This is also a major reason why he didn't plan to let Baron Morrow manage agricultural products.

Ivita looked at Griffin Knight, "As far as Griffin is concerned, which side should we choose?"

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