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Spice Town belongs to a lord's territory. Before choosing this, Binghe did a lot of related research homework.

The Lord's family name, the Pine Sword Family, originated from a knight family in Roland, but it is now a side branch of that knight family.

Now the inheritance of the Lord's family can only reach the high-level soldier level. Due to the high occupational tolerance rate of the lower ranks, the soldier-level method is more common. Many wealthy merchant families can gradually master a set of their own family summary after stable generations Methodology.

However, to advance to a lower rank, it still takes more than a dozen generations of trial and error, so the heritage of this senior soldier cannot be said to be worthless. However, if the Songjian family is declining, there are still many wealthy merchants willing to spend money to let these declining nobles teach some higher-quality lower-level professional inheritance.

Of course, the Songjian family's main income currently comes from the cultivation of grain and spices, and their lives are okay. Outside, there is the support of their relatives in Roland. It is unlikely to decline for the time being.

But the situation in Spice Town is a product of West Fading. Hundreds of years ago, the lord of Spice Town was not the Songjian family. The Songjian family arrived in the Principality of West from the Kingdom of Roland two hundred years ago as the little lord.

Although the Songjian family's territorial tax was handed over to West, the various connections of the family tended to Roland.

On West's land near Roland, it was very common for Lord Roland to manage Westland, and it was a form of Roland's slow invasion of the Principality of West.

This kind of foreign lords brought a very serious problem to West, with the same nature as "customs sovereignty was guarded by foreign countries in the late Qing Dynasty", but the consequences were more serious.

However, the great lords of the Kingdom of Roland can let the small lords of West plant the crops that Roland needs to supply blood for Roland's industrial development. As many as two million people on the West border are controlled by local lords, who in turn submit to Roland's grand lord, a decision maker in Parliament.

Any reforms made by the upper levels of the West, both internally and externally, will be negatively opposed by the little Gentiles in these territories. West can only collect a meager amount of taxes on these lands, but it can't get local cooperation in governance. West has encountered countless local complaints even when building a traffic rail at the border.

Perhaps in a few hundred years, this land of West will be able to enter the Kingdom of Roland by a noble 'referendum'.

[Just arrived in the town the next day, location: in the hotel, nuclear status: resurrected with blood after waking up. 】

Bingbing read the monthly newspapers that the hotel has kept for several years, Bingbing analyzed the bad situation of West, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "It seems West is really very pathetic. Maybe after another war, West Will lose its independence. Where should the Gangluan family fall? "

The situation of the Gangluan family is similar to that of the Longya family three hundred years ago. At that time, the Longya family could not maintain the Principality. In the end, they chose to rely on Saint Sok and allegiance to the Saint Sok.

Bing nuclear turned to look at the Kingdom of Roland on the desktop map, and said with regret in his eyes: "It's just that this expansion of Roland seems to be powerful, but there are many hidden dangers. It has expanded the land in name, but the economic structure It's still a low-level agricultural model. But to be honest, the changes in the world's territory are only a game for the nobles and nobles. "

While Binghe shook her head and sighed, she picked up a piece of bread on the table and took a bite. "Yi" Binghe took a bite and spit out what was in her mouth. Just looking at the bread, the flour is white and greasy, but the taste is like a pile of sawdust powder pressed together.

Binghe wondered if he was eating Guanyin soil. Bingnu could not help breaking this bread and looked at it carefully. The taste of this stuff is not bitter or salty, but the taste is like bean dregs mixed with sawdust. When he opened it with his fingers, Binghe even saw a lot of small beetles the size of sesame seeds inside the seal.

Binghe pushed open the door, held this inferior food cube, and asked the boss under the wooden railing, "Boss, what is this?"

The boss ran up and whispered, "Master, this is coarse grain, grain made by refining. If you want to use refined noodles, this will require additional payment."

The boss seems to have prepared the rhetoric long ago.

In the past two days, men, women, and children in the town guessed that Binghe was a child of noble origin, and in the idea of ​​the countryman, the noble master must not be able to eat the artificial food of the countryman.

Binghe froze again with the small square on his hand, frowned and said, "Everyone eats this kind of thing?"

The boss seemed to suggest kindly: "Yes, soak it in water and eat it with salt. It's better." When he said this, he was preparing to introduce the recipes prepared in the store, and at the same time figure out how much to add. Times the price.

But Binghe nodded and said, "Thank you." Then he walked out of the hotel. In the field of Binghei, there is a tavern 50 meters outside the hotel.

The logic of Bing nuclear: "It's enough to walk a few steps so close to yourself. There is no need to put on a show and let the boss deliver things to his room." Messy back.

The prevalence of grain-making is a phenomenon unique to central China. It requires a medical priest (median occupation) to operate and control the conversion of wheat straw into starch organic matter. Of course, grainmaking and pharmacy belong to the two branches of the same profession (the chemical division will be divided in the future). The grain-making technique of the grain-producing master tends to be large.

The number of farmers responsible for production on Saint Sok's land is saturated. The food produced is sufficient for soldiers and workers, so medical priests are more prevalent. But it must not be said that there is no famine in Saint-Sauquet. There are a lot of hungry people in Saint-Sauquet. But those hungry people have no spending power.

It seems absurd that there are a large number of hungry civilians in Saint Sok, but the food producers in Saint Sok are not popular. But this is the social system. This is the same as the saturation of the global global grain market in the 21st century. The first agricultural country and the second agricultural country will rot a batch of stale grain every year, and the nationals of the two countries have a bad food practice every year. But Africa suffers from hunger every year. The reason is simple. The labor creation value of the African population is low and there is no economic capacity for food consumption. Although there is a demand for food, it cannot really form a food consumption market.

All large-scale production in human society is due to the willingness of other labor groups to pay for it. The pure goodness of humankind cannot stimulate the scale of any industry in the industrial era. The failure of many utopian social experiments proves this.

This is also the case for the famine population in Saint Sok. The agricultural population is overflowing the carrying capacity of the land, losing the value of labor, and has no possibility of entering the factory to create value. As the exiles didn't know a big word, it was very easy to suppress. After the suppression, they were sent to the Moonfall Mountain Range when the miners consumed it.

Therefore, Saint Sauc's food maker has very few occupations. The farmland of Saint Sauc is enough to ensure that the valuable population of workers and the army have bread to eat. No one will eat artificial food. During the war, the lords had to recruit troops every year, and the various power areas in the central part were not able to have a population surplus like Saint Sauc. In order to maintain a ration for the army, the grain-making technique of the grain-producing division in the central part of the continent is an important means of maintaining rule.

Wester's grain maker has a slightly higher political status in the aristocracy than Saint Sauc's domestic grain maker. West's grain maker status is basically the same as Saint Sauc's machine controller.

"What is famine" I have never seen Binghe in the last life. However, the history of the previous life gave Bing nuclear a deep-seated fear of famine. Binghe felt that he had a good investigation of Wester's food security.

In fifty minutes

After walking around the town, Binghui found a small restaurant selling refined food. I also bought the specialty of this place-roasted giant rat. Giant rats weighing up to one kilogram were fed with coarse grains and rice bran. Sprinkle with salt and chilli oil and bake it golden brown.

Binghe sat in the restaurant, and Binghe also inquired from the restaurant owner about the source of the town's artificial food.

The artificial food in Spice Town is shipped from nearby big cities. This is also the only remaining means of controlling the surrounding countryside in the big West city. Wiping the greasy corners of his mouth began to list his plans for the town. Bing nuclear: "Some mechanical assistance systems should try to do it."

[Two kilometers away from Binghe Residence Hotel, the manor of the Songjian family. 】

The Pine Sword Manor is much smaller than the manor of the Royal Garden. The walls made of simple stone bricks were filled with broken ceramics as an anti-theft measure. The garden inside the wall is also very simple, growing more grass and shrubs than flowers. A small building constructed of three layers of reinforced concrete is set up in the middle of the manor. In this area of ​​more than 20 kilometers, the building materials of most people are only wooden boards and stones.

The servants in the manor wore coarse clothes, and the owner of the manor most of the time wore cotton robes, not silk gowns. The Lord is not as good as the Viscount, and in a country where West has been in war for many years, the life of the Lord is even more luxurious.

A simple family dinner is hosted on a round table. The main meal is toasted toast and roast goose. As for the giant rat meat that Bing He ate in the restaurant, it was not allowed to be brought to the aristocratic table.

The owner of the Songjian family announced the start of the meal, and his three children picked up the knife and fork.

There is only one roast goose, and the servant assigns the goose legs and goose neck to each member of the family according to the rules. Today, the Lord specifically instructed the servant to give the goose legs to the eldest son who returned from Honduo when dividing the roast goose. It was a happy family dinner.

However, in the warmth, there are some troubles hidden. on the table. The Lord and his eldest son could not help but discuss the topic of family business management. Lord: "Tuma, have you heard of when the port will open in Honduras."

Tuma (eldest son of the Lord): "My father, if the fleet of the Oka Empire does not lift the blockade of the West coastline, this year West ’s commercial trade will only be conducted through Roland."

Lord: "So when will the Oka Empire lift the blockade? The crops in my territory are already full in the warehouse. Immediately new grain will be put in the warehouse, and I will have to spend more on care."

Tuma said, "It should be retired soon. I heard in the circle of Honduras that the purpose of the Oka Empire ’s blockade of the coastline was to put pressure on the Grand Duke of Gangluan. Has returned, there should be no reason for the Oka Empire to continue to contain us. "Narrator: Little people guess that the political game above is often wishful thinking.

The Lord nodded: "That's good. By the way, you're coming from Honduras, what else have you heard?"

Tuma said: "Well, my friends in the court have some gossip, and it is rumored that Princess Willian may be married."

The Lord dropped the knife and the rest of the family stopped.

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