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Including those Earl's unknown properties in other places, they were all dug out by Wendell and the others, and Earl Benjamin was sweating coldly.

Do the math, Benjamin's ranch, vineyards, wineries, various handicraft industries and shops alone are enough to feed his more than 8000 soldiers. fox.And most of the five hundred knights have fiefs, and they are obliged to serve the earl.

As for the other expenses of the territory, no matter how expensive the maintenance and construction costs are, the other income of the territory can support the horses, wine, raw silk, and wool materials of this territory.Especially the musk ox. Among the entire Dome Eagles, apart from the old Duke and Layton, it was Benjamin who shepherded the most.

Therefore, the earl can have more than 180 million bushels of food left over every year, and even if refugees are added here, there are only 20 people plus the output of farm animals, vineyards, spices and handicrafts.Many people can not only wear warm clothes, but also eat an occasional meal of meat.

But the key point is that the nobles are not willing to part with these grains, and most of them go into the pockets of the nobles!

These food and belongings are piled up in warehouses, where they are moldy and hairy, but the misers have never developed and utilized them rationally, and the biggest help in their hands is the stupid people in the mouth of the nobles, but in their eyes they are not as good as animals The dung making machine lives to waste food!

Even those churches are like this. In their eyes, the useful people are just a small group of elites.

The nobles who protected the mainland once followed behind the Seven Gods and led the people out of darkness and barbarism.

But now, they have slowly decayed and gradually become a stumbling block hindering the progress of the times.

Fortunately, there are many people like Wendell who have slowly kicked these stumbling blocks away.

0462 Benjamin, I'm here to save you!

In this land, 90.00% of the five farmlands belong to nobles, knights, rich households and churches.Among the [-] or so local residents, only tens of thousands of farmlands are their own, and most of them are the most inferior wastelands!

Therefore, most of the residents here are tenants and serfs of these people.And the land reclamation organized by the earl is also to use this land reclamation to exchange the few good fields from the farmers!

As for the local church, because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, they not only turned a blind eye, but also concealed it from the cathedral, colluded with the nobles, and swallowed those lands into their own private pockets.

In the end, the barn was full of food, but there was a famine here!Bandits are everywhere, and riots occur every year, but the local lords only carry out bloody suppression, but never think about solving the problem fundamentally.

Renting land has always been something that the people here have done, but after the field is cultivated, the grain that has to be handed over is more than the grain produced by the field!

As for the fields cultivated by the slaves for their masters, they naturally didn't bother too much and became lazy.There have even been so many ridiculous problems because of this that many fields have been deserted.

And land reclamation is like that man-eating tiger, which makes people daunting.

In the fields here, under the generations of slaves of these nobles, there is no way for the bottom people to survive.The famine and riots that Alfonso spoke of were just around the corner.But the nobles have always been bloody suppression, instead of thinking about how to solve it fundamentally.

And just after Wendell came over ten days ago, Benjamin witnessed the big riot with his own eyes, and was almost dragged to the stake by those mobs.

When Wendell reported the Earl's income, the food stored in the treasury every year, and the fields that the Earl and the nobles seized from the people, Earl Benjamin only felt chills all over his body.

In the process of accumulating money, there are many shady activities that violate the laws of the kingdom and the Holy See. Some of them even violate the taboo. The earl even colluded with the local church to forge the will of the holy court!

And the methods used to annex the land alone are enough for the earl to walk around the noble court of the kingdom.

After passing through the noble court, the church court has to go through it again!

During Wendell's loud narration, Earl Benjamin huddled in his hood, watching the crowds coming and going in the field who greeted Wendell warmly. They didn't know George, they only knew Wendell. Dare to raise your eyes again, dare not look directly at those residents who have already regarded themselves as lurking demons.

Looking at George's meaningful eyes, Benjamin's eyes were full of gold stars, and his hands and feet trembled.

"My lord, I am willing to donate all my things"

"Donation?" George smiled slightly and said, "Earl Benjamin, there is one thing I want to remind you that after you spit out the account and pay the fine, there is nothing left in your property that can be donated. I think those The judges who have made good friends with Prince Alfonso will help you settle this account. And regarding your collusion with the local church and privately appropriating the church’s reserved land, the church will also help you settle the matter.”

What George means is very clear that you can no longer use your property to trade with me.These things, as long as the materials are handed over to the right people.Then the earl's finances, after going around, will return to the hands of the Lord Knight, and he doesn't need to use the name of donation to dirty his hands.

George looked at Earl Benjamin, who was ashen-faced, and said with a slight smile: "Hehe, Earl Benjamin, what do you think you have been busy with for so many years? You are making money for the kingdom and the church in the end. Even your life can't be saved, what do you think Duke Tanya will do to you, a bad example of corrupting the aristocracy?"

George said: "I think, maybe she will hand you over to her own people for trial? Of course, this is better than going to court, because once you go to court, all your people will testify for your crimes. In this public opinion, you will be on the opposite side with all the nobles in the entire kingdom. You should now be able to understand why the nobles, vassals, wives and sons who originally tricked you into opposing the Castle of Eagle Castle suddenly abandoned you Yet?"

Benjamin was struck with thunder, he opened his mouth, his lips were trembling and he couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Fort Eagle has issued many unrealistic policies these days, and these policies have harmed the interests of all nobles.Some timid and cowardly nobles listened.And people like myself have been playing with tricks.

He arrogantly believes that these people have no way to deal with him because he has been on the side of all the nobles before. He believes that even if the Duke is backed by the knights of the throne, he will definitely withdraw his unrealistic policy at the earliest. Among the rules, compromise with the nobles.

But in just a dozen days, he was pushed down from the top of the pyramid into the abyss by an unstoppable force.

But he couldn't understand why this lord had such power. He obviously didn't use any relationship between the temple and the kingdom, nor did he use his own army.Just dispatched a few priests and knights.

Thinking back on the arrangements and means of the great lord, Benjamin felt chills all over, and couldn't think of anything.

"Benjamin, do you know where you went wrong?" George looked at the field in the distance and suddenly opened his mouth, interrupting Benjamin's thoughts.

Under these eyes, Earl Benjamin opened his lips for a long time, and finally said: "My lord, I am too disobedient."

George shook his head and said, "Benjamin, look at these fields, look at these hardworking people. They are all doing their best for their own lives. Whoever doesn't let them live will die! In this powerful Under the power, anything that stands in the way will be crushed into powder."

"Benjamin, you are no longer fit to lead this territory."

Benjamin's face was ashen.

"Benjamin, for so many years, you have been pushing yourself to a dead end." George ignored it, and he continued: "You should have seen how many times this has happened in your territory over the years." Riot. By now, you should also know why there are so many Shoe Cultists in your territory."

"What do you think will happen to your territory if there is no food production after this fall?"

"Do you think that only three or two people can summon these 20 people and your soldiers and knights?"

"The scene that Wendell and the others demonstrated for you was just a drill."

"And when the real riots and disasters come, no one will help you stop."

Speaking of this, George suddenly looked at Benjamin with burning eyes and said, "Benjamin, I'm here to save you."

0463 Centralization of Qiongying Principality

The experience of these days gave Benjamin a feeling that all the concepts of aristocrats had been subverted.At the moment when the people gathered in the square, he also suddenly realized what a powerful force these people are when they gather together.

Now this territory is well-managed by Wendell and others. They are very professional in administration and have the support of everyone - including the nobles.

Perhaps only such a group of people can make these people have a way to survive, so that they don't have to go to that dead end.

Because they stand with these people.

And I, already unconsciously, blocked in front of all the people in the territory.

Indeed, as the great lord said, there have been more than one riots in this territory.Benjamin spent countless days and nights worrying about what would happen during that last riot.

I frantically amassed money and built my own army and castle, but no matter what I did, I could feel that the riot that I had repeatedly dreamed about in my dreams was getting closer and closer to me.

Everything I do is like drinking poison to quench my thirst.Unknowingly, a noose was put around his neck.

The irony of the situation made Benjamin hate Wendell so much, but he regarded the old man in front of him as a savior.

Unknowingly, he had already knelt down on the ground, and in that weeping, he loudly prayed to the Seven Gods for forgiveness.

"My lord! I am willing to obey all your orders! Please give me a chance!" Benjamin knelt down on the ground and wept uncontrollably. He became a very sensible child. "In this future disaster, I can no longer Leading the people to the future. I am willing to hand over all my lands and people to the Great Cathedral of Dawn to manage."