The nobles of the Xiling Kingdom shook their heads: "Don't mention it. There has been a famine in the Horton Kingdom recently, and the Divine Bean has been dragged to support the Horton Kingdom."
"Ah? How long will it take for the magic beans to be available?"
The nobles of the Hunhe Principality looked surprised, and were already planning in their heads how long their family's food reserves would last.
The nobleman of the Xiling Kingdom said: "About one to two weeks. By the way, our sorghum wine has been sold like crazy in the Yongye Empire recently. The royal family has raised the purchase price of sorghum to 10 silver coins per catty. You can charge as much as you want. Is the sorghum mature?"
"10... 10 silver coins per pound?"
The nobleman of the Hunhe Principality showed an incredulous look, and there were stars in his eyes.
"It's a bit mature. Let's go for a walk. I'll take you there. I'll definitely satisfy you."
This nobleman enthusiastically pulled the nobleman from the Xiling Kingdom over and never thought about saving food again.
The nobles of the Xiling Kingdom said two weeks, so let’s take two weeks. His family’s food reserves can last for two months, not to mention two weeks.
The sorghum was quickly harvested, then bundled and loaded into the convoy of the nobles of the Xiling Kingdom.
“There will definitely be more sorghum next time I come!”
After the nobles of the Hunhe Principality said goodbye to each other, they returned home and counted the gold coins in their bags with smiles on their faces.
"Quick, quick, keep planting sorghum. Each of you will have your wages doubled, so work faster."
The nobles of Hunhe Principality said to the common people who were working.
Inspired by money, those civilians also worked very hard!
On this day, the nobles of the entire Hunhe Principality were excited.
Ten silver coins per pound!
At this purchase price, a small nobleman can earn tens of thousands of gold coins a year!
Their income increased four to five times!
The civilians who own land are also excited!
But the five churches have unanimously realized the crisis.
These five churches immediately sent a large number of church personnel to the territories of various nobles and asked these nobles to grow food.
"Growing food? Why grow food? Are you worried that the Xiling Kingdom will attack? Oh, what does it have to do with me? It might be better to be ruled by the Xiling Kingdom. I heard that each commoner in the Xiling Kingdom has ten acres of land. And you only have to pay one-tenth of the tax.”
A commoner who owns three acres of land disdains the truth.
The nobles originally grew very little food.
Are you kidding? They just sold a wave of sorghum and made a lot of gold coins. Now they are cutting down the half-grown sorghum to grow food. Isn't it difficult to make money
In the entire Hunhe Principality, due to the five gods and five churches, the royal family's control is not that strong. Most of the land is in the hands of the nobles. The church only holds less than 20% of the land, and the royal family only has About 10% of the land.
However, the nobles who now control most of the land are not willing to grow food again, and the church is helpless.
Even if a mandatory order is issued, the nobles are all old-fashioned, with policies from above and countermeasures from below, using various methods and means to drag you to despair.
For example, a noble would pretend to be sick as soon as someone from the church arrived, saying that he was sick and could not take care of the territory.
Another example is a nobleman who drives away all the common people whenever someone from the church comes, saying that the nearby common people resent him and are unwilling to give him a job.
In short, various reasons for delaying.
The top leaders of the church were anxious, but there was nothing they could do to deal with these nobles.
Of course, there are still a small number of nobles who cooperate with them, but they are only a small number of nobles.
If these nobles who control most of the land do not cooperate, the church will not only send a large number of magicians to promote growth on their own land, but they will also be miserable there.
Chapter 0250 No need to waste a single soldier! Take the Hunhe Principality!
"The nobles are unwilling to cooperate, what should we do?"
In the Hunhe Principality, at the headquarters of a church, several church leaders gathered together to discuss matters.
“We charge a premium price.”
A young bishop suddenly spoke.
Several other bishops looked at the young bishop.
The young bishop was encouraged and continued:
"We charge 10 silver coins per catty. No matter whether the sorghum on the nobles' land is mature or not, or what the yield is, we will purchase it based on the yield of 800 catties per acre. After harvesting, these nobles should be willing to grow food."
"This is a good idea, but our gold coins will be consumed a lot."
Immediately, another bishop clapped his hands and praised.
"Okay, then do it!"
The archbishop finally agreed.
Soon, a large number of church personnel began to purchase sorghum from the nobles in the church area.
Of course it's not a real acquisition.
Instead, as long as the nobles are willing to grow food, they will be given gold coins based on the output of eight hundred pounds per acre. These sorghums that are about to mature will be dragged away by the church people and can be sold to the Xiling Kingdom. If they are not mature, Yes, we just pulled them out and planted food.
When the people in this church showed courtesy and affection, and the key was to take out the golden coins, the nobles in the church area finally harvested sorghum as quickly as possible and then planted grain.
It is impossible to say that some of these nobles did not sense the crisis. It is just that these nobles feel that they still have a lot of food reserves. In addition, if the war of faith really breaks out, it will not cost their lives. They just change the church. That's all, maybe their lives will be easier.
That's why these nobles didn't cooperate.
Well, Mengying's original plan actually had another biggest benefit, which even she didn't realize.
That is the situation of the Xiling Kingdom. It was spread through the nobles of the Xiling Kingdom, making the nobles and civilians of the Hunhe Principality envious.
Under this envious situation, the nobles and commoners of the Hunhe Principality actually hope to become the kingdom of the Lord of Fire like the Xiling Kingdom.
You know, the Xiling Kingdom was not the kingdom of the Lord of Fire before.
But after becoming the kingdom of the Lord of Fire, the situation of the entire Xiling Kingdom has improved countless times.
It is impossible for the people of Hunhe Principality not to be envious.
Especially the common people, all of them are extremely envious of those ten acres of land, where they can receive magical bean seeds, and only pay one-tenth of the tax. If this kind of good thing were their turn, they would laugh out of their dreams. .
This was something that Mengying had not expected when she launched the economic war against the Hunhe Principality. It was an unexpected gain.
Immediately after the people from this church did this, people from the other four churches also took similar measures.
Although a lot of gold coins were consumed, more than half of the land in the Hunhe Principality was finally planted with food.
"Send all the magicians to encourage the growth, so that in a month at most, the food can be harvested on a large scale."
All five major churches issued orders.
Generally, the natural growth law of grain will still be taken into account when promoting growth. In normal times, even if growth is accelerated, it will take two to three months for the grain to mature.
It may even take longer. After all, there are not that many magicians, and magicians also need to rest, which will sacrifice some timeliness.
But now, we can only use more intense methods to promote growth.
Just as the top leaders of the five major churches were rejoicing that food had been planted in the land again, a piece of bad news came.
The army of Xiling Kingdom is moving!
More than half a million troops marched to the border between the Xiling Kingdom and the Hunhe Principality, ready to attack the Hunhe Principality at any time.
Now, the five major churches in Hunhe Principality were all anxious.
The five major churches could no longer care about the promotion of growth, and recalled the magicians sent out to promote growth, and then issued recruitment orders through the largest nobles in their respective regions.
Yes, when these five major churches encountered foreign enemies, they were quite united and worked together as one.
A large number of armies were armed and a large number of magicians were recruited.
As for the grain in the fields, who cares about them
Without the help of the magician, these grains would not mature within a few months.
Each of these five major churches has recruited about 150,000 troops, and the church that controls the royal family has recruited 200,000 troops.
They actually formed an army of more than 800,000 people.
But a new problem immediately emerged: after the army was summoned, the daily consumption of 800,000 troops was not small. The nobles also had to supply food to the army they had recruited. Their food reserves had already been consumed a lot, and now they had to supply them again. The army also secretly complained for a while.
Then, something more terrifying happened.
The civilians of the Hunhe Principality began to suffer from a large-scale food shortage.
These commoners don't have much food stored. In the past, they basically bought food from nobles. In recent months, these commoners have also made a lot of money. However, after Luo Ying reduced the supply of divine beans a month ago, this caused There is not much food left in the hands of civilians.
Now, they have money, but when the entire country is short of food, these civilians cannot buy food at all.
How could a nobleman sell it
They do have a lot of food of their own, but the problem is that when the war comes, it will take several months for their newly planted food to be harvested, and their food has to supply the army they have recruited. How can they be willing to sell their own food
These civilians couldn't buy food, and even their survival was a problem, so they had to go to the church in groups.
How can the church's stock be enough to satisfy these civilians? Moreover, the church also needs to store some food for the army!