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Chapter 73 Store Grain First

"Quick, clean up all the debris in here!"

"Hurry up, everyone hasn't eaten!"

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The construction started, and the originally dead mining area finally had the smell of fireworks.A group of lifeless refugees also had rare smiles on their faces.

People are not afraid of suffering, but they are afraid of not seeing hope.

The lord is the backbone of everyone, and they have been accustomed to living with the noble lord since they were young, so it is too embarrassing for them to be independent.

Of course, the most important thing is to be robbed first by the rebels, and then by the counter-insurgency army, and suffered the cruelest social beating, which caused everyone to feel seriously insecure.

Including following Hudson all the way south, eating and not working every day, everyone still has no idea.

It's different now.With new jobs comes value.Don't worry about the Lord Lord suddenly abandoning them.

Hudson didn't know what the serfs thought.The busy construction site is essentially just doing one thing, repairing the infrastructure damaged by the war.

"Master, a group of refugees have come outside. It is said that they are miners from the mining area and their families. They want to join you!"

Hearing this good news, Hudson once thought that his arrogance broke out.Even without sending troops, some people took the initiative to join them.

It's just that after seeing the person clearly, this feeling is gone.Where are the miners, they are clearly a group of beggars.

All of them were sallow and emaciated, dressed in ragged clothes, trembling when they walked, and they seemed to be starved to death.

Although he is an aristocrat, Hudson still did not break away from the people at the bottom, saying "why not eat minced meat".

There are nearly a thousand people in the team, including many old and weak women and children. It is a miracle that they can survive in the mountains and forests. It is impossible to live well.

Even if the territory is rich in output and there are many wild animals in the jungle, hunting can make up for the lack of food, that is just a drop in the bucket.

It may be possible to hunt thousands of catties of meat at a time, but it is purely dreaming to hunt hundreds of catties of meat every day.

If hunting could not guarantee a stable supply of meat, Hudson would not have set his quota so low.

The stomach is so hungry that it is no wonder that he has to run to join the new lord.If Hudson came ten days and a half months later, it is estimated that there will be a tragedy of cannibalism here.

At that point, this group of miners is basically useless.People's bottom line has always been very low, as long as they break through the first time, there will be countless times.

Glancing at everyone, Hudson announced the result directly to everyone without any extra nonsense:
"Viscount Alphonse passed away unfortunately. I am your new lord, Hudson, Baron Koslow, and now I declare to accept your allegiance!"

After accepting the prostration gift from everyone, the relationship between the lord and the people is considered to be established.In the years to come, everyone will fulfill their obligations and enjoy their rights and interests.

The simple ceremony is over, and everyone is considered to be their own.Hudson was not polite, and directly arranged for his men to take the newcomers to the river to wash their hands.

The rules of the game are like this, when the old lord passes away, as long as the new lord declares the allegiance of the subjects, the matter is over.

The opinions of the serfs are no opinions.Part of the estate itself, who cares what they think?

Everything is so natural, without the slightest discomfort.Forcibly "adding drama" to buy people's hearts will only make things worse.

No kidding, there have been lords in history who were suspected of being counterfeit by serfs because they were too close to the people.Because the lord in their memory has always been aloof.

With more people and more power, the repair speed of the territorial infrastructure is accelerated, and the corresponding food consumption is also increasing day by day.

As a last resort, Hudson divided his troops to transport the remaining grain from Dadir City; at the same time, he wrote letters non-stop to buy grain from nearby nobles.

The harvests in Wrighton and Wright counties are almost complete, and the rise in food prices in the southeastern provinces is a high probability event.Even if there is no food shortage in the province, food prices will rise due to political needs.

In this three-acre land in the southeastern province, the grain merchants nominally decide the price of grain, but in fact the masters behind the scene are the Dalton family.

Based on Hudson's understanding of Earl Pierce, if this political strongman doesn't take advantage of the opportunity in exchange for benefits, he will be worthy of the nickname "Lion of Flame".

It is not because Earl Pierce has a conscience that the price of food is not being raised.Mainly the local nobles, who doesn't have any food reserves?

According to the normal development process, relying on the support of the family, we can survive the food panic in the early stage of entrepreneurship.The price is skyrocketing, but it can't help people have food in their hands.

Hudson is an exception. With the group of miners in front of him, the population of the territory has directly exceeded the [-] mark. This is not the end.

The cronies sent out to fool people are still working hard.He didn't know how many people he could fool in the end, so he could only reserve more.

In terms of thinking, Hudson is still very clear, and while he can buy food now, he will buy more.As for the aid promised by my father, I can put it there first, and then send someone to pick it up when needed.

Within two hundred miles, all the nobles who did not participate in the development of the territory received Hudson's grain purchase letter.

The owner buys [-] pounds, and the west orders [-] pounds. As long as someone is willing to sell it, it does not matter if it is rye, oats, barley, or potatoes, broad beans, peas, carrots, pumpkins... He is always a comer. refuse.

As for more high-end Warcraft meat, beef and mutton, wheat, spices and other daily necessities, they are all out of the scope of purchase.

Everything is caused by the price, and it is also grain. The price of wheat is one and a half times higher than that of rye, and it is nearly twice higher than that of oats and beans.

Like countless lords, cheap and large quantity is the first consideration.The cheapest potatoes cost only one and a half coppers a pound; rye only cost three coppers a pound...

(1 gold coin = 15 silver coins = 1500 copper coins)

The only expensive food purchased in large quantities, that is, table salt, was as high as thirty copper coins per pound.This is the low-quality table salt eaten by serfs, and the refined salt enjoyed by nobles, and the price has soared to two hundred copper coins per pound.

Knowing that this was extortion, Hudson could only grit his teeth and accept it.Who let the production of salt be in the hands of the great nobles?
Buying, buying, and buying, it was a waste of money for a while.Although due to time and distance, these transactions are still only on paper, but the money still has to be reserved.

It would be a tragedy if someone delivered the goods to the door but had no money to pay the bill.For nobles, it is very shameful to owe money.

He ordered more than 300 million pounds of supplies from his neighbors in one go. If all of them could be sold, the budget of [-] gold coins would be wiped out.

It is not Hudson's style to sit and eat.Thinking of his pocket that was about to bottom out, the reality told him that he must find a way to make money.

(End of this chapter)