Chapter 332 Experience

8days ago Xuanhuan Novels 9
On the days before setting out to explore the ruins, Tilly's greatest interest was to hang out slowly along the flat streets of the border town and observe this remote territory that had undergone amazing changes in the hands of Lord Roland.

This is a unique town, she thought to herself, the more carefully she observed, the stronger the feeling.

It was completely different from anywhere she had been to... What impressed her the most was probably the unparalleled vitality that this town exuded.

Even the emerging sleeping island cannot be compared with what it thinks.

Are these people not afraid of being frozen?Looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, Andrea curiously said, what benefits did your brother promise to make them willing to come out and work in the middle of winter?

It's still mid-autumn now, ashes spread their hands, you won't be able to tell the difference between the seasons, right?

But it is no different from winter. This is an analogy. It often appears in "Her Dreams, His Country". Andrea raises her long hair gracefully. Of course, the barbarians will not understand.

What's your dream, my dream...

Look, it’s hard for vulgar people who have never appreciated drama to communicate.Lord Tilly must have watched this famous drama from the Kingdom of Morning.

Don’t fight, Sylvie sighed. I think the reason is probably very simple. Civilians are reluctant to move in winter because they consume a lot of money, are not full, and are prone to wind and cold infection, but these problems do not exist in small towns.The food price here is not high, and the firewood is sufficient. Miss Lily can cure the wind and cold, so they work hard against the cold wind and snowflakes and get an extra day of salary.

I can understand that there is plenty of firewood. There is a hidden forest to the west, and there are many trees around it. The price of grain is not high... How is this possible?Andrea wondered, my family had also participated in the sale of grain. For example, the production cuts and harvests caused by natural disasters, everyone would raise the price of grain very high.In such bad weather, it is impossible for nobles and merchants not to sell high prices, right?

noble?merchant?Sylvie laughed in silence and said, "There is only one person here who allows the sale of food, that is His Highness Roland."

Is the farmland by the river all his industries?Tilly frowned.

No, that is all the serfs' own fields. She told about what she saw and heard here, as well as the scenes of the harvest. He set two prices of grain, one was the purchase price and the other was the sale price. Both prices were fixed, and the latter was higher than the former.

Isn’t this a forced buying and selling?Ashes had an unexpected expression. He could sell it at a high price, so why didn’t others allow them to sell it at a high price?

It's different, Tilly pondered, after the wheat is harvested, it needs to be threshed, ground, and stored. These are all costs and the price increases are very normal.

Lord Tilly said right. I only understood after asking the teacher Shujuan later. Sylvie smiled. She said that after collecting this extra fee, it can be paid to the employers who deal with wheat, building new granaries, and expanding production scale. These can provide new things for the town... She thought about it, jobs, that's right, that's what she said at the time.I heard that His Highness Roland cares about this very much.

But he is still forcing his business to buy and sell. Ashes emphasized, shouldn’t trade be free?

Maybe it is, but the sale price set by Your Highness is not so high that no one can afford it.If this price can be kept fixed, the public will be more at ease.

Sometimes it is not best to be free, Tilly sighed. She had already roughly understood the purpose of Roland's approach.

Prohibition of other people in the territory for selling food seems domineering and unfair, but in fact, hoarding can be eliminated, which can effectively prevent the surge in food in the event of shortage.

If it were in the royal capital, such rare autumn snow fell, the food price would inevitably rise to more than five or six times that of ordinary people. More than half of the civilians would go hungry because they did not have enough food to store. Over time, it would easily cause riots. In the end, the palace had to issue relief grain or dispatch guards to suppress it.

In either case, it is a considerable burden on the treasury.

Although this policy looks good, it doesn't work anywhere.

Most of the people who control the grain transactions are nobles and wealthy businessmen. They have a large number of serfs and land. It is impossible for the royal family to force the grain they produce and prohibit them from hoarding food.

However, in the border town, except for Roland Wimbledon himself, there were almost no noble families, and he was the only one who had the final say.

After Tilly expressed her opinion, Ashes were still a little angry. What about those serfs?When food prices rise, they may be able to earn more income, but in this way they are all exploited by fixed prices.

Puff, Andrea sneered, as if in a city of free trade, these people could escape exploitation.When the wheat harvest is good, they not only have to pay more wheat, but even the little they keep will be suppressed to a very low price. When the harvest is bad, the part they pay is deducted. Whether the remaining bit can survive the famine is still a question.In contrast, fixed prices are more reasonable, as long as the more crops are produced, the more income they will be.

Here, they can choose not to do it. Sylvie's words stunned the three of them slightly. His Highness said that after the output reaches one standard, all serfs can be promoted to free people.Whether to continue farming in the farmland or choose a new job is up to their own will.However, free people only need to pay 20% of the food, and their salary is also considerable according to the purchase price during this year's bumper harvest.

Jin...promoted?

Well, when His Highness preached, he also said that he would not have a single serf in Bianfeng Town for two or three years.

So that's it, Tilly's heart was suddenly touched by something, which is why the town is full of vitality... When he formulated policies, he actually took into account the people's ideas and added incentives to them to do more and better. This is completely different from any noble lord's approach.

Inspiration is not only manifested in words, but in tangible giving up part of the interests and allowing the people to obtain them through hard work, rather than hiding these interests deeply in the underground vault of the castle.

Only then did she truly understand the meaning of the red slogans by the riverside.

However, Roland Wimbledon was not a generous person when he was in the palace... So, is this also the change brought about by that part of the sudden memory?

She was also very fascinated by the elementary natural and math contents taught in the evening.

Tilly thought that after reading all the books in the palace, it would be difficult to have anything to arouse her curiosity and interest, but now, she found that she still needs to learn a lot.

A feeling suddenly surged in her heart that it was also pleasant to stay in the town castle, flipping through the books that record magical knowledge, and watching the changes in the town at the same time.

Suddenly, a long bell came from the direction of the city wall, which was the alarm for the attack of the evil beast.

Tilly pressed these thoughts into her heart. Unfortunately, she is no longer the unrestrained Five Kings Girl, but the leader who shoulders the fate of the Sleeping Island Witch. Some things cannot be done willfully based on her own preferences. Let's go to the city wall to take a look, maybe she can help the guards.

Of course, Andrea smiled slightly, this is what we are here for.Let them see how the witches fight.