It is estimated that due to the village chief's quick work, there are gradually more people at the entrance of the village. They are all villagers from this village, and there are relatively few young and middle-aged people. At this time, they must have gone to work. The people who appear at the entrance of the village are basically the elderly and children.

, when they reached the entrance of the village, they all knelt down in front of Gervais one by one to greet them. Several of them were already elderly. Gervais asked two guards to help them from a distance.

Their legs and feet are no longer convenient, and they still have to kneel down to greet themselves.

The mountain village was not big. After only six or seven minutes, the village chief who went to call someone came back. Although he was out of breath, his legs and feet were still nimble. He came to Gervais, bent down and said: "Lord, the village chief

Everyone here has been called, and some of them have already gone to the fields to cultivate, do you want me to go over and call now?"

"No need." Gervais shook his head and said that he didn't need it. He looked at the more than a hundred serfs of all sizes in front of him. Basically, they were all in tattered clothes. The children were all barefoot. Some children had withered and yellow hair, and their faces were full of wrinkles.

The ribs on the chest are particularly obvious from the shirtless upper body, which is obviously caused by long-term malnutrition.

"Speak to them first!" Gervais motioned to the guard who was responsible for shouting along the way to repeat what he had shouted along the way.

"Yes, Lord Baron!" The guard immediately stepped forward and shouted to the villagers: "Have you seen this man? The first thing Benny's men, Lord Gervais, came to do was to punish Benny.

and his men, to bring justice to you! But Benny is too cunning. Before the Baron arrived, he had already fled in fear of crime, and only two of his men were captured. This is one of them, and the other one has been killed by Gervais.

The lord ordered it to be hung in the square of the town."

"God's grace has enveloped you! Lord Gervais will protect you in the future!"

"Lord Gervais has also issued a reward. If anyone finds or catches Benny, he can go to the castle to receive a reward of 1 silver coin."

…

"It's really the guard captain's subordinate. I remember him snatching a rabbit from my house when he went to collect taxes."

"She should have died a long time ago... That girl was only 16 years old and she was ruined by them..."

"The Lord is wise..."

Suddenly, the serfs all started talking. They were all poor serfs who had been oppressed by Benny. They originally thought that Benny and the other three would never be punished in this life, but they didn't expect that the lord would punish them as soon as he took office.

Caught him.

"Lord, you are wise! Thank you, Lord, for your protection!" Those who can become the village chief are obviously not ignorant of the world. While everyone was still discussing, the village chief had already shouted and prostrated on the ground. Upon seeing this, other villagers also followed suit.

Follow suit and prostrate yourself to the ground.

"My lord is wise, thank you lord for your protection." Immediately, almost all the hundreds of people at the entrance of the village knelt on the ground. Except for a few old people with weak legs and feet, only some children who were not familiar with the world were still standing, and they were immediately killed.

The adults nearby pushed him to the ground.

"Get up, now this is my territory. As my serfs, I will naturally protect you. You just need to work hard and pay taxes on time!" Gervais spent so much effort today to use a carriage to drive Ben

Ni's subordinate was originally brought here to show mercy, but now he felt that the effect had been achieved, and he was very satisfied and called everyone up.

Although some people may not be truly grateful, as long as there is this kind of atmosphere, Gervais's prestige in this territory will become higher and higher, instead of being shrouded in a weakened halo and trembling all over when seeing him.

.

"Thank you, Lord!" Some elderly serfs were already in tears. They had lived all their lives, and some had even lived and worked here when Viscount Machore was still alive.

It can be said that they will be buried in the loess in a few years, but they have never seen a lord like Gervais who really does something for them as soon as he takes office.

"Okay, next, I have something to ask you!" Gervais was a little embarrassed when he saw some old farmers already shedding tears. Although he had thought about it before taking office, he really had to deal with people like Benny who were full of evil.

Guys, but today’s behavior is also a show, so it’s still a bit embarrassing.

"Village chief, I would like to ask, do you recognize the contents of this clay pot?"

Gervais asked, pointing to the steaming pot on the ground.

Of course the old village chief knew what the clay pot was for. Some children in the village often went to the beach to pick up some shells, crabs and other things to cook and eat at the entrance of the village because they were hungry. Basically every day except when it was windy or rainy.

in this way.

But now that the lord asked about it, the village chief could not help but act carelessly, so the old village chief quickly walked to the pot, took a look inside, and saw that there was nothing unusual, so he saluted and replied: "Your lord, this pot

Everything in it was picked up from the beach by the children in the village!”

"Oh, I know this. I want to ask, what is this thing called, and are there many on the beach?" Gervais said, holding up the oyster with only the shell left in his hand.

"Back to the lord, this...this shell has no name. There are a lot of them, but they are not enough. The villagers occasionally ask the children to pick some up and eat them as vegetables!" The old village chief didn't know why Gervais did this.

I am interested in this common shell. There are a lot of these on the rocks at the seaside, but they have very little meat and are not very filling. They are mostly used as vegetables by the villagers.

And because the villagers are busy farming, they basically ask the children to go to the beach to pick up such things.

"No name yet? Well, I just took a bite and it tasted pretty good. Since there is no name yet, let's call it oyster from now on!" Gervais was a little surprised. Oysters don't have names in this world. You know, in

In his previous life, oysters were a must-have ingredient at every barbecue stall.

Because oysters not only taste delicious, but also have very powerful effects, both men and women, old and young, like them. Men eat them to replenish their health, and women eat them to nourish their skin. The price is also low, so it is simply a must-eat dish for foodies at barbecue stalls.

But after thinking about it, Gervais was relieved. The productivity of this world is low, and people work hard and don't even have enough to eat. Of course, they don't have time to care about these things.

It is just a dish that is eaten occasionally. No matter whether you are a big person or a small person, just call it shell.

When Gervais was in his previous life, he could often see a kind of post on the Internet about hairy crabs. At the beginning, hairy crabs had a similar fate to oysters in this world. In the poor years, food was scarce and many people were hungry.

, some people had to catch hairy crabs to satisfy their hunger.

But later, as living standards improved, people no longer had to worry about eating enough. On the contrary, the price of hairy crabs, which only the poor used to eat regularly, rose and became something that the poor could not afford.

"What do the people in your village do for a living?" Gervais continued to ask.

"Lord, farming, everyone in our village is working hard to farm!" the village chief replied quickly.

"There are no people doing other jobs? For example, catching fish or shells from the sea to sell?" Gervais was a little speechless. They all said that they rely on the mountains to eat, and they rely on the sea to eat the sea. How come these people rely on the sea and there is no one to catch fish from the sea?

What's the idea?

Although I don’t know how big the ocean in this world is, since it is an ocean, in this feudal era without any machinery, the ocean is simply an inexhaustible treasure house.

"No, Lord, the villagers are working hard to cultivate crops!" The old village chief shook his head like a rattle.

After speaking, he looked at Gervais again, and then said carefully: "Actually, when Viscount Machore was still there, there were people who went to the sea to catch fish and sell them as the adults said. Originally, there were few people who did this.

, they could still make a living by selling fish, but later some people saw that fishing and selling fish were easier than farming, so they all learned to do it. In the end, the fish became cheaper and cheaper, and they could no longer make any money. When it was time to pay taxes, those people

They couldn't even pay their taxes, and each of them was whipped 20 times by the lord, and then Viscount Macauer ordered that fishing and selling be prohibited!"

So that's it. Gervais nodded, but he didn't understand a little, so he asked: "When Viscount Machore was still there, the population should be very large? How could the price get cheaper and cheaper? Even if Viscount Machore was there,

If you get it cheaply, you can go to other lords’ territories to sell it.”

Gervais was a little confused. Price wars would only occur under one situation, and that was when the market was saturated, and merchants would think of lowering prices to increase sales.

Based on the population at that time, even if everyone in the village was engaged in this kind of business, the market would not be saturated. After all, there were so many villages and towns, and at most it would be a matter of traveling further away to sell.

"Sir, the population was very large at that time, but sea fish can only be sold when it is fresh. If it is taken far away, it will become smelly, and no one will want it for free." The village chief answered cautiously.

"Gah..." Gervais was a little embarrassed. Indeed, he had forgotten a very important piece of information. There is no effective means in this world to maintain the freshness of fresh food.

Even ice cubes can only be enjoyed by the great nobles outside of the winter season, because the great nobles have the financial resources to build ice cellars. In winter, the great nobles put the ice cubes in underground ice cellars without worrying about the temperature.

After raising the temperature, no ice cubes are used.

However, even great nobles would save money on using ice cubes in other seasons.

It is conceivable that ordinary people are even less likely to have things that even small nobles do not have. Without ice, it is impossible to keep sea fish fresh. Even if they are sold, they can only be sold in nearby villages and towns. No wonder the market is saturated.
Chapter completed!