Even if Xiongdu pays attention to the changes in Fosbairo, they are destined to be slow to respond.
Moreover, as His Majesty Jarvan IV is planning a grand enthronement ceremony, even if something is discovered, no one will pay much attention.
On the contrary, it was the nobles in the north who had never been very well-informed who were the first to realize that something was wrong - not because they knew Fosbairo, but because the population under their command, especially the working-age population, was growing at an alarming rate.
, a large-scale outflow to Forsbarrow.
You must know that the population in the north has never been dense. Even in the past ten years, with the rise of Forsbarrow trade, people's living standards have improved, and their desire to have children has increased visibly. But in the poor population
Under the base number, the number of civilians in the north is still pitifully small compared to the south.
After Forsbarrow unreservedly liberalized its intake of the population, a large number of laborers chose to go to Forsbarrow to work and earn money. Compared with digging for food in the soil, it seems that they go to Forsbarrow to buy strength.
More profitable.
Only in a few areas, because most of the civilians under the rule are farmers, and the civilians are farming for themselves (such as Misilver City), there is not much outflow of population.
Tenants no longer rent farmland, and the fields that used to be planted with grass and vegetables have been abandoned. Under this situation, no matter how much the nobles don't care about the lives of the common people, they have to cheer up.
Recently, the price of food has been getting higher year by year. Common people are all hens that lay golden eggs. If they all run away, who will the gentlemen find to work for?
If the farmers changed their livelihood, the nobles from various places might not be able to help but adopt some special measures. But considering that they all went to Forsbarrow, many nobles smacked their lips and felt that it was best to stay with Laxana.
Your Excellency, let’s talk first.
As we all know, Fosbello has always been in great need of people.
Everyone can understand Laxana’s large-scale population absorption.
But now that it is absorbing people like a whale, a large area of our land will be abandoned!
In Forsbarrow's trade, the proportion of grain is quite large. Without grain, it would be bad for everyone!
How about we discuss and establish a rule, for example, the second son of each family can go to Forsbarrow, but at least one male must be left to work?
In the past ten years, Lux has always played the role of a good neighbor in the north, so the nobles in the north have become very accustomed to negotiating with Lux to solve problems - the noble model lady can always successfully reach multi-party supply, so they naturally
It is also a pleasure to save worry and effort.
However, this time, when the nobles from the north came to Forsbyro in groups and entered New Fortune City, a few smart-minded guys finally started to murmur in their hearts.
Although I didn't see the shipyard at full power, the crowded but orderly look of Xinfu City now makes people a little concerned no matter how you look at it.
I always feel that the current Forsbarrow is a little different from last year, but I can’t tell what is different...
These doubtful people did not show any emotion on their faces, but just applied to see His Excellency Count Laxana as usual.
At the banquet, the nobles chatted in an artless manner, while hinting at the food problem in the north.
However, Her Excellency Laxana, who is usually all-rounded, seemed to be stupid today, turning a deaf ear to the subtext of the northern nobles, and even took the initiative to express her worries about food shortage.
Facts have proved that a person who can always make people feel comfortable is also very good at making people feel choked.
Lux didn't even do anything rude, but she suppressed a few impatient guys and took the initiative to clarify the topic regardless of their grace.
The first person who took the initiative to speak was Guswo, the lord of Balmore in the north.
Balmore is located in the east of Mithril City. Although it is relatively far from Forsbarrow, with the relay station of Mithril City, it has deep economic ties with Forsbarrow. Even their largest food buyer is
Fosbairo.
This young man who just inherited the territory the year before last year started to try to launch a pioneering movement in Balmore. As a result, just after the New Year, a lot of civilians under his rule ran away - the furious Guswal wanted to take violence.
However, after learning that all the civilians had fled to Forsbarrow, he had no choice but to be patient and come to meet the real talkative person in the north, the super God of Wealth.
"Your Excellency Laxana." Gusvo chose to get straight to the point, "I heard that since the spring of this year, Fosbairo has been recruiting all kinds of workers without restrictions. Is this true?"
"This is of course true." Lux nodded gracefully, "Starting from this year, Fosbairo will begin to implement an integration strategy, hoping that the entire Fosbairo and all walks of life can strive for one goal.
, unite and work together like our ancestors."
For this official language, Lux is already familiar with it without Kalya's help now - with this opening of her mouth, Forsbarrow's integration strategy has become a strategy of "learning from the ancestors of Demacia".
Impeccable in name.
Unfortunately, Gusvo was not interested in learning about the ancestors at all, and he did not want to debate the spirit of Demacia and the spirit of the ancestors with the noble paragon. After nodding lightly, he chose to continue talking.
"I respect Forsbarrow's integration strategy, and I respect Lady Laxana's imitation of the sages even more." He organized his words carefully, "But everyone needs to eat, and those who work in the fields now
They all come to work in Forsbarrow, and they have to have enough to eat just like their forefathers!"
"This is exactly the meaning of my implementation of the integrated Forsbarrow strategy." Lux continued to occupy the moral commanding heights. "The year before last, I took the initiative to ask you to accept the help of the Archon to increase food production, but
You all refused."
Hearing this, no matter how dull the northern nobles were, they couldn't help but frown.
In the thirteenth year of Forsby's calendar, Lux did mention that "if necessary, he can send absolutely reliable mages to help increase the yield of crops" - at that time, Shurima was in full swing in the capital.
On the one hand, Fosbairo was spending a lot of money to purchase the Golden Wheel Stone, and on the other hand, he was raising the purchase price of grain internally. For a while, the food in the north seemed a bit reluctant to support the Fosbairo Miao descendants.
Under this situation, Lux simply said, "How about we expand our food production capacity, and I will send out the Archon to help"!
Although in the north, there have always been legends that the Dharma Master played a lot of role in the cultivation of fragrant red mulberry and hazel antler, the nobles still declined to accept Lux's suggestions.
You can control the Archon, but we cannot!
Moreover, you have the Silent People organization over there, so the demon seekers are not likely to cause trouble, but we have nothing to do with the Silent People. If the Archon comes to us, the hand of the royal family will probably be stretched out as well.
Lux just said it, and the nobles just refused. Neither of them seemed to take it to heart.
But who would have thought that Lux would reveal the matter at this time, and what he meant was, "Since you don't have enough people to produce food, just let the Archon help and improve the efficiency of food production."
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Upon hearing this, Guswo's brows wrinkled on the spot.
Holy shit, is this the same thing?
How do we grow food in the territories under our rule? Do we still need Forsbarrow’s guidance?
Regarding Lux's sophistry, Gusvo's emotions were a little out of control.
However, not all northern nobles are as young as Gusvo. When many people heard this, they couldn't help but wonder if Lux had other intentions.
Could it be that Her Excellency Laxana is targeting those southerners?
This cannot be blamed on the imagination of the northern nobles. In fact, since the royal family's Shurima trade began, the relationship between the northern and southern parts of Demacia has become somewhat competitive. As the first mover in foreign trade,
Moreover, although the northern border has a more mature business environment, in terms of capital, it is still somewhat inferior to that in the south.
How many kilograms of food are there if you plunder and plunder the northern territory?
How do you compare with the Demacia Plains and the Tobitsia Plains?
To maintain the Forsbarrow trade, Lux relies not only on cheap food from Demacia, but also on locally developed specialties.
Compared with Fosbairo, the royal family that has mastered Ningwu Dao is simply exchanging sand for money.
In this case, there is a natural competition between the North and the South. In addition, Lux is the talker in the North and often stands up for the North. When she suddenly goes out of character and says something strange, people will always tolerate it.
Don't stop thinking more.
Sure enough, Lux said something even more interesting afterwards.
"Civilians have always gone wherever there is more money. If Forsbarrow has more gold coins, they are willing to come to Forsbarrow."
"Now I heard that food prices in the south are also rising, and no one has a few acres of land to farm. Instead of coming to Forsbarrow, you might as well think about how to attract people from the south."
"The people under me are quite familiar with this kind of thing, and I will help if necessary."
Good guy, this is no longer a hint, it is simply an explicit statement.
Want to have enough labor force to sustain farming?
Bring people over from the south!
I heard that life for the common people in the south is getting tighter and tighter. I can pull people from your territory to Forsbarrow, but you won't pull people from the south?
Naturally, everyone was reluctant to what Lux said at first.
Just kidding, there is a price to pay for attracting people - if you don't offer a lower rent, how many people will be willing to leave their homes?
We are not the God of Wealth like Laxana, who can spend money to attract people unscrupulously. If we attract people from the south, do we have to lower the rent?
Lowering the rent means we take money out of our own pockets!
Moreover, the nobles in the south are so rich!
Look at their arrogance after the Shurima trade began. If we compete with them for rent, aren't we looking for death?
However, since Lux is willing to speak, she must be prepared.
Soon, each of these northern nobles had a travel diary in their hands. Lux didn't say much, she just hoped that everyone would "read it more" and said "the travel diary is very interesting."
The banquet ended soon.
After returning to the place where they stayed, the northern nobles who didn't know why had opened this travel diary one after another.
Then, they were surprised to find that the southern scenery recorded in their travel notes seemed to be very different from what they had imagined!
According to the travel notes, the current share of tenants in the south has reached the level of seven households and three citizens. Although the price of food in Demacia has been rising steadily in recent years, according to the travel notes, the south of Demacia is in a state of exhaustion.
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Of course, not all nobles understood the content - some people did not realize what the book represented at all, but just thought it was a crappy work, and the language did not even have basic beauty.
There is a saying, there is indeed no sense of beauty.
Because this is basically intelligence from the intelligence team, something that was barely pieced together after a series of connections. This plate of dumplings was made entirely out of jealousy.
On the one hand, Lux did this to buy time for the integration of Forsbarrow. On the other hand, it was also to expand Forsbarrow's influence. She took advantage of the situation to observe the quality of the northern nobles and see who could still be transformed.
There is room for those who are hopeless.
Those lords who realize the significance of the contents recorded in the travel notes and are willing to go south in order to attract their subjects may still have a future.
And those guys who don't understand Lux's meaning at all, and even plan to confront Forsbarrow, will soon become the first batch of unlucky people.
As the talker in the north, Lux now needs to find a suitable target to practice her skills with.
And the Northern Walker and Mage sequences now also need actual combat experience!
However, what Lux never expected was that she was just making a false shot, but Mr. Nidu, the lord of Temuera, chose to visit late at night that night, and Lux was stunned as soon as he opened his mouth.
"Your Excellency Laxana." This patriarch, who sold his own textile industry by providing food for Forsbarrow, opened his mouth with shocking words, "If His Majesty Jarvan IV becomes emperor, then Your Excellency Laxana must also
He will definitely become the King of Forsbarrow, right?"
Such a direct compliment made Lux a little confused for a moment. She couldn't figure out why Nidu said that.
"That does not depend on me, but on His Majesty." Lux finally shook her head slightly, "Where it becomes a kingdom, where it becomes a principality, and where it continues to be a territory, these are all matters decided by His Majesty."
"But in my opinion, Forsbyro is much stronger than Xiongdu." The other party didn't look like a noble at all, and his words were more straightforward than common people. "Who in the north doesn't know Lady Laxana?"
"..."
If she wasn't very aware of Nidu's own virtues and knew that everything about him was completely tied to Forsbarrow, Lux would have almost thought that this guy was here to trick her.
However, Nidu's next sentence made Lux decide that this idiot was indeed here to trick her.
"Since Your Majesty can claim the title of emperor, then Sir Laxana, you can definitely claim the title of king!"