Release that Witch Chapter 332: Seeing news

In the days before set off's search for ruins, Tilly's greatest interest was to slowly stroll along the flat streets of Border Town and observe this remote territory that had amazingly changed in the hands of Roland feudal lord.

This is a unique small town, she thought, the closer you look, the stronger this feeling will be. It is completely different from anywhere she has been ... The most profound thing about her impression is probably the unparalleled vitality of this small town.

Even the new Sleeping Island cannot be compared with it.

"Are these people afraid of freezing?" Looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, Andrea curiously said, "What benefits does your elder brother allow, so that they are willing to work out in the winter?"

"It's still mid autumn," Ash said, "You won't even know the season."

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

"What your dream my dream ..."

"Look, vulgar people who haven't seen the drama just have trouble communicating. Lady Tilly must have watched this famous drama from Kingdom of Dawn."

"Do n’t fight," Silvie sighed. "I think the reason is probably very simple. In winter, civilians are reluctant to move because they consume a lot of food, and they are not full, and they are susceptible to wind and cold, but these problems do not exist in small town. .The food price here is not high, the firewood is also abundant, and Miss Lily can cure the wind and cold, so they will work hard against the wind and snowflakes and work harder for one more day to get another day's salary.

"I can understand that there is plenty of firewood. The west is Hidden Forest, and there are many forests around. The food price is not high ... How is this possible?" Andrea wondered, "My family has also participated in the sale of food, such as natural disasters. As a result of the poor harvest, everyone will raise the price of food. Like this bad weather, noble and merchant impossible do not sell high prices? "

"noble? Merchant?" Silvie becomes silent smirked. "Only one person is allowed to buy and sell food, that is His Highness Roland."

"All the farmland by the river is his property?" Tilly frowned.

"No, it's all the serfs' own farmland," she told her what she saw and heard here, and the scenes at harvest, "he set two food prices, one was the purchase price, One is the selling price. Both prices are fixed, the latter is higher than the former. "

"Isn't that strong buying and strong selling?" Ash's expression was unexpected, "He can sell high prices, why can't anyone else sell high prices?"

"It's not the same," Tilly said. "After the wheat is collected, it needs threshing, grinding, and storage. These are costs, and the price increase is also normal."

"Lady Tilly is right. I only understood it after asking Teacher Scroll," Silvie laughed. "She said that the extra cost from this part can be paid as a salary to those employees who handle wheat. The construction of new granaries can expand the scale of production, which can provide new ones for small town ... "She thought about it," jobs, yes, she said that at the time. I heard that His Highness Roland was very concerned about this. "

"But he still buys and sells strongly," emphasized Ash, "shouldn't trade be free?"

"Maybe, but the sale price set by Your Highness has not been so high that everyone can't afford it. If this price can be kept fixed, the public will be more at ease."

"Sometimes it ’s not best to be free," Tilly lamented, and she had roughly understood the intention of Roland. Banning the sale of food by other people in the territory may seem overbearing and unfair, but in fact it prevents hoarding and can effectively prevent food from skyrocketing when there is a shortage. If it is in Kingdom Capital, such a rare autumn snow falls, the food price will inevitably rise to more than five or six times as usual. More than half of the civilians will be hungry because of insufficient food storage. As time goes on, it will easily cause riots. In the end, the palace will only issue relief Food or dispatch of guards to suppress. No matter what kind of situation, it is a great burden to the national treasury.

While this policy looks good, it doesn't work everywhere. Most of the grain traders are noble and wealthy merchants. They have a large number of serfs and farmland. The royal family impossible compulsorily buys the grain they produce and prohibits them from hoarding grain. However, in Border Town, except for Roland Wimbledon himself, there is almost no noble family, it is all he has to do.

After Tilly has expressed his views, Ash is still a little bit hesitant. "What about serfs? When the food price rises, they may get more income, but then they are exploited by fixed prices."

"Well," Andrea said with a smile, "It's as if in a free-trade city, these people can avoid exploitation. When the wheat harvest is good, they will not only have to turn in more wheat, they will even keep that point It was pressed to a very low price. When the harvest was poor, it was planed to turn in the surrender. It was still a question of whether the remaining point could survive the famine. In contrast, fixed prices were more reasonable. As long as the more crops were produced, the income would also be More. "

"Here, they can choose not to do it," the words of Silvie made the three of them stunned. "His Highness said that after the output reached a standard, serfs could be promoted to freemen. Should they continue to farm on the farmland or choose a new The work is done by their own will. However, freemen only needs to pay 20% of the grain, and at the purchase price this year, the salary is also considerable.

"Jin ... Sheng?"

"Yeah, when His Highness preached, he said that he would not have a serf in Border Town for two or three years."

So that's it, Tilly was suddenly touched by something, which is why small town is full of energy ... When formulating a policy, he actually took into account the people's ideas and included the joining incentive system to encourage them to do well. More and better This is completely different from any noble feudal lord approach. Incentives are not only verbal, but actually give up some of the benefits and let the people obtain them through hard work, instead of covering these benefits deeply in the castle's underground vault.

She really understood the meaning of the red banners by the river.

However, Roland Wimbledon was not a generous person in the palace ... so, this is also the change brought by the sudden memory? She was also fascinated by the elementary nature and math content taught in the evening.

Tilly thought that after reading the court's collection of books, it would be difficult to stimulate her curiosity and interest, but now she finds that she needs to learn a lot.

Suddenly, she felt a feeling, even if she didn't do anything, just staying in the small town castle, flipping through the books that recorded magical knowledge, and watching the change of the town at the same time, it was a pleasant thing.

Suddenly, there was a long bell sound in the direction of the city wall, which was a warning of Evil Beast attack.

Tilly pushed these thoughts into bottom of heart. Unfortunately, she is no longer the unrestrained Fifth Princess, but the leader who shoulders the fate of Sleeping Island witch. There are some things that ca n’t be done on her own. ” Look, maybe it can help the guards. "

"Of course," Andrea smiled, "That's what we came here for. Let them see how witch fights.".

(To be continued.)

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