Chapter 378 Beast Tide

The harvest season is the most fascinating. Looking at the wheat waves rolling in the wind and Hudson holding his son, he couldn't help but smile with joy.

With this great harvest, the newly migrated serfs should be at ease. For the lower class, nothing makes them feel more at ease than a great harvest.

Grain production will not deceive people. After several years of hard work, the grain yield per mu of the territory has further increased, and the average yield per mu has exceeded 220 pounds.

Hudson was not sure whether it was the effect of fertilizer or the effect of seed selection and breeding, or perhaps both.

But this is just a small problem. No matter what the specific reason is, you have to catch both hands anyway.

When choosing the best quality seeds, swamp brand fertilizers must be continued to be used, and farm compost technology cannot be ignored.

In fact, the yield per mu is also because the yield per mu is too low, which has dragged down. The most fertile swamp farmland has even reached 300 pounds per mu.

Of course, this data is only in the hands of the senior management of the territory. Ordinary people only know that the mountain has harvested a bumper harvest. There is no clear concept of the specific degree of harvest.

Even if a spy spread the news, everyone will only think that this is an example of local land harvest. Similar things have happened.

For example: in the battlefield where two armies are fighting fiercely, the grain output will be more likely to be harvested in the coming year.

For example, if it snows heavily in winter, the grain output will be higher in the coming year.

...

It’s just that everyone has not studied it in depth and lacks knowledge in related fields. They have attributed this extraordinary thing to the blessing of the gods.

Hudson already has a lot of sacred auras, so he doesn't mind adding another one.

The title of "Gods favored" does not require him to promote it, and there are a group of fans who press it on his head.

The most important thing is that the status and status are different.

Such things happened during the period of a small noble family, which was a major event of life and death. If you are not careful, you will die and die.

At this point, at most, it will cause secret peeping from those who are interested. People will not be sent to snatch them because of a rumor that is not true or false.

The southeastern provinces are not short of food. The Dalton family may have turned against the Koslow family for other reasons, but it is absolutely impossible to launch aristocratic wars for the sake of dozens of kilograms of grain output per mu.

The Blood Moon Defense Line, which is currently under construction, is that everyone has money to pay, and some people have people to pay, and what the Dalton family has to pay is food.

The Dalton family can still have the energy to sell food and drink to the outside world, which is enough to illustrate the problem.

Judging from the data disclosed on the surface, the land controlled by the Dalton family has more than 30,000 square kilometers, and the population under the rule is even more than one million.

Even if the actual data doubled, there is nothing strange about it. Hudson did not forget that the Dalton family had islands overseas, and these territories were not under the jurisdiction of the kingdom.

With such a strong family background, supplying food for hundreds of thousands of workers is naturally not a big problem. It is nothing more than taking the grain that originally supported the northern border to build a defense line.

Without the burden of supplying materials to the northern border, the overall burden of the nobles in the southeastern provinces has been greatly reduced.

If it weren't for the plummeting food prices and the lack of enough buyers in the market, there wouldn't be so many little nobles who would have fallen into a financial crisis.

If you look into it in depth, you can still have something to do with Hudson.

Without the consumption of military rations in the northern border, the southeastern province had a serious overcapacity of grain production capacity. It had always been the largest grain buyer in the southeastern province, and suddenly stopped purchasing grain.

The double crisis collided, which directly caused a bloody collapse in food prices. Not to mention that compared with the war period, it was impossible to compare before the war.

Hudson was also to blame for this issue. From another perspective, the large-scale land reclamation plan of the mountain territory was purely the increase in food.

With the overall population of the Southeast Province slightly declining, the continuous increase in grain production capacity is undoubtedly the culprit of the crisis.

Even though he knew, Mr. Hudson didn't mean to worry about everyone. If he was unsalable, he would have been unsalable. Anyway, he had no food to sell.

The retail price of rye on the market is 2.5 copper coins per pound, which is 0.5 copper coins lower than the normal price before the outbreak of the war.

For grain, such a price drop is already tragic. But this has no meaning. Only one-sixth of the price drop is far from when you can buy at the bottom.

Moreover, with Hudson's character, he was not allowed to do anything to take advantage of the situation. Even if he was purchasing reserved grain, he could only follow the market price and could not do anything to deliberately reduce the price.

Then just wait a little longer. When the nobles' warehouses are full, discussing this issue will often make it easier to achieve the goal.

Reserve grain, reserve grain, and the most important thing is reserve!

No one stipulates that the reserved grain must be piled in their own warehouse.

If conditions permit, temporarily placing it in the neighbor's warehouse is also a good choice.

The core factor is caused by market immatureness.

If you are in a mature commodity market, you can also extend the downstream industrial chain, such as: developing aquaculture, winemaking, and food finishing...

Unfortunately, the more you do these industries, the more you lose.

Under the self-sufficiency economic model, everyone can produce these products themselves. Except for the emerging aristocrats in the north that need to purchase, there is no market at all.

Unfortunately, these products were transported from the southeastern province to northern Xinjiang. Not only did the journey be long, but the tolls along the way could be paid to bankruptcy.

If you can take the sea route, the situation may be better. You can do business in coastal cities, but unfortunately there are only two ports in the north.

One port is on the prairie and is controlled by the Francis Kingdom of the seven prairie kingdoms; the other port is in the hands of the Duke of Hero.

The only one who can do business in the entire Southeast Province is the Dalton family, but it is limited to ports.

It is impossible to go deep into the inland to do business. The two major forces that control the port are now relying on monopoly to make huge profits.

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"Sir, the king sent a document."

Tom's words interrupted Hudson's family happiness. He turned around and handed Franz to Melissa, then took the document and started reading it.

"What's wrong with Hudson, is something wrong again?"

Melissa asked with concern.

Since the two met, there have been few days of peace. They are either fighting or preparing for war.

Even after the war, there were still many problems, which made everyone uneasy.

“Nothing big!

The Ministry of Military Affairs plans to station two legions in the southeastern province to prevent the Hessian invasion. This is to seek my opinion."

He spoke lightly, but Hudson was not at all calm in his heart. He was not at all wary of Hessians. He didn't believe this excuse to fool children.

Even if the war breaks out immediately, if the Hesse Kingdom wants to invade the southeastern province, it must first open up the Blackstone Mountains.

With a natural buffer zone, it is enough to buy time for the kingdom to dispatch troops and generals, so there is no need to place two standing legions in the southeastern province.

Using this low-end excuse, it is better to say that the food prices in the southeastern province are cheap, and putting the standing army here can be purchased nearby, which can save military expenses.

"Are you going to refuse?"

Melissa asked curiously.

I have heard of it since I was a child and I still have political sensitivity. It seems that the placement of two standing corpses in the southeastern province is nothing, but in fact, the central government is extending its hands to the local government.

It is easy to ask God to send God to God!

Once these two legions are released and they want to drive people out, it will be difficult.

"They came at a bad time. If it were half a year ago, I wouldn't mind them coming over and mixing the water.

Unfortunately, it's not possible now!

Finally, we eased our relationship with the Dalton family and established a fragile balance. At this time, with the strong dragon inserted, the balance will definitely be broken.

The Dalton family has long regarded the Southeast Province as their back garden, and without any need, people will definitely not put their tentacles in."

Hudson said helplessly.

Previously, Caesar IV also reminded the nobles in the country to give up prejudices and prepare for war with all their hearts. In a blink of an eye, the central government wanted to interfere in local affairs.

Of course, it is not ruled out that this is really considering the safety of the Southeast Province, but the probability is too low.

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Emerald Palace.

"Your Majesty, except for the Earl of Carles and the Earl of Martinez, everyone else refused the Kingdom garrison."

Minister of Military Affairs, Grand Duke Afiero, frowned and reported.

The conscience of heaven and earth, this time the Ministry of Military Affairs wrote a document to strengthen border defense and reduce military expenditures.

Compared with several major grain-producing provinces in the south, the price of grain is 70% or 80% higher than that of the royal capitals that need to adjust grain from other places.

A large number of troops gathered near the royal capital was a burden for the kingdom. With limited military expenditure, the Ministry of Military Affairs had to find ways to reduce expenditure.

However, the painstaking efforts were not understood at all. Except for the provinces of Kovasia and Obera, which were frightened by the Hessians, several other southern Xinjiang provinces did not buy it at all.

"Forget it, let them go! The road is chosen by themselves, and the consequences must be borne by themselves. In the event of a war in the future, they will cry."

Caesar IV said angrily.

The local nobles were worried that he, the king, would use the garrison to intervene in local affairs, but he was really very restrained.

A large province like the Southeast Province, where only two legions are stationed in the army, at most they will gain some say. How can they be qualified to compete for the decision-making power of local affairs?

Unfortunately, no one would believe this when he said it. After all, the political credibility of his king has not yet been established.

"Your Majesty, the garrison is just a small problem. Since they can choose to refuse, it is naturally due to their strength.
To be continued...