Chapter 134: Tree Guards, feel the iron fist from Antolia!
As the banquet ended, most of the nobles gradually dispersed in twos and threes within a few days.
In these days, they had seen the vast farmland of Antolia and experienced the slightly tough customs of this land. They had also seen many creatures that they had never seen before at the previous banquet.
Improve relations +50!
A pleasant banquet +20!
The results of this banquet were quite good and it was a successful team building.
However, what surprised Leon a little was that although the dried meat of the plateau hound or the long legs of the tall monster bird tasted unpalatable, there were still many nobles who were not interested in it. A lot of interest was aroused, and they all asked Aaron, the old butler of the Jimena family, for price consultation.
And this also made Leon suddenly realize a fact that he had always ignored before.
For the nobles, whether it tastes good or bad is secondary. The main reason is that the quantity is scarce, and it can also be used to show off! Show off! !
Things are rare and valuable, especially the long legs of the tall strange bird!
As the most unpalatable food at the banquet, the bird's legs, which are too long and eye-catching, are the ones that the nobles ask for the most.
After a simple grilling, its length was enough to extend from one end of the long table to the other, which perfectly matched the curiosity of the nobles. It also opened up the layout of Leon again, and discovered another one unique to Antolia. A new source of wealth.
In one night alone, the nobles attending the banquet ordered nearly a hundred bird legs, and the price of each bird leg was as high as twenty gold escudo coins, which made everyone including Aaron marvel. .
The nobles are so damn rich!
And as the nobles left one after another, Antolia finally returned to its former peace.
What makes Leon particularly gratified is that after comprehensively considering Leon's proposal, no one decisively chose to fulfill their obligations as a vassal by sending conscripts.
The payment of service fees has become the first and most important system creation since the Jimena family became a great noble.
It has to be said that Leon finally breathed a sigh of relief with the successful implementation of the service payment.
After all, Antolia's next expansion direction is the abandoned land south of the mountains, which is something that needs to be kept strictly confidential under the current situation.
If there are really loyal nobles who have to send levies to serve Leon, then Leon can only let those levies who come to serve in Antolia stay in the land of Antolia forever.
"For Antoria in the future, this can be regarded as a stable new source of wealth."
On the piece of kraft paper placed in front of Leon, Aaron clearly formulated the service fees that each vassal would need to pay. The amount of gold made Leon feel happy and relaxed a lot. It was only at this moment that he realized how happy it was to have vassals under his command.
The respect for status is secondary, the main thing is being able to collect money!
Even if the wealth accumulated by the Bravis family for generations has allowed the Jimena family to experience the feeling of getting rich overnight, there are also many places where Antoria needs to spend money, and it is definitely not possible to just sit back and have nothing.
Even though he knew that money needed to be circulated to obtain more benefits, Leon's hamster attributes made him particularly sensitive to the spending of money.
If there is going in, there must be going out, and if there is going out, there must be going in.
As a lord, Leon needs to take the initiative in and out and maintain balance, so that Antolia can gradually become the shape Leon wants under his rule.
At the same time, only with the inflow of large sums of money can Antoria be able to raise more troops, create more powerful military strength, and make its vassals more loyal and honest during the process of infrastructure construction. He handed over the service money with both hands.
This will undoubtedly be a virtuous cycle of great positive significance!
After all... Although the civil war in the kingdom has ended, and the vast majority of the nobles in the kingdom have returned to the peace they have longed for, this does not mean that the same is true for Antolia.
As the frontier of the kingdom, Leon has its own insistence on the number of troops.
Because Antolia today is facing far more severe threats and challenges than before!
And there’s more than one!
The first is the black mist from the abandoned land.
Why did the Lapruk people fall into food shortages last winter? And why did you choose to be loyal to the Jimena family?
If we trace the origin, the cause is the black mist that gradually poured into this land from the south of the mountains.
The spread of the black mist has seriously affected the traditional hunting grounds of the Lapuluk people. Wild animals in the mountains and forests are also fleeing in all directions after sensing the presence of the black mist, making the tradition of obtaining food through hunting unsustainable.
As a priest of Lapluk, Fast finally made the decision to be loyal to the Jimena family under all kinds of helplessness.
And now, as time goes by, the black mist pouring into Antolia from the south of the mountains is not only gradually increasing, but the scope of its influence is also gradually expanding, and it has even begun to spread to the plains at the foot of the mountains!
Leon didn't know why such a change happened, but what he knew was that if he couldn't solve it as soon as possible, it might not be long before even the newly reclaimed farmland at the foot of the mountain would be affected by the black fog, and even It is very likely to lead to a reduction in food production!
For Antolia, whose population has skyrocketed, the reduction in food production will undoubtedly have a strong impact on Antolia's food security, and may even shake the Jimena family's rule over this land!
This is something Leon will never tolerate!
As for the second challenge, it is naturally the tree people entrenched in the sunken forest.
Prior to this, although the Viscounty of Sunken Wood Forest was occupied by the awakened tree guards, it had no direct impact on Antolia. In addition, the tree guards did not seem to be migrating outside the Sunken Wood Forest. Only then did Ang temporarily ignore the threat from the tree guards.
But now, after the noble banquet that just ended, it has become an indisputable fact that the Sunken Wood Forest will be handed over to Antolia. Then, the tree guards entrenched in the Sunken Wood Forest will naturally become The threat in Leon's eyes.
Leon actually doesn't care about what the tree guards are guarding.
But what he knows is that the living wood dropped from the tree guard is an important magic material for building the shadow manipulator! It’s what Antolia must use if he wants to solve the black fog problem!
So...
it's time for the tree people entrenched in the sunken forest to feel the iron fist from Antolia!
After a brief thought, Leon raised his head and asked quite seriously:
"The troubadour caught earlier is still alive, right?"
(End of Chapter)