How can there be such a shameless rule!

This bad habit must be abolished! So——

Zhang Feng chose to compromise.

In life, there are always some things that you have to do.

I now represent the privileged class, and I cannot revolutionize myself.

As the saying goes, there is no order without rules.

Therefore, some rules still need to be followed, and Zhang Feng, as a noble, must set an example!

"There were no objections from the civilians?"

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"We don't have many soldiers in Hongye City. Originally, we had 6 knights and 120 soldiers. But because the former city officials and four other knights took away the food and a large number of soldiers that had been stored for more than half a year, we now only have two knights and 20 soldiers..."

"Asking for help from other nobles is one way, but I think it's better to hope that these cunning merchants will have a change of heart than to expect those arrogant and selfish nobles to help us..."

After all, Zhang Feng has only been in this world for a few days. Although he has some ideas about the situation in Hongye City, he may not be able to adapt to the local environment. It might be better if he could combine the ideas of these local people.

Besides, hunting is an uncertain event. If there are not many prey, and the castle is occupied by others, Zhang Feng will suffer a great loss. After all, he bought it with a bottle of beer and a few compressed biscuits! "Let's put this method aside for now. Are there any other methods?"

"Have you assembled yet?"

Zhang Feng already had some ideas in mind, but he still asked again: "Besides this method, is there any other way?"

Well, this Red Leaf City is still an autonomous region! "Then why don't you ask the king for help?"

"Can two knights and 20 soldiers defend Red Leaf City?"

Zhang Feng still had some expectations for hunting. After all, he had seen it in TV dramas and he really wanted to experience it, but now was obviously not the right time.

Hongye City is only the most prosperous place in his territory at present. In addition to Hongye City, there are many villages in Zhang Feng’s territory that serve Zhang Feng as their master.

"The food shortage problem, apart from some unexpected reasons, is mainly because Hongye City has no money. Have you ever thought about making money?"

"I think we can gather soldiers to go hunting in the Black Market Forest. If we can catch a certain amount of prey, it will also ease the situation in Red Leaf City."

The easiest way to measure the strength of a force is to see how many knights and soldiers it has.

Caroline lowered her eyes, and her cold voice trembled slightly.

Caroline's tone was somewhat ashamed. If she had known that these ungrateful bastards would leave and take so many things with them, she would never have let them leave so easily. She herself was also partly responsible for the current situation in Red Leaf City.

"Well, Red Leaf City is indeed pretty bad."

"Almost nothing. The main reason is that they don't have much food in stock, and our City Lord's Mansion can't distribute food. Even if they want to eat two meals a day, they don't have any food..."

"We are too far away from the capital. Even if the king agrees to help us, by the time they arrive, winter will be over..."

A village has at least 10 to 20 people, and at most over a hundred people. These people don’t seem to have much to do with Hongye City now, but part of their food comes from Hongye City. If Hongye City has no food, their situation will not be good either.

"Ahem, what did you say? Only one meal a day, or the law?"

"That's all I can think of for now..."

Zhang Feng guessed that this was another bad news.

Zhang Feng asked with some confusion.

Zhang Feng felt a little annoyed, and then asked:

"Red Leaf City still has no way out of its predicament. I have previously issued a law stipulating that each person can only eat one meal a day—"

Zhang Feng almost choked on his saliva. What kind of weird law is this? As a citizen of a country that loves gourmet food, Zhang Feng feels that three meals a day are a bit too little. If he wasn't afraid of gaining weight, he would be willing to eat five meals a day.

Zhang Feng waved his hand. As a noble, he would never do such a degrading thing. Even if they wanted to talk, they had to take the initiative to talk.

Zhang Feng coughed dryly twice. He remembered that three days ago, the situation in Hongye City didn’t seem very good. He wondered if Caroline and the others had made any adjustments in the past three days.

After all, Hongye City is his own base camp. In this era, conflicts between forces are very common. There are conflicts between nobles, conflicts between nobles and horse thieves, and even conflicts between nobles of one's own country and soldiers of other countries.

"Well, no, because Blackrock Forest is your private property. Soldiers can only go hunting with your consent. And..."

Zhang Feng believed that if those businessmen were not stupid, they would definitely not lend food to Caroline, because they did not see the benefits. The current prospects of Hongye City were not good.

"And what?"

Moreover, even if they could borrow food, he didn't think Hongye City could survive the crisis.

"Ah? How do you know? It's true that no one is willing to lend us money, but I think if you go, they will definitely give you face."

Caroline was a little surprised. She had just gone to negotiate with those big businessmen yesterday, but she didn't expect Zhang Feng to have guessed it. However, she thought that after all, she was not the city lord. If Zhang Feng went, those businessmen would definitely not give him a perfunctory response.

"So do you have any plans or ideas?"

"Please, please move to the castle, my lord."

"Or ask for help from the superior lord, but we don't have a superior lord. We only obey the king. Because our Red Leaf City is too remote. It has been independent many years ago. No noble lord is willing to have us as a burden..."

"Red Leaf City can barely hold on..."

Caroline blushed slightly and answered a little embarrassedly. In fact, these were the results of discussions between him, Knight Marlowe and Lady Blanche.

Before Caroline finished her words, Zhang Feng already knew what she meant. If he wanted to go to the Black Market Forest to hunt, Hongye City would be empty. Although Hongye City was a remote place with almost no horse thieves, Zhang Feng did not want to take the risk.

Caroline sat respectfully beside Zhang Feng. When she mentioned Hongye City, her tone was a little sad.

"Well, no problem, no problem. First, tell me what's going on in Red Leaf City. Sit down and tell me."

"You should have tried this method before? Did it fail?"

Zhang Feng just took a quick look. Although he was just a baron with a fiefdom, this fiefdom was not small.

If you have enough gold coins, what food can't you buy?

"Make money? Do you mean raise taxes?"

Caroline was shocked. In her impression, the way nobles made money was nothing more than war and taxation. The current Red Leaf City certainly had no way to compete with others for territory, so the only thing left was taxation.

She was afraid that Zhang Feng would raise taxes, so she tried to stop him in a tactful way.

"The civilians in Hongye City are already living in great difficulty. If the taxes are raised further, I'm afraid they would rather become refugees than stay in Hongye City anymore..."