Chapter 293 The Whole Country Is Poor, but I Am the only One Who Is Rich

As Feng Willow extracted national fortune, drought, locust plague, flood, and earthquake occurred from time to time in the Viking Empire. Either drought occurred here or flood occurred there.

Occasionally, some small natural disasters occurred in the three border counties, but Feng Willow was strong and had other territories to supply blood. When there was no shortage of food, the others were nothing.

However, since Feng Willow began to implement land reform, his reputation has been completely stinking. Before, even if he had undead under his command, even if he used plague to destroy the city, his reputation has always been positive, at least in his country.

But now, in the Viking Empire, his reputation has been completely ruined, such as robbing the rich families in the territory and confiscating the land of the nobles.

These reputations spread out, which undoubtedly completely ruined Feng Willow's reputation among the nobles and wealthy businessmen, and it was these people who controlled the mouthpiece.

For some problems with reputation, Feng Willow didn't care at all. Now he regards reputation as dirt, and is only concerned with developing the territory.

Of course, he only makes some suggestions, and the specific implementation is still handled by Sai Ya and his subordinates.

Although Feng Weiluo herself has no experience in governance, Sai Ya has rich experience in managing territories over the years, and her subordinates have trained a large number of officials who can complete the tasks according to her wishes.

Many of the policies proposed by Feng Weiluo are very general, but with Sai Ya and his subordinates checking for deficiencies and filling in the gaps, and Feng Weiluo has a large amount of food in his hands, even if he encounters natural disasters occasionally, there will be no major problems in the territory.

With food in hand, there is no need to panic. No matter when, as long as the price of food on the market is stable, there will be no major problems.

Although Feng Weiluo spends money like water in the territory, he will not be hurt by the blood supply from the territory on the New World.

With money and food, Feng Weiluo's reforms went on very smoothly. The first is food. Because a large amount of land was distributed to farmers, the farmers who had their own land showed a high enthusiasm for work, and many refugees who heard the news rushed over.

The population of the three border counties doubled, and there was no shortage of various farm tools. Feng Willow directly asked the government to lend them to the farmers who had just been allocated land. In addition, Feng Willow had the secret technique of calling the wind and rain, which was enough to make the territory prosperous.

When droughts, floods and other natural disasters occurred in other places, the three border counties naturally could not escape, but when there was a drought, Feng Willow directly used the secret technique of calling the wind and rain to make it rain.

It was even simpler during floods. His secret technique of calling the wind and rain could directly blow away the dark clouds that were raining in the sky. As for the locust plague, in front of Feng Willow, who had been a plague messenger, the small locusts could still be affected by the plague, and they died faster under the plague.

In just one year, Feng Willow's territory, the three border counties, had a bumper harvest. Not only was there a bumper harvest of grain, but Feng Willow also gained the hearts of the people.

Lord Feng Willow not only distributed land to ordinary civilians, but also gave their children the opportunity to study for free. Especially compared with the surrounding territories, the happiness of the people has risen sharply.

Happiness is compared. After the harvest, people from the surrounding territories have been secretly running here from time to time. Feng Willow accepted everyone, whether they were from the Snowland Empire, the Anerfa Empire, or other territories of the Viking Empire, Feng Willow accepted them all and allocated land to them.

If there is not enough arable land, these people can be reclaimed. For those who reclaim new fields, Feng Willow is also very generous. Not only will the tax be exempted for three years, but also farm tools and seeds will be directly attached.

After entering the slack season, Saiya began to organize people to build water conservancy very skillfully. Saiya was already familiar with these things when he was in the New World.

It was also very smooth to do it again. In this year, agriculture in Feng Willow's territory has developed greatly, but unfortunately it has failed in business.

The original big factory owners also bought a large amount of land. After these lands were confiscated by Feng Willow, these big capitalists were afraid that Feng Willow would confiscate their factories as well. They simply ran away to other territories with their families.

As a result, while agriculture developed in Feng Willow's territory, industry and commerce were relatively sparse. It was not because the factory owners ran away, but because after Feng Willow distributed land on a large scale, the factories could not find enough workers. They were all black-hearted factories.

What Sai Ya's team is doing now is actually similar to what they did in the New World, and they have not considered the issue of industrial production.

"Professor, what should we do now? We can't let those factories be abandoned, we must restart them!" Sai Ya asked Feng Willow.

"What else can we do? Improve the treatment of workers! At least it needs to be higher than the income from farming, otherwise no one will be willing to be a worker. The refugees who come later will be taken to work in the factory and told that the land has been distributed." Feng Weiluo thought for a while and said.

Fortunately, the treatment problem of their three border counties has been spread, and many people have come here after hearing the news, so that their territory is not short of population for the time being.

However, the surrounding counties are more miserable. Not to mention workers, there are not enough people to farm, and many of the developed fertile fields are left uncultivated.

Not only civilians, but also slaves purchased by nobles, like to run to Feng Willow's territory. Someone spread the news secretly that as long as they run into the three border counties, they can completely get rid of their slave status.

That's right, Feng Willow sent people to spread the news, otherwise the news would not spread so quickly.

"Professor, the lords of the Snowy Empire came to protest and warned us not to accept slaves and subjects from them. Otherwise, they will regard it as a provocation to them." Saiya reported to Feng Willow.

"Let them go! Tell them that there are no subjects and slaves in our territory. They are all our subjects!" Feng Willow replied very toughly.

"... Uh, professor, will this answer lead to war? Should I be more tactful?" Saiya suggested carefully.

After Saiya said this, Feng Willow remembered that he had extracted a large amount of national fortune from the Viking Empire in the past year to refine the magic weapon Fire Crow Pot. It has not been refined yet.

But the national fortune consumed is definitely not enough for the Viking Empire. The massive consumption of national fortune will not only bring various natural disasters, but also man-made disasters. Frictional wars with neighboring countries are also one of the results of the consumption of national fortune.

"Don't pay attention to them, just say what I say! Tell them, if you don't accept it, just fight!" Feng Willow thought about it and chose to continue to be tough.

He wanted to let the emperor of the Viking Empire and those nobles see how well his territory has developed under his policies. Once the war comes, he can still get wool from the Viking Empire. Ask for people and materials.

When the whole country is impoverished due to natural disasters and man-made disasters, only his three frontier counties have developed the best and the richest. Maybe Kenlohag and the group of nobles will want to reform.

Feng Willow's unexpectedly tough reply made the nobles of the Snowland Empire a little confused, even though they knew that the lord of the three frontier counties was Feng Willow, the legendary first master.

But I didn't expect Feng Willow to be so tough!

"What did you say? The Viking Empire is in such a state, and they dare to respond to us so harshly? Should we unite with other lords nearby and teach them a lesson?" A noble lord suggested.

"It's useless. Unless the country is willing to take action, we will be beaten by Grand Duke von Willow if we go together. He can release the plague." The lord who said this said with sympathy, obviously he had suffered from von Willow.

von Willow released the plague in the Viking Empire, and he himself didn't know who the victims were. Anyway, many nobles have been harmed by the plague.

"Then we will just let him absorb our subjects like this? I don't know what's going on over there, but no one is cultivating the good farmland here, and someone is constantly tempting my subjects and slaves to escape. And they are helping them escape.

If this situation cannot be stopped, my territory will be abandoned. I suggest that we should unite and fight against the Grand Duke Feng Wei Luo first. If we can't win, we will unite and ask for help from the empire!" A noble lord suggested.

A typical act of killing first and asking for help later, just fight first, and then ask for help from the Snowland Empire when you are beaten by the head. Provoke the war first, so that the Snowland Empire has to admit the fact of the war, and drag the Snowland Empire to the end.

The Snowland Empire can't just watch its territory being invaded and remain indifferent. And as the strongest country on the continent, the Snowland Empire can't afford to lose that person.

"Okay, let's do it this way, at least let the Grand Duke Feng Wei Luo restrain himself a little, and never absorb our subjects and slaves so blatantly again." said the noble lord who spoke first.

In fact, they all know that the current situation on the continent is that the underground dark world has been occupied by the evil god sect and may counterattack the continent at any time. In this case, if there is no special reason, the Snowland Empire will never easily launch a large-scale war against the Viking Empire, which is also a human country.

But their purpose is only to deter Feng Weiluo so that he dare not bully them so unscrupulously.

Not only the nobles on the Snowland Empire side are frustrated, but also the nobles on the Anerfa Empire side. They are more frustrated than the Snowland Empire.

The nobles on the Snowland Empire side can still think of a way. And the nobles on the Anerfa Empire side, even if they suffer a loss, dare not send envoys to be tough.

Because the Grand Duke Feng Weiluo is also the Grand Duke of their Anerfa Empire. His Majesty the Emperor has long issued an order that the Grand Duke Feng Weiluo must not be offended. Whoever offends him must be dealt with. In other words, after being bullied by Feng Weiluo, these nobles of the Anerfa Empire have no place to reason.

As for the lords of the Viking Empire bordering the three frontier counties, it was even worse. After all, whether Feng Willow was recruiting people from the Snowy Empire or the Anerfa Empire, he was still somewhat restrained.

After all, the Snowy Empire was still the world's number one power, and the Anerfa Empire still had some incense. So Feng Willow just sent people to bribe the locals to spread the word, and he didn't expect the effect to be very good.

But for these nobles in the Viking Empire, Feng Willow had no mercy on them. Their strength was not worth Feng Willow's fear. Then Feng Willow was much more excessive.

Not only did they send a propaganda team to carry out large-scale propaganda, but the lords here wanted to stop their slaves and subjects from leaving, so Feng Willow sent out troops to support them and smashed the checkpoints.

The subjects and slaves all ran away in groups. It didn't matter whether there were natural disasters or man-made disasters. Now for these nobles, Feng Willow was the most serious man-made disaster.

They couldn't beat him, and they didn't have a higher title or status than him. They didn't complain to the higher authorities, and some powerful nobles even sent letters of grievance directly to Kenlohag, but so what?

The natural disasters and man-made disasters this year have made Kenlohag very anxious. He also wanted to be an emperor who could achieve something, and he also thought about working hard to lead the Viking Empire to become the world's most powerful country again.

However, the heavens do not fulfill people's wishes. In the past year or so, the Viking Empire has been hit by natural and man-made disasters. It's not that Kenlohag didn't work hard, but that God didn't give him a chance. He has worked very hard, but the situation of the empire is indeed getting worse and worse.

Kenlohag was of course angry when he received the complaint letter from the nobles. He saw that Feng Willow not only sent troops to rob people, but also robbed farmers and slaves, and directly broke the city gates and robbed the workers and their families in the city. Several nobles who were close to Feng Willow's territory suffered heavy losses.

This is a man-made disaster, which is much greater than the losses caused by any natural disaster. Kenlohag must be very dissatisfied with what Feng Willow did, but he didn't dare to fall out with Feng Willow because the country is like this now. If he falls out now, he may perish again.

Even if he can restore the country in the future, will he, Kenlohag, sit on the throne of the emperor? Of course, there must be the factor of not being able to beat Feng Willow.

He had personally witnessed the situation in which Feng Willow alone defeated the Behemoth Squad on the battlefield. Korg, who was even more powerful than him, had died at Feng Willow's hands. He did not think that he could defeat Feng Willow. (End of this chapter)