The left path sequence starts with the animal tamer

As von Willow extracted the national fortune, droughts, locust plagues, floods, and earthquakes occurred from time to time in the Viking Empire, either a drought here or a flood there.

Occasionally, some small natural disasters would occur in the three border counties, but Feng Weiluo was strong and had other territories to supply him with food. As long as there was no shortage of food, everything else would not matter.

However, ever since Feng Willow began to implement land reform, his reputation has been completely ruined. Before that, even though he had undead under his command and even if he used plague to destroy cities, his reputation had always been positive, at least in his country.

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

When these rumors spread, Feng Willow's reputation among the nobles and wealthy businessmen was undoubtedly ruined, and it was these people who held the tongue.

Feng Weiluo didn't care about the reputation at all. He now regarded reputation as dirt and only cared about developing his territory.

Of course, he only made some suggestions, and the specific implementation was still handled by Saiyan and his men.

Although Feng Willow herself has no experience in governance, Saiyan has extensive experience in managing territories over the years, and has trained a large number of officials who can accomplish her wishes.

Many of the policies proposed by Feng Willow were very general, but with Saiyan and his men checking for deficiencies and filling them in, and with Feng Willow having a large amount of food, even if there were occasional natural disasters, no major problems would occur in the territory.

As long as you have food in your hands, you will not worry. No matter when, as long as the price of food in the market remains stable, there will be no major problems.

Even though Feng Willow spent money like water in his territory, he would not suffer any serious loss as he had the support of the territory in the New World.

With money and food, Feng Willow's reform went smoothly. First of all, food, because a large amount of land was distributed to farmers, the farmers who had their own land showed great enthusiasm for work, and many refugees who heard the news rushed over.

The population of the three frontier counties doubled, and there was no shortage of farm tools. Feng Willow asked the government to lend them to the farmers who had just been allocated land. In addition, Feng Willow had the secret skill of calling the wind and rain, which was enough to ensure good weather and good harvests in the territory.

When natural disasters such as drought and floods occur in other places, the three border counties will naturally not be spared. However, when there is drought, Feng Weiluo can simply call the wind and rain to make it rain himself.

It was even easier during the flood. His secret technique of calling the wind and rain could directly blow away the rainy clouds in the sky. As for the locust plague, in front of Feng Weiluo, 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 three border counties had a bumper harvest. Not only was it 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 people's sense of happiness soared.

Happiness is all about contrast. After the harvest, people from the surrounding territories would sneak in 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.

There was not enough arable land for these people to cultivate. Feng Willow was very generous to those who cultivated new land. Not only did he reduce taxes for three years, but he also directly gave them farm tools and seeds.

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

It went very smoothly to do it again. During this year, agriculture in Feng Willow's territory developed greatly, but it was a pity that he failed in business.

The original big factory owners would also buy a large amount of land. After all the land was confiscated by Feng Willow, these big capitalists were afraid that Feng Willow would confiscate their factories as well. So they simply fled to other territories with their families.

As a result, while agriculture developed in Feng Willow's territory, industry and commerce were relatively sluggish. It was not because the factory owners had fled, but because after Feng Willow distributed land on a large scale, the factories could not find enough workers. All of them were shady factories.

What Saiyan'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 have to restart them!" Saiya 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 forced to work in factories, and they will be told that the land has been distributed." Feng Weiluo said after thinking for a while.

Fortunately, the treatment issue in their three border counties had already spread, and many people came upon hearing the news, temporarily ensuring that their territory was not short of population.

But the situation in the surrounding counties was worse. Not to mention workers, there were not even enough people to farm the land, and much of the fertile land that had been developed was left idle.

Not only the common people, but also the slaves purchased by the nobles, all liked to run to Feng Willow's territory. Some people spread the word secretly that as long as they ran into the three border counties, they could completely get rid of their slave status.

That’s right, it was Feng Willow who sent people to spread the news, otherwise the news would not have spread so quickly.

"Professor, the lords from the Snow Empire came to protest and warned us not to accept any more slaves and subjects from their side. Otherwise, they will regard it as a provocation." Saiya reported to Feng Willow.

"Get them out! Tell them that there are no subjects or slaves of theirs in our territory. They are all our subjects!" Feng Willow replied very firmly.

"...Um, Professor, will answering like this lead to a war? Should we 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. However, the national fortune consumed is definitely not enough for the Viking Empire to make ends meet. The large amount of national fortune consumed will not only bring various natural disasters, but also man-made disasters. Friction and war with neighboring countries are also one of the results that will be caused by the consumption of national fortune.

"Don't pay attention to them, just say what I say! Tell them, if they don't accept it, let's fight!" Feng Weiluo thought about it and decided to continue to be tough.

He wanted to show the emperor and nobles of the Viking Empire how well his territory had developed under his policies. If war came, he could still get some benefits from the Viking Empire, both in terms of people and supplies.

When the whole country was impoverished by natural disasters and man-made calamities, only his three frontier counties were the best developed and the richest. Perhaps Kenlohag and the group of nobles would want to reform.

Feng Weiluo's unexpectedly tough response made the nobles of the Snowy Empire a little confused, even though they knew that the lord of the three border counties was Feng Weiluo, the legendary number one master.

But I didn’t expect Feng Weiluo to be so tough!

"What did you say? The Viking Empire is in such a state, yet it still dares to respond to us so harshly? How about we unite with several other lords nearby and teach them a lesson together?" a noble lord suggested.

"It's useless unless the country is willing to take action. Otherwise, even if several lords nearby come together, they will be beaten by Grand Duke von Willow. He can release the plague." The lord who said this said with sympathy, and it was obvious that he had suffered at the hands of von Willow.

Von Willow had released a plague in the Viking Empire, but he himself did not know who the victims were. However, many nobles had been harmed by the plague.

"So we're just going to let him absorb our subjects like this? I don't know what's going on over there, but nobody's cultivating the good farmland here, and someone's constantly trying to persuade my subjects and slaves to flee. And they're even helping them to flee.

If this situation cannot be stopped, my territory will be ruined. I suggest that we unite to fight against the Grand Duke of Von Willow first. If we cannot defeat him, we can unite to ask for help from the Empire!" said a noble lord.

A typical case of killing first and asking for help later, just start a fight, and then ask for help from the Snowland Empire when you are being beaten. Provoke a war first, so that the Snowland Empire has to admit the fact of the war, and drag the Snowland Empire into the same fate.

The Snowland Empire couldn't just sit there and watch its territory being invaded. As the strongest country on the continent, the Snowland Empire couldn't afford to lose face.

"Okay, let's do this. At least we have to make Grand Duke von Willow restrain himself and stop absorbing our subjects and slaves so blatantly." said the noble lord who spoke first.

In fact, they all knew that in the current situation on the continent, the dark underground world had been occupied by the evil god sect, which might counterattack the continent at any time. In this case, if there were no special reasons, the Snow Empire would never easily launch a large-scale war against the Viking Empire, which was also a human country.

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

Not only the nobles of the Snowy Empire were frustrated, but also the nobles of the Anerfa Empire were frustrated. They were even more frustrated than those of the Snowy Empire.

The nobles of the Snowland Empire could still think of a solution, but the nobles of the Anerfa Empire, even if they suffered a loss, did not dare to be tough when sending envoys.

Because Grand Duke Feng Weiluo was also the Grand Duke of their Anerfa Empire. His Majesty the Emperor had issued an order long ago that Grand Duke Feng Weiluo must not be offended. Whoever offended him would be punished. In other words, if they were bullied by Feng Weiluo, these nobles of the Anerfa Empire would not even have a place to reason.

As for the lords of the Viking Empire bordering the three border counties, their situation was even worse. After all, whether Feng Willo was recruiting people from the Snow Empire or the Anerfa Empire, he was still somewhat restrained.

After all, the Snowland Empire was still the world's most powerful country, and the Anerfa Empire still had some friendship with it. 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 worthy of Feng Willow's fear. Then what Feng Willow did was much more excessive.

Not only did he send out a propaganda team to carry out large-scale propaganda, but the lord here wanted to prevent his slaves and subjects from leaving, so Feng Willo directly dispatched troops to support them and smashed the checkpoints that were blocking the road.

All the subjects and slaves fled in groups. It didn't matter whether there were natural disasters or man-made disasters. For these nobles, Feng Willow was the most serious man-made disaster.

They couldn't beat him, and they couldn't complain to him because his title and status were too high. It's not that 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 of this year have made Kenlohag very anxious. He also wants to be an effective emperor. He also wants to work hard and lead the Viking Empire to become the world's most powerful country again.

Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned. Over the past year or so, the Viking Empire has been hit by natural disasters and man-made calamities. It's not that Kenlohag didn't work hard, but that God didn't give him a chance. He has tried very hard, but the situation of the empire is indeed getting worse and worse.

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

This is a man-made disaster, which is much more damaging than any natural disaster. Kenlohag must be very dissatisfied with what Feng Willow did, but the country is in this state now, and he dare not fall out with Feng Willow. If he falls out now, the country may be destroyed again.

Even if he could restore his country in the future, would he still be the emperor? Of course, the fact that he couldn't beat Feng Willow was also a factor.

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)