Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 145 Crisis in the Harvest Season
The new intelligence reveals quite a bit about the surrounding forces.

The first is the Sweet Kiss Order in Greenfield Village. This village is not very eye-catching and is a bit far away from the Hesse Territory.

If they do not exist naturally, then it means they are the territory of another pioneer lord.

If Su Li wanted to burn down the village, he would inevitably have disputes with the surrounding lords.

After a few months in the territory, he had established a firm foothold and it seemed that it was time to conquer the outside world.

This matter of purifying Chaos Demons is bound to lead to conflict and war.

Because the so-called purification in this world does not involve using holy water to cleanse the evil in the peasants. First of all, this world does not have such a powerful item. Even if it did, the greedy nobles would not waste such a high-value item on lowly, dirty peasants.

The so-called purification in this world often refers to the knights discovering the chaos corruption and burning everything in the village related to the devil to ashes, including farmers, houses, land and all other things that exist in the village.

Just a few minutes after the appearance of the sex-sadist Xia Xier, a large amount of chaos corrosion appeared on all the knights, and the brothel business was booming for many days.

If a remote village is corrupted by Chaos, it means that by the time the knights discover them, it is already too late.

Therefore, the Knights will not allow anyone who may have been exposed to Chaos Corruption to remain.

Of course, this also exacerbated the peasants' distrust of the nobles. For well-known reasons, when the peasants of the empire encountered problems, they always tended to solve them internally and would unite to conceal the existence of the problems from the lords, because the nobles would always take the most brutal and easiest way to solve the problems caused by the peasants.

For the lower classes, this whitewashing approach was a reasonable choice to protect themselves from the powerful, but it also created an illusion in the eyes of the ruling class that the peasants were a group of happy, satisfied, peaceful, and docile... trash who lived a peaceful life. After all, most of the nobles had been indoctrinated with this idea since childhood.

Therefore, when peasants revolted, the nobles would suppress them with great bloodiness, while the rebellious peasants would put up a desperate resistance (although it was useless): from the peasants' perspective, the uprising was a desperate act with no other options left;
But from the perspective of the nobles, they had never heard of any problems that the peasants in their territory encountered and were therefore dissatisfied, so naturally they could not figure out the reasons for the uprising, and therefore attributed the peasant uprising entirely to greed and ingratitude.

It's difficult to tell who's right and who's wrong. In this hopeless world, despair strikes everyone equally. The nobles must ensure Chaos corruption is completely eradicated, and no possibility of omission is tolerated. Because soft-heartedness and false hope often mean even more tragic consequences.

In order to survive, the lower-class people naturally did not dare to expose their problems. For example, during the Battle of Red Cliffs, although the plague had already appeared in Cao's army, the lower-class soldiers did not dare to report the situation in order to survive. As a result, the plague spread widely.

Under the current circumstances of this world, the situation in Green Village has completely deteriorated, but their lord is probably not aware of what has happened in the village.

Moreover, in order to maintain the peaceful image of the village, the sex-torturing demon and his followers will definitely pay sufficient taxes to keep the entire village peaceful and harmonious.

In the eyes of the lord, these were a group of villagers who lived a happy, contented life and lived in peace with the world. He never imagined that they had become so chaotic that they had started various chaotic peace agreements with bighorn beasts, barbarians and mutants.

Of course, for those wise lords, this is actually an important reference for judging whether chaos corrosion has occurred in the territory.

If all the members of a village start to farm diligently, pay all the nineteen taxes on time and in full, and the atmosphere is positive and harmonious, then there is no need to think too much, it must be chaos and corruption, and in all likelihood, it is the followers of sexual abuse who control this place.

However, most lords are foolish and have no wisdom or intelligence, so if the knights suddenly burn down a village corrupted by Chaos, it often means disputes, conflicts, and even war.

Unless the one who burned the village was a famous and renowned God-chosen knight or a legendary knight.

There was no God-chosen Knight in the Hesse Territory, so he could only let the famous Pegasus Knight Fastrick give it a try.

So after finishing his meal, he instructed the High Chamberlain, Hilde, "Arrange a team of knights to follow Fastrik to the village southeast of Mirror Marsh. A Order of Satire lurks there. Have Fastrik purify the Chaos corruption there."

The Chaos corruption here is a bit too serious, and humans have already had sex with orcs.

Even the Fiery Sun Goddess couldn't stand it anymore and bestowed her divine grace. Any force that could purify this area would receive a group of Fiery Sun Goddess's followers, commanded by the divine spirit, to migrate to that territory. Naturally, the Hessen Territory would seize this divine grace.

The immigrant followers of the Sun Goddess are different from the peasant thugs. They are more qualified, loyal and pious.

To make an analogy, peasant thugs belong to the most mediocre gray quality, and are garbage that most territories don't like. Even if they are caught, they will be thrown directly into the slave camp and consumed as cattle and horses.

But the followers of the Sun Goddess were not just trash; they were talented, elite immigrants. Not only were they of higher quality, but they also easily produced elites. These elites were literally elite-level talents, such as elite knights and elite followers.

Therefore, most territories will gladly accept immigrants who are followers of the Sun Goddess, and directly grant them the status of free citizens of the territory.

Purifying an area of ​​chaos corruption would eliminate the risk of chaos spreading, and it would also welcome an immigration of believers of the Sun Goddess. Su Li was certainly willing to do it.

Upon hearing this, Hildreth was surprised and asked, "Lord, are we ready for a foreign war?"

Su Li nodded and said, "The harvest season has arrived, and a good harvest and looting are inevitable. We not only have to plunder a large amount of wealth from other territories, but we also have to deal with looting from other forces."

"You mean the mountain people?" Hildreth was very smart and guessed the key immediately.

The geographical situation of the Hessen Territory is actually quite favorable. The threat in the Blood Pine Forest in the east has just been eliminated. To the west is a vast blank area between power centers, and to the south is the broad Mirror Swamp. Therefore, the only ones who can threaten the territory are the mountain people in the north.

Su Li said appreciatively, "That's right. With demons rampant in the Gray Mountains, I'm afraid the local forces will not be very safe. The Zani people, who are already short of food, will definitely come down the mountain to plunder."

The Zani are the general term used by the Imperials to refer to mountain people. They are roughly the same as country bumpkins, or perhaps even a level lower.

After all, the most famous country bumpkins in the empire are halflings, who carry a strong sense of rusticity and roughness, a fact that the halflings themselves do not deny.

These Zani, manly men with horned helmets, do not fight as a well-trained army, nor do they always gather in a large tribal alliance and obey a great leader until they have to face a considerable force, so usually a small group of raiders rides on ferocious male Uros bulls to launch a raid.

Although the mountaineers were always eventually driven back by the army defending the principality, their cattle ravaged all the farmland in their path. The chaos caused by these invasions was inevitably exploited by various local bandits, who took advantage of every opportunity to rob and plunder.
A Zani tribe of 200 people is already quite large. If their continued invasions fail year after year, they will organize into an alliance tribe and move south.

Su Li also has to consider how to weaken their population.

After all, besides forming an alliance, they have another option, that is, the population is sparse enough, and the bushes in the mountains are enough for them to graze Uros cattle.

Therefore, it is particularly important to catch all the people they rob every time they come down the mountain.

When Su Li was considering which army to send, Minister of Agriculture Fandral came to the manor excitedly.

His wrinkled old face was now twisted together like a blossoming flower. "My Lord, good news! Great news! The wheat fields in our territory have had a huge harvest! An acre of wheat has already been harvested in the threshing floor, and we've harvested a full 190 kilograms of wheat!"

190 pounds?
Su Li was also overjoyed. This figure was already one-third higher than that of the feudal era on Earth! It was equivalent to about a quarter of the output of modern society with chemical fertilizers.

And considering that the wheat fields with blood sacrifices had output increased tenfold, that is, 1900 jin per mu, which means that the output of wheat fields with blood sacrifices was 2 to 3 times higher than that in modern society.

Su Li also temporarily put aside the matter of summer defense three days later, and immediately took Hilde and Fandral and rode out of the manor and came to the farm on the east side of the territory.

Here, endless wheat fields sway gently in the breeze, rolling waves like a golden ocean. The wheat ears hang heavy, each grain plump and strong, heralding a bountiful harvest.

The joy of the harvest even infected the serfs in the fields. Their faces were filled with satisfaction and joy. They were wearing straw hats, holding sickles, and enthusiastically harvesting the wheat in the fields.

In the distance, there were halflings cheering and driving harvesters to quickly harvest wheat in the flat wheat fields. These harvesters pulled by battle rams perfectly suited their characteristics, harvesting heads on the battlefield and harvesting wheat in normal times.

Under Su Li's watchful eyes, they harvested more than 30 acres of wheat fields in less than an hour, with an efficiency equivalent to that of dozens or even hundreds of serfs!

The more than 400 acres of wheat fields here can be harvested in less than half a day.

Fandral smiled broadly and said, "My Lord, the terrain here is flat, and the halfling harvesters are very convenient. We are the first farm to complete the harvest. The serfs in the territory are mainly in the direction of the forest farm, where there are more than a thousand acres of wheat fields. We expect to complete the harvest by tonight. Once all the wheat is harvested, we will have at least 24 kilograms of wheat!"

(End of this chapter)