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Chapter 91 - 91 88 Taking Advantage of a Crisis_3

91: Chapter 88, Taking Advantage of a Crisis_3 91: Chapter 88, Taking Advantage of a Crisis_3 “Baron Katelai, you really do not need to worry too much about the issue of your domain people.

If you’re short of grain and cannot take care of so many people, you could ask your neighbours for help!

Your territory’s lack of grain is due to the large population.

If everyone helps share the burden together, it really won’t be a big problem.”

Hudson said this without changing his expression.

Though it was somewhat unethical to take advantage of their predicament, he couldn’t wait when interests were at stakes.

Even if Hudson didn’t play the villain, someone else would.

Weakening the power of the Northern aristocracy was already a consensus among the native nobles.

Until their objective is achieved, the Northerners would not have any peace.

Without the consent of the native nobles, even if they could manage to buy grain from outside, they would not be able to bring it in.

As far as Hudson knew, several nobles had already announced an increase in the transit tax on goods.

For any goods heading towards the nobles of the North, the tax would be doubled and then doubled again.

Some lords had even announced a ninety-nine percent tax in kind.

It was almost a total confiscation.

Unless there were some unexpected occurrences, many of the goods they had ordered would not arrive for a long time.

“Baron Hudson, don’t you think it’s too much to make such a demand to a noble lord?

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A furious Katelai challenged.

If looks could kill, Hudson would be full of wounds.

Unfortunately, looks are just looks.

Though Baron Katelai’s might was slightly stronger than him, this was still the Mountain Domain.

“Please calm down, Baron Katelai!”

“We are all intelligent people, and there’s no need to hide anything.

You should understand why the current situation arose.

When you first arrived, although we did not welcome you, we did not target you either.

Taking back your own domain people wasn’t wrong in itself.

The problem was you were too greedy, not only taking back your own domain people, but also seizing the people of your neighbours.”

Let’s not talk about other nobles for now, only the number of domain people in Maple Domain has already exceeded six thousand, hasn’t it?

We can do some calculations here.

Maple Town was one of the agricultural towns in Layton County.

Before the Skeleton Society rebellion broke out, the town had over eighteen thousand people.

Maple Domain inherited a third of Maple Town’s area, at its peak, the domain had nearly six thousand people.

Please do not tell me that during the rebellion of the Skeleton Society, which involved two counties, Maple Domain was not affected at all?

With a little investigation, one would know that a large portion of these people were not locals, but people moved from neighbouring domains by their previous lords.

As far as I know, one unlucky baron had moved half the population of his knight’s territory, and now his domain barely has a shadow of people.”

Hudson unabashedly exposed the truth.

The nobles of the North had indeed restrained their desires and only severely punished those who had previously led soldiers to seize people, and did not provoke public anger.

The problem was that they played too badly, even digging up the roots of the leek for others, doing the same thing as the previous gang.

Double standards exist everywhere.

When the native nobles did so, nobody found it inappropriate.

But when the nobles of the North followed suit, everybody immediately felt uncomfortable.

Many factors combined led to the current situation.

If Baron Katelai hadn’t taken the initiative to ask, Hudson wouldn’t have stepped into this muddy water.

Because these migrated domain people were too tricky, even if he managed to get them, it would be difficult to digest.

“How many people do you want?”