Chapter 3 Burnt Earl Stark

Earl Stark has been feeling very unhappy recently, and even a little overwhelmed.

It has been more than three months since he took over as Earl of Summer and became the lord of Bangta City, but he has not been able to do anything he wants to do so far.

Before coming to Bangta City, he thought it was overkill for the family to let him be the city lord.

In his opinion, the problem of Bangta City is simply a piece of cake. If you send someone casually, even if it is to let Baron Billier, who he has always regarded as a child in Bangta City, solve it without any difficulty. .

He eventually came only because Bonta City was now the center of the rivalry between the two factions within the kingdom of Lampari.

The Stark family paid a great price to finally win the position of the city lord, and naturally there is no room for loss.

Bangta City is just a small city, and it is of course impossible to directly let Duke Stark serve as the city owner.

As the younger brother of Duke Stark, he has the absolute trust of Duke Stark, and because he is older and more stable and mature, it is naturally easy to make people feel at ease.

Before that, Earl Stark was also very assured of himself, because he felt that he could accomplish the family's goals well, and proved to everyone that making Bangta a city with agriculture as its foundation is definitely better than becoming a A city dominated by commerce is much more important.

But after he really took charge of Bangta City, except for the surprisingly smooth start to deal with the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, everything he wanted to do was not smooth.

The first thing he did after he came to Bangta City was to re-evaluate the land situation in Bangta City, and with the implementation of this impeccable policy, he drove the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce out of Sangqiton Manor, and let Xu Yi even Not even a fart.

However, he implemented this policy not just to drive away the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, but he really planned to use this policy to re-count the land use situation around Bangta City, so as to take advantage of the autumn harvest to take advantage of all the land in Bangta City. of arable land has been measured and reclaimed, resulting in a substantial increase in yields during the fall harvest.

However, when he got the measurement results, he almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

Because according to the results of measurement statistics. Now Bangta City has actually reclaimed all the arable land within Bangta City, and there is not even one hectare of idle land!

In this way, it also means that he cannot make a fuss about the reclaimed land area at all, causing the grain production in Bangta City to skyrocket. Thus lost the possibility of creating this greatest credit.

On the contrary, if the grain he harvested in this autumn harvest did not meet the standard of last year's autumn harvest in Bangta City, or even worse, it would mean that he had completely failed as the city owner this time.

Don't say that he will live up to the expectations of the entire family, and even cause the Stark family to be questioned by other great nobles in the same faction.

What's more, if he can't achieve results and can't prove that Bonta City under his rule can create better results than when the Earl of Summer was in power, then His Majesty the King can have enough reasons to reject them. A group of nobles proposed to vigorously promote commercial development in the kingdom.

In this way, including the Stark family. Prestige within the kingdom is bound to be greatly affected.

And this is the most unacceptable thing for the nobles of their faction.

So even though he wanted to vomit blood in his heart, Count Stark still tried his best to find the possibility of improving his grades.

It is impossible to make more farmland out of thin air, so the only space left for efforts is manpower.

However, when planning for a solution on the manpower issue, Count Stark made a big joke.

Statistics through measurement. Earl Stark discovered that there was a Cantona Chamber of Commerce in Bonta City, and actually got the farmland they had originally rented from a large number of farmers outside the city, and contracted it all for farming.

According to the statistics in the city lord's mansion, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce now actually owns farmland sub-leased from as many as 746 farmers, with a total area of ​​more than 20 hectares. The territory of the city is much larger!

After seeing this question, Count Stark's eyes suddenly lit up.

The Cantona Chamber of Commerce does not have any aristocratic background. It is not only extremely unreasonable to actually hold so much arable farmland in hand, it can even be said to be outrageous!

So Earl Stark unceremoniously ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce through the City Lord's Mansion to immediately return these lands to those farmers to ensure that those farmers have farmland to rent.

Earl Stark thought that what he did would definitely be supported by everyone, because in his opinion, this Cantona Chamber of Commerce must have some improper relationship with the previous city owner, Earl Summer. With the power of the Earl of Summer, the farmers were forced to hand over the farmland they rented to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce.

For all the ordinary farmers in the Lampari Kingdom, the farmland they rent is their only hope to support their families. If there is no such farmland, these ordinary farmers may only starve to death.

Therefore, Earl Stark felt that what he did was really righteous. Be confident and ready to receive compliments and advocacy from everyone.

However, the fact surprised him completely.

When he ordered the Cantona Chamber of Commerce to return the farmland to the farmers, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce protested against it, claiming that the farmland it rented had been reviewed and approved by the City Lord’s Office, without any procedural problems, and was completely legal. If the City Lord's Mansion ordered him to return the farmland, it must give a reasonable reason.

Count Stark is of course prepared for the Cantona Chamber of Commerce's protest. The agreement signed with the former city lord has nothing to do with the current city lord. All agreements signed with the city lord's mansion will be automatically invalidated, and all agreements must be reconsidered before deciding whether to approve or not. The reason pond was plugged back.

However, the reason for this reply to the Cantona Chamber of Commerce was directly spread out by the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, so not only the "Banta Daily" but also other newspapers in Bangta City and several surrounding cities followed. Times were reported.

This trivial matter, which Earl Stark seems to be not worth mentioning at all, has caused a stir in Bonta City and several surrounding cities in a short period of time, and the reason for supporting Earl Stark is almost a nothing.

Even the nobles in Bonta City who, in the eyes of Earl Stark, should definitely stand on the same front as him, were silent on this matter, and even some nobles expressed their opposition in a subtle way.

The commoners other than the nobles reacted more intensely to this incident.

After the "Bonta Daily" reported this incident, countless chambers of commerce in Bangta City and even several surrounding cities poured into the City Lord's Mansion, asking Earl Stark to re-audit the agreement signed by the two parties.

Many chambers of commerce even euphemistically or simply expressed it very clearly to Earl Stark because of Earl Stark's actions. They have lost their trust in the City Lord's Mansion of Bangta City. The agreement signed by the two parties was immediately voided, and they demanded that the City Lord's Mansion immediately settle all the issues of distribution of interests between the two parties.

For this situation, Count Stark did not expect it. When he asked the city lord's mansion officer to count all the chambers of commerce that had agreements with the city lord's mansion, he was shocked to find that there were as many as seventy-three chambers of commerce that had signed various agreements with the city lord's mansion of Bangta City, led by Earl Samo. !

The 73 chambers of commerce carry a wide range of products, from the ongoing riverbank renovation project on the Sandy River to a rag used in the kitchen of the City Lord's Mansion.

If the agreement signed by these chambers of commerce and the City Lord's Mansion is invalidated and all transactions with the City Lord's Mansion are stopped, then Bangta City will be paralyzed almost instantly.

At this time, Earl Stark realized that he had done an extremely stupid thing, which caused him and all the affairs officers in the city lord's mansion to fall into extreme chaos.

Actually, seriously. It's not his stupidity either.

Because according to the experience of other places in the Lampari Kingdom, no Chamber of Commerce dares to directly confront the City Lord's Mansion, because for the Lord of a City, a small Chamber of Commerce is nothing at all.

But Bangta City is completely different from the rest of the Lampari Kingdom.

Almost every chamber of commerce in this city dares to grin at the city lord's mansion for their own interests, and fight for it.

Small chambers like the Cantona Chamber of Commerce. Count Stark would never take it seriously, but in the face of the reasons given by Count Stark at will, the Cantona Chamber of Commerce did not choose to swallow it up and obey, but risked angering Count Stark. risk, directly exposing this matter to the public.

More importantly, the newspaper industry in Bangta City and several surrounding cities is extremely developed. Any trivial matter will be published in the newspaper and be known to everyone, not to mention such a powerful news.

When everything was clearly exposed in front of everyone, Earl Stark naturally did not dare to use brutal force to directly suppress the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, and he had to deal with the other seventy-three large and small chambers of commerce. Require.

However... if I really want to say it, in the whole thing, the reaction is most out of Count Stark's. But those ordinary farmers.

Earl Stark thought that he helped these ordinary farmers take back the farmland that originally belonged to them from the Cantona Chamber of Commerce, and these ordinary farmers would definitely be grateful to him.

Unexpectedly, when the affairs officer he sent notified these farmers that they would regain their farmland, they were without exception met with a cold face, and some farmers even directly scolded them for being nosy.

more exaggerated. On the other hand, several peasant households were deeply angry about this, and shouted that the city lord's mansion did not care about the lives of these ordinary peasant households, and that Earl Stark was not worthy of being the city lord.

In the face of other people's doubts and opposition, Earl Stark can comfort himself that the guys don't understand him at all, but in the face of the scolding from the most simple and unadorned ordinary farmers, he is no longer calm. Can't get up.

He didn't understand that he helped these ordinary farmers regain the farmland that they could live on, but how would they react like this?

Could it be that... these farmers don't want farmland?