In the days leading up to her search for the ruins, Tilly’s greatest interest was to stroll down the flat streets of the border town and observe the remote territory that has changed dramatically in the hands of Roland Lords.

It was a different town, she thought, the more carefully observed, the stronger the feeling.It’s very different from anywhere she’s been to... and what impressed her the most was probably the incomparable vibrancy of the town.

Even the emerging sleeping island cannot be compared to it.

“Are these people not afraid of freezing?”Looking at the pedestrians who came and went in the streets, Andrea was curious, "What good did your brother do to make them willing to come out in the winter?"

"It's mid-autumn," Ashes, "you won't even be able to tell the seasons."

"But it is no different from winter, which is an analogy, which often appears in Her Dreams, His Country," Andrea elegantly raised her long hair, "of course, the savages will not understand."

“What is your dream?”

“Look, people who don’t have a vulgarity who have never admired a play are difficult to communicate with.Lord Tiley must have seen this famous play from the Morning Kingdom."

"Don't argue," Hilvi sighed, "I think the reason is probably very simple, the winter civilians do not want to move because of large consumption, not enough to eat, easy to infect the wind and cold, but these problems do not exist in small towns."The price of food here is not high, the firewood is also very abundant, and Miss Lily can cure the wind and cold, so they will work hard against the cold wind and snow - one more day can get a day's pay."

"There is enough firewood, I can understand, the west is the hidden forest, the surrounding forest is also a lot, the price of food is not high ... how is this possible?" 」Andrea wondered, "My family has also been involved in the sale of food, such as the disaster caused by the harvest of production cuts, everyone will raise the price of food very high."In bad weather like this, nobles and merchants can't sell high prices, right?"

“The nobles?The businessman?”He said, “There is only one person here who is allowed to buy and sell food, and that is His Highness Roland.”

“Is the farmland on the river all his industry?”Tilly frowned.

“No, it is the land of the serfs,” she recounted what she had seen and heard here, as well as the scene of the harvest, “he set two prices for food, one for the purchase price and the other for the sale, both of which were fixed, and the latter higher than the former.”

“Isn’t that a strong purchase?”Ashes an unexpected expression, "He can sell high prices, why not let others sell high prices?" 」

"It's not the same," Tilly said, "after the wheat is collected, it needs to be threshing, grinding, and warehousing, which are all costs, and the price increase is very normal."

"Mr. Tiley is right, I later asked the book teacher to understand," Hilway laughed, "she said that after this part of the extra cost is collected, it can be paid to those workers who deal with wheat, can build a new granary, can expand the scale of production, these can provide new for the town..."I heard that His Highness Roland cares about this very much."

“But he’s still buying and selling,” Ash stressed, “isn’t trade free?”

"Maybe, but the sale price set by His Highness is not too high for everyone to afford."If this price can be fixed, the public will be more at ease.”

“Sometimes it’s not all the best thing to be free,” Tilly lamented, and she was already pretty clear about Roland’s intentions.Banning other people from the territory of selling food seems to be overbearing and unfair, but in fact, it can effectively prevent the food from soaring in times of shortage.If it falls in the royal capital, such a rare autumn snowfall, the price of food will inevitably rise to more than five or six times on weekdays, more than half of the civilians will be hungry because of insufficient food, long time is easy to cause riots, and finally only have to be issued by the palace relief food or the guard to suppress.In either case, it is a small burden on the treasury.

Although this policy looks good, it doesn’t work anywhere.Most of the people who bought and sold food were nobles and rich merchants, who had a large number of serfs and fields, and it was impossible for the royal family to force the purchase of the grain they produced and forbade them to hoard food.However, in the border town, except Roland Wimbledon himself, there are almost no noble families, and he is completely alone.

After Tily had expressed her opinion, Ashes was still a little disgreased, "What about the serfs?"When food prices are high, they may be able to earn more, but they are exploited at a fixed price.”

“Oh,” said Andrea, “it’s as if in a free-trade city where these people can escape exploitation.”When the wheat harvests, they not only have to turn over more wheat, but even the point they keep will be pressed to a very low price, and when the harvest is poor, they will go to the part, and whether the rest can survive the famine is still a problem.In contrast, fixed prices are more reasonable, as long as the more crops are produced, the more income they have.”

"Here, they can choose not to do it," said Silvey, "your Highness has said that when the yield reaches a standard, the serfs can be promoted to free people."Whether to continue farming on the farm or to choose new jobs is by their own will.However, free people only have to pay 20% of the food, and the remuneration is also considerable at the purchase price of this year's harvest."

“Jin... rising?”

“Well, your Highness said that he would never have a serf in two or three years.”

It turns out that something suddenly touched by Tily’s heart, which is why the town is full of energy... He takes into account the people’s ideas when making policy, and adds a system of incentives to encourage them to do more and better – which is completely different from the practice of any noble lord.Motivation is not expressed only in words, but really gives up some of the benefits, so that the people can get through hard work, rather than hiding these benefits deeply in the underground vault of the castle.

At this time, she really understood the meaning of the red banners on the river.

However, Roland Wimbledon was not a generous person in the palace... so this is also the change brought about by that part of the "sudden memory"?The first nature and mathematics content of the evenings also fascinated her.

Tilly thought that after reading through the palace collection, it was difficult to have anything to stimulate her curiosity and interest, but now she found that she had to learn a lot more.

She suddenly felt that even if she did nothing, but stayed in the castle of the town, flipping through the books that recorded the magical knowledge, and watching the changes in the town at the same time, it was a pleasant thing to do.

Suddenly, a long bell sounded in the direction of the wall, which was the alarm of the evil beast's attack.

Tily pressed these thoughts into her heart, but now she was no longer an unfettered five-time princess, but the leader of the fate of the sleeping island witch, and some things could not be done on their own preferences. "Let's go to the wall, maybe we can help the guards."

"Certainly," said Andrea, smiling, "that's what we're here for.Let them see how witches fight."

(Unfinished.)