Evil will not deceive you

Li Ke took the farmer's family with him. After all, their family's money had been robbed, and now it was unknown that it had fallen into the soldier's pocket. This confused account could not be settled.

So Li Ke took them directly, otherwise they would die.

As for the wheat in their fields...

"I didn't expect that these people worked so hard and planted so much wheat, but they could only keep themselves from starving to death. Moreover, the wheat burned by Defias was their ration."

Therefore, this old farmer's family will definitely die if they continue to live here. The tax collector doesn't care whether you can eat or not.

Li Ke sat on the horse and looked at the wet ashes, feeling more and more that the nobles here had no conscience.

Farming is a very hard job, especially on this kind of land. When farmers are short of water, they even have to fetch water from bucket to bucket.

However, their year's work is probably only a few dozen gold coins in the market, and how much can they get?

One or two at most.

The rest went to nobles and kings.

Not only do these old farmers have low incomes, they also have to spend money on various daily necessities and provide money for craftsmen in all walks of life.

For example, salt, iron, various medicines and tea.

These are all bought with money.

"Actually, I didn't quite understand why I still wanted to drink tea when I was almost starving to death at first. In fact, it was only after I got here that I realized how important tea is."

Li Ke rode on the horse, relaxing his body and mind, trying not to look very unhappy, because their next supply point was a tax collector's manor, to be precise, it was a manor owned by a Stormwind noble.

The benefits of the Western Wilderness are naturally visible to everyone. Things like food are scarce in any era, so it is really not uncommon for nobles to come here to make a fortune.

And what he said came to mind after seeing the metal teapot that the old farmer cherished very much when he was packing up his only things.

"ah?"

Jennifer looked at Li Ke in surprise. She didn't expect that Li Ke couldn't understand it before.

This made her more and more suspicious that Li Ke might be a prince of a certain country, because only a prince could have such treatment and not have to drink tea to allow himself to excrete normally.

Yes, that’s what tea does. Of course, it is just a auxiliary function, but even this auxiliary function has been infinitely magnified in this era.

"Bread full of bran, dirt, and sawdust cannot be digested smoothly after being eaten. The scarcity of vegetables directly makes people stop eating vegetables."

Li Ke sighed softly. Even in this world, life in the Middle Ages was still so miserable. When he first arrived, he really suffered a lot from stomach discomfort because of his lack of experience.

If it weren’t for the female owner of the bakery…

Thinking of this, he tightened his left hand with the necklace, and then loosened it suddenly.

"That's why I understood the importance of tea. In the past, I always regarded it as a drink. I never thought that it could be so important."

After Li Ke said this, Jennifer was already quite confused. She didn't understand what Li Ke said about these common sense. In this world, even people from poor families would always keep some tea to make themselves happy. The stomach can withstand the invasion of all kinds of black bread.

That is to say, only those who can eat white bread can enjoy the joy of drinking tea.

Of course, this also made her more certain of her guess.

Li Ke might have really been a prince before.

"so……"

She waved her hand, showing a 'please continue talking' gesture.

"So I was wondering, is there a possibility that we could get everyone to eat white bread? That way, those people would have a lot of money left over to buy tea."

When his words came out, the entire team fell silent for a moment, followed by a burst of laughter and a strange silence.

Jonathan couldn't help but turn his head to look at him, and then continued to observe the team.

This idea is too whimsical.

"Not enough food, dear."

Jennifer tried hard to find excuses for Li Ke in a calm tone, but she didn't think Li Ke would really be able to do this.

In her opinion, with the efforts of her and Li Ke, the tax revenue of this land can be returned to 70%, and two months of corvee time every year is already very good.

"Ok, I know."

Li Ke took one look at the performance of the people around him and sighed, not planning to look for like-minded people here.

The food crisis on the modern earth can be avoided by relying on a large amount of non-staple food, fruits, meat and the like. The final solution to the food crisis is to use various methods to increase food production.

Not to mention here, I'm afraid what he just said is almost equivalent to "why not eat minced meat" and "if there is no bread, they can eat cake".

But Li Ke knew that he could do it.

It just takes time.

As they moved forward, the team gradually approached a small town. As they approached, Li Ke gradually saw the small town clearly.

This is a typical medieval town. The tallest building in the center of the town is the tall church. However, Li Ke did not see any guards or watchtowers around it. There was only a suspicious looking tower. At the sentry tower, a piece of charcoal was seen.

There were several corpses hanging on the big tree at the entrance of the town. Most of them were farmers. Some of them had rotted away, and some had just died.

However, what caught Li Ke's attention the most was this town whose main color was gray.

Most of the residents in this town had numb expressions on their faces. There were almost no children in sight. After seeing these troops, they just moved away numbly.

The burnt trees fell beside the wellhead in the center of the town, and the ground was full of sewage and filth. Li Ke, who had originally planned to dismount, had to stay on the horse.

While passing by a store with a sign that was constantly swaying in the wind, Li Ke recognized it a little and confirmed one thing.

This is a shop that sells salt and collects fur goods, but now it is scorched black, and there are even some broken limbs inside.

The most important thing is that after they have been here for so long, no mayor or pastor has come to greet them, which is enough to illustrate the state of the place.

"Is the order here almost over?"

Just as Li Ke was thinking this, he saw Jonathan dismounting and stopping a numb-looking woman, and asked them a common question.

"Madam, was this place attacked by Defias thieves?"

Li Ke felt that Jonathan was asking in vain. How could this place not be the fault of Defias thieves?

But the next moment, the lady shook her head, and then pointed in a direction.

A direction with a beautiful estate.