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After listening to Tanya's story, a word appeared in George's mind-France.

The Principality of Sky Eagle is very similar to medieval France, with a temperate marine climate. The land is relatively flat, suitable for farming and grazing. However, the population here is far from the 16 million in medieval France. It is even less than the 36 million people in a northwestern province.

The number of horses is even less than the terrifying number of millions in medieval France.

After the fog, the population of Sky Eagle decreased and lost a lot. According to the population statistics of the Grand Duke after the Kuroshio War last year, the population of the entire principality (excluding foreign refugees) was less than 3 million, which can be said to be extremely sparsely populated.

Even some remote villages, there are few people in the area of ​​100 kilometers around.

Of course, this place has the same superior environment and geographical location as medieval France. If it develops well in the future, although this "France" of ours cannot reach the exaggerated number of 16 million, if the productivity is improved, it can still have 8 million.

The future prospects are also great.

"Tania, is the population of the Sky Eagle really only three million now?"

George's face turned strange. If that's the case, the old Sky Eagle's participation in the political struggle of Rodunk was a desperate move.

Because as far as he knew, the number of people from the Sky Eagle Principality supporting the Blue Water City alone was 100,000 troops - not counting the private running groups of the various lords and the garrisons left behind in the Sky Eagle.

This 100,000 troops, plus the laborers, craftsmen, pack horses, ships, and resources serving these 100,000 people, at least 300,000 people were mobilized.

One tenth of the young and strong can be said to have mobilized the entire territory!

So the old Sky Eagle was extremely aggressive at the beginning, using up the power of the entire territory to participate in that investment, and then lost everything.

Including Yudlan and others, there were only over 10,000 Sky Eagle people who returned to the territory.

Of course, many laborers still came back. Because in the war in the later period of the Black Tide, the main people serving the noble coalition were Rodunk people. This freed up a lot of Sky Eagle laborers. The main labor loss of the Skyhawk was the tens of thousands of people detained in the valley (logistics and personnel were detained).

"The population of the Skyhawk itself is not as dense as other areas of the Elda Kingdom." Tanya couldn't help but recall her childhood. At that time, she often went hunting with her brothers. There were hunting grounds and forests everywhere-the family trained the army and raised horses. There has never been a large-scale reclamation.

"Of course, no matter how sparse it is, it is far less than the western border of Upper Rodunk. So there were originally many people." Tanya continued: "I remember that in my grandfather's time, the population was eight million at its peak. But in my father's generation, there were only more than six million. When I ran away from home, it was this number. You know, there were many disasters in the fog. At that time, the southern countries were in chaos. With the loss of population, many fields were also abandoned."

George nodded, and he suddenly understood why there were so few people. The chaotic period in the fog. There were not only plagues and monsters, but also wars-first the friction between the lords, and then the war caused by the southern wilderness people going north. In that war, all countries participated. Not many people actually died on the battlefield, but the forced taxes made people miserable, and the conscription of able-bodied men caused a large amount of farmland to be abandoned in the war.

In the fog, food production began to decline again, and the nobles increased oppression for the sake of war, causing the territory to become violent, creating a vicious cycle.

Under the superposition of multiple factors, famine began to spread. The population also began to lose a lot.

In the end, in the past ten years, the population was reduced by half.

Now, coupled with the loss-making business of the northern black tide, the Sky Eagle family can be said to have been hit hard.

"How much arable land is left?"

"My family doesn't have much arable land, George, we have to open up the wasteland."

The Sky Eagle territory is 360,000 square kilometers, which is larger than the basin. The land is mainly plains and hills, and there are many rivers. Although the land is far less fertile than the basin, it is very suitable for farming. Unlike the basin, there are not many mountains and mountains. Therefore, the land that can be turned into farmland in the Sky Eagle Territory is more than three times that of the basin.

But the Sky Eagle family does not attach importance to farming - perhaps it comes from the fear of Grand Duke Yongfeng. The Sky Eagle family attaches great importance to horses and farm animals. If a horse wants to stay active, it needs 250 acres of land for breeding and activities, otherwise it can only be used as a pack horse. And the warriors also need a lot of venues for training and learning riding skills.

This makes the arable land here not much.

And with the loss of population, the arable land has become even less.

Now, except for vineyards and orchards, there are only 30 million acres of land used for food production here - this place is located in the plains, and it is larger than the 'Wind Singer Basin', but the farmland is only half of the basin (the basin also has two seasons of production each year).

But before, the people here never worried about food and clothing.

In previous years, in addition to farming, residents could get dividends from spices, wine, cotton, sericulture, animal husbandry, fisheries, hunting, handicrafts and other trades - Sky Eagle's spices are very famous, as are perfumes. The use of spices in the Fortress of the Skyhawk gives us a glimpse of the situation. In addition to horses, there are also a large number of "musk oxen" as livestock.

Leyden was even called the ‘Earl of Tulips’, and his territory’s specialty ‘Tulip Balm’ was famous all over the world. And in the territory under Leiden’s rule, there was also a viscount who was called the ‘Viscount of Laurel’.

In the entire Skyhawk territory, in addition to these large-scale spice production sites, there are also a large number of natural trees that can produce spices between many woodlands - the lords mostly don’t care about the people collecting these things. In this territory, there are many residents who deal with spices and perfumes, and there are many workshops - of course, most of these workshops belong to the nobles.

But the people can still get a lot of dividends from the production of spices and perfumes.

So the residents don’t need to use food to exchange for daily necessities, and the harvest of 30 million acres of land in two seasons each year can only be used for food. So it is enough to support 3 million people - if it is only used for food, 5 acres of land for one person is more than enough, and the output of two seasons can be fed with extra grain. As for the other 5 acres of land, it is used to pay taxes.

So the Skyhawk has always had a lot of food reserves.

But now, with the change of climate, most of the land in the Sky Eagle can no longer produce two seasons of grain, and the harvest has been greatly reduced. The domestic grain production has the same problem. The shortage of food has made everything become a castle in the air. Various industries have also been hit hard, and the lives of the people in the Sky Eagle have gradually become worse.

In previous years, residents relied on the income from other industries, and one person had an average of 10 mu of land, which could make them live very comfortably. But now, even if one person has 20 mu of land, it is a bit difficult to survive - taxes have never been reduced.

Taxes, in fact, the Sky Eagle taxes its subjects and vassals at 20% tax. But after layers of exploitation, the 10 mu of land in the hands of the people is only 5 mu.

Therefore, the Sky Eagle receives less and less taxes, but the riots in the territory are more and more.

In fact, because the subjects of the Sky Eagle are relatively wealthy, many subjects in the territory should have lived well - even if the price of grain is high, they can afford it. But the key is that the Sky Eagle has been involved in various disputes in the past decade. Many people had to obey the orders of the lord and participate in various compulsory labor.

These people who originally worked for their own lives would naturally lose their income once they participated in too much service. The unrest also made the grain reserves of the entire Skyhawk less and less.

The situation in the entire Elda Kingdom was the same as that of the Skyhawk.

How much impact this dispute had and how much the people could not survive could be seen from the grain price - it had risen by 4 to 5 times. Now 1 catty of wheat costs 8-10 copper coins. Almost, 1 bushel costs 1 silver fox.

The situation in the entire Elda Kingdom was similar to this - grain could meet domestic demand, but because of the emergence of disasters and the continuous wars, the nobles were hoarding grain.

And because the country lost the grain support of the basin, it also supported the Blue Water City. The grain price was slightly higher than that of the Skyhawk. This is unimaginable for this grain-producing country.

The output of grain is not only related to future survival, but also to the current military construction. So George is very concerned about this.

And if there is not enough food production, productivity will not be able to develop. Without sufficient productivity, it is impossible to build the "modern magic army" planned by George. Without this army, it is impossible to win the future war.

So in this Sky Eagle territory, their first task is to deal with those nobles who suck the blood of the people. As long as they are dealt with, the output and productivity of food will be improved.

All the Dawn teams have followed the nobles to various territories today, and the Sanctuary has also sent some people, led by Old Jim's deputy, Priest Wendel.

This group of people is going to the territory of "Earl Benjamin", the largest grain producing area in the Sky Eagle, and this territory is also bordered by the valley, which is the location that Alfonso once mentioned.

At this time, George and Tanya have walked out of the gate connecting the castle to the inner city wall. George looked around and found that the fog around him was gone. He suddenly remembered that Alfonso seemed to have mentioned visiting the cathedral after dinner. Presumably, the holy object in his hand was temporarily enshrined in the cathedral.

In the distant military camp, the Dawn Knights were training the local soldiers, and outside the wilderness, there were even more people.

It can be seen that they seemed to be lining up, but many local soldiers could not even tell the left from the right.

These armies were gradually reorganizing and training - according to the plan that George and Gavi had discussed before: 'Modern Magic Army'.

And through this training, the Dawn Knights will also establish the mindset of the new recruits in the strict military discipline.