King’s Kingdom

The middle name is the unique right of the big nobles. Although there is never a law that stipulates that the small nobles are not allowed to take the middle name, but if someone does this, they will definitely suffer the hostility of the big nobles and the contempt of the small nobles.

Although Vico is not a big aristocrat, as a member of the royal family, he still has the right to choose a middle name.

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The wind was cold, and it had already snowed in the thirteen counties in the north of the Lanyin Kingdom. Although the remaining six counties had not yet had snow, the temperature was getting lower and lower.

If it was in the past, many people would have died of starvation in this weather, but as the residents of the Rhine Kingdom, they have enough food and fuel to survive the cold winter, and their primitive houses also get For repairs, they don’t need to worry about food all day when they have a large food reserve, and naturally have time and resources to rest their houses.

In a village in the south of Lanyin, the family stayed in a warm room, the flames in the stove were burning brightly, the water in the clay pot was boiling, poured out and stored in another clay pot. With two large pots of boiling water, they can drink enough for a day.

"Oh, it's so troublesome!" The boy in the room said angrily, "I don't want to drink hot water, I like to drink cold ones!"

"Then wait for a while until the hot water cools!" The boy's father was waiting by the fire with a bag of beans and two large pieces of dried meat. His wife was adding water to the clay pot. This is their family people's dinner.

"That's going to take too long! I'm thirsty now! Why don't I drink some raw water!" The boy said with anticipation, but he actually reached out to get it.

However, before his hand touched the water scoop, he was slapped violently, and his father said angrily: "I think you have had too many days, itchy skin? Your Majesty the king is merciful and allows us Use his fuel to boil water to avoid disease. You still dare to drink raw water. Do you want to pay the fuel tax again? I tell you, if our family is charged fuel tax again, I won't beat you to death !"

That’s right, although Theodosius was exempted from the tax on collecting fuel, it did not allow them to use it as they wished. If they were cut down or found to be still drinking raw water, they would be re-levied fuel tax, and because of forest resources Completely belonging to the royal family, the tax that these re-taxed people need to pay is not the original figure.

"Okay..." The boy bowed his head like an eggplant hit by frost, and nodded sanely.

Compared with the north, the south does not have such piercing cold. At this time, the southern empire is still as warm as spring. Although it is in autumn, it is far from that cold. They will take another two months to reach January. There will be a month or so of winter, followed by the arrival of spring.

But the Northern Empire and the Central Empire have no such climate at all. The Central Empire is located in the central area of ​​the eastern part of the continent, with a suitable climate and comfortable temperature. However, the winters there are also very cold, at least not because of the lack of food and clothing, and people with poor living conditions can survive. living.

The Northern Empire is even more so in the north. The temperature can be slightly warmer than that of the Rhine Kingdom, but it is also quite limited.

"Wow wow..."

The sound of running water gradually came to an end. Because of the loss of heat in the body, the shabby young man couldn't help shivering.

He was wearing five layers of clothes, each of which was tattered. Either there was a gap here or the one without sleeves, and it exuded a strong stench.

But he had no choice. In order to keep warm, he had to endure all this. Without so many clothes, he would surely die on the road. Pinching his nose, which was red from the cold, the young man hurried back to the resting place to bake a fire.

Returning to the fire, he felt as if he was alive again. He stretched out his hand and moved back and forth by the fire, looking forward to the next meal.

After waiting for about half an hour, the mule cart with the rice bucket came over. He took a wooden bowl, which contained a large lump of sticky semi-solid food. According to his speculation, it should be tempeh mixed with boiled pieces. Beans, with a pitiful little salt in them, are a meal for them.

This kind of thing is extremely unpalatable. The fermented fermented fermented bean that has not been completely boiled is still a bit scratchy. Only a little bit of salt can't completely cover the fishy smell of the beans. The taste can be described as disgusting.

But the young man didn't seem to care about this at all, as if he had lost his sense of taste, he devoured the food in the bowl with his hands.

It's not just him, everyone else is the same, as if they can't taste how unpleasant this food is.

If they have a choice, they are naturally willing to be picky, but most of them are people who have no choice.

In all fairness, this year's climate is good and rainy, which is a good year. Under normal circumstances, the tenant farmers can even eat enough for half a year, or they don't have to go hungry for a whole year.

However, the years of war and the invasion of dark creatures have made their land almost completely harvested. The frantic soldiers trampled and harvested the unripe grain in the farmland. In extreme cases, they simply burned all the crops with fire~www.readwn.com~ with goblins The dominant dark creatures are like rats that cannot be slaughtered. They nibble on the roots and unripe fruits of the grain in the dark. Individual farmers do not dare to drive out these hordes of ugly creatures. And if you do, you can't take care of everyone's land.

Under such double mutilation, they have worked hard for a whole year to almost nothing, and they originally wanted to work hard for the lord or the rich in exchange for some food to feed their stomachs.

Who would have thought that in order to gain a chance to survive, the peasants who went to defect became more and more clueless, and even got involved to the point where they borrowed 50 kilograms of grain to return 500 kilograms, while more nobles and rich people took the food from their warehouses. Food is brought to the world and sold in exchange for greater benefits.

Citizens in those cities have a lot of wealth in their hands. In the case of two houses failing to harvest, they have to pay high prices to buy food. Those who can’t afford it can only resign themselves to their fate and leave their place of residence to find people who can survive in other areas. Chance.

They just want to live. This is the greatest desire of all creatures. All desires and thoughts must give way to this. Even if they are given shit, as long as they can survive, they will eat it.

Therefore, these foods that normal people can even spit out in their mouths are good delicacies, not only can they not taste the disgusting beany smell, but because of the intake of carbohydrates and plant protein And feel deep happiness, the faint salty taste makes the body understand that sodium ions have entered the blood.

"Third brother, when you said that, can you really live the good life they said?" A little girl about thirteen or fourteen years old grabbed the corner of the young man's clothes.

The clothes on girls are less and more tattered, because the price of girls is much lower than that of adult men.