Chapter 358 There Is a Traitor Around the Lord

Once the beginning, the criticism of the merchants became louder and louder.

Fergus shook his head to clear his mind and tried to speak a fair word for the merchants.

"Everyone, although most of them are opportunists, we can't leave them. Without them, where can we buy those foreign goods, and who can we sell the products produced in our own manors to?"

"What Lord Fergus said makes sense." The host of the banquet, Master Valen, stroked his mustache.

"But even so, the people of this world still rely on us farmers to feed them. Land and food are the foundation of our lives and even the lives of people all over the continent! People who are about my age here should have experienced famine, right?"

Master Valen's words reminded people of a great famine that the Kingdom of Aldo experienced decades ago. The younger generation was fine, just hearing about it from the elders, while the older people showed a trace of fear in their eyes.

It was a terrible time. There were starving people everywhere. People on the road would suddenly fall down and never get up again. In some places, there were terrible rumors of cannibalism. In a famine of that magnitude, no matter how rich you are, you can't buy food. People who have food at home won't exchange it for gold and silver.

"Yes, Master Valen is right. Food is the capital for people to live and work."

Everyone praised the host's point of view.

Suddenly someone became angry: "We work hard in the fields to grow food, but those merchants are digging our corners. Have you all forgotten what happened last year? The lord suddenly proposed to build a "customs union" to reduce or even cancel the territory's tariffs on passing goods, the biggest of which is food. Oh my God, this... this... this is really terrible."

This sentence pushed everyone's emotions to the peak.

"No need to guess! It must be the merchants who did it!"

"Yes, they bewitched Lord Graman."

Eldo slapped the table in front of him with his hands in excitement, looking like he had suffered a great injustice: "This is not digging our corner, this is digging the corner of the Lord, this is digging the foundation of the entire Arda."

Although various agricultural machinery has been popularized, at least last year, Arda's grain production did not have an advantage over other territories with more grain production, such as the territories of the Ferdinand family. Once the tariffs are gone, the consequences will be unimaginable, at least in the eyes of these manor owners.

But it is different for those merchants who fall into the eyes of money, which means that they spend less money when buying grain from other places.

Ah~ these black-hearted maggots actually used such despicable means to attack their fellow Arda people.

"They must have been slandering Lord Graman, and Lord Graman was young and inexperienced, so he was fooled by them."

"What a customs union, isn't it just a tool for them to make money."

At this point, everyone was thankful again.

"Fortunately, we all worked together to oppose this matter! That's why the merchants didn't succeed in their evil plan."

"Yes, I remember that it was Master Valen who took the lead. Let's toast Master Valen!"

"Cheers to Master Valen!"

The host of the banquet, Old Valen, took up the cup and accepted a cup from everyone.

"Lord Graman is surrounded by traitors!"

Old Valen drank a full cup, his face became even redder, and then he said this with great sorrow.

Fergus became nervous when he heard him say this. As a retainer of the Graman family, he still cares about his master.

Traitor? How is it possible? Alda just won a tough battle, and the opponent was the Kent family, which was one of the best. His reputation has soared. If the lord is surrounded by traitors, how can he win the battle?

"Why not?"

Master Valen continued to be distressed, "Think about it, that Hansel Abbott is not a good person! Haven't all of you been exploited by him in the past two years?"

"The lord wants to integrate the cultivated land, which is a good policy, but it was turned upside down by this southerner!"

Old Valen's words reminded everyone of their experience of being cut by Hansel in the past two years, because they basically occupied public land, and Hansel, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, found them out one by one when he was counting and measuring. They either spit out the occupied public land and were fined, or paid several times the money to buy the land that their family had cultivated for several generations.

Everyone complained bitterly.

"Abbott, he is simply a skinner! Anyone who is targeted by him will be in trouble."

"This traitor must have swallowed all the fines himself!"

"I think those officials from the south are not good people!"

Some people began to expand the scope of the attack.

"That chief secretary with thick eyes, the one called Bernard, is probably not a good person either!"

Someone stood up indignantly and waved his arms and said: "I saw it with my own eyes in Fulan Port, a lot of food! And all kinds of other materials, just transported on the sailboat to the south!"

No mistake, one post, one content, one 6, one book, one bar, take a look!

"It must be these southerners who are transporting to the capital. They are ungrateful dogs. Lord Graman is supporting them. My vassal's vassal is not my vassal. They should be loyal to Lord Graman. How can there be loyalty across levels in the world?"

"Black -hearted maggots, mouse climbed out of the waterway from Jingyao!"

"They are a group of worms, and they will empty the entire Alida sooner or later."

"Occupying Maokeng without shit, so many important positions of the government officer are full of these southern mouses, and have done so many breaks."

"Those positions should let our children's children come to work, Earl Earl ... Well, don't say it."

Someone sighed, "There are adulterers inside, and there are treacherous merchants outside. I think this Alda, I'm afraid ..."

I covered my mouth before finishing speaking.

It is just that the atmosphere in the hall has changed. At first, everyone was praising the lord how wisely. Now Alida in their mouths is already internal and external, and it will be subverted by the villain.

Even Fergus was infected by everyone's emotions unconsciously.

The tariff alliance, he also opposed, those foreign people who served as important positions in the government officer also did not like it.

Will the lord's adults really have adulterers?

He had to find a time back to Huxin Town, and to inquire with those old friends by the way.

The banquet owner Master Valen hit his heart.

"Only our Zhuanghu family is the fundamental of the lord and Alida! We must protect the counts and not being blinded by traitors and villains."