"How could the new Queen do this?!"
"Not only do we have to work for nothing, we even have to pay out of our own pockets!"
"Where's Lord Landon? Can't he talk to the Queen about this?"
"You think Lord Landon has a solution? If he did, he wouldn't be so furrow-browed and miserable."
The development of Black Earth Territory had come to a halt, creating a very serious problem: the people could no longer obtain food, Copper Coins, and the various benefits distributed by the territory through their work.
The reason was simple. The Queen of the kingdom had issued an order demanding that Black Earth Territory provide Alien Race Corpse Bones without compensation.
The key words were "without compensation." Black Earth Territory had been able to support the excavations before because there was money to be made. Now that there was no money, naturally, it could not continue.
Thus, Black Earth Territory had no spare resources to provide them with the various benefits required for development. Once winter ended and the weather warmed up, they all had to dig up Alien Race Corpse Bones for the Queen. Otherwise, even their lord would be charged with treason.
More importantly, they still had to pay taxes.
That was right. With no money to earn and no food to collect, they still had to pay taxes.
And the culprit was not Lu Xingshi. Their lord had fought for them too, but he had failed. The true culprit was that cowardly Queen.
She only dared throw heavy punches at her own people, while acting meek and subservient before the invaders.
Of course the people believed these rumors. After all, they had spread from the castle itself.
Compared to a Queen who only wanted to squeeze them dry, they had personally experienced just