Princess Royal Servini's private fief lay in the Lampari Kingdom's Northeastern Province, closer to the kingdom's eastern border, roughly seven hundred kilometers from Bunta City.
With such a vast distance between them, and with Servini barely involving herself in affairs outside her fief to make her stance clear, she naturally knew nothing of what had happened in Bunta City.
Yet on the first day of the new year, year 3784 of the continental new calendar, Servini was in no better spirits than the people of Bunta City.
Starting about half a month before the new year, people who looked like refugees had begun trickling into her private fief from the west and northwest.
At first, seeing these ragged, emaciated refugees who were clearly destitute, Servini immediately ordered her stewards to take them in and make suitable arrangements for them.
But as time passed, more and more refugees poured into her fief.
A rough count taken that day revealed that over two hundred refugees had entered her fief in the past half month.
This astonished Servini.
Over the past few years, the widespread adoption of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's Farmland Magic Machinery throughout the Lampari Kingdom had greatly increased grain production across the kingdom.
And thanks to the use of fertilizer, the kingdom's annual grain output had long since become sufficient to meet everyone's needs, with enough left over to sell to neighboring countries.
Logically, even if some natural disaster had struck, the kingdom should have had enough grain to prevent people from becoming refugees.
What was more, the Lampari Kingdom had enjoyed favorable weather throughout the entire year, without any natural disasters at all.
Yet the refugees before her were an undeniable fact, leaving Servini deeply puzzled.
After paying her respects to the late Lampari the Thirteenth on the first