215: Chapter 130: The Neighbour Hasn’t Stocked Up On Grain_1 215: Chapter 130: The Neighbour Hasn’t Stocked Up On Grain_1 With Hudson’s return, the Mountain Domain quickly became bustling.

The buzzing poison incident had long been fermenting among the native nobles, everyone was holding a belly full of fire, and now they lacked a leader to pick a fight.

The truth is not important in the face of interest.

Who would carefully investigate if their competitors were unfairly accused?

The losses brought by the locust plague were so great, there must be a way to compensate, right?

Babies who cry get milk, if they don’t make a fuss, how will the higher-ups notice?

As a major figure in the native noble faction, Hudson naturally attracted everyone’s high expectations.

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“Gentlemen, the timing is not right.

The kingdom is investigating the locust plague, and it has initially determined that the backstage culprit is a major power in the continent.

Now we don’t have enough evidence in our hands to accuse them, it’s just a matter of the severity of the disaster, they can completely push it towards the man behind the scenes.

The involvement in this matter is far greater than you imagine, even the Governor’s Mansion does not have much say in this matter.

At this critical juncture, we should focus on fighting the disaster, and be careful not to bring disaster upon ourselves.”

Most of the people present were his own people, Hudson didn’t want them to be used by others and step on a landmine at this critical juncture.

If his little brothers got involved, he as the leader wouldn’t be able to escape either.

Talking a big game and really fighting are two completely different concepts.

“Talking a big game,” Hudson has always been having hard fights with the Nobles of the North.

It looks like it’s a fight to the death, but in fact, it doesn’t affect either of them at all.

They could still do the business as usual under the table.

If they really fight, it would be completely different.

Outsiders mistakenly think that the soldiers of the Mountain Domain are strong and powerful, but Hudson knows very well how weak his true strength is.

Beyond the group of elite veterans who’ve seen bloodshed, the rest are just for show.

They might be able to form a line or formation, but if there’s a real fight, they’ve only been trained to kill cattle and sheep.

Their fighting strength is higher than that of ordinary Serf Soldiers, but how far they are from real elites, only actual combat will tell.

Without continued training for another year and a half, Hudson really has no confidence to send his own soldiers to the battlefield.

“Baron Hudson, are we going to let this great opportunity pass us by?”

Baron Ezekiel asked discontentedly.

As a loser in the last power struggle, apart from gaining some fame, Baron Ezekiel gained nothing.

With the passage of time, even this fame is slowly fading away.

When faced with problems, the practical nobles think of Baron Caryo and Hudson, the two strong parties first.

Fame only brought Baron Ezekiel convenience in interpersonal communication, when it comes to tangible interests, his opinion is no longer important.

“The kingdom needs stability, this is of overall importance.

As nobles, we must prioritize the kingdom’s interests.

We can slowly settle our grudges with those guys from the North.

Right now, everyone’s most important task is to fight the locust plague.

With the autumn harvest greatly reduced, we can still strive to save next season’s spring grain.

This locust plague is unusual, not only will this year’s autumn grain greatly reduced, but next year’s autumn grain is also hard to harvest much.

The grain crisis alone is enough for those guys to suffer.

Why not just sit back and watch them suffer?

Why step out and help them?

Wasn’t the lesson from last time enough?”

Hudson sneered with scorn.

Those who want to use him as a tool, they must be dreaming.

If they start a war with the Nobles of the North now, they will have to fight desperately.

Only if they win, will they have grains to survive the famine.

According to Hudson’s knowledge, to reduce grain consumption, a group of Northern nobles are artificially reducing the number of slaves.

Some ruthless ones even grind the locusts into powder and add them to the bread making process, and many weak slaves also end up dead.

This is enough to prove how tough those guys’ days are.

Although the Mountain Domain started the practice of making locust powder, Hudson only targeted stranded locusts and dared not touch the gathered Locust Army.

Even if he made locust powder, he only added a small amount, less than one percent.

With such a small dose, even if it is toxic, they can survive it.

They were all forced out by desperation, after cutting down on food supply, they always need to ensure the nutritional supply of slaves.

One grasshopper a day, it could be seen as a substitute for meat.

Seeing that no noble responded, Baron Ezekiel suddenly felt embarrassed.

He was just saying that they should all put pressure on the Baron of the Mountain Domain together, forcing this leader to quarrel and fight with the Nobles of the North.

But when it came to the facts, Hudson’s few words made the “temporary allies” with unstable positions back down.

It’s unclear whether they were persuaded, or simply unwilling to go against the Mountain Baron.

In any case, no one was willing to take the lead.

When facing Baron Ezekiel’s pleading eyes, everyone seemed lost in thought, as if they hadn’t seen anything.

Once again feeling the importance of strength, Baron Ezekiel became increasingly eager to break the situation.

In the existing political landscape of Layton County, native nobles are with Hudson, Northern nobles are with Baron West, he simply doesn’t have room to maneuver.

Next door in Wharton County, the situation is similar, Northern nobles are split, but most of the native nobles are adhering to Baron Caryo’s countenance.

His birthright made it impossible for Baron Ezekiel to mingle and play nicely with the Northern nobles, and among the native nobles, Hudson and Baron Caryo kept a close watch on him.