In the beginning, the situation could still be suppressed because of traditional reasons, and the empire was still in the development stage at that time. There were many wastelands. Reclaiming these wastelands, expanding agriculture, and establishing new villages that could collect land rents were still difficult for large landowners here.

It is the most reliable way to get rich, and nothing seems too excessive.

But in recent years, the expansion of the empire has tended to stagnate, and the only expansion actions currently are towards the sea and coastal areas.

And looking at the increasing extravagance of the peasants in their own territories and the landowning baron class, they need more and more currency, and even loan merchants have begun to appear.

However, what can be extracted from the peasants, that is, their own serfs, is not money, but first of all, only labor or agricultural products. The peasant economy operating under extremely difficult conditions can only maintain the lowest life of the working owners.

Provide minimal amounts of surplus produce.

Can I get money for these?

Yes, but the money is very little.

Therefore, under the leadership of the Wallenstein family, they embarked on a new path, that is, doing business. This is the reason for the rise of the Wallenstein family. They led the traditional landowning barons and nobles to become more and more bourgeois.

The growing need for money increasingly forced the landowning barons to follow suit.

This has led to the miserable situation of farmers now.

the reason is simple.

It is true that the nobles all occupy relatively large land, but with a few exceptions, these lands have all been leased to hereditary tenants. As long as these tenants bear the prescribed taxes and servitude, they enjoy certain rights over their farms.

Sharecroppers cannot extract money.

A solution must be found here, and for this, the peasants first need to be turned into serfs.

The Wallenstein family, together with the landowning barons, used various cunning and insidious means to make peasants lose their land and turn them into serfs.

Once the peasants become serfs, they can ask them to perform any kind of unrestricted labor service anytime, anywhere! Today's sugar mills, wineries, and large plantations are almost all based on this foundation! The landowner baron can

Completely enslave the peasants!

But now the theme of this meeting is simpler, they are discussing making money.

The landowners have a bigger appetite, and they want more now, because they find that compared to the business people in the Hall of Glow and the Conservative Party, they seem...not rich enough.
Chapter completed!