Chapter 281 - 1: Fengdan County—the Last Feudal Territory
"Fengdan County?" Could it be that the Yue Family still has private properties in that Fengdan County? Yue Jinghua was quite surprised; she originally thought that the bankrupt Blood Cherry Duke Manor had nothing left.
The situation was even more optimistic than Yue Jinghua had imagined. Located on the outskirts of the Xuan Beast Ridge within the Dragon War Empire, Fengdan County turned out to be the feudal territory of the Yue Family.
"When the Dragon War Empire was founded, it continued the system of nobility. Apart from a small number of Prince Territories and Duchies, most inheriting dukedom families had their own feudal territories, and the Duke Mansion was no exception." When Yue Jinghua was younger, she was too young for Hongling to bring up the details of the Duke Mansion in front of her.
A feudal territory was a domain that the Emperor of the Empire bestowed upon his loyal and meritorious subjects. The ownership was entirely in the hands of the recipient, and it cannot be transferred or sold mid-way. Unless it was by imperial decree, even if the lord went bankrupt, they could not be deprived of it.
The taxes collected or the development within the feudal territory were all managed by the recipient. Each year, the feudal territory only needed to submit a fixed proportion of tribute taxes to enjoy the territory indefinitely.
The feudal territory of Fengye Dan Jun, due to its remote location and proximity to the outskirts of the Xuan Beast Ridge, had always been unmanaged. The previous Blood Cherry Duke Yue Nian only occasionally visited during the winter hunting season.
Afterward, when the Blood Cherry Duke Manor fell into decline and the feudal territory could not be sold, Lie Rou had Hongling’s father go to help manage Fengdan County. Hongling’s father would submit a portion of winter wages on time each year, which served as the last piece of property left for the current young lord, Yue Minzhi.
In the Dragon War Empire, a village was a hundred people, a town was a thousand, a city was ten thousand, and it took nearly a hundred thousand to be called a county.
In Yue Jinghua’s view, a Duke Mansion that possessed a mountain county adjacent to the Xuan Beast Ridge was like holding a golden rice bowl while crying poor – it was just too frustrating.
"Since that’s the case, let’s go to Fengdan County. Fengdan County is very close to the Xuan Beast Ridge. We can take a shortcut to send mother and Yue Chen there first, and then enter the region previously mentioned where the Dark Beast Egg was damaged," Yue Jinghua decided to send Lie Rou and others to meet with Hongling’s father in Fengdan County, before she and Teng Wu and the others rush to the belly of the Xuan Beast Ridge.