Chapter 698 - 432 Surveillance
The No Flower Plant’s bloom, transforming the White Flower Sea, lasted a total of three days, and so did the entire celebration across the Tilaimei Plain.
Colin lifted the Grain Decree and took the opportunity to designate these few days each year as the White Flower Sea Festival.
Royalty from various countries took the lead in distributing porridge and grain to the people, and the small vendors who had disappeared from the streets returned.
Children laughed and ran through the streets, their slightly pale faces also flushed with joy, the elderly no longer looked worried and sorrowful, their dry, wrinkled cheeks relaxed and their eyes filled with hope for the future.
After this, the White Flower Sea Festival, just before the autumn planting season, became the grandest annual festival on the Tilaimei Plain.
As for Colin, he had not been idle during these three days.
Before the restoration of the farmland, he had gathered approximately seventy percent of the serfs on the Tilaimei Plain; the farmland was slightly less, but he also reached about sixty percent.
And he basically obtained these farmlands without spending a penny—the nobles who left the Tilaimei Plain had essentially voluntarily given up their original farms.
The legal regulations regarding this in the nations of the Tilaimei Plain were not clear; the abandoned farmlands were theoretically unclaimed, usually to be annexed by the nearby nobles, but only if no higher-ranking noble intervened.
Thus, with Colin’s announcement, those farmlands naturally all fell into his hands.
Furthermore, at the same time, he also had Lillian offer extremely low prices to try to purchase farmland from those nobles.