Villain Princess.

What is the main resource for war?

It was naturally food and weapons. Food was required for the soldiers to maintain their stamina and energy to live. Weapons were necessary for them to attack their opponents and win the war.

And the Yellow Kingdom didn’t have enough of both.

The main producers for food was Duke White’s territory. Since their territory focused on farming, they would be able to produce a lot of food as long as enough time was given. Of course, they would need the water resources that were discussed with the other kingdoms.

With Aurora there, she had made sure that the water resource was enough.

But did the White Dukedom’s territory had enough food?

The answer is no.

Because Duke White increased the taxes and in order to make sure they have enough money to pay the tax to Duke White, they had to sell more food. So even if there were excess in the year with good harvest, it was all gone to pay for the taxes that Duke White required.

Part of it was sold to the Red Kingdom that required more food and wiling to pay. The other parts were sold to other territories and a small part was hoarded by Aurora secretly.

Of course, she bought it through the normal channel.

She would not leave any loophole that can be used to trace back to herself. In this way, it would look like that these food were all sold to the territories who requested them and there was none that was kept privately.

When she count the money, she also kept note of the prices when she sold them and then marked it in the note.

In this way, no matter who counted it, it would match and no one would find out that some food was actually missing.

Anyway, she didn’t lack money.

The food was piled up in the guild and also brought to this territory.

Because Aurora knew that until it was time for the harvest, the price of food will definitely rise. Moreover, this year’s harvest was not necessarily good because of the weather and the result of the negotiation.

In this situation, Aurora just had to make sure that she had enough food for herself and for the people in her new territory to last for three to four years.

If she was still the one who was in charge of the negotiation, she would ask for more water because Duke White’s territory would need more. Otherwise, they might not be able to survive the next year.

Many people would end up starving.

Since Aurora had already known that there might be a small food crisis, she made sure that she had enough resources for herself and her people.

As for the others? 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Sorry, she was not a saint who will care for everyone’s well being.

Being the one in charge, Aurora knew very well that it was impossible for her to care for everyone. There was a limit to resources that she could move and her priority would be her people.

Thankfully, the previous yield was pretty good.

In this way, Aurora was able to gather enough resources for herself.

She hoarded enough food for that reason.

Of course, now that she was in this area, it was time for her to gather some other type of food.

For example, the seafood.

It was rare for her to be able to eat seafood and now that she was living in an area near the lake, she would use her money to trade for it.

*cough*

Back to the point.

The war will start and Duke White had to provide enough food to support the military.

Without enough resources in hand, Aurora wondered how her father would deal with this situation.

There were a few options.

One was to forcefully seize the food but the people who were working in Duke White’s territory would be furious. They have already paid the heavy tax that Duke White imposed on them.

And now they have to pay more?

It would be a miracle if they were not angry.

Another option was through buying the food from others. But at the same time, Aurora also knew that the financial situation of Duke White was not very good. Her mother was spending money as if they were water while her father... was also the same.

She couldn’t understand the way these two people think.

They didn’t seem to be able to understand that the money from the territory should also be used for the territory unless they were waiting for riots to happen.

Because once the people couldn’t have enough, they would definitely start making trouble and the income for Duke White will decrease.

In the long run, rebellions might even happen.

But that was too far in the future.

The current situation would not reach this point.

At least, not yet.

Of course, if they chose not to solve the problem well, then this possibly will still exist in the future.

’Ah, unfortunately, I can’t see it with my own eyes.’

Aurora sighed.

If it was possible, she really wanted to see this scene with her own eyes instead of staying here and could only hear the second hand news from the people whom she had arranged to stay near Duke White.

Even if Aurora was no longer in the Yellow Kingdom’s Capital City, she had arranged for some people to monitor these people’s movements.

She would not let her life be put on the so called chances.

Aurora had to make sure that the development was still within her calculation so that she would be able to stay alive and well.

As for weapons?

It was because there were only a few territories that produced weapons in the Yellow Kingdom and the amount was relatively small. The Yellow Kingdom has never been a kingdom that was strong in terms of weapons and resources.

When reading history, Aurora has been amazed by how the Yellow Kingdom was able to survive with such lack of resources.