>>6119320>>6119623>>6119643>>6120199Your answer was sincere and brief.
-A good dungeon for a future keep, perhaps we should add the plains to the north to your domain.
She laughed.
-There is nothing but plains and barren rocks there.
-Very good, at least it will give us stone for a wall and other aisle to the building.
She laughed and told you.
-You are adorable Charles.
You then looked at the plains. Yes, in general India was more sparsely populated than your precious Champagne but it was because they made not enough kids. Once women will be having eight or nine kids each it will quickly change, since three will probably survive into adulthood and make a lot of other children too. Then with these numbers new lands will be colonised. If they are bad for farming you should breed cattle here. Or horses. Perhaps you should breed a huge number of horses in the Cairns it will be more glorious than breeding goats, but the grass was not tall for big horses. It was a dilemna, perhaps if you took more lands for each exploitation you could live with it and have your own powerful destriers. You would need brave knights to build towers there. Of course the lands would be poor unfortunately and here you saw that the lack of serfdom was a great barrier to Indian developpement.
Why would you say ? Because free people would not move into areas like the Cairns of the Great Emptiness of their own will. They were petty, selfish and greedy. And since families were small they did not even have starving third or fourth sons to send... And if they had these men got to some cities to become peddlers or journeymen and died there. No, it was bad. With serfdom, like in a right and proper feudal society everything will be simple. People will be moved and attached to the land and forbidden from moving back. Or serfs would be allowed to be free men if they built a canal to irrigate these plains or at least change this emptiness into farmland or pastures.
