With the commencement of the autumn farming season, the issue of labor shortage was exposed to all the new lords.
The same problem faced by different lords ended in different outcomes.
The native nobles relied on their connections to borrow manpower and livestock, thus accomplishing the autumn farming smoothly.
The Northern aristocracy suffered. Their families were thousands of miles away, and it was impossible to ask for help. Their fellow defectors could not care for anyone else but themselves.
Even if the soldiers were ordered to till the fields, a large amount of land was inevitably abandoned.
The price of human slaves in the market had skyrocketed so much that even Hudson, who came from a rich family, was scared off, let alone the poorer lords.
Even the wealthy could only purchase a small number. Mass procurement was no longer a matter of price, but of the fact that there were simply none available on the market.
