I keep hearing excuses like “but your highness the entire crop was destroyed and we’re starving” or “but my lord I’m dying of the plague”. Like ok? That sounds like a you problem. Someone has to do all the work around here and that someone’s not going to be me.
Well, it is a you problem if you can’t be arsed to use corvée properly to develop your demesne and manor. How are your mills and bakeries doing? Your problem if you can’t act like bellatores do…