Because it is poor in literature and rich in martial arts, merely providing these knights with adequate food to make their blood boil is enough to crush a family that is not affluent.
True hardship befalls a typical farmer's home when a knight about to awaken their bloodline appears—it's a real catastrophe, enough to drive the entire family to collapse, teetering on the brink of starvation.
From Apprentice Knight to formal Knight, to Elite Knight, each stage presents a significant hurdle.
Why must knights all have their own estates? Because their demand for food is truly immense.
To sustain 1,000 fully equipped, excellently armored, well-trained Elite Knights, just the food consumption equates to that of 10,000 to 20,000 infantry.
Calculating this way, the territory's food supplies are indeed stretched thin, and the farmland must continue to be expanded. At least this year, the farmland in Jorn Shallow Bay needs to be expanded to over 1,500 acres.
