You have won the just reward after 10 years of service and battles fought on behalf of the King, and you have become Lord of a Fief! And what a Fief!!! ... an uncultivated land piece with a village of wanderers! And as if it was not enough, the neighboring Fiefs have been granted to your worse adversaries, who will not hesitate to try to kill you!

Maybe it is not a reward, but a punishment?