Power and Empire Chapter 581: Witch season (2)
581 Witch Season (2)
City in central Saland, Fort Kuronze
The castle of Kuronze in March is the most beautiful season of the year. Crimson trees full of red flowers line the streets. The streets that were supposed to be covered with flower-viewing crowds are extremely cold at the moment.
The cold benches on the roadside are lonely, and there is no shadow of the noble girl Yingyingyanyan watching the flowers over the years, and there is no shouting of young people who like to go hunting in groups in this season.
This place seems to have become a military camp. All men, young and old, are armed with weapons of inferior quality and wear simple lock armor.
The Salander soldiers patrolling the streets are the only people in the city who are able to move freely. They are of different ages, middle-aged people with serious expressions, and young people with full of vigor and ambition. ,
Although the kingdom has issued several orders banning migration to the north, it clearly has no effect. The Kyoto area, with a population of hundreds of thousands, has become deserted and lonely due to war and food shortages, and seems to be on the verge of Death is average. The wind swept across the empty streets, and it seemed that the dampness of the air became more intense.
The Duke of Betha gently lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out the window with complicated eyes. The situation in Kuronzeburg was far more severe than previously expected. The houses outside the tall city walls have been demolished, and the trees have also been demolished. Has been cut down. Many workers were digging deep in the silt of the moat, and many people piled up logs and boulders on the walls.
There are overseers with whips everywhere, beating the workers who do not work as expected. Many overseers are wearing the costumes of the Mamunuk knights of the kingdom,
Looking at the workers screaming and rolling under the whip, Duke Betha’s eyes flashed with anger,
In the Kyoto area where there is a shortage of soldiers, there are places with such a large number of workers, which are often the most concentrated places of southern refugees. These poor people with nothing, except for the poor few slices of bread that can be exchanged for this kind of work. Can perform some extremely dangerous jobs, such as repairing warships for the Navy in the cold sea. I heard that some workers who have been soaked in the sea all year round have their waists grown alive because of the long soaking under the cold and dirty water. White maggots
The tree trunks by the city wall withered in the autumn wind, and the streets were covered with scattered leaves. I don't know how long it has been since no one has cleaned it. The wind swept across the street, bringing up dead branches and fallen leaves flying all over the sky, as if intertwined in mid-air into fragmentary patterns,
Some people say that this is a bad sign. Ever since the Norman army hit the long wall of Kyoto all the way from the southern coast with a devastating aura, this city, which may become a battlefield at any time, has lost its peace and prosperity in the past. The influx of refugees from the south made the originally densely populated Kyoto area suddenly become overcrowded. As the back garden of Kyoto, Burn Lake directly became the floodgate of Kyoto
A large number of residents and businessmen began to move to the northern region, praying to avoid the harassment of the war,
Duke Betha stared out of the window, everything in front of him made him, one of the three great dukes in the south, once a great minister of the kingdom, is now a commoner who has been deprived of everything, and feels his heart is broken.
He wanted to ask what happened? At this time, why does Kyoto treat its compatriots with such a harsh policy? The new southern decree that has just been promulgated is like a huge shock wave, which makes almost all the southern aristocrats who have left their homes feel heartbroken.
This also includes the Duke of Betha, who has been the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom for 15 years,
Because of his fierce opposition to this decree, and the collective resistance of the southern aristocracy in private, he was ordered to be dismissed on the spot by the king. If it were not for the secret assistance of some former ministers of communications, and his majesty remembered his service for many years, Bei Sa Duke may also become a victim of the royal family’s prestige, just like those of his companions who have been condemned in the same name.
On the **** guillotine, the blood of hundreds of great southern aristocrats is still flowing. They used to be the most wealthy and powerful people in this kingdom, but now their bodies have no convergent people.
The families of these southern aristocrats are still being held in the heavily fortified Polodi Prison, which is the place where the entire Salander Kyoto trembles. No one has ever been able to get out of it, even if it is dead, it will not. Someone knows, because there is a "private prison" under the jurisdiction of the royal family
People had to bow their heads under the eaves and lost their territory and army. The southern aristocrats who had dominated Salander for hundreds of years had no choice but to compromise in front of Kyoto’s powerful force. Some southern aristocrats chose to go north. I heard that although there is no prosperity in Kyoto, it is at least stable. I have never heard of discrimination against southern aristocrats.
Some people have chosen to end their lives in a Mamunuk-style way. Most of them are Mamunuk knights who have been deprived of their status. They chose to spend the last cent of their money, and then Wearing his beloved white iron armor, riding his fancy war horse to storm the Norman camp outside the city,
It’s like they used to walk through the streets with their magnificent horse stances amidst the cheers of the noble girls, and it was like they once swayed in the eyes of the beautiful lady. The red cloak behind, like a legendary hero, disappeared on the site line under the golden sunset,
When glory and wealth are gone, for these knights who are still deposited in the beautiful scenery of the old days, only death can end the pain in their hearts and let them keep the best memories in the hearts of their former lovers
Because of its high economy, dense population, and high maritime industry, the south has been the center of gravity of the kingdom for hundreds of years. This makes the Salander royal family based in the middle always feel like a stalker. In history, there have been many southern nobles Contempt for the incident in Kyoto,
While making the plan for the north this time, Kyoto will naturally not let go of this golden opportunity. If according to the new lord decree, these southern aristocrats who have been deprived of their Mamunuk knighthood, even if they retake the south in the future, There will also be most people who are not eligible to inherit the previous land, which undoubtedly makes Kyoto a big bargain
The carriage of Duke Betha was blocked at the gate of the city. Many refugees who were queuing out of the city were dragging their families and bringing their children to the land. There are also many people carrying too much luggage, cups and pans, mosquito nets, and all kinds of things. Some even carry furniture.
These people are ordinary civilians who have fled from the south. They can't stand the ravages of the war, so they flee madly to the north, which has not yet been affected by the war. Out of human instinct to survive, they all naturally flocked to the capital of the kingdom. While a large number of refugees are preparing to influx, there are also many residents of Kyoto who are preparing to leave the city in large packages.
I don't know where to go to avoid the war. There was a fierce collision between the two groups of people near the city gate. The noise, the cry of the child, the cry of the woman, and the chaos, and those thieves without the slightest moral conscience, crowded in the crowd to make the refugees the last point. The silver tael or gold coin was stolen, and suddenly it caused more mournful crying, which was heartbreaking.
Turning his face slightly, Duke Bess could not bear to witness this tragic scene of the country’s ruin and family destruction. The soldiers who defended the city were obviously accustomed to what they saw.
They turn a blind eye to crying, beating, scolding and stealing, and perform their tasks like robots. They drove out all the refugees entering the city, and did not hesitate to drive them out of the city gate a few tens of meters away,
But the refugees were still too crowded, so they set up buckets and poured cold water on the crowded refugees.
The cold water fell on the refugees, and they were immediately drenched. When the wind blew them, they suddenly felt the biting cold, so some people couldn't bear it and had to retreat,
But the vast majority of people still stubbornly crowded there, hoping that at a certain moment, these soldiers guarding the city gate can raise their hands high and let them go out of the city. However, how did they know that Kyoto had long ago ordered that no refugees were allowed to be released to the north.
The soldiers at the gate of the city are also making things difficult for the residents who leave the city, repeatedly searching for luggage and belongings, and some have to search their bodies.
But later, most of the residents who went out of the city were released. Before release, the residents must leave behind valuable small items, such as gold and silver ornaments, etc., which must be turned over to the state. Otherwise, you are not allowed to leave the city. Most local residents would rather hand over their gold and silver ornaments than flee the city, but there are also a few people who refused to accept such conditions and returned.
This is tacitly approved by the lord of the Kuronzeburg area. Not everyone can be as cruel as Kyoto. As long as Kuronzeburg is close to the north, he still understands some forms of the north, as long as he leaves the library. At the gate of Longzebu, these refugees may get a way to survive,
At least ~IndoMTL.com~ In the north, refugees can be properly resettled in the Victory area. There is no need to freeze more than 70,000 refugees to death in just one winter, as in Kyoto. Most of them are frail elderly and Kid,
For this situation, the lack of supplies in Kyoto has long been numb, and the carriages that transported the corpses were driven by the dirty southerners out of the city. Most of the people in Kyoto are unwilling to do such things, they will stand. From a distance, looking at these numb southerners with a look like a plague god, they carried a frozen stiff corpse into the car,
Occasionally, I can also see some southerners loading a car, lying on one or more corpses in pain, because they saw their parents, children, and lovers. At this time, the same hungry, yellow-faced and thin Kyoto woman, Will pull back the kid who is standing on the street laughing and laughing viciously, and then spit on the ground, angrily scolding "Damn Southerner"
This situation is very common in Kyoto, because there are too many people influx from the south, and the supplies that Kyoto can distribute become extremely tense. In the eyes of Kyoto people, these southerners are similar to the robbers who rob them of their food. Because of the existence of these cheap workers in the south, their men, fathers of their children, have lost their jobs for several months, and the food at home has been difficult to maintain
But this is not the most terrifying. The shadow of death caused by the plague is covering the central area of Salander. ..