: 581 Witch Season (2)

581 Witch Season (2)
Central Salland, Kuronzeburg
The Kuronzeburg in March is the most beautiful season of the year. Crimson trees full of red flowers are arranged on the streets. The streets that were supposed to be full of flower-watching crowds are particularly cold at the moment.
The cold benches on the roadside were lonely, without the shadow of the aristocratic girl Yingyingyanyan looking at the flowers and smiling, nor the cries of young people who like to hunt out of the city in this season.
It seems to have become a military barracks here. All men, young and old, all have weapons of uneven quality and wear simple mail.
The Salander soldiers patrolling the streets are the only people who can move freely in this city. They are of different ages, serious middle-aged people, and full-faced, ambitious young people.
Although the Kingdom has issued several orders prohibiting migration to the north, it obviously has no effect. The Kyoto area, which has a population of hundreds of thousands, has become deserted and lonely because of wars and food shortages. It seems to be on the verge of death. The wind blew across the empty street, and it seemed that the damp smell was more intense.
Duke Bessa gently lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out the window with a complicated look. The situation in Kuronzeburg was far more severe than previously expected. The houses outside the high city walls have been demolished and the trees have been cut down. Off. Many workers are digging deep into the silt of the moat, and many others pile up huge logs in the city walls.
Supervisors with whips are everywhere, beating the unsatisfactory workers. Many supervisors are wearing the costumes of the Kingdom Mamunuk Knights,
Looking at the workers who were screaming and rolling under the leather whip, there was a hint of anger in Duke Bessa’s eyes,
In the Kyoto region, where there is a shortage of soldiers, there are also places where such a large number of workers are often the most concentrated places for refugees in the south. These poor people have nothing but to use this work in exchange for a few pieces of poor bread. Extremely dangerous work, such as repairing warships for the Navy in icy waters, I heard that some workers who soaked in the sea all year round have their waists under the cold and dirty water for a long time, and live maggots grow out of them.
The trunks of the city walls withered in the autumn wind, and the streets were scattered with leaves. I don't know how long no one has cleaned them. The wind swept across the street, bringing up withered branches and fallen leaves, as if intertwined in bits and pieces in the air,
Some people say that this is a bad sign. Since the Norman army with a destructive momentum, all the way from the southern coast to the long wall of Kyoto, this city that may become a battlefield at any time has lost the peace and prosperity of the past. A large number of refugees from the south made the originally densely populated area of ​​Kyoto suddenly overcrowded. As the back garden of Kyoto, Burn Lake directly became the flood gate of Kyoto.
A large number of residents and businessmen began to move to the northern area, praying to avoid the harassment of war,
Duke Bessa stared out of the window. Everything in front of him made him one of the three Dukes of the South, a former minister of the kingdom, but now a civilian deprived of everything, feeling that his heart was broken.
He wanted to ask what happened? At this time, why did Kyoto treat its compatriots with such a stern policy? The new Southern Decree just issued was like a huge shock wave, which almost made all the southern nobles who had left their homes feel cold.
This also includes the Duke of Bessa, who served as the Minister of Finance of the Kingdom for 15 years,
Because he fiercely opposed this decree and connected the nobility of the southern nobility in private, he was ordered to be removed from the post by the king. If it was not the secret assistance of some old ministers, and the king read his service for many years, Duke Bessa also Like the companions who were sinned under the same name, they might become victims of the royal family,
On the guillotine, there are still hundreds of nobles of the southern nobles. They used to be the most wealthy and powerful people in this kingdom, but now their bodies are not even converging people.
The families of these southern nobles were still held in the heavily fortified Porodi Prison, which was the place where the entire Sarande Kyoto shuddered. No one could ever get out of it. Even if it was dead, no one would know, Because there is a "private prison" directly under the royal government
People have to bow their heads under the eaves and lose their territory and army. The southern nobles who once dominated Saran for hundreds of years, in front of the powerful force of Kyoto, can only choose to compromise in addition to the swallowing, some southern nobles choose to go north, I heard there Although there is no prosperity in Kyoto, it is at least very stable, and I have never heard of discrimination against the aristocracy in the south.
Some people choose to end their lives in a Mamunuk style. Most of them are Mamunuk knights who have been deprived of their identity. They choose to spend the last penny of their body and then wear the beloved Iron armor, riding his fancy horse to the Norman camp outside the city,
Just like they once walked through the streets in the magnificent cheers of noble girls with magnificent horse steps, and like the once one horse, in the eyes retained by the beautiful lady, swaying the red behind them dashingly The cloak, like a legendary hero, disappeared on the ground 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, allowing them to leave the best memories in the hearts of their former lovers
Because of its economic prosperity, dense population, and maritime industry, the south has been the center of gravity of the kingdom for hundreds of years. This makes the central Salander royal family always feel like a stalk. There have been many times in the history that the southern nobility despised Kyoto. Incident,
While making the plan for the north this time, Kyoto will naturally not miss this thousand-year-old opportunity. According to the new lord decree, these southern nobles who have been deprived of the status of the Mamunuk knight will have even if they recapture the south in the future. Most people are not eligible to inherit the previous land, which undoubtedly caused Kyoto to pick up a big bargain
The carriage of the Duke of Bessa was blocked at the city gate. Many refugees who queued out of the city, they dragged their homes and brought their children with them. There are also many people who carry too much luggage, cups, pots and pans, mosquito nets, all kinds of things, and even some people even carry furniture.
These people are ordinary civilians fleeing from the south. They can't stand the torture of the war, so they frantically flee to the north that has not yet been affected by the war. Out of the human instinct for survival, they all naturally flowed to the capital of the kingdom. While a large number of refugees were preparing to flock in, there were also many residents of Kyoto City who were preparing to leave the city.
I don't know where to go to avoid the war. Two crowds of horses collided violently near the city gate, the noise, the cry of children, the cry of women, and the thieves without any moral conscience, crowded in the crowd to take the refugees' last point The silver two or gold coins were stolen, and suddenly more cries of crying from heaven and earth were broken, which was heartbreaking.
Slightly turned his face, Duke Bessa couldn’t bear to witness this tragic scene of the country’s ruined family, and the soldiers who defended the city were obviously used to what they saw,
They turn a blind eye to crying, swearing, and stealing, just like robots performing their tasks. They drove all the refugees into the city without hesitation and pushed them out a few tens of meters outside the city gate,
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 soaked in the water. They were blown by the wind. They suddenly felt the bitter cold, so some people could not bear it and had to retreat.
But the vast majority of people are still stubbornly crowded there, hoping that at a certain moment, these soldiers who guard the city gates can raise their hands high and let them out of the city. However, how did they know that Kyoto had already ordered that refugees should not be allowed to go north.
The city gate soldiers were also troubled by the residents who left the city. They repeatedly searched for luggage and items, and some even searched for them. They felt a little inaccessible or outgoing.
However, afterwards, most of the residents leaving the city were still allowed to release. Before releasing, the residents must leave valuable small items, such as gold and silver ornaments, which must be turned over to the country. Otherwise it is not allowed to leave the city. Most residents prefer to surrender their gold and silver ornaments and go out of town to escape, but there are a few people who refuse to accept such conditions and retreat.
This is the tacit consent of the lords of the Kuronzeborg area, not everyone can be as cruel as Kyoto, as long as Kuronzeborg is close to the north, it still understands some forms of the north, as long as it is out of Kuronzeborg The refugees, these refugees may get a way to live,
At least ~EbookFREE.me~ In the north, refugees can be properly resettled in the Victory region, instead of freezing over 70,000 refugees in just one winter like Kyoto, most of them frail elderly and children ,
For this situation, Kyoto, which lacks supplies, has long been numb, and the carriage that transports the corpses will drive those dirty southerners out of the city. Most Kyoto people are reluctant to do this kind of thing. They will stand far away. , Looking at these numb southerners with a gaze like the plague god, and put a frozen stiff body into the car,
Occasionally, some Southerners who are loaded with cars can also be seen lying on one or a few corpses because they see their parents, children, lovers. At this time, the equally hungry yellow-skinned Kyoto woman will treat herself The grinning child standing at the street pulled back fiercely, and then spit on the ground, scolding a "damn southerner" in his mouth.
This situation is very common in Kyoto, because there are too many people pouring into the south, and the materials that Kyoto can distribute become extremely nervous. In the eyes of the Kyoto people, these southerners are similar to the robbers who grab their food because these southern The existence of cheap workers, their men, the fathers of their children, have lost their jobs for several months, and the food in their families is hard to maintain
But this is not the most terrible. The shadow of death brought by the plague is shrouded in the central area of ​​Sarand. ...