Vol 7 Chapter 124: It’s good to be occupied forever.

The cold wind screamed from the north wind and invaded the neck of Lieutenant Nokmo, so that he couldn't help but take a nap and tightened his collar and shrunk his body.
Looking up, the dark clouds in the sky are thicker than they were when they left the camp. The gloomy as if they were covered with a layer of cotton that was not completely seeded.
"It looks like it's going to snow again." Lieutenant Nokmo exhaled a breath and formed a clear white mist in front of him.
It is already the weather in mid-November. For the small town of Greenwich, which is located in the middle of the former Frankish kingdom and is also slightly north of the entire mainland of Sainz, it is not surprising that it is snowing.
Lieutenant Nokmo was originally an aboriginal of a village near the town of Greenwich. He lived here for more than a decade and then left after joining the Frankish Kings team. Of course, he knows the weather very well.
"Hey, Captain, you said that this kind of ghost weather, do we still need to run out to patrol?" A Frankish kingdom soldier with his neck narrowed behind Lieutenant Nokmo complained. "Even if the rabbits are too cold to go out, I don't believe that the Lampari people will run off the attack in this weather."
Lieutenant Nokmo looked back at him and snorted: "Close your beak, Makan. This is the order that was explained above. Do you have the courage to not perform?"
The soldier, known as Makan, took a sip and muttered: "It is not the order of our Frankish chief. Why do you have to listen. The guys of the Marlow Empire will only direct us to help them do this dirty work, there are They are going to come by themselves."
Lieutenant Nokmo frowned, his eyes smacked and patrolled the other members of the squad, and found that the expression on their faces was not too different from that of Makan. They all showed a sense of dissatisfaction and could not help but sigh.
This is not surprising.
Don't say that these soldiers are dissatisfied. Even if he is also in the same heart, there is some dissatisfaction.
Although with the help of the Marlow Empire, their exiled government and men’s army in the Frankish Kingdom finally had the hope of regaining their own territory from the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Drach, but because of the occupation of the Marotti in the coalition Absolute advantage. The soldiers of these Frankish kingdoms were always sent out to do all kinds of dirty work, but when they calculated military power, they did not exist. Naturally, the soldiers of the Frankish kingdom are extremely dissatisfied.
However, as a military officer, Nokmo was more than what these ordinary soldiers knew, so he understood that there was no way to do this.
Without the help of the Marlow Empire, the Frankish kingdom had already perished a few months ago, and there was no possibility of counterattack.
Even if it wasn’t for the Marlow Empire that did not care about the taboos, it might be possible to dispatch several magisters to participate in the war. I am afraid that even the Marlow Empire has no way to take the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Drach. The Frankish Kingdom relies on its own strength to regain its success. Hope.
So in the end, the Frankish Kingdom is completely relying on the Marlow Empire. What qualifications are there to talk about its status?
Complain about the soldiers. Lieutenant Knockmo can understand, but relatively speaking, although he is also a little dissatisfied, but more is still grateful.
If it wasn't for the help of the Marlow Empire, it would be difficult for him to return to this familiar land in this life.
A few months ago, the Frankish kingdom and the Marlow empire’s coalition forces retreated after the alliance between the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Drake, and after the Greenwich town was handed over, Lieutenant Nokmo stayed with himself. The families in the nearby villages have completely lost contact.
And half a month ago, after the Mafa coalition forces regained the small town of Greenwich from the Kingdom of Lampari, Lieutenant Nokmo took time to go back. Reconnected with my family.
Because of this, Lieutenant Norkmo certainly has a grateful gratitude for the Marlow Empire.
But when he thought about the situation when he met with his family again, Lieutenant Knockmo felt that his gratitude to the Marlow Empire was not so clear...
After seeing the family. To his surprise, the family not only did not suffer the persecution of the Lanpari Kings as he imagined, but they were all red and full of spirits, except for some fears because they lost contact with him. It seems to be better than before.
After mentioning the situation after the occupation of the Kingdom of Lampari, the family did not complain about the Kingdom of Lampari, or even praised it, after the occupation of the Lampari Kingdom. They directly exempted the ordinary taxpayers who they paid the annual heavy tax, and also sent a farmland magic machinery harvesting team to help them harvest in the previous autumn harvest. This makes their autumn harvest this year very easy.
Because of this, the parents who stayed at home and the younger brothers who had stayed in the house could save some time to go to the offices in the small city of Greenwich in the Kingdom of Lampari for several months of short-term work. And earned a total of more than 30 gold coins.
This situation is greatly out of the expectation of Lieutenant Nokmo, but also gave him a bit of doubt in his heart.
The small town of Greenwich was originally a private territory belonging to the Count of Greene in the Kingdom of Frank. When the land was under the rule of the Frankish kingdom, the people of the Frankish kingdom on the territory had to pay a large amount of taxes to the lord Greene, according to tradition. Leave some rations to fill your stomach.
Although Green Earl is a rare conscience in the Frankish kingdom and willing to take care of the lord of the civilian life, the people in almost all the territories, including Lieutenant Knockmo, are still very nervous, hungry is even more Always.
When the territory near the small town of Greenwich fell into the control of the Kingdom of Lampari, it directly relieved the tax that the civilians should have paid in the majority of the land, and instantly made the lives of these civilians huge. change.
Do not say anything else, just the middle of the house of Nokmo, in this autumn harvest, harvested a full three thousand three pounds of wheat.
If you put it in the past, you have to pay 800 pounds to the Green Earl in this thousand and three hundred kilograms of wheat, and then leave the seeding part left, and you will only have four hundred pounds left.
Lieutenant General Nokmo, apart from the Lieutenant Nokmo, who has already joined the army, and five people, must rely on the four hundred pounds of wheat to support the spring harvest next year. The hardships of the day can be imagined.
However, after being occupied by the Kingdom of Lampari, according to the new policy announced by the Kingdom of Lampari, this thousand three hundred kilograms of wheat only needs to pay three hundred kilograms. All that remains is left to the home of Lieutenant Nokmo.
One kilogram of wheat compared to the previous area of ​​four hundred kilograms of wheat, but it is more than twice as much. Naturally, the life of Lieutenant Nokmo’s family was much better.
Moreover, after the Kingdom of Lampari occupied the small town of Greenwich, several chambers of commerce from the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Rulson and the Principality of Drake entered, and various preliminary developments were carried out on the small town of Greenwich. The local staff has enabled many people to find a job and receive several or even dozens of golden coins that the civilians could not even think of before.
With the help of gold coins, Lieutenant Nokmo’s life at home was more comfortable.
Because of the lack of food and clothing, the winter of the past is the most difficult day for Lieutenant Nokmo’s family. However, after entering the winter this year, the remaining five people in the house of Nocker Mok are not only able to eat enough, but also bought two new coins from each of them by virtue of the dozens of gold coins earned by their parents and their younger brothers. The new cotton quilts produced by the Armani Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari no longer have to be hungry as before.
I remembered the two new cotton jackets that my younger brother and sister showed off to show off, and Lieutenant Nokmo couldn’t help but look down at his own clothes.
As an officer, his clothes are of course stronger than ordinary soldiers, but it is just a thin layer of cotton quilt underneath a rotten leather armor that is rough and hard to wear.
I don't need to touch it by hand. It is because of the body that I can feel how light and thin this cotton jacket is, even allowing him to feel the cold wind directly infiltrated, showing the quality of the cotton jacket.
However, this is a bad cotton jacket. When he was given up, he was still forced to deduct three full gold coins from his officer.
You must know that his year as a lieutenant officer is only fifteen gold coins.
Think of it here. In the corner of Nokmo's mouth, a bitter smile was raised again.
In the past, his fifteen gold coins per year were a great supplement to the family, which made the life of the family slightly better than other families in the village. This also made him receive a lot of special treatment every time he returned home. .
However, now, just the younger brother who went to the office in the small town of Greenwich in the Kingdom of Lampari for a few months of short-term work, has already earned more than ten gold coins.
Coupled with the income of his parents, his fifteen gold coins are less important.
Even when the younger brother talked about this matter with him, he still looked disdainfully for letting him not be a soldier. It was better to go to the Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari to work.
Because he heard. It’s not surprising that they did a good job in those chambers of commerce and even got fifteen gold coins a month.
Other than that. There is also a very obvious difference.
The new cotton jacket worn by the younger siblings is thick and warm, and looks good. When buying from the Armani Chamber of Commerce, one piece only needs one gold coin of zero or forty silver coins.
If you buy two pieces at a time, you can even get ten silver coins cheaper.
In comparison, the value of this thin cotton jacket on his body is too much to read.
However, Lieutenant Norkmo still has a hard time complaining about it, because in the former Frankish kingdom or in the Marlow empire that he stayed in these months, the price of cotton quilts filled with precious cotton is high.
Just relying on this thin cotton jacket on his body, it is not a problem to take out two gold coins.
God knows why this Armani Chamber of Commerce can sell so cheaply, isn’t it afraid to lose money at a loss?
But after thinking about it, it would make sense for the Frankish kingdom to refuse the Armani Chamber of Commerce to enter the Frankish kingdom.
If the Armani Chamber of Commerce comes in, the merchants in the Frankish Kingdom who rely on the sale of cotton quilts every winter will probably be squeezed out.
However... what does this have to do with ordinary civilians?
As a silver coin, you can't wait to open the carefully spent civilians. Who wouldn't want to buy a new cotton jacket that is cheap and especially warm, and even looks better?
"Brother, it would be nice if it was always occupied by the Kingdom of Lampari."
Thinking of the innocent words spoken by my eleven-year-old sister with big eyes, the smile on the face of Lieutenant Nokmo is a bit deeper.
This sounds innocent, but isn’t it the heart of my sister, or even the heart of my parents and my brother, or even the hearts of all the civilians near the small town of Greenwich? (To be continued)