Chapter 275: Sounding
"My people, my lords, Kegistan has suffered a great calamity in the past few days, and our beautiful kingdom trembles in agony because of the evil deeds of a gang of evil cultists.
Countless people have been displaced, and countless soldiers have died on the battlefield!
We were deceived into driving out our allies who had always supported us with our own hands, and then we were deceived into raising butcher knives against our own compatriots!
Our friends, relatives, brothers and sisters are being ravaged and slaughtered! Those cultists don't even intend to spare their souls!
All this... It's all my fault......
But before I can say a word to my father and take off this robe because of this grave mistake, I must do one last thing, and that is to put an end to it!
Come on! Brothers! Come on! Sisters! Come on! My compatriots!
Let us once again unite under the banner of Kaigistan and swear under the gaze of the Desert Eagle that we will work together to put aside our past grievances and bury the cultists of the True God in the sands and make them pay a terrible price for their evil deeds! Let our great eagle banner once again fly on this vast land!
I need you! Kegistan! You guys are needed! ”
This was the "Letter to All the People" read by Hakan II on the large terrace of the royal palace.
I have to admit that these words can indeed be regarded as sincere and inspiring, especially when the citizens watched Hakan II drag his "thin sick body" and "pale" to the railing of the terrace and say words of self-reproach, thinking of the news that came from the court before, the twelve-year-old little king had suffered a recurrence of old injuries due to overwork, and even became critically ill several times.
The vast majority of people in the square immediately forgave him.
And when he shouted impassionedly in a still immature voice, "Kaijistan needs you!" When he said this, everyone in the square shouted excitedly!
They believed that under the leadership of the wise son of Hakan I, they would be able to get out of this gloomy haze and bury all the cultists of the True God who were wreaking havoc in their sacred desert into the sandstorm!
And at this time, the rebellion in the remaining three medium-sized cities was slowly quelled by the kingdom army and the three guardians, and all the mobs had been disarmed and were being guarded by the army to wait for the king's decision.
All those who have participated in this riot are terrified, and they know that their previous actions are almost indistinguishable from treason, and that there is only one solution to any human kingdom in the face of traitors.
Execute!
But now they had no way to resist, and could only wait anxiously for the outcome of the king's judgment.
On the other hand, the nobles of Kagestan jointly demanded that all the mobs be executed according to the Code, and they presented Hakan II with a great deal of heinous evidence of atrocities, and demanded the most reasonable and just verdict based on this evidence.
But Hakan II, after some "deliberation", refused their request, and he addressed the minister who represented the interests of the noble families of the country.
"I know that you have a blood revenge in your heart, and I know that you have lost many brothers and sisters in that catastrophe, but you also need to know that those things are not all the fault of the people, but the rumors spread by the cultists of the True God and the riots they instigated.
And at the same time, I am also responsible for this, because if it had not been for my initial indulgence in the Cult of the True God, things would never have ended up where they were.
Therefore, I deserve to share in this punishment, but no matter how much you are dissatisfied with me in your hearts, I will never agree to your ridiculous demands, for these are our people, who are only blinded, and are not hopeless villains.
Therefore, I pronounce that all those who participated in the riots shall be sentenced to death by hanging, according to the third degree of crime, first-degree crimes, leaders, all evil-loving authors, and those who spread and incite rumors! The prisoners will be escorted by the army to the Kartim execution ground for public execution! Reporting such culpability can make meritorious contributions, and reduce culpability according to the situation!
Second-degree crimes, the backbone of the riot operation, murderer, robbing other people's property, and those who are forbidden to wear the weapons and armor of the city guards, are sentenced to hard labor! Sent to Nasder and other four cities that were slaughtered by cultists, they will be used as hard laborers for reconstruction, and they will be treated the same as slaves until all four cities are rebuilt, and the slave status will be automatically lifted and returned to their original hometown!
Third-degree crimes, ordinary riot participants, coercion, and those who listen to the fallacies of cultists, shall be fined and confiscated, confiscate all the financial goods obtained during the riot, and each person shall be fined 1 silver coin, which can be paid in the same amount of finance, and those who cannot pay shall be sentenced to one month's hard labor and sent to the four cities to participate in the reconstruction. ”
As soon as the results of Hakan II's punishment were announced, they were immediately praised by the people from all walks of life in Kaijistan, only the nobles who suffered heavy losses in the riot were dissatisfied with this result, but now the situation in Kaijistan, the power of the aristocratic forces has been weakened to the limit after the previous blow, even if they are dissatisfied, they do not dare to have any public statement about it at this time, they can only secretly keep this blood debt in their hearts, ready to wait until the time is right, Brutal revenge on those mud-legged rebels.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Hakan II immediately announced that the three large cities in the Kingdom of Kaijistan, including the royal city of Kartim, should immediately open their doors to accept refugees, and even required the people in the three medium-sized cities and those who had participated in the riots before, but were released after paying fines for third-degree crimes, to gather in these three large cities, and ordered the dispatch of troops to mainly escort the transfer of refugees to all the refugees who had not yet taken refuge in the three large cities.
The reason for his decision was to devote his limited forces to the most important places, and after the defense area was reduced, it would naturally be difficult for the cultists of the True God Cult to continue to carry out "guerrilla warfare."
At the same time, because these three large cities are geographically opposite each other, they can respond and support each other in a timely manner, so even if one city is attacked, the other two cities can be reinforced in time.
However, in fact, at this time, the True God Cult had already completed the task of collecting souls under the leadership of Alahan Heilin, and in the next period of time, they would not risk appearing in the outside world at all, so as not to affect the implementation of the final plan.
Hakan II, who was occupied by Beria, the Lord of Lies, gathered all the people of Kegistan to the three major cities, of course, not for the sake of the high-sounding reasons that he proclaimed, but in order to gather all the human beings in Kegistan to the greatest extent, and when the time came, let them all become nutrients for the expansion of the Evil Blood Demon Land!
Now, they are just one step away from completing their final plan.
That is to reactivate the location beacon located in the royal city of Ensdinga, and then use the beacon location and the Ten Thousand Souls Pendant in the hands of Arahan to open the portal to the very center of the Ensdinger Magical Land in the three large cities of Kegistan!