Hunger and despair fuel resentment in the hearts of those fleeing, which builds up and eventually turns into hatred and anger. Picking the lead, a group of wanderers took the lead in picking up pitchforks as weapons and suddenly launched a surprise attack on a neighboring state-owned farm.

The state-owned farms are not military installations, and the entire armed force is nothing more than a dozen overseers hired by the managers. In the face of the real "mob", this gang of ruffians and hooligans has no mercy in bullying the soft and fearing the hard, and they disperse in a hurry after a little resistance. Angry peasants broke through the fence and joined forces with the same disgruntled laborers to form a team of more than 100 men and set fire to the house where the overseer and manager lived. Then they rushed to the barn, opened the barn, and took out bags of flour and distributed them to the hungry people who followed them.

In this way, a peasant uprising was established on state-owned farms, and at least until the storehouses were depleted, their power would continue to grow and spread to the surrounding villages.

A spark can start a prairie fire. The news of the peasant uprising seemed to spread throughout the empire as if it had wings. There were millions of starving people fleeing the famine, and everyone was full of resentment, and they all had a simple, extreme, and incomparably fierce hatred for the imperial magnates, for the bureaucrats large and small, for the rich who did not have to worry about food and clothing, and even for the crown prince and his staff who launched this unfortunate reform movement, and they had no other way to vent their resentment than violence! Almost overnight, the empire was in flames, with rebellions of varying scales erupting. Individually, each rebel was inadequate, poorly equipped, and loosely organized, and seemed to be easily suppressed by a regular army. However, hundreds of such "sparks" combined to become a sea of fire, scorching the entire Assanian Empire with gunsmoke. From the Holy City to the provinces, the garrisons moved frequently to suppress the rebels, but the more they suppressed, the more fierce the resistance provoked, the more exhausted the Imperial officers and soldiers, and the will to fight was gradually weakened and demoralized by the slaughter of the scrawny compatriots.

What began as a sporadic rebellion in the spring of 1624 turned into one of the widest, most involved, and most far-reaching uprisings of the century! The wildfires that have ignited across the empire are increasingly showing signs of spiraling out of control.

Thousands of miles away, Roland also closely followed the evolution of the Great Revolt of 1624 through various means. In a letter to Palatina, he made the following predictions about the prospects of a peasant uprising in the empire:

"When those in power in a country are forced to start reforming, it is often the most dangerous moment for that country. In the past year, the imperial authorities have successively issued hundreds of decrees involving land reform, agricultural reform and economic reform, but less than one-tenth of them have been implemented and have received positive results, and the vast majority of policies have not only not achieved results, but have had the opposite effect, breaking the original ecology of all strata of imperial society, and failing to establish a new ecological equilibrium, the foundation of the country has been impacted, and the interests of the reforms have been far more than the bottom peasants. ”

"The peasant uprising is only a fuse, and other actors whose interests have been damaged in the imperial reform movement are observing the direction of the wind at this time, and once they think that the popular sentiment is available, they will jump out and take over the rebel army, and by virtue of the advantages of birth, wealth, culture, talent, occupation, etc., it will be easy to control the leadership of the rebel army, and then the empire will face a more difficult force to deal with, and the peasant armed forces that have been transformed by the elite will become more combative, and even show their own political program, At that time, they were not just trying to eat enough, but seeking political power. ”

Just a week after Palatine received this reply, the prophecy of Roland's letter was verified in reality. The feudal lords, aristocrats, large landowners, and high clergy who had suffered in the reform openly expressed their sympathy for the hungry, and even a diocesan priest made such a blatant declaration in a public sermon to the hungry:

"Survival is a basic right given to everyone by the sun god, and when tyranny pushes you to the point of desperation, don't forget that there is a path behind you, and that is crime, and there is no shame in remembering it!"

The priest of the church in the province of Magic Mountain, named Mintzel, walked down from the pulpit after these remarks, walked out of his church, and went out into the streets to listen to his sermons, and lived and died with the hungry people in the province to resist the troops sent by the provincial capital to suppress the rebellion.

Immediately the spiritual leader of the rebels in the province, Priest Minzel was held aloft by his followers as a saint on the waves of the crowd, shouting to the inhabitants on both sides of the street, inviting them to join the army of divine beings seeking to survive.

Perhaps it is true that the Mintzel priest has an extraordinary appeal, or perhaps it is those who are secretly preparing for it to think that the time is ripe. The nobles, landlords, gentry and priests of the Magic Mountain Province came forward one after another to express their support for Priest Minzel, some funded money, food and equipment for the rebel army, and some personally joined the rebel army and became Priest Mintzel's comrades-in-arms.

This rebel force grew rapidly, swept through the province of Moshan in just one month, and even followed the example of the Far Easterners to raise the banner of "independent statehood".

The "Minzel Uprising" took place in the province of Magic Mountain, which is not unexpected. Since ancient times, there have been three places in the Yashan Empire that are famous for "poor mountains and bad waters", including the Far East Province and the Magic Mountain Province.

"The empire is not chaotic before the magic mountain is in chaos", "the empire has been leveled in the far east is not peaceful", this is the proverb passed down from the old people of the Yashan Empire, which shows how unruly the mountain people of the magic mountain province are. Priest Minzel, who was born in the mountains, even if he converted to the Church of Perot, still did not change his unruly temperament, and he embodied the character traits of the natives of the Magic Mountain.

If it was just a rebellion by the mob of the Magic Mountain, the rulers of the Holy City of Asshan would not be too worried. However, the development of events soon exceeded their expectations, and the "Dragon Palace" intelligence bureau intercepted a secret letter, although it is not yet completely decipherable, but all kinds of signs indicate that foreign forces have intervened in the Magic Mountain rebellion, trying to provide Minzel and his party with comprehensive support from materials, funds, equipment, tactical guidance, and international public opinion.