028 Always remember to cut the grass and eradicate the roots
The mayor of Loren is a local minor nobleman, which is why he can become the mayor of a town, the nobles in European countries are not all brain-filled, and their own territories have to hire civilians like butlers to manage, especially for small and medium-sized nobles, as long as they have a little talent, they will often manage their own territories themselves.
In this way, it can greatly avoid the corruption of taxes by the officials below, after all, the small and medium-sized nobles have a weak family background, and perhaps a drought and military famine can make a small and medium-sized nobleman lose his family wealth, which is extremely miserable......
More importantly, these small and medium-sized nobles themselves are also effectively loyal, they are similar to the subordinate bureaucrats of the big nobles, because the fiefs of the small and medium-sized nobles come from the big nobles, and they have to obey the due obligations of the big nobles, such as military service and regular payment of a certain amount of money similar to 'tribute', in fact, these small and medium-sized nobles are also in the sphere of influence of the big nobles on the map.
After the long dark Middle Ages of evolution and annexation, it is impossible for a single baron to have his own force against the upper nobility.
The small and medium-sized nobles who were gradually deprived of their rights became more and more like the gentry class in the ancient eastern countries, they had the right to manage and a certain amount of local military power, but they had to absolutely obey the orders of the big nobles in wartime, and their status was not even as good as that of a commoner-born housekeeper in the family of the big nobles.
Just like the mayor of Loren, he is fighting for his fiefdom on the surface, but in fact he is taking care of the home of the lord of Zhytomyr......
Even in the laws of the nobility, it is only natural that the mayor of Loren unconditionally obeys the orders of the lord of Zhytomyr!
The more centralized the European countries, the more serious the phenomenon of small and medium-sized aristocrats completely becoming local officials, which is also the reason why many small and medium-sized aristocrats could not stand the endless oppression and exploitation of the big nobles after the end of the Middle Ages, and became disgusted.
The peasant uprisings and revolutions in Europe after the Middle Ages, the leaders were almost all from small and medium-sized nobles, of course, compared with the low-level pariahs who were inferior to others, the class antagonism between the small and medium-sized nobles and the upper nobles and the royal family was not too much of a contradiction.
Since the mayor of Loren can stay in the front-line town and become a local official, he naturally belongs to the 'loyal' aristocratic official, and of course, after he heard the report of the people below relay the surrender and immortality conveyed by the Tatar leader outside, he directly scolded the messenger......
However, not all the towns were lackeys of the Polish aristocracy, most of them took up arms, just to live, and now the city was easily suppressed by the Tatar musketeers, and the image of the Tatar bandits who were not afraid of death was also deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the town militia had long been in the hearts of the people.
Who wants to fight a bunch of madmen who don't want to die?
It's all raised by my father and mother, as long as I can live, who is willing to go to the battlefield to fight for life and death!
Fortunately, the sheriff of the town and the mayor of Loren are good colleagues who wear a pair of pants, and they work together to squeeze and exploit the townspeople on weekdays to meet their own decent life and meet the standard of paying taxes.
Unfortunately, the upper echelons of the town were determined to resist, but the morale of the town militia below was shaken and was about to collapse.
The town magistrate quickly failed to pacify and returned to the mayor of Loren, and said with an anxious face: "Mayor of the town, we can't go on like this, those militias have begun to openly disobey orders, relying on such soldiers, how can we stop the Tatar bandits!"
We must find a way to make the townsfolk and militia not dare to let the Tatars into the city, or you and I will be doomed......"
"What do you say the townsfolk are most afraid of?" Mayor Loren asked, following the train of thought of the city's security officer.
"Well, of course those untouchables are afraid of death, and it is because they are afraid of death that they will be tempted by the surrender promised by the Tatar leaders outside."
"Well, if you want to make the townspeople afraid of the Tatars, you can only make them believe in the 'fact' that the Tatars will die when they enter the city!" Mayor Loren said with his eyes shining.
The sheriff scratched his head and wondered, "But how do we convince the townspeople that the Tatars will slaughter them?" After all, the renegade Polish traitor had just shouted outside the city, and if we couldn't say a few words to the townspeople, they would believe it, and at this time, even if the priest tried to persuade them, I am afraid that the townspeople would not believe them all......"
After pacing back and forth a few steps with a frown, Mayor Loren slammed his slam on the stone table: "Naturally, there are not many people who go to persuade the trustworthy, but we have sheltered many villagers from the surrounding villages who have fled before, and they escaped because of the ravages of this group of Tatars, taking these villagers as an example, it will definitely be more convincing to let them come out to testify!"
Those villagers can't even live in their homes because of these Tatar bandits, and they must hate them to the core, and we can make good use of that. ”
Ten minutes later, Mayor Loren sent people around looking for the fleeing villagers, and began to use their miserable experience as an example to spread the word that the Tatars were bloodthirsty and murderous, and that they would not be able to survive after the destruction of the city.
What Mayor Loren didn't know was that his actions were forcing Hong Tiancheng, who didn't have much patience, onto this road of slaughtering the city!
Hong Tiancheng is not a person who loves to kill, he kills people for the value of crime, and at the same time, he also takes revenge for what happened when he first crossed over, of course, there is also the meaning of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots.
Hong Tiancheng's lack of murder does not mean that he is stupid, he knows very well in his heart that he has formed a blood feud with the Poles, unless his strength is so great that the Poles dare not act rashly, otherwise how many Poles to let go means how many enemies to create......
Hong Tiancheng knows that as he relies on the strength of the all-out war system continues to increase, sooner or later he will have to confront the Polish government army, and when the time comes, those Poles who belong to the Polish nation and have a family feud with Hong Tiancheng will naturally be formed by the Polish government to deal with Hong Tiancheng, and even those Poles will take the initiative to join the army to take revenge!
Is there more hatred than slaughtering people's relatives and destroying people's hometowns?
Of course, Hong Tiancheng did not regret his behavior, because if he didn't do this, he would have already become a corpse at this time, and he would die by himself or by another race, this kind of question does not need to be considered!
Hong Tiancheng doesn't want to be like the villain boss of film and television dramas, he has to leave a small tail after doing bad things, and then wait for this little tail to grow up and carry out a gorgeous counterattack......
If you want to do some things, you must always remember the truth of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, there is only one life, there is no retreat on the road to rise, and any mistakes and hidden dangers may become the last straw to kill Hong Tiancheng!
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