The Duchy of Mosat, one of the three southwestern countries of the Shang Alliance, is relatively small in size among the nine countries of the Shang League, but this country is quite rich, because the special products produced by this country are important materials that are indispensable for the development of all countries - ore. There are two famous mineral fields on the mainland, one is the city of Black Harbor in the northeast of the continent, and the other is the "Tara Basin" of the Principality of Mossat.

The Tara Basin is a small basin in the remnants of Sunset Mountain, with a radius of only a dozen miles, and it was originally partially inhabited by humans, which was considered a small settlement of the Magic Empire. Later, the scientists of the Magic Empire discovered a high-quality copper mine in the basin, and they didn't know if they didn't dig it, and they were shocked when they dug it. This copper vein goes deep underground to the bottom of Sunset Mountain, and there are several small ore veins nearby, and at the end of the small ore veins, there are several iron ore mines. As a result, the Magic Empire mobilized a large number of miners to the Tara Basin to build mines and cities, which were preserved during the First Continental War.

For 1,000 years, the copper and iron mines showed no signs of drying up, and the city next to the mines flourished, and after the establishment of the Duchy of Mosat, it was named "Tara City", corresponding to the original name of the place, "Tara Basin".

In the Tara Basin, there is now a copper mine, two iron mines, and a black iron smelter and a brass smelter. About 3,000 miners and 1,000 smelters live and work in the city of Tara. Sawyer is an old miner who has been working here for twenty years.

Sawyer is a single middle-aged man who has been a miner at the No. 2 Iron Mine for twenty years, and he has always been different from the others when he deals with ores and shovels every day, with a thick black beard. Miners always carry dust when they work, and in order to prevent their beards from being polluted, Sawyer will use a cloth bag to put on his beard whenever he works. Every day, he was reluctant to shave his beard, even if he endured the sweltering heat in the mine. Over time, both those who are familiar with him and those who are not familiar with him like to refer to Sawyer as "Blackbeard".

Mosat's miners have always been a high-income industry, and workers in this lucrative industry only need to carry five baskets of raw ore from the mine every day (Note 1) in exchange for 10 Silver Coins. This income is not low, 1 silver coin can allow a big man to live a comfortable life for three days in the Principality of Mosat.

However, over the years, Sawyer began to gradually find that things had changed. He didn't know that this was actually related to the external situation of the Business Alliance. Although the Duchy of Mossat was far away in a remote place in the southwest corner of Sunset Mountain, the overall policy of the Merchant Alliance required that Mozart also need to concentrate financial resources and prepare its army as soon as possible. Ore, on the other hand, is indispensable for the manufacture of weapons.

So, after 20 years of work, Sawyer found that for the first time, the mine was reducing the income of miners, and at the same time, increasing the amount of miners' labor. In the beginning, the pay for ten silver coins became nine, then eight, the amount of ore required per day was increased from five to six or seven baskets, and the foremen, who had been either drinking or sleeping at home in the city of Tara, were now all serious supervisors in the mines, and even whips were used to the slower miners.

Sawyer, the unlucky guy who was whipped by the leather.

Because he accidentally spilled a basket of rough stones when he came out of the mine, Sawyer was whipped by the foreman, and Sawyer, who dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, cowered to protect his body and beard. Looking at Sawyer's movements, the more angry the foreman became, the more ruthless he became.

Maybe it's because of the stab~ stimulus, maybe it's nature that's the way it is, Sawyer, who finished eating a whip, didn't know why his temperament changed a little, and he began to become more disobedient to discipline. The foremen are also strange, other workers will be more obedient when they come to whip, why is this Sawyer so difficult to manage. The Duke's demands became higher and higher, and the output and income became more and more disproportionate, and the foreman and the leaders of the mine were also very depressed.

Of course, there is also Sawyer who is depressed. Originally, with his twenty years of experience as a mine worker, Sawyer would soon have the hope of being promoted to foreman, but he did not expect that the mine was affected by the situation of the business alliance, and with an order from Grand Duke Mosat, Sawyer's promotion hope was instantly slim, and he had to spend more time mining every day with those young workers, and the income was much less. The most unconvincing thing is that the overseers in charge of the foreman appointment, who obviously accepted a large amount of bribes from themselves, are now suddenly all turning their faces and denying people.

Sawyer, who has been immersed in his work, few people know that he is actually an extremely intelligent person, and after being whipped several times, his brain is becoming more and more sober, the situation in the mine is changing, and the situation in Mossat is also changing. The most important thing is that there are not a few miners who are as disobedient as him. In just one year, the workload of miners has more than doubled, and the income has decreased by more than half.

Unbeknownst to them, of course, it wasn't just the miners who were experiencing this, but also the workers at the nearby smelter. And all of this has to start with the new army established by the Business Alliance. Just as the Duchy of Kaman needed to support the Sixth Army, the Duchy of Mossat also needed to support the Ninth Army, and the pleasure-hungry Grand Duke of Mozart and the nobles in the Duchy were not willing to pay out of their own pockets to arm this army, which was destined to be out of their control.

So, of course, the misfortune fell to the workers of the mines in the Tara Basin, the largest source of wealth for the Principality of Mossart.

Knowing whether it was accidental or inevitable, Sawyer finally broke out in a merciless whipping, and as a miner, he was so powerful that he knocked the foreman who had beaten him to the ground with a single punch. The beaten foreman was a little annoyed, and got up on the ground with a curse. He didn't realize that Sawyer in front of him was already furious. Sawyer rushed forward, two large hands like iron tongs grabbed the foreman's neck, and with a little force, lifted him up. The foreman's face was flushed, his hands were weakly grasping Sawyer's fingers, his mouth was panting, and his feet were kicking wildly.

Sawyer lived to be forty years old, and the first time he did something to someone, he killed someone, and the foreman, who had been arrogant not long ago, was already a cold corpse by this time. Looking at the bruised foreman on the ground, Sawyer felt a kind of restlessness in his heart, and suddenly crawled out like a butterfly breaking out of a cocoon, he didn't know it at that time, that thing was called "desire".

The Duke of Mossat and the officials were first informed that there had been a riot~ in the Tara Basin, and that the miners of several major mines and the workers of the black iron metallurgical plant had joined forces to kill the foreman and the overseers sent by the duke. "A bunch of stinky guys!" Duke Mosatt's original words were conveyed as they were, and the nobles near the Tara Basin, at the order of the duke, took their domestic slaves and servants to leisurely go to hunt down ~ the rebellious miners.

However, things did not go the way Duke Mosat thought.

Three years of miners and 1,000 workers coerced everyone in the city of Tara, armed themselves with brand new weapons that had not yet been opened in the factory, and for a while, the mines of the "Tara Basin", which was one of the major sources of wealth of the Principality of Mosat, completely fell into the hands of the rebels. The four knight lords, two barons, and more than 800 of their followers who had gone to quell the rebellion at the beginning were defeated in one day, and the heads of the six nobles were hung high on the towers outside the city of Tara, and less than twenty people fled back, spreading the terror of the rebels throughout the country.

Yes, the miners now call themselves rebels, and their leader is called Blackbeard, and those who have fled back say that it is a terrible monster with "three heads and six arms, and eyes as big as bells", and that it is said that he is the vanguard general of the Satan Devil, who has come to punish the nobles of the Duchy of Mosat. Naturally, deserters who chewed their tongues were inevitably hanged, but the rebellion of "Blackbeard" and the killing of six nobles also made Grand Duke Mossart angry. As a result, the native army of Mossat and the new Ninth Army were all sent out by the enraged Duke of Mossart to quell the rebellion.

The Grand Duke of Mosat said angrily, "It is thousands of people now, maybe it will be tens of thousands in a month, and in 10 months it will be more than 100,000 people, and then you and I will have to wait to lose our heads! I don't know where this Blackbeard came from, I must hang his head at the gate of the city." ”

Naturally, Blackbeard is not from nowhere, he is Sawyer. As soon as the fetters in his heart were broken, the satanic demon in Sawyer's heart emerged, and since he had killed the first foreman, Sawyer, who had not stopped doing anything, lifted the shovel beside him and smashed the second foreman's head into a broken gourd, and then the third and fourth ...... Some miners, who had long been dissatisfied with the foreman and supervisor, also began to join in this riot~ action.

The night passed, and the mine was no longer a fight, but a scene of slaughter. Sawyer was elected by the miners as the leader of the riot~, and they left the mine, broke down the gates of the nearby smelter, and took out piles of freshly smelted knives, shields, axes, and guns, and were completely armed. The remaining foremen and overseers were all slaughtered, and the timid workers were also given a machete.

Then, Sawyer was no longer Sawyer, he became the leader of the Mossat miners' rebel army "Blackbeard", and the leader of the rebels in the Principality of Mosart, "Blackbeard". In just a few days, the heads of four knight lords and two barons were hung outside the city of Tara, and the rebellion intensified, finally welcoming the regular army of the Duchy of Mossart.

The rest of the story spread throughout the territory of the Shang League, and the 20,000-strong regular army of Mozart was defeated by the miner rebels, and the remnants had to retreat to the city of Mosat. The high-spirited "Blackbeard", who now calls himself "Prince Tara", has the "Four Dukes" under his command, and the rebels are supported by the weapons and armor of the regular army, and the Grand Duke of Mossat has a rather difficult time. The only good thing is that the castle of Mossat was built by the successive Dukes of Mossat to be extremely strong, and the rebels could not attack it for a while.

Note 1: The ore mined in the vein is rough and needs to be smelted before it can be used. The basket was a tool used by the Mossat miners to hold the rough stones, and was also used for counting.