Chapter 736: Apocalypse War (12) The nouveau riche of Farda
If Lovecraftt was familiar with Farda culture, he would have realized that there was no name for Sauron in Farda culture, and even only among the Siddhi barbarians, there was a custom of calling Sauron.
However, Lovecraftt obviously didn't realize this, in fact, although he was unfamiliar with the pronunciation of "Sauron", since he was a foreigner, it could be understood, not to mention that it was still a two-syllable word, I am afraid that it was not only a foreigner, but also a foreigner in the colony.
And the purpose of this Sauron coming to Lovecraft, he said that after reading "My Childhood", he was greatly moved, and he was determined to devote himself to the cause of romanticism, so he paid for Lovecraftt to write a poem for himself to bring back, and the conditions were not simple, it had to be a poem related to the ghetto.
This ghetto, which has always only been visited by a few liberals, has nothing to do with his own romanticism, but this Sauron is not only willing to provide a good oyster, but also willing to provide many of the necessary magic to go to the slum, such as the olfactory obscuration scroll, so Lovecraftt felt that it didn't matter if he went once.
Anyway, this Sauron is bringing the poems back to Falda, so he doesn't need to take them very seriously, and he needs to revise them repeatedly like other poems, just need to do it in one go and correct it again, so it's quite an easy job, especially with such a rich pay, it's a cost-effective job.
After receiving a deposit and making some preparations, Lovecraftt went to the slums to write the romantic poems that Sauron demanded.
It is a shame to say that Lovecraft's arrival in Battyros has not been for a short time, but he has not been to the ghetto once, and there is no need to be too ashamed, because most of the gentlemen who can join the club do not need to go to the ghetto, so this is the first time Lovecraft's foot in the ghetto.
Slums are predominantly inhabited by the poor who are living in extreme poverty, as well as by vibrant social groups. Carrying on the fine tradition of ancient times, Battyros never cared about the life and death of the slums, and left the land to be controlled by dynamic social groups, which colluded with the factory owners to become tooth men who led the workers to work.
In fact, hundreds of years ago, when Boligu had just begun the industrial revolution, dynamic social groups were classified as "bandits" among the three evils, and were severely suppressed so that they disappeared for a time, and most of the bandits caught were branded as vagrants, and then thrown into factories to work as coolies for less than a few years, so the effect is obvious.
However, after Dima ruled the whole Siber, the dynamic social groups began to sprout again, and the Sibo also handed over the low-level security to the dynamic social groups, as long as the gang could afford to pay the poll tax, Sibo no longer cared about it, one was to respond to the call of liberalism, and the other was to save administrative expenses.
Since the administrative expenses are saved, there is no need to pay too much attention to the living conditions of the poor - of course, the layout of the city must be done well, so that the outbreak of plague in the slums will not pollute the whole city - so most of the slums are set up in the downwind of the factory, and the industrial power of Sibber can be felt at every moment.
So when Lovecraftt stepped into the ghetto, what he saw was a smoky scene, both in the physical sense and in the sense of security.
The slums downwind are almost sunless, so they are always gloomy, the houses are so low that you never know how many people are in a house, and you can see scoundrels with leash guns in their hands, pale pedestrians, and a group of dirty children.
Looking at this hellish scene on earth, Lovecraft's heart was tightly gripped, and Lovecraft, who had just planned to deal with it casually, began to take his work seriously.
While Lovecraftt was gathering in the slums, there was also a strike, and a group of women workers gathered some of the workers who neither worked nor disbanded, squatting in front of the textile factory and shouting slogans to demonstrate.
After listening for a while, Lovecraft's general understanding of the cause of the disturbance was due to the fact that the women had just gone on strike a few weeks to force the factory owners to promise a maximum of 16 hours a day, only to break the agreement within a few days.
At first, the female workers did not dare to attack, but yesterday there was another female worker who collapsed on the machine because she was too tired, and then the whole person was covered with blood from the roaring machine, and the factory owner came in and claimed that the female worker had disrupted the production plan and refused to pay today's wages, which eventually led to the strike.
The factory owner did not show up in person, but sent a housekeeper to threaten the striking workers with a menace to take them to court, and a vibrant social group duly came out of every corner to talk to the women workers about their families and children, and to comment on their bodies.
A small number of female workers were shaken, but most of them were still glaring angrily, and just when the relationship between the two sides was becoming more and more tense, the factory owner appeared in a hurry in a horse-drawn carriage, repulsed the housekeeper who threatened the female workers, and said with a pleasant face that the housekeeper was too impatient, and the female workers did not do enough, so he agreed to compensate the female workers and restore the 16-hour working day.
Under the combined soft and hard work of the factory owners, most of the female workers retreated, and only a few women workers insisted on striking to no avail, and finally the turmoil ended.
When Lovecraftt returned to the mill a few days later, he learned that the women who had taken the lead had disappeared, and he felt a chill in his heart.
Through his observations of the slums these days, and his own conversations with some of the workers, Lovecraft finally wrote "The Weavers of Battyros", and after several revisions, even Lovecraft's scalp tingled when he read it, what had he been writing these days, and why did he write such curses to the gods, the president, and the state?
The poem is very well written, but the problem is that it is so good that Lovecraft will not dare to hand it over, otherwise that Sauron will be in great trouble if he hands over this "Weaver of Battiros" to the government.
You must know that whether it is romanticism or modernism, they only criticize the industrial owners, and there is the support of some of the big nobles and slave owners behind them, as long as they do not name and insult, there will be basically no problems.
And his own "The Textile Workers of Batyros" is no longer scolding a certain group, but scolding the entire upper class, whether it is the upper class of the mortal world or the upper class, all of them, and there is resentment and curse between the lines.
Therefore, even though "The Weaver of Batyros" had been written, Lovecraft did not pay it, after all, the reward was precious, and the price of life was higher.
However, when Lovecraftt returned from the Louel Club one day, he was shocked to find that the "Weaver of Batyros", which he had hidden in the secret box, had disappeared, and the remuneration on the table was left.
After Lovecraft's inventory, he found that it matched his unpaid payment, and he was shocked that his "Weaver of Battyros" was probably taken by Sauron, and this guy was able to bypass the surrounding protection procedures, knowing that this is a civic area and not a slum!
What made Lovecraft's puzzlement even more puzzling was that Sauron took "The Weaver of Battyros" and took it, so why did he give the rest of the remuneration to himself?
However, since he left the remaining payment, at least he did not have to worry about the other party reporting him, so in the following days, Lovecraftt pretended that nothing had happened, and outsiders did not know what happened to Lovecraft's family.
It's just that in addition to this, Lovecraft's suspicion of Sauron is getting heavier and heavier, and a visitor who behaves so strangely, I'm afraid that the identity of Falda's nouveau riche is just a pretext.
But then, what was his real purpose, and what did he need to do with poetry? and the thought of the resentment in his own poetry made Lovecraft's heart even more uneasy.
A few days later, when Lovecraft's club came to sit at Louell's club, he suddenly heard a noise outside the club, and a gentleman who claimed to be elegant was feeling that the noise had broken his enjoyment, and when he wanted to call the guard to come in and reprimand him, the guard himself ran in and said in a slightly flustered voice: "Gentlemen, go out and have a look, something strange has happened in the sky!"
For no reason, Lovecraft remembered that he had taken "The Weaver of Battyros" a few days earlier, but remained silent on the surface, and went out of the Louel Club with the other gentlemen, and then looked up.
Most of the buildings in this era were not very tall, so you could easily see the sky of Batyros when you looked up, and the air quality in Batyros today is not good, even here at the club is slightly gray, and the blue sky is not visible at all, but this does not prevent Lovecraft from following the angle of the other pedestrians to turn their heads and search the southeast.
Lovecraftt soon saw something that surprised the guards, and the south-east side glowed red at noon, and the red light fluctuated like an underwater phantom, bringing an infinite sense of strangeness.
Battyros could only see red light, but the inhabitants of the Great Twin Stars could already see a huge door appear in the west, and something disturbing was squirming on the door, but it was too far away for people to see clearly, and a nameless mania rose in their hearts.
There was a knowledgeable scribe on the field, and after carefully identifying it, he said with a little hesitation: "The shape of this gate looks like an abyss gate, but how can there be such a big abyss gate." ”
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