The raging fire engulfed the mountain village, and a group of wolf-like soldiers were urging the mountain people to advance, sometimes whipping with whips.

The history of this mountain village is not long, after the outbreak of the "Free Land War in the Mountains", a group of mountain people who originally lived closer to the official road abandoned the original village to escape the war between Sabe and Isafannalo, and fled to a new village deeper in the mountains.

Although when it was first established, it was not suitable for all kinds of adaptation, and many people died because of the wilderness, but with the blue wisps of the road for more than ten years, for the local mountain people, this place has gradually become their new home, but all this will end today, and they are leaving here.

When the soldiers burned down the original village and robbed them of all their food and savings, the young man who had no father, no mother, no wife and no children fled, and the rest of the people could only follow the soldiers whether they wanted it or not.

The Atrocities of Savan

"What awaits this group of people is to burn down the original village, take away all the original savings, and then the officer who leads the group will distribute the necessary food for their daily walk, and escort them to the village near the official road. ”

"The journey was long and arduous, and the army was urging and urgent, and the rations were still very harsh, with the result that many people who were physically exhausted died in the middle of the road. ”

"After all the hardships, these mountain people will be taken to the small plains south of La Divou, and then they will find that the mountain people who have been brought here are not only their own group, but also some who have arrived earlier than themselves, some later than themselves, and in short, many mountain people have been brought out of the mountains by the army. ”

"In addition to the mountain people and the army, there are also many Isavannaro nobles here, they are all unimportant branches of the family, and there is no way to inherit the honor of the family, so they were sent by the family to the former free land in the mountains, that is, the newly established Duchy of Savani to find a way. ”

"In order to increase his control over the mountain people, Archduke Nataro I of Savan generously (for the nobles) offered a lot of help, such as borrowing troops from his hometown, and letting his army go into the mountains like slaves, attack the mountain people, and capture the mountain people to Radivo. ”

"Then the branches of the nobility who were unhappy in Isafan Lo would ignore the original village relations of the mountain people (or even deliberately disrupt them, because this would help the nobles control the mountain people), and assign the mountain people to them as fiefs on their own, and build one Isavannaro fief after another. ”

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"Su Weili, not to mention in the hinterland, looking at the whole pre-modern world, can be said to be one of the lowest-born rulers, and there has hardly ever been a wanderer more humble than a slave who has been able to establish such a great cause in the future. Although this has a slight relationship with his giant bloodline, but more importantly, it is still the time when heaven and earth are together. ”

"After Isavannaro conquered the free land of the mountains from Sabe, he did not let the mountains freely maintain a peculiar way of life of his own, as he had done in the past thousand years, and the way of life of the mountain people was also very peculiar to the whole world. ”

"The class of the mountain people is different from the class composition of the nobles-burghers-commoners-poor people in the towns in the traditional feudal society, the class composition of the nobles-peasants-subordinate peasants outside the towns, as well as the class composition of bandits and homeless people. ”

"When Grand Duke Nataro I took office, he used Sabe's regular army to forcibly recruit the mountain people from the mountains, and installed them with the nobility as a ruling class, forcing them to pay taxes and perform labor, which the outside world was accustomed to and believed to be the truth, and the mountain people had not experienced the way of ruling for generations. ”

This method of governance has brought great suffering to the mountain people, and due to the low quality of the rulers, and the fact that the mountains are not suitable for the cultivation and taxation methods of the outside world, the suffering of the mountain people has been greatly aggravated, and in just a few years, the mountain people can no longer bear it. ”

"The mountain people are just a general term for the free inhabitants of the mountains, and before the Suweili Dynasty, there was no unified mountain government, just as they did not have a noble, and the mountain people did not have a common unified mentality. ”

This is also closely related to the origin of the mountain people, the mountain people are not the descendants of a certain ethnic group, but the descendants of the fugitives who have been fleeing from the outside world into the mountains for nearly a thousand years after Ivan Knudo entered the troubled times, they have Ivan Kenu people, there are Xiyiwen people, there are Sabe people, all ethnic groups and all classes, and even some nobles who have failed in political struggles will also flee into the mountains in a hurry. ”

So in the eyes of the outside world, the mountain people are a whole, a whole that can be treated in one way, but the mountain people themselves are infighting and do not think that they can be compared with other villages. ”

"However, the Grand Duke of Savan forcibly captured the mountain people from the deep mountains, and tried to restrain the mountain people by assigning them to various nobles to rule, and the Grand Duke of Savan acted as the 'other' of the mountain people, which on the one hand made the conflict between the mountain people and the nobles suddenly intensified, and on the other hand, it also made the mountain people have a sense of self-consciousness - we are a race, a family. ”

It is precisely because of this unprecedented mentality that the mountain people have become a united force, and it is precisely because of this favorable time and place that the people can rise in the micro end. And the 'Iweili people', who played an important role in the history of the hinterland of later generations, originated from the rebellious mountain people at this time. ”

"The Iwaili people, in their name, 'Yi' is the syllable of respect, and 'Wili' is a translation of Su Weili. It can be said that the integration of the mountain people gave the dissident who was not accepted by the traditional society the strength to rebel against the tradition, and the successful resistance of the Su Weili made the mountain people truly merge into a unified ethnic group, the 'Iwaili people'. ”

He quietly listened to the cry of the mountain people who were kneeling on the ground and holding their thighs, and there was uncontrollable anger in his delicate face: "Ah, I regret not listening to you, those northerners are so barbaric, we were tortured by them so miserably, I am afraid that in a few years, all the people will die!"

After arranging for this poor man, who had gone through the bloody migration and escaped from the aristocracy of Isavaloe, to rest, he gathered all the talents he had gathered over the years to discuss the problem he was now facing.

At the meeting, most people were noncommittal about the threat of the "northerners": "At the beginning, they didn't listen to you, big brother, and now they are crying again, why should we bother to help these people again? Moreover, these people are not our nearby villages, I remember that they are the villages of the Xiyiwen people, what does it matter to us?"

Another said: "Yes, yes, our mountain village is hidden deep in the mountains, and the terrain here is so dangerous, and we have many more people than those small villages, and the northerners can't get in." ”

Of course, there are also some niche voices, such as one person who thinks so: "Although we used to belong to various mountain villas, but in front of the northerners, we are all mountain people! At this time, we should not continue to engage in portal prejudice, we are not as good as the northerners, if we continue to be scattered like before, then there is really no help!"

At the end of the discussion, he finally made up his mind: "You are right, we should help them, at best, this is the custom of guarding the mountains since ancient times, and at the worst, if the northerners can't even protect the aristocratic villages on the official roads, let alone go deeper into the mountains." ”

The noble village is the name given to the villages set up by Nataro I with aristocratic rule and required tax and labor service, and Nataro I called these villages "model villages", and he declared that he would promote model villages in the whole mountain, which is now the Duchy of Safani.

For those who wanted to escape from the model village, Nataro I always referred to him as a "mob". Among these mobs, the most troublesome for Nataro I was undoubtedly the leader of the mountain village of Suweili, known as the "mob bandit", who not only attacked the mountain people of the noble village in all directions, but even dared to attack the suburbs of La Divo and burn the fields there.

Under the leadership of Xu Weili, there have been more and more revolts in mountain villages in various places in recent years, and the mob that dared to attack the nobles was not only "Xu Weili", but also many others, and finally in 1825, a very large-scale riot broke out.

"Your Excellency, you must make the decision for us! The mob not only burned down my house and robbed me of my food, but also gave our daughters and dependents to ...... Whoa, that's the nobles, and the nobles' servants!, how dare they do that!" cried the little nobleman who had escaped from the model village to La Divo, snot and tears.

The Duchy of Savani, the newly established principality, is nominally headed in Habaro, but the military status of Habaro is more important than the political status, as the border of Habaro, mainly used to defend Sabe in the south, and as a transit point for the Tuwak gold mines, first transported to La Divo, and then to Yaro (the capital of Isafan Lo), so the actual capital of the Duchy of Saván is Ladivo in the north, and Nataro I I, as the Grand Duke of Savani, is also stationed here.

Natarot I pushed away the little nobleman with a little disgust, frowned and said: "I have told you a long time ago that the taxes should be less, the labor should be less, this is different from the field, tell me how many of you have listened? If anyone really listened, where did those mobs come from such a large number, and why did the situation in the principality get to this point?"

The little nobleman choked up and said: "I admit that we have such a small mistake, but those mobs actually dare to rebel! Do they still take the identity of the nobles in their eyes? Grand Duke, if you don't kill a group of people, how can you be worthy of the king entrusting the principality to you!"

"I know!" Nataro I was in a terrible mood, he had expected that it would not be easy to rule here, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult, "so I have mobilized the army of the Duchy, and I have also brought reinforcements from the Duchy of Isafalo and the Duchy of Ravenc, and I am sure to kill these mobs!"