Chapter 649: The First Song of the Evil Beast (8) I don't move and the enemy collapses
When the workers on the white list rioted, Alabi on the red list watched as they were violently suppressed by the vigilantes, and then thrown into prison and exiled, and when Arabi was expelled from the workshop, the apprentices were reluctant to accept Arabi.
Arabi was expelled from the workshop, mainly because of his age, as the pressure of the silver shortage increased, the workshop owner's requirements for textile workers became heavier and heavier, and then the young Arabi could not withstand this high-intensity labor, and he was directly tired, and then he was thrown out of the workshop.
After all, at this time, there are younger, more energetic, and lower-priced masters than Arabi, and the workshop owner no longer needs Arabi, a dying old worker.
By the autumn of 2448, Uldoci had been divided into two markets, one was the currency market, where prices were quite low, but they could only be bought with money, which was now scarce in the city.
The other is the physical market, that is, the black market, which pays attention to barter, grain and cloth are the strongest exchanges, and the other exchange is amazingly large.
If his three sons were still around, then the family would be able to have a scene, but now the two younger ones have been conscripted in the first wave of conscription, and the older one has also been conscripted in the second wave of conscription, and it is extremely difficult for the family to leave Arabi alone to support the food of his grandchildren.
Arabi sold his house at a bargain price, and the family moved to a more humble hut, and then Arabi bought a textile machine, ready to repeat his old craft to earn a private living.
How can the efficiency of the home loom be compared with that of the loom in the workshop? But after all, Arabi has a good handiwork, so that the clothes that used to be worn by the wealthy citizens can be sold cheaply to the lower common people, and they can barely exchange some money to make ends meet.
In 2449, Arabi heard that it was not only Urdoci who had this problem, but almost all of Sibe.
Once, when Arabi went grocery shopping, he heard a blind priest swear to the onlookers that Huls had planted domain magic, and that Urdoci would now encounter these problems because of Huls's curse.
Excerpt from "The New Concise History of Siber"——
“...... It is a good idea in the short term to blame the curse of Hulse for the unprecedented silver shortage, and the grassroots who know nothing about economics mostly blame the curse of Hulse for their predicament, and if Hulse is soon to fall, then this rumor will sit idly by. ”
It's a pity that the war continued to drag on, and as a result, the rumors secretly spread by the Philippine argon officials turned out to be self-defeating, so that countless grassroots people turned from cursing to begging for Huls, and after begging for mercy, the object of resentment was concentrated on the Urdoche authorities, for which the Philippine argon can be said to be unexpected. ”
By the end of the spring, news came from the front again, and it is said that the main general Amis was also deeply worried when he heard the news from the rear, so he was ready to prepare for another onslaught, although a large number of people, including Arabi, did not believe that they could capture Dima, but in general it still slightly restored the confidence of the rear.
Amis also knew that this was a military order, if the ant siege failed again, the confidence of the rear would really collapse, looking at the increasingly dilapidated but unfailing Dima city wall, Amis thought of the feeling of Huls when he faced the Naro fortress nearly a hundred years ago.
However, just as the god of the mountains did not protect Hers in the war, the god of fire did not protect Amis in the war, and the onslaught of 2449 ended in failure again, and Arabi received a message that made him faint in agony: "One man has a letter to him, and two men die in battle!"
After the news reached Bejara, the enraged Bejara announced the removal of the post of general of Amis, and before the new general arrived, Dima's army of 110,000 (there was no 110,000 for a long time, but Bejara is still called so) was temporarily commanded by the commander of the army of Love, Rahman.
However, this resignation order could not maintain the confidence of the avalanche in the rear, and the price of Uldoci changed drastically again, which made Arabi, who had just woken up from a fainting, stunned to find that if he still wanted to sell the clothes he sewed, he could only reduce the price to the point that he would lose money!
So Arabi fainted again, and when he woke up, he had to sell the loom that he once regarded as a treasure to a textile workshop at a price far less than he had bought.
After the loom was sold, Arabi simply renovated his dwelling by manpower, and then the family squeezed into a smaller space to make more space to sell to civilians whose houses were mortgaged, or after a while they could be called paupers.
At this time, the cursing against Hulse became quieter and quieter, but the cries for Dima to end the war soon became louder, and as far as Arabi saw, many people secretly pretended to be ears of wheat with withered grass and asked the gods to shelter Dima (the symbol of the Dima Chamber of Commerce is the ear of wheat).
In 2450, the situation worsened, as a group of extremely powerful people joined the vagrants in the cities, the bankrupt peasants in the countryside!
Through the small talk of those people in the market, Arabi also learned a little about what had happened in the countryside in recent years, the yeoman farmers were bankrupt, and even the lords had to sell the serfs to the nobles who were willing to buy them to repay the loans, and these nobles who bought serfs squeezed the serfs several times more than before.
In this case, a large-scale wave of exodus began, and now these people who entered the city were either relatively small or close to the city, and more bandits or mobs were joined, resulting in cities everywhere having to frequently transfer the only remaining city guards and even security soldiers to prevent these mobs from getting too close to the outskirts of the city.
The former peasants who poured into the city had no financial resources, and they either lived outdoors in bridges and caves, or simply occupied the houses of their original owners, such as Arabi's house, which was forcibly occupied by several mobs, and they evicted Arabi's tenants without paying Arabi a penny.
Fortunately, this situation did not last long, and the protection fee that Arabi paid to the Villain's Guild was still worth something, and the Villain's Guild held several bloody street fights with the former peasants, and managed to keep some of the territory, and Arabi's house was lucky to be one of the sites that was saved, but as a price, the protection fee for the Villain's Guild was also a lot more.
Before being driven away, the demons from the countryside robbed Arabi's only remaining savings and dragged Arabi's granddaughter away, listening to the screaming cries of his granddaughter getting farther and farther away, Arabi, who was beaten to a bruised nose and swollen face, could only hug his wife and other grandchildren and tremble.
The savings are gone, the protection fee has risen again, the housing tax has not been abolished, and a grandson has been kicked and seriously injured.
In 2451, the situation was even worse than last year, many ordinary citizens began to be unable to support themselves, and the hoarding of food and daily necessities was increasingly exhausted, and they began to go bankrupt, and with the bankruptcy of these burghers, the remaining workshops were also on the verge of bankruptcy, and only a few with a large aristocratic background were thriving by hoarding goods.
"Why hasn't Lord Hulse led his army to kill Dima and liberate Urdoch," Arabi cast a sad gaze in the direction of Dima goods.
At this time, the latest chief general appointed by Filipino, Naisa, one of the royal families of Valerosino, finally went to the front line to take up his post, and as soon as he took office, he got a "surprise" news, and the acting general Rahman begged for bones on the grounds of old age and decrepitude.
According to the usual reasoning, for such an important war, the former chief general (generation) was extremely cooperative with himself and parachuted down, and did not fight for power at all, which should be a fortunate thing, but Naisa saw from it how bad the war against Dima was.
"The army is on the run, the morale is crumbling, the rear is in turmoil, the city has been besieged for nine years, and I feel that it is now Dima who is surrounding our 110,000 troops, not that we are besieging Dima!
In the end, Rahman was not allowed to beg for bones, but he was also allowed to take a vacation and return to Uke to rest, leaving Naissa alone with a headache, and when others were forced to take on the task by playing football, Naissa expected that the situation at the front would be bad, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.
But since it was so bad, why didn't Dima leave the city, and what were they waiting for?
In the year 2452 of the Great Calendar, Dima was besieged for ten years, and the whole Sibo besieged Dima for ten years, and Dima was not dragged down, but Sibo was dragged down first.
With the order to expel the exiles of Urdocia, a rebellion broke out that later generations called the "Great Urdoci Uprising", which was described in the Sib Canon as a righteous uprising, and the awakened people of Uldocia rebelled against the tyranny of Urdoc.
However, as far as Arabi is concerned, the "uprising" seems to be a fantasy, and the riot is a real thing, and many displaced people, led by the angry class of unemployed citizens, have launched an assault on the city council of Uldoche when the only remaining main army of Urdoci has also been transferred out to suppress the displaced people.
And the slogan they impacted was the so-called "The king of the mountains today is the most sage, and the villains of the municipal bureau misinterpret the benevolence of the king of the mountains", benevolence or not, these citizens know it, but if they say so, it's easy to push the pot afterwards, right?
After the city authorities were stormed, Uldoch's already precarious order collapsed, and then there was a mob revelry, where the really old villains all piled up fortresses as shrinking turtles, while the unruly thugs robbed everywhere to vent their desires.
Arabi was one of the targets of the robbery, his house was burned down, his ladies were ravaged, he was beaten, and when he regained consciousness in a dizzy state, he saw a burning Uldoki, a smoky Uldocia, a beast venting his desires.
"O God!" Arabi let out a bitter wail, and then a mouthful of blood choked his throat, and the old man fell to his heart, falling into a slumber for all eternity.