This year was particularly sad, first with a great drought and then torrential rains, and many villages were wiped out, so in this case, the Emperor actually announced a 'benevolent government', taking the land at a very low price, and then arranging for people to enter the factory, and offsetting the remaining debts with the wages of the workers.

As soon as this news came out, the crowd was outraged, and this time even the victims were not only those yeoman farmers who were still struggling to support themselves, but also those small and medium-sized farmers who were getting poorer and poorer. Imt was one of them, and after receiving an ultimatum from the tax collector, he broke his lifebed agreement with his deceased wife and went to his long-lost 'old friend' --- for a drink.

Drunk, he beat the tax collector with his strong body, and then vented loudly in the village, saying that he was going to turn against the faint king. The final result was that after he sobered up, he found that he had gone from a law-abiding citizen to the leader of the riots and thieves.

At that time, there were only a hundred or so people under his hands, and after eliminating more than forty women and children, there were barely sixty people who could fight. Weapons were also limited to wood knives, modified scythes, hunting bows that could only hit rabbits, and twenty sharpened spears made improvly. Not to mention against the regular monarch, even if there is a mercenary group of only twenty or thirty people, it can defeat them.

But such a rabble, as soon as the war began, they won a 'big victory'. At that time, the commander-in-chief of the island, Pierce. The Köb, with five thousand men, came to quell the rebellion. In order to achieve an extremely rare merit for Lu Jun, the commander-in-chief personally dispatched and exaggerated the number of rebels to 20,000.

Hearing this, Imt knew that he and everyone, including the old and weak women and children, had no way to live, and that this fat dolphin had no sympathy, no mercy, and he would kill everyone, even the poor people in the neighboring villages. Use their heads as proof of merit.

With remorse and unwillingness, Imt united several nearby villages, expanded the combat power to 500 people, and rushed to the battlefield, determined to hack to death a faint lackey to cushion his back!

Imt and his men lay in ambush in the jungle on both sides of the official road, quietly waiting for the other party to enter the arena for their final battle. But before the battle began, it ended dramatically.

What they ushered in was not a high-spirited counterinsurgency king, but a defeated king. This defeated monarch discarded the expensive steam backpack and steam gun, and ran on the official road with his life at risk, and there were only about a hundred people left. Behind them, a cavalry team relentlessly harvested their lives, even kneeling down and begging for mercy, only shortening their lives by a few seconds.

What surprised Imt the most was that the one who chased and slaughtered them was actually a member of the Jun team. It's just that the soldiers are wearing blue and white armbands. After slaughtering the deserters, these people did not leave, but stared at the location where the mob was hiding.

Knowing that something was wrong, Imt tried to direct the crowd to flee, but only then did they realize that they were surrounded. After being forced out of the hiding place, the people who had lost their will to fight had to choose to surrender. Fortunately, in addition to asking them to lay down their weapons, the other party did not embarrass them.

While Imut was reminiscing about the past, the door to the room opened, and a plain-looking elegant man entered. After placing the bag of fruit he had brought on the table, he opened his mouth and smiled: "Imt, what's the matter, are you thinking about things again?" ”

Yimut stood up respectfully and made a non-standard courtesy, the man in front of him had an ordinary appearance and an ordinary temperament, but when they first met, this seemingly harmless man put Pierce. The head of the fat dolphin fell at his feet. The look of surprise on his fat face with blood was still deeply etched in Imt's mind.

"Sit down, don't be so restrained." The man said politely.

After Imut sat down, he hesitated and asked, "Dear Linden. It's been a week since I was 'put to death', and I'm no longer of any use to you. When are you going to let me go? ”

"Don't worry, the current situation on the island is not completely stable, or rather, the riots led by you, and the same party are resisting sporadically, the island is not safe, you should continue to stay here. Rest assured, this is temporary. "Linden. Van said with a smile, handing Imt a piece of fruit.

Yimut, who took the fruit, said a little uneasily: "My lord, you know, the so-called traitors never exist, and it is you and many righteous monarchs who have defeated the officers and soldiers, and they have nothing to do with me. ”

"No, no, no, Imut, as the 'Wolf of Ilson' who swept across the island and was finally defeated and executed by me, what you did has been passed on to the Duchy cake. Whether you admit it or not, now you can only live here temporarily. Lyndon shook his head.

"But it's all you... Hey, sir, what the hell are you going to do? Imt said deflated.

"Save this country~" The monarch stood up and said seriously.

"Uh, do you mean to take the throne?" Imt asked in a whisper.

Lyndon laughed, "Imt, I'm not a royal family, not even a nobleman. Even if he usurps the throne, what can he do? Besides, what do you do after that? Is it to keep the current cabinet and engage in that constitutional monarchy, as it is now, or to restore the feudal system of the past? Will these save this corrupt and depraved nation? ”

"I don't know, my lord, I'm just a rough man." Imt shook his head, "However, aren't all the disasters on our island brought by that faint king?" As long as he is forced to abdicate, won't the good days of our people come? ”

"No, it won't, well, it may get better for a while, but it won't change the country in the end." Lyndon sighed, "Back then, my great-grandfather thought like this, so he joined the Emperor to fight against the Emperor, and as a result, he overthrew the Emperor and ushered in a worse era. ”

"Linden. Lord Van Fan, are you talking about the time when the old Emperor William III was ousted from power sixty years ago? Imt thought for a moment and asked.

"yes, that's it, you know that?" Lyndon laughed.

"No, my lord, I just heard my grandfather mention it, and at that time, my grandfather was only a few years old. When I was a child, he always said that the current life is better than when he was a child, when the old faint monarch was in power. Imt was a little emotional, at that time, the family could still eat meat or fish once a few days, and there was no shortage of bread, but now, not to mention meat, even the grass roots are almost finished.

"Yes, my great-grandfather was only seventeen years old at that time, and he joined the court of emperors, and listened to the deception of the big bankers, big merchants, and big farmers, and took advantage of the weakness of the royal family, plus the help of William IV, who later ascended the throne, to overthrow the eighty-year-old immortal. Later, he formed a cabinet to strip the royal family of its powers, and even took the opportunity to defeat the aristocracy. The ruler looked up at the sky and said to himself, "But will the promises of those rich men really be fulfilled?" Did the people really stand up? ”

"No, no, no~~~" Lyndon raised his index and middle fingers and swayed them from side to side several times in denial, "No, Imt! drove out the aristocracy, kept the royal family in captivity, and the last beneficiary was an even more inhuman businessman! They are just a bunch of nouveau riche who have been suppressed for thousands of years and suddenly gained power! ”

"They have no culture~! I don't know etiquette~! There is no conscience, and there is no humanity! Like fat dolphins competing for feed in the trough, they keep arching their mouths inward, and some of them even put their hooves in! The monarch squinted at Imt, who was sitting in a chair, and continued to say in a sneering tone: "Let's take the matter of this grain requisition, please tell me, why do you still want to collect grain from you even though the harvest is poor?" Why do you know that you can't survive, but you still have to collect it early, and you don't even let go of life-saving rations? Why is it that the mortgage price of the land has suddenly been pushed down, while the wages of the factories have risen rarely? Obviously, the matter is so big, but the outside world ignores it, and the cabinet even issued a general document, acquiescing to this unjustifiable and unpopular move! ”

Imt was stunned by the question, his mouth opened wide, and he couldn't answer anything. Linden. Fan smiled and walked to his side, put his hand lightly on his shoulder, bowed his head and whispered in his ear, "The faint king wants your land and forces you to enter the factory." And the cabinet wants to use this to suppress the little prestige of the royal family, the purpose of the two is different, but the price is the same, then you... ”

Imt understood that he, like all the affected islanders, was an outcast, a price to pay without thinking. Tears flowed out, and his hands clutched his trouser legs. He hadn't cried for a long time, and the last time he cried was when his wife died five years ago, but, unlike last time, this time there was only despair, no grief.

"Why are these people's hearts so black! Don't they have families? No children and no parents?! We were already living a difficult life, and now we are being pushed to the brink! Imt cried.

Linden. Fan straightened up, withdrew his hand, and looked down at the desperate villagers: "Imt, this is the time when the devil is smiling, there is no justice, no conscience!" Those in power, whether royal or cabinet, they are enemies of the people! Don't knock them down! The people will not be free! There will be no future for the principality either! ”

Imt got up and knelt down on one knee in front of the monarch: "Linden. Lord Brahman, please save us! Save the country! I, Imt. Piyson swears to the god of light and will follow you to the death! My lord, just say it, and then you can do whatever you tell me to do! ”

"Very well, Imt! That's it! Well, you'll have to stay on standby, and in a few days, I'll arrange for someone to take you to meet some of the insurgents who are hiding. "Linden. Van pulled him up.