Chapter 275: Sowing Discord
Disillusioned, Aple hurriedly arranged for people to go down to the refugee camp to investigate, and quickly summed up the reason from the results of the investigation. This result made Aple have to put away his overly optimistic mood and start thinking about countermeasures, he has really not been a mayor for nothing all these years, and his understanding of people's hearts has allowed him to quickly find a way.
Aple changed his strategy of conscription, no longer only using righteousness to attract young nomads, but adopting the dual temptation of national righteousness and vital interests, he used a military budget given to him by Hollanster and embezzled part of the refugee relief money, and began to use it for conscription. Each recruit who joins the militia will be given two gold coins, and if they can pass the assessment after three months of training and officially become a member of the militia group, they will be given two more gold coins. In addition, there is a military salary of five gold coins per year. This is already the cheapest military salary on the mainland, but it still manages to attract the interest of some refugees, who basically fled later, because they came here relatively late, the previous refugee camps were already overcrowded, so they can only set up tents in the wilderness, relying on some relief porridge to survive, this money is too important to them. What's more, in front of all the recruits, Apple's chest thumped to ensure that the purpose of this army was to counterattack the orcs in the future.
Although many smart people scoff at the idea of counterattacking the grasslands, if the refugees really had the ability to counterattack and return to the grasslands to gain a foothold, then they would not be driven from the grasslands to the ancient city of Oku. But there are still some children of refugees who are inspired, these refugees are basically fleeing later, they belong to the western tribe of the grassland, when the orcs swept the nomads, the nomads of the eastern tribe bear the brunt, and then it is the turn of the western tribe, so they came to the ancient city of Aogu relatively late, and the slightly better land near the town of Iron Pine has been occupied by the refugees of the eastern tribe, so they can only set up tents in the wilderness, relying on some relief porridge to survive, they can only continue to go south, and as a result, they stayed near the ancient city of Aogu for a period of time and were driven back to Iron Pine Town, although after the efforts of Isha and Aple, they still settled near Iron Pine Town, but life is extremely difficult, so it is their greatest ideal to be able to return to the grassland as soon as possible to live a leisurely life of herding horses and sheep.
In this way, Aple was able to recruit more than 2,000 recruits at once, but just as he was pleasantly surprised that his method worked, the smooth recruitment process stalled again. It seems that the temptation of gold coins is not useful for all refugees, especially for those who arrived early, these people are the first to benefit from Isa's charity, their living conditions are relatively good, at least they don't have to worry about food and clothing, so gold coins are not indispensable for them, and these people are also relatively rational, they know that if it were not for Isha's self-raised donations, they may have fallen into slavery a long time ago, and the Ogu family is not even willing to take out the gold coins to help them, how can they be kind enough to train them to counterattack back to the grassland?
In order to convince this large group of people to join the militia as well, Aple had to turn to Isha for help.
"I, a woman, can only do my best to help my compatriots in need, as for politics and military affairs, it is your men's business, and I can't help it. ”
Isha politely refused, but Aple did not give up and kept following Isha until he was annoyed by his verbosity, and Isha simply went straight to Aogucheng. Isa's attitude made Aple keenly aware that Isa herself did not support his conscription operation, and further investigation revealed that Isha not only did not support him, but was behind the scenes, secretly encouraging and even instigating refugees not to join his militia, which is also the real reason why his conscription plan has not been smooth.
Aple, who learned the truth, was very angry, he originally wanted to arrest Isha directly for obstructing military affairs, but he immediately calmed down, in the town of Iron Pine, Isha couldn't move at all, Isa's charity over the years has already made her a god in the hearts of refugees, any behavior and attempt to hurt Isha will be regarded by the refugees as enemies of killing their father, and they will tear themselves apart at all costs. A helpless Aple once wanted to go to the ancient city of Okugu to sue Isha and let Hollanster stand up for himself, but he suffered from the fact that all his accusations against Isha were unsubstantiated. In the end, he was helpless against Isa, and he thought of a bad trick that could not only facilitate his own recruitment, but also undermine Isa's prestige, and he began to spread rumors and deliberately create contradictions among the refugees. He encouraged the refugees who came after them, saying that the biggest reason why they lived in such hardship was because the refugees who came before them had taken their resources, and if they wanted to change the situation, they had to drive out the refugees before them and take back the resources that belonged to them. These refugees belong to different tribes in the steppe, not only do they not trust each other, but they are even hostile for some reason, so they are easily exploited by Aple.
This kind of rumor first arose among the vigilante groups, and those teenagers who were not deeply involved in the world, lured by Aple's flawed lies, began to constantly provoke the former refugees, and after several small conflicts, some were abused, Injured, and even looted, the refugees reported the barbaric acts of the militia to the Public Security Department, but the Public Security Department ignored them, and even beat them up, which completely angered the previous refugees, and their children spontaneously formed a team and began to confront the militia group, and the two sides continued to clash, and more and more people joined, and they even hooked up the old grievances between the two sides on the grassland, and the confrontation intensified, and finally led to the entire refugee team splitting into two camps,-for-tat with each other.
Aple's purpose in provoking the conflict was to take revenge on Isa, but he did not expect that this confrontation would quickly go to the brink of getting out of control, and that a large-scale conflict could break out at any time, which was beyond his control, and could even lead to immeasurable serious consequences.
He shouldn't have taken on this task at all, but now not only has the militia not been formed, but the situation in Tiesong Town has become out of control, and if it is not well controlled, it may even turn into a civil strife that affects the entire city-state!
The joy of Aple's initial assignment was gone, and turned into a sense of chagrin and remorse, and if there was a large-scale refugee riot, he was afraid that he would end up as the mayor of the town, and might even be imprisoned for dereliction of duty.
Aple is scared, but he has no ability to solve the problem, and the only person who can solve the problem in Iron Pine Town is Isha, but in order to avoid him, Isa and her family have been living in the ancient city of Oku. He didn't have the face to go to Steven's house to see Isha, so he could only come to Hollanster for help. But what Hollanster would do with the matter, and what kind of responsibility he would bear, he was completely unsure of what he was going to do.