Diocletian first divided all the officials into eighteen ranks, and all the ranks from one to eight were eunuchs, ranking in front of the hundred civil and military officials.

At that time, Eastern Rome was simply a paradise for eunuchs, and ordinary poor families would take the risk of castration in order to change their lives.

However, at that time, the medicine of Western countries was relatively backward, and there was no technology such as disinfection and hemostasis, so their mortality rate was very high, according to statistics, the mortality rate in Egypt was as high as 60 percent, and in Arabia it reached more than 40 percent.

Anyway, regardless of the cause on Earth......

This kind of "reliable" wonderful person who can prevent his "harem from catching fire" can easily spread among the nobles of various kingdoms in this other world.

Although this line of work seems a little inhumane.

But it is not easy to survive in troubled times, there are wars and displaced people everywhere, and even farmers who are honest farmers ~ may be routed by passing bandits and cut off the heads of their whole families.

Saying goes~

It's better to die than to live~

Many people from poor backgrounds and ruthless people who can't eat, in desperation, regard this as a rapid promotion (net) promotion (body) step to gain wealth and nobility.

The Grand Duke finally withdrew his contemplative gaze.

He put on the gold-silk hooded rain cloak handed by his chamberlain, and soon a group of more than a dozen mighty horses rushed out of the city gate around Archduke Edmund Dundees, and passed away from the long brick-paved straight avenue with the sound of horses' hooves "clattering and clattering" all the way.

......

Inside the palace of the King of AIDS.

The Minister of Ceremonies, Rust, hurriedly entered the main hall, stopped in front of the screen of the main hall and bowed and shouted, "See His Majesty!"

"Aha~!"

"Your Majesty, hurry up~Come on~~"

"Hey, hahaha!~ Your Majesty, you are so bad~~~ I touched someone's place......"

Behind the screen, there was a faint sound of young men and women playing lewdly, and no one responded to Rust's greetings.

Because ~ King AIDS is behind the screen in the main hall, playing a blindfolded beauty guessing game with the palace maids and concubines.

"Your Majesty!!" The embarrassed Minister of Manners, who was left out in the cold, could only raise his voice again and shout loudly. The king behind the screen finally stopped playing, and walked out slowly and casually.

The Minister of Ceremonies, Rust, hurriedly spoke: "Your Majesty, Archduke Dundee......"

"It's him again......" The disheveled middle-aged AIDS King smoothed his collar with his back to Rust as if he were talking to himself.

"What's wrong with him?" asked the King of AIDS, looking as decadent as a court otaku.

Rust whispered to the king in the tone of a small report to the teacher, "The Grand Duke went to the port yesterday to meet with the syndicates. ”

"Ah?!!," His Majesty asked in a bewildered voice. "He's gone to the port, what is he going to do?!"

"I heard that I went to pay homage to the 'Zhenhai General' of the Syndicate Federation, a powerful tenth-order martial artist of the half-step legendary rank, Timoses. The minister replied with a low brow and a pleasing expression.

"Yesterday's incident!, then why did you only come to report today?!?!" The young king held the other party's shoulders with a little excitement, his eyes widened, and he looked directly at the other party and said helplessly, "Rust Aiqing, I will treat you as a confidant." You can't ~ always put the horse in hindsight!?"

"Uh...... Umh......h

Rust was dumbfounded by the king's questioning.

After shaking his head and sighing, the AIDS King continued to ask the other party: "Don't hmm, then is he coming back now?"

"Not yet!" the Minister of Manners did not dare to be careful, and he quickly replied honestly.

"Go and get someone for me, and I'll ask him what he wants. The king simply instructed his "confidant" minister, Rust Aiqing.

"Yes~~~" Rust immediately responded to the king's order, and respectfully walked a few steps backwards and retreated.

......

The group that escaped from the barony turned from the country road to a wider trade road, but the road was always full of displaced people, with a number of parcels and bamboo baskets in tow, men, women and children supporting each other, while carefully avoiding the carriages and flying horses that galloped back and forth, and at the same time carefully walked on the edge of the ridge beside the stone road.

"Why are there so many homeless people?!" the two girls were suddenly a little surprised, "Let's go over and ask them about their situation. ”

"Could it be that they have been robbed, or is the situation of the Karui on the other side of the border so serious?" Master Bruno was also a little puzzled.

Let's talk about it.

Without waiting for Chen Xuyuan to reply, the two women leaned over to a middle-aged couple with a pair of children with brisk steps.

But.

Even if Higgri and Patyusa were calm and asked them why they had come here, these honest villagers looked at the brightly dressed "wizard's daughter" with great fear, and thought that they had offended the nobles by their rude behavior.

Trembling, she couldn't say any complete logic, just making amends there, the village woman even knelt down and kowtowed.

Others, with numb and dull eyes, looked down at the ground, not daring to look directly at the noble lords, and only when Higgley handed them food would they thank them in fear, and some of them wept gratefully.

However, from the bits and pieces of a few words of several groups of displaced people, everyone gradually knew the real origin and reason of these people.

It turns out that the border of the AIDS Kingdom, not only the southern border, has been plagued by war, but even the eastern part has not been quiet in recent years.

There are always Maraketh people on horseback, who sneak into the border areas all year round to burn and loot. Many freedmen were displaced and had to run west. Along the way, the lords of the cities closed their doors, ate grass roots, bark, wild fruits and wild vegetables, and ran all the way to the west of the kingdom near the royal capital, looking for those government farms or big cities that lacked people to earn a living.

A small group of bandits and bandits would never dare to approach large and medium-sized cities to plunder, because even the cities of the noble lords were garrisoned by a large number of cavalry spellcasters and city defense equipment, not to mention some important regional center cities.

And those mercenaries who drink human blood are not vegetarians, and many business thieves from homeless backgrounds will be slaughtered like mowing grass when they encounter a professional wargroup with a skilled killing business.

The problem of nomadic bandits in the east is actually a problem left over from history, and even if the farming people are strong, if they do not have mechanized mobile troops, it is only a waste of money to play hide and seek with the "guerrillas" on the grassland, not to mention that a stubble will grow.

Every year, the kingdom had to recruit troops and spend a lot of money on the army.

This is also the reason why the upper echelons of the entire kingdom turned a blind eye to the Karui barbarians who fought the autumn wind in the south, and were unwilling to have a big conflict with the south.

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