Chapter 815: Gliat's Past
The northern kingdom of Dairiat is located north of the Minsk Mountains, a huge mountain range that divides the Minsk mainland into three parts in a T-shape, and has long had three different climatic characteristics, the hot and dry kingdom of Saville, the warm and humid kingdom of Mares, and the cold of Dailyat.
Compared with the two kingdoms in the south, the northern kingdom of Dyad was not founded for a very long time, adding up to less than 500 years, and there were two divisions of nearly 100 years in between.
Before the founding of the country, Daliat has always been a penal colony for criminals in the two southern kingdoms, almost all criminals in the southern kingdom who can neither kill nor imprison will be banished to Dalyat, these criminals are not only nobles who have lost their power, but also the army that failed in the coup, as well as a large number of ordinary civilians who have contracted epidemics such as plague, etc., as long as they can't stay in the southern kingdom, all of them are sent to Daliat to fend for themselves.
For a long time, for the people of Minsk, Deliyat was a hellish existence, and it was better to starve and freeze to death there than to die in the south.
At that time, neither the Kingdom of Mares nor the Kingdom of Savile thought that anyone could survive such a harsh environment.
Eventually, however, they discovered that they had miscalculated, and that they not only survived, but merged with the Renauds, the natives of the northern ice fields, to form what is now the Dlyat, and eventually established a nation in the bitter cold of the north.
The history of the founding of the Dyadat is a history of foreign wars, and from the day of the founding of the country, it waged a long war with the two southern kingdoms that lasted for a hundred years.
The two southern kingdoms did not want another kingdom to appear in the north, and this kingdom was still inherently hostile to the two southern kingdoms, so at the beginning of the establishment of the Dyad, the two southern kingdoms gathered a large number of troops, secretly united, and attacked the Dyadat together.
In the face of the combined siege of the two kingdoms, the Dyadians could not resist at all, and could only retreat to the more north, but fortunately, with the help of the Reynolds, the retreating Dyadians were able to survive well in the north.
After a long stalemate, the Dariats could not compete with the armies of the two kingdoms on the frontal battlefield, so they could only hide in the primeval forests of the north, and from time to time sneak attack the southern army, and the southern army could not solve the Dalyats in a short time, nor could they retreat and give up the war.
It wasn't until the winter, after the cold wind of the endless ice fields in the north blew down, that the situation on the battlefield turned around, countless southern soldiers could not withstand the cold in the north, or died of illness or freezing to death, and nearly half of their troops were reduced, and the southern army that felt that the situation was not good began to retreat at this time, but the Dalyats were naturally unwilling to let go of the southern army like this, and they did their best to intercept along the way, using the climate as a weapon to assist them in killing and wounding the enemy.
In the end, this first kingdom offensive and defensive battle ended in both defeats, all the cities of the newly founded Dalyat, including the capital, were destroyed, the population was reduced by one-half, and the combined armies of the two southern kingdoms were not better, and less than one-tenth of them returned home alive in the end, which can be said to be a great loss of vitality.
However, the war did not end there, and instead of waiting for the population to recover, Dalyat, who had suffered huge losses in the population, adopted the methods of the Reynolds and went south to raid the population of the two kingdoms.
And the two southern kingdoms naturally would not allow such a thing to happen, but just now the army suffered heavy losses and the domestic situation was unstable, and they simply could not allocate enough manpower to place the army of Dairiat to plunder the population, and could only rely on the armies of various places for defense.
All of a sudden, all kinds of small-scale wars and conflicts began to appear frequently on the borders of several countries, and a small war broke out almost every ten days, and this situation lasted for nearly a hundred years.
Eventually, the Hundred Years' War came to an end after the armistice was signed by the kings of the three kingdoms, and the two southern kingdoms officially recognized the kingdom status of Dyad.
Although the status of the kingdom has been recognized, the situation in the territory of Dyadia has not stabilized, and a large number of people have plundered, which has disrupted the original stable racial structure of Dyad, especially the indigenous Reynolds in the north.
In addition, the king of Dariat was suddenly assassinated in the eleventh year after the signing of the peace armistice, although it is rumored that the king was assassinated by the assassins of the two southern kingdoms, but the Dalyats believe that it was the king of Dariat who was assassinated by the great nobles of the country, because the king is trying to calm the bad situation in the country through intermarriage, land distribution and public election of officials, etc., and these policies have all caused great damage to the interests of the original Dalyat nobles.
Moreover, although his policy of intermarriage was to perpetuate the racial blood of the Reynolds, which was a good thing, it was too tough, requiring the Reynolds to intermarry with foreigners in the form of regulations, which made the Reynolds extremely disgusted and even considered it an offense to them.
As a result, rumors about the assassination of King Daliad sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and the strange thing is that after these rumors were spread, almost all the protagonists of the rumors did not stand up and admit that they did it, nor did they deny that it was not what they called it, and they all looked silent.
Because King Dyad died suddenly and had no heirs, the heir was transferred to his three brothers, and all three of his brothers had heavy troops and real power, and there was also a force behind them, so Dyyat fell into an eleven-year dispute between the three kings.
In these eleven years, the overall national strength of the Dyadat has not weakened, but has become much stronger.
In order to improve the food, they turned to gods, wizards, druids, and even witches, and in order to strengthen the power of their weapons, they worked hard to improve the method of refining metal, the forging formula of weapons, and the types of weapons.
All in all, if the overall strength of the three princely realms is added together, the overall national strength of the Dalyat at that time is much higher than that of the two southern kingdoms.
However, because of the annual wars, the population of Daliat has decreased rapidly, although the two southern kingdoms are at war at this time, and both sides will sell their prisoners of war as slaves to Dalyat, but even in the face of the rapidly decreasing population, this slave replenishment is still a drop in the bucket.
At this time, the three princes have also entered old age, without the ambition of the year, feeling that if they continue to fight like this, the kingdom may be destroyed because of them, so they invariably chose a truce, and opened peace talks, a year later, the peace talks were completed, the kingdom was reunited, and entered the era of the three kings.
The people of Daliat regarded this era as the golden age of the kingdom, that era was politically enlightened, all industries were prosperous, everyone as long as they had the strength and could work, they could live very comfortably, and a large number of poems and dramas were also produced at that time, and from these poems and dramas, future generations can also understand how good that era was.
However, the good days do not last forever, the first generation of princes died of illness one after another, and after the second generation of princes succeeded to the throne, the great plague that broke out in the entire world of Velon also swept the continent of Minsk, and Dyliat was not spared, a large number of people died of the plague, even the well-protected prince's family was infected with the plague one after another, and died in the plague one after another, until the plague ended, and the descendants of the last prince died in his palace arms, and the era of the three kings was over.
The throne of the king was vacant again, and every great nobleman in Dyadia hoped that he could sit in that position, but no one could be recognized by others, and at this time the Dyadians were also tired of war and would no longer be agitated by the nobles, so during this period, even though the political situation in Dyyat was extremely tense, and the nobles fought openly and secretly, the situation among the people was still stable, and life had no impact.
This kingless situation was not brought to an end until three years later, when a girl claimed to be a descendant of Prince Blizzard and had the right to ascend to the throne.
At first, the nobles didn't believe what the girl said, but after passing various blood tests, it was found that the girl was indeed of royal blood, and the nobles began to face the girl squarely.
At that time, the people were tired of the endless fighting of the nobles, and some of the minor nobles did not want to live that kind of fearful life anymore, so they worked together to force the great nobles of Dariat to be loyal to this girl, and let this girl become the king of Dalyat.
In the end, under the influence of external forces, the great nobles felt that they were fighting like this, and those people might storm their castles and tear them all apart, so they had to compromise and recognize the identity of the girl Dariat King, so Daliat entered the age of queens, until today.
Interestingly, the first Queen of Dairiat did not ascend the throne in the capital of Dailyat, but in the southern border city of Koo, which is why the border town on the edge of the Minsk Mountains became a famous city, and the buildings where the queen ascended the throne and the buildings where the queen lived were all preserved and transformed into tourist attractions.
In addition, the Baihua wine of Couria has also become the famous wine of Dailiat because of the first queen of the first generation, of course, this famous wine can only be put in quotation marks, because the locals of Daliat do not like this soft fruit wine, they prefer to drink spirits, but the two southern kingdoms are very fond of this wine, and a large number of wine merchants come to Couria every year to buy the local Baihua wine at a high price.
Although there are still a few months before the time for the Baihua wine to be released, there are already many merchants from the kingdoms of Mares and Savile gathered in Kewu, who have come to buy the Baihua wine and to escape the war in the south.
It's just that, unlike usual, the things that these people gather to talk about are no longer the war in the south, or the price of Baihua wine this time, and other things that are closely related to their interests, but more about the things that have happened in the city recently, that is, the monsters that suddenly appeared and the people who captured them.
In Deliyat, there are also a lot of strange-looking people, as long as you wait in Deliyat for a long time, you can always see some deformed people.
For ordinary people, those deformed people should be some people who have been physically mutated due to some diseases, and they can't live in their own hometown, so they come to Daliat.
Dyyat did not refuse to join these people, and also set up a department specifically for these people, and provided them with various jobs to ensure their life and survival.
In the beginning, the people of Dyyat were also full of discrimination against these deformed people and did not want to live with these people, but with the passage of time and various policy arrangements, the people of Dyyat gradually accepted these deformed people.
However, after the man-eating monsters that suddenly appeared in the city a short time ago, many people in the city said that the monsters were all turned into local deformed people.
At first, everyone didn't believe in this kind of rumor, because there would always be some normal people who hated deformed people and created all kinds of rumors, such as deformed people would be contagious, deformed people would eat people, etc., so after hearing such rumors at that time, none of the locals believed it.
But with the few deformed people mentioned in the rumors did not appear, everyone became suspicious, because the number of those deformed people corresponded to the number of those man-eating monsters, and the places where the man-eating monsters appeared were also some places where those deformed people often went.
For those out-of-town businessmen, this is just an after-dinner conversation, but for the locals, it is a major event related to the safety of their families, and the discrimination against deformed people that was previously suppressed by the principles of the law has also erupted because of this incident.
Just now, someone ran into the tavern and called on the Dalyats in the tavern to gather and go to the community where the deformed people lived, causing trouble and driving the deformed people out of the city.
However, the city government did not seem to intend to comply with the will of the people, and those who gathered to attack the deformed community were dispersed by the gendarmes before they reached the deformed community.
Many people think that the city government has done something wrong, and many people curse the people of the city government and attack them with some extremely vicious language, but there are some people among these foreign businessmen who know very well what these deformed people are, and they also think that the city government has done it right. Because if those people really rushed into the community of the deformed people to wreak havoc, or even hurt the deformed people's families, then these people would definitely die a terrible death, and the rest of the city would probably not have a good time.
It was also because the situation in the city was getting a little delicate now, and they outsiders felt that they should change places first, and wait here for things to calm down before coming back.