Chapter 103: Workers' Riot
Both work and life have satisfied the Grand Magician of Le Mans, and he is now naturally in high spirits.
As he walked on the road, he had long since lost the embarrassed look he had when he first came here.
No matter who he meets on the road, he is in the mood to nod and smile at them, and then get an equally kind smile in return.
Today was his day off, and thinking that he hadn't been alone with his wife for a long time, he didn't run to work overtime, but asked his wife to come to the dock for a walk.
"You say...... Shall I open a flower shop?" said his wife, who was walking beside the Grand Magician of Le Mans. "I've been looking around the neighborhood for the past few days, and it seems that there aren't many flower shops, so if you choose a suitable location, business should be very good. ”
"It's up to you to decide for yourself, I have no opinion. The Grand Magician of Le Mans waved his hand, quite atmospheric.
He now has a fixed salary of 80 gold coins per month in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, plus various subsidies and benefits, his monthly income should exceed 100 gold coins, and supporting his wife to open a flower shop is nothing at all.
But after thinking about it seriously, the wife shook her head again.
"Forget it, now that we've just arrived, it's better not to run out and open a store right away, I'm afraid it's not good to be known. Besides, Henry and Hevina also need someone to take care of them, so I'd better stay at home. ”
The Grand Magician of Le Mans smiled slightly, nodded in agreement with his wife's idea.
In fact, he still hoped that his wife would stay at home and deal with housework with peace of mind, but his wife had followed him into exile everywhere and experienced a turbulent life for more than half a year, which made him feel guilty about his wife. So it's just inconvenient to refute her decision.
Now the wife has figured it out on her own. It also saves problems later.
When I was about to talk to my wife about the children. He suddenly caught a glimpse of another large cargo magic steamer approaching in the distance.
"Alas, another wave of refugees has come. The Grand Magician of Le Mans sighed.
His wife followed his line of sight and smiled, "Actually, they can't be considered refugees when they come here." Now it's easy to find a job here, the pay is good, and the environment is good, which is much better than staying in the messy Sainz continent. ”
"Well, but after all, leaving home and coming to another continent tens of thousands of kilometers away always makes people feel uncomfortable. ”
"After a while, you get used to it. Nothing uncomfortable either. ”
The Grand Magician of Le Mans looked at his wife with some amusement.
Before coming to the Demon Cloud Continent, she was the one who was most worried, but now she has the tone of a person who has come over.
Turning to look at the harbor again, he saw that the large cargo magic steamer had stopped, and groups of passengers were swarming down.
Looking at the crowded appearance over there, the Grand Magician of Le Mans thought of the scene when he had just come here, and sighed secretly in his heart.
Suddenly, his gaze froze, and his gaze rested on a person who was getting off the boat, and his face changed slightly.
"What's wrong?" his wife noticed something strange about him.
"I seem to be ......," the Grand Magician of Le Mans looked a little uncertain. "See an acquaintance?"
"Acquaintance?" the wife was a little stunned.
They were uprooted from their homes. Abandoned everything on the Sainz Continent and came to the Demon Cloud Continent, it has only been more than half a month to this day. Where did you get any acquaintances?
The Grand Wizard of Le Mans frowned and thought for a moment, then waved his hand.
"I'll go take a look. ”
Seeing the Grand Magician of Le Mans walking towards the port, his wife hurriedly followed.
The two of them walked together into the dock where the large cargo magic steamer had docked in the harbor just now, and they encountered a large number of refugees disembarking from the ship, and they were suddenly so rushed by the surging flow of people that they could barely stand on their feet.
The great magician of Le Mans saw that his wife was almost knocked down by several people, and in desperation, he had to mobilize his magic power and pull his wife to fly together.
He swept his eyes in mid-air, but he didn't see the somewhat familiar figure.
The Grand Magician of Le Mans hesitated, added an amplification magic to himself, and shouted: "Zeberto, Zeberto, I am Le Mans, give me a response when you hear it!"
"Zeberto?" the wife next to him was stunned again. "Did you see him?"
"Well, I just saw a person who looked a lot like him. The Grand Magician of Le Mans looked left and right, and repeated what he had just shouted.
As soon as the words fell, a figure suddenly flew in the flow of people in front of him, and then quickly flew in front of the Grand Magician of Le Mans.
"You...... Are you Le Mans?"
Looking at the guy in front of him who had his robe crumpled and his hair was even more messy, and he had obviously not taken care of it for many days, and was exactly the same as other refugees, the Grand Magician of Le Mans and his wife stared at each other for a long time before finally recognizing it.
"Zeberto, it's really you!"
Half an hour later, the Le Mans Grand Magician and his wife sat in a café near the pier with Zeberto's group of six.
"Zeberto, you...... Why are you here? and ...... them" The Grand Magician of Le Mans looked at Zeberto, who was even more embarrassed than when he first came to the Demon Cloud Continent, and then looked at the family members of Zeberto, who were also embarrassed next to him, and felt a little surprised.
When he was young, he studied at a magical academy in the Candela Empire, and Zeberto was his classmate for four years at that time, and the two had similar personalities and became good friends.
Although he later returned to the Kingdom of Chino, while Zeberto stayed in his native southern province of the Candela Empire, thousands of kilometers apart, the two remained in touch and on good terms thanks to the convenience of transportation and communication brought by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and made appointments to meet one or more times a year.
Because of the kingdom of Chino, he had to flee to the Demon Cloud Continent, and Zeberto knew very well.
At that time, Zeberto also invited the Grand Magician of Le Mans to the Candela Empire, which could help him settle down, but was rejected by the Grand Magician of Le Mans.
At that time, Zeberto told the Grand Wizard of Le Mans that although the Candela Empire was at war with the Maro Empire, the internal situation was stable, and the southern provinces were far away from the war zone, so it had no effect at all, and life there would still be good in the past.
It's only been more than a month, why did Zeberto himself run to the Demon Cloud Continent with his family?
"Alas...... It's hard to put into words. Zeberto sighed deeply, his expression full of exhaustion. "I thought that the empire and the Marlo empire had been fighting for such a long time, but it had not affected the stability of the empire, and it would definitely continue in the future, but I didn't expect ......"
"What? you Candela Empire have lost?" the Grand Wizard of Le Mans was startled.
"That's not true, the war between the empire and the Maro empire has been relatively stable, but this time, it was something inside the empire that caused trouble. ”
"That's not right, is it?" said the Grand Magician of Le Mans, still puzzled. "Even if there is some chaos within the empire, it won't allow a great magician like you to escape to the Demon Cloud Continent with his whole family?"
"The thing is, it's not a mess......"
It turned out that just last month, a sudden unrest broke out in the southern provinces of the Kandela Empire.
This upheaval was unlike any other in the history of the Candela Empire.
All the turmoil in history was led by the local aristocracy or simply the side branches of the royal family.
And this time the initiators of the turmoil are civilians!
Workers, to be exact!
In the beginning, it was just a textile factory where workers went on strike because they were dissatisfied with the fact that their wages were cut too much and their overtime hours were too long.
Later, the workers became impulsive with the factory, and the factory guards accidentally killed two workers, which led to a riot among the workers.
After that, the scope of the riot spread rapidly, and it took less than a week to spread to almost the entire southern province.
Two of the Candela Empire's military magic machine factories in the Southern Province were also involved, and the furious workers killed the top officials and the nobles in charge of the factories, took up arms themselves, and then distributed them to other workers in the Southern Province who participated in the riots.
As a result, the armed workers fought fiercely, and it didn't take long for them to capture the provincial capital of the southern provinces, triggering a rebellion of the Imperial army in the southern provinces.
In just one month, the situation in the southern provinces has become a mess.
As a great magician, Zeberto has far more ways to get information than ordinary people, so he is the fastest to see the opportunity and avoid it before the thugs in the form of these workers invade their city.
His original plan, like the great magician of Le Mans, was to find a place to hide and wait and see what happened.
After all, in the history of the Candela Empire for so many years, there have been countless upheavals, but none of them have really shaken the foundation of the empire.
This time, however, the situation was much more than Zeberto expected.
The Candela Empire reacted quickly and sent troops to quell the rebellion.
However, this time the turmoil spread to the entire southern province, and the troops who came to quell the rebellion were quickly caught in it.
"Speaking of which...... There has been no movement on the part of the Governor's Palace since the beginning of the turmoil, and even if the Imperial Army was defeated, there was no action, I don't know if it was deliberate. ”
At this, there was a hint of hesitation and anger on Zeberto's face.
If, at the beginning of the turmoil, the Governor's Office of the Southern Province had reacted quickly and pacified the matter, it would not have evolved into the present situation.
From the very beginning, however, the Governor's Office of the Southern Province acted as if it was out of the way, not doing anything at all, and allowing the situation to deteriorate.
"Zeberto, have you forgotten, the Windsor family rebelled a few years ago. The Grand Magician of Le Mans reminded.
"What do you mean......"
"Actually, it doesn't matter anymore. The Grand Magician of Le Mans shook his head. "Now that you have chosen to come to the Demon Cloud Continent with your family, don't think about the things on the Sainz Continent anymore. ”
With that, the Grand Magician of Le Mans stretched out his hand to the Grand Magician of Zeberto, with a smile on his face.
"Welcome to the Demon Cloud Continent, Zeberto, join the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce like me, I promise you won't regret it. ”
Zeberto smiled wryly, "At this point, do I have any other options?" )