Her Royal Highness Queen Sevigny's private domain is located in the northeastern province of the Lampari Kingdom, closer to the eastern border of the kingdom, about 700 kilometers away from Bonta City.

Being so far apart, and in order to make it clear that Sevigny didn't ask about things outside the territory, he naturally didn't know anything about what was happening in Bonta City.

However, on the first day of the new year in the year 3784 of the continental calendar, Sevigny's mood was not very good, just like the people of Bonta City.

Since about half a month ago, a number of refugees-like people have poured into her private territory from the west and northwest.

At first, seeing these ragged, scrawny, apparently extremely poor refugees, Severny immediately asked his stewards to take them in and make proper arrangements.

However, as time went on, more and more refugees poured into the territory.

Today, according to a rough count, in the past half a month, there have been more than 200 people who have entered the territory.

This surprised Sevigny.

In recent years, with the large-scale promotion of the farmland magic machinery of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce in the Lampari Kingdom, the grain production in all parts of the Kingdom has increased significantly.

And because of the use of chemical fertilizers, the annual grain produced in the kingdom has long been able to fully meet the needs of all people in the kingdom, and there is even surplus grain that can be sold to neighboring countries.

It stands to reason that even if there is a natural disaster, there should be enough food in the kingdom to prevent refugees.

What's more, the whole year of this year can be regarded as smooth weather in the country, and there have been no natural disasters at all.

But the refugees in front of us are hard facts. So Sevini was very puzzled.

After the sacrifice of the dead Lampari XIII on the first day of the new year. Severny thought of what his father had told him before he died. I couldn't help but go to the place where the refugees were being held in the territory in person, and found a few refugees to ask.

After a brief inquiry, Sevigny received an answer that she did not expect.

These refugees did not flee because they had no food to eat, but because they were fleeing service.

"Serve?" Sevigny frowned slightly. "There has never been any compulsory service in the kingdom except for compulsory military service, what are you running on?"

"No, no, No, Your Highness, you misunderstood. The one who answered her was a middle-aged man who had fled from the Northwest Province. He shook his head vigorously and said, "We are not trying to escape the service of the kingdom, but the service stipulated by the local lord and the city lord's mansion. ”

Sevini was stunned: "What do they let you serve?"

"It's to let us work in the factory, and if we don't do it, they won't give us fields to plant or give us food to eat. The middle-aged man sighed. "But if you go to work in the factory, you have to go every day at dawn and come back when it's dark. I did it every day, and I kept doing it for months, and I couldn't stand it at all. ”

"yes, we're the same there. Sometimes we're told to work all night, and then we're only to go back to sleep for a few hours before we have to work again. Two people in our village died of exhaustion last month. "A thin man next to him has sunken eye circles. Looking at the skeleton, he should not be very old, but looking at the appearance, he looks like a man in his thirties and forties.

"yes, yes. Many of us were tired to death, and we were afraid that we would be exhausted to death, so we found a chance to escape. This time, it was a middle-aged woman who agreed. "Our family ran together this time, otherwise if we stayed, we would definitely be arrested. If we continue to do this, my whole family will probably die of exhaustion. ”

Seeing the extremely haggard refugees around him, Sevini was greatly surprised.

"What are you going to do? So tired?"

"It's just doing some work in the factory, it looks like some kind of magic machine, right?"

"Yes, it's a magic machine. This damn magical machine, I dream about it every night when I have nightmares!"

"Well, what kind of magic kettle did I made before? It's just such a simple thing, it's actually not that difficult to do, but it's really unbearable to have to work there all day long. ”

"Oh, we're working on a magic air conditioner over there. ”

"We're making magic furnaces......"

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Listening to the discussion of the refugees, Sevigny's face was a little strange.

If you heard it right, these refugees were forcibly captured by those noble lords and the local city lord's mansion to serve as laborers, and they were actually asked to make zuò magic machinery in the magic machinery factory?

But in Severny's impression, shouldn't the work of the magic machine factory be very simple, much easier than farming?

"Your Royal Highness, you didn't do it. Let me tell you, it's easy to say it's easy. But if you have to repeat the same action all day and night, thousands of times, no one can stand it. And in the middle, you can only rest for a while when you eat, and don't stop at all at other times. One refugee explained to Sevigny.

Sevini was stunned and asked, "No, isn't it? Isn't it true that you only work eight hours a day?

"Overtime pay?" said the refugees were stunned. "What is overtime pay?"

Sevini was speechless for a moment, it seemed that these refugees had no concept of overtime pay at all.

"What about the salary? You work so long every day, you should be paid a lot, right? Is there twenty ...... a month? Oh no, it's unlikely. Is there ten gold coins?"

"Ten gold coins?" the group of refugees all stared at Sevigny with wide eyes, as if they had heard something unthinkable.

Seeing their expressions, Severny immediately understood that he had said the wrong thing.

Perhaps for Bonta City, a monthly salary of ten gold coins may not even be enough for ordinary standards, but for the rest of the Lampari Kingdom, this is already a very high salary standard.

"Your Royal Highness, to you, ten gold coins is definitely nothing. But we'...... I've never seen that much money in my life. One refugee couldn't help but ask.

"yes. I've seen a gold coin once in my life. It was the man from my village who came to work in Bangta City and showed it to me when he came back. He said he was working in Bangta City. You can get thirteen gold coins a month. ”

"So why don't you go to Bonta City too?"

"I originally planned to go, but my parents were old at the time, and I didn't dare to go too far. ”

"And now? I remember you said on the road that your parents were beaten to death by the lord before, so you don't have this burden, right?"

A trace of gloom flashed across the face of the young man who spoke, lowered his head slightly, and sighed lightly: "Now I can't go even if I want to, that person in our village said that after the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce left Bangta City, Bangta City has been completely controlled by those ten chambers of commerce." They also grabbed them and sent them back to their original places. ”

Speaking of which. The young man suddenly raised his head and pleaded with Sevigny: "Your Royal Highness, have mercy on us, and do not send us back. If I go back, I'll be killed by my lord sooner or later!"

Severny was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, the other refugees seemed to have just reacted and begged for her.

"Your Highness, I have heard that you are the most merciful, please forgive us for escaping from the realm! ”

"yes. Your Highness, we don't really want to escape. I just don't want to die of exhaustion. ”

"Your Royal Highness, please forgive us......"

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With his eyes on the eager faces around him, Sevigny sighed softly, stood up, and told the stewards next to him to take good care of the refugees, and left the makeshift refugee camp.

The refugees behind her were still begging, but she could only ignore them.

It's not that she is unwilling to agree to the demands of these refugees, but according to the answers of these refugees just now, they are obviously all subjects of the private domain of the nobles in the kingdom, and according to the rules of the noble council, even if she is Her Royal Highness, she has no right to interfere in other noble territories.

These refugees are the children of those nobles, so how to deal with them is the business of those lords.

Although she can temporarily contain them, she does not have the power to dispose of them at will.

The only thing that can be done is to temporarily settle them down, and pretend that they don't know about it, and they can hide it for a while.

If the lords of these refugees came to their door, according to the rules of the Council of Nobles, and the unwritten rules among the nobles, it was impossible for Severny to force them to stay.

Walking along a newly built road in the territory, which was not particularly wide, Sevini thought about the conversation he had just had with the refugees, and his heart was full of bitterness.

She thought that if she solved the food problem of the kingdom, it would improve the lives of the people of the kingdom by more than half.

But I didn't expect that the people of the kingdom would have to suffer this kind of suffering now.

Although she didn't ask clearly, judging from the reaction of the refugees, when they were forced to work in those magical machine factories, they didn't even have overtime pay.

Because they all call this service, and serving is naturally voluntary work.

Thinking of this, Severny couldn't help but smile bitterly.

When she saw the work standards for workers in the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce formulated by Xu Yi himself, she also expressed her amazement and felt that Xu Yi was completely redundant.

Because she felt that since these workers were employed by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, they should work according to the arrangement of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and there was no need to make so many additional rules for them to follow, and they also limited their working hours, which seemed so rigid.

At that time, Xu also commented on this, saying that Sevigny's idea represented the oppression of the common class by the nobles, and Sevigny was not convinced.

Now it seems that Xu Yi is actually not wrong at all.

The plight of these refugees is a perfect example of this.

Thinking that the work of these refugees was also related to the production of magical machinery, Severny was very emotional.

Although this also means that the magic industry is booming in the Lampari Kingdom, this is probably not the kind of development that Xu Yi wants to see, right?

Thinking of this, Sevigny suddenly felt a resentment and strong longing for Xu Yi in his heart.

What was this guy who ruthlessly abandoned the Lampari Kingdom and Bonta City doing on the first day of the new year, and how much do you know about the current situation in the Lampari Kingdom? (To be continued......