Chapter 507: Silly Big Wood, Stupid Pull, and More Heroes Often When They Die, They All Die Less Heroic
Primitive disordered human beings, from the very first days of the establishment of society, had class hierarchies written on everyone's face. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoYou can pretend that you don't know about it, or even deny the certificate of deposit with class, but you can't change the reality.
Classes exist, and they have never been cut off throughout the ages!
The means by which the superior dominates the inferior is nothing more than four words, grace and power. It is necessary to have both cold punishment and clever rewards for the inferior, so as to keep the society in a stable state to the greatest extent.
In the past, the Orlando family did this, and even three years ago, the Orlando family did it. Whether it is Orlando VI or the reigning Orlando VII Pals Emperor, they can master this degree. Sanctions or incentives are imposed within a framework that both sides can afford. In the past, as long as the nobles did not commit such deathly things as anger and rebellion, the death order could basically be solved.
But in the past two years, the Orlando family's attitude seems to have turned in place, and the measurement of punishment has also gone to the extreme.
The nobles who fell because of various political events either returned to the earth and the heavens, or were thrown into prison to spend a long life. I can no longer see the tacit understanding between the emperor and the nobles, and it seems that the result of every struggle is so tragic.
In this case, the backlash of the aristocracy is a matter of course.
It's like an adult and a group of teenagers fighting, originally everyone was holding a cork stick in their hands, and it didn't hurt to hit the body, it seemed that the fight between the two sides was extremely fierce, but in fact, the number of people who were really injured was only a handful. But now it was different, the boys were still holding sticks made of cork, while the emperor, the lord, wielded a two-handed greatsword with a bladed blade.
They can't kill adults, they can only cause a certain degree of pain to adults, but when they are cut by adults, they are basically reimbursed in their entirety.
Where there is oppression, there is resistance!
In the face of the increasingly aggressive attitude of the royal family, it is natural for the nobles to have a strong resentment in their hearts.
The reign of an emperor who does not distinguish between black and white and who does not distinguish between right and wrong makes the nobles tremble all day long, for fear that the next unlucky ghost will be themselves, and naturally some people will not be able to bear it and stand up against the royal family. The appearance of such people is not unexpected, the nobility itself has a lot of wealth, resources and private soldiers in their hands, and they are the worthy masters of this empire.
There is a saying that if a person has something that can obviously influence the decision of others, then he will not be limited by the rules.
One nobleman is not strong, so what about ten nobles united?
What about a hundred nobles united?
There's always something that will shake the royal family, and now the royal family seems to be paying for the bitter fruit they have planted.
The four lords of the satellite city are certainly Pars's playmates since childhood, but the friendship generated by the playmate is far less important than the family to the four nobles. Of course, there are a series of other things involved, which are far more complex than people think, and a large part of them belong to historical legacies.
For one reason or another, the Earl of Birmingham sided with the aristocracy, not the Orlando family. And the city lords of the other three satellite cities, sitting on the Diaoyutai platform, watched coldly, and had no intention of mixing at all.
This explanation is certainly a bit far-fetched, but it is better to have an explanation than not to have an explanation, and the city has also come in, and the city defense has also taken over, if you are still considering whether the Earl of Birmingham is really committed to the aristocratic group, it is a bit more than worth the loss. If questioning the Earl of Birmingham still made him feel unhappy, maybe he would have rebelled again and stabbed himself in the back, so Isaac wisely gave up the idea of continuing to seek answers.
Anyway, the next stop is the imperial capital, and after the soldiers behind them are gathered, all the questions will be revealed.
Isaac finished asking, and the Earl of Birmingham asked a few questions, mainly focusing on whether he could fulfill the promise made to him by Pilagos, and Isaac himself, if Isaac did overthrow the Orlando family.
Isaac showed great patience with the Earl's inquiry, and at the same time felt a little calmer. After all, the Earl of Birmingham did not look like a problematic object, and most of the things he cared about had to do with his vital interests.
The two had been talking for a long time, and when it was getting late, the Earl of Birmingham stood up and invited Isaac to dinner.
The meaning of the family banquet is far more important than the grand banquet, which means that in the heart of the Earl of Birmingham, Isaac belongs to "his own people", and is a close comrade-in-arms and partner, so he has such qualifications!
"Speaking of eating...... the two of them walked towards the restaurant, and the Earl of Birmingham said, "The city of Acropolis is said to be a city, but in fact it is just a larger fortress, and the entire city of Acropolis can initially accommodate less than 20,000 people. Later, I tore down all the buildings in the city and built three- or four-story houses, so that the population of the city reached 50,000. ”
"The number of your followers this time far exceeds the maximum number of people that Acropolis can hold, and your soldiers have more important things to do, so I have ordered someone to empty ninety percent of the rooms in Acropolis, which is enough for your soldiers to have a relatively comfortable rest. The Earl of Birmingham seemed to have some flattery in his smile, which Isaac enjoyed very much, and the flattery in this smile was also the reason why he had been fighting for a long time.
Some people who have the ability have arrogance, and he prefers those who have the ability but do not have the arrogance. Why should he strive for higher status and power? It is nothing more than to obtain higher enjoyment, a kind of spiritual enjoyment. Even if he really becomes the emperor of the empire in the near future, he will not work hard, he will be an easy emperor, not a model worker.
Feeling the flattering and flattering behavior of the Earl of Birmingham, Isaac did not refuse, his soldiers were indeed very tired, and they were already exhausted after fighting city by city. There were also soldiers who were left behind, because they were too tired and had to stay and repair, so they broke away from the main army.
Being able to get a better rest here in the Acropolis City is indeed a very important help to the Attacking Emperor, so Isaac did not refuse.
In his opinion, the other people in the city of Aurex were insignificant, and the city was completely filled with his people, and any intrigues and tricks had no meaning in the face of such great strength.
The original inhabitants and soldiers of the Acropolis were expelled from the place where they had lived for many years, and naturally they were not happy, and if it were not for the Earl of Birmingham, there would have been conflict and bloodshed. Even so, there have been minor problems, and some civilians have been attacked.
About 50 soldiers forcibly searched the parcels of several civilians at the city gates, under the pretext of searching, and left their clothing and valuables on the ground. This is obviously the rhythm of finding trouble, and their arrogant expressions and domineering language naturally anger these honest civilians. Being expelled from their homes and living in the wild for almost a week already made these people angry.
Now these outsiders who have forcibly occupied their homes are still deliberately trying to make things difficult for them, don't think that civilians have no temper, and the small-scale beating soon turned into a fight between nearly hundreds of people. Isaac's soldiers naturally do not use weapons, and the consequences of killing civilians innocently and beating them out of anger are absolutely different. But even so, the civilians were no match for the soldiers, and they were soon beaten to the ground, wailing incessantly.
Isaac basically doesn't care about this kind of small thing, let alone hundreds of civilians, even if more civilians suffer heavy casualties, it is just a "small matter" in his eyes, and it is not worth the brains of a big man like him at all, he handed over this matter to his chief of staff, and he will definitely be able to handle it with the head of the chief of staff.
The matter was conveyed to the Chief of Staff, who was in a meeting at this time to discuss how to defeat the Imperial Capital's defenses head-on in the next battle, and to guess how and where the Grace and Greon brothers would appear on the battlefield. When he received Isaac's message, he groaned slightly, and then forwarded the matter to the Legion Commander below, allowing the Legion Commander to deal with it at his discretion.
The so-called discretionary handling, to put it bluntly, means that big things are turned into small things, and small things are turned into small things, and if you can, don't do it to the soldiers. In fact, the chief of staff guessed the reason for the outbreak of the conflict at the first time, and this reason is above board, and even if he knows, he can only deal with it as if he does not know, otherwise if it is not good, something will happen.
What's with?
The number of soldiers killed in the two sieges was in the thousands, which is by no means a small number. Under normal circumstances, when a city is breached, all the opposing forces will be captured and decapitated. Perhaps in the eyes of many, this is a rude, barbaric, and regressive act of civilization. But in reality, it is a ritual for the living to pay tribute to the dead. The victors will use the heads and blood of the losers to remember and remember those compatriots who died in battle, which is an unwritten unspoken rule, a kind of game rules that everyone silently admits!
But what happened today is a little different.
The dead are dead, the living are still alive, but they can't "see off" their brothers who have died outside the city. These hateful soldiers and civilians of the Acropolis surrendered shamelessly, and what made people feel even more difficult to swallow a bad breath was Isaac's attitude - "Treat the soldiers and civilians of the Acropolis as if they were your own family"
Don't be kidding, okay? These "family members" were still killing them in the morning and just now, and now they are relatives in the blink of an eye? But Marquis Isaac can't ignore his words, and they must abide by them.
Okay, it's okay to comply, but it's always okay to take a bad breath, right?
So the soldiers found a reason to vent their anger in their hearts, this situation is definitely not something that can be forbidden in a few words, and even in the next few days, it will be played out many times in various situations.