Chapter 294 Jingguan

It is the tallest and most majestic building in the royal city of Hamidas, and it is also the center of power in the former kingdom of Hanea Bada, where Luther III summoned his nobles and ministers to handle the administrative affairs of the kingdom. There are 36 huge pillars www.biquge.info these pillars are all built of lapis lazuli, and they are carved with exquisite patterns and patterns, most of which are based on folk myths and legends, which is the famous Hebitra Palace of the Haneabada Kingdom, also known as the Thirty-six Pillar Palace.

At this moment, the main hall of this 36-pillar palace is full of people and jubilant, because Lorist is going to hold a grand celebration banquet here to celebrate the Norton family's victorious destruction of the kingdom of Haneyabada, and fulfill the promise that those who commit Norton will be punished even if they are far away.

"First glass of wine, let us salute the warriors who fought bravely in this battle to destroy the country, shamed their families, and sacrificed their lives for the liberation of slaves!" Lorist solemnly spilled a full glass of wine on the ground.

In the main hall, nearly 100 family knights with bright armor and more than a dozen civil officials in gorgeous dresses also spilled wine on the ground.

"A second glass of wine to the slaves who have suffered in the Hanea Bada Islands for nearly a hundred years, who have been oppressed, exploited, enslaved. It was they who used their hands to carve out this wild overseas archipelago into the paradise it is today. Do you see this majestic palace with thirty-six pillars? But who knew that there were many bones of slaves buried under its base! They had lost their freedom here, their lives were no match for a beast here, and in the eyes of those demonic slave owners, they were just a herd of two-legged cattle and sheep to be slaughtered......

But now we are here, and we of the Nortons have destroyed this sinful nation! They have finally gained their freedom and the dignity of being human, but we have come too late, and more slaves have fallen in this overseas land. Let us pay tribute to these suffering slaves, and this second cup of wine is dedicated to them......"

Lorist spilled the wine on the floor again. There is no way, even if his real purpose is to rob the wealth accumulated by the Kingdom of Haneyabada for nearly a hundred years, he still wants to dress himself up as an angel who rescues slaves from suffering on the surface, which is political correctness.

As for the slaves who were rescued and freed, they were unwilling to join the harvesting team and farming team convened by the Norton family to continue their work, and they nested in the camps around the royal city every day, two bowls of thin wheat porridge a day, and starved Lorist didn't care, anyway, they had given the slaves freedom, and they could go wherever they liked, as long as they didn't interfere with the Norton family's expropriation and looting, they could do whatever they wanted......

But now all the assets of the former kingdom in the Haneabada Islands nominally belong to the Norton family, and even a single piece of wheat is the sacred and inviolable family property of the Norton family, not to mention the ships that can send people away from the islands and embark on their way home. No one would want to get on board without a warrant from Lorist.

There used to be a group of slaves who stayed in the camp and enjoyed the taste of freedom, so hungry that they took farm tools and wanted to cut some wheat in the fields, but they were stopped by the patrolling Norton soldiers as soon as they left the camp, because now almost everything in the archipelago except these free slaves belongs to the Norton family and Lorlist......

The slaves were not convinced, and argued a few times about why they could not eat the wheat that they had grown. Then they were invited to the Norton armed camp, first let them see the remains of nearly a thousand Norton soldiers who died heroically for the cause of slave liberation, and then each twenty whips let them understand why they couldn't eat the wheat they planted and why the rest of the island except for the slaves belonged to the Norton family, but after being whipped, these slaves didn't have to go hungry, the Norton family armed people made them mix their stomachs very humanely, and the next day they were forced to join the harvesting team to harvest wheat。

Just as Shi Fatzi advertised to these family soldiers, it was our Norton family armed forces who paid great sacrifices to destroy this Haneyabada kingdom and liberate these slaves, so all the harvest on this archipelago belongs to our Norton family. Without us, these slaves are still slaves, and their lives and deaths are still in the hands of their slave owners. Now they are free, and this freedom has been given to them by our Norton family, so they no longer have the right to ask us to feed them and sit back and enjoy the great price we have paid for the Norton family.

All the soldiers of the Norton family think that what Shi Fat said is very reasonable, and the Norton family does not let these free slaves go, as long as these slaves are willing to work with their hands, they can not only be fed and clothed, but also get paid for money, which is almost a world away from their hard work when they were slaves and did not get the guarantee of life safety. Therefore, the soldiers of the Norton family were very resentful of the slaves who did not want to work, thinking that they were not grateful and ashamed, and therefore very unkind to them.

"The third glass of wine I offer to the gladiators who fell before the dawn came," Lorist nodded at the dozens of slave gladiators led by the great swordsman Hus, who were sitting next to him: "Without their bloody battle, our Norton family would not have been able to conquer this majestic royal city with such slight casualties, it was they who used their blood and lives to drag the last crazy counterattack of the enemy in the royal city, and held the gladiatorial arena, waiting for the arrival of our Norton family's armed forces." Let us use this glass of wine to pay tribute to their bravery and sacrifice......"

After three glasses of wine, the hall was full of excitement and joy, and everyone raised their glasses to celebrate, and Hicked found many young and beautiful slave girls and many skilled slaves to present these new conquerors of the Hanea Bada Islands with dazzling dances and wonderful acrobatic magic performances, and cheers and applause rang out.

Today was a celebration, and the Norton family forces in the camp were richly rewarded, and each family soldier who went out on the expedition received a prize of ten goldfords, double the wounded, and enjoyed a sumptuous feast. The slaves who went to work and were willing to serve the Norton family were each given a large glass of ale and a large piece of bacon jerky. As for the slaves who stayed in the camp around the royal city and did nothing, they were given a so-called sandwich with two slices of black bread and a slice of jerky as a gift.......

The next day, Lorist convened a meeting of the important knights and civil officials of the family, and this time the final disposition of the Haneabada Islands was decided.

There was no objection to making the Haneabada Islands an overseas possession of the Norton family, and Lorist had no other idea about the arrangement of the more than 400,000 freed slaves on the islands, except that there were different opinions among those present on the resolution on the disposition of the royal city of Hamidas.

Hicked and several other civil officials believed that the royal city should be preserved, and that such a majestic and magnificent castle was a rare architectural marvel, although it was built on the bones of countless slaves, it was also a great building that could be passed on to future generations, and should be properly preserved.

And the Grand Swordsman of Hughes and the two golden gladiators Jades, who participated in the Norton family meeting for the first time, Mason unanimously demanded the destruction of the royal city, especially the gladiatorial arena, which was the biggest pain in their hearts, how many slave gladiators and their friends fell in the gladiatorial arena, as long as the gladiatorial arena was completely destroyed to alleviate the pain in their hearts......

Bodfinger believed that it would be easier to win the hearts of the slaves by destroying the royal city, and when he was in charge of forming ten garrison battalions from the slaves, he learned that all the slaves hated the royal city of Hamidas, believing that it was a demon cave, a hell where the demons lived. If the royal city were to be destroyed, the slaves would happily obey the orders of the family.

Malek thinks that he has to dig three feet into the ground to find the treasures buried by the big slave owners and nobles anyway, so deciding to destroy the royal city is more conducive to the search for property, at least not to worry about harming the integrity of the entire building......

Shi Fatzi looked at the problem from a different angle, believing that the destruction of the royal city would be more beneficial to the Norton family's rule over the Haneabada Islands. First of all, the Hanea Bada Islands are located far away, and it is a great burden for the family to keep a majestic castle here. Moreover, it is impossible for the family to turn their focus to this archipelago, and there is no need to keep this royal city.

Just like the Hebitra Palace, that is, the Thirty-Six Pillar Palace, the annual cost of maintaining such a palace is no less than two or three hundred gold fords, which is indeed only a small amount compared to the huge amount of seizures, but the maintenance cost of the entire royal city adds up to one or two thousand, and it is a huge amount of money in ten years and a hundred years, and these gold coins are spent on the maintenance of this royal city as if they were thrown into water, and no sound can be heard.

Secondly, the Hanea Bada Islands are too far away from the family territory, and having such a royal city is easy for the military commanders who remain in the archipelago to breed unnecessary ambitions, in order to prevent it from happening, it is easier to destroy this royal city in line with the family's rule over the islands, and even if there is a rebellion, the family forces will not need to pay too much casualties to be pacified.

The last point is that according to Lorlist's arrangement for those free slaves, although nearly 100,000 slaves will be left in the Wangcheng Plain to settle down and build houses, but the family armed forces left in the Wangcheng are only about 3,000 people in a battalion at most, which is almost useless for the defense of the huge Wangcheng, so it is necessary to reduce the area of defense, and there are only two roles here in the Wangcheng in the future, one is as a market for foreign goods, and the other is as a warehouse for food and materials.

The three reasons cited by Shi Fatzi became the final decision to destroy the royal city, and Lorist immediately decided to destroy the rest of the royal city in addition to retaining the commercial area of the eastern city for future reconstruction, but this was only after Malek led the excavation team to conduct a thorough search of the noble district and the royal court area and excavate the buried treasures.

Lorist thought about it and said that he should try to leave half of the remnants of the thirty-six pillars and the audience of the gladiatorial arena, and let future generations know that there were once two great buildings built by slaves, and let the rest be.

After deciding the fate of the royal city of Hamidas, Lorist announced that the first governor of the Haneabada Islands would be served by Hicked for a five-year term, and his main task during these five years was to divide the land and build houses for the hundreds of thousands of slaves who remained in the islands, so that they could settle down in the islands and become the subjects of the Norton family's overseas territories with peace of mind.

The Golden Knights Josk and Yuri will lead the scout light cavalry to sweep all the kings in the royal plain again, and hunt down all the citizens of the Haneyabada Kingdom who have escaped the net, so that no one escapes. and transferred all the belongings of the royal manor to the royal city.

The Golden Knight Malek was responsible for searching for the buried belongings in the royal city and all the material reserves in Xicheng District, except for some food reserves, all the rest of the materials were transferred to the port of Nubit, waiting to be loaded and transported back to the island of Hilowas.

Half of the main forces of the Norton family led by the Golden Knight Tiger Rose stayed in the royal city to guard the royal city to assist Malek in transporting goods and supplies, and the other half was responsible for driving the slaves around the royal city to Nubit Harbor, leaving only those slaves who were ready to settle here in the royal plain, and the rest were not allowed to stay. The Norton family promised the deported slaves that slaves who wanted to return to their homeland would board a ship in the port of Nubit that would transport them to the continent of Gelinthia, free of charge, and keep them safe along the way.

In the end, Lorist assigned two golden gladiators, Jades and Mason, to Bodfinger as his deputies, and their tasks were threefold, one was to assist Bodefinger to form another ten garrison battalions, and sixteen silver gladiators who were willing to join the Norton family and more than 400 gladiators of the bronze and black iron ranks were included. The second task was to take all the nearly 100,000 nationals* of the Haneyabada Kingdom who had been captured in the royal city to Nubit Harbor, and merge them with the more than 20,000 captives of Nubit Harbor there. The third task was to clean up the battlefield, urging the soldiers of the newly formed garrison battalion to cut off the heads of the corpses of the enemy on the battlefield, embalm them, and transport them to the port of Nubit, where they were all burned.

Perhaps it was Lorist who ordered the decapitation of the enemy's corpse, an order that was a bit strange, so that Fat Shi asked Lorist curiously what he was going to do with the prisoners of the Hundred Thousand Haneyabada Kingdom?

Lorist was silent for a long time with a gloomy face, and finally said his decision softly: "All cut ......"

Everyone present was shocked, and Hicked and Shi Fatzi's faces changed dramatically and jumped: "Adults, no! These are more than 100,000 people......

"These are not people, they are just beasts in human skin!" Lorist snapped the case: "They have never treated slaves as human beings, they are the demons of this evil kingdom, even civilians, they have the blood, tears and souls of slaves on their hands. I once swore that if one of the captured family soldiers died, I would bury them with a hundred people* of the Haneabada Kingdom, and now these 100,000 people are not enough to pay tribute to our heroic family soldiers and knights who died in the gladiatorial arena!

Lorist finished speaking and walked away......

On October 24, 1773 in the Gaylinthia calendar, the head of the Norton family, Count Norton Lorist, ordered the beheading of nearly 100,000 people* of the Kingdom of Hanea Bada on the beach on the outskirts of the port of Nubitt, and built a 33-meter-high pyramid of human heads with 176,243 heads, which was called "Jingguan".

At the time of the beheading, Lord Hicke, then governor of the Haneabada Islands, knelt in front of Lorlist's tent and pleaded for seven hours, and finally obtained Lorlist's consent to save 12,000 young women from the knife and distribute them to the freed slaves who remained in the Haneabada Islands as wives. At this point, the Kingdom of Haneyabada was destroyed and extinct, and it became a huge sound.

It was not until March and April 1774 of the universal calendar of the year 1774 that the news of the destruction of the Kingdom of Hanea Bada by the Norton family spread that the story of Lorist using 170,000 heads to build a capital temple spread throughout the continent. All of a sudden, the Northland Norton family's reputation for roaring angry bears has even become the main means for housewives to scare disobedient children......

In May 1774 of the Galintya calendar, the news of the destruction of the kingdom of Haneabada finally reached another archipelago kingdom---- the kingdom of Shaisia, the queen of this archipelago kingdom famous for its spice production, the only cousin of Luther III, the former king of Haneabada, heard that the kingdom of Haneyabada had been destroyed and died, and wept so much that she fell into a coma.

The so-called expeditionary army of the Shaishya Kingdom numbered eighteen thousand, and when they arrived at the port of Nubit in more than forty ships, it was already late June, and it was in the morning, and the tall pyramid of human heads was seen in the distance. At that time, there was only a garrison of 3,000 men in the Norton family in Nubit Harbor, and the city wall defenses were not yet complete, and the knights and soldiers of the garrison were ready to die and die together......

It's just that no one expected that the fleet of the Shayia Kingdom just circled in front of the pyramid of human heads and then directly turned around and sailed out to sea, never to return, as if they were just here to visit the pyramid of human heads, and no one got off the ship and landed......

In August, Sambawood's Maritime Regiment patrolled the Hanea Bada Islands with six sail bombardment warships, and when they heard of this, they were furious and made an expedition to the Shayiya Kingdom, but they did not think that the Shaysya Kingdom would be hoisted with a white flag after only one round of shelling. Later, when I asked, I learned that everyone was frightened by the head pyramid in Port Nubit, and no one wanted to build another head pyramid in the Shaysya Kingdom, so it was better to surrender early.

The Kingdom of Shaizia thus became the first kingdom to be attached to the House of Norton, the first kingdom in the history of Galinthia to submit to the family, making history.

This is no joke.

...... (To be continued.) )