Chapter 660: Asha County and the Poor Man's Party
The train restarted and left the platform, and in front of it turned south with the movement of the railway, gradually moving from the elevated railway that had been running for almost ten days to the down-to-earth land railway, which also indicated that the long-distance train would only need to pass through two more city stations before reaching the final station.
It's been a few days since Sylvia last contacted, and during that contact, Sylvia already knew what the Chosen King Saran Meyer was going to do, and decided to leave the kingdom of Mares and travel to Dalyat to wait for winter before Saran completed her plans.
For Sylvia, Saran Meyer can no longer be trusted, because if it is true that Saran Meyer is a collaborator of the Church of the Hill Kings, as Leo deduces, then Saran Meyer can be said to be a traitor to the Witches.
Because, the hunting operation against witches on the Minsk continent was initiated by the Church of the King of the Hill, and several members of the Witch Group fell into the hands of the Church of the King of the Hill and were burned alive.
If Saran Meyer was a collaborator of the Church of the Hill Kings at the time, then it is likely that the whereabouts of those witches were betrayed by Saran Meyer to the Church of the Hill Kings.
And with the suspicion of Saran Meyer, some things that had been ignored by Sylvia before were also recalled.
For example, since Saran Mayer became the gatekeeper of the Luxury Forest, every time the witches organize a homecoming trip, there will be various accidents and some casualties.
This also made many people complain about Saran Meyer, and even disgusted with the homecoming ceremony, and many people who had completed the ceremony did not plan to participate again even after receiving the notice, which also made the witches participating in the homecoming ceremony less and less.
In addition, the Ice Queen Leah Vinistein's attitude towards Saran Meyer is also a problem, you must know how close the Ice Queen was to Salan Meyer after knowing that Saran Meyer was the famous king elector, almost treating her as a mentor, and asking her for advice on countless national issues every time they met.
It's just that such a good relationship suddenly became cold one day, although the two can't say that they are enemies, but they are also indifferent when they meet each other, they can't say two words at a witch group's gathering, and more importantly, the Ice Queen never set foot in the castle of Saran Meyer again.
At the time, Sylvia simply thought it was because of the breakdown of their relationship, which made them not want to touch anything with each other, but now it seems that the Snow Queen's actions are more like an expression of distrust, believing that she can't really be safe in that castle.
Because of this, Sylvia was no longer interested in the so-called revival plan proposed by Saran Meyer, and she decided to join Thran the Firebather with Leo and go to Dalyat in the north, where the meeting place was in the city of Pardu, in County Asha.
The reason why Padu City was chosen is not only because it is the second purpose of Leo's visit to Moissan, but also because it is the least affected place in the entire Maris Kingdom.
For ordinary people, Asha County is ruled by a group of very old aristocratic families, they have a very strong military force, and their rule is very stable, no matter who governs the kingdom of Mares, they are very obedient, willing to abide by the laws and regulations set by the rulers and various policies, but the premise is not to touch their bottom line, and this bottom line is the land.
It is precisely because of the particularity of Yasha County and the fact that it has a very strong military force, so both sides of the civil war in the kingdom tacitly avoided Yasha County to avoid some improper actions, which violated the psychological bottom line of the ancient nobles of Yasha County and pushed the excellent military force of Yasha County to the enemy.
However, no matter how much they avoided Yasha County, the effects of the war spread like an uncontrolled wildfire, and it was unstoppable.
The first to hit Yasha County was of course the influx of refugees that accompanied the fighting, and according to the newspaper reports Leo read, nearly half a million refugees had entered Yasha County, which is exactly what can be counted, and those who cannot be counted are probably more.
There is no doubt that this wave of refugees is like a flood that has hit the fragile social fabric of Yasha County, which is not as chaotic as the rest of the Mares Kingdom, but there is also not much order, and the conflict between locals and refugees has been repeatedly in the newspapers of neighboring Savile, indicating that the situation there is already very bad.
It's just that for the real rulers of Yasha County, the conflict between refugees and locals, the consumption of materials, the chaos of society, etc., are not a big problem, and a long time is enough to erase the various adverse effects caused by these problems, for these rulers, the real problem comes from themselves, from the various adverse reactions caused by the changes in the world.
For the people of the Dark World, it is no secret that the two enemies of werewolves and vampires jointly rule Asha County, whether it is the Church of the Hill Kings or the Night's Watch Organization, and other named forces in the Dark World have tacitly accepted their rule over Yasha County.
With the exception of some hot-headed fools, none of these forces that maintain the rules of the dark world will send people to Asha County to capture werewolves or vampires.
But this does not mean that the names of werewolves and vampires have been erased from the hunting lists of these forces, so whenever werewolves and vampires who voluntarily leave Yasha County appear, there will be night watchmen, church knights or bounty hunters and others to hunt these werewolves and vampires, and the hunting sequence has always been close to the runaway family, until the last hundred years, this hunt has gradually decreased, and the bounty that has been hanging on the black market for a long time has been canceled.
The reason for this is because werewolves and vampires are also the two races that are most likely to let their power get out of control, for example, vampires smell strong blood, and werewolves will cause a loss of control when they encounter a full moon night.
However, with the disappearance of the gods, the situation of werewolves and vampires getting out of control seems to have improved, and there have been no rumors of losing control for a long time, so the ranking of their hunting sequences will be lowered.
It's just that, from Sylvia's mouth, after this world change, the various abnormal events in Yasha County have also increased rapidly, even far exceeding the sum of other places, and these events are related to runaway werewolves and vampires, and there are even rumors of werewolves and vampires fighting in the dark world of Minsk continent.
Before Sylvia contacted Leo, Sylvia, who was also a member of the Orthodox Church Xenoadjutor, a member of the Persona Society, and a Night's Watchman, received notifications from these organizations asking her to go to Yasha County to investigate. If it's a small matter, it will be solved directly, and if it's a big event, the event rating will be given, and these major dark world organizations will reassign people according to the rating.
So when it was decided to go to Dalyat, Sylvia did not hesitate to choose Padu City in Yasha County as the location to meet Leo, and naturally Leo would not object, after all, he was still thinking about the auction of the black market in Padu City.
Originally, Leo thought that the last two days of the train journey would be as peaceful as the previous journey, but the reality told him that he was thinking too much.
After the train entered the overland subway tracks at the end of the final canyon railway, about half an hour later, a sudden sudden brake startled everyone on the train.
Leo didn't know what was going on in the back of the train, but in the restaurant where he was now, all kinds of cutlery and drinks were smashed to the ground, the waiters and passengers were in a mess, many people were cut by broken wine bottles, and Leo staggered forward several steps before he stabilized himself because of the sudden brakes.
Because the train designers also took into account the problem of sudden braking, all six locomotives have a set of brake linkages, once the two locomotives in front of them brake, then the other four locomotives will reverse the wheels, increase the pulling force to avoid the car derailment, and can also assist in braking.
Soon the train came to a complete stop, and everyone in the restaurant recovered from the initial panic, and the cursing of various languages came and went in the restaurant, and the situation of the higher person in charge could not be found, and the foreman of the restaurant became the object of everyone's anger, and all kinds of curses and questions were concentrated on him, and he could only lower his head and make various explanations to calm the anger of the passengers as much as possible.
Leo ignored the chaos in the restaurant, he opened the window, stuck his head out and looked in front of the locomotive, only to see a huge sand dune in front of the train, like a wall, and the sand and gravel also completely covered the railway, if it was not cleared, the train might not be able to continue moving.
Perhaps, the driver at the front of the train and the other train leaders who found the dunes in their way didn't notice anything unusual in them, but the moment he saw the dunes, Leo was sure that something was going to happen.
The reason why he was so sure was that the original railway designers chose to lay the land subway track at the southern end of the canyon instead of the flatter northern end, because after entering this area, the southern end is no longer a desert area, but a large number of grass and shrubs that can prevent wind and sand can grow vigorously here, so the construction of the railway at the south end of the canyon can minimize the obstruction of the railway by wind and sand, and in fact, from the record, this section of the land railway has never encountered an accident caused by wind and sand.
However, now a sand dune of this size, which is exactly burying the railroad tracks above the ground, stopping the train, can feel strange no matter how you look at it.
Just as Leo sensed the abnormality, his extraordinary hearing heard the sound of footsteps and heavy breathing coming from behind the small hills on either side of the train, and then saw some flags painted with tattered clothes erected on the tops of the hills on both sides, and a large number of ragged and armed Saville paups standing on the hills, overlooking the train below.
"These damn poor guys, how dare they do this, how dare they?" the foreman in the restaurant couldn't help but curse after seeing the clearly marked flag on the hill.
All the passengers in the restaurant who heard the foreman's curses also fell silent, they all forgot the pain in their hands for a while, leaned in front of the window and looked out, and after confirming the situation, except for a few who were still as calm as Leo, everyone else's faces became extremely ugly.
Savile's Poor Men Party first appeared when the Savile Kingdom began to implement a parliamentary system, as the name suggests, the people who formed the Poor Men Party were some lowly commoners, and the initiator was a little better, he used to work as a servant in a noble family, where he learned knowledge, and then was recommended to be a civil magistrate in a slum.
The purpose of this man's formation of the Poor People's Party was simple, that is, to occupy a place in the city council, so that the poor would have a voice for them.
However, it is clear that the nobles did not want to see such a low-status person equal to them in the parliament, so they created all kinds of obstacles to the election, and directly let the Poor Men Party go out without even qualifying for the election, and the person who founded the Poor Men Party was stabbed to death one night for a quarrel with an unknown drunk.
Originally, the nobles of the local city thought that this was the end of the matter, but instead of disappearing, the poor people's party expanded rapidly because of the death of its founder, and even spread to other cities.
When the nobles of Savile felt that something was wrong, the Poor Man Party had spread to all the cities and tribes of the Savile Kingdom, and it could be said that any poor person in the Savile Kingdom could be fulfilled by the Poor Man Party, and the Poor Man Party had also become the big trouble that the rulers of the Savile Kingdom wanted to solve most and the most difficult to solve completely.
The Poor Men Party has done many things in the past hundred years, two of which have done the most, one is to help the poor and help the poor, and the second is to assassinate those notorious nobles.
According to statistics, among all the nobles who died unnaturally in the Savile Kingdom for more than 100 years, nearly sixty percent of them were committed by the poor man's party, and the number of assassinated nobles reached more than 1,400 people, among which the nobles with the highest status even had the rank of prince.
Because of this, almost all the official reports of the Savile Kingdom describe the Poor Men Party as a group of vicious bandits, piling up all kinds of things that are not the work of the Poor Men Party, and most of the passengers in the carriage are reading the official reports of the Savile Kingdom, and it is inevitable that fear will arise in their hearts at this moment.
It's just that when most of the people in the carriage showed a look of fear, a few people reacted calmly to let Leo pay a little attention.
The old puppeteer was calm because he was extremely confident in his own strength, believing that even if something happened, he would be able to get out safely. It is strange that the other well-dressed Savile nobles who got on the bus were also very calm, and it stands to reason that they should have been most afraid of these inherently hostile poor men.
"Interesting! Looks like there's a good show to watch!" Leo smiled, found a chair and sat quietly in the corner, waiting for the rest of the story.