Like wandering souls, a soulless body walking blankly on this infinite wasteland, where they came from, how long they walked, where they are going, maybe even they are hard to remember, the only thing they can remember at this time is to lift their feet mechanically, and then move towards the distance that no one knows. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This is a true portrayal of the great migration of the poor people of the wasteland, and you can see everywhere on the long journey, except for the corpses that have fallen and never been able to get up, that is, the bodies lying on the ground and dying, and the emaciated children who kneel beside the corpses in a daze, helpless and waiting for death, everywhere is lifeless, and even the sky is heavy and gloomy.

It's not hard to imagine what a terrible picture this is.

The carriage drove in the opposite direction, and Augustus, who was sitting at the door of the carriage, silently looked at the crowd of people passing by each of the carriages, his eyes were cold and emotionless: if he passed through the territory of the Marquis of Sauron, the first time he saw this picture of wandering civilians, Augustus would be shocked and confused, then when he gradually went deeper into the wasteland, and saw such a picture for the second time, the third time, and the umpteenth time on the boundless steppe, he would no longer have any emotions, which had nothing to do with his cold-bloodedness and selfishness, as Bishop Mass said, he was not a god, he could not save the common people, even if he was a god, it would be difficult to save this sin。

A skinny little girl knelt in front of a decomposing woman's corpse, and seemed to feel the carriage, and as the carriage got closer and closer to her, she looked up slowly, her empty eyes full of dead silence, making it impossible to believe that this could be the eyes of a living human.

Despair?

Where there is any despair, she has probably forgotten what despair is.

The carriage passed by the thin little girl, and the picture was fixed at the moment when the little girl looked up, and she no longer had the strength to turn her head and chase the carriage with her eyes.

The scavenging birds that survived in the cold winter were constantly screaming around the wagon, and Augustus hated these black and filthy creatures, but there was nothing he could do to stop their feast.

......

On the other side of the carriage, a simple and shabby carriage with a lot of space drove towards him, and Augustus suddenly looked up, although there were living people along the way, but Augustus didn't feel that he really saw a living person until he saw the carriage. He tried to see the signs on the carriage, but he couldn't find any signs until the humble carriage passed by his carriage, except to see the simple carriage stop where the little girl was kneeling before, and then quickly disappeared into the vast wasteland, as if it were a carriage carrying the soul of the Grim Reaper.

And where it had stopped, there was only the corpse of a woman.

"Either way, it's better than dying here quietly. ”

Augustus thought silently about the strange carriage and the vanished girl, and he looked one last time at the vast wasteland littered with outcasts, and then finally turned and returned to the carriage.

In the carriage, outside the carriage, two worlds.

Elizabeth was flipping through the 'plundering of raw resources,' a book that Augustus had actually seen in the carriage and recommended to her. Augustus knew that Elizabeth's world could no longer be a simple blank slate, whether it was his father or the environment of the wasteland, there were more or less shadows in Elizabeth's life, he didn't expect him to completely erase these shadows and make Elizabeth simple and happy, but he was able to guide Elizabeth after all, so that she could be as optimistic and positive as possible on the basis of having a dark side.

He smiled hard, dispelling the negative emotions in his mind because of the wasteland image, and said, "How is it, is there any gain?"

"The big harvest may not be. Elizabeth sat down in the chair in front of the desk in the carriage, put the heavy book in her hand on the desk, she pondered, and then said: " However, Augustus, I still think that the plan you told me a few days ago is really operational, you know, the reason why the wasteland is barren is itself a problem of land and lack of rainwater, if you can open a gap in the long Alps and introduce the warm wind of the Northeast Black Sea, then combined with the hot and cold air flow factors you mentioned, so that the wasteland is abundant, the wasteland will definitely become a fertile land - this also means that Alfred can complete the accumulation of original capital as soon as possible. ”

Augustus had a headache.

Opening a gap in the Alps and introducing warm ocean breezes is simply his genius idea in his previous life, and he has been borrowing from it in order to guide Elizabeth's optimism in the carriage these days and let her know that 'anything can actually change', but he didn't expect Elizabeth's young heart to be opened in this way, she put all her interest on this issue, so that Augustus, who knew the operability of this matter, was extremely helpless, and he could only smile bitterly as always: " Let's not mention how to open a gap in the Alps, Elizabeth, if it is only a lack of rain, we can then communicate with Earl Donald and bring in the water of the Tayi River in the Donald's domain, which can also solve the problem of irrigation water in the Alfred territory, and can't this complete the accumulation of original capital?"

"But you said that it is never better to rely on others than on ourselves, so why should we plead with Donald instead of trying to solve it ourselves?"

"Pleading? Oh no, I'll have to correct your mind, trust me, once we have the strength to open the gap in the Alps, we don't need to plead with Donald either, he'll do it. ”

Elizabeth pondered and realized that what Augustus said seemed to be true, but after thinking about it for a long time, she still stubbornly muttered: "But if the gap in the Alps is opened, the water problem of the entire wasteland will be solved, and the Tayi River in the Donald fief will not be able to meet the water problem of the entire wasteland." ”

Augustus was finally defeated.

......

It was also on the way of the great migration of civilians.

Augustus and the others, who finally arrived at the city of Saye, the territory of Alfred, felt the difference in the territory when they stepped on the territory, to be precise, the difference here was completely caused by one reason, that is, there were many more people. More people is a good thing, especially in the already scarce wasteland, more people means labor productivity, but also means development and wealth, so at first feeling the noise of the city of Saya, Augustus was indeed a lot of relief, for a while the hellish scenes he saw on the road brought him a lot of haze, but as the carriage gradually went deeper, closer and closer to the center of the city of Saya, Augustus gradually became solemn.

He finally realized that a large number of people actually meant conflict and riots.

At first, Augustus thought that the skirmishes he saw among the commoners were inevitable disputes between outsiders and local civilians, but after he witnessed at least five similar clashes along the way, he realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately ordered Katieoni, who was following the carriage, to investigate.

This was not a problem for Katieoni, and the average civilian would only tremble and answer questions in the face of a real knight master, so soon, Katieoni turned back to report. It is said that they have a general understanding, and the disputes between the commoners are still because of food, and the foreign commoners are told by the nobles of their respective territories that as long as they come to the city of Saya, they can receive enough food to support them to go to Sauron, who is far away, but when they really come to the city of Saya, they do not see even a grain of grain at all, so disappointment leads to despair, despair leads to anger, and conflicts and riots are logical.

Augustus, who was sitting in front of the car window, had a gloomy face, and the other families incited the commoners to come and receive food, this was his plan, and he was not surprised and would not mind, but the problem was that he clearly remembered that before he rushed back, he had already issued an order to let the nobles and lords in the fief provide food to the civilians unconditionally, so could it be that the knights around Katienian did not convey the order?

This is certainly not possible.

Augustus realized that he seemed to have made a mistake, the nobles in his fief really had no choice under the premise that Alfred was about to perish, and could only finish with Alfred, but the question was, it was going to be finished anyway, would the lords still be willing to obey any of Alfred's orders as before?

This kind of thing had already happened when Alfred was first attacked, and if Elizabeth hadn't executed several nobles in the first place, I'm afraid the situation would have been even worse when Augustus woke up.

Sensing this omission, Augustus frowned slightly, he has the support of rich experience in his previous life, so in this life he has an innate advantage in grasping the overall situation, but for the details, what about the execution of his subordinates? In his previous life, he controlled an enterprise, had the guarantee of accountability, and every order he gave was able to be carried out smoothly according to his mind, but in this life, in the face of cunning nobles with their own thoughts, how could he ensure that his orders would be implemented in the fastest time?

This problem is obviously a problem that Augustus urgently needs to solve, otherwise all his plans will become empty in the air.

He gazed at the crowd of people who were in the midst of a fierce clash not far from the carriage, and listened to the screams that came from time to time, considering that the lord of the city of Saya had already rushed to Alfred's Castle, and for a moment he found that the problem was indeed quite tricky.

"Why don't you have Captain Katieny contact me with Alfred's knights stationed in various towns to see if we can take control of the situation for the time being?"

The commotion outside the carriage and Katieenny's debriefing made Elizabeth guess the problems that Augustus was experiencing, she was in charge of Alfred for 3 months, and handled all the tedious things well during those 3 months, so Elizabeth obviously had a lot of experience in the face of such a situation.

However, Augustus shook his head categorically and said with a sneer: "The method of treating the symptoms but not the root cause is of little significance. ”

Then he withdrew his gaze from the conflict, and ordered the old butler of the coachman's position to hurry back to the castle as fast as possible.

It was there that Augustus was the main battlefield of the war with the lords of his fiefdom.