Wars, whether they are just or not, and what their final outcome is, come with huge and heavy costs. More than 20 years ago, in the four years from AC784 to AC788, the empire fought two major battles, the first was the Danchester incident, the enemy was the king of crime and punishment, in this war a total of 270,000 people were killed, and the direct economic losses plus post-disaster reconstruction cost a total of 298 billion deniers, and the second was a series of major battles with the Kraken from 787 to 788, from the initial battle of the fall of the black fort to the defense of the river valley, a total of 360,000 people were killed in a few months, and the war investment plus post-war reconstruction cost a total of 174.9 billion danian。

These expenses do not include the losses caused by the various social problems caused by these two wars, and the financial statements of the empire in 783 show that the total fiscal revenue of that year was 680 billion deniers, and although the two wars that took place in four years were not to the extent of the empire's nerves, they still brought a large deficit to the empire's finances, and these deficits were eventually shared among the people at the bottom of the empire in the form of taxes.

In 789 AC, there was a great drought in the provinces of Norwich, Fraser, and Sax, and for three months, no rain fell, and this story happened in a village called Saku on the border between Norwich and Fraser.

Like many villages outside the Iron Curtain, Saku is an ordinary village, the only feature is that this village is on the edge of the Misty Forest, and occasionally there is an opportunity to produce some specialties of the Misty Forest, but due to Mao Wen's extremely xenophobic characteristics, such opportunities are also pitiful.

Saku is a human village, and the main source of livelihood of the villagers is to grow corn, and most of the people are just enough to feed themselves after paying taxes, which is not very rich.

The protagonist of the story is a boy.,Their family has lived in this village for generations.,It's roughly the generation of the boy's grandfather.,Because of the age.,The specific years can't be verified.,Let's call him the boy's grandfather.。

Grandpa Tai is an honest and kind-hearted farmer, who has dealt with the land all his life, and the things he knows best are the corn in the field, and he doesn't understand anything else.

Probably because of fate, one day Grandpa got up at night to go to the toilet, and saw a group of people sneaking through his backyard, although he thought that there was nothing valuable at home, Grandpa still subconsciously thought that he had been robbed.

So the honest peasant grabbed his torch and shovel and rushed at the crowd with a shout. Probably fearing that they would be stopped by the villagers who had heard the news, the gang threw down a cloth bag and ran away.

Grandpa Tai picked up the cloth bag and looked at it, and found a sleeping baby inside, not a human baby, but a baby like a kitten. It was Mao Wen's baby, and Grandpa Tai was taken aback, even though Saku Village was on the edge of the Misty Forest, their neighbor Mao Wen rarely appeared in the small place of Saku.

Although the villagers agreed that the baby should be returned to the Maowen people in the forest, when it came time to carry it out, everyone flinched. Because the Mao Wen did not allow others to enter their forest, there was once a group of poachers who sneaked into the forest, only to encounter Mao Wen in the forest, Mao Wen brutally killed the poachers, and only released one person to come back to proclaim their prestige, and even then the man who came back alive lost his ear.

Seeing that no one was willing to go, the kind-hearted grandfather volunteered to stand up, and the villagers dissuaded him. "No child should be separated from their parents from birth," he said. ”

In this way, Grandpa Tai took the baby into the forest alone, and went to great lengths to deliver the child to his parents, and was almost nailed to death by Mao Wen who patrolled the forest with a spear in the middle, but because Grandpa Tai was not the protagonist of this story, the dangers during this period will not be repeated.

Because of what Grandpa Tai did, the Mao Wen in the forest thanked him, gave him a lot of jewelry, and declared that his bloodline would always be Mao Wen's friend.

Grandpa returned to the village with those jewels and became a legend in the village. He sold the jewels for a lot of money, and as mentioned earlier, Grandpa Tai was just an honest farmer who didn't know anything but farming, so he used that money to buy a large piece of land in the village, and hired some people to help him grow corn, and he became the largest family in the village.

After his death, the family property was divided between the two sons, the eldest of whom received the property left by his father, and became an honest farmer who guarded the land like his father. The youngest son was an active nature, and did not want to leave his youth on the boring corn in the field, so he inherited all the money of the family, and took this huge amount of money with him that he was going out for a while, and that he would not come back without mixing his personal appearance, and as to what happened to him outside, no one knows, for he never returned to the village after that.

As for the eldest son who stayed in the village, he guarded the family's huge fields, and lived a prosperous life, he married a wife, and the two lived very lovingly, and gave birth to a son, but unfortunately when he was ten years old, he drowned because of swimming in the river.

Many years later, they had another son, the boy's grandfather. Because of the old man's son, grandpa has always been very favored and lacks discipline, so that he is a little sloppy, and he follows fox friends and dog friends all day long, and Nuoda's family property has actually shrunk by half in his hands.

Although the grandfather is a gentleman, after all, it is also the time to inherit the family property, probably because he does not know that oil and rice are expensive. After inheriting the family property, the grandfather finally realized that money was not easy to come by, and suddenly woke up, changed his mind, changed his old ways, and managed the family property well.

Grandpa also gave birth to a son, that is, the boy's father, how much because the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, the father learned all the stubbornness in the grandfather's body, and when the grandfather was in charge, when he finally reformed himself, his father had become a loser than his grandfather.

Although grandpa is very sad that his father is going his own way, but he is helpless, but fortunately, he has a huge family property behind him, but he can withstand his defeat, grandpa thinks that when his father is in charge, he can also be like himself to be able to prodigal son to turn back, so he will let him go.

Two years later, the boy was born, because he was the largest family in the village, and the boy was betrothed to the daughter of another family in the village who had a good relationship as soon as he was born.

In order to avoid following his father's old path, the grandfather disciplined the boy strictly, the boy was very smart and obedient, and did not learn the bad habits of his father, which made the grandfather very satisfied, and almost had the intention of directly handing over the family property to the boy to inherit.

About the girl who was engaged to him, the boy grew up with her since he was a child, and they were close to each other. They all thought that the other party would be their other half, and in fact, they should have been married in the blessing of everyone when they became adults, and lived happily ever after.

But when the boy was twelve years old, everything changed, because of the huge burden on the Empire's finances caused by the two wars, and the Empire increased its taxes by a large amount. And this year, a great drought struck without warning, and after three months of rain, even the stream outside the village dried up.

If there were no more rains, the villagers would miss the corn planting season altogether, and the Empire's taxes would not be easily reduced. Besides, even if they don't pay taxes, if the corn can't be grown, they won't be able to survive, so in desperation, the villagers gritted their teeth and scraped together a huge amount of money, preparing to go to the city to invite some demon spirit masters to cast spells for the village to rain.

Because the boy's family is the largest family in the village, the villagers gave the money to the boy's grandfather, planning to take the lead in inviting some powerful demon spirits. When the grandfather saw that the boy's father was idle at home all day long and did not do his job, he gave him the money and asked him to do it, which could be regarded as a way to train him.

The boy's father went on the road with the money, but he did not return for three days, so the villagers almost broke the threshold of the boy's house. For this reason, the boy's grandfather almost went to the city himself. At noon on the third day, a group of vicious men came to the boy's house with an IOU in the name of the boy's father, saying that the boy's father had lost all their property to him.

Grandpa didn't believe it, so he asked the village chief to identify it, and it turned out that the IOU was genuine and had legal effect. It turned out that when the boy's father arrived in the city, he did not use the money to invite the demon spirit, but went into a casino, and gambled with a man, and they gambled for a day and a night, and in the end the boy's father not only lost the money on himself, but also lost all the property of their family.

After knowing the truth, the grandfather vomited blood in anger and died on the spot. Those who came with IOUs did not relent, and the boy and his mother were kicked out of their homes that night.

Because the boy's father's actions had almost wiped out the whole village, no family was willing to take them in, so the boy and his mother slept in the wilderness for one night, probably because she could not accept such a fact, she hanged herself from the tree at the entrance of the village, and the first thing the boy saw when he woke up the next day was his mother's outstretched tongue.

Probably because he couldn't bear it, the village chief took the villagers to help the boy bury his grandfather and mother, and after that, they didn't embarrass the boy, scraped together a penny, went to the city to invite the demon spirit, and the crops in the village were barely saved.

The boy's father never came back, and although the villagers did not deliberately embarrass the boy, it was impossible not to be angry at all, and the boy began to become very unpopular in the village, and although the girl's attitude towards him was still the same, because of his family, he saw him less often after that.

That winter, the boy had survived one of the hardest winters of his life, and if it hadn't been for the girl secretly bringing him food, he might have died that winter. He looked at the big house of strangers living in his own house, and at the villagers who were indifferent to him, and made up his mind that he would come here, go outside, and make a career that would impress everyone.

The boy found the girl, told her what he thought, and assured her that he would go out and make a career. The girl looked at him with a smile and told him that she would wait for him.

The boy left the village and traveled from place to place, selling coolies, working as a handmaker, as a tailor, as a leather shoemaker, and even as a gladiator in an underground gladiatorial arena. He worked hard, worked hard, and after seven years, he finally saved enough money.

He took the money and went back to Saku Village, and used the land money he earned from his blood and sweat to return the money that his father hacked the villagers to the village chief, and when he wanted to see the girl, he was told by the village chief that the girl was married, married to the first largest family in the village, and the second largest family in the past.

The boy was silent, he left the village of Saku and went to the nearest city. In that city, he drank a lot of wine and was very drunk. Inadvertently, he entered a casino and sat down at the table, unlike his uneducated father, the boy who had been in the world for seven years only glanced at it and found that the dealer had done something on the dice, so he flipped the table on the spot.

There was no suspense in the ending, even if the boy learned a lot of fighting skills in the gladiatorial arena, he couldn't rely on this being someone else's territory, so he was beaten, beaten badly.

The thugs threw the boy in a dark, damp alley, and the boy lay on the ground, looking at the sky overhead, thinking a lot. He figured out one thing, the tragedy that happened to him was because of his status, although their family used to be the richest man in Saku Village, but in the whole empire, it really didn't matter, so someone would set up a trap for his idiot father.

He wants supreme power, a position that everyone must look up to, a position to stand at the top of the world, and as long as he can stand in that position, any price is acceptable, because he has nothing left in the first place......

............

Today, the capital, a secret chamber.

The boy had grown into a handsome young man, standing in the middle of the chamber, smiling and politely responding to a phantom in front of him. The owner of the Phantom is Ila III, the current Siren Mastermother, a figure of the same honor as the Three Kings of the Empire.

At this moment, the Siren Madomess was unabashedly venting her anger, "Humble human, that giant beast is the only result of the countless heroic Kraken warriors who traded their lives for their lives twenty years ago! ”

The young man smiled at the anger of the Siren Mistress and spoke unhurriedly, "Your Majesty, I must show you that that one is only my boss, not my master, and that he is not convenient to meet with you for personal reasons. Above all, Your Majesty, I want you to believe that the sacrifice you have made will not be worthless. ”

The Siren Master's eyes widened, "Humble human, how dare you ......"

Before she could finish speaking, the guy cut off contact with the other party, and he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, although he had always looked like he was in the chest, but in fact, it was not an easy thing to communicate with the angry Siren Mistress.

The drudgery would fall to him because his irresponsible boss couldn't get away with something for a while, but the good thing was that he was given a month of free time to attend to his personal affairs.

The young man pushed open the door of the secret room and walked outside, thinking to himself, how long had it been since he had been back to Saku Village?

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By the way, the current guy is the same boy he used to be, and his name is Kru Duzer.

PS: Du Ze is back again, you can spoil it a little, the grudge between Du Ze and Xinghe will last for a long time PSS: In addition, it seems that everyone's ability to accept the high bento rate is quite strong, so I'm relieved