On August 30, the streets of Orin were in a bustle - no one knew exactly what was going on. But everyone's heart was filled with anger.

In Oilon, the price of coal has soared to 270 pence per pound. The price of coal rises in a single day even more than the total amount of money that most households can earn in a month.

The price of coal is skyrocketing, and the rise is so fierce that people can't see the end at all. What is even more desperate is that many of Olin's newspapers have published long editorials with only one core point: the low price of coal in the past was caused by insufficient market competition, but now that the market is fully active, the price of coal will drive up the price of other commodities.

When the price of other commodities rises, the income of labor will naturally rise, and the market will complete this transmission process - it may take a little longer, and after about two years, the wages of labor will be able to rise to a level that can fully match the price of the commodity.

At least, in the eyes of the commentators who wrote the article, the expectation that the average social wage would rise to an "appropriate level" after two years was perfectly acceptable. There may be some times when it will be difficult in between, but this kind of difficulty must be completely bearable with a little patience. No, poor families could send their children who could not afford to raise them to work as servants in aristocratic estates—or to work as handymen in other factories in Orin.

They may not be able to earn any wages, but at least they can reduce the burden on their families after they go out to work, right?

Such statements do not anger the poor who read the newspapers, because they have more serious matters to deal with.

The church began to distribute food that had already been cooked on the streets. Most of this food comes from the church's own farmland, and the fuel is hay and wheat straw that are by-products of the growth of agricultural products. But there is a limit to the amount of fuel, and the church has collected these by-products in previous years and mixed them with animal manure such as cow dung to make fertilizer.

The church itself is also in great demand for by-products, and to do so now is tantamount to the church giving up on their fields for this year's harvest – preferring a poor harvest to giving priority to the poor.

The actions of the Church have touched countless poor people, and as a contrast...... The Forestry Administration's response was nothing short of provocative. The Imperial Forestry Department sent a large number of heavily armed investigators to the ghettos, kicked open the doors of every slum house they could see, and then rummaged through the cabinets to find out if the slums had stolen wood to make fires for cooking.

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Anyone who cuts down a tree without the authorization of the Forestry Department shall be fined eighty gold pounds per tree. If the diameter of the tree exceeds one yore, the penalty shall be levied at the rate of multiplying the widest diameter of the tree by eighty gold pounds per jore.

According to this rule, any poor person who has a branch in his home must be divided by a fine of not less than eighty gold pounds. If they can't pay it, the head of the household is taken away by the Forestry Department and then used his work as a slave laborer to plant trees, paying the fine. The Forestry Department paid three pennies for every ten trees planted.

The meagre wages are infuriating enough, and what is even more unacceptable is that in such a situation of high prices, taking the head of a poor household as a slave is tantamount to directly sentencing the entire family of the head of the household to death – they cannot afford to pay such a high cost of living after the head of the family has been captured.

In many poor families, wives who have lost their husbands commit suicide with their children in desperation. And there are more and more such people, and the suicide of whole families in the slums has almost become a large-scale epidemic. Every family in the slum has lost hope, just waiting numbly to be the next poor person to be taken away or commit suicide.

Resistance was quietly born in this extremely repressive situation.

No one knows exactly what happened, it could be a desperate woman who found the explosives her husband had placed in her home, or a child who didn't want to be suffocated by his mother and chose to use his life to complain about injustice. All in all, it all happened very quickly and with a huge impact. In just one day, the office building of the Olin Forestry Bureau was attacked several times. From explosions to arson, to shootings and even stabbing with knives...... Within a day, more than a dozen staff members of the Ollinlin Agricultural Bureau were killed in the attack, and the Forestry Bureau's office building was also damaged.

As one of the two major political forces within the Empire, the Forestry Department reacted very quickly after the attack. They began to use violence to dispel the angry crowd of onlookers around them to ensure the safety of the building. And a direct warning to these poor people - the Forestry Department will find the attackers and make them pay a heavy enough price for their actions.

In the crowd, a shrill voice suddenly asked, "We have paid the price with the lives of hundreds of families - what about you?" What will you pay for the lives of these dead? ”

"You'd rather watch us starve to death than let the poor people go and light a few fallen branches to cook food!" Another male voice shouted angrily, "Those nobles and gangsters who sell wood can make money smoothly, only we have to pay with the lives of our whole family?" So what use do we want the Forestry Bureau! ”

The angry questioning turned into anger from the crowd after a few seconds, and after the Forestry Administration officials tried to disperse the crowd by declaring that "everyone present is a vandal and the Forestry Department will hold those present accountable," the anger instantly turned into action. In less than 20 minutes, the crowd broke through the isolation line set up by the armed personnel of the Forestry Bureau. And trampled the terrified Forestry Bureau staff into a pulp.

The people who stormed the Forestry Bureau began to destroy everything they could see. Every wooden window was pred off, expensive blown glass was smashed directly, and the wood was taken into their arms and prepared for fuel.

After about an hour, the Forestry Bureau's building was reduced to a brick structure. And the crowd began to pour onto the street, towards the building of the mining complex.

While the head of the mining complex was still happy that his old rival had been "connected to the nest", an angry crowd stormed the building of the mining complex, and even more large-scale destruction began.

By the time Orin's armed forces finally reacted and began sending men into Regent Street en masse to chase away the "mobs", the destruction had been going on for about an hour. Almost all of the Imperial government offices located on Regent Street were severely damaged, with at least thirty staff members killed and countless others injured.

Even worse is yet to come, and the mob who broke into government agencies has found a flood of unbelievable evidence from the agency's archives.

After the rebellion of Newsard, the Empire provided more than 100 million gold pounds of various material support to Newsal in just a few months. Technical support aside, the empire paid more than 30 million gold pounds just to pay the transportation costs and commissions to the "third party of the transaction".

At a time when the inhabitants of the empire were so poor that they had to choose between starvation and hard labor, the empire paid so much money to the rebels?

The voice of anger quickly turned into action once again. In the face of the drive of the imperial armed forces, these ordinary people, who had been honest for generations, did not dare to resist or dissatisfied, suddenly burst out with jaw-dropping power.

The beautiful and inaccessible government office buildings were torn down in pieces and transported to the surrounding streets. Countless pairs of calloused hands built them into a thick wall.

The weapons discarded by the armed guards were reassembled, and several veterans who had served in the Imperial Army and had survived the war were re-assembled and taught the other paupers how to use them. None of them had thought about what to do next, and perhaps in a few hours, the Imperial Army would be driving the Steam Knights straight through their positions.

Maybe in a few hours, everyone here will be killed.

But it doesn't matter, they don't have any chance of surviving anyway. In this case, it is not a loss to shoot two dogs before you and your family die.

When people have completely stopped fearing death, they can do something earth-shattering.

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When what may have been the largest demonstration in the history of the Empire erupted in Orin, the Central Tek was confused and nervous.

Strikes and the mobilization of the population are a matter of great deal of urgency, and the deployment of materials and the various aspects of communication, as well as the confrontation with the armed forces of the Empire, require great efforts to solve.

The Central Special Branch has the ability to launch a large-scale demonstration, but it cannot guarantee that all participants will return home safely during the entire demonstration. There is no guarantee that after the demonstrations, the relevant departments of the empire will not settle accounts.

In accordance with Dussand's instructions, the Central Special Branch, when launching such an operation, must guarantee the safety of the ordinary people who participated. The members of the Special Branch can sacrifice themselves with fearlessness, but they must not allow the people to take these risks in the place of the Central Special Branch.

From the people, relying on the people, and at the same time, we must also protect the people for the people. Only in this way will the people be able to become strong supporters of the Central Special Branch.

The mass protests and violent clashes in Orin were not orchestrated by the Central Special Branch. In fact, after learning of the direct violent clashes between the population and the government institutions of Orin, the Central Special Branch first sent a large number of personnel to try to evacuate the crowd.

However, all three evacuation attempts failed. The violent conflict with the Olin government institutions has not only not been resolved, but has even intensified.

Determined that it was no longer possible for the Central Special Branch to bring the demonstrations to a peaceful end, Lorraine quickly reoriented the Central Special Branch's work from dissuading and evacuating the crowd to quickly supporting the Occupy standoff.

Since there can be no peaceful solution, the empire must be made fearful of the power of the poor. Only by making those nobles and high-ranking officials realize the power of the people will they be able to make concessions.

After the construction of the wall, known as the "People's Castle", began, the first large-scale operation of the Central Special Branch officially began. The first supplies of medical supplies, weapons, food, and water began to pour down Regent Street through the sewers of Orin.

At the same time, Lorraine also writes a letter to her fiancé in Newsal. There was no greeting or intimacy in the letter, and Lorraine, in her capacity as the top head of the Central Special Branch, proposed to Dusand to bring forward the second phase of the operation, and through a larger scale of disruption, let the empire concentrate all its energy on internal affairs and the economy.

She wants to drain the empire of all its energy on its weakest link, and tries to conquer it from within.