As Giovanni and I got closer and closer, the two Burke-wielding halberd soldiers looked at each other and crossed their halberds

"Go away," a Burke shouted in rusty Wikibian dialect, "don't come here and don't feel uncomfortable, don't accept petitions today, come back on Monday"

The Berks stipulated that their officials had to accept petitions from the residents from Monday to Saturday, and in this way, the Berks were able to adjust their policies to suit the local population

In the beginning, many Wiki towns did not think of resisting the Berks, these towns did not have a strong sense of Wiki, for them, the arrival of the Berks was just a king replacing another king, or a council replacing another council, and it did not have much impact on their lives, but the Berks were unpopular and several massacres that made the residents here frightened and frightened, and unconsciously united in the name of the Wiki bloodline, although Lech was unmatched on the battlefield, But after the end of the war, the inhabitants became more and more dissatisfied with him

Many of the inhabitants even welcomed the arrival of the Berks at the beginning, many of them waited for the Burke soldiers on the side of the road with bread and ale, and a Burke chaplain recorded his own record of searching for the soldiers of Vicchia in a village: "The villagers there took us by the hand and told us that the boyars had fled to the mountains with the soldiers, and then we thanked them and prepared to leave, and at this time the whole village came out, and these people took us by the arm, Pushing and shoving and shoving and pretending to be angry at us, and brought us to their homes, and every villager did their best to bring out something to entertain us: bacon, ham, eggs, white bread, wine, kvas, roast pheasant, and after we had eaten a round, they drank with them, and while they entertained us, they tactfully told us that they wanted to get our promise that our soldiers would not abuse their brothers and sisters in the future, and our officers told them that as long as they did not harbor the Vickyan soldiers, The promise that we would not hurt them resonated among the villagers, who brought in a lot of food: preserves, sweet and spicy soups, small cakes with jam, thick soup with mushrooms and onions and pork ribs, and we started the second round of eating."

"Later, the wife of the village chief sang a song of friendship for us, and the village chief took the hand of our cavalry captain and said, his daughter is fourteen years old, and if the cavalry captain has time for military affairs, he can come and visit his daughter, and this hospitality surprised our soldiers, and when we came out of Burke, the generals told us that the Vycians were an inferior people, and let us be wary of their words and deeds, Say they're malevolent beasts, but what we see is not at all like that, the Wikibians seem to be fed up with their officials and the Grand Dukes, the imbecile mayors and the greedy boyars, who like us very much"

"So after a few months, when we had to burn these villages and retreat, the sadness and anger shown by the villagers of Vikia made me very sad that General Lech ordered us to destroy as much grain as possible, but this order could not be strictly enforced, because we were short of manpower, and the villagers of Wechia, after learning of our purpose, had already begun to organize large-scale resistance, and if we acted rashly, we would probably incur annihilation. Fortresses and watchtowers on the outskirts and then they were withdrawn back"

"We left a cavalry regiment on standby in the Riverlands, and called upon the nobles of Vecchia to cooperate with us, and set up a provisional council, the members of which and the municipal magistrates were to be chosen by themselves, and they had half of the seats, and when a definite man was decided, the Grand Duke Yusuf would formally recognize them, but I have heard that it was actually Lech who was ordering Lech's power to swell so quickly in the name of Yusuf, although he brought us victory, But this victory has made me more and more worried that the people of the cavalry regiment will get the other half of the seats of municipal magistrates and councillors, and they will be tasked with monitoring their Wikibian colleagues and preventing them from rebelling."

"It's sad that the war went so well, but after the war ended, things went so bumpy"

"When I went to the village of the Vycians after the war, their indifference was evident, you know, in the time of the war they were almost our friends, and at the end of the war they saw us as enemies and deceivers, our pastors tried to communicate with their bishops, and wanted to do something about the differences between the Eastern and Western churches, but the people of the Eastern Church were very stubborn, they were resolutely unwilling to give up their faith, they said: God is a man, they saw the left ear, We see the right ear, and we can't force the right ear on the left, it's blasphemy against God."

"In addition to these religious reasons, many other habits are also the same, I now have a lot of strong women in Vicchia than the women of Burke, they canceled the first night right of the lord hundreds of years ago, just like their Nord relatives, so when we arrived, these villagers would ask us worriedly if we still had the right to the first night of the lord, and I told them that we had also abolished this bad habit a long time ago, but these people didn't seem to believe it, and all kinds of rumors about us were everywhere, And it's not a good thing, these rumors are faster than ours, the inhabitants are becoming more and more hostile to us, I think of what happened to the Svadians in Rhodok many years ago, and I hope we don't end the same way, because we are as good as the Swadiaks, but the enemy is certainly not as good as the Rhodoks."

There are many more such rumors, and I heard many of them when I was on the ship, but this is indeed the first time I have come into direct contact with a Burke

The armor of the Burks is really beautiful, but it is not the full-body armor I imagined: their armor is not like the Wikirians, which are made of pieces of armor, their armor is made of small pieces of armor, inheriting the Western-style armor style, but it has been modified to make it more flexible and lightweight, but the protection is reduced, and their helmets have beautiful ear guards on both sides, shining silver, While I don't feel like this kind of thing provides much protection, I think the Wikibians' thick helmets are more trustworthy

The two Burke soldiers looked at us majestically, their faces cold

"Hurry up," one of the Burke soldiers urged

"I am a Vya boyar," said Giovanni, "and I want to see the Grand Master of your cavalry regiment"

The two soldiers glanced at each other and looked Giovanni up and down, "boyar?" ”

They clearly did not believe Giovanni's words

Giovanni and I looked like two fathers and sons on a pilgrimage, not like the well-boggled boyars, who would have been wearing thick coats, and a tall hat with sea otter skin, decorated with peacock feathers, and around his waist there would be a gem-embellished scimitar and a belt studded with silver buttons, and boyars would have been hugging each other when they went out, and they would not have been so pitiful

Giovanni stretched out his hand, took off the featureless iron wrench from his hand, and handed it to the guard

The guard took it carefully, ordered the other to keep an eye on Giovanni and me, and then turned to enter the gate himself

Three horsemen rode past the door, and they were curious about what the guard had said, presumably asking what we were doing

The wind above the square is very cold, this place is the wind outlet, the guards standing in this place are really torturous, if it were me, I would have been unable to stand it for a long time

After a while, the guard led an old man out

The old man, who spoke fluent Wikibian, led us to the back of the room

The old man introduced himself as he went, he was a member of the Councils of Riverlands Vecchia, and now the biggest problem with the Berkes was that their council was understaffed, and most of the experienced mayors and councillors had fled, and only those who had been terrible in the past would stay and try their luck, and these people had made the bad government they hated worse even worse

Every day, the old councillor had to write to his former friends: a tax collector, a village lord's steward, a dock broker, a guild administrator, etc., hoping that they would come here to serve the council, and the Burkes were increasingly dissatisfied with these Wikiconciers, and they threatened that if the Wikibians couldn't manage themselves, they would have enough people to take care of them

The old councillor thought that Giovanni was the lord who had come to defect on his own initiative

He said to Giovanni: "The head of the regiment cannot meet people casually, but this is definitely not disrespectful to you, please believe me as an upright old man"

"No, I have to see Grand Master," said Giovanni

"Are you suspicious of me?" The old man was a little displeased, "Without my recommendation, it would be difficult for you to gain a foothold here, and I looked at your wrench, you are just a small officer nobleman, and you have a hundred, or two hundred?" Listen, this is not a capital to be proud of, you first ran here, I don't think you have anything to alarm the head of the regiment besides," the old man changed his words, "Your true identity has yet to be verified"

"Who said I'm coming over to defect?" Giovanni showed a curious expression, "I'm here to negotiate, I'm a councilor from the Ivangorod region of Vicchia, and the boyar of Vikya told you that I'm here to talk to him about the other side of the East Lake."

The old man's eyes widened, and it took him a moment to realize that Giovanni in front of him was almost an enemy, and he called the guards

A guard walked in in a daze, and the old man ordered the soldiers to stay here and keep an eye on us, and the strange order made the guards clear, and the old man had treated us as guests just now, but the soldiers did so

The old man hurried up a staircase

It's better to wait inside the house than to stand outside, I thought to myself

After a while, a Burke boy walked down and asked Giovanni to follow him

"What about my squire?" Giovanni asked

The Burke boy showed a sly smile, "He's going somewhere else".