Chapter 426: Silent Change, Living Fortress
Within a day of the complete destruction of the royal family, a statement signed by the four Grand Dukes of the Frontier was passed from the capital of Alestale to all corners of the kingdom, and the documents sent by the soldiers of the Night's Edge and the Grand Dukes did not ignore even those remote mountain villages.
The statement gave a general account of what the royal family had done over the years, and the decision of the Grand Dukes to exercise the power to re-elect the royal family, and now that the royal family had been settled and the vacant position was vacant, a council of four frontier archdukes temporarily ruled over the whole of Arestler.
The statement specifically mentions the victims of those experiments, informing them that if they hear about the existence of this document and are still on the run or hiding their own existence at the moment, they can choose not to hide anymore, and the four border guilds will help them.
The rest illustrates some of the general legal adjustments that followed, including a particularly serious explanation of the adjustment of the rights of the nobility, which made it clear that fixed estates were reserved, but there would no longer be any preferential treatment such as tax exemptions, and even taxes would be greatly adjusted according to the number of estates.
There is a faint threat in and out of the words, so that this group of guys who used to be nobles and have privileges beyond ordinary residents should not be ignorant, and then do some kind of protest and other for the reduction of privileges, the fate of the royal family is there, come and do it one by one, and will not get used to the existence of this group.
I wonder how the nobles felt about this, whether they were glad that they had not been completely liquidated, or whether they were bitter about the reduction of power.
However, for those ordinary residents, this must be a good thing to a considerable extent, those laws that used to be extremely biased towards the aristocracy made them basically have no status and rights in front of this group of nobles, except for hard power and a very small number of lucky people, generally for a lifetime.
In the royal city of Alestale, newsboys with the latest newspapers printed by the newspaper office run through the streets and alleys, announcing the biggest news of the past few days.
"The latest news, the unknown things that the royal family has done, the four archdukes co-lead the parliament of Alestale, and the new legal provisions ......!"
The shouts of the newsboy quickly attracted the attention of the residents on the street, and although they calmed down after confirming that the destruction of the palace was not an invasion by foreign enemies, they were not curious, it was also fake, and they were naturally ready to pay for a copy, and then they found that the newspaper of the past two days did not cost money.
"The newspaper said that the big news in the past few days has something to do with all of us, and everyone needs it, so they will ask for this money, and I hope you will continue to support Wangcheng Daily in the future."
The words of the newsboy completely erased the doubts of those ordinary residents, since there is no money and nonsense, take it, even if you don't look at it, it is good to take it back to the table.
As a result, the newspapers, which gave a similar account of the recent events, quickly passed into the hands of the various inhabitants of the royal city, and the remainder were delivered by horse-drawn carriage to the towns of Alestre outside the royal city. net
The contents of these newspapers were different, after all, the inhabitants of the royal city had seen the royal palace bombed into the sky, but the rest of the people of Alestale outside the royal city probably knew that the matter would have to be postponed for several days.
"The tax has been reduced, it's a good thing, oh, you don't have to salute when you see the noble lord in the future, well, it's better to look at this for a while, I seem to have heard my father say that there are similar ones, but now it's still the same, it's not worth it to take on the possibility of being troubled for a salute...... Oh? What does that mean?"
There are citizens who have done their own business, or simply the owner of a relatively idle shop, holding the latest daily newspaper and reading the contents of it, and sighing to themselves because of the contents of it as they read it.
There is no such thing as the Internet in this world, and residents want to know about the big things that happen, either by word of mouth, or by these newspapers and the like, but after all, this thing is artificially printed, and the authenticity is a little bit, and it is really impossible to say.
「……」
A sturdy middle-aged man, who had just finished his work as a porter and returned to his residence in the city wall area, looked at some of the messages in the free newspaper in his hand and fell into deep thought, the content of which was related to him, but his reason was telling him the truth of the content
It's hard to confirm.
Putting away the newspaper that he had intended to take back to the table and putting it in a bag of his trousers, he returned to his residence in the city walled area, a spacious and tidy wooden house built between dilapidated houses.
Pulling out the key and pushing the door open, the middle-aged man handed the newspaper to two younger youths who were eating baked potatoes and preparing to take over his work.
"How do you have the money to buy a newspaper?"
"It's free, you look here, I think it's a little credible."
"It's free, and this good thing, what to see?"
In the face of the young man's question, the middle-aged man just clicked on part of the newspaper and asked him to read it, and by the way, judge the credibility.
「……」
The young man's behavior was not much different from that of the middle-aged man before him, and he quickly fell silent after seeing the part of the newspaper, and the half-eaten baked potatoes in his hand were unconsciously put back on the plate.
"I can't tell, I can't tell if it's true or not, but it's for sure, this is the first time in so many years that they've brought these things to the table, and it doesn't seem like it's just us."
"What do you think of the above to let me, the victims, find their content?"
"......, uncle, it's hard to say, remember what we came to the royal city for? If they knew we existed, they would have used it to lure us out and clean it up all at once."
"Do you think it's worth the effort they put into directing and acting in such a big play?"
The middle-aged man asked lightly, the young man was silent, he had been in the royal city for so long, he knew how small the strength of his people was, their talents were average, and their resources were insufficient, and it was very difficult to touch those existences.
Not to mention, let them pay for what they did, otherwise they wouldn't still live in this terrible walled area, so although what Uncle said is simple, it is indeed correct.
"Alas, it said that the city wall area should be rebuilt, and then we will see if these are true, if they are true, then the previous content should also be true, we are not worth these calculations......
The young man sighed, picked up the potatoes on the table again, nibbled them clean, then picked up the cloth bag, and walked out of the house with another young man beside him, who had not spoken, no matter what happened, the money for food had to be earned, and he was hungry, and nothing could be done.
"It's going to take time to see."
The middle-aged man took the newspaper and looked at its contents, muttering to himself, the eternal burning flame in his chest literally lowered the temperature a little unconsciously.
"Give them some time to wait and see, after all, the royal family's attitude towards these beings has been like that for so many years, and these victims will have to be mentally prepared if they want to confirm and accept these changes."
In the Eden Seed space, Charles sipped coffee on the table with the newspaper in his hand, and chatted with Edward opposite him about the victims of the royal family.
"Indeed, I wish they had believed us sooner."
Edward responded at the same time, looking at this huge space, the size of the seed of Eden has expanded to a much larger than before, the length, width and height have exceeded 100 meters of cube space, the things that can be accommodated can be said to be very exaggerated.
"Is it a roar, the others, one is to accommodate the existence of those who temporarily belong to the free people of the Night Church into Arestler, we are not short of places now, but there is a shortage of people, not only the original land of Arestler There are many undeveloped places, and the land in Seventan can actually be used."
Draining the cup of coffee in his hand, Charles continued to talk about what happened to Alestaler after that.
"That's right, Seventan's previous predicament was largely due to the bitter cold of their land and Arestler's premeditated blockade, which led them to a slow death process, and in fact there are quite a lot of minerals buried under that ice and snow, which are all useful for the magic industry that Arestler is developing now
on."
"Now, as long as we open a path from Alestale's side to the old Seventan land, it's not too difficult to get it to develop slowly."
Edward nodded, and drew a line with his pen on the map on the table, representing an avenue from Alestale to Severin.
"You are an expert in those things in the ice and snow area, listen to you, it is definitely much better to absorb the people of the Night Church than to absorb the homeless people anyway, after all, although there is no guarantee that every member is trustworthy, but at least there is a certain basic understanding."
"The rest, it's those dragons, tsk, theoretically, in the future, Arestler will be the first window for the dragons of Dragon Island to set foot on the mainland, this is all stained with the light of the professor and Wang Yu, and those strong and unspoken beings can also establish contact with Arestler."
Charles said, smacking his lips, feeling that Alestaler was indeed thriving, after the royal family was gone, many things suddenly became clear, and the feeling of seeing the sun from the clouds arose, and where these things came from to a large extent, he and Edward were very clear.
"Well, I'm looking forward to it too, and then there's what Wang Yu said about Selene and the so-called "Ideal Country", he is now studying the things left by Roland in the Void, we should further confirm and be vigilant about this matter, have you gained anything?"
"There are some, let's connect the things that the royal family has done with a sense of disobedience, combined with the information gathered by the intelligence team of Night Blade from the rest of the kingdoms, you will find that these somewhat inexplicable things are not only happening in Alestale."
"My father and the Grand Duke already know about it, and they are looking for information."
"Uh-huh......
At the same time, in the void, Wang Yu once again took Avia to the material realm in the void, where the "secret treasure" left by Roland was.
"Give it a try."
Looking at the square and familiar fortress in front of him, Wang Yu extended the power of the chariot to the past, and he didn't know if he had the ability to break it with his strength now?
"Huh?"
With a light sigh, Wang Yu sensed the information fed back by the power of the chariot just now, but it had no effect at all, the power of the chariot could not act on this fortress, and this feedback would only appear in one case.
That is, in the face of the concept of "life", the power of the chariot will have no effect at this time, that is......
Is this fortress a living thing?