Chapter 67: Drama

This is the southwestern part of the Franco-Austrian Union. The warm winds and water vapour from the southwestern border of the Franco-Austrian Union turn into rain. Therefore, the soil is fertile, and the weather is hot and rainy.

Bilsings is a large city located a little west-south of the Franco-Austrian Union, near the southern border, and is the capital city of Coriolis County. The people here love theatre, they live a prosperous life, and their cultural life is quite prosperous. Although the ordinary people living here could not afford to buy precious high-energy nutrient potions and demon beast meat as consumables for daily polishing of the Yuan Point, they had an abundant and abundant source of ordinary food.

Shakespeare's Theatre was overcrowded. William Shakespeare, a famous playwright and actor in the history of the Franco-Austrian League, was born in Bilsings. As a writer, his works were and are loved by the Franco-Austrian nobles, commoners, merchants and officials. Ironically, his works were only available in aristocratic bookstores and on the underground black market. His writing is sleek and profound, and the Earl William Shakespeare was also an eighth-degree sky war master, and although he did not go any further, he left many works of art to the Franco-Austrian League in his later years. It is hard for people to believe that such a person with considerable cultivation talent could be an insignificant actor at a young age.

A young man took off his hat, smiled at the guard at the door, took out his theater ticket, and hurried in. In the winter in Bilsings City, it was now raining a little light, and the raindrops were falling on the young man's body, making him have some heat on his body. The guard looked at the young man's back and heat, not knowing what he was thinking. Maybe for him, sometimes being in a daze and being bored is part of life.

In Shakespeare's Theatre, such a scene is played.

The story takes place in ancient times and is set in a war between the kingdoms of Rome and the kingdoms of Vowls. At that time, the commoners of the Roman Kingdom still had a certain right to speak, because the royal families of the Roman Kingdom were the descendants of the plebeian leaders who had overthrown the previous dynasty. Thus, the officials of the Roman kingdom, in some interest in maintaining the stable rule of the aristocracy, were superficially quite mild towards the commoners. As time passes, the contradictions and backlogs become more and more serious, and under the intensification of wars and natural disasters, it is the following scenario.

"Let's kill him so we can eat cheap food. Is that how things were decided? Civilian leader A said.

"We are only poor people, and the aristocracy is the "good" citizens. The nobles had eaten and drunk enough, and the rest came to our aid. If they give us the surplus food while it is still moldy and spoiled, we will think that their relief is humane; But they exalt us too much. Our scrawny and bitter appearance, our suffering appearance, is a list to set off their wealth; Their harvest comes from our suffering. Let us raise our swords to take revenge, while we are not yet skinny. The gods of heaven know that I say this out of hunger, not thirst for revenge. Civilian leader B said.

"Are you targeting Caius Matthews as a special target?"

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"I tell you, my friends, that the nobles are merciful and concerned about you. As for the fact that you will raise up your sword against the Roman government because of poverty and famine, I advise you to go against the heavens, for the Roman government has consistently relieved you of all kinds of difficulties, which are far more harmful than the damage caused by your revolt. For this famine is caused by Heaven and not by the nobles, it is in your best interest that you should bow your knees and cry out instead of raising your hands in resistance. You have been robbed of your mind by famines, and you have been led to more perilous ways, and you have slandered the helmsmen of the kingdom, who have loved you like fathers, and you have cursed them as enemies. A moderate aristocrat said.

"Love us! That's right! They never loved us. Let us starve, and their storehouses are full of grain, gold, silver, stones, minerals, and skins; Decrees were issued to protect usury; Decrees against the nobility were abolished, and in their place were harsh provisions that bound the commoners, which was a daily occurrence. If we don't die on the battlefield, we will die at their hands! That's how they love us. ”

"You have to admit that you're a scheming and malicious guy, or you're a bunch of brainless fools. I'll tell you an interesting story, there was a time when all the organs of the body rebelled against the stomach; They accuse it of being like a bottomless pit that occupies the central part of its body, that it spends its days doing nothing, doing nothing, only filling it with food, but never sharing in the toil of others; The other organs, some watching, some listening, and some thoughts, lessons, walking, and feelings, all participate together to meet the needs and hobbies of the whole body. And yet the stomach replied. It replied with mockery to the disgruntled organs, the rebellious organs that were envious of his income, just like you. He said, "Yes, my fellow friends, I am the first to receive the food on which you depend, and it is no exaggeration to say that, because I am the food storage and processing plant for the whole body. But if you have not forgotten that it is I who deliver this food through the river of your blood to the palace of the heart and the throne of the mind; It flows through the tortuous pipes and organs, and the strongest muscles and the tiniest blood vessels survive because of the nourishment of energy from me. Everyone takes the best of the food from me, but what is left is only the dross. The moderate aristocrat said.

"Why, you rioting scoundrels, you can't help but complain, just like you are unwilling to be unwillingly if you don't scratch your scabies?" Matthews said.

"We have long understood your flattery." Civilian Leader A said.

"To flatter you is tantamount to complimenting those whom are disgusted in your heart. You don't want peace or war, what do you want, you wicked dogs? War makes you afraid, and peace makes you proud. Whoever trusts you will find that the lion he seeks is but a hare; The fox looking for is nothing but a flock of stupid geese. You are more unreliable than coals on the ice and hail in the sun. Your virtue lies in exalting the value of lowly criminals and cursing judges who enforce the law. Whatever is worthy of honor, you will abhor. Your desires, like the appetite of a sick person, are most fond of eating foods that aggravate his symptoms. Whoever expects your appreciation is like swimming with lead fins, and cutting down oak trees with rushes. Can I trust you, you damn thing? You have to change your mind every minute, and what you hated just now is now admired; It was praised just now, but now it is degraded. What's the deal with going around making noise and attacking the noble council? If it weren't for their help to keep you in fear, you would have eaten one another. ”

Matthews said.

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"If the nobles are willing to put aside their mercy and let me try my sword, I will try to lift the tip of my spear upwards and pile up the thousands of minions that have been chopped into pieces into a mountain of corpses." Matthews said.

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Matthews was a man of great courage on the battlefield, leading the Roman army to defeat the Vols.

However, Matthews said this when he was running for consul.

"Anything in heaven and on earth that can be sworn by it can bear witness to my word! The dual authority of the nobles and the commoners, one rightfully despises the other, and the other insults the other for no reason; Origin, status, and wisdom are not up to decision, but depend on the approval or rejection of the ignorant masses. This inevitably overlooks the imperative and gives way to the fickle trivialities. Careful planning will be disrupted, and everything will be left to chance. Therefore I beg you, if you are too cautious and fearful, and if you love the fundamental principles of the country more than you fear its changes, and if you value honor above life, and are willing to test it with the bait of dangerous medicine, against a sick body that has no hope of life without medicine: then pluck out the tongues of the masses at once, and let them not lick the poison as honey. The disgrace you have suffered will deprive you of the ability to judge impartially, and the Roman government will lose its stability and unity; Once the forces of evil take control of the destiny of the country, all good governance will not be possible. ”

"He talks too much." Noble A said.

"If he says something like a traitor, he should be punished as a traitor." Noble B said.

"You despicable creature, may you be spurned by all! What do these useless tribunes have to do with the people? It is only because they trust them that the common people do not obey those who are higher than them. In the time of rebellion, there is only interest and no right and wrong, and then they will be embraced; And in normal times, everything should be done according to reason, and their power is only worthy of being thrown into the ground. ”

"Hey, City Councillor! Arrest this guy. ”

He was finally expelled as an enemy of the Roman city-state. As he stepped out of the gates of Rome's capital, he threw down the words: "I have banished you!" "He did not hesitate to defect to the enemy, he no longer had the idea of a homeland. He led the Volse army to the Roman capital. The flame of vengeance burned in his heart. At the beginning, he threatened to slaughter tens of thousands of undignified slaves, and picked them up with the tip of a spear, and the corpses were piled up as high as they could; But now, the entire kingdom of Rome was the target of his hatred - including the many "spineless nobles", who tolerated the gathering of the minions and blasted him out of the kingdom.

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He lost. He lost to a coalition of civilians. The battle between the coalition of civilians and the army of the Kingdom of Voles led by Matthews caused them heavy losses. Eventually, the royal families of the Roman kingdom sent their true elite to wipe out the civilian coalition and conquer the kingdom of Vors.

In the long history of the Franco-Austrian Union, there have been numerous attempts to change the hierarchy of the Franco-Austrian Union, but all of them have failed without exception. Why? It is not only because the disparity in strength will inevitably bring about people's hierarchical concepts, but also because the disparity in resources brought about by power will inevitably bring about class contradictions. The development of the maintenance force requires a stable large force, and this stable large power will also make a series of measures to maintain their position for the sake of resources. Perhaps in the history of the Franco-Austrian Union, there have been people with lofty ideals who have stood up and overthrown the aristocracy, but among their descendants there has been a new class of nobility that has started again what history has done countless times. After all, in the Franco-Austrian Alliance or in this world, resources are limited, and they can only feed those who have talents and backgrounds to become stronger, to see the sky and civilization farther away.