Chapter Ninety-Eight: Fairness
"Hey, have you heard, something big happened in the palace last night!"
"I have gossip that a mob from the "Syndicate" has attacked the palace and rattled the visiting Imperial Envoys. ”
"Hey! What's more, my uncle is from the Knights, let me tell you, last night's palace was miserable, what is the imperial order, we Illinois are almost up and down, all the nobles and royal families present were slaughtered by those thugs! Even the old king is dead! That. Tsk, according to my uncle, it's a river of blood! ”
"When you say this, when I got up in the middle of the night last night, it seemed that I really saw the direction of the King's Tower, as if there was some light in the sky, and I, I thought I was asleep and hallucinating."
"Then, what should we do, is our Illinois finished, and the syndicate thugs are going to kill us next." A resident who seemed to have come from out of town was now trembling at the ear.
And the previous news passed, at this time, shook his head, but continued with a little excitement:
"You think about it too much, it is said that the bandits of the Syndicate, who kill nobles and big landlords, not only will they not harm us civilians, but they will also benefit us!"
"Huh? Profiteering? ”
More and more people gathered in the early morning, and everyone actually didn't care much about the drastic changes that took place in the palace, because they were too far away, and the bloodshed that night, under the dual control of Liao Yu and the eldest princess, was only limited to the palace and did not affect any other places.
For the public in the royal city, if it weren't for the fact that the eldest princess deliberately released the news, even the civilians at the bottom would not have noticed it at all, and they would not know anything about the changes.
Of course, it's different now.
Everyone was originally concerned about how to "make profits", but the first sentence of the next "informant" disappointed many people.
"The syndicate thugs said, Illinois in the future, there will be no more nobles! There's one they kill one! ”
It can be seen that this "informant" is a civilian intellectual, so he speaks very excitedly, and he has long hated such an aristocracy that has been branded in his life since birth, and now he is enthusiastically announcing the good news to everyone.
However, put it in the ears of the people.
"So, there will be no nobles in the future? So who gives us work, who gives us fields? Where is the benefit, we can't afford to eat, damn it! These hateful syndicates! “
"That's right, I still owe the noble lord a few months of house payment, and now that the lord is gone, who should I pay back my money now? Will you treat me like a fool and throw me in prison?"
"It's over! My youngest daughter, finally squeezed her head to successfully enter the mansion of a noble lord, and she has not been a servant for a day, and now she is coming back, what can I do, there is no noble lord, who will raise her! ”
Seeing that most of the commoners don't seem to know about it, it's no wonder that they have been in the aristocracy for hundreds of years, and under such a system, there are very few people who can go to school and acquire knowledge.
So "Infocom" hurriedly added and explained:
"Everyone, don't worry, the syndicate bandits also said that they want to divide the property and land of the nobles fairly among everyone! According to the number of people in each household, everyone has a share! ”
"And you, yes, you don't have to pay back the one you just said about the house payment! You can apply to the new officer, and the house will be yours directly! ”
"You, you, yes, that is, the one you can't afford to raise your daughter, now that the princess of Illinois is on the throne, she will soon send us money, and a large number of jobs will be provided, and your daughter will not need you at that time, she can afford it herself!"
Many people still don't believe it.
Reversing perceptions is not that simple.
Everyone even longed for the nobles to come back and "rescue" them again.
It wasn't until the next few days that the favor did come to them, in short, the village did give out gold bars.
At this time, everyone came back to their senses a little.
Begin to realize that the aristocracy is not the lord who saves them.
On the contrary, vampires who have been oppressing and depriving them of their labor.
Seventy percent of Illinois' wealth was concentrated among the nobility and royalty.
In accordance with Liao Yu's word "fairness", the eldest princess began to return a large number of these resources and money to the society and devolve them to the hands of the people at the bottom, including fields, houses, food, education, medical care, etc.
Of course, Yuffie also has its own changes and policies, whether it is land or house, it is not a gift, but a very low price to rent to the commoners.
The difference between this and sending is that these resources are still in the hands of Yuffie's unified regime, which is equivalent to the royal power forever regulating this "fair" social distribution, preventing the emergence of another form of "aristocracy".
But the drawbacks of this policy are also obvious, once the ministers and officials under the empress begin to be corrupt and have evil thoughts, the whole system will quickly collapse.
Unless there is an extremely powerful person who can monitor the eyes of officials all the time.
The residence of a certain minister.
It didn't take long, only on the third day, someone had already moved his mind, the minister was nominally implementing the fair distribution of the eldest princess, but in fact, these civilians who were now distributed were forcibly deducted by him in the name of "kickbacks" and put them in his own pocket.
Of course, he didn't dare to be too greedy, each civilian only deducted thirty percent, and the remaining seventy percent continued to be distributed to them, such a small action, no one would find out.
However.
In the mansion late at night, a group of mercenary adventurers came up, and Luna, whose face was full of disgust, hanged the maggot minister with a spell, followed the head of the sea tiger, and continued to the next official position.
Beneath the minister's dead corpse, a shadow flickered, and the Shadow Demon slowly departed to spy on the next human high-level.
Liao Yu's control of Illinois, of course, will not be based on one sentence.
Liao Yu also had to choose and use the operations that the demons should have back then, such as using the shadow demon clan to become, the eyes of the demons in the human race.
Except for Yu Fei, no one knows about the existence of the demons, fear comes from the unknown, when one by one the officials who have crooked thoughts, after the death one after another, no matter how greedy the person is, he can also distinguish which is more important, life or money.
Even later, countless ministers and officials spontaneously asked Yuffie and the new Empress of Illinois for charitable donations, and they wanted to give away their wealth to respond to Yuffie's policies and contribute to society.
It is not excluded that there are really well-wishers among them, but more because they want to sleep more than donating money, and no one wants to be branded as nobles and landlords by the group of syndicate "thugs" the next day, and they have already moved their heads after waking up.
A few days later, when Vercie, cloaked, walked out into the streets, the streets of the royal city were now much more lively than ever.
More and more people have money in their hands, new jobs, and smiles on their faces called "happiness" and "joy".
Why.
This is not a city in history that was ruled by demons in her memory.
The place invaded by the demons should be a mess, full of suffering, and only destruction is left.
But that's not the case in Illinois.
even
Before Vercie knew it, she had returned to the Royal Academy, the starting point of all her "dreams", which was where she first came into contact with human society and where she met Professor Liao Yu for the first time.
As the intellectuals of the royal city, all the elites in the Royal Academy, the professors are actually very resistant to the great princess, believing that it is a waste and waste to distribute wealth and resources to the ignorant low-level people.
Large-scale coin scattering will cause serious damage to Illinois' economic system and cause inflation.
It wasn't until the Great Empress that a new policy called "compulsory education" was introduced, and from then on, all Illinois citizens, regardless of region or household registration, would be able to enjoy education, and everyone would be eligible to learn magic.
Some simple techniques are not complicated, but they can be of great help to productivity, such as the zero-order water dew technique for farming and watering, and the fire cluster technique for smelting and forging.
Fighting local tyrants and dividing the land is just a temporary carnival, which can really make the civilians of Illinois live a good life, and make Illinois strong, not a bottomless money, or to improve productivity, or to need. Revolution in Sorcery.
In fact, many countries know this, why they still don't use it, because it violates the "Non-Proliferation of Magic" treaty issued by the Empire, which clarifies that except for the nobility, commoners are not allowed to learn magic on a large scale.
Empress Yuffie made it clear that Illinois wanted to follow in the footsteps of the Empire.
However, the gangsters and robbers of the Syndicate are too rampant and terrifying.
Not only murdered the imperial envoy, but also slaughtered all the noble royal families of Illinois, and Illinois, who was greatly injured, had no choice but to use this way to recover his vitality, everything was just self-defense.
No one doubts anything about this.
The notorious syndicate, a desert valley full of war and chaos, if there is one person in the world who is not afraid of empires, it is probably these outlaws.
But this set of external rhetoric can deceive others, and Vilch knows it in her heart.
There are no syndicate villains.
It's clearly a demon.
Therefore, it is Professor Liao Yu who is supporting the princess Yuffie behind her back, and even said that Vilch has a very strong intuition, and Illinois's new policies one after another are by no means relying on Yuffie alone, and there is also the shadow of Professor Liao Yu behind it.
Don't
Am I wrong?
Vilch remembered that when she was at the venue, she had tried to protect the nobles and royalty, but now it seemed that the best help for Illinois was that these people did die.
No.
In any case, life should not be taken away so easily, and they should be handed over to a fair trial.
Now Vilsi, she has come to a dark alley.
Not far in front of her, a mother and daughter were now retreating in fear, and a group of civilians surrounded them, judging from the appearance of the mother, although the clothes had become shabby, but the delicate skin looked like a once rich family, with aristocratic maintenance.
"That's them! Relatives of Count William! So exploited us in the first place! ”
"What kind of earl, the nobles are long gone, hum, William's bastard died well, it's a pity to have such a beautiful wife and daughter."
"How can it be called a pity, isn't this us, madam, you can pay off your noble husband's debts!"
The few smiling civilians who said it were about to rush up and bully this mother and daughter who had lost their husbands, plummeted overnight, and lost all their wealth.
It wasn't until the emerald green magic arrow came and startled them, and when they saw that Vilch was a magician, they cursed and ran away.
"Thank you. Thank you, sir, thank you, thank you."
The mother and daughter, who thanked Vilch repeatedly, finally left in confusion and helplessness in mutual trembling sobs.
And Verci could only clench his fists in place, unable to do anything.
If she could help Professor Liao Yu more in this regard, and successfully persuade the professor to use a gentler method, she might be able to let more people get a relatively good ending.
Vierch has already seen that maybe Professor Liao Yu is leading the demon race to another path, but this road is too different from the former demon race, and Vierchy can fully imagine that Liao Yu will be hindered in the future.
She.
Want to help the professor!
The hatred between the elves and the demons does not necessarily have to fight, if the demons can be transformed and the demons can be educated, for the elves, why not another greater victory?
Can.
Looking forward to such a future, Vilxi finally lowered his head in frustration, like an abandoned puppy, and grabbed the collar of the former owner - the only thing Liao Yu gave Vilcy, the cloak.
She has no strength, and it is all nonsense together.
She could only look at Professor Liao Yu, getting closer and closer to her
At this moment, a figure suddenly appeared at the mouth of the alley in front of Vilcy.
"Dear Miss Vilcy, I am impressed by your noble sense of justice as an elf, and I think that now we all need each other, and in that case, we might as well be able to do so."
"How about a collaboration?"
A deep voice, miserable green eyes, and a bony and bandaged pair of hands sticking out towards her.
Vilcy's pupils immediately constricted, and her whole body tensed.
With such an iconic feature, how could the elves not recognize this figure.
The Sixth Apostle of the Demon Race.
Demons, Gurodan.
(End of chapter)