Chapter Twenty-Eight: Rebellion
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"What did you say your lord was looking for in that pile of mud? Could it be that your lord has lost a big gem here?"
On the watchtower of the castle, the guard Hesotto whispered with a strange look and the guard standing guard next to him,
Because since yesterday, Lord Dustan seems to be in competition with the rare earths on the banks of the river here, constantly rummaging for something in the land, and his attentive and cautious appearance is like caressing an incomparably beautiful stunner
It's a pity that the lord's fat face is often excited, and he takes the soil and looks at it carefully for a while, and then shakes his head regretfully and throws it down, and the reluctant sigh on his face seems to be like he has just been robbed of his wife
Nearly 100 meters of embankment did not escape the poisonous hands of the lord in two days, and the dam surface, which was already damp and muddy, is now full of holes like white bread left after being eaten by ants and insects.
"Hey, the cloud soil layer here is too thin, if you want to mass-produce ceramics, I'm afraid that the soil supply here will not be enough" Dustan threw the last white cloud in his hand on the ground with a regretful face, and his fat body stood up and stretched a long lazy waist.
The fat man, who was preoccupied with finding a large number of ceramic cloud clay, did not know that his madness in the past few days had caused a lot of commotion in the nearby village.
The villagers have spread that the noble lord accidentally lost a priceless sapphire ring while walking on the beach of the castle, the sapphire set on it is the size of a man's knuckle, and the flickering light can be seen even by the blind, and if anyone picks it up, the lord will even reward him with a rich piece of land as a reward.
If the fat man knew that because of his inadvertent behavior, this section of the dam was turned over twenty-three times by the nearby villagers, inside and out, and he didn't know how to feel.
"Young master, the vehicle of the Northern Herta Chamber of Commerce transporting armor and gold coins has arrived at the castle, a full fourteen carts of supplies, ten carts are weapons, and three carts should be the 60,000 gold coins!
The old butler ran over with a happy face and reported that when the vehicle entered the castle just now, the attentive old butler deliberately paid attention to it, and found that in addition to the ten freight carriages loaded with weapons and armor in front of him, there were three other box carriages wrapped in black cloth.
It was a hermetically sealed carriage used by lords to transport gold coins, and was usually made entirely of fine iron up to five centimeters thick, making it difficult to open without a key even if someone robbed them on the road.
The heavy rut marks and creaking sounds, if you listen carefully, you can even hear the slight metal sound, and you can undoubtedly tell yourself, "That's the gold coins of the whole three carts"
"It's here so soon!" the old butler's report made Dustan pause, so many supplies, Dustan thought that it would take at least half a month to deliver them to his castle, but he didn't expect that it would only take three days to get them all together
"It seems that I still fell for the old fox Lidastov, I knew that Hertha was strong, but I didn't expect it to be so strong!
The fat man opened his mouth slightly, recovering from his surprise, and couldn't help but feel sad that he had missed a great opportunity to "rob the rich and help the poor".
"Next time I see this old fox, I won't slaughter him fiercely, I won't call him Du Yu!"
Seeing that the old housekeeper was still standing in place awkwardly waiting for his reply, he glanced at the old housekeeper with an extremely resentful face, and waved his hand at the old housekeeper, the old housekeeper was extremely depressed, and he didn't know what his young master was crazy about!
"You tell Statunko to send someone to take those weapons and equipment, you personally supervise the transport of the gold coins from two of the cars to the castle's vault, and the rest of the car is to be picked up by the tax collector Stoneard, I don't want to hear this life-urge crying in front of me again!"
Winter is the snow-white season, the cold north wind swept a large field of snowflakes and began to whistle outside the castle, just like this cold weather, but one by one bad news came from the turbulent north,
After nearly a month of tug-of-war, the iron cavalry of the Kugit people had broken through the northern defense line of the kingdom, and the troops were directly aimed at the royal city of Krysdor
King Guitar III was shot through the thigh by an armor-piercing arrow from a Kugit sharpshooter at the Battle of Sodale Valley last month, and the main force of the King's army was defeated.
In order to cover the retreat of the large army, 2,000 guards knights were surrounded by nearly 10,000 Kugit iron cavalry on the Lisa River beach, and the whole army was killed in battle, and no life survived.
The main force of the king, who retreated to the northern fortress of Sauron Castle, was surrounded by the pursuing Kugit Iron Cavalry, and the Kugit rangers appeared within 50 miles of Krysdor, Kyoto
Kyoto was in danger, and the entire northern war situation was in shambles.
In order to escape the war, a large number of refugees from the north dragged heavy carts, carried all their belongings, and brought their wives and children, and flocked into the relatively calm southern counties in the snow
"My lord, in the past few days, more than 100 refugees have poured into our territory from the northern county of Satdo, and if this continues, our food will become a big problem! Let's issue a "restriction order" like other lords! Your lord's heart is good, but we can't let these refugees drag them to death!"
The tax collector Stoneard reported to Dustan with a sad face, the burning firewood in the hall drove away the cold, and the dry pine wood made a crisp "pop" sound in the flames, just like the heart of Stoneard who was now anxious
Recently, more and more refugees from the north have poured into the Falcon Territory, from a dozen at the beginning to hundreds in the past few days, and now the number of refugees in the entire territory has exceeded a terrifying 3,000
The tax collector Stoneard had a headache at the thought of the huge daily expenses spent to support these people, but this "loser lord" also deliberately ordered that all refugees could stay in the territory, which was very different from the measures taken by the nearby lords.
In order to make a name for themselves, all the nearby lords opened their doors to the refugees from the north in accordance with the "Wartime Noble Relief Decree".
However, in order to prevent their territory from being dragged down by these refugees, they all issued an order of "restricted residence" without exception, and only allowed refugees to pass through their territory, but would not give any help.
This cruel order drove all the refugees from the center to the south like a flock of sheep, and then continued to drive downward, and no one knew what would happen to the refugees who had been driven all the time, and the lords had no such idleness about the life and death of these refugees
Of course, it is not without the situation that the refugees have been stranded, but in the face of the sharp swords of the lord's army, these resistances are futile
More than 20 refugees were killed and nearly 1,000 were driven out of the nearby county of Satdo, where the lord led the army to burn down a settlement built by refugees.
"Do you want me to drive these poor people out like those cold-blooded animals, and let them freeze to death and starve to death in the mountains and forests this winter?"
Dustan's cold face interrupted the tax collector's chatter, and the cold light in his eyes made the tax collector Stoneard, who was still complaining, shut up in amusement
Ever since he learned about the "restraining order" issued by the nearby lords, Dustan has called these lords "cold-blooded animals", although the tax collector Stoneard didn't know what this meant, but seeing his lord's gritted teeth, he also knew that it was not a good word
"You go down first, our grain should be able to last through this winter, you can withdraw 30,000 gold coins from the castle's treasury and buy grain from the surrounding territories, I don't want to see anyone frozen to death this winter!"
Dustan waved his hand at the depressed Stoneard below, looking at the back of Stoneard who turned around and left, and a sly smile appeared on Dustan's chubby face
"There are people who have money, and there are more people who have money, you know that these refugees are my treasures, but they have helped me solve a big problem, as long as my ceramic workshop is built in a few days, these people may not be enough!"
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