MTL - Attack Stream of Life-Chapter 147
Once injured, the rest were all escorted to the mine to sell themselves.
Qingchuan sent letters to several lords, asking them to compensate for the economic losses, personnel losses, mental losses, etc. caused by the war to the silent leaders, a total of 100,000 gold coins, in addition to various generals and leaders their redemption fee.
As follows:
General 10,000 gold coins per person, food and lodging expenses will be increased on a daily basis.
The major general is 3,000 gold coins per person, which also counts as food and accommodation.
One thousand gold coins per knight, the treatment is as above.
Less soldiers, one gold coin per person, is it a special offer?
The lord of the other party is naturally furious, asking for money or not, terrible - no! If you have the ability, kill them, and see what kind of reputation it will be outside.
They will severely condemn this rude behavior and expose the shameless behavior of the Lord of Silence!
Oh, Qingchuan calmly threw the letter of condemnation aside: Qingqing is so innocent and weak, how can you blame Qingqing for sending it to your door?
The propaganda team, which has learned how to manipulate the tendency of public opinion, said that they could not bear the humiliation of the lord and the death of the lord, and they wanted revenge!
So many young men in the territory were confiscated to join the army, but the battle was over, and people haven't come back, even if they die, there should be a result, but there is nothing. Among the civilians in these five territories, people are panicking and the atmosphere is depressed.
Don't look very calm on the surface, but in fact a little trouble, these people will be alarmed.
The propaganda team passed, and those who were originally locals went to find old friends.
"What? You don't know yet?" He pretended not to mention this matter, "I know, I'm not running business on both sides? So I know some."
As soon as these people heard it, they all gathered around him to ask about his situation.
He said, in fact, many of their husbands and sons are still alive and well, working in the silent collar, the hardship is hard, and there is no danger to their lives.
The lord of the Silent Territory said that these militiamen were recruited forcibly, not voluntarily, and they were also victims of their own lord's selfishness and greed, so they all survived when they were caught. .
But they have some internal contradictions, the private soldiers of other noble families look down on the militia, because of some contradictions, they kill a lot of people, more than the quiet leader.
Those private soldiers are powerful and well equipped, the militia is not an opponent, those corpses stained the land red.
Now the Silent Leader said, let the lords here spend a little money to redeem the soldiers, and each person has a gold coin.
But the lord here, even if he spends a lot of money on his mistress, he will not redeem the soldier. The treasury is full, but I still don't want to give out a penny. Now I am thinking about getting the citizens to pay the money and increase the tax.
Some people also asked the lord, saying that the lords can no longer eat bread, and they can't afford beans if the tax is increased. The lord said: The lords can't afford bread, so let them eat cake.
So, it seems that not only will their son and husband not be able to come back for a while, but even a little food at home will be taken away.
All kinds of rumors, nine out of 10 true and one in false, circulated in their territory, and the civilians rioted several times, demanding that the lords return their sons and husbands.
"Nonsense!" The Count angrily threw the parchment to the ground and kicked the bright magic lamp over with his foot, "I never said such a thing! How can such a precious food pariah like cake be? Can you eat?"
Several petty officials in the earldom lost their temper: Isn't it more hateful to say this?
Nowadays, those families who are short of men in their homes are secretly scolding their teeth, and some simply defect to the Quiet Collar. It is said that the whole family defected, and the men in the family were free after three years. Think about it. It's a good deal, so many people have defected with their families.
It is well known that the earl raises a lover, gambles, spends a lot of money, and is not very good to the people. So people say that the earl would rather spend money on his mistress's pet than redeem the soldier, which is completely irrefutable...
The hatred value was firmly absorbed by the earl, and everyone had completely forgotten that the lord of the Silent Territory caught those soldiers.
"Sir, we can ignore those pariahs, but there are a few of them..." a small official said hesitantly.
Not to mention, the general they led out was the count's brother-in-law. He wanted to make a fortune, but he didn't expect to fold himself in it. Now the countess is making trouble every day, Almost knocked down the Earl's Palace.
The reasons are all ready-made, "You need thousands of gold coins to buy a hat for that little bitch, and it's not enough to spend 10,000 to redeem my brother? It's important that my brother doesn't have a hat yet. ? He only went for you!"
The truth is such a truth, but once the opening is opened, it is not a matter of one person. After redeeming my brother-in-law and other subordinates, I counted thirty to forty thousand gold coins. This is not a small number.
The earldom is prosperous, but the annual tax is more than a hundred thousand gold coins. The earl has a lot of expenses, and the small treasury is half empty. , the flesh hurts.
Anyway, the lord of the Silence Territory will never kill people, and those pariahs are living well, at most, aren't they just doing some work?
Young man, what's wrong with a little work?
The stingy earl also firmly guarded his wallet today.
Coal is sent to the other side.
He cursed every day at first, but now he has no strength to curse.
The rules here are that those who do not work have no food, and those who do not work have no food to eat.
The most glorious horn of labor sounded among the prisoners.
Compared with the unwilling count's brother-in-law, the other soldiers cooperated much more. The guards don't beat them, but with this rule, their three meals and lodgings are directly linked to the daily workload.
Good job, eat broth and white bread to sleep in the house, if not good, eat bean dregs cake to sleep in tent. With such a radish hanging in front of the eyes, don't the donkeys try their best to pull the grinder?
They work here during the day, and after dark, there is a bonfire in the captive camp.
These are reserved items, and the mercenaries and robbers who have come before are very familiar with this mode. Many of the prisoners in that group have been rehabilitated, and now they have even joined the escort. Why has thought changed so much? Thanks to the Propaganda Department speeches at the daily bonfire party.
The lord really seized every opportunity to increase his population.
Several lords over there refused to redeem people, and felt that the quiet lord would not dare to do anything, and they were complacent. Just wait, when the population loses a lot, you will know how to write the word regret.
On the first day, the theme of the speech was: Why the descendants of nobles are nobles, and the descendants of peasants are peasants, can hard work change our class? Prince and general, would you rather have a seed?
On the second day, the theme of the speech was: Why do some people eat, drink and have fun without doing anything, while others work hard all their lives and starve to death, whose fault is it? At this time, it is necessary to vigorously promote the various welfare policies of the silent collar.
On the third day, the theme of the speech was: Who is fooling us, who is preventing us from seeing the world clearly, who makes our children sit in a barren position from birth? Mainly talk about the importance of learning.
The propaganda department is Qingchuan's mouth and tongue, and he is sending a message to the captives through these kind staff - welcome to settle in Silent Land.
The peasants suffer not because of stupidity and laziness, but because a lot of your wealth is over-exploited. Paying taxes is to protect their own interests. However, many people pay enough taxes, but their interests are still damaged in the end.
In Silence, we make laws, written in black and white, to protect the interests of the underprivileged. As long as you are not lazy and do not sin, you cannot be as miserable as you are now.
In addition, in our Silent Land, class can be changed, you are a peasant, but your children can be officers or consuls. Why? Because your child has the same opportunity as aristocratic children, and that is learning.
This is the fairest opportunity, regardless of bloodline or wealth, only the child's own qualifications and efforts. With talent and hard work, you can soar to the sky.
And, the first six years of basic education are free!
Including language, mathematics, basic magic and basic martial arts, biology, art and more.
The level of these teachers is equivalent to the professional teachers invited by the Baron's family. Don't need money, take the class of the baron's young master and miss, and it is a full six years. After coming out, there will be more job opportunities and better treatment.
'Want to move forward? I give you a chance! ’
These days, the captives are familiar with the administrators, and the administrators do not beat people, but deduct points, and those with thicker skin will also rub against the administrators, Inquire about the situation in the Silence Collar.
To be honest, what these propaganda teams say is very good, but these people are middle-aged and old fritters, and it is not so easy to believe this kind of propaganda. Didn't their lords say that the Silent Collar was a weak chicken and was easy to fight. Did they finish playing two gold coins per person?
The result? Aren't they idiots digging coal here?
What's the difference between that and farting? Just listen.
But one thing is true, the food here is really good, and the prisoners were not beaten or scolded.
They are around six in the morning - this concept of time is still said by the locals, saying that the big bronze bell rings at six o'clock. There is also a large mechanical clock above the office, and some magicians and warriors have advanced watches, which can also judge the time.
The captives got up at 6 o'clock and went to wash their faces (although there was no beating, there was a lot of work, and they had to wash their faces, clean their teeth with willow branches, and go to the toilet easily), and then it was breakfast time , usually only fifteen minutes.
You did a great job yesterday, it was a big fermented bread, steamed with whole wheat flour, it was soft and sweet, and it came with a bowl of vegetable soup. I didn't do well yesterday, and they also gave me a cake made of bean dregs.
This is very good, enough to eat, how many people were still on the verge of fullness before.
A thick piece of pork and two vegetable leaves.
Damn, can even a manager here eat white noodles and meat?
The captives don't want to remember the last time they ate meat, it's too sad.
Breakfast is like this, lunch and dinner are even better, the aunt who cooks will use meat bones to make soup. When you are lucky, you can find a little minced meat in the vegetable soup, that is the happiest time of the day.
One thing to say here - three meals a day here?
Two meals a day outside! Of course, the gentlemen also have afternoon tea and supper in the evening, but the commoners basically have two meals a day. What the **** is the Silence Land, how can even the prisoners be given three meals?
Eat, the less you eat, the nearer you are to holiness.
Oh, then I'd still like to get a little closer to the devil - thought the captive who touched his belly.
Not far away came a young sergeant, tall and white, wearing a decent uniform, leather boots, and a long sword that looked very good.
The prisoners can still laugh in front of the administrators on weekdays, but the non-commissioned officers who are obviously high-class people are quiet. Fear mentality.
"Look, that's right, my son," said an old orange peel manager.
"Shh—" A prisoner who had been getting along well with him recently turned pale with fright, and lowered his voice to persuade him, "Even if you don't like it, don't swear at people like this, you hear it. It's over!"
The administrator was very happy to show off his son, but when he heard this, he was stunned, "What? Curse? When did I... No, he is really my son."
The administrator who realized what was going on was dumbfounded, don't they look alike? Eye color is the same.
As a result, several prisoners around him were shaking their heads calmly.
"Stop bragging, look at you, you are looking for food in the field at first glance, look at your hands, thick and black. Look at other people, at first glance, you are a nobleman, you see That way, you have never experienced bitterness, and your skin is as white as powder."
"That is, how can you have such a tall son when you are so short?"
"Father, I'm here to pick you up."
As soon as these words came out, a partridge was startled.
Parent? Father?
"I'm not a child, I don't know how to go back by myself?" The administrator was a little unhappy, and his brown face was even more wrinkled into an old chrysanthemum, "Why are you here today? Work is over? You If you have time, go find a girl and watch the latest drama, I have you at your age."
The words are full of old-fashioned marriage rhythms.
The young non-commissioned officer was helpless, "Father, today is your birthday, don't forget to go back early, my mother specially ordered a big birthday cake."
Speaking of his wife, his face softened a little, "Okay, you can go back soon, I'll go home after get off work in a while. Really, I've made a special trip for this."
The two talked for a while, and the young sergeant left. When the administrator turned his head, he saw a group of prisoners with out-of-body souls.
"He's actually your son?"
"What to say? Of course he's my son!"
The administrator who disliked his son so much just now changed his face and was full of pride, "It's not me who said that, in a group of more than 60 children, only three children were selected to continue to school, and my son was one of them. One."
"His teachers are very good to him, and the lord provides milk to each child. The wife at home cares about the child and saves money to buy him meat to eat. A soldier can't be less nutritious, who knows During those times, this kid has grown taller, and now he is taller than me."
"Actually, before, some people said that the talent is very good. It's a pity that the family has no money, so I was delayed, otherwise I would be a warrior. My son is like me and has talent. Our lord is willing to train him , is now an official soldier."
"To tell you the truth, if there are children in the family, come to us to lead silently, and you are just like this, don't delay the children. Our lord said, the younger you are. The easier it is for children to be tapped for talent, and they will be stereotyped when they get older."
A prisoner with three dolls at home was moved, and he carefully asked the manager: "Silence Collar, does it really allow children to go to school for free?" This sounds like a dream, is it true? ? The young man who came to promote it with a smile didn't lie to them?
The administrator was suddenly unhappy, "The rules set by our lord, all children under the age of thirteen go to school, free of charge, each child has a glass of milk a day. Our lord said, a glass of milk every day, children Be strong and not get sick!"
"The adults in the propaganda department said that for a few days, they said nothing? I said, children go to school for free, and the land tax is only two-tenths. Occasionally catch a fish and a rabbit, no tax .If the boss doesn't pay the wages when we are working, the local ruffians beat people, and they look for the adults in the office, they will protect us."
"This lord, that, what's your birthday?" Another captive asked.
"You don't know your birthday? Your birthday is the day you were born. It's a day to remember and celebrate." The administrator completely forgot that he had asked this question, and now this birthday is his special day The day chosen to come to the Silence Lead.
In fact, the commoners know that the nobles will celebrate the day of their birth every year.
The nobles should of course celebrate, they came to the world to enjoy themselves. These people have no surnames, and no concept of birthdays, and their parents will not deliberately remember them. Because they were born to suffer, what is there to commemorate when they were born?
It is also here that I feel that life is a happy thing, I will remember it, celebrate my birthday, and celebrate my birth.
Would you even bother to celebrate the day you were born? Isn't that what the great nobles can do when they are full?
The captives suddenly believed that if the silence led a person who looked like the bottom, raised a son like that, and made a person so happy to celebrate the day of his birth, then how could they Can you doubt that this is not a place full of opportunities and possibilities?
"Sir, look at me, how about me? Can I join the Silent Collar?"
"Yes, me too, look at this body, people used to say that I am talented, can I join the silence collar?"
There was a large-scale tide of surrender among the captives. Later, when I found out that the son of a manager appeared, it made these people believe that the sky really fell.
The pie is filled with meat! Can you wait? Can't wait!
Qingchuan was dumbfounded when he found out, and told the Propaganda Department that in the future, we will show a few examples to enhance persuasion. This benefit is too good, but it is also troublesome, so good that people can't believe it.
He is dealing with the 'deserter' at this time.
The person who reported this to him was a young official who ran a secret department that could not be explained to the public.
That is a young government official, a graduate of the second batch, obviously also talented in magic, but still chooses to become a clerk, starting from the village liaison, and rising step by step, until now, becoming Qingchuan left and right hands.
This is a capable and ambitious young man.
There are deserters, no surprise.
The silence led to hundreds of thousands of people, and there were many people who were anxious in those days of war. After all, it is a new territory versus five established territories. Whether it's numbers or history, it looks like they're the silent leader who will lose.
But only fifty-six families actually took action and prepared to escape overnight, far lower than Qingchuan's expected number.
He thought it had to be at least three digits.
These people are now crying and wanting to stay, saying they are wrong.
At that time, who would have thought that the Silent Leader was so powerful that they could win so easily.
However, Qingchuan didn't even see their faces, leaving the houses and fields donated by the territory, as well as the livestock and rented grain, and Qingchuan didn't keep the rest, so they took half of it. The other half is mental loss.
Because these people were just going to move out quietly, without spreading rumors or acting as a leading party, Qingchuan decided to let them go.
"Lord, there are actually some people... they are locked up by their parents, partners and even children."
In fact, there should be some people, but the war ended too quickly, and these people have not jumped out. Or the family stopped it, or the mind was too deep.
"It doesn't matter, their families will stare at them, and we will stare at them. Regarding the eviction of these sixteen families, today's broadcast will broadcast, lest everyone misunderstand that they have suffered an accident .I'm not that stingy."
"This is the list of businessmen who maliciously raised their prices before. The raw materials of some local medicines that are not produced have increased by more than ten times. This is the reinforcement materials received in this war, which have neither been reported nor reported. There is no list of grassroots cadres returned."
Qing Chuan watched for a while, he didn't speak, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"Businessmen who maliciously drive up prices and those who hoard goods and raise prices shall be held accountable according to the most serious crime of disrupting the market. The fine and subsequent trial shall be handed over to the cadres in the jurisdiction, and finally show me the results. . I want to see the results in three days and announce it on the radio."
"The next time I encounter this kind of thing, during a major event, the merchant maliciously hoards the goods and increases the price, and directly sends the **** team there. Either do business well and make money safely, or I will give him a ride. "
"As for these grass-roots cadres, war, first-level natural disasters, first-level epidemic prevention... Under such special circumstances, cadres' dereliction of duty, corruption, and inaction are all crimes plus one, you know what I mean? Go back and have a meeting and supplement this major incident with a law that is heavy."
"We are still inexperienced, the donation of materials by such citizens must be supervised, and a special department should be set up to collect how many people, what objects, how many pieces, and where to use them. How much, all are publicized. Once a day, the whole process is transparent, I can't tolerate sand in my eyes."
"Recover all property first and return it to the territorial. In addition, as a territorial citizen with a criminal record, three generations of immediate family members and two generations of collateral relatives are not allowed to enter the management and the units directly under the territory. , everything is serious and serious, and the announcement of the whole territory has been handled."
"Yes." The young man resigned respectfully.
Now there are only Qingchuan and Wei Ge in the room.
I just want to run away, there is nothing to be angry about, Qingchuan doesn't believe that no traitor has sneaked in for so many years.
There are more than a dozen moles who have been transformed into die-hard loyalists of the Silent Leader, and they are all professionally trained to act very well, but emotions are hard to deceive. But the dozen or so traitors gradually came into contact with the administrative thinking and policies here.
These are some very good talents, and Qingchuan uses them very well.
As long as the Silent Collar maintains this advantage, there is nothing to fear.
No matter how many spies come, their hearts will tell them who to choose.
"Lord, the Silence Territory is a very large place. Historically, it once accommodated more than five million people. It was a prosperous place. It was not a kingdom, but it was stronger than ordinary kingdoms." Wei Ge suddenly spoke. , when he called the lord, he was speaking as a vassal.
Weige's identity is like a general who leads the three armies, part-time lord's wife. Because he holds the military power of the Silent Territory in his hand, the combat effectiveness of accepting the orc army is very high. Many people have said to Qingchuan that he should limit his rights and prevent his power from endangering the lord.
For some reason, many people feel that their lords are too indulgent and too undefended by their partners. They are all worried about Qingchuan's future. The Regent, the Great Demon Empress who encroached on the military and government'.
Qing Chuan heard the implication, "What do you want to know?"
"When will you be king?" Wei Ge looked at Qingchuan with a burning gaze.
Qingchuan was stunned for a moment, then said softly for about three or four seconds, "It's not time yet. Now the Silence Collar can't immediately appear in front of those big forces."
Weige took off the sword from his waist, took two steps forward, and knelt down on one knee.
Silence collar is not popular kneeling, he can kneel no one, any time, anyone. But at this moment, he knelt down in front of Qingchuan and looked at Qingchuan with a smile.
"I hope you will reign in the world, Your Majesty."
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