581 Witch Season (2)

The central city of Salander, Fort Kuronze

Krunzeburg in March is the most beautiful season of the year, and the crimson trees full of small red flowers line the streets, which should be stained with people enjoying the flowers, but now it looks particularly cold.

The cold benches on the side of the road are lonely, and there is no shadow of the aristocratic girl Yingying Yanyan watching the flowers and smiling over the years, and there is no shouting of young people who like to go out of the city to hunt in groups in this season.

It was as if it had become a barracks, and all the men, young and old, were armed with weapons of uneven quality, and wore improvised chain mail.

The Salander soldiers patrolling the streets were the only ones in the city who could move freely, and they ranged in age from middle-aged people with stern expressions to young people with vigorous faces and ambitions.

Although the kingdom issued several orders prohibiting migration to the north, it was apparently ineffective, and the Kyoto area, with a population of hundreds of thousands, had become deserted and lonely due to war and food shortages, as if it were on the verge of death. The wind swept through the empty streets, and it seemed that the smell of damp ** was even stronger.

Duke Besa gently lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out the window with complicated eyes, the situation in Krunzeburg was far harsher than previously expected, the houses outside the high city walls had been demolished, and the trees had been cut down. Many workers were digging deep into the silt of the moat, and many were piling up logs and boulders on the city walls.

Everywhere there were overseers with whips, whipping workers who were not doing their jobs as well as they wanted. Many of the overseers were dressed in the garments of the Mamunuk knights of the kingdom,

Looking at the workers who were screaming and rolling under the leather whip, Duke Besa's eyes flashed with anger,

In the Kyoto area, where there was a shortage of soldiers, and where there were still such large numbers of workers, it was often the place where the refugees from the south were most concentrated, and these poor people, who had nothing, except for the poor slices of bread that could exchange this work for a pitiful few slices of bread, could only do some extremely dangerous jobs, such as repairing the navy's warships in the icy waters, and I heard that some workers who had been soaked in the sea all the year round, because their waists had been soaked in the cold and dirty water for a long time, and white maggots grew alive

The trunks of the trees along the city walls withered in the autumn wind, and the streets were littered with leaves, and I don't know how long no one had cleaned them. The wind swept across the street, bringing up the dead branches and leaves flying in the sky, as if intertwined into fragmentary patterns in mid-air.

Some say that this is all a bad sign. Ever since the Normandian army fought all the way from the southern coast to the Long Wall of Kyoto with a devastating momentum, this city that could become a battlefield at any time has lost its former tranquility and prosperity. The large influx of refugees from the south has made the originally densely populated Kyoto area become crowded, and Bernlake, as the back garden of Kyoto, has directly become a flood gate for Kyoto

A large number of residents and merchants began to move to the northern regions, praying for escape from the war.

Duke Besa stared out the window, and the qiē in front of him made him, one of the three major dukes of the south, once an important minister of the kingdom, now a commoner who had been deprived of a qiē, and felt his heart crushed,

He was tempted to ask what was going on? At this time, why did Kyoto treat its own people with such a harsh policy, and the new southern decree that had just been promulgated was like a huge shock wave, which made almost all the southern nobles who had already left their homes feel cold.

This includes the Duke of Besa, who served as the Chancellor of the Kingdom for fifteen years.

He was ordered to be dismissed on the spot by the king because of his fierce opposition to this decree, and for the secret help of some old ministers, and for the king's memory of his many years of service, Duke Besa might have fallen victim to the royal authority like his companions who were condemned in the same name.

On the bloody guillotine, there is still the blood of hundreds of great southern nobles, who used to be the most wealthy and powerful people in this kingdom, but now their corpses are not even restrained.

The families of these southern nobles were still imprisoned in the heavily fortified Porodi Prison, a place where the whole of Sarander Kyoto shuddered, and no one could ever get out of it, even if they died, no one would know about it, because it was a "private prison" under the direct jurisdiction of the royal family

People had to bow their heads under the eaves, lost their territory and army, the southern nobles who had dominated the direction of Salander for hundreds of years, in the face of Kyoto's strong force, in addition to swallowing their anger, they could only choose to compromise, some southern nobles chose to go north, I heard that although there was no prosperity in Kyoto, at least it was very stable, and I had not heard of discrimination against the southern nobles,

There are also people who choose to end their lives in a Mamunuk-like way, most of them are Mamunuk-style knights who have been deprived of their status, they choose to spend the last penny of their bodies, and then wear their beloved white iron armor and ride their decorated war horses to storm the Norman camp outside the city,

Just like they once walked through the streets with gorgeous horse steps, in the cheers of the aristocratic maiden, and as if they were once unbeatable, in the eyes of the beautiful lady, they shook the red cloak behind them in a chic manner, like legendary heroes, disappeared on the turf line in the golden sunset,

When the glory and wealth are gone, for them, the knights who are still precipitated in the beautiful scenery of the old days, only death can end the pain in their hearts, and let them leave the best memories in the hearts of their former lovers

Because of the developed economy, dense population, and developed maritime industry, the south has been the center of gravity of the kingdom for hundreds of years, which makes the royal family of Salander, which is based in the center, always feel like a stalk, and there have been many incidents in history where the southern nobles despised Kyoto.

This time, while formulating the northern plan, Kyoto will naturally not let go of this golden opportunity, if according to the new lord's decree, these southern nobles who have been deprived of the status of Mamunuk's knights, even if they regain the south in the future, most of them will not be eligible to inherit the previous land, which will undoubtedly make Kyoto pick up a big bargain

Duke Besa's carriage was blocked at the city gates, and many of the refugees who lined up to leave the city dragged their families and children with them. There are also many people who carry too much luggage, cups and pans, mosquito nets, everything, and even some even carry furniture.

These people are ordinary civilians who fled from the south, and they could not bear the ravages of the war, so they frantically fled to the north, which had not yet been affected by the war. Out of the human instinct of survival, they all naturally flocked to the capital of the kingdom, and while a large number of refugees were preparing to pour in, there were also many residents of Kyoto City who were preparing to leave the city with large bags.

I don't know where to go to escape the fighting. The two groups of people and horses collided violently near the city gate, and the noise, the cries of children, the cries of women, were in a mess, and those thieves who did not have the slightest moral conscience crowded in the crowd to steal the last bit of silver taels or gold coins from the refugees, which immediately attracted more cries of crying and grabbing the ground, which was heartbreaking.

Skimming his face slightly, Duke Besa couldn't bear to witness such a tragic scene of the destruction of the country and the destruction of the family, and the soldiers defending the city had obviously long been accustomed to what they saw.

They turn a blind eye to crying, scolding, stealing, and carry out their tasks like robots. They drove all the refugees who entered the city, and did not hesitate to drive them out of the city gate dozens of meters away.

But the refugees were still crowded, so they set up buckets and poured cold water on the crowded refugees.

The cold water fell on the refugees, and they were immediately drenched, and when the wind blew them, they suddenly felt the biting cold, so some of them couldn't bear it and had to retreat.

But the vast majority of people still stubbornly crowded there, hoping that at a certain moment, these soldiers guarding the city gate could raise their noble hands and let them out of the city. However, how did they know that Kyoto had already ordered that none of the refugees were allowed to go north.

The soldiers at the city gate also made it difficult for the residents who left the city, repeatedly searching their luggage and belongings, and some of them had to search their bodies, feeling a little forbidden to enter or leave.

Later, however, most of the residents who left the city were allowed to leave, and before they were allowed to leave, they had to leave behind small items of value, such as gold and silver jewelry, which had to be handed over to the state. Otherwise, you are not allowed to leave the city. Most of the inhabitants preferred to hand over their gold and silver jewelry and flee the city, but a few refused to accept such conditions and retreated.

This is the secret acquiescence of the lord of the Kuronzeburg area, not everyone can be as cruel as Kyoto, as long as Kuronzebao is close to the north, and still understands some forms of the north, as long as they go out of the gate of Kuronzebao, these refugees may get a way to live,

At least, in the north, refugees can be properly resettled in the Vic Territorial Region, instead of freezing to death more than 70,000 refugees in just one winter, mostly frail elderly and children, as in Kyoto.

In this case, Kyoto, which lacked supplies, had long been numb, and the carriage transporting the corpses was driven out of the city by those filthy southerners, and most of the people in Kyoto were not willing to do this kind of thing, they would stand far away, with a pestilence-like gaze, looking at these numb southerners, and carrying a frozen and stiff corpse onto the car.

Occasionally, you can see some southerners in the car, lying on one or several corpses in pain, because they see their parents, children, and lovers, at this time, the same hungry yellow-faced and skinny Kyoto woman will pull her child who is standing at the corner of the street and giggling back viciously, and then spit on the ground, angrily cursing "damn Nankee"

This situation is very common in Kyoto, because the influx of people from the south is so large that the supplies that can be distributed in Kyoto suddenly become extremely strained, and in the eyes of the people of Kyoto, these southerners are like robbers who rob them of food, because the savings of these cheap southern workers, their men, the fathers of their children, have been out of work for several months, and the food at home is already difficult to maintain

But this is not the most terrible thing, the plague brings the shadow of death, which is hanging over the central region of Salander.

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