Talking and laughing along the way, the four of them soon arrived at Xingdou Town.
Star Dou Town is a human town located inside the Great Star Dou Forest. It is said that a Contra moved his family here countless years ago and built a castle. Later, it slowly expanded into a town.
It has been established for decades, and it has developed to a level larger than a low-level city like Notting City.
Businessmen, hunters, soul masters seeking soul rings, intelligence dealers, and pharmacists from all over Tiandou gathered here, and together they built an ecological structure that was different from other cities in Star Dou Town.
In addition to spirit beasts, the Star Dou Forest is also quite rich in agricultural resources. Many people have come to the Star Dou Forest to collect herbs for a living. The unique environment of the forest will produce some things that cannot grow in the plains. Therefore, this A very popular profession.
In the past two years, Prince Tiandou has advocated building a new protective wall connecting the empire's borders here, expanding the empire's territory, and then selling the forests within the wall to various nobles, so that they can settle their own industries on this land. It is necessary to bear the personnel expenses of guarding the corresponding part of the Star Wall.
As soon as she entered Xingdou Town, Leng Xiyue saw a group of people gathered in front of the notice at the entrance of the town, discussing crazily.
"Have you heard? Prince Dou came here yesterday, bringing with him a royal knights and a lot of craftsmen, as well as some people from big families who want to expand the Star Dou Wall and sell the originally public forests to the nobles to become private property. "
"I think this move will provide a lot of jobs, right? From now on, we will have stable jobs. We won't have to be crazily underpriced by profiteers. We can only make hard money. Isn't it great to have an official guarantee from the empire?" A herbal collector So said the man.
"Tsk, what do you know? The special feature of Star Dou Town is that Star Dou Town is located inside the Star Dou Great Forest. If the Star Dou Wall expands here, then this place will become a border. In the future, if you want to enter or exit, you will have to report to the empire, and even With the additional expense of bribing the city gate guards, what will we hunters do in the future? Become shepherds?" An old hunter carrying a kar98 said with a lonely expression.
As an experienced hunter with thirty years of experience, I could only hunt ten-year-old spirit beasts with a crossbow. Not long ago, I lost all my money and bought a genuine Wuhundian rifle. It can hunt hundred-year-old spirit beasts in less than two months. But if the border expands, there may be five hundred or even thousand-year-old spirit beasts in the outside area. No matter how powerful the weapon is, he, an ordinary person, will definitely be dead.
"That's right, you herb collectors are just latecomers, how do you know the lives of us old Xingdou people?" an information dealer said equally angrily.
These intelligence dealers are not evil people. Most of them are low-level soul masters who are not good at fighting but good at running. They usually go to the Star Dou Forest to detect the movements of some soul beasts and provide specific information to those who want to hunt for soul rings. At the same time, I earned hard-earned money by drawing maps and so on.
"That's right, you ungrateful people, our caravan also needs to bear risks from the border to Star Dou Town. The empire has also given great concessions on taxes and fees. If this becomes an internal city of the empire, this preferential policy It must be gone, why would that ghost come so far to do business?" A gorgeously dressed businessman also retorted to the herb picker. …."Hmph, you guys can earn dozens or hundreds of gold soul coins from one order, but what we earn can only be measured in silver coins. We all also take risks. Now we can have a relatively comfortable environment, but you It's just that I made less money." The herb collector was also a fool, and after hearing the words of the three people, he became more and more enthusiastic:
"In my opinion, you deserve it. If you make more money, you are not grateful to those adults. If you make less money, you are dissatisfied with the empire. You are really greedy. You should all be hanged."
The atmosphere was heightened to this point, and the crowd quickly divided into two groups based on their professional differences and began to quarrel with each other, with the intention of a fight.
One group is poor craftsmen like herb collectors, who hope for peace and stability, and support the Tiandou Empire; the other group is hunters, who can only make money in a special environment like Star Dou Town, with high risks and high returns. Once things change, The cost of environmental living will be greatly increased and even people will be nearly unemployed.
As for businessmen... they will definitely be dissatisfied if they make less money.
Leng Xiyue watched a group of people arguing from the side, took out a melon from somewhere, and started eating it with Tianmeng and the others.
It's hard to say who is right or wrong about this kind of thing. After all, people are separated by mountains and rivers, and everyone's interests are not the same. So he must be speaking out for his own interest class.
But in the final analysis, Prince Tiandou is still out of touch with human affairs. Xingdou Town was originally running very well, but this interference... I'm afraid there will be a riot in two days.
No, Prince Tiandou seems to be pretending to be his good sister Qian Renxue now, so that’s okay~
Leng Xiyue took a closer look at the notice. Most of the forests after territorial expansion were contracted by nobles. Legally speaking, the surrounding forests were owned by the duke. However, the duke was kind and opened his land to everyone. Now that he wanted to expand the Star Wall, he even gave the land to the royal family for free so that they could raise military expenses.
But in the eyes of civilians, the public land where everyone makes a living has become private land. It is not difficult for people with professional knowledge like herb collectors to find jobs in the hands of nobles, but hunters and intelligence dealers are forced to give up their work in the stars. There is really no way to make a living elsewhere with the family fortune that was saved in the town.
Who will the anger of these desperate people be directed at? Prince? Tiandou royal family? No, as long as anyone who is not stupid knows that the royal family has no actual benefits from this matter, only the so-called achievements of expanding the territory, the future tax revenue is nothing compared to the investment in border defense.
So who are the real beneficiaries? Of course they are nobles who are willing to come here to build a "wilderness"!
Through this phenomenon, Leng Xiyue quickly understood Qian Renxue's intentions. If most of the local people were dissatisfied, then most of the nobles' intentions to make money here would probably not go so smoothly... In the end, it really came to nothing. If nothing happens, as the prince, Qian Renxue can only use the reputation of the royal family to guarantee that the matter will be resolved, which will undoubtedly greatly enhance his authority.
Of course, the root cause of all this is that the local civilian class took action against the aristocracy... If the aristocracy could appease the majority of the people, none of this would have happened. However, how could the greedy aristocracy not exploit the civilian class, thereby further What about making money well?
To sum up, Xingdou Town is expected to be quite lively these days. Leng Xiyue is also planning to find an opportunity to meet Qian Renxue, so she doesn't seem to be in a hurry to leave. ....Thinking of this, Leng Xiyue was ready to find Oscar first, and then settle down in Xingdou Town.
At this moment, an angry shout suddenly appeared among the quarreling crowd:
"Damn it, it was you nobles who were the licking dogs in the beginning, causing my family's fields to be robbed by the nobles, and all my savings were stolen. My wife also ran away with the children. I had no choice but to come here to be a hunter and live a knife-edge life. Bloody days, what the hell are you trying to do now to lure those noble dogs to our land where they can live and work in peace and contentment?"
"I can't stand it anymore, brothers, hit me!"
As this person said, Star Dou Town was originally the castle of Lord Contra. Although Lord Contra was considered a noble, he was extremely generous and encouraged homeless refugees to come to him to seek a living, so he came here. The vast majority of them are miserable people who cannot survive in the Tiandou Empire. Once there are more of them, it becomes a town.
Nowadays, these poor people have taken root in Xingdou Town, live and work in peace and contentment, marry wives and have children, without the oppression of the empire, they can be said to be extremely comfortable.
High risks come with high rewards. Even if you really die while hunting, the money left behind will be enough for your wife, children, and children to buy some land somewhere and start a small business to survive.
But when the empire did arrive, they were unable to resist.
However, they don’t dare to openly oppose the empire, and don’t they dare to beat you lackeys who support the empire?
As a result, after the man finished shouting angrily, he suddenly punched a craftsman not far away who had just made a speech in support of the empire, knocking him to the ground and fainting.
This punch was like the fuse that ignited the war. In conjunction with the previous words, the people who felt the same suddenly remembered why they were here and how the empire had bullied ordinary people like them a long time ago. They all became angry and looked at them with sharp eyes. He approached the person who was arguing with them just now, took out a stick from his body, or clenched his fist, and hit him without any explanation.
A chaotic fight suddenly started. Leng Xiyue's eyes lit up when she saw this, and she whispered a few words into Xuanwu's ear.
Xuanwu was a little confused, but he still followed Leng Xiyue's instructions and blended into the crowd, shouting in a rich voice: "And that dealer! He just sits there and raises the price every day, fuck him!"
The few businessmen who were watching the excitement were suddenly startled and ran away. However, they were quickly surrounded by several strong men and were beaten violently. It was obvious that they had not done anything good and had already accumulated grudges. Long.
On weekdays, everyone still has to live, and there is no chance to beat them up. Now that chaos has occurred, hitting one person is still a beating, hitting two people is still a beating, so it is better to hit a few more. After all, if you are caught, you will definitely not be able to run away, so take the opportunity to vent your anger. How nice.
While a group of people were fighting in the street, a group of people came slowly from outside the city. When a sharp-eyed man saw it, he immediately shouted: "The adults of the empire are back!"
Hearing this, everyone was suddenly startled and hurriedly dispersed. .
Ye Hua Xinche reminds you: Remember to collect after reading this
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