Warhammer: Beginning with Planetary Governors

Chapter 16 Black Coal Street

People forced themselves to cheer up and greet Will with a smile.

Many old women pulled their children and ordered them to show off the little muscles they had.

They begged Will to take the children in and let them join the mining team to earn a living, as their families could no longer afford to raise these young men.

Will responded with a smile.

He accepted one and politely declined the rest.

"Let them grow taller first. Sending these little guys to the mines now will kill them!"

Will said so.

Although they were rejected, people still maintained order and dispersed silently.

Perhaps in the eyes of the Governor, Will is just a small figure who can be replaced at any time.

But on Black Coal Street, Will is their king.

He has thousands of miners under his command and controls the livelihoods of the residents of Black Coal Street. No one dares to disobey him.

Of course, no one would disobey him, and he had already gained people's respect.

Will walked to the door and looked back at everyone: "Go and inform those guys who are going home, don't let them wait anxiously"

Seeing everyone disperse, Will pushed open the door and picked up two little babies who were running towards him.

The door closed, and only the girls' giggles could be heard.

In a low shack deep in the block, the Maca family was sitting in the middle of the shack, having lunch together.

In fact, the Maca family can only afford this one meal a day.

They had to finish eating before noon, otherwise when the sunlight set, they would have to eat in the dark in their shacks deep in the street.

As for candles, they could not afford them at all.

Candles were a luxury, and only Mr. Weir and his captains could afford them.

This is the way the world is. Miners dig up energy stones to generate electricity, but they cannot afford to use the electricity.

Most of the electricity will be used to maintain the upper nest's shield and air circulation devices, or provided to major factories for production.

The remaining electricity is all transmitted to the Royal Court to light up the night sky there.

Maika looked dotingly at her cub as he wolfed down the last of his food.

The kid is twelve years old.

In a few years, the kid will be able to find a job and the family will have hope.

"Dad, I'm still a little hungry..." The kid raised his head and said in a low voice.

Yeah, hungry...

Maika's smile faded.

He could see the desire in the little eyes. The kid was at the stage of growing up, how could he not be hungry?

But there is no food at home.

My wife's hand was broken and no factory wanted her, so the whole family had to live on the little income she earned from the mining team.

But yesterday, the mining team gave him "paid leave".

Maca didn't quite understand what the word meant, so he received his daily salary for tomorrow in a daze.

Originally he was somewhat happy, but from the slightly pitiful looks from others, he began to understand that this was not a good thing!
He asked the person in charge of the notification why he couldn't come tomorrow?
But the other party just said that it was the governor's order that all those who received tomorrow's daily salary should stay at home and not come to the mine!

Everyone was very scared and asked why.

What if I don’t come tomorrow and someone takes my place?
Can you come again in the future?

The person in charge of the notification was hesitant and could not explain anything, but just scolded everyone to obey the orders of the Governor.

Afterwards, the supervisors from the Royal Court area rushed up and dispersed everyone, and some unlucky people were injured.

"Dad..." The kid shook Maika's hand and looked at him pitifully.

Macka rubbed the kid's head lovingly: "Go to sleep, you won't be hungry when you sleep. When dad gets his daily wages from the mine tomorrow, I'll make sure to feed you well!"

"Oh"

The kid nodded, ran to the bed in the shack and lay down wrapped in quilt.

He seemed a little worried and stood up again: "Are you serious? I will be able to eat enough tomorrow?"

"When have I ever lied to you, little bastard?"

The kid got a satisfied reply and lay back on the bed, soon falling into a deep sleep.

After a moment of silence, his wife looked at Macka, very worried: "Can you go back to the mine tomorrow?"

"do not know"

Maca was completely dejected: "Mr. Will went to see the Governor, there should be a good result, right?"

"But, but, I heard from those people that there is no food left in the Royal Court. Even the Governor can't eat the delicious sawdust bread..."

Maca's wife was almost crying: "They also said that the mining team can't afford to pay such a high daily wage. Once you leave the mining team, you can never go back!" She burst into tears, but immediately covered her mouth for fear of waking up the child.

"God Emperor, we will starve to death!"

When the men in the family can no longer work in the mines, some of them will often starve to death!

There are too many stories like this on Black Coal Street, and they are no longer surprised.

But when it happened to me, I realized how terrible it was.

Looking at his crying wife, Maca was at a loss as to what to say to comfort her.

In fact, he had no confidence that he could return to the mine tomorrow.

"Let's wait for the notification from the mining team. Mr. Will will speak for us!"

Maika uttered these words and continued to remain silent, leaving only the woman's suppressed sobs in the room.

As the midday sun shifts, the light disappears.

The shack, which had been carefully maintained by the hostess, gradually fell into deep darkness.

If nothing unexpected happens, this family will be like the same as thousands of other families in Shangchao District.

Gradually, the woman's sobbing stopped.

There was only dead silence and darkness.

Bang bang bang!
The iron door of the shack was slammed loudly.

Maca became alert instantly and reached out to grab the iron rod beside him.

Black Coal Street is not absolutely safe either, and inexplicable attacks occasionally occur.

"Who?"

"It's me, Maca!" a burly voice responded.

Captain of the mining team!
Maca almost jumped up and asked anxiously, "Is there any result from Mr. Will?"

"Hey, hey, as long as the boss is here, there's no problem!"

The sturdy voice sounded somewhat happy: "The Governor said that the mining team will be the same as before, and you can continue to mine tomorrow!"

“That…that’s great!”

Maca was almost speechless with excitement.

"Please come in and sit...please sit down?" Maca's wife was also excited and wanted to invite the captain to come in.

But she immediately realized that there was nothing left at home to serve.

The shadow at the door didn't seem to notice the woman's embarrassment, and said in a hoarse voice: "No, I have to hurry to inform the other guys."

The black shadow turned and left, but before he had gone far, he knocked over something with a bang.

"Damn Black Coal Street, you can't see the road after noon!"

The cursing voice faded away.

The child woke up, ran over in the dark and hugged Maika. He was a little scared: "What's wrong?"

"Hahahaha, the uncle from the mine is here. You'll have a full meal tomorrow!"

Maika hugged his wife and children excitedly.

They hugged each other tightly.

The day didn't seem so dark anymore.

"Um……"

The spire office in the Wangting District.

Ron frowned slightly.

A maid immediately went to draw the gauze curtains on the balcony to prevent the overly bright sunlight from distracting the Governor.

Ron was very worried because the food in the territory was only enough to last for one month.

In other words, he would go to the Green Wave Farm in the Space Ship within a month.

To get the food and planting techniques there.

Otherwise, once the food reserves are exhausted and the territory begins to fall into chaos, it will be even more difficult to obtain the power of hope.

"Ugh!"

Ron turned off the datapad and leaned back in his chair. "How can we inspire people to hope?"

He seemed to have caught a hint of inspiration, but he couldn't tell what it was.

"Governor, do you have time?" Bayev walked in and saluted Ron.

"Is there a problem?"

(End of this chapter)