Don't mess with that dragon

668 Attraction

The sun was scorching hot, and the sun hung high in the sky like a furnace emitting powerful heat.

on the dry road,

Amidst the sound of grunting wheels, a group of carriages passed by on the dry road, raising a puff of smoke and dust behind them.

"Damn it, when will this damn weather come to an end!"

The scorching sun was hanging in the sky, and the mercenaries who were guarding all around were drenched all over. When they looked up, they saw a withered yellow color, which made people feel upset and irritable.

A burly man with a bald head poured water into his mouth, wiped his tanned head with his hand, and said unhappily.

They were originally a relatively well-known mercenary team in the Principality of Golden Eagle.

This time, he accepted the employment of a businessman and escorted the family members of the businessman to the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south.

These days, with the severe drought in the south,

Victims are everywhere, bandits are everywhere, plus the teams of refugees and victims can be seen everywhere, and they dare not go farther without inviting a team of mercenaries to protect them.

"Luda, be careful, the road is not smooth."

In front of the bald and burly man named Luda, a bearded man vigilantly scanned the crowd of refugees around the convoy, and reminded him aloud.

"Understood the boss, these are just a group of poor serfs, there is no danger."

On the surrounding roads, as far as the eye can see, the roads are basically refugees fleeing.

At this time in the carriage,

The people in the car opened the curtain slightly and looked out the window.

"I heard that these days, many serfs have left their hometowns and ran to the south. Many places have been abandoned, and the taxes in the fields can't be collected at all. It is said that the Grand Duke Edillas proposed in the Congress, Sending troops to prohibit the refugees from going south, but many bigwigs have concerns, after all, the orc force in the south used this as an excuse to break through the Great Wall at the border, and the nobles at the top were worried that this would lead to a war in advance."

As family members of wealthy businessmen, these people in the carriage naturally have their information channels and know something about what happened at the top of the southern countries.

The vision is also higher.

"The impact of last year's floods has not subsided, followed by this severe drought. Doesn't a large number of serfs die every time there is a natural disaster? It's just that the disaster is a little bit worse this time. It's just that a large number of people are fleeing now. Even in the future Now that the weather has improved, I'm afraid there will be no one to farm for those noble gentlemen."

"That's right, that's what Grand Duke Edillas thinks, but you understand your concerns."

"It's amazing. Twenty years ago, the south was still a barren area. I didn't expect such a huge kingdom to rise up in the blink of an eye. In just 20 years, it has grown to the point where the eight southern countries are afraid of it. It's simply unbelievable."

"No way, who will let the troops sent by those nobles be wiped out? Even Grand Duke Aedillas dare not bet that he can survive under the opponent's full-scale attack, and he dare not promulgate policies. There are some lords The master forbids the serfs under his command to escape, but the foot is born on someone, and it is impossible to stare at each other all the time, and to set up a continuous sitting system, but almost the peasants in the entire village are forced to flee together, and it has almost become a joke of the upper class."

"After all this, even if the blue dragon orc force is defeated in the end, it won't be able to recover for decades."

"That's right."

Talking in the carriage were two relatively knowledgeable young men.

The Blue Dragon Kingdom is entrenched in the south, and it has almost become a billowing dark cloud oppressing the southern countries, shaking the entire southern region.

Under this kind of chaos, some people are optimistic about the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south,
So he took refuge in advance before the war broke out.

The wealthy businessman and his family in this team are obviously one of them.

And it's not just them.

In the tide of the victims going south, some knowledgeable and enterprising family bastards and ordinary children have also embarked on the road of going south.

because,

In Middle-earth, no matter which country it is, it is a ruling system with layers of nobles.

Human beings are born with high and low status, not just talking about it, but also directly manifested in the succession of titles and official positions.

A duke's legitimate son, no matter how mediocre his talent is, will be able to enter the core power of the country in the future and control the country's future destiny.

And a man of civilian origin,
No matter how hard-working and talented he is, unless he has a special opportunity to be appreciated by the king, he will basically be a commoner all his life.

So,
Those talented civilian children basically embarked on the path of rangers, mercenaries, and adventurers, and had no choice but to make a name in the outside world that those high-ranking nobles simply looked down upon.

But the Blue Dragon Kingdom is different.

With the coercion of the Blue Dragon Kingdom on the frontier, it officially entered people's field of vision.

Many people have discovered to their surprise that there is no aristocratic system in the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Even, the officials of the Kingdom are openly recruiting towards the whole society.

As long as you are talented and capable, it is not impossible for you to be promoted step by step after passing the assessment, and become a powerful official like the city lord, or even the minister of finance, military and government.

This is not the kind of imaginary story that bards tell,

But real existence!

Long before this, the civil servant system of the Blue Dragon Kingdom had begun to be implemented in the whole society. Through this civil servant system, many people formally entered the military and political system of the Blue Dragon Kingdom and entered official careers.

In the past, when the border Great Wall was still controlled by the southern countries, the news was not so well-informed.

At that time, although people at the lower level had changed their views on the Blue Dragon Kingdom, many people still had the impression of a wild place where stinky orcs lived together.

But as the army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom breached the border Great Wall, it broke the so-called never-falling Border Great Wall like a shocking stone.

Regarding the orc force led by the blue dragon in the south, it has completely entered the eyes of everyone in the southern countries.

Some unsatisfactory civilians, children of wealthy businessmen discovered that there was such a political system in the southern kingdom, which immediately attracted the attention of most people with lofty ideals.

But all those who are ambitious and accomplished in official career, whether they are commoners or noble sons without inheritance rights, all take advantage of the large-scale refugee wave to go south.

Never had a chance before,

But now there is,
Although Xuancheng of the Blue Dragon Kingdom has equal personalities, officials are only a profession to serve the people, without any privileges, but this can't stop those bottom-level people with lofty ideals from wanting to change their backgrounds.

"I hope that there are really shocking places like what my father said."

The wheels whirled and whirled,
The team quickly disappeared into the distance.

(End of this chapter)