Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

A group of grenadiers came out into the street with a few carts, and the pedestrians on the road avoided them in fear, but they all stopped at a distance and looked at them suspiciously.

On both sides of the road, crowded with ragged beggars, most of them due to the advent of the steam engine, in the end there was no money to make and go bankrupt, so they could only be forced to sell their property to pay harsh taxes and buy food, and finally became outcasts and beggars.

The gastronadiers were showing up several large vats of thick porridge on the carts pulled by the grenadiers, and the ragged men on the side of the road all widened their eyes and swallowed their saliva when they saw it, but the long swords at the grenadiers' waists kept them from rushing forward.

A grenadier in chain mail looked at the beggars around, raised his hand to signal the team to stop, and then stood on a board cart and shouted around:

"Listen, everyone, this is relief food! It is the favor of His Highness Su Zheng, everyone has lined up and shouted Long live His Highness Su Zheng, you can eat for free!"

The grenadiers' words instantly blew up the pedestrians and beggars on the side of the road, and the beggars rushed up, raising the broken bowls in their hands and shouting Long live His Royal Highness Su Zheng, and those who didn't have bowls also held their hands or looked for anything that could hold something.

The grenadiers quickly drew their swords from their waists to suppress the crowd, and the grenadiers on the cart shouted with straight faces:

"All of them are lined up! Otherwise, I won't be given to you!"

Under the deterrence of the grenadiers, the beggars lined up one after another, and the people of several surrounding families also came out of the house with bowls and lined up.

The grenadiers beat a few spoonfuls of porridge and put it in the beggar's broken bowl, and the beggar immediately devoured it.

The beggar in the back came up excitedly, shouting Long live His Royal Highness Su Zheng, and immediately gobbled up the porridge.

People also began to discuss, and these grenadiers who had just occupied the royal capital, as well as His Royal Highness Su Zheng in this mouth, were puzzled.

But no one has ever given relief food to the poor

! In this world, the lives of the poor people are even darker than those of the European Middle Ages, and in a world where the strong are respected, naturally no one cares about the life or death of the weak!

Even, magicians take pleasure in bullying mortals, and nobles take pleasure in bullying commoners.

"Eat them all! Don't waste it! If you're really hungry, you'll be able to eat it!" Suddenly

there was a roar of rage, and everyone's eyes were drawn to a grenadier glaring at a man by the wall.

And at the foot of the wall where he was standing was the porridge he had just poured out.

The grenadier shouted to the people around him, "This porridge has some sawdust in it, if you are really hungry, you can't feel it, if anyone dares to waste it...",

and the grenadier

drew his sword from his waist.

Hearing this, the crowd began to talk again, and a few people left the group, but most of them remained, including some pedestrians who were fairly well-dressed.

Seeing that the people in front of them were gobbling up, at least it showed that this bowl of porridge could be eaten, and they really didn't have much food to eat.

Such relief food distribution offices were distributed throughout the royal capital, and relief food was distributed in many lanes crowded with displaced people.

So this news swept the whole city in an instant, and at the same time, there was another piece of news that also detonated the whole city....

In a tavern, two grenadiers with swords at their waists walked in, and the tavern owner immediately greeted them.

"Long live His Royal Highness Su Zheng. Without

waiting for the boss to ask, the two grenadiers put their right hands on their left chests and said.

The boss was stunned for a moment before he could react, and a grenadier continued:

"Thanks to His Royal Highness Su Zheng, from today onwards, you don't need to pay taxes in the next year, in addition, now sell grain to every household in the city at a low price, 1 yuan per catty of wheat, and distribute the quota according to the capitation!" Please let everyone in your family come out, we have to make a registration, and then starting tomorrow, you can go to the West Street Market to buy low-cost grain, not only that, if you don't have a job and lack money, you can also borrow grain without interest and pay it off within a year. The

boss's eyes widened in shock when he heard this, tax-free for 1 year?1 money and 1 pound of grain?Can you borrow grain without interest?

"This... True... Really!" the

boss plucked out his ears and looked at the grenadier in disbelief, tax exemption was never heard of, but special tax was heard of.

Fortunately, the text here is a hieroglyph similar to Chinese characters, and exemption and tax both have their separate meanings, otherwise I am afraid that these people will not understand what this word means.

"Yes, this is the favor of His Royal Highness Su Zheng

!" one grenadier nodded to the boss, and the other grenadier said a little impatiently:

"Okay, hurry up and call everyone in your family out, we are still in a hurry to go to the next one!"

The boss nodded excitedly, hurriedly ran to the attic, and then walked down briskly with three people.

A family of four, two husbands and wives with a son and a daughter.

The grenadiers quickly registered the information of several people, and then immediately left.

"Eiffel, what a beautiful name!" said

one of the grenadiers, his teammates grinning at him and grinning

, "Ouch, brother, is your heart moved?"

The grenadier just touched his nose and smiled without speaking, knocked on the door of the resident next to the tavern and continued to check the household registration.

The news of the one-year tax exemption and ultra-low prices of grain also quickly spread throughout the royal capital, and this was even more sensational than the distribution of relief grain! Because this concerned everyone in the royal capital, and it was also a grenadier to inform and rank from house to house.

For the petty bourgeoisie and artisans of the towns whose bankruptcy was caused by the advent of the steam engine, this was not just a blessing in disguise, but a sudden flash of hope in the midst of despair!

With the fall of the royal capital and the capture of the king and prince, Heinz was 'stripped away' of command.

After capturing the royal capital, Wang Wei completely took over the army and then began to make new deployments to the troops.

The three regiments were divided into two parts by

the king's guard: the cavalry regiment took the king's order to take over the royal fortress, and at the same time arranged for another battalion to garrison the fortress of Adam, where only 50 men were left to guard the fortress of Adam, where only 50 men were left to guard the prisoners! The remaining two regiments began to serve as security teams, and while garrisoning the guard, they took over the security of the royal capital, and at the same time

began a comprehensive census.

Before coming, Su Zheng specially opened a small stove for Wang Wei, and carried out ideological education for Wang Wei for a day and a night, from ideology to policy, so Wang Wei carried out some reforms according to Su Zheng's intentions in several cities occupied along the way.

However, the scale of the royal capital is too large, and the strength is intertwined and complex, so big that a super family like the Rothschilds is even a small castle on the outskirts of the royal capital, with more than 3,000 soldiers and domestic servants.

In addition, there are many aristocratic families with thousands of guests and private soldiers.

Moreover, unlike the simple small-scale peasant economy of the small city-states, the ownership of the means of production here is intricately intertwined, and the lord economy and the manor economy also account for a large proportion.

In addition, the population of the royal capital is also very large, not counting those black slaves, there are more than 2.4 million people registered, which is a very large population.

After all, Wang Wei was a military official, and the political knowledge imparted by Su Zheng was not enough, and the scale of the royal capital was too large, so he did not dare to carry out a thorough reform of the royal capital, and temporarily focused on maintaining stability.

Wang Wei did not move the treasury of the palace for the time being, but only moved the grain depot in the royal capital for non-rent.

What shocked Wang Wei was that there was a huge amount of grain in the grain inventory in the royal capital, and the entire royal capital was facing hunger!

This is the dark place of this world, without the concept of 'Jiangshan Sheji' brought to the monarch by a great unified dynasty like Earth China, and the commoners are just the property of the lords and nobles, just like the ploughing cattle.