The Troublesome Hero Among the Heroes

Just when Charles and Diana were hiding on the island at ease, in Qiqiu City, the royal capital of the Kingdom of Bischberg, an undercurrent affected the hearts of many people.

Outside the side door of Linda's house, many people were staring at the door, waiting for the "informant" inside to come out.

It's just that the side door where many servants used to enter and exit is tightly closed at this moment, and has not been opened since the sun rose.

There was not a trace of news from the mansion, which made the people in charge of inquiring about the news seem particularly irritable.

At noon, four or five fights have occurred nearby because of walking and seeing each other.

It’s not irritable. If you can’t report the progress of the siblings meeting to your master in time, they will have no good fruit.

Until the moon rise in the middle of the sky, someone suddenly heard from the front door that Second Prince Abbot’s carriage has left Linda’s mansion, First Prince Abner The carriage followed closely behind.

The Golden Palace on the side is still brightly lit. King Antoine II is sitting in a room in the basement, playing with a revolver in the dim light.

Since the "Battle of the Full Moon", Antoine II has rarely appeared in front of the world, and almost all public activities have been performed by his sons and daughters in turn.

Compared to those anxiously waiting noble and big businessmen, the king's news is naturally better than them.

When the intelligence chief walked into the room, he was still wearing a black robe that has remained unchanged forever. He reported to Antoine II: "Your Majesty, the negotiations between His Highness Abbott and His Highness Linda have broken down."

"His Royal Highness Abbot and His Highness Abner left one after another. At the first intersection, the carriage of His Highness Abner turned and did not travel with His Highness Abbot."

Antoine II was only slightly nodded, continuing to study the rifling in the barrel of the revolver.

After a while, he asked: "Where is the third child?"

The head of intelligence replied: "His Royal Highness is still in the territory, and everyday all is playing with the little princes."

Antoine II showed a slight smile on his face, which was the only good news he heard.

Allen was killed by Charles before he had any offspring. Linda and Charles had not yet been married, and his other three sons already had children.

It’s just that the eldest and second child are all busy with "career". Only the third, Elvis, who had a pair of twin daughters three years ago, spends most of the time in the territory to accompany the child. Play.

The intelligence chief returned after leaving for a while, bringing the latest news.

"Report to Your Majesty." The intelligence chief seemed a bit hesitant this time. "Not long ago, three carriages drove out of His Highness Linda's house at the same time. Just now, all these carriages were attacked and all the vehicles were damaged. His Highness Linda later I took the Griffin and left Qiqiu City."

Antoine II's face suddenly darkened, and he asked: "Is there no news from Charles yet?"

Information The boss replied: "Since Count Megadon was taken away by Demon God that day, there has been no news of his return."

The true identity of Charles Medivh is not a secret to those who are familiar with him. The spies of the Bischberg Kingdom found it easily.

City of Knowledge only stopped shipping, but the Magic Communication Bureau there is still working normally, and news from the island can be heard soon.

Antoine II signaled the intelligence chief to leave, and when there was no one in the room, he threw the revolver on the table, leaning against the chair and sighed deeply.

He never thought that his country would have undergone Heaven and Earth turning upside down in just a few years.

In recent years, many cable bridges and ziplines have been built in the mountainous Bischberg Kingdom, greatly improving the efficiency of material transportation.

For those places where wool textile mills have been built, convenient transportation means lower transportation costs.

It's just that the booming wool textile mill makes some people jealous.

Some nobles are unwilling to change their original way of life, they still live an idyllic life.

But this does not mean that they can’t make a profit from the rising textile industry. The lords who built chain bridges and ziplines in their territories have charged high road taxes to caravans that transport wool products. The lords who did not have these two new things had their brains changed to collect taxes, and some even pioneered the collection of "horse dung tax" from caravans.

In a short period of time, merchants selling woolen products suffered heavy losses. Then they raised their prices on the one hand, and lowered their purchase prices from textile mills on the other.

The textile mills are also in trouble. While the purchaser keeps down the price, the wool provided by Megadon Family has also increased slightly because of the increase in taxes during transportation.

The price difference between raw materials and products is reduced. The bosses of textile factories have self-taught to extend workers’ working hours, increase labor intensity, reduce or even cancel workers’ benefits and benefits, and even employ child labor. To reduce production costs.

From the perspective of the impoverished common people, even so, working in a factory is always more attractive than working on a barren land.

Especially those textile mills that own 5% of Count Megadon shares. The representatives sent to the factories by count adults often fight with other shareholders for the minimum wages and working hours of the workers, and even do not hesitate to purchase raw materials. In the end, workers in those factories are treated a little bit higher than other factories.

In the past two years, more and more mountain people have fled the village and walked into the ever-expanding factory.

As a result, the village lacks labor and the production is reduced, and the landlords are horrified to find that there is no more food in the family.

So, the contradiction between the two sides began to formally put on the table on this day.

Second Prince Abbot, who represents the interests of the broad landlord class, and the five Princess Linda, who represents the interests of the emerging bourgeoisie, today were entrusted by their respective forces behind them to hold closed-door talks under the witness of First Prince Abner. .

On behalf of the landlords, Abner asked the factory to repatriate those farmers who had fled.

Linda, on behalf of the capitalists, asked the landlords to drastically reduce tolls.

At the end, this negotiation ended with Linda pretending to leave the carriage in Qiqiu City.

Antoine II leaned on the chair and thought for a long time with his eyes closed.

As a king, he can see that the two major forces in the country have reached the point where the contradictions cannot be reconciled.

In other words, he finally waited until this day.

Four years ago, in a private conversation with him, Allen mentioned that the rise of wool textile mills will bring huge changes to the country, and it is also full of dangers.

It’s just that Alan didn’t have time to talk about the danger, because it was time for the first fight, and he thought he could come back alive, so he planned to talk about it later.

Antoine II was deeply sighed again, and there was a vague feeling in his heart, I am afraid this country will fall into an unprecedented civil turmoil.