Utopia

Chapter 224: Income of Lower-level Nobles

Boom!

"Everyone, pay attention. All the natives who fall to the ground will be shot in the head!"

With the last explosion, the natives ended up with no one running back. Therefore, the cadets who heard the instructor's order began to clean up the battlefield and clean up all the bodies.

And Princess Jiaqi, who shot and killed several natives in the battle, of course she didn't have to go up to check the bodies and pick up things. After all, as a cook, she started to make lunch to replenish the energy of her partners who had finished a round of work.

So, she set up the big pot, poured water and lit the fire, and directly put the rice noodles that had been wrapped in it. At the same time, her personal maid put the chopped radish, coriander, and dried tofu into the boiling pot.

Boom!

"What's going on... and suddenly they opened fire?"

"Your Highness, it's probably one of the natives lying down and pretending to be dead, waiting for us to stop firing and then run away. As a result, we just used a rifle grenade or a mortar to finish it off."

"What a waste."

That's what she said, but Princess Jiaqi knew it in her heart. Using a 6mm caliber mortar to bombard people is actually a small matter, and the Warrior three-barrel beam launcher to clear the field is really a luxury.

However, judging from the performance of their own military academy students, the record of destroying 5 without any damage and using 8 natives recently is actually a bit unimpressive.

You have to know that their weapons and tactics are much more advanced than the natives. If you really want to compare, you have to compare them with the Eastern human kingdoms in the Old Continent.

In the Eastern human kingdoms in the Old Continent, if there are not even 5,000 people in a casual battle, it can be directly described as "villagers fighting" or "town mayor hegemony". So...

Princess Jiaqi herself was embarrassed. As far as she knew about the wars now, there were many cases where the total number of troops on both sides was less than 5,000. Not to mention the wars between the major princes of the Kahn Empire in the New World, there was basically no force that could have more than 5,000 troops at a time.

The reason... No force in the Kahn Empire could achieve absolute separation of soldiers and farmers. The major forces that used farmers as their main combat forces often recruited a group of serf soldiers who had nothing to do during the slack season to fight. And professional soldiers, that is, knights in the mouths of the natives, not every lord could afford a knight group.

Especially the lower-level barons and viscounts, many of these lower-level nobles could not even afford to raise war horses, and even had to serve as personal guards for higher-level nobles themselves, praying that the higher-level nobles would give them more bowls of soup so that they would not starve to death on the streets.

Yes.

This is the lower-level nobles of the Kahn Empire.

Barons and viscounts, small landlords who can only manage a small town at most, are a type that can be seen everywhere in the entire Kahn Empire. Since the fiefs they obtained were small, the money they collected was really pitiful.

If they wanted to use force to force the poor people to pay more taxes, the poor people who couldn't survive would either pick up all kinds of things around them and start a rebellion, or hang themselves or jump off a cliff with their poor and destitute family.

[To be honest, I've been using it recently, both Android and Apple are available. ]

Although the Ascetic Church has always been preaching that suicide is a serious crime that will lead to hell, and it is destined not to receive God's favor and happiness in the afterlife. But if the people who live a tormenting life don't feel happy, it is very easy to plant the seeds of a time bomb.

Just like the people of the Principality of Akern now, the people can't stand the nobles headed by Marquis Usoda. As long as they don't choose to commit suicide, they will become bandits or other types of armed elements.

So the Kingdom of Golson, which learned the news, sent an expedition team to the abandoned city or other places to search for treasures, while strengthening its domestic control.

After all, the Principality of Akern was in turmoil, and the Principality was forced to invite troops from other countries to help quell the riots.

However, everyone knew that the Principality of Akern was once the overlord of the Kahn Empire. There are many good things in the country that attract treasure hunters, and even ordinary people may have mastered some advanced technology.

In addition, the Principality of Akern was the first country in the Kahn Empire to implement the salt standard currency system, and in fact, it has a lot of gold, silver and jewelry stored inside.

However, even if the former Grand Duke Sidney Akern told the location of the treasury, the knights who stole the treasure had already divided it up.

As a result, the current Acting Grand Duke Mortarion looked painful. The nobles of the Principality of Akern were already corrupt enough, and the foreign troops that came to quell the riots were not much better. Killing and looting happened every day in the entire Principality of Akern.

It turns out that the good social order under the rule of Grand Duke Sidney is not only completely non-existent now, but even the number of privately established underground civilian armed forces is increasing day by day.

But Acting Grand Duke Mortarion looked at the table, and Marquis Usoda specially sent a set of six white porcelain cups. He had no way to stop all this from developing in a worse, worse, and more terrible direction.

As for the reason... Just this set of six white porcelain cups, he knew that Marquis Usoda and his gang didn't want him to talk nonsense. And in his current situation, he couldn't be nice to the people of the Principality of Akern.

Just the six white porcelain cups in front of him, which were slightly larger than his fist, could be exchanged for six pure gold ingots of the same weight in Overflow City. And what can a gold ingot do in the Kahn Empire?

This is the income of any baron in the Kahn Empire for a whole year.

Note, it's not one day, it's a whole year!

Of course, the bribed Grand Duke Mortarion didn't know one thing. That is, the set of white porcelain cups in front of him not only came from the porcelain factory of the Kingdom of Negan, but also its real price...

One gold ingot is equal to 120 porcelain cups.

Obviously, the Grand Duke Mortarion, who didn't know what the industrial alternative "massacre" was, certainly didn't understand the principle of porcelain, let alone the basic principle that the cost could be greatly reduced under industrial mass production.

In short, he had to write a letter to his nephew, hoping that his emperor nephew could give some advice to his useless uncle.

The Principality of Akern was too chaotic. He didn't know how to do anything he wanted to do.

"Come on, send this letter back to the palace and give it to His Majesty."

"Yes."

After instructing the men who delivered the letter, the Grand Duke Mortarion looked at the outside world outside the window, where thick smoke was rising from time to time. He knew without asking that it was either Marquis Usoda or those damned rioters.

Is it interesting to see a good country being ruined like this?

Is it meaningful to completely bury the Principality of Archon to the dark elves? Just like the old capital, Guargu Echu City?

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