I am the son of the traveler

Chapter 143 Gillis Civil Disturbance

Unrest broke out within the Gillis Federation, causing a large number of refugees to flee. Because the rebels taught by Matthaeus like to confiscate the nobles and rich people inside after capturing a city, many powerful businessmen who are close to the rebel-occupied area In order to keep his fortune, he quickly shipped all the property he could take away, and fled to surrounding countries.And their first choice is the Kingdom of Macedonia, which has not broken out in war for several months across the sea.

The influx of refugees and powerful businessmen had a certain impact on the security of Pella. The soldiers of the city defense army had to increase their patrol frequency to take care of the ragged Gilis refugees. On the contrary, in order to gain a foothold in this place, they also invested in the purchase of idle real estate, planning to live here for a while, and wait to see if they want to go back after the war in the Gillies Federation is over.

In just a few days, many refugees who committed crimes were imprisoned in the prison of Pella City. Most of them were burglarized or robbed because of poverty. After being discovered by the city defense army, they were directly tied up and thrown into prison. They can be redeemed for a drachma, but their families are all impoverished refugees begging on the street, so no one cares about them.In the prison, they found that their life was better than outside, because the Macedonian prison was in charge of food, and these Gilis prisoners were finally able to eat a full meal after starving for many days. They were crying , while chomping on the bread, for fear of being snatched by others, as if he was eating some delicious food.

I don't know where the news came from. After learning that the prison was in charge of food, many desperate refugees chose to take risks. They deliberately committed crimes and were caught by the city defense army, and then thrown into the crowded prison. When these criminals entered the prison Afterwards, I was surprised to find that there were many people who I knew or were familiar with, and they looked at each other, with embarrassed smiles on their faces, while explaining.

In order to survive, I had to come in.

When the inspector Hipparchus reported the matter to Antigonus, the young king couldn't laugh or cry. Although he would not raise a group of prisoners in vain, he was unwilling to watch the lives of people disappear, so he came up with a plan to achieve the best of both worlds. The best way is to send these prisoners who deliberately go to prison to the mines and let them rely on their own labor to eat.As for whether they are willing or not, that is not something Antigon has to consider. After all, they are still criminals who violated the laws of the Kingdom of Macedonia and have no right to choose.

Walking on the streets of Pella, you can often see refugees kneeling and begging on the street. They are usually family-based. Adults and children join the battle. Looking at those thin children with disheveled faces, there are many soft-hearted people. Macedonian citizens with a sense of superiority give them a few drachmas or bread, and then they will be thanked repeatedly by the refugees. At this time, the citizens' sense of national honor is overwhelming. As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison, and they suddenly feel How powerful his motherland is, how great the king is.

After all, at this time last year, the Macedonian Kingdom was still a weak kingdom that had just expanded outwards in Turtle Hot Springs. In just one year, under the leadership of His Majesty the King, they had completed the feat of conquering the entire Ograle Peninsula, becoming this country in one fell swoop. The owner of a piece of land accepts the surrender of the barbarians.

Having said that, the Macedonian nobles still didn't want to see these dirty refugees polluting the bustling streets of Pella, so they jointly submitted a petition to Antigonus, asking the king to deal with the Gilis refugees wandering on the streets. Tico did not sit idly by after receiving the petition. He thought about it and decided to deal with the refugees in the same way as the prisoners.

Naturally, Antigonus would not spend money to buy food to relieve the victims of the disaster. He was unwilling to do such a thing that harmed himself and benefited others, because those refugees were not even his people, and they would try their best to return to their hometown after the war was over. However, if a war breaks out between the two countries in the future, they may become soldiers attacking the Macedonian army, completely forgetting the Macedonians' kindness to them.Therefore, Antigonus must fully squeeze out the value of these people, just like some black-hearted capitalists.

So, the next day, the royal family issued a new policy for the disposal of refugees. The policy stipulates that all refugees in Pella must rely on labor to obtain food. They have two places to go, either to various mines in the kingdom, or Go west and add to the immigrant settlements that are still under construction.Anyone who doesn't want to continue to rely on Pella, the city defense army will mercilessly drive them away, leaving them to fend for themselves outside the tall walls of Pella.

After this policy was promulgated, the refugees stranded in Pella immediately broke out in riots of dissatisfaction, but they quickly calmed down under the threat of the cold sword of the city defense army and made their own choices.The dignitaries and businessmen from the same country as them stood in the crowd and looked at the compatriots who were driven out one after another. Not only did they have no so-called sympathy at all, but they showed disdainful and contemptuous smiles. In their eyes , these refugees and they are not people from two worlds at all, will the lion feel sad for the death of the rabbit?

What they didn't know was that they were not lions at all, but that Antigonus, who stood at the top of the country, was a real lion, the king of all beasts who outshone all heroes.

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While dealing with the refugees, Antigonus was also paying attention to the recent situation of the Gillis Federation. The Gillis Federation is now at war with the Duke of Harlan. Although they have sent people to negotiate a peace, the Duke of Harlan has not shown any intention of negotiating a peace. On the contrary, they intensified their mobilization efforts and sent more troops to the front line; there was a separatist regime of the Matthaeus Rebel Army, and the momentum of the rebel army was growing. They consolidated the rule of the occupied area under the advice of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Kingdom of Macedonia. On the one hand, he sent sharp-tongued people to the enemy's cities to persuade the long-suffering people to let them rise up.

Because the reputation of Matthaeus has always been very good among the civilian class, many civilians were persuaded, and they took up arms and joined the rebels as soon as their brains became hot. When the Federal Parliament saw that the country was blooming everywhere, it finally began to panic. Regardless of quarreling with each other at the meeting, they unanimously passed the always very serious motion-the mobilization order for total war for the first time!

The general war mobilization order has not been issued twice in the history of the Gillies Federation. The last time it was issued at a critical moment when the capital was about to be conquered and the country was about to fall, mobilized all men over the age of 14 and under the age of 60 in the country Defend the country and repel the invading enemies in one fell swoop.But now, the hearts of the people are in turmoil, and they can only put all their eggs in one basket to completely wipe out the Matthaeus religion in order to continue to maintain the federal rule.

(End of this chapter)