Medieval White Elf Story

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After officially entering the land of Las West, Flynn carefully observed the scenery and people along the road, trying to obtain first-hand information for this future territory of his own.

Then the shocking sights everywhere opened his eyes.

Las West is no different from other noble territories on the Zeeland Peninsula. There are many forests and swamps. The few lands suitable for farming are dotted with some shabby villages and are covered with potholes. Connected by dirt roads.

Every village they encountered along the way would see corpses in tattered clothes hanging from the trees. According to the information Artus and the others heard, they were the fate of farmers who tried to flee the land.

The villagers were very curious and wary of this group of armed outsiders with unfamiliar banners. Many people hid in their houses made of thatch and mud, secretly looking at Flynn and the others through door openings or window openings.

The life of civilians in the Middle Ages was very hard, and the life of farmers was not necessarily any better than that of the animals raised by the nobles. Flynn had not seen the scene in the south where the violent nobles would put the disobedient subjects on swings, but like La Scenes like this abound here in West, which is quite shocking.

After arriving at the first city, which was not much bigger than the town, the number of corpses on the trees decreased somewhat, but the streets and alleys were crowded with unkempt beggars, their dirty hands stretched out to beg for alms from kindhearted people. .

"The lords here treat their subjects too harshly." Baron Artus lamented to Flynn, pointing to the beggars who were timid and did not dare to approach strangers like them who were dressed in extraordinary clothes.

Flynn wholeheartedly agreed. The lives of civilians in the South were not very good, but compared to their counterparts here, their lives were much happier.

Although the geographical environment of Zeeland cannot be said to be very good, it is not a barren mountain and water that is unsuitable for survival. The lords who rule the local area are indispensable for the current miserable situation in the world.

The nobles treated their subjects with excessive extortion and excessive demands. The subjects lacked food and clothing and were reduced to abject poverty. In order to maintain their rule, the nobles who could not squeeze out oil and water continued to strengthen the exploitation of their subjects, and hung the unlucky ones who tried to escape as punishment to deter others. The disobedient subjects will eventually cause a large number of people to either flee, be tortured to death, or become beggars. It is no wonder that the violent subjects will unite and join forces to openly expel the lords from the country.

Zeeland is a troubled place. It is located at the junction of the three kingdoms. It is constantly facing land and sea invasions and plunders from Bolencia and the Northern Kingdom. Coupled with annual floods and waterlogging, the nobles are exploiting the bones and marrow. It is already very difficult to survive here, not to mention the wars and military disasters caused by the nobles attacking each other, which are the main culprits of the sparse population here. Even the caravans are not willing to set foot here, because they feel that there is no profit here. They prefer to go directly around here and go north to the coastal cities of the Northern Kingdom, using food, clothing and handicrafts produced on the mainland in exchange for those who can only drive ships to plunder the coast of the mainland but cannot grow many crops. The loot and ore in the hands of the barbarians.

Without caravans, there would be no taxes to collect. The local nobles could only continue to exploit the poor and impoverished farmers, thus forming a perfect vicious circle.

Flynn began to sympathize with the locals and thought about it from their perspective. If he had become a citizen here, there would be no other way to survive except to rise up.

However, the environment caused by the local lords is so bad, it may not be entirely a bad thing for the Bain family. As long as the Bain family has a generous attitude towards the people, and even as long as they do not do more than other lords, it will be difficult to become a leader. The main object of hatred among the people was very helpful for them to successfully establish themselves in the local area.

The owner of the city was a local baron. After learning about Flynn's identity, he obediently came to greet the future lord in person and invited him to his house.

After the nobles lost their territories for various reasons, their vassals would either leave with their masters like Baron Artus and wait for the masters to be rewarded with new fiefs after they had a new territory, or they would stay in place like this baron. , waiting for the arrival of the new lord to take refuge in time, and possibly retaining his fiefdom.

The reason why this is possible is that there is uncertainty in this kind of refuge.The new lord will also bring a bunch of new vassals waiting for the land to be divided. If the land is not enough, it is possible to target these original small lords, find excuses to refuse to accept surrender, and then confiscate their allotments. To distribute it to one's vassals, it is more common to replace it with second-class land.

Therefore, the risk of defecting to the new master is very high. Unless you are very strong and can fight against the new lord, you must work hard to please the new lord.

Flynn rejected the baron's enthusiastic invitation, but in order to appease the other party, he still accepted the other party's request for food and fodder for the follow-up troops.In order to take precautions, the food needed by the army along the way was purchased directly from the villages passing by as much as possible instead of buying it from the local lords, in order to ensure safety.Now that he is on his own territory, there is no need to take such strict precautions, not to mention that spending money to buy food all the time is a big burden for Flynn.

The local baron quickly moved a dozen carts full of grain from his warehouse, as well as a lot of chickens, ducks, and wine, proving that although the local people's lives were difficult, it did not affect the baron's ability to obtain wealth.

Flynn had already given the Baron a big cross in his heart. If the Bain family wanted to be kind to the local area, they could not continue to exploit the people. So by starting with these local vassals and slaughtering one or two fat sheep, they could expand the business. The directly administered territory rewards its own vassals and can also appease the local people. It is simply killing two birds with one stone, perfect.

This kind of thought can only be hidden in the bottom of my heart. On the surface, Flynn still praised the local baron's current affairs behavior. The baron, who thought he had successfully won the favor of his future little master, was very excited. He had no idea that he had been treated as a bastard. Skin the fat sheep and wait for the time to send them to the slaughterhouse.

But once we arrived at the next town, something felt wrong.

After hearing the news of the arrival of the future master, the local vassal did not give him a warm welcome like the previous baron. Instead, he sent some very suspicious guys to follow Flynn and his party along the way, with a very unfriendly attitude.

Baron Artus was disgusted with such blatant peeking, and it was clear that the other party wanted to find out the specific strength of Flynn and his party, and had vague ill intentions.

Flynn also knew the disrespect hidden in the other party's little actions, and immediately changed the order of candidates he needed to use to establish his authority in the future.However, the top priority is not to have a head-on conflict with the opponent, but to take a detour to avoid these annoying guys and get to the capital of Las West as soon as possible, which will be his future base camp and base.

As for how to deal with these guys in the future, there is plenty of time and opportunity, and Flynn is not in a hurry.Medieval White Elf Story