Chapter 269 Instigation
The carnival—or chaos, more appropriately—continued into the evening. After everyone was exhausted, the area around Fabei Village became quiet.
Although physically tired, everyone's mood was still very high, and everyone found a lot of good things.
Everyone gathered in the Baden family's mansion, showing off to each other their harvest today. People plan to rest for a while and then return to their villages.
Among the crowd, only Kevin didn't take anything. He worriedly gathered together a few people who usually had a higher reputation in the village.
He expressed his worries: they were robbing Fabei Village, and the lord would not let them go.
Everyone seemed to have a basin of cold water poured on their heads, and their previously hot hearts immediately cooled down.
When resentment accumulates beyond a certain threshold, impulse overwhelms reason and one does things one would not normally dare to do. However, they forgot that there was a higher being who maintained the order of Arda, even though this order was oppressing them.
Someone murmured and asked: "But... but... wasn't it Baden who made the mistake first? He also killed our people. There were several people who were hit by slings before. Never woke up again."
Kevin shook his head: "But obviously our [crime] is more serious. The lord will definitely punish us first."
There was resentment in his heart, resenting why the villagers were so impulsive and why they couldn't be more rational.
While everyone was searching around in confusion, Kevin didn't think about running away and running to Port Fulan to report to the city hall, asking the mayor to send someone to maintain order, but after thinking about it, he still stayed. Wait for everyone to regain their composure and then figure out a solution together.
"Haha, brother Kevin, what a [crime], it's too serious."
Just when everyone was frowning, a voice came from next to them.
A man with a sinister look came over, and Kevin's brows furrowed even more tightly. He recognized this person, Bisso - a scoundrel who idled around all day long in the village.
"It was the landlord Baden who first set up heavy taxes behind the lord's back, forcing us all to be unable to survive, so he did such an irrational thing. Besides, so many of us were involved. Have you never heard of the saying 'The law does not punish the public'?"
Kevin pointed out seriously: "The current lord is a strong person, which can be seen from the fact that he overcame various difficulties to eliminate the pirates."
Biso shook his finger: "Even if he wants to pursue the case, what can he do to us? Hang us all? Or arrest us all to serve as laborers? We gathered young and strong laborers from several villages and arrested us all. What about the old, weak, women and children in the village? Is he taking care of them for us?"
Everyone in the circle looked at Bisuo, this boy seemed to make some sense.
Biso said proudly: "Will the lord bear a [harsh] reputation for a landowner who is unkind for his wealth? How will the bard spread the word about him - the villagers were forced by the landlord to rise up and resist, Lord Earl But all the rebels were hanged indiscriminately."
Everyone nodded secretly. This kid Bisuo usually didn't work and wandered around. Unexpectedly, he accumulated a lot of knowledge.
After he said this, the worry about his life suddenly eased a lot.
Just when everyone relaxed their brows, Biso became serious: "However, all our harvest today will be collected and returned to Baden, or... it will be received into the lord's own pocket. Inside.”
This sentence made everyone cover their pockets hard. "No one can take away the treasure in my bag!" Someone yelled immediately.
They were really scared of poverty and suddenly gained wealth, and they had to keep it even if they risked their lives.
Kevin covered his forehead, he already had a premonition of something bad happening.
Sure enough, Biso waved his fist and said: "Everyone, why don't we 'negotiate' with the lord! The Baden family's ill-gotten wealth was accumulated by plundering the people's wealth and money. We have the right to possess it. This wealth, because Baden originally snatched it from us, is just returned to the original owner."
"Enough!" Kevin angrily said: "What should we use to negotiate with the lord? He can summon an army to deal with us!"
"Kevin, you are so cowardly!"
Biso refuted him "righteously": "We have the strength in numbers, and we have also captured a large number of weapons from the Baden family. We are an army in our own right, and of course we have the capital to 'negotiate' with the lord."
< br>“Have you forgotten how the pirates in the Northwest Bay were wiped out?”
“Then do you still remember the former great pirate leader Edward? He was a being who was feared by all the lords in the northwest.”
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Biso ignored Kevin. Their quarrel had attracted many people to gather around.
He shouted to the people around him: "How did the pirates of the Edwardian period make the lords afraid? There is only one secret, and that is [unity]. They twisted into a rope and gained far more than The power of individuals. After Edward disappeared, the pirates were divided, so they were defeated individually. ”
"Folks! We have gathered people from several villages. As long as we can work together, the lord can't do anything to us. He will eventually accept our request and allow us to keep the wealth that should belong to us!"
"Everyone, the destruction of Baden has witnessed our strength. Look, even a big landowner like him cannot stop the power of our unity!"
Everyone's My heart became hot again because of Peso's words. Yes, the seemingly arrogant big landowner Baden turned into a wild dog running away with his tail between his legs under their combined efforts.
Lord? Aren't lords just larger landowners?
These villagers who only hang around the village on weekdays, and the furthest they have ever been is Port Fulan, have no idea how big a county is, how many people there are, or how many people there are. Know how many armies your lord can muster.
They can only speculate based on the most powerful force they have ever seen - the Baden family.
The landlord Baden was easily beaten away by them. So if the lord does not agree to their request and sends an army, it may be a little more difficult to fight away the lord's army. After all, it is even bigger than Baden. Awesome guy.
So everyone shouted: "Unite! Negotiate with the lords!"
Since Arda lacks grassroots feudal lords such as [knights] who use villages as their territory, farmers living in the countryside In daily life, they do not have an intuitive feeling about the power in the hands of the lord. Their obedience to the lord's decree is more based on the habits accumulated over generations.
If it were in other territories, the probability of something like Fabai Village happening would be very low, because the villagers would be suppressed by the knights living in the village as soon as they started gathering, and it would be impossible for there to be conflicts between multiple villages. Opportunities to connect with each other.
(End of this chapter)