Chapter 580 Classified Registration
"Everyone line up, adult men under fifty years old go to the left, and those over fifty years old go to the children's team! Women go to the right, don't think about getting through! Everyone Everyone is subject to inspection!" A man in black uniform was holding a tin speaker and maintaining order with dignity.
Not long ago, he was just a small aristocrat from a poor family in Langton City. He maintained a decent life relying on a little family property, but his life was also tight.
After all, no matter how poor the family fortunes are, nobles are nobles, and they still have to have the most basic decency.
And if you want to maintain your dignity, you must spend a lot of money on face.
This also makes their family look glamorous on the surface, but in fact they have to carefully plan every expenditure on weekdays, and many times they can only stick to the appearance.
Just like the uniform he is wearing at this time, it looks really strong and crisp in appearance. It is made of fine material, making him look really majestic at this moment.
But this uniform was made by his wife after cutting it out from a woolen coat that he usually used to support occasions, and the lining inside was his old shirt.
The outside of a donkey shit ball is highlighted, looking like an old aristocrat from Langton City.
Although he also knows that living like this is tiring, but for the sake of his family and face, he has to endure it like this most of the time.
When the upper class in Langton moved to the north en masse, he had of course thought about getting a boat ticket and, among other things, sending his wife and children there.
But he is just a small nobleman who lives off his ancestral property. How can he get a ticket to the North?
He himself is not an elite level talent in the industry, so naturally he is not among the official quota, so he can only go to the North through other means.
The big nobles can buy their own airships, and then go to the north to buy properties, and they can live very well there.
The second-class small and medium-sized nobles could grit their teeth and buy a ticket to the North. After all, the airship route was still open at the time, but the ticket had been sold to sky-high prices. For many small nobles, It's almost equivalent to bankrupting your entire fortune.
He couldn't afford it. Even if all his family's ancestral property were sold, it would only be enough for one person's ferry ticket.
And with the advent of the doomsday crisis, while the prices of various commodities are soaring, other things are also plummeting.
His family's ancestral property soon became worthless, and his income soon became unable to sustain his life.
After all, everyone was selling off their properties at that time, and many people were disposing of their assets as if they were running for their lives.
In the end, after discussing it with his wife, he gritted his teeth and sold his ancestral property, then exchanged it for a boat ticket and sent his daughter on the airship to the North.
He has been like this for the rest of his life. Without the familiar environment of Langton and without the income from his ancestral property, it will be difficult for him to make a living even if he goes to the north.
But his daughter is different. She is a very talented child. She has been very talented in painting since she was a child. She was even admired by an old painter who was well-known in Langton's upper class. became a disciple.
Although with the advent of the doomsday crisis, the painter industry has also ushered in a cold winter, but what is surprising is that the Earl of the North attaches great importance to the field of art and culture, and even proposed a cultural preservation The plan is said to be to bring some famous and genuine art creators to the north.
This is how his daughter's teacher got a place to go to the North. After buying a boat ticket for his daughter, he went to see the old painter and entrusted his daughter to him.
The character of this old painter was well-known in the past. His daughter has always been well taken care of after studying with the old painter, so he safely entrusted his daughter to the old painter.
As for himself, he stayed in Longton with his wife, preparing for the end. Or to put it another way, it’s called waiting to die.
But who would have thought that he would be ready to leave with dignity when the end came. As a result, the Earl of the North showed up to turn the tide and abruptly put Langton in the current situation. Barely able to survive.
After the Earl of the North stabilized the situation in Langton, he also needed a large number of manpower to work.
After all, the people who used to work in Langton have gone to the north, and many positions and jobs have become vacant.
As an aristocrat with higher education and a college diploma, he suddenly became a highly qualified talent at this time and was quickly assigned to work.
Although he was responsible for simple tasks such as recording and writing, he did a pretty good job precisely because of the simplicity, so he was assigned to this newly established checkpoint to take charge of the classified registration of people in the outer city. Work.
According to the requirements of the city government, everyone must register according to classification, and then be reviewed by the church magistrate. Only those who confirm that there are no problems can enter the inner city.
Such differential treatment naturally arouses dissatisfaction from some people, and some people want to cause trouble.
But the steam knight sent by the Earl of the North maintained order very well, so he only needed to shout with a loudspeaker, ask everyone to stand according to classification, and then pick up some guys who tried to muddle through. Just come out.
However, he also encountered some problems. For example, in some families, the children were too young and the mothers were unwilling to separate from them. This required him to deal with it.
And every time this happens, he can only complain that the city government is crazy and insists on registering children separately from their parents.
Can't they register by family? If this is done, many children will be separated from their parents. Even if it is only for a short time, it will be a very torturous thing for both children and parents.
Not to mention, some parents cannot pass the inspection and their children can enter the inner city instead, which will undoubtedly make the situation worse.
Because it means there is one more orphan.
At first, he thought that those who failed the examination were just driven back, but who would have thought that those who failed the examination were directly burned on the stake by the church magistrates.
Yes, there is a torture rack set up next to the checkpoint. It is the latest energy-saving type. As long as a person is hung on it, fire will spurt out. There is no need to pile up a lot of firewood like a traditional torture rack.
This design also made the torture rack a heat source in a sense, so that many people who had completed their registration and were waiting for review crowded next to the torture rack to keep warm.
Of course, this also resulted in some not-so-acceptable scenes, that is, children watching their parents being hung up and then burned to charcoal.
Yes, such scenes are unavoidable, and this may be why children and parents are registered separately.
Because there are always some parents who are involved in the influence of the evil sect, but the children are lucky enough not to be contaminated.
(End of this chapter)