Outworld: Rise of an Industrial Empire

In the territory of Huang Qicheng, a certain village.

"Labor and management warn you, the additional levy at the beginning of this year's spring is the city lord who considered that you have no surplus food, so he allowed you to owe the debt, and you are not allowed to owe another grain of grain for this grain collection!" A

group of soldiers wearing chain mail was walking proudly on the road of the village, and the leading soldiers were shouting to the surrounding villagers.

From time to time, a few soldiers kicked open the door of a house, went in and rummaged, found the place where the villagers had stored their grain, loaded two bags of grain and came out.

The villagers dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, so they could only lower their heads and sigh.

"What are you doing? Why is there so much food?" a

sudden roar caught everyone's attention, and the leading soldier looked at the source of the sound, and through the low courtyard wall, he saw several large bags of grain piled up in the house.

Seeing this, the leading soldier angrily walked into the house, pointed to the young

villagers in the courtyard and asked, "Okay! You dare to grab the grain! What do you want to do?"

The villagers in the courtyard hurriedly knelt on the ground and cried to the leading soldier:

"My lord, our family has no food, so we can only grab the food from the field... Don't worry, we will definitely be able to pay the tax in the autumn this year!" The

leading soldier sneered, took out the leather whip on his waist and swung it to the ground:

"Fart, don't think I can't see what you want to do, I think you want to grab the food and escape!"

"It's really not, my lord! We really don't have food to eat... Uhh

"Dare to quibble!"

"Ahhh

At this moment, a woman rushed out of the house, lay on the young villager's body, and cried and pleaded:

"Don't fight!

Seeing

this, the soldier who led the team put away his leather whip and raised the woman's head with a grin.

"Oh, it's not bad!How about playing with my brothers!

" "Hahahahahaha!".

"It's so hateful

!" "Sit down!"

In the pantry not far away, a delicate-looking woman stood up angrily, but was held down by a middle-aged man on the side.

"Father

!" "Sit down!"

"But..."

"Noelle, my father agreed to take you out this time just to show you the cruelty of this world! You have also seen it along the way, this is the norm! You and I can't change it.

Another beautiful woman on the side spoke, and the middle-aged man nodded with relief when he heard this, and then looked at the woman named Noelle and said

, "Study hard from your sister, and you will go out with your sister for a few years." Your character, how can I rest assured that you will be a roaming knight?"

As soon as the middle-aged man finished speaking, the sound of horses' hooves suddenly came from the entrance of the village, and everyone's eyes were attracted.

.

At this time, in the field next to the village, two villagers met on the field road, and a villager with a bucket said with a sad face:

"Hey, what can I do about this... This year's wheat doesn't seem to be growing very well..."Another

villager clenched his fists and said,

"Yes... I estimated that the harvest of our family's 220 acres of land may not even be 30,000 catties last year!

" The villager with the bucket shook his head and said

, "Hey, the wheat has been so sick for the past two years... It's useless if you're

in a hurry..."Another villager patted his thigh anxiously and said

, "Can I not be in a hurry? Just now, the officers and soldiers came again, saying that in addition to the original 2,000 catties of grain, each person will have to add another 2,000 catties, and my family will have to pay six taxes, and there is not much left after paying the grain! I still have to repay the grain I borrowed in the spring.... The villagers

carrying the buckets widened their eyes

when they heard this, and they became anxious: "What! Isn't this forcing us? How can we afford to pay so much? Our family levied twice at the beginning of spring this year, and the 2,000 catties that my family saved last year are not only gone, but also owe 1,000 catties..."

Just as the two of them were complaining with sad faces, there was a sudden shout at the entrance of the village, and the villagers working in the fields chuckled in their hearts.

The two villagers glanced at each other and hurried towards the village.

.

On the road in the middle of the village, a troop of cavalry was piling together a soldier in chain mail, the corpses of which were the same people who had just flaunted their might.

A knight wearing the Order of the Barons shouted

to the cavalry around him: "Search me from house to house!

"Search all the people and food!" "Yes!"

After receiving the order, the cavalry immediately scattered and rushed to the surrounding courtyard, and several horsemen came to a courtyard gate, got off their horses, and then kicked open the gate, walked in, and then kicked the door of the inner room open.

The door of the house was kicked to the ground, along with the villagers who reached the door behind them.

One of the cavalrymen directly twisted the villagers and dragged them out of the courtyard, while the other cavalry rushed into the house and looted it.

"Master Jun, don't kill me... Please spare me!"

cried the twisted villager, but the cavalry ignored him and threw him outside the gate of the courtyard.

The surrounding courtyards were also wrung out of the villagers, and at the same time, many cavalrymen came out carrying food bags.

"Don't kill me... Don't kill me..."

"Don't... Please..."

"I can't take it! "

You can't take... Ahh

"I surrender! I surrender! Don't kill me!" two

cavalrymen dragged out a soldier in chain mail from a courtyard, the soldier pleaded bitterly, but the cavalry directly pressed him to the ground, then raised his sword and slashed at the soldier's head.

When the surrounding villagers saw that some villagers were hacked to death, they didn't dare to stop them anymore, so they could only lie on the ground and cry helplessly.

"Listen, everyone, if you harvest all the grain honestly, it will be fine, otherwise you will die!" shouted

the Baron Knight, holding his sword to the villagers around him, when he spotted three people not far away drinking tea.

Seeing that the three people were turning a blind eye, the baron knight came over with a few people.

"Hey, who are you?" the

middle-aged man didn't speak, but took out a medal.

The baron knight was stunned for a moment when he saw the medal, and then hurriedly bowed slightly and saluted:

"Gong.... Duke! His Royal Highness the Duke.

Then the baron knight said:

"I am acting on orders, please do not embarrass me, you can go to our city lord..."

Of course, this sentence is not entirely true in this world, and whether or not to obey the lord of the lord also depends on the situation, mainly depending on the strength.

In the Xinqiong Empire, the duke is not a lord at all, but he is just at the same level as the prince in the title, in fact, some are court officials, and there are also some down-and-out duke families that are not as good as some good viscount families.

Therefore, the knight of the barons was only a matter of etiquette, and was not afraid of such a duke who appeared in a small village.

"When did I embarrass you?" said

the duke, taking a sip of tea. The Baron Knight was stunned when he heard this, and then hurriedly said,

"I'm sorry, my lord.... Then I won't bother you. Then

the Baroness turned his horse and waved.

"Father... They're invading

!" Seeing this, Noelle looked at the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man just said lightly:

"We have no right to care about them, they are the earls of the empire, and the contradictions between them should be managed by the imperial court, and you must not make trouble! This is not the Clare Kingdom, you can't be willful

!" "Hmph!"

Noelle stood up angrily, mounted his horse, glanced at the baron knight, and then walked away angrily.

The middle-aged man and another woman could only ride on their horses to catch up.