in the name of the queen.

Chapter 226 Castle Prison
The romantic city of Xidai, the capital of the Golden Kite Republic.

It was once the capital of the First French Empire and the Second Golden Kite Empire and has a long history.

This place was once synonymous with romance, freedom and prosperity.

But it's different now. This place has become a base of suspicion and panic.

Cité City is the most coveted big city in the entire Rodinian continent.

Although the Sussex people refer to Hansa and other places as the three overseas provinces, in fact they are overseas and Hansa is on the main continent.

The city of Sussex is as large and prosperous as Cité, but overseas, its historical and practical status is slightly inferior to that of Cité, the capital of the Golden Kite Republic.

The Golden Kite Plain is also the richest plain. Several thousand-kilometer-long rivers such as the Xidai River have washed out one of the best lands in the entire Rodinian continent.

When farming here, you don’t have to worry about natural disasters or irrigation problems.

Even in 1792, when famine was raging everywhere, the Golden Kite Republic still didn't have to worry too much about food problems. They even used a lot of high-quality fertile land to grow grapes and barley for wine making.

However, Jin Yuanren has been having difficulty breathing recently and cannot breathe at all.

Everyone was stunned.

If others are short of food and I have food, then it is not food, but gold.

Therefore, the best opera house in Jinyuan organized a grand performance and invited the best opera singers to perform in the classic play "The Song of Golden Kite".

Despite this, they still have hundreds of thousands of well-trained standing troops and can mobilize millions of people to join the army at any time.

In previous years, they were more willing to turn excess grain into fine wine and sell it around the world, but this year is different.

This is a series of operas, the most popular of which is Act II, Liberty.

Organizing group activities of more than ten people without approval will be considered as malicious and will be arrested and reviewed.

As long as they take a breather, they can return to their form as a top power.

Is this a policy that humans can formulate?
Only in wartime would such a strict personnel control policy be formulated.

This also includes normal activities such as concerts, opera performances, poetry sessions, etc.

Just days ago, he enacted new legislation.

President Marco's governance is too strict.

The performance location is not in the opera house, but in the square. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Plaza de Triomphe, and the scale was no less than that of Sif's performance in the Plaza de la Reign.

Everyone breaking the law means that everyone does not break the law. The idea that the law does not blame everyone is very popular in this era.

Even the Sussex Empire, which claims to have the strongest comprehensive strength, and the Vladimir Empire, which has the strongest army, dare not invade Golden Kite brazenly.

This is not war time!
People were silent for a long time. Someone had an idea and came up with a clever plan.

His policies are like a noose, tightening everyone's neck little by little, making it difficult for people to breathe.

This song praises the story of the early Golden Kite people who resisted the brutal rule of the Magic Empire and spread the ideas of equality, freedom, and fraternity known as the soul of the Golden Kite people.

Although these opera singers have singing skills that are not inferior to Sif's, the performance results are completely different.

The Republic experienced a major turmoil last year, which damaged its national strength and caused serious internal strife in the army.

Sif's song evokes the memory of the Emperor in the old Sussexes.

The actors of the Cité Opera Company awakened the Golden Kite people's desire for freedom.

Soon, the white hat military police arrived.

Because the inferior silver helmets they wore were slightly white in color, these military policemen were contemptuously called white hats by the Golden Kite people.

They are loyal lackeys of Marco and the Meiyue faction. They are completely loyal to Marco and are very cruel.

The crowd held their heads high.

They did not believe that the military police could capture them all.

There are many of them, close to 80,000 people!
But they were wrong.

Marco decided to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys.

Even if this chicken is about the same size as the ancestor dinosaur, it can still be caught.

Tens of thousands of gendarmes surrounded the square, drove women and children out of the square, and took away all the dissatisfied adult men and teenagers. No one knows how many people were arrested that day.

But the most conservative estimate is tens of thousands.

People were dumbfounded.

Although the Jin Yuan Kingdom is large, there is no prison that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

This kind of thing can baffle ordinary people, but Marco is not an ordinary person.

No prison? Easy to handle. The dilapidated castle of the last emperor of the Second Empire can be used!
What should I do if the castle is dilapidated?
Aren’t these prisoners a ready workforce?

Let them work hard, sixteen hours a day! Sixteen hours is not the limit of Marco's conscience, but the limit of human physical strength.

Driven by Marco's cruelty and persuaded by the whips of the Gendarmerie, at least 20,000 Cité citizens were arrested for watching a musical performance and began to serve hard labor.

The prison was named Castle Prison.

Marco was very satisfied after seeing the prison expansion plan drawings, and praised the prison as a place of imprisonment that would never fall and was as strong as a fortress.

Heavy labor and poor food and housing conditions caused many people to die during construction.

Dozens of bodies were carried away every day.

At first, someone came to collect the corpses, but in the end they found that the efficiency was too low, so they simply hired a group of domesticated spotted hyenas to dispose of the corpses.

These beasts have very good teeth and are professional bone eaters.

On the hellish and tragic construction site, there were wailings everywhere.

It only took two and a half months for the castle prison renovation project to be completed.

The prison designed to accommodate 30,000 people was even somewhat empty. After all, the designer Marco did not expect that 3,000 people would die during the construction process.

Marco was dissatisfied when he saw that the designed prison was only occupied by half of the people.

He continued to search for prisoners and sent more people to the castle prison.

The castle prison, which could accommodate 30,000 people, housed a full 40,000 people.

Not only that, he also took a fancy to the former site of the Rose Palace outside the city, and planned to build a second castle prison there.

Everyone thought Marco was sick, mentally ill.

But Marco knew very well that he was not sick, it was the world and this country that was sick.

The Golden Kite Republic is seriously ill.

The last revolution did not completely eliminate the old aristocracy, but allowed many big aristocrats to become high-ranking officials.

An incomplete revolution means no revolution at all.

This is Marco's philosophy.

Because of the conflict of ideas, he launched a coup to kill Carlo (Alina's father). He used "legal" means to kill several close comrades, sent tens of thousands of people to prison, and created the largest number of political prisoners in the world.

Standing on the edge of the highest terrace of the Presidential Palace, his gaze can cover the whole city.

He looked towards the castle prison with cold eyes.

Those imprisoned here are all enemies and the products of an incomplete revolution.

He will burn the old world with a blazing fire!
Wait, what happened over there in the castle prison?
Fire shot into the sky, explosions were heard, and the wind brought people's shouts, but they couldn't be heard clearly.

Someone attacked the castle prison? !
Marco was furious and shouted for his secretary.

Soon, the secretary with a worried look came over.

"Your Excellency, what are your orders?"

"Go and see what they are doing, what slogans are they shouting?"

A quarter of an hour later, the secretary came back with an ugly face.

He recounted the tragic situation of the castle prison being besieged and said softly:
"They're talking about revolution."

(End of this chapter)