Durin's Diary

Chapter 1080 Light Gold

Since Poole can solve the problem himself, Dulin will no longer care what happens on Everlasting Day Island.

As for a life of 'working ten hours a day, having two days off a week, and earning twenty pence an hour', it is already incredibly merciful in the current context of life's hardships.

Before today, textile factory workers worked sixteen to eighteen hours a day for only five pence. The worst part was that they worked year-round without rest, and the average lifespan of workers was only three to five years. At least 90% of deaths were caused by overwork.

Dulin understood for the first time why the steppe elves had gone to the eastern wasteland to seek a way to survive, rather than live with the high elves—given the character of the high elf nobles, how could the steppe elves possibly associate with them? The only reason they didn't start a civil war with the high elves overnight was because they all had pointed ears.

Of course, there are many problems on Everday Island. For example, there are the "gangs" that clean the chimneys. The chimneys on Everday Island are cleaned by an organization similar to a gang. They have many children in their hands—yes, they use children bought from poor people to clean the chimneys. And the most disgusting thing is that in order to let the children crawl into the chimneys, they deliberately do not feed them enough, making them emaciated.

Problems that could be solved with surgical techniques are being abandoned by these guys because of cost, and poor children are being used as substitutes. What's worse, due to working conditions and hunger, almost none of these children live to be ten years old.

There are many more children like this. These gangs buy the children and group them into groups according to age and frame size. The smallest children are the ones who clean chimneys, and then some of the older children are 'sent' to textile factories, mines, or even brothels.

These kids are paid even less than adults because they are the gang's 'assets'. The gang bought them from their parents and paid them, so the gang will do everything they can to squeeze more profit out of them.

It's like another form of labor dispatch.

Eleven said in a very deep tone.

Dulin didn't know what labor dispatch was, but that wouldn't stop him from sending the entire families of these gang leaders to the gallows. The location? The square in front of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, the capital of the High Elves.

After all, many child laborers who resisted were hanged here, so it's a pleasure to see their whole family swaying in the wind now.

There's a saying that goes, "Let's join hands in this grand undertaking," and that's exactly how it is now.

As for how many nobles were involved, and whether it would have any adverse effect on Poole's oath to forgive the nobles, that wouldn't be the case—after all, Dulin did all this in the name of the Primordial Creation Bishops, under the guise of avenging the poor child laborers.

All sinners were interrogated using techniques, without torture or threats. Faced with the techniques of detecting lies and whispering truths, every sinner knew nothing and spoke without reservation.

As for the gang members who take the lion's share of the profits, they themselves will be sent to the gallows by Dulin, and their families, though not deserving of death, will be thrown into the mines.

But don't worry, they will spend the rest of their lives atoning for their sins, so Dulin will not let them die painfully from various occupational diseases. They will have medical care and experience. As long as they can survive three generations, the fourth generation of children will be able to leave the mine and return to society.

The fact is that three generations of their family, old, middle-aged and young, will be thrown into the mines, and the children will be placed in orphanages—don't worry, unlike the orphanages of the High Elves, the current orphanages are under the supervision of the Primal Creation Bishops, and will not be like the brothels of the past.

"This is very different from the elves I know." Daju had complained about this many times. In his memory, before today, Daju's impression of elves was more about the Eastern Elf Territory and Lublin.

But Eleven points out that this was how the so-called British Empire was in history. Child prostitutes in England during that era were famous from Ireland to the Khitan.

This history, which existed ten thousand years ago for Dulin, still instilled in him a sense of malice towards England and the High Elves.

Such a beautiful appearance paired with such a malicious soul; it would still stink even after ten thousand years.

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Some people expressed concern about the actions of Dulin's order on Everday Isle. For example, the nobles said that Dulin was breaking the agreement previously made by Poole - His Excellency Poole had already claimed that he would forgive the high elf nobles, how could he go back on his word?

Then reporters dug up their problems—for example, the nobleman Farol, who had expressed this view in the salon in the morning, was found in the afternoon to have thrown his brother, his father's illegitimate son, into an abandoned mine and let him fall to his death when he was young.

Then he was taken away by the police—they had no choice but to take him away. These days, nobles involved in murder cases, especially the killing of their half-siblings, could no longer simply pay a fine and be exonerated as before.

The follow-up and publicity from the local newspapers, both large and small, prevented those who wanted to let the matter drop from getting their way. If they warned the newspapers, the Order of the God of Wisdom would come like sharks smelling blood, warning these nobles with the same ferocious appearance.

Two-thirds of the newspaper reporters in the entire Western Continent are now determined to follow Northernism, and Austin Jacobs, the most famous of these reporters, is determined to make a living with Dulin.

That's right, Austin Jacob, a follower of the god of wisdom, a Northernist, took Durin's money and did Durin's work.

None of these are problems, because Dulin's actions made him seem like the perfect saint to those who had never been disillusioned with their ideals in this era.

Even Poole compromised a bit this time, though he was more merciful to everyone, but his argument with Doolin still got out – the idealistic young man still felt it was better to eradicate evil completely.

Dulin has always been the best representative of the "eliminating evil completely" faction, so many young members of Northernism prefer Dulin to Poole.

However, they also knew that despite their arguments, Dulin and Poole were still brothers. Grassland elves valued family ties the most, so their disputes would eventually pass. As it was now, Poole was implementing reforms and promoting fairness on Everday Island, while Dulin continued his path of eternal living as a father, slaughtering everyone around him.

Yeah.

After all, Mr. Poole's reforms greatly changed the atmosphere of the entire Everlasting Island, and there were no more of the kinds of things that Lin Qingling would want to rebel over, or that the Moon Elves would find troublesome.

As for Dulin's trial of the sinners, it was a delightful spectacle for the forest elves and moon elves.

After all, who wouldn't want to see the guilty punished?

(End of this chapter)