Durin's Diary

Chapter 779 Settlement of Accounts
"It'll take at least another half month to finish... at least another half month. After the epidemic is over, the church and I can take the lead. All the poor people in Lille who have no jobs and no food can come to my farm and factory to work. There, the working hours and salary will be better, and I can also provide a month's worth of free food."

Durin's answer did not exceed old John's expectations. This young man was very compassionate to the poor, and his willingness to take the lead was the best thing for the churches - no one dared to say that Durin Elsh did not have enough jobs. After all, the man in front of them was the Duke of Lublin, the Grand Duke of the Great Forest, and even the Protector of the Austrian-Swiss Union.

There are countless jobs in his territory. Not to mention the tens of thousands of poor people, even if all the workers in Lille are counted, for him it is not a question of where to build a new city.

Lublin, the Great Woods, the Austrian-Swiss Union, there were countless jobs waiting for them everywhere.

"Then I'll leave it to you, Your Excellency. However, there is still one question: how should Marquis Jaden Hogan be handled? We would like to hear your opinion."

"In the Great Woodland, I killed many nobles who abandoned their land and fled. But that was a life-and-death struggle between us and the green-skinned orcs. I couldn't show them any mercy. I had to punish them severely and swiftly so that all the warriors would understand that escape was a dead end." Having said that, Du Lin looked at the three old men. "I didn't get directly involved in the affairs of Lille City. Besides, I don't know whether Marquis Jaden Hogan had a reason for leaving. So I want to hear what he has to say. If he is a coward, I don't mind killing him."

Du Lin thought for a moment and said, "By the way, can I kill his whole family? After all, that's what I did in the Great Forest. But I've never experienced this kind of situation before."

This time, it was the three old men's turn to look at each other.

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Two days later, Marquis Jaden Hogan was escorted back to Lille by the guards of the Clegane family and the sword-bearers of the Sidney Noble Hall.

It is said that this old guy has fled to Sicily with his family, but unexpectedly, the buyer that Dulin asked the Sicilians to find had not been found yet, but this unlucky guy was found first - after all, such a family suddenly came, everyone was very curious, so the secretary of the Sicilian Northernism personally took people to meet them, and then found out that this was the Marquis Jaden Hogan, whom Sidney was arguing about alive or dead.

So the Sicilians earned a bounty from the Cleghan family for the first time in history. It is said that Huck gave the money to the Sicilian Northernist secretary in front of him with a wry smile on his face.

Although he had a bitter face, at least he did not refuse to pay. Du Lin had to admit that Huck was a good person for this.

The mystery of the disappearance of Marquis Jaden Hogan was also solved. He did not receive any orders to leave the city, nor did he have any problems that needed to be solved.

He simply realized that something was wrong and ran away with his wife, children and valuables.

They were quite fearless in order to survive, but unfortunately, both the Clegane family and the Sidney Noble Hall said that there were no such nobles who abandoned their land in Sidney. Lord Durin, please make sure to hang their entire family on the gallows and let the citizens of Lille watch the fun.

So after Du Lin relayed the original text, Marquis Jaden Hogan cried like a monkey - yes, he was a very ordinary human being, without animal ears or a long tail.

But there was nothing he could do. The royal family and the nobles all disliked him. Now in the city that was getting better, both his colleagues and citizens from all walks of life hated him to the core - no matter which block, no matter the people, the nobles or the temple, many people in the three parties had lost their relatives and friends, so their representatives also had a unified opinion about the Marquis Jaden Hogan and his family.

That's Box 1, South Gallows. Please.

Now the only point of contention among the citizens, the nobles and the temple is whether Marquis Jaden Hogan and his family will also share the same fate on the gallows.

First and foremost, the people truly hated Marquis Jaden Hogan. To them, the king's deputy must die because he'd fled at the very beginning of the epidemic! If his family had contracted the disease, people would have been dying everywhere he'd passed. Honestly, Du Lin wanted to kill his family precisely for this reason: if they'd run away and spread the disease, countless lives would have been lost from north to south.

But the nobles felt that this was not a good idea. If you killed Marquis Jaden Hogan and his family today, wouldn’t you also kill other people’s families tomorrow?

But the nobles did not dare to say it directly. After all, the killing god Dulin was in the city of Lille. Anyone with a brain in the Western Continent, young and old, knew that Dulin was directing the people in this matter.

And the most important point is that there are also many young people among the nobles who want Marquis Jaden Hogan and his family to die - after all, young people don't have to think too much like their elders. For them, their relatives and friends died because of a cold that seemed to be harmless in the early stages.

If it weren't for Lord Du Lin's intervention, I'm afraid that the major families would still be suffering from heavy casualties, and there is no telling when this situation will end.

As for the temple - the temple is truly merciful. In their view, there is no problem for Marquis Jaden Hogan to go to the gallows alone, and his eldest son is an adult, so there is no problem for him to go with him.

You see, your father wants to abandon his land and run away. As an adult, you should persuade your father instead of running away with him.

So there was no objection to these two being hanged.

Marquis Jaden Hogan has three sons and three daughters. After his eldest son, he gave birth to three daughters in succession. Now the eldest daughter and the second daughter have already married. This matter cannot be blamed on them. The three daughters are engaged and are currently undergoing pre-marriage training in the convent. Therefore, the three daughters were spared the death penalty, which is also recognized by the people.

The ones who objected were his second and third sons.

The second son is thirteen years old and the third son is eight years old.

Many talented young people died in the Church of the God of War this time. They and the God of Suffering wanted to kill the entire family of Marquis Jaden Hogan.

The Church of the Original Creator and the Church of the God of Wisdom wanted to rescue the third child - what opinions and views could an eight-year-old child express? Children of this age are already good children if they keep their mouths shut to their parents.

The Church of the God of Nobility and the remaining churches felt that since the second son was only thirteen years old, it was not impossible to give him a chance to survive.

So the three parties couldn't decide what to do.

But Du Lin was not in a hurry - he had no problem sending Marquis Jaden Hogan and his family to the gallows, but in the city of Lille, which was not his territory after all, he could not make a decision without going through everyone else.

The most important point is that Du Lin asked himself, I am not their father, why should I be in such a hurry?

(End of this chapter)