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Chapter 294 The Destructive Power of Fools (Part Two)

That's really... a complete idiot.

After learning the details, Chris felt that the people in the castle were idiots, and what was most hateful was that this idiot not only wanted to die himself, but also wanted to drag about a hundred people down with him.

"Then let's continue the siege... Inform the judge not to worry about me, just do what needs to be done."

When Chris said those words to Connie, everyone nearby knew that the prince had abandoned the lives of everyone in the castle.

Judging from the judge's past practices, those peasants in the castle who dared to rise up in resistance would all meet with death.

Everyone knew the truth, but no one, including Isaac, thought of persuading Chris and the judge to stop... There were many reasons for not doing so, one being to make an example of him, and the other being their fear of Chris's increasingly violent behavior.

……

"Ah ah ah..."

On the other side, Valentine, watching the siege of the castle from a hilltop, let out a desperate roar.

It all happened so fast.

Valentine knew the details of the incident; he was working in the fields near the village entrance when Prince Chris's water inspection team came to the village, and he witnessed it.

This was not a big deal. The prince sent people to repair the canal, and now he sent people to inspect its condition. This was a normal thing, and it was even a good thing for the people.

If the irrigation ditch is not repaired or is broken, the prince's engineering team can come and repair it after inspection, so as not to delay the spring plowing.

However, even such a good thing encountered obstacles that Valentine found hard to understand.

When the water conservancy inspection team arrived in the village, nothing happened at first. They were busy working in the irrigation canal, and the villagers were watching from the sidelines, with no one interfering with each other.

Until the baron who lived on the edge of the village came over.

Baron Carra, a fallen nobleman, lost all his property, estates, and noble honors during the Republic era, except for a hectare of farmland. In fact, if Prince Chris hadn't attacked so quickly, the baron would have been dead long ago.

The Republic has been systematically and on a large scale suppressing and eliminating the old aristocracy from the era of the kings.

Nobles like Baron Kara, who were too foolish to jump onto the great ship of the Republic and dared not rebel and join the Restoration Army, were destined to die.

After Prince Chris attacked, Baron Carra's life actually improved a bit. A great fire in winter destroyed the land, making it impossible for him to remain a landowner.

At this time, when the former wanted to buy the land at the market price, the latter was the most eager, rushing to sell the land to the prince, and then went to the city to buy houses and shops at low prices, preparing to become a rich man.

This was originally a good thing, a good ending.

But when Prince Chris sent a water conservancy engineering team to build reservoirs and canals on the rivers of the King's Plain, and when priests from the Church of the Earth Mother and the Church of the Goddess of Agriculture went to the countryside to serve as free agricultural technicians, anyone who wasn't a fool would know that the King's Plain would become fertile again in at least one year and at most three or four years.

At this point, Baron Kara's mindset changed.

He first caused trouble in the city, saying that the prince had deceived him, but no one paid attention to him. Even the neighborhood committee sent the village head with more than a dozen militiamen to beat him out... The people in the city didn't take this old-fashioned nobleman seriously at all.

Then, the baron, enraged, led a few servants back to the village, brandishing his ancestral rusty sword, declaring that he would "reclaim his ancestral property," inciting the villagers to resist the prince's new policies, and spouting nonsense.

"Once the irrigation canal is repaired, the land will be worth more!"

Baron Kara roared at the village entrance, spitting far and wide.

“Chris cheated us out of our land! Now we’re going to take it back!” Valentine was standing in the crowd, watching the mad nobleman.

The old knight knew very well that the baron himself had sold those lands, with a written contract in black and white. What would it mean to go back on his word now? Moreover, the villagers, whether they were soldiers or militiamen, all received a portion of these lands and were among the beneficiaries.

As a result, foolishly, some villagers were incited to still regard the former lord as a person and still believed that Baron Carra was the lord and they were his serfs. Even the militiamen who were allocated land were just as foolish.

And so it happened: Baron Carla came and tried to detain the water inspection team because he felt it was his territory and Prince Chris had no right to send anyone into his place.

As a result, the water conservancy inspection team was not going to give up so easily. They started to run away, but the villagers who had just been watching stood up and blocked their way, preventing them from escaping.

The water inspectors began to resist, and a conflict broke out. As a result, Baron Carra arrived with his servants and killed one of the water inspectors with his rusty ancestral sword.

Perhaps Baron Kara was just trying to scare people, perhaps his hand slipped when he swung the sword, perhaps...

Regardless of his purpose in wielding the sword, the current situation is that Baron Carla has killed someone, and that person was Prince Chris.

Killing someone means paying with your life...

Prince Chris's words are now known throughout Bagnia, so Baron Kara was terrified. His face turned deathly pale, and his trembling hands could barely hold the blood-stained sword.

On the contrary, the surrounding villagers were still laughing and joking. Some even patted him on the shoulder and praised him, saying, "He truly deserves to be called a master." They were completely unaware of the situation and continued to laugh and joke.

Once he came to his senses, Baron Kara grabbed the hostages and, along with the villagers who had been incited and were now wielding hoes and pitchforks, stormed into the castle... the old Kara family castle, which was already dilapidated and just an empty shell.

"Are you all crazy?!"

Valentine tried to stop them from continuing to do foolish things.

"You should release them. Continuing to follow Kara will only lead to your downfall!!!"

Valentine's response was a spitting remark from a once honest and simple farmer.

"Get out of here, you old geezer! Without land, what will we eat?"

Valentine was stunned. He then realized that these people did not know, or rather did not care, about the military land they were allocated under the new policy. They only believed Baron Carra's promise that after reclaiming his ancestral lands, the baron would only charge 30% of the land rent.

The villagers, who had no idea they could rent good land without having to serve in the military, voted with their feet.

However, they failed to realize that the irrigation canal in front of them had indeed turned barren land into valuable land that could not grow crops, without considering who built the canal and who brought about the change.

What tormented Valentine even more was that among these hundred or so fools was his son... Valentine the Younger, who, out of his sight, followed a large group of idiots into the castle.

Valentine only learned about this after returning home and hearing his wife's tearful account.

Now, retribution has come.

In less than a day, the judge, along with his retinue and more than a thousand militia drawn from the vicinity, launched an attack on the castle.

Judging from the fact that the judge launched the siege without any negotiation, the old knight, who had fought for many years and still made a living by working dangerous jobs abroad after retiring, clearly knew what the former was planning to do.

Valentine knew he had to do something, or little Valentine would be dead.

(End of this chapter)