Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 725 Back Road (Second Update Please Subscribe)
The experience of His Majesty King Rufus was extremely emotional in his heart. He returned home after traveling, and in a conversation with a friend, he recounted that experience with emotion.

His friend, who was also a nobleman,
It's just that with the disintegration of the Principality of Frandi, the title was completely abolished, and he is now a citizen of the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Hearing the nobleman's narration, his friend was also amazed.

Subsequently,

This news spread like a gossip, especially among the aristocratic class, where the rumor spread more widely.

Some people don't believe it,

He specially went to the main city of the Blue Dragon Kingdom to investigate in person, and he really discovered the manor where King Rufus was under house arrest, and also saw His Majesty the former king.

Simultaneously,

Not only King Rufus, but also the king of the Golden Eagle Principality, the king of the Oran Principality, the three brothers and sisters were bored and gathered together to play a new type of card game "Fighting the Landlord".

I don't know where this card number game started, and I don't know why it's called "Fighting the Landlords".
Anyway, it just appeared like this, and swept the entire Blue Dragon Kingdom for a while.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the game is not a game.

What really caught people's attention was that the three former kings who were defeated and captured had not really suffered any persecution, and were living and confining in the main city of the Blue Dragon King City.

The news is true.

This really shocked many people, especially the ruling aristocracy of the old world.

We must know that in wars between countries, especially after the hostile countries have destroyed their enemies, in order to avoid future troubles, they all pursue a policy of cutting grass and roots.

The defeated king's family and even the high-level nobles will be bloody cleaned, and no trace of blood is allowed to stay.

No matter how magnanimous the king is, he can at most give the other party a decent death, and then take all his relatives and royal family into custody, confine him in a small courtyard under heavy surveillance, and not allow any contact with anyone.

The Blue Dragon Kingdom's treatment of the king of the defeated country was obviously beyond the expectations of the noble class.

And the more you know, the more active the nobles of the surrounding countries become.

In the Blue Dragon Kingdom, although the aristocratic class has been eliminated, the private property owned by the aristocratic class is protected, and there will be no special discriminatory treatment due to their birth status.

Some guys who used to be the aristocratic class of the original Three Kingdoms, after losing their territorial privileges, relied on the wealth left by their families for many years to invest and develop in the territory of the Blue Dragon Kingdom. I applied for an association organization, and I was in the limelight. Except for the occasional tit-for-tat confrontation from some newspapers and public opinion, I didn't see any targets.

Coupled with the large-scale economic development in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, the domestic environment is peaceful and stable,

Under the clean-up attacks launched by the government again and again, the crime rate in the country has dropped to an unbelievable level, and there will be no bandits, monsters and other attacks on the road.

All these affluent, peaceful, and stable environments have made many aristocrats eager to move, and they have a different mind who are secretly preparing for the family's future.

Admittedly,

The group of aliens in the Blue Dragon Kingdom is indeed a heinous crime, and not killing them is not enough to calm the "popular anger".

But the problem is,

Looking around, the neighboring countries are either facing the Blue Dragon Kingdom's soldiers directly, or the domestic environment is chaotic, and refugees and bandits are everywhere. It is not a good place for them to retreat.

The only suitable, and only the biggest enemy, the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

people,
Is a selfish animal.

Especially those who can climb to a certain position, in the old feudal world, the aristocratic families who stand at a high position and control the power of the country are even more self-interested elements who have mastered tactics and tricks.

Although the Blue Dragon Kingdom is their sworn enemy,

Although these aristocratic classes vowed to claim that the country will survive and die together.

However, behind the scenes, many families in the aristocratic class rely on certain merchants and caravans in the family to secretly transfer part of the family assets and prepare a retreat in the Blue Dragon Kingdom.

Once the Blue Dragon Kingdom launches another war in the near future to attack their country and abolish the privileges of the nobility, there is at least one way out.

Of course, no one would recognize these things.

but,

After all, if they could keep their noble titles and their privileges of being born with noble blood, no one would be willing to go to the Blue Dragon Kingdom to be a rich man with no power or influence.

Therefore, although many aristocratic families are secretly arranging a retreat in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, not many people have the idea of ​​joining the Blue Dragon Kingdom anyway.

These families who have enjoyed power, high positions, and high-level power in the country are basically assisting the king conscientiously, making every effort to collect taxes from the majority of the people, building an army, and not knowing how to deploy troops on the border to deal with the blue dragon The kingdom's military front threatens.

The best result is to be able to repel the Dragon Nest army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom,

continue to maintain their status as aloof rulers.

With the efforts of the aristocratic class, the forced expropriation of the people finally helped the king to do his best to build the strongest line of defense.

just,

Originally, in recent years, natural disasters have occurred frequently, and the harvest in the fields has not been very good.

As a result, because of this incident, not only did the upper echelons of the country not show compassion, but instead they oppressed and plundered more ferociously. In order to deal with the threat of the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south, they imposed further war taxes and increased the collection and oppression of the people, making the people resentful.

Many bankrupt territorial freemen and overwhelmed serfs became refugees and fugitives.

Under the cruel environment, merchants and craftsmen also went bankrupt and liquidated one after another.

Under natural and man-made disasters,
Another round of refugee waves formed, civil turmoil, penniless people who could not survive flocked to the south one after another, hoping to make a living in the blue dragon kingdom in the south.

This,
It almost copied the situation of the three principalities of the Great Wall on the border not long ago.

And during this period, some short-sighted and stupid aristocratic families took advantage of this to plunder and collect money wantonly, which led to the collapse of the folk economy again.

just,

Even if the ruling nobles at the upper level knew that this was just drinking poison to quench their thirst, they had no other way.

Compared to their wealth and status,
The life and death of a group of untouchables,
Who cares?
time,

Just as the Blue Dragon Kingdom digested the newly occupied area and sorted out internal affairs,
The surrounding kings were restless in the face of the strong army of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, while the nobles secretly prepared a way out, assisting the king in collecting war taxes, and slowly moving forward while building a heavy army for national defense.

Generally speaking, the Blue Dragon Kingdom still maintains peace with its surrounding countries.

But everyone knows,
this peace,
Only temporarily.

(End of this chapter)