Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 732 The second refugee wave (second update)

The vast majority of the people in the newly occupied area have completely calmed down and recognized and supported the existence of the Blue Dragon Kingdom from the bottom of their hearts.

If the former aristocrats want to come back, attack the grassroots officials of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, and rule again, then no matter where they are, whether they are free people or serfs, they will definitely pick up dung forks to resist instead of applauding welcome.

The rumors that those nobles spent a lot of time pouring dirty water on the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the past are completely self-defeating.

The eyes of the people are discerning.

It is clear who is the real benevolent and who is the real evil.

These days, the efforts of the grassroots officials and militiamen of the Blue Dragon Kingdom have been seen in the eyes of these farmers and serfs.

And all this,
It even spread to other surrounding countries and regions.

In these nearby areas, they were oppressed by the noble lords, and cruel war taxes were levied by extortion, which caused public dissatisfaction. The free people who were unable to make ends meet in the natural disasters, the serfs fled their hometowns and migrated towards the direction of the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south.

Along the way, it almost replicated the scene of the refugee wave that occurred in the Eight Principalities due to various reasons when the Blue Dragon Kingdom faced the Eight Principalities in the south!
And this time, the scale is much larger than last time.

Because the last time the Blue Dragon Kingdom only occupied the border Great Wall, those ex-vagrants fled south just to get a bite, and most of them were poor people who had nowhere to go.

Only a small part is because some people from the same country had fled to live in the Blue Dragon Kingdom a long time ago. , some people in the same village who were about to die moved there together.

The number of the latter is very small, and in the face of the general trend of refugees going south, they can't even make a splash.

Not to mention that most of them can barely survive, and there are still some savings in the family, which can survive that dangerous year. When they are not in desperation, few people will gamble on the unknown future.

And this time,
Compared with the [-]% land tax in the newly occupied area, after paying only [-]% of the land tax, there is a comparison of poll tax, war tax and other taxes that nobles and gentlemen use to exploit the bottom.
The existence of the Blue Dragon Kingdom is simply like a paradise for the people in those vast areas.

As the bard spread the news almost all over the mountains and plains, many low-level free folk families, with incomparable changes in their hearts, packed up their belongings and planned to migrate after harvesting the grain in the fields.

And more serfs,

I heard that in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, even serfs can cultivate their own land, own their own property, and pay [-]% of the tax for farming on the land allocated by the masters of the Blue Dragon Kingdom like free people. after you are all yourself,
Under the command of a large number of lords and nobles, the serfs threw down their hoes and fled to the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south.

Under the feudal system in the Middle Ages, serfs were the slaves of the nobles and lords. There was no concept of private property, and everything belonged to the lords. They were a class that was more cruelly oppressed by the lords than the free people.

Its status is worse than that of livestock.

In the past, when the aristocrats discovered that escaped slaves would basically beat them to death as a warning, killing chickens to scare monkeys was a generally accepted rule among the aristocratic class.

Therefore, looking around, there are few places that can accommodate the escaped slaves. Even if they are cruelly exploited, even if they are really desperate, many serfs will not become escaped slaves even if they are beaten to death. .

Some of the bolder ones couldn't bear to run into the deep mountains, but in a world full of wild beasts and monsters, most of them had no bones left the next day, basically a dead end.

but now,
With the news of the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south, many serfs whose life and death were in the hands of the nobles were moved. They fled the village territory and went south to flee when the police officers were not paying attention.

Except for the freemen and serfs,
Some people also went south to Wang Lanlong Kingdom to seek life.

They are ordinary mercenaries and adventurers who are at the bottom, living a life with no tomorrow.

Mercenaries and adventurers are often the protagonists of bard stories,
However, in this world, there are more low-level mercenaries, such as those large mercenary teams with thousands of people, there are more cannon fodder who can only breathe and are stronger than ordinary people.

Most of these cannon fodder are ordinary people with no background who come out of poor villages to beg for a living. They are usually responsible for moving goods and building momentum. An ordinary middle-aged man whose tasks are on the line of life and death.

In the past, compared with the hard life in the countryside, these middle-aged men had to stay in the mercenary team to sweat and sweat, living a day without tomorrow.

But when the news of the Blue Dragon Kingdom spread, only [-]% of the harvest was paid,
A lot of people who didn't do well in the lower class, and those who wanted to have no strength, began to think about going south to make a living.

Anyway,
At least farming is not as dangerous as mercenaries hanging their necks on the tip of their knives.

Therefore, this group of people also migrated to the Blue Dragon Kingdom with the army going south.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, exorbitant taxes,
As the saying goes, there is no harm without comparison. Compared with the life in dire straits, the life under the rule of the Blue Dragon Kingdom couldn't be better.

A large number of free people and serfs fled, resulting in the abandonment of a lot of land under the command of local noble lords, and a decrease in output. This in turn led to more severe oppression by the lords and lords, and on the contrary forced the people who stayed to leave.

The foundation of the country is gradually being hollowed out.

The nobles and lords also discovered this, not only strengthened the security in the territory, but also dispatched knights from time to time to go out to intercept the refugees who fled south, and plundered them to become their own serfs to supplement the territory with less manpower.

However, under the distraction of the hearts of the people, many newly captured serfs also took advantage of the absence of the lords and knights to rebel, killed the police officers, and took away all the immature crops in the fields, and stepped forward The way to flee south.

When the lord came back with the knight team, he found that the scene of the territory being ravaged was so angry that he couldn't help himself.

In this series of turmoil,
The hearts of the residents of the originally oppressed territory were fluctuating, which made these lords and aristocrats very anxious.

(End of this chapter)