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Chapter 177 Noxians Love War (Please Subscribe~)

Riven and Marit chatted with the old lady for a long time, and after learning that her family's living conditions were not bad, they said goodbye to her with confidence, opened the door and left.

Outside the door are the villagers waiting quietly.

Marit said that they should welcome Master Riven, and they dared not leave, so they waited here respectfully.

Farmer Crete, Riven's childhood friend, was also standing among these crowds.

"Ona's remains have been delivered." At this moment, Marit asked her, "Should we go back now, or stay in your hometown for a while?"

"Do you have any friends that you want to see again?"

"." Riven was silent.

She glanced at Crete in the crowd.

Crete immediately lowered his head, bent his spine, and greeted her humbly.He didn't dare to look at her, as if he was afraid of offending.

So Riven said, "I don't have any friends to see."

She has friends in her hometown, and there are quite a few.But it seems that there is no need to say goodbye.

"That's fine." Marit said with a smile, "You are a lion cub who grew up in a kennel. When a lion grows up, he doesn't need to be friends with a dog."

She patted Riven's arm again, and said affectionately, "Now we are your friends."

"Yeah." Riven was relieved a lot.

Maybe she really was a lion born in the wrong place.Lions should return to the pride, not hang around the kennel.

"Let's go." She jumped onto the dragon lizard, and Marit also turned over and rode on the devil bird.

The two circled around the village twice, took a stroll outside the small broken house where Riwen once lived, expressed a few words about life, made a few jokes, and then drove away slowly.

The villagers followed them carefully all the way, like puppies straddling their masters.

A group of people walked to the entrance of the village and set foot on the dirt road back to the barracks, but Riven inexplicably made the dragon lizard stop and looked at the vast fields outside the village.

"What's wrong?" Marit asked.

The villagers shrank their heads even more nervously.

"The fields over there." Riven stood on a high place on the hillside at the entrance of the village, looking at the fields in the distance.

That field is where she worked so hard.

I didn't notice it when I came here.But now standing on a high ground, she looked around and found that the large fields far from the village were abandoned.

Weeds have taken over the good land, and small trees have grown in the places where grains used to grow.

When Riwen was a child, she was driven away by the landlord's dog legs with a whip, and the fertile land reclaimed by hoe after hoe turned into wasteland again.

Taking a closer look, compared to the past, a large area of ​​land in the village has been abandoned, and only half of the land is left to be cultivated.

"Don't you plant those fields?" Riven was very strange.

"No more." The villagers said.

"Why?" Riven didn't understand: "Master Kava ran away, and now this is your field."

When she was working for the landlord when she was a child, she had to work for the master for free on the master's public land every day, and then she could go back to plant her own share of land after finishing the work.

In the end, most of the grain produced in the field will be used to pay rent to Master Kawa.

So, at that time, Riven dreamed of owning her own field.

The other serfs must have thought so too.

But now that Master Kawa is gone and the fields are divided, they actually let such a good field go unused?

"This." The villagers replied: "Master Riven, you don't know."

"Master Kawa sold the land half-sold and half-given it to us, but before he fled, he sold the donkeys, horses, cows, and various agricultural tools that worked on the farm at a low price in order to bring more money. "

But the serfs had no money in their hands, and they had nothing after buying the land.Even, they may still owe a lot to their creditors.

"Only a good family like Ona, who has soldiers in the family and spare money, can afford farm tools and livestock."

"As for the remaining cows and horses, Master Kawa didn't have the kindness to distribute them to us, but sold them to slaughterhouses at a low price."

"We have nothing left in our hands except hoes, even if we have a field, we can't grow it."

Noxus has a vast land, and its population is very sparse compared to the land due to years of war consumption.

So in Triwell, even if they were serfs in the past, each of them rented land from the landlord, on average, there were tens of acres of land.

Now that Master Kawa has run away, the large piece of public land he left behind is also divided up with the share of the land. The serfs have become free men, and they have even more land in their hands.

But if there are fields but no cattle, and some people have no agricultural tools, so many fields cannot be planted.

"After we finished dividing the fields, many people couldn't afford cattle and horses, and couldn't afford farm tools."

"Furthermore, the fertilizer that Master Kawa imported from Zaun, no one in the village can afford it now. The steam tractor imported from Picheng is worn out and no one can repair it. Buy a new one."

These newly liberated serfs are all poor ghosts. They can't even afford farm tools. How can they afford tractors?
"So the more the land is planted, the more it will be desolate, and the more it is planted, the less grain will be produced."

"Many people also owed debts because they bought the land. They couldn't grow the land, and if they couldn't repay the debt, they simply abandoned the land and went to the city to beg for a living."

"This..." The more Riven heard it, the more she couldn't figure it out.

It should be a good thing that the landlord ran away.Why after the landlord ran away, the farmers who were assigned to the fields also ran away one by one?

"Actually, even if this is the case, we will get over it after a while."

"After all, these fields are already ours. Plant the land that can be planted first, cultivate it slowly, and save money. Sooner or later, we will be able to afford cattle and horses, farm tools and fertilizers."

"but."

The villagers poured bitter water, but stopped abruptly in fear.

But Riven knew what they were going to say: "Because of the requisition?"

These villagers originally lacked capital and production tools, which led to a decline in productivity.

The grain requisition team of Noxus also went to the countryside to "communicate" every now and then, looting all the surplus grain they had worked so hard to accumulate.

As a result, the serfs were lucky to be liberated as small farmers, but before they were happy for a long time, they went bankrupt and became refugees.

"Alas" Riven sighed secretly.

The current situation in the village is even more difficult than when she left.

She really doesn't belong here anymore.But seeing her hometown become like this, her mood is still very complicated.

"Let's do this." Marit also saw Riven's entanglement.

It is rare for her to let go of the hierarchical concept of the Noxus and generously lend a helping hand to these weaklings:
"For the sake of being Riven folks. I can say hello to the warband and ask you all to join the army."

"You can be honored Noxian warriors if you choose."

"Huh?" The villagers were slightly taken aback.

Then they all showed embarrassment and fear and said, "Thank you, master, no, it's fine without us farming."

"Give you the opportunity to serve as soldiers, are you still not willing?" Marit frowned.

She subconsciously felt that they didn't know good from bad, and then she reacted abruptly
Yes, the current Imperial Army is not what it was ten years ago.

In the past, the imperial army used high benefits to attract the strong to join the army, but now it has begun to forcibly recruit civilians without setting a threshold.

Being a soldier has changed from a welfare that needs to be fought for to a burden that people can't avoid.

And the villagers also knew that they were too weak to wear the standard equipment of Noxus soldiers.Even if he entered the army, he would probably only be assigned to a cannon fodder unit that would be consumed and sent to death.

"Don't worry." Marit added, "I won't let you be cannon fodder."

"You can join our Chapter's Scientific Firearms Unit. There are also very low physical requirements for soldiers."

She emphasized to the villagers that she was giving them the opportunity to become regular soldiers.

The kind of regular army that everyone envied, with high salaries, settling allowances, and pensions.

However, only a few of the villagers seemed moved, and most of them were still hesitating.

"No, no need." Some people even politely refused.

"Why?!" Marit was really a little angry.

"Because." The villagers said bravely: "In the past few years, those who went to join the army in Triwell, no matter which army they joined, almost never came back alive."

"That is to say." Marit was very disdainful: "Are you afraid of death?"

Everyone was silent.

They are indeed afraid of death.

The Noxian Imperial army is now like a giant meat grinder, constantly devouring the fresh flesh that enters it.Who is not afraid?

"Cowards!" Marit commented coldly, "It is because you are afraid of death and fighting that you will always be weak."

"Look, look at your pathetic appearances—I'd rather linger on in this filthy countryside than go to the battlefield to fight for wealth and wealth!"

"Oh, I really deserve to be stuck in the mud for the rest of my life!"

Marit looked at them insultingly.

But they just buried their heads deeper and lowered their waists.

"Since you are Noxians, you should take up your swords and go to fight, conquer, and enslave!"

"What is the food taken by the food requisition team? Demacia, Ionia, and Shurima still have a lot of food, wine and meat, waiting for you to enjoy it!"

"." This enthusiastic slogan also failed to arouse the courage of everyone to join the army.

The villagers still stood there obediently, not saying a word.

"Forget it, Marit." Riven stopped her angry friend: "Let's go."

"Hmm." Marit finally lost her temper and turned her cold face back.

And at this moment, when they were about to leave officially.
On the country road in the distance, a fast horse flew over, and immediately sat a Noxus soldier in a striking red armor.

"Is that... the orderly of the warband?"

Riven and Marit looked at each other, their expressions becoming serious.

The messenger came here in a hurry?Could it be that the front line has changed, and there is another large-scale battle that requires their battle group to fight?
"Captain of the Riven Legion! Deputy Marit's Legion Commander!"

At this moment, the messenger galloped forward and shouted loudly:
"General Amistan has an order to summon all the sergeants of the battle regiment to regroup, board the ship at the port of Triwell, and move to Piltover!"

"Piltover?" Marit was stunned. "It's at least a thousand kilometers away from any front line of the war, right?"

"Why was our battle group transferred there?"

The orderly explained loudly: "Piltover and the Empire have recently signed a security agreement, and our battle group will be the Empire's permanent dispatched army in Piltover."

"Huh?" Marit tried hard to digest the news: "Go to Picheng to stay permanently? Who are you going to deal with?"

"To deal with the rookies in Shuangcheng who can only use firearms? Just for this, we need to dispatch our entire battle group? Including our Rune Swordsman Legion?"

Not to mention mobilizing an entire battle group, Riven should be able to single-handedly fight two cities, right?

Marit thought disdainfully.

"I don't know too well." The orderly said, "Anyway, this is General Amistan's order."

And they're talking
When the villagers heard the news, they also began to discuss:
"Piltover? Isn't that the place where Master Cava fled? I heard that he lost his fortune and relied on many connections to get the legal status of Piltover."

"That's right! That's the city of civilization and progress in Runeterra. I heard that even the poor at the bottom of the city have meat to eat, electricity, and apartments to live in. Their lives are more comfortable than Master Kava's."

"Tsk tsk. Where did the imperial army go? Isn't the Picheng guy very good at fighting?"

"Can you do a fart!" A knowledgeable villager said, "The people of Picheng are just a bunch of children who can't even carry a pickaxe. The empire didn't hit there before, it's just that they were too lazy to fight."

"Let's not talk about the soldiers of the empire, those spoiled guys, even us Noxus farmers can't beat them."

"Really?" Someone didn't believe it.

"Of course! No matter how weak we are, we are Noxians. Even if we can't compare with the warriors of Demacia or the natives of Shurima, can we still be weaker than the idiots of Piltover?"

"Look now, isn't Master Riven's battle group all over?"

"What is a small leather city in front of our Noxian army?"

As we discussed and discussed, the atmosphere gradually changed.

They began to be afraid of war and became keen to discuss war, discussing the strength of Noxus and the weakness of Piltover.

Discuss how rich and weak the people of Piltover are.

In Noxus, a man who is both weak and rich is not a human being but a talking public purse.

"You say, if we can follow the imperial army to Piltover."

"Would it be possible to eat meat and drink wine every day, fight wars and get rich like Father Ona, and come back to buy a house and land?"

"Cut! What old Ona?" Some people retorted: "Master Kawa went to Picheng after he broke his fortune. As long as we go there, we are already 'Master'."

"." The villagers were discussing and thinking about it.

Unknowingly, they raised their heads, straightened their chests, straightened their waists and spines.

It looks like a person finally standing up, more like a beast stretching its body after waking up.

Everyone seems to have figured out something, and then
Riven's childhood playmate, Crete, who didn't even dare to look at her face before, ran out excitedly regardless of the bloody wound on her shoulder, and knelt down in front of her dragon lizard:
"Master Riven, Master Marit—"

"I, I am willing to fight for Noxus!"

　The second is later_(:з」∠)_
　　
　
(End of this chapter)