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"robber!"

"..." The leader of the wild bandits looked at Margaret carefully for a while, scanned her spear and armor but couldn't find the knight's emblem, then looked at her companions and burst out laughing, " Listen, this lady who is not even a knight calls us robbers!?"

The others also laughed, but the atmosphere on the field became extremely tense, and the bandits who had put down their weapons also picked up their shields and crudely made weapons again.

"Don't worry, this is just a child. I specially took him out to see the world." The ranger comforted helplessly, and the bandit leader stopped laughing and gave him a serious look, "Then take care of her." mouth, get out of here!"

"Hurry up and save me, you two are knights, right? You have to protect me!"

"Go to someone, tell this little gentleman to shut up!" The young man huddled behind the few guards immediately ran into the wreckage of the vehicle, holding his head and shaking.

"So, you guys are going to take care of this business?"

"No, I'm just looking." The ranger held Margaret tightly, allowing the thieves to rush up, and soon, the gentleman was dragged out like a dog.

"You are indeed a ranger." The leader of the wild bandits breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded to Manna, "In that case, I will do you a favor, come, bring our dear little gentleman here, let him talk Look."

"..."

"Don't, don't kill me, don't kill me!" "Shut up!" The wild bandit grabbed the opponent's hair and lifted him up, "Do you need me to help you recall? Tell me quickly!"

"Say, what are you talking about?" The other party was also obviously stunned.

"Half a month ago, Guancao Village!"

"Guancao Village?" Margaret looked at You Xia. It was the village they had passed by before, and it was already a looted and barren ruin.

"I, I don't want to, but those bastards...those farmers hid their food and money!" The young man screamed sharply, because a wild thief stepped on him on his calf, allowing him to change his mouth smoothly.

"So, you are the robber?" Margaret frowned, "How can you, you look like a noble servant, you should protect the people, how can you rob them?"

"Bandit? Miss, using the word robber to describe this gentleman is a bit too gentle~" The leader of the wild bandits seemed to have seen Margaret's voice, and there was a strong sense of sarcasm in his tone.

"They are not robbing, but expropriating legally~"

"collection?"

"Tell me, what did your master tell you, repeat the original words!"

"Go, go collect this year's tax, for example, if someone doesn't pay, just, just, just... ah!" The young man screamed, and the stick that fell on his back obviously helped him recall, "Just, just pick a village and burn it, and take away all the master's property they hid."

"This, this is too much!" Margaret had no idea that knights outside the city would rule the countryside in this way.

"Excessive? Ah, our lady still doesn't quite understand~" The leader of the wild bandits cut the opponent's face with a knife, "Come on, let's talk about it, where are the people in the village?"

"Catch it, catch it."

"and then?"

"K, Captain Krieger took them away."

"Where did you take it?"

"......"

"Don't tell me? It's okay. Let me tell you. I took it to the Black Grotto, right? There is the largest slave market in Casimir. An adult man can sell it for 20 holy gun silver coins, and they will send it to the edge of the wasteland." , as slaves for the slave owners of the scavengers, oh, sometimes as food, and the young and beautiful women are the maids that the Victorian nobles like, and they only need a little training to sell them for a good price."

"..."

"Sell the people of your own country as slaves? I thought you killed them and threw their bodies into the cellar. I never found the bodies. I wondered if they escaped." Captured and sold as slaves.

"My lord, it's all Captain Krieger's doing, he, he wants to..."

"Mind if I come?" Manna asked calmly, and the bandit leader also made a gentle gesture of invitation, and then a bright short thorn pierced the man's head. Wild Bandit, he may not die so easily.

"You're too quick, but, forget it... Call it a day. Also, if you see a sharp claw mark in the field, it's our stronghold. You can use the water and beds there, but don't Move our food, I believe in the character of your rangers, but it also makes my trust in vain." The leader of the wild bandits led his people away.

"Now, do you understand how the robbers who attacked the castle and the town in the report came about? And why the Federation, the Correctional Council, and even the Conquest Knights are fighting the slave trade, and there are still so many Casimirs disappeared or turned up at the slave market"

"I......"

"Let's go, this is just an accident." Manna didn't care, and stepped over the small ambush position, "And such an accident..." On the land of Casimir and even Terra, Everywhere, and even uglier.

"But, Uncle, to do such a thing just to collect taxes..."

"This is already very important, I mean tax collection." Manna was noncommittal, "Let me ask you, how much land does the Linguang family have?"

"Two Thousand Qings" was already the largest "legal fiefdom" of their rank, and this was obtained on the basis of their illustrious military exploits.

"Then how much tax do we charge?"

"One-tenth of the harvest, tithes, including wine and other output..." Margaret is very familiar with this. She inherited the family business early and started to take care of affairs. Due to the injuries left over from time to time, it is impossible to take care of things at all, and the entire Linguang family can only rely on her to preside over it.

"Then how are we doing?" This question is very heart-wrenching. Linguang has cut expenses as much as possible. Except for the servants who take care of his grandfather, there are few people in the family, and some furniture has been sold. After all, as a knight, in addition to maintaining basic She needs to maintain her dignity, maintain her weapons, purchase armor, and pay the cavalry servants. She has experienced the hardships of supporting a family early on.

It also includes part of the income from his aunt's investment business and his uncle's salary. He dare not ask for a day off all year round, just for the little overtime pay. Even so, he lives in an extremely embarrassing situation.

You must know that although the federation closely monitors Manna, they still don't really use him as a cheap animal. His salary is still very generous. Can make no mistake.

"Then, according to Casimir's knightly law, how can the mansions and manors of the great knight commanders who can only own no more than a thousand fiefs be maintained?" Manna has walked the entire country, and he knows that the basic livelihood of the people is very important. How difficult it is, and knowing that the output of the land is only a little bit, so what do the big knights and the big knight commanders rely on for their expenses, gambling funds, and maintenance of the manor?

"So, you want to check the slave trade, you can't find anything, you want to find out who is looting the town, you can't find any real planners, even, you want to check the natural villages with fertile land How did it disappear? You can’t find out where the land and population disappeared inexplicably in the accounts, unless you rushed into the castles of those respectable gentlemen and dragged them off the throne just like the man just now. Only his hair can tell."

"..."

"Let's go, you still have a lot to learn, and you still have a lot to look at. Soon, you will find out what the glorious city depends on, what it chews, what it swallows, and then you will understand Well, the knights' castle has actually been sitting on a volcano that's about to erupt."

"What about the Federation?"

"They at least intend to keep this mess going, that's enough." Manna didn't say anything good for the Federation, "Even though their mansion is smoking, these people know how to pour some smoke into the place where the smoke is coming from." some cold water"

The knightly competition, opening up the Colombian trade route, and merging villages at the grassroots level into towns with small-scale processing industries are all the cold water that the Federation poured on this smoking house.

As long as there are enough dividends pouring in and the people at the bottom can get a sip of oily soup to drink, then the fire will be delayed for a long time before burning. As long as the dividends continue to flow in, it will never even burn.

At the same time, "Is this Kazdel?" Shi Huaiya squinted her eyes, seeing the endless green field in front of her eyes, the seedlings completely ignoring the four seasons thrived in the cold wind of late autumn, this round was planted with rye, The raw materials used for wine making are not high in yield, and the field care is somewhat troublesome. This is just in time to kill everyone's excess energy in this season.

"It's not the same as the Kazdale I imagined." The Kazdale in my imagination is a barren gray desert, with tenacious withered plants spreading everywhere in the wilderness, only poor and backward tents and earthen huts, no roads, no industries , people struggled to live a hungry and thirsty life by grazing and planting drought-resistant green wheat.

But now it is a neat field divided by neat ditches glowing with silver light. The weather in late autumn is very clear, and the blue sky complements this vast farmland, which makes people feel that the whole person is open in an instant.

If you look at it from the satellite map, a corner of emerald green is spreading to the entire Kazdale, and many herdsmen and farmers who escaped from Tracy's rule have come here to beg for food.

And the nobles under Tracys, who realized that their population was losing, quickly increased the punishment for sitting together, and sent patrol cavalry to prevent these people from fleeing. When they ran out, what would they eat?

"Speaking of which, where's Lao Xia?"

"I've been tinkering with things in the workshop for a few days." Yelena peeled off the candy wrapper and stuffed a lollipop in her mouth, as if she didn't take the number on the scale seriously. After the symbiote would not give her any room to lose weight, the little guy let himself go.

Although the weight is rising rapidly, her figure is still slim, because most of the fat has been converted into higher-density and stronger muscle fibers, but this requires her to supplement a large amount of protein diet.

"Go and have a look!" Lao Xia's workshop is right next to Aretosha's docking station. It's a very ordinary small house. When he entered, he just finished the work. a metal ball.

"Are you finished?" Yelena took the metal ball and looked at it, "What is this?"

"time"

"what?"

"Well, a graviton device, the core of the shield, the disaster messenger has come, and a natural disaster storm will pass by soon, so I modified the ship's shield."

"Can it defend?"

"No, but it can be deflected." Natural disasters are also a natural force in nature. It is difficult to completely resist, but it is entirely feasible to use gravitational deflection to guide the storm to other places.

"What does this have to do with time?" "It can buy us time" and the essence of gravity is space-time, so it is correct to say that it is time.

"You still do this?"

"I don't think so, actually I'm pretty good too." Lao Xia said honestly, he learned and made it according to the technical information on the ship from Johnny Boy. Fortunately, this adjustment is just a very simple custom function. Instead of really doing technical transformation and adjustment, if he can do it, he won't just be enough to go to the agricultural college.

The activation process of the graviton shield is very ordinary, without any feeling. If it is deployed in a concentrated manner, it will give people a sense of disorientation, but if it is deployed in such a wide area, it will hardly have any effect.

In fact, the air molecules that are actually affected are just a slight tendency to thermal movement. This effect is extremely slight, but when it is multiplied by the range and time, the butterfly effect will eventually cause the storm cyclone to shift in other directions.

But which side it will lean to, even the doctor who calculated all this can't guess, it can only be said that at least it will not hit the head of New Kazdel, and sweep the built farmland and city to the ground.

"Speaking of which, how did you come here?"

"You still say!" The little tiger restrained the urge to go up and scratch this guy's face. She was thrown by her family to get married, that's right, literally.

"Ah, that's a bit hasty, if you want to get married." Of course, Lao Xia is not necessary, but it is a bit difficult for the little tiger to pass this hurdle.

On the other side, Rhode Island

"The luminosity of the sun has diminished."

"In other words, the storm will come earlier?"

"No..." The doctor shook his head, facing complex data and curves, "It's just a normal phenomenon"

In the next 300 years, the sun will repeatedly experience a process of weakening and then re-increasing in luminosity. On the time scale of the universe, it is like a big light bulb starts to be unstable and continues to flicker. For the life of a star tens of billions of years As far as the cricket is concerned, the hundreds of years of crickets can indeed be said to be frighteningly flickering.

This means that the hydrogen elements in his core tend to be exhausted, the thermal pressure continues to weaken, and the degeneracy pressure continues to make helium approach the fusion point, but the hydrogen elements on the spherical shell will also fall into the core due to the weakening of gravity and thermal pressure , to sustain hydrogen fusion.

Therefore, during this period of time, the luminosity of the sun begins to decrease-enhance-decrease repeatedly, as if the power of a light bulb is about to run out. With each cycle, the luminosity will be weakened by the previous one, and the volume will also shrink. After reaching the critical point—— That's the flash that the whole universe can see.

Then the expanding stellar matter ball will directly embrace Tara, although at that time, Tara is already a dead star without atmosphere and any life, and the ending is to become a small black pixel on the corona The stripes, after a time neither long nor short, even the stripes will disappear without a trace.

"However, as the luminosity decreases, the heat energy and light energy of the environment decrease, and the origin stone will tend to release energy"

"Natural disasters will become more frequent, and of course, the intensity will also weaken." This is also a reminder for the doctors and the others, not only the inevitable destruction in 300 years, but also the frequent small natural disasters that lasted in centuries. It will greatly hinder production and development, and even induce large-scale famine and disaster.

Probably, just like the end of the Ming Dynasty, at the same time as the Little Ice Age, and a group of feudal bureaucrats who were in power were still in power.

Chapter 27 Wedding Preparations

The so-called wedding is held at dusk, and before that, there were complicated arrangements and preparations, such as making wedding dresses, preparing a new house, inviting guests, stocking ingredients, preparing musical instruments and venues, etc. Will begin to accept the blessings of relatives and friends, formally married.

Terra's wedding customs are generally similar to what Lao Xia knows. The factions of all parties are almost fighting over which ceremony to use. In the end, Lao Xia decided to use the simplified version of the Star Alliance—otherwise, It's a waste of time to go through a lot of ceremonies.

"Why do you still have black and red wedding dresses in your wedding dress?" The little tiger flipped through the Star Alliance's clothing list, with a curious expression on his face. She had no choice but to get married if she didn't want to get married. The old sick tiger and her mother came over, and saw the card After seeing Zdel's situation, without saying a word, his parents began to fight against the palace.

"It's... better not to pick those two"

"Huh?" Lao Xia scratched his head, "The reason for the black wedding dress is..." If the fiancé came back alive, it would be the wedding dress, if not, it would be the mourning dress. It was such a simple but tragic reason.

"..."

"During the war years, white also had a similar meaning. Red was invented after the war in order to distinguish and add a less bleak flavor."

"How many people died?" Little Tiger asked after a moment of silence as he touched the clothing projected by the hologram.

"I can't count the numbers, but almost all people in the 20-35 age group have disappeared." Lao Xia didn't really want to mention this matter at this time. An expression magic called "How to Make a Smile Disappear Instantly in a Second".