Chapter 643 of 951
Chapter 643: Evil Horse Dispute
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The Island of Evil Horse, in the House of Evil.
People are gathering together to discuss government affairs and the situation
on the island.
Sitting at the top of the lobby is the Queen of the Horse, Chiba Oriko. As the
fifteenth generation, she has governed evil horses for more than 20 years.
Before Dongsheng publicly conspired to rebellion, the kingdom was considered
safe and secure. But after experiencing the competition from many forces, she
was obviously a little weak, her body was thinning for a few laps, and the
number of openings in meetings became less and less, more often she let
trusted people make decisions for herself.
May Haruka is one of them.
Although she had returned to her homeland a month ago, returning to Yixie
Mansion was the first time since she went to the mainland.
Compared with a year ago, there were obviously a lot more people attending the
meeting, and the voices were also much noisy. This shows that the situation is
changing in a good direction-Dongsheng’s momentum is no longer at the
beginning, even if it can’t achieve a complete victory in a short period of
time, The rebellious princes will be completely wiped out, but at least Yixie
and the surrounding areas will no longer be threatened by the enemy.
However, there was no trace of joy in her heart.
The topic soon turned to the issue of population migration.
"Your Majesty, I don't think this can go on anymore." A middle-aged man
wearing a gray long coat took the lead and said, "Jinxia requires that 20,000
people be relocated every year, and there are thousands of them in each town.
Send them away. Who will cultivate the fields? Who will defend the kingdom?
Besides, Jinxia is just a city. Can it really accept so many outsiders? The
officials and people under my rule are already anxious, for fear that they
will be detained. Victims of the transaction, in the event of an accident, the
minister would be completely shameless to face your Majesty."
Wu Yueyao set his sights on this person-Masaru Fujiwara, one of the princes of
the Emas Kingdom, and the administrator of the Pali Land north of Ix, is
considered to be the core figure supporting the Great Miko.
After he took the lead, other participants also responded.
"Yeah...Thousands of people are not easy to find. The battle with Dongsheng
had lost a lot of young people. Now a lot of land is deserted. Can you wait
for a few years to start the migration?"
"Aren't we going to be short of people in a few years? I don't think this
agreement should be signed at all!"
"Master Qi, this is a bit too much, after all, they did help us repel the
enemy's attack."
"Why don't you ask Master May to talk to the other side and increase the
amount of silver as compensation?"
"You will pay for the extra money? I just can't afford that much money
anyway."
Suddenly, there was noisy in the hall.
The Queen of Evil Horse just sat on the sidelines and watched, and did not
come forward to interfere with the disputes of the people. It seems to her
that such arguments are conducive to the balance of power.
At this time, a white-haired old man brought the topic to Wu Yueyao, "Master
May, I don't know what you think?"
His opening silenced the discussion.
As an assistant to the queens of the past, the Yuan family has always been a
prominent family in the evil horse kingdom. Although the current Patriarch
Yuanjiuji is old, he is still Chiba Zhizi's most trusted minister of the
humerus.
"The connection with Jinxia is on you alone. It can be said that no one here
knows Jinxia better than you." He touched his beard and said unhurriedly, "You
think if we want to modify the alliance treaty, What kind of reaction will
there be?"
In Mayyao's mind, the people of Jinxia City couldn't help but appear.
Especially Mrs. Xia who gave her a glimmer of hope when she was desperate.
There is no doubt that the other party is the friendliest ruler she has ever
seen.
She couldn't imagine Jinxia meeting with evil horses in turn.
"Probably... will be disappointed," Wu Yueyao said softly.
"Puff—disappointment? What is that?"
"Ahem, did Master May say that the other party would only get sulking?"
There was a burst of laughter at the scene.
"That's it?" Yuanjiu frowned, "Do you think they will not take any sanctions,
or will they support Dongsheng or Anjia instead?"
"I think... this possibility is very low." Wu Yue said frankly, "Jinxia needs
to deal with the pressure brought by the privy government of the other five
countries, and has no energy to take care of the evil horse kingdom for the
time being. Of course, such a breach of contract will also make us completely
lose the mainland. Allies."
After a moment of silence in the venue, a voice rang, "Then what else should
we worry about?"
This sentence was like the voice of the people, and it caused a wave in an
instant.
"But we can't express our attitude so straightforwardly. We still need to buy
some more weapons." Fujiwara cleared his throat and said, "Master May, you may
need to trouble you to run more at this point."
"What about the commercial port? It is always a good thing to be able to do
business."
"We can first send a group of envoys or monks to Qiguo to promote the evil
horse. Now that the channel is open, even if Jinxia cuts off diplomatic
relations with us afterwards, we can't help the merchants below."
Wu Yueyao looked at Her Majesty the Queen, "Do you think it is really good to
do this...?"
"Hey..." Chiba Zhizi finally changed her posture and sighed, "Evil horses also
have the difficulties of evil horses. Repairing war-damaged towns requires
silver and manpower, and the fields also need farmers to cultivate, and the
silver can be evenly distributed. Some came out, but it was really hard to get
the manpower. And you mentioned that Jinxia is at war with the Qi royal
family, and the Privy Council of neighboring countries is also about to move.
How can you let everyone relax."
"What if I can convince everyone?"
These words were like stones thrown into the water, and ripples suddenly
appeared in the crowd.
Ignoring those whispers, May stood up and looked straight at Fujiwara
Masayoshi, "Fujiwara-sama, can you really not have a thousand people in your
territory? I didn't come to Yixie the first time after I returned to Yixie, UU
reading www .uukanshu.com is to go around the area to check the situation on
the ground. There are a large number of farmers in your territory who have
lost their land, and the number is more than a thousand? But they are all
controlled by big landlords and families, and they are not farming day after
day. The farmland that belongs to them, am I right?"
"Master May, is there any problem with this? I can't force them to hand over
all the people they buy, right? Besides, the good land will be abandoned if it
is not planted. In order to avoid famine, of course, my territory must
continue to maintain production. OK."
"But what I see is that the residents of Xiacheng district are all yellow and
thin, and they don't seem to be satisfied with food and clothing, and the
estimated output of farmland even exceeds all the needs of the Bali area."
Mayyao raised her voice." Excuse me, where did all the extra food go? It's
impossible for them to fly away!"
Masaru Fujiwara's face sank.
The two attendants behind him also stared angrily, revealing an expression of
insult to death.
And Wu Yueyao was unmoved, and said to herself, "In fact, everyone here knows
where the food has gone-because this kind of thing not only happened under the
rule of Lord Fujiwara, but your usual practice. They all exist high In the
granary surrounded by the wall compound, waiting to be exchanged for other
more valuable materials, such as jewelry, such as muskets and ammunition! What
you lack is not people, but your greed!"