Become the Archbishop from Douluo

Chapter 83 The Rebellion in Star Town

Talking and laughing all the way, soon, the four of them came to Xingdou Town.

This Xingdou Town is a human town located inside the Star Dou Great Forest. It is said that a Contra moved here with his family many years ago, built a castle, and then slowly expanded into a town.

It has been established for decades, and it has grown to be larger than a low-level city like Notting City.

Businessmen, hunters, soul masters seeking soul rings, intelligence dealers, and pharmacists from all over Tiandou gathered here, and jointly built an ecological structure that is different from other cities in Xingdou Town.

In addition to soul beasts, the Star Dou Great Forest is also rich in agricultural resources. In the past, many people came to the Star Dou Great Forest to gather herbs for a living. The unique environment of the forest will produce some things that cannot grow in the plains, so this This profession is very popular.

In the past two years, Prince Tiandou has even advocated building a new protective wall here to connect the empire's borders, expand the empire's territory, and then sell the forest inside the wall to various nobles, so that they can settle their own industries on this land, and at the same time It is necessary to bear the personnel expenses of the corresponding part of the star wall guards.

As soon as she stepped into Xingdou Town, Leng Xiyue saw a group of people gathered in front of the notice at the gate of the town, discussing frantically.

"Have you heard? That day Prince Dou came here yesterday, bringing a Royal Knights and a lot of craftsmen, and some people from big families want to expand the Star Wall and sell the originally public forest to those nobles for private property. "

"I think this move will provide a lot of jobs, right? We will have stable jobs in the future, and we don't have to be crazily lowered by those profiteers. We can only earn hard money. Isn't it great to have the official guarantee of the empire?" a herb collector People say so.

"Tsk, what do you know? The special feature of Xingdou Town is that Xingdou Town is located inside the Xingdou Great Forest. If the Xingdou Wall is extended to this point, it will become a border. If you want to enter and exit in the future, you have to report to the Empire, and even have to What should we hunters do in the future if we bribe the guards at the city gate? Be shepherds?" An old hunter with gew98 on his back said with a desolate look.

As a veteran hunter with 30 years of experience, when I used to hold a bow and crossbow, I could only hunt ten-year soul beasts. Not long ago, I went bankrupt and bought a genuine Wuhun Temple rifle, which can hunt century-old soul beasts. He earned it back, but if the border expands, there may be soul beasts that are 500 years old or even more than a thousand years old in the outer area. No matter how powerful the weapon is, he, an ordinary person, will definitely die without life.

"That's right, you herb pickers are just latecomers, how do you know about the life of our old Xingdou people?" An intelligence dealer also said angrily.

These information dealers are not villains, most of them are low-level soul masters who are not good at fighting but good at running. They usually go to the Star Dou Forest to investigate the movements of some soul beasts and provide specific information to those who want to hunt for soul rings. At the same time, drawing maps and so on earns hard money.

"That's right, you people who don't know what is good or bad, our caravan needs to take risks from the border to Xingdou Town, and the empire has also given a great concession in terms of taxes and fees. If this becomes an internal city of the empire, this preferential policy It must be gone, that ghost came so far to do business." A gorgeously dressed businessman also retorted to the herb picker.

"Hmph, you guys can earn dozens or even hundreds of gold soul coins for a single order, but what we earn can only be measured in silver coins. Everyone is also taking risks. Now we can get a relatively comfortable environment, but you are just less I made some money." The herbal picker was also a stunned young man, but after hearing what the three of them said, he became more and more enthusiastic:

"In my opinion, you deserve it right. You are not grateful to those adults when you make more money, and you are dissatisfied with the empire when you make less money. You are really extremely greedy and should all be hanged."

The atmosphere had reached this point, and the crowd quickly divided into two factions based on the occupational gap and began to quarrel with each other, which seemed like a big fight.

One group is relatively poor artisans like herb pickers, who hope for peace and stability, and support the Heaven Dou Empire; The environmental cost of living will be greatly increased even for the near unemployed.

As for businessmen who make them less money, they will definitely be dissatisfied.

Leng Xiyue watched a group of people quarreling, found a melon out of nowhere, and ate it with Tianmeng and the others.

It is difficult for you to say who is right and who is wrong in this kind of thing. After all, people are separated like mountains, and everyone’s interests are not the same. It must be speaking out for the interest class you belong to.

But in the final analysis, Prince Tiandou did not do any personnel work this day, and Xingdou Town was operating very well, so this meddling might lead to riots in two days.

No, Prince Tiandou seems to be pretending to be his good sister Qian Renxue, so it's okay~
Leng Xiyue took a closer look at the notice. Most of the forests after the territory expansion were contracted by nobles. According to the law, the surrounding forests are owned by the Duke, but the Duke is benevolent and open his land to everyone. Now that he wants to expand the Star Dou Wall, he even handed over the land to the royal family for free so that they can raise military expenses.

But in the eyes of ordinary people, the public land that everyone lives on has become private land. It is not difficult for people with professional knowledge like herb pickers to get jobs from the nobles, but hunters and intelligence dealers are forced to give up their jobs in Star Dou. There is really no way out for the family business saved in the town to seek a living elsewhere.

Who will the anger of these hopeless people ultimately be directed at?Prince?Heaven Dou Royal Family?No, as long as anyone who is not stupid knows that the royal family has no real benefits in this matter, only the so-called merits of expanding the territory, the future tax revenue is nothing compared to the investment in border defense.

Who is the real beneficiary?Of course, it is the nobles who are willing to come here to build the "wilderness"!
Through this phenomenon, Leng Xiyue quickly understood Qian Renxue's intentions. If the local people were mostly dissatisfied, then most of the nobles' intentions to make money here would probably not go so smoothly, and eventually the trouble would not end. As long as Qian Renxue, the crown prince, uses the royal family's prestige to guarantee the resolution of this matter, it will undoubtedly greatly enhance her authority.

Of course, the root of all this is that the local civilian class takes action against the noble class. If the noble class can appease the majority of people, none of this will happen. What about making money?
To sum up, this Xingdou Town is expected to be quite lively these few days, and Leng Xiyue is also planning to find a chance to meet Qian Renxue, so she is not in a hurry to leave.

Thinking of this, Leng Xiyue planned to find Oscar first, and then settle down in Xingdou Town.

At this moment, an angry voice suddenly appeared among the quarreling crowd:

"Damn it, it was you nobles who licked dogs at the beginning, which caused Lao Tzu's land to be robbed by nobles, cheating all my savings, and my wife ran away with the child. I had to come here to be a hunter and live on the edge of a knife." Bloody days, how are you doing now, and you fucking want to lure those noble dogs to our land where we can live and work in peace?"

"I can't take it anymore, brothers, hit me!"

As this person said, Xingdou Town was originally the castle of Lord Contra. Although this Lord Contra is considered a nobleman, he is extremely generous and encourages homeless refugees to come here to seek life, so he came here The vast majority of them are hard-working people who can't survive in the Tiandou Empire. If there are more people, it will become a town.

Now these poor people have taken root in Xingdou Town, living and working in peace and contentment, marrying wives and having children, without the oppression of the empire, it can be said that they are extremely comfortable.

High risks come with high rewards. Even if you really die on the way to hunting, the money left behind is enough for your wife and children to buy some land somewhere and start a small business to survive.

But when the empire did come, they were powerless to resist.

However, they don't dare to openly oppose the empire, don't they dare to beat you lackeys who support the empire?

So, after the man finished his anger, he suddenly punched a craftsman not far away who was still expressing his support for the empire, knocked him to the ground, and passed out.

This punch was like lighting the fuse of the war. Combined with the previous words, the empathetic people suddenly remembered why they came here, and how the empire bullied ordinary people like them in the past, and they all became angry. To the person who was still arguing with them just now, he took out a stick from his body, or clenched his fist, and hit him without any explanation.

A chaotic battle started immediately, Leng Xiyue's eyes lit up when she saw this, and she leaned into Xuanwu's ear and said a few words.

Xuan Wu didn't know why, but he followed Leng Xiyue's instructions and mingled into the crowd, shouting in a thick voice: "There are still those profiteers! Every day they sit on the ground and raise prices, fuck it!"

The few businessmen who were watching the excitement were startled and ran away, but they were soon surrounded by a few strong men, and they were beaten violently. Obviously, they didn't do anything good at ordinary times, and their grudges had long been accumulated Long.

On weekdays, everyone still has to live, and there is no chance to beat them up. Now that the chaos has occurred, hitting one person is hitting, hitting two people is also hitting, so it is better to hit a few more. Anyway, if you are caught, you will definitely not be able to escape. Take this opportunity to vent your anger how nice.

Just as a group of people were fighting in the street, a group of people came slowly from outside the city. After seeing it, a sharp-eyed person immediately shouted: "The masters of the empire are back!"

Hearing this, everyone was startled and hurried to scatter like birds and beasts.

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