This is the first time Neumann has seen such a thing, the luxury and corruption of the aristocracy, the corruption and inaction of city hall officials...
No matter how outrageous it is, as long as it can arouse people's dissatisfaction, just add more fuel and jealousy to it.
These contents that disturbed the order of Andnus were printed on cheap paper in such a grand manner and distributed everywhere!!
Where did this come from?
How did this get in?
The first question is easy to answer, they must come from the Melox Empire.
As for the second problem, it was caused by his carelessness.
Neumann suddenly began to regret that he had deployed most of his elite city defense troops in the inner city.
After more than ten seconds, the lord broke the silence with a gloomy face: "How long have these things been circulating in the outer city?"
"It may have been circulating as early as a week ago."
Neumann's face turned pale: "Why didn't anyone report it immediately?! Do you know how much trouble these things will bring?"
The young noble's face turned pale and he said tremblingly: "Aren't these things normal?"
"Idiot~!"
Neumann cursed.
This kind of thing is indeed normal in daily life. Even if the mud-legged people at the bottom know about it, it will not help because the power and strength are in the hands of the nobles.
But it's different now. The entire Andernus is surrounded by layers of siege and food control. Many people started eating two meals a day and now eat one meal a day. However, the noble man described above eats three meals a day.
It’s not the same, there’s even a late night snack, one bowl after another.
This will greatly stimulate those people at the bottom who don’t have enough to eat.
Neumann burned the flyer in his hand, and the firelight reflected on his face, which made him look extremely gloomy.
A long siege is the biggest blow to morale and cohesion. When the situation is stable and there are no major differences of interest, the nobility can still maintain balance and unity. No matter in the main city, there are many internal and external factions, nobility and professions.
Everyone has their interests, big or small, entangled in conflict points, but at least everyone will maintain superficial unity on the same front.
However, when there are no benefits to be gained, and even when one's own security is threatened, the superficial unity will be divided from the inside out.
Not everyone supports the orders from the principality or even the federation. Although Neumann has the highest authority in Andnus, he cannot make the nobles in the entire region monolithic. As a borderland of the Principality of Valencia,
In the early years, it was a place where nothing could be done, and it had to support a large number of federal troops. There were a lot of hidden dangers of internal divisions from the beginning.
With the rise of the Merlox Empire, bilateral smuggling trade became frequent, which led to the creation of Andnus today. Under the attack of Jin Yuan, the smuggler of the Merlox Empire, the local nobles have always been resistant to the instructions from the principality. In the past two years, due to the smuggling trade
The young nobles who rose up due to their influence often had conflicts with the traditional nobles of Andernus.
The emerging nobles hope to gain more autonomy in this land far away from the political center of the principality. The traditional nobles are always worried about these emerging nobles, and even sell the entire principality for trade.
In fact, the worries of the traditional nobles were not wrong. The reason why the Melox Empire was able to surround the main city of Andnus without anyone noticing was that the emerging nobles who surrendered played a crucial role.
As the situation in the city of Andernus gets worse and worse, the haze of insufficient supplies of supplies begins to emerge. The order in the outer city is getting worse day by day. A large number of small nobles who have defected to the city have also accumulated huge grievances. They can't do anything like this.
Those traditional nobles brought their families to the inner city. They lived in the rich area between the outer city and the inner city. Once a conflict broke out, they were the buffer zone of the inner city. The chaos in the outer city had inevitably affected
It's happening to them, and it's getting worse day by day.
The leaflets circulated into the city at this juncture undoubtedly aggravated the situation.
Almost everyone can think that this is a 'conspiracy' of the Merox Empire, but everything said above is true.
The nobles were also vaguely divided into two factions. The nobles in the inner city advocated fighting to the end, while the nobles in the outer city supported the peace negotiation.
These things are spreading secretly, and they probably won't be able to spread throughout the city in a week, so they must be stopped immediately from continuing to ferment.
He looked at the little noble in front of him and said: "Immediately notify the Judgment Knights to collect all the leaflets circulated in the city. In addition, let those professionals go to the outer city and search door to door. Anyone, regardless of any reason, holds this
All seed records must be handed over immediately, and anyone who refuses to hand them over will be punished as treason."
"yes."
Professionals affiliated with Andnus City Hall quickly launched into action.
The inner city gate that had been closed for a long time opened, and heavily armed professionals rushed out and began to search for "treason evidence" from house to house. The magicians guarded by the professionals went to the streets and used loudspeaker magic to shout and warn.
All civilians hiding propaganda materials, and in the process, the outer city suddenly became more and more chaotic.
Those professionals who are almost exhausted will naturally break into conflicts during the process of searching for materials. It is just a trivial matter to loot the property and food in the residence, to defile their wives and daughters, and even to kill the male owner.
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Not only did the outer city begin to become chaotic, the atmosphere in the inner city immediately became tense.
Wearing heavy black armor, with pairs of gloomy eyes on their faceplates, they were constantly firing back and forth. These people were the few Judgment Knights of Andnus. There were only about thirty of them, but their combat effectiveness was extremely powerful. They were the original ones.
Appointed by the church to oversee the city of Andnus.
As the church's strongest law enforcement unit, the Judgment Knights have far more influence than the Federal Military Police. When they discover problematic nobles, they have the right to kill them first and then punish them later.
They began to interrogate all the minor nobles and their family professionals, and a large number of brochures were found from the residences of those minor nobles. The minor nobles who hid the leaflets were immediately punished, first with uniform confinement, and then with torture to extract confessions.
Neumann knew that there must have been spies from the Merox Empire sneaking into the city. As the siege lasted longer and longer, the magic of the central countries to identify the outer continents gradually disappeared. As long as it was hidden well, no matter how long it was,
Once their identities are exposed, no one knows whether they are from the outside continent.
This is also the person Neumann is most worried about. If these people are left alone, as the number increases, if they open the city gate and lead the unified army into the city, everything will be over.