Chapter 341: The robber doesnt look at the uniform
Taking the sea route is the best way to leave Velen, because those who are engaged in smuggling business always have ways to avoid customs.
However, Abigail was not familiar with this at all. She didn't know who to go to and how much it would cost.
And she also heard that most of the smuggling ships would go directly across the Sea of Tranquility, which was very dangerous, and they were all making lifeless money.
Even if you are lucky enough to drive to Secred, you may be sold into slavery, and then there will be no room for resistance.
Therefore, Abigail hesitated, not knowing what to do.
The riots on the street became more and more serious, and white armbands were everywhere arresting people. Abigail had a premonition that the next development of the situation might be out of control, so she finally gritted her teeth and decided to try her luck near the port.
However, the situation there was the same as at the train station. Groups of white armbands occupied the cargo and cruise ship docks and began to inspect people coming and going.
Abigail was stopped by a white armband, and after discovering that she was a Bain, he let her go.
She saw several sailors pointing towards the picket, so she walked over and asked them which ship they were on.
"Northern Red Land Trading Company, from the largest cargo fleet in the empire."
This was the answer of the sailors.
As the most powerful country in the Western Continent, Gray Bean also owns a company similar to Rockefeller Ocean Trading.
That is "Beihong Land Trading Company".
This company has also built a fleet that can cross the quiet sea, and because the output of steel materials is higher than that of the United States, its ships are almost all iron freighters, and are also equipped with some iron-clad frigates. The configuration is even more luxurious than Rockefeller's ocean-going trade.
Logically speaking, it is the best choice to take their ship to the Indong Continent. However, this trading company's ship will not carry passengers, and judging from the current situation, Beihong Land Trading Company is also cooperating.
Pickets were deployed to clear out the foreign population.
Abigail felt that she was not capable of joining this fleet, so she left.
She asked the workers at the dock about the smuggling route, and after dark she got some clues.
However, the laborer who provided her with information offered a very high price, which would cost Adela and Abigail almost all their money. If they refused, the laborer would not provide information about the smuggling ship.
This needs to be carefully considered, and Abigail can only go back first with her exhausted body and mind.
She needs to comfort Adela and keep an eye on the old man until she has prepared the funds to prevent the old man from leaving home and running around.
But when she arrived home, she found that time was still too luxurious for people like them.
There was a fire on the other side of the house, and a group of uninvited guests came to the house and were moving things out of the house.
Abigail's heart tightened, her face changed drastically, and she hurriedly approached the hedge, hiding behind and watching.
She saw that these guys were not pickets wearing white armbands, but police from the Velen City Political Security Team.
Adela sat in the rocking chair and watched in bewilderment as the group of uninvited guests moved away all the only belongings in the house.
"I...I don't understand...Did Stephen ask you to do this?"
"Stephen?" The sergeant who was directing the moving of things frowned, "Ah~! It's your son. Yes, he has bought a mansion in the city now and will take you to live there immediately, so we are here to help
You moved things."
This was obviously a lie. Abigail knew very well what the gangsters in police uniforms were thinking.
This police chief must be the security captain in charge of this area. He should know that Adela is an old woman living alone, that his son is dead, and that she is from Nippur.
If the government hadn't passed the picket bill, this guy wouldn't have come to bother Adela.
And it was because of the chaos caused by the pickets that he realized that he could take advantage of this opportunity to rob the outsiders in the area!
Abigail mustered up the courage to stand up, stopped them, shouted hoarsely with her injured throat, and scolded these people.
"Put everything down! Robber!"
The man in uniform who was carrying the things was stunned for a moment, and then looked at her teasingly.
The leading security captain sneered: "Get out of the way, citizen, we are enforcing the law."
"No! You are robbing!"
Abigail looked worriedly at the clueless Adela and the objects that were forcibly moved out.
Among those things are the things Stephen left behind, namely those in the room where Abigail lives now, the table, picture frames and flowers.
These objects in this poor family are not valuable at all, but greed drives the people in front of them to take away anything they can. Even if they can only sell a few copper pennies on the black market, they will still come to rob them.
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"I said, madam, didn't you see the decree issued today? The entire Greybean is now going to clear out all aliens without citizenship. As long as they cannot provide a birth certificate in the empire, they must hand over everything they have on this land.
All income and property earned.”
Today's Greybean does not have the concept of an ID card. One of the signs to determine whether the person is a Bain is to see if he has a birth certificate.
Suppose a baby's parents are from a foreign ethnic group from the Red Land, then the baby will not be able to obtain a citizen's birth certificate.
In the past, when nationalism was not provoked, the empire turned a blind eye to it. After all, population represents the labor force and productivity.
But now, for some reasons, the country has begun to clean up them, and this time bomb has finally been detonated.
As for why Greybean did not dare to clean up the people of Gordon or the northern countries... it is because the countries of those nations are still there and have a strong backing. Unless Greybean wants to start a war now, he will not act rashly.
As for Nippur and the Sarcens, who were city-states on red earth... they were not so lucky.
Faced with the toughness of the security captain, Abigail would not give in even a step.
No matter what, she must protect what is left of Stephen in this world.
The color above the security captain's head changed from purple to red, which proved that he was getting more excited.
In the current situation, such a change indicates that he is getting angry.
"Get out of the way! You are too thin and you are still injured. Do you want to stop us?"
"There are still many people who oppose the law! People are gathering in King's Square, and someone in the House of Commons will definitely propose again. You have no right to rob residents of their property!"
"Come on!" the security captain took off his hat and wiped his bald, sparse hair, "Sooner or later, those white armbands will find out here. They won't be as soft-hearted as me. Old women's things are cheaper than those ones."
You idiot, you might as well take it and sell it for me."
"You're no different from them! Bastard!" Abigail roared angrily, her voice seeming to tear the air.
However, even if she was furious, she could not offset the numerical gap between the two sides.
The security captain ordered three subordinates to rush over and subdue her, tie her hands and feet, and throw her behind the horse's butt.
Abigail kept struggling and could only watch as Adela's belongings were loaded onto the cart.
