Chapter 269: Agitation

The carnival—or chaos, to be more precise—lasted until the evening, and only after everyone was exhausted did the area around Fabe Village quiet down.

Although they were physically tired, everyone was still in high spirits, and everyone had found a lot of good things.

Everyone gathered in the Baden family's mansion, showing off their gains today. People planned to return to their villages after a rest.

Kevin was the only one in the crowd who didn't take anything. He gathered together several people who were usually more prestigious in the village.

He expressed his concerns: if they robbed indiscriminately in Fabe Village, the lord would definitely not let them go.

Everyone seemed to be poured with a basin of cold water, and their previously fiery hearts immediately cooled down.

When resentment accumulated to a certain threshold, impulse overwhelmed reason, and they did things they dared not to do on weekdays. However, they forgot that there was a higher existence maintaining the order of Alda, although this order was oppressing them.

Someone asked hesitantly: "But...but...wasn't it Baden who made the mistake first? He also killed our people. Several of the people who were hit by the slings never woke up again."

Kevin shook his head: "But obviously our [crime] is more serious. The lord will definitely punish us first if he knows."

He felt resentful in his heart, resenting why the villagers were so impulsive and why they couldn't be more rational.

When everyone was looting in chaos, Kevin had thought about running away and reporting to the city hall in Fulan Port, asking the mayor to send someone to maintain order, but after thinking about it, he stayed and waited for everyone to calm down, and then work together to find a solution.

"Haha, brother Kevin, what [crime]? It's too serious."

Just as everyone frowned, a voice came from the side.

A man with a sly look came over, and Kevin frowned even more tightly. He recognized this person, Bisuo - a rogue who was idle all day in the village.

"It was the landlord Baden who first set heavy taxes behind the lord's back, forcing us to not be able to survive, so we did such an irrational thing. Besides, so many of us participated. Haven't you heard of the saying 'the law does not punish the masses'?"

Kevin pointed out seriously: "The current lord is a strong man, as can be seen from the fact that he overcame all kinds of difficulties to wipe out the pirates."

Biso shook his finger: "Even if he wants to investigate, what can he do with us? Hang us all? Or arrest us all for forced labor? We have gathered young and strong laborers from several villages. If we are all arrested, what will happen to the old, weak, women and children in the village? Will he support us?"

Everyone looked at Bisso. What this kid said seemed to make sense.

Bisso said proudly: "Will the lord bear a reputation of "harshness" for a landlord who is rich and unkind? How will the bards spread him - the villagers were forced to rise up in rebellion by the landlord, but the earl hanged all the rebels indiscriminately."

Everyone nodded secretly. Bisso, this kid, usually does not work and wanders around. Unexpectedly, he has accumulated a lot of experience.

After he said this, the worry about his life was relieved a lot.

Just when everyone relaxed their brows, Bisso became serious: "But our harvest today will definitely be confiscated and returned to Baden, or... put in the lord's own pocket."

This sentence made everyone cover their pockets tightly.

"No one can take the treasure in my bag!" Someone shouted immediately.

They were really afraid of poverty. They suddenly gained wealth and had to keep it even at the cost of their lives.

Kevin covered his forehead. He had a premonition of something bad.

Sure enough, Bisso waved his fist and said, "Everyone, why don't we 'negotiate' with the lord! The ill-gotten wealth of the Baden family was accumulated by plundering the people's blood and sweat. We have the right to possess these wealth because Baden originally robbed us, and now it is just returning it to its original owner."

"Enough!" Kevin shouted angrily, "What can we use to negotiate with the lord? He can summon an army to deal with us!"

"Kevin, you are so cowardly!"

Bisso refuted him "righteously": "We have a large number of people and have seized a large number of weapons from the Baden family. We are an army ourselves, and of course we have the capital to 'negotiate' with the lord."

"Have you forgotten how the pirates in the Northwest Bay were eliminated?"

"Then do you still remember the former pirate leader Edward? He is the existence that all the lords in the northwest fear."

Bisso no longer paid attention to Kevin. Their quarrel had attracted many people to gather around.

He shouted to the people around him: "How did the pirates of Edward's time make the lords afraid? There is only one secret, that is [unity]. They twisted together and gained power far beyond that of individuals. After Edward disappeared, the pirates were divided, so they were defeated one by one."

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"Fellow villagers! We have gathered people from several villages. As long as we can twist together, the lord can't do anything to us. He will eventually accept our request and allow us to keep these wealth that should belong to us!"

"Everyone, the destruction of Baden has witnessed our strength. Look, even a big landlord like him can't stop the power of our unity!"

Everyone's heart was heated up again by Bisuo's words. Yes, Baden, the seemingly invincible landlord, became a wild dog running away with his tail between his legs under their joint efforts.

Lord? Isn't a lord a larger landlord?

These villagers who usually only wandered around the village and the farthest place they had been to was Port Fulan. They had no idea how big a earldom was, how many people there were in the territory, and how many troops their lord could muster.

They could only make guesses based on the most powerful force they had ever seen - the Baden family.

The landlord Baden was easily driven away by them, so if the lord did not agree to their request and sent troops over, it might be a little difficult to drive away the lord's army, after all, he was a more powerful guy than Baden.

So everyone shouted: "Unite! Negotiate with the lord!"

Since Arda lacks grassroots feudal lords such as [Knights] who use villages as their territories, the peasants living in the countryside do not have an intuitive feeling of the power in the hands of the lords on weekdays. Their obedience to the lords' decrees is more out of habit accumulated over generations.

If it were in other territories, the probability of something like Fabe Village happening would be very low, because the villagers would be suppressed by the knights living in the village as soon as they gathered, and there would be no chance for multiple villages to connect with each other.