Heroes of Silver Moon

In the early morning, just as the sun was shining, the hard-working people in the royal capital braved the biting cold wind, got up from the warm blankets, and began to prepare for the annual celebration.

Robert was a child from a poor family. He braved the cold wind early in the morning, wearing tattered cotton clothes, and rushed to the vicinity of the cathedral with his parents.

They got up so early because the pastor of the Moonlight Church would distribute some food for free during major celebrations.

This is a rare grace for poor families who do not have enough food for more than 360 days a year.

With an income of five or six gold coins, a commoner family can live happily for a year, but these five or six gold coins are an unattainable fantasy for most people in the Silver Moon Kingdom .

The entire Silvermoon Kingdom has a population of nearly four million and nearly one million households. Except for noble families, there are no more than ten thousand households that earn five or six gold coins a year.

Most of the families are struggling on the line of food and clothing. There are countless poor families like Robert in the Silver Moon Kingdom.

Although the roads in the southern border are impassable, the economy is barren, and the wasteland is full of dangers, the people living there can cultivate a few acres of land by themselves, at least most of them will not go hungry.

But people in the northern border like Wangdu are not so lucky. The concentration of population, smooth roads, and fertile land means that there are a lot of nobles.

The three counties in the northern border, Upper Crescent County, Middle Crescent County, and Lower Crescent County, except for Lower Crescent County, are still under the control of the royal family.

The other two counties have been eroded step by step by the real feudal lords in the 6,700 years since the founding of the country.

There are three fronts in the entire Silvermoon Kingdom, one is the barbarians around the Gelu Mountains, the other is the Sea Clan surrounded by the sea on three sides in the south, and the third is the orcs on the side of the Buluo Fortress.

Among them, the barbarians in the Gelug Mountains in the south, and the sea people on the three coasts are not good at all.

They only occasionally go to the southern border to plunder, so since the founding of the country, there have been very few southern lords who have been conferred for fighting against the two.

However, the Buluo Fortress located on the border of the northern border has never stopped the war with the orc Red Scorpion Empire since the founding of the country. In wars, military merits must be awarded, and military merits must be rewarded.

No one wants the land in the south, so the kings of all dynasties can only reward the lords with the land in the north.

In more than 6,700 years, Shangxinyue County has almost been rewarded except for one county town, and even appeared, the giant lord who controls 20 towns, the Sissoko family.

The situation in Zhongxinyue County is slightly better, but not much better. Except for a county town and several towns around the county town, the other lands have also been divided up by the lords.

The Hood family, which is about to become the leader of Central Crescent County, is also in control of fifteen towns.

The Sissoko family and the Hood family, the weight of these two families, even the king can't move them. After thousands of years of operation, Shangxinyue County and Middle Crescent County have long been united by these two families. a piece of iron.

The whole body is affected by one hair, and the lords of the Upper Crescent County are almost all headed by the Hisocco family, and the lords of the Central Crescent County are also moving closer to the Hood family.

In the past few decades, the northern nobles headed by these two families have also established a noble council, obviously to fight for more power.

In this regard, the king's attitude was silent. He did not affirm the legitimacy of this parliament, nor did he deny the legitimacy of this parliament.

This made the situation weird, and the king's attitude was unclear, and all the lords and nobles were still waiting and watching.

The means of the old king back then were obvious to the nobles in the northern border, so no one wanted to be this early bird.

Although if you want to rectify these two families, the king must be prepared to go to war with these two counties and all the lords.

However, this is not to say that the power of the royal family cannot defeat the combined lords of these two counties. On the contrary, the power that the royal family can gather greatly exceeds the lords of these two counties.

Lower Crescent County is still completely under the control of the royal family. Two-thirds of the southern territory is also in the hands of the royal family. Half of the kingdom's land, half of the kingdom's population, and the three major legions have a total of 150,000 regular troops.

Even if there was a war with the lords of the northern border, those lords of the southern border would be more than happy to step on the lords of the northern border with the king.

For nearly seven thousand years, the northern nobles headed by the northern lords have frequently suppressed the noble forces in the southern border.

Coupled with the support of the Moonlight Church, if the king and the northern lords go to war, they will definitely be photographed to death.

However, the old king couldn't do this, because the orcs on the other side of the Buluo Fortress were staring at the Silvermoon Kingdom, hoping that the Silvermoon Kingdom would reveal its flaws.

During the past few decades when the old king succeeded to the throne, he managed the entire kingdom in an orderly manner. Those orcs in the Red Scorpion Khanate could not catch the flaws of the Silver Moon Kingdom~www.wuxiaspot.com~ That's why they didn't start a big war on the border .

Once there was a civil war in the Silvermoon Kingdom, the old king was 100% sure that the orcs of the Red Scorpion Khanate would definitely take the opportunity to fight and the Silvermoon Kingdom would never recover again.

Therefore, even though the old king was angry about the establishment of the noble council, he still did not express his position, allowing the nobles to speculate on his thoughts.

The lords who control most of the land in the northern border, because they don't fall to the fortress, have not had a war for decades, so they are a little bit smug.

Born in misery and dying in peace, the lords of the northern border who had no external pressure began to target their own subjects.

The people of the royal family still have a set of reasonable tax laws, but the lords of the northern border are doing more tricks.

In addition to poll tax, land tax, health tax, public security tax, these more reasonable taxes.

There is also a newborn tax for newborns, a new wedding tax when you get married, a cemetery tax when you die, and so on and so on.

It is said that in some lords' private domains, the abolished right of first night was even secretly restored. When the people get married, the bride's first night must be handed over to the lord.

Therefore, the people living in the northern border are miserable. The tenant farmers are the private property of the lord and have no personal freedom.

Although civilians have freedom, the land in the north has already been divided.

Even if they moved to the royal family's territory, there was no extra land to distribute to them, and they could only become tenant farmers who rented other people's land.

Robert's parents received two pieces of warm bread from the pastor of the Moonlight Church, and they quickly distributed the two pieces of bread to the three children.

The door of the cathedral opened slowly, and Robert, who wolfed down the bread, was pulled by his parents and quickly knelt down.