In the Name of the Queen

Chapter 226 Castle Prison

The romantic city of Xidai, the capital of the Golden Kite Republic.

It was once the capital of the First Empire of France and the Second Empire of the Golden Kite, and has a long history.

It was once synonymous with romance, freedom and prosperity.

But now it is different. It has become the base camp of suspicion and panic.

Xidai City is the most desirable big city for people in the entire Rodinia continent.

Although the Sussex people call Hansa and other places the three overseas provinces, in fact they are overseas, while Hansa is on the main continent.

Sussex City has a scale and prosperity that is not inferior to Xidai, but it is overseas, and its historical status and current status are slightly inferior to Xidai, the capital of the Golden Kite Republic.

The Golden Kite Plain is also the richest plain. Several rivers with a length of thousands of kilometers, such as the Xidai River, have washed out one of the best lands in the entire Rodinia continent.

Farming here does not need to worry about natural disasters or irrigation problems.

Even in 1792, when famine was raging everywhere, the Golden Kite Republic still did not have to worry too much about food problems. They even used a lot of high-quality land to grow grapes and barley for winemaking.

In previous years, they preferred to turn excess grain into fine wine and sell it all over the world, but this year is different.

If others are short of food, I have food, but it is not food, but gold.

The Republic experienced a major turmoil last year, which damaged the national strength and caused serious internal friction in the army.

Despite this, they still have hundreds of thousands of well-trained standing troops and can mobilize millions of people to join the army at any time.

Even the Sussex Empire, which claims to have the strongest comprehensive strength, and the Vladimir Empire, which has the strongest army, dare not invade the Golden Kite brazenly.

As long as they take a breath, they can restore the style of a top power.

However, the Golden Kite people have recently felt difficulty breathing and can't breathe at all.

President Marco's governance is too strict.

His policies are like a noose, tightening everyone's necks little by little, making it impossible to breathe.

Just a few days ago, he promulgated a new bill.

Organizing a group activity with more than ten people without approval will be considered as plotting against the law and will be arrested for investigation.

This also includes normal activities such as concerts, opera performances, poetry meetings, etc.

Everyone was stunned.

Is this a policy that can be formulated by humans?

Such a strict personnel control policy will only be formulated in wartime.

It is not wartime now!

People were silent for a long time. Someone suddenly had an idea and came up with a clever plan.

If everyone breaks the law, it means that no one breaks the law. The idea of not punishing the masses is very popular in this era.

So, the best opera house in the entire Golden Kite organized a grand performance and invited the best opera singers to perform the classic repertoire "Song of the Golden Kite".

This song praises the story of the early Golden Kite people resisting the brutal rule of the Magic Empire and spreading the ideas of equality, freedom, fraternity, etc., which are called the soul of the Golden Kite people.

This is a series of operas, and the most popular one is the second act, Freedom.

The performance venue is not in the opera house, but in the square. Tens of thousands of people gathered in the Triumphal Square, and the scale was no less than that of Sif's performance in the Royal Square.

Although these opera singers have the same singing level as Sif, the performance results are completely different.

Sif's singing evokes the old Sussex people's nostalgia for the emperor.

The actors of the Xidai Opera Company awakened the Golden Kite people's desire for freedom.

Soon, the white-hatted gendarmes came.

Because the inferior silver helmets on their heads were slightly white in color, these gendarmes were contemptuously called white hats by the Golden Kite people.

They are loyal lackeys of Marco and the Crescent Moon Party, completely loyal to Marco, and very cruel.

The masses raised their heads.

They didn't believe that the gendarmes could arrest them all.

There were many of them, nearly 80,000!

But they were wrong.

Marco decided to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys.

Even if this chicken was about the same size as the ancestor dinosaur, it would be arrested.

Tens of thousands of gendarmes surrounded the square, drove women and children out of the square, and took away all the adult men and teenagers with dissatisfied expressions.

No one knows how many people were arrested that day.

But the most conservative estimate is tens of thousands.

People were dumbfounded.

Although the Golden Kite Kingdom is large, it does not have a prison that can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

This kind of thing can be difficult for ordinary people, but Marco is not an ordinary person.

No prison? Easy. The dilapidated castle of the last emperor of the Golden Kite Second Empire can be used!

What to do if the castle is dilapidated?

Aren't these prisoners ready-made labor?

Let them work hard, sixteen hours a day! Sixteen hours is not the limit of Marco's conscience, but the limit of human physical strength.

Driven by Marco's cruelty and persuaded by the whip of the gendarmerie, at least 20,000 citizens of Xidai were arrested for watching a musical performance and began to serve hard labor.

This prison was named Castle Prison.

Marco was very satisfied with the drawings of the prison expansion plan, and praised this prison as a place of confinement that would never fall and was as solid as a fortress.

The heavy labor and poor living and eating conditions caused many people to die during the construction.

The number of bodies carried away every day started at dozens.

At first, there were people who came to collect the bodies, but in the end, they found that the efficiency was too low, so they simply found a group of domesticated hyenas to deal with the bodies.

These beasts have good teeth and are professional bone chewers.

In the hellish construction site, there were wailing everywhere.

It took only two and a half months to complete the renovation of the castle prison.

The prison designed to accommodate 30,000 people was even somewhat empty. After all, the designer Marco did not expect that 3,000 people would die during the construction process.

Seeing that only half of the people were living in the designed prison, Marco was very dissatisfied.

He continued to look for prisoners and sent more people to the castle prison.

The castle prison that could accommodate 30,000 people was occupied by 40,000 people.

Not only that, he also took a fancy to the former site of the Rose Palace outside the city and planned to build a second castle prison there.

Everyone thought that Marco was sick, mentally ill.

But Marco knew very well that he was not sick, but the world and the country were sick.

The Golden Kite Republic was very sick.

The last revolution did not completely eliminate the old nobles, allowing many nobles to transform into high-ranking officials.

An incomplete revolution is equal to no revolution at all.

This is Marco's philosophy.

Precisely because of the conflict of ideas, he launched a coup and killed Carlo (Alina's father). He used "legal" means to kill several close comrades-in-arms, sent tens of thousands of people to prison, and created the largest number of political prisoners in the world.

Standing on the edge of the highest terrace of the Presidential Palace, his sight could cover the whole city.

He looked at the Castle Prison with a cold look.

All the prisoners here were enemies, and they were all products of incomplete revolution.

He wanted to burn the old world with a blazing flame!

Wait, what happened over there in the Castle Prison?

Flames shot up into the sky, explosions were heard, and the wind brought people's shouts, but they were not very clear.

Someone attacked the Castle Prison? !

Marco was furious and called the secretary loudly.

Soon, the secretary with a worried look came over.

"Mr. President, what do you want?"

"Go and see what they are doing, what slogans they are shouting?"

A quarter of an hour later, the secretary came back with an ugly face.