Mount & Blade: Wind of War

Silver Frost Town, inside the tavern.

"I also agree with your decision, and arrangements will be made next. Just because of the rise of Gushan Castle's reputation and their various policies to benefit the people, a large number of peasants from the pioneering lords fled to Gushan Castle. Through us With a little push, most of the northern pioneer lords can come into conflict with the forces of Lonely Mountain Castle. Although this will not cause any harm to Lonely Mountain Castle, it can also suppress its development to a certain extent. "

"However, Miss, compared to the developing Lonely Mountain Castle, the Sin City of Constitut has become the biggest threat to the Northland Alliance. Conststat has unified the human refugee forces in the wilderness and established the Sin City. city, but he implements a complete slavery system, and from time to time he will send out large groups of troops to plunder border villages. If you leave him alone, it will be a great damage to your prestige, Miss. "

The four original large-scale forces in the wilderness were the Iron Hoof Tribe, which mainly engaged in farming and herding, the witch force that occupied the iron ore area of ​​the mountain fortress, the Murloc Hunting Tribe, which occupied the largest lake in the wilderness, and the human-based tribe. It is a deserted den of thieves with refugees as the main body, and its main business is commerce and robbery.

As the raging magic power in the wilderness gradually calmed down and the natural disasters ceased, the Ironhoof tribe gradually integrated into the Sims Royal Court, returning to the embrace of the beast-blood people.

The witch power of the mountain fortress was overthrown by the human slave force led by Rhodes, and became the glorious city and the city on the mountain.

It is difficult for the murlocs of the Fork Hunting Tribe to invade, but it is also very difficult for other forces to do anything to them, so they can be ignored for the time being.

However, the wilderness thieves, who were mainly human refugees, were now in a very embarrassing and frightening situation.

With the rioting magic in the wilderness subsided, this place is no longer the original three-no-no zone, and the forces of both the Orc Empire and the Human Empire are bound to enter and explore.

As for the wilderness thieves, even if they were just poor civilians evading taxes, how many of them can remain completely clean and have no blood on their hands after coming to the wilderness for a few years?

The biggest amulet disappeared, and disagreements arose within the Wilderness Thieves immediately. Some people wanted to join the Human Empire, some wanted to continue wandering freely, and some even wanted to join the Orc Empire. However, it didn't take long for these messy people to join. The demands were eliminated and unified, and the largest thief leader among the wilderness thieves, the King of Thieves Constat, decided to build his own city in this empty area of ​​​​power.

As long as you have soldiers and a city in your hands, you will receive preferential treatment whether you join the Orc Empire or the Human Empire.

The degree of this preferential treatment depends on how many soldiers you have in hand and how high and thick the city wall is. In a sense, Konstat has indeed grasped the essence.

Moreover, the wilderness thieves themselves have great advantages in building a city on the wilderness. They have already paid a huge price in the past years for the exploration capital that other forces have to pay to enter the wilderness.

Therefore, the Sin City, named after the King of Thieves Konstat himself, began to expand its sphere of influence in the wasteland.

On the other side, the sphere of influence of Gushan Castle.

A group of farmers wearing thin cloths were shivering on their way in the biting autumn wind, supporting each other.

"Dad, we have nothing. Can we really have our own land and our own slaves after arriving at Gushan Castle?"

A young man supporting the old man asked as he walked forward. It's not that he doesn't know his father's answer, but that he really wants to hear again about the life he can live in that city where humans come first.

It was a dignity and happiness that he had never had in his life.

"Didn't the bard who came to our village tell you that Gushan Castle has a large area of ​​uncultivated land, where everyone can eat enough, and even eat meat... Take a few steps quickly, don't be If the lord catches up, he will hang us."

Rhodes personally worships force. He believes in the theory of the Holy Ancestor: "Political power comes from the barrel of a gun." He believes that all power without the support of force is just a castle in the air.

But he is unwilling to use his own force against the human race. Even Rhodes can suppress the alien race while leaving a way for the other party to survive, although this way of survival is used to assist in suppressing and dividing the alien race.

Just like the "Slave Emancipation Act" requires captured alien slaves to work for Lonely Mountain Castle for twenty years, and then have the power and opportunity to become a free citizen.

That's because most adult slaves are very old when they come out after being enslaved for twenty years, and it is difficult for them to survive for a few more years.

In the future, when living standards improve and the life span of slaves increases, Rhodes will increase the working years in the "Slave Emancipation Act", but this increase in years will only bind those slaves who joined after the law was established, and It will not affect the foreign slaves who have already worked for Gushan Castle before. This will instead make the older generation of slaves cherish it more and create a certain sense of superiority in their hearts.

As his intelligence attributes improved, Rhodes summarized all aspects of knowledge he acquired in his previous life to further strengthen his dominance.

Other lords in this world and this era do not have such experience. Some people have a kind temperament and treat their subjects better, while some people have a cruel temperament and treat their subjects as if they were slaves.

For kind pioneering lords, the development speed of the territory is relatively slow, while for cruel pioneering lords, there will often be refugees in the villages and towns, that is, the people who originally belonged to their own villages and towns will flee to other villages and towns.

Many pioneering lords who worship force or even violence like Rhodes rule with brutal means. Once these refugees are caught... it is very difficult to die easily. They will nail these refugees to stakes and drain their last drop of blood.

"We have escaped so far, the lord can't catch up, let's take a rest." When this team of refugees just sat down and prepared to eat some grass roots and drink some water.

The ground suddenly shook faintly, and everyone looked at each other, and saw great fear in each other's eyes.

"The lord... has caught up?"

"It shouldn't be, there is no reason for him to run so far for us!" Amidst the fear and exclamation, the sound of horse hooves trampling the ground became clearer and closer at a very fast speed.