Utopia

"Kill! Destroy these bandits for me!"

On the morning of the next day, Engulet Ian Alfonso, a viscount previously conferred by King Deckard, led his own guards in a cavalry charge against a group of bandits who were looting his territory.

He is 29 years old this year. Since he married the daughter of King Deckard a few years ago, he has a good territory on the northern border of the Kingdom of Golson.

But although this good territory is not like those in the southeast, it is always infiltrated by dark elf forces. The problem is...

Bandits and robbers from the northern mountains and forests are also concerned about their own harvests.

In response, he lightly swiped the single-edged sword forward in his hand, and the bandit's head, which was originally holding a flail, was sliced ​​away by the sharp blade under the kinetic energy provided by the war horse under his crotch.

Although the sun above his head can still shine through the gaps in the clouds from time to time, casting golden light to the ground; but he has long known that the southeastern part of the kingdom has been in a state of heavy rain for three consecutive days, and he is deeply afraid that the heavy rain will hit his own territory. As he attacks, he also seizes crops.

However, as soon as he gave the order, the bandits and robbers hurried over to "help with the harvest."

So, kill!

Not a single bandit or robber can be spared!

Uh-huh!

Thanks to the fact that his father-in-law is His Majesty the King, Engulet felt extremely happy that his wife got a good sword from his father-in-law, the King.

Although the sword in his hand was only edged on one side, this long sword that could be used in both foot and horse combat was ten thousand times more useful than the Gladius dagger handed down from his father.

At least he didn't have to ride on a war horse and use stabbing movements to fight. Instead, he could completely lay the long sword in his hand flat and use the impact of the horse to cut open the head of the bandit and robber.

"Lord Viscount, the bandit reinforcements in front shot us with bows and arrows, and our forward route was blocked."

"Trash! Form a formation for me! Push through slowly!"

"yes."

Upon hearing the report from his subordinates, Engulet felt angry. Because he himself could guess that the bandits and robbers in the border areas were not actually bandits and robbers, but regular troops of certain countries.

Yes.

There are five countries in the north of the Kingdom of Galson, and the monarchs of these five countries all established their own regimes as bandits.

Therefore, on the surface, these five countries abide by the laws and regulations of the upper class, but in fact they often allow people to go abroad to engage in burning, killing, and looting.

After all, these five countries used to make a fortune through robbery. Now if they want to continue to live a good life, they can just go out and rob.

The result is that the border areas between the five countries and other countries have basically become bandit nests. As for whether the monarchs of the five countries will recognize it...

The monarchs of the five countries would not admit it openly, and openly expressed their gratitude to your country for helping to suppress the bandits.

Of course, this does not mean that the five countries have no way to deal with it. After all, being a bandit is not an easy and pleasant thing. If you don't do it well, you will lose your head.

As a result, Engulet took a group of guards and watched the conscripted infantry below forming a shield wall under the command of trumpet generals one after another, surrounding the desperate bandits. He felt extremely happy.

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"We...we surrender! Please don't kill us!"

With such a passage, Engulet was happy to have a hundred more slaves in his territory.

Compared to the real masterminds behind the bandits, who are unwilling to admit it, Ngulet is a lord who doesn't feel that there are many slaves in his territory at all. On the contrary, his purpose in killing the bandits was to capture the bandits as slaves until the slaves had no strength to stand up again for a day.

So he used this method to warn his neighbors in the north that being a bandit was not a good thing.

If he is caught, he will be worked as a slave until death!

In fact, as far as he knew, the nobles in the northern part of the Galson Kingdom basically followed this routine. After all, if you encounter bandits and robbers, it's definitely not worth killing them all at once.

Capturing them as slaves and working them until death is the best option for everyone. And there’s the added bonus that neighbors to the north will hesitate.

Going south to become a bandit and a robber, you have to be a slave or something like that for the first time you come out for activities... This is not a good thing for the five countries. After all, the purpose of establishing their political power was not to provide slaves to other countries.

Although it is said that openly selling some of its people as slaves can be used as a country's income, as long as its citizens can have more children, but which country's people can tolerate such a policy for a long time?

In order not to be sold into slavery, the people will definitely rebel.

What's more, obtaining sufficient income from selling slaves or robbing is not a long-term solution. If agriculture, handicrafts, and commerce are not developed as they should be, there will be no hope for a country or even a territory.

Especially after gathering a group of people from the Principality of Aiken in his own territory, he understood why the Principality of Aiken was so prominent.

It is because of these three things that the Principality of Aikeen can prosper.

At the same time, what he didn't quite believe was that the immigrants in the Principality of Aike were in better physical condition than the vast majority of the people in the Kingdom of Galson.

The reason is that the people of the Principality of Aiken do not eat with their hands, and they have the habit of washing their hands before eating using a tableware made of two wooden skewers.

In this regard, Engulette, who has always eaten with a knife and fork, has made special observations and analysis. The people of Akern are actually doing this to avoid dirtying their food with their dirty hands, which may lead to their death from food poisoning.

Yes.

Many nobles, including his father, did not realize this. After all, in the era of the Great Emperor, nobles were taught the etiquette and knowledge of eating with a knife and fork.

As for the civilians... As long as they can pay taxes and pray to the Lord at regular times to repent, which noble will care about the lives of the civilians?

For this reason, Engulette put the ring-handled single-edged sword in his hand back into the sheath, watching hundreds of bandits raise their hands to surrender, while thinking about whether to write a letter to his father-in-law.

You must know that the main force of the kingdom's army is civilians, and the physical fitness of civilians is not good. They also use dirty hands to solve the problem of eating. Then a noble like him takes such a group of civilians with weak physical fitness to the battlefield. Not to mention the dark elves, even if they fight a bandit, it is likely that the soldiers will collapse due to their poor physical fitness.

Of course, he now began to require his guards and junior officers to eat with tableware, whether it was a knife and fork or chopsticks.

And they could and must wash their hands before eating.