Snowstorm in Zalambra (4)

Downtown, in a basement.

The room was filled with smoke and a group of people were arguing inside.

Suddenly, the door opened.

Everyone turned their heads away as if frightened.

"It's me."

Standing at the first seat of the round table was a sturdy man with a scar on his eyebrow. He asked in a deep voice, "Why are you late?"

"…those children ran away, and the emperor sent people to catch them. It happened to be my turn to patrol." Tels said after a moment of silence.

"Come here."

"Yes, uncle."

Telles stood on Andrenon's left.

"Don't worry, we will rescue those children sooner or later." An Lienong raised his head, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said softly.

Tels nodded.

An Lienong asked, "How do you feel after your inspection today?"

"They didn't notice. The nobles only knew how to hold banquets. Some foreign envoys came in and they were receiving them. It seemed that because of the situation, they didn't dare to allow more important envoys to come. They were all strangers they had never seen before."

"It doesn't matter. They are only responsible for delivering messages." Deliveryman An Lie handed him a map. "Let someone tell you the action plan for the next few days. It's very simple anyway. Just remember it..."

The group discussed for another three hours and finally finalized the details of the action.

"Comrades, success or failure depends on these seven days. Take off the emperor's dog head and create a new world that belongs to us."

"Sarah!!" Dozens of voices roared in unison.

The representatives of the serfs, workers, and shops all bumped fists with An Lienong and left through the secret passage.

Tels tried to persuade Anlenon to stay, "Uncle, I still want to save someone."

Andrenong threw the cigarette with only the filter left on the ground and stepped on it. "Is it that little princess?" He pushed Tels's shoulder. "The House of Lords randomly assigned you to a dispensable princess. Do you really think you are her knight?"

Tels said calmly: "She didn't participate in anything. She was locked in that room the whole time. She is also a victim."

An Lienong narrowed his eyes and thought for a moment, "Not many people have seen her?"

"right."

"After everything is over, you can bring the person out, don't let anyone else know, change the name and hide for a while. It doesn't matter whether you want to adopt or get engaged by then."

Tels nodded, "Thank you, uncle."

Anlenon put one hand on Tels' cheek and used his thumb to pull up the corner of his mouth, revealing his teeth. "Why don't you smile more?"

Tels: “…”

"Tsk, that's boring."

An Lienong took his hand back and shook his head. "Just remember to cooperate with me later. But I don't think I need you."

Tels: "...Uncle, please be careful."

An Lienong laughed sarcastically: "Me? What power can that dog emperor have without Bei Feng? It's a pity that I waited for so long. This dynasty has already been rotten. It's time to change people."

After listening to Vera's third-person perspective, everyone in the room fell silent.

Although Cheryl and Uriza Rambla were not very good at learning it, they could at least understand the outline of the story.

Inger was thinking secretly.

[Queen Lucia must hate Zalambra, so is her intention to climb up to Chiune so that she can take power in Chiune and then attack Zalambra?]

[No, then why did she return to Zalambra?]

This was something he could not come up with no matter how hard he tried.

After all, how can a mentally normal person guess the psychology of a mentally twisted person?

No matter how tragic a person's past is, it does not mean that what she is doing now or will do in the future can be forgiven.

Alex clenched his fists several times while listening to the story. He said in a deep voice, "I want to do one more thing."

Inger knew what he was going to say, so he said, "Wait until they start to do something. It's not good to scare them in advance. Then we can release them during the chaos."

Alex nodded at him.

Bibi Dai asked: "What happened?"

Inger didn't answer for now, he pointed at Vera and Ninifer.

Alex shook his head and said, "They may have some understanding of the situation here and can provide some information."

Inger looked back and forth between them and said, "That's fine."

He scanned the area and said, "Then let's start organizing the intelligence we have obtained."

Vera looked at the few people warily, not knowing what they were thinking.

Ninif thought excitedly, "Are they spies from another country? Are they here to kill the emperor? I hope they succeed!"

Wu Rui spoke first.

"I see a lot of them downtown." He pulled a few books from his bag.

The covers were all a mess of pornographic gg or scrapbook clippings of noble anecdotes from the streets.

Inger and others flipped through the book and took a few glances, then they understood immediately.

The contents here are all inflammatory revolutionary theoretical articles.

Banned stuff is flying around everywhere these days.

"Where did this come from?" Inger asked.

Wu Rui said, "I guess the original book came from the Gray Top Countries. As for the printing and distribution, there should be many people doing this in secret. These booklets are very cheap and easy to get. There are also many printing errors, but once more people buy them, it will be a very objective profit. I secretly saw that some factory workers like to get together to discuss these things. The few farmers who can read and other farmers talk about the contents in it very clearly."

Inger had the historical experience from his previous life, and he also learned about the history and current situation of this country before coming to Zalambra, so he quickly figured out what was going on.

Before coming to Spring Palace, they stayed in a hotel in the city for a few days, and at that time they could intuitively feel the tense atmosphere of the country that was about to come.

If Zalambra was a weak country, it would have disappeared from the stage of history long ago. But it was one of the three great empires. The Zalambra Dynasty ruled this vast land for nearly 500 years, which was longer than that of Cune and Riviera.

Before Sampsis Zarambla, there was a truly powerful empress, Virtine Zarambla, who once stood on equal footing with Emperor Riviera and the former Emperor of Cune.

Thirty or forty years ago, Queen Veldin created the Knights of the North Wind, which is still as famous as ever today. She herself is also a top eighth-level knight.

She led the formal reform of "constitutional monarchy". Although she still held some power in her hands, she managed to complete the reform of parliament smoothly under the impact of the mechanical revolution.

Although there is a corrupt monarch now, at that time, it formulated the most comprehensive labor legislation in the world, introduced the first social security system, and formulated an illiteracy elimination plan. At that time, hospitals and schools were built in Zalambra, and the entertainment industry, especially music and drama, was at the forefront of the world. At that time, the world-renowned play "The Goddess of Spring" written by Pochconelli was hard to get tickets for the theater performance, and people came from all over the world to see it.

The empress also made great efforts to abolish slaves in Zalambra. As a result, under the high pressure of a group of nobles, the "good farmers buy their citizenship and exchange their citizenship" bill was passed, allowing a large number of slave families to escape from slavery.

In this country, the situation was not like this 20 years ago. According to the older people in this country, the inflation rate was much lower than it is now, and the price of goods was low. There were no beggars starving or freezing to death on the streets. Workers could earn a good salary by working less than eight hours a day, so they could buy new clothes and even have time to develop hobbies such as dancing. Farmers could fill their warehouses with food produced by handwork in a year, and even if they paid land taxes, they could still have a sumptuous meal at the end of the year and during the Spring Festival.

Unfortunately, Queen Virgin remained unmarried and had no children. She once thought about finding an outstanding successor, but encountered many obstacles in Zalambra, where bloodline is more important than any other country.

When she died suddenly of an acute illness, there was only one person in her family tree, Sampsis from the Far East, who had a faint blood relationship with her, who was qualified to inherit the throne.

As for the child she chose, he was aborted long ago by that group of conservative aristocrats.

For those entrenched aristocratic families, an excellent emperor who carried out radical reforms was far less useful than a puppet emperor who was extremely licentious but did nothing to build the country.

This method allowed the empire to survive for five hundred years, and if it had not happened in this era, it might have worked.

The mechanical revolution has brought about changes in all aspects of society.

The most important thing is the birth of a new class.

If the old capital controlled the land and a large number of serfs, then the new capital controlled large factories, banks, shops and a large number of workers through the mechanical revolution.

Most of these people were probably born into commoner families, and some were illegitimate sons of declining noble families. Once they gained control of the money, they were bound to have conflicts of interest with the old capital, and they were eager for power.

At this time, ordinary people became tools in the struggle between new and old capital.

Both parties are using the people to protect their own rights. By using nationalism or promising democratic rights, the government appeals to the people's national sentiment and patriotism, while the opposition promises the people possible freedoms and welfare, including freedom of employment, speech and morality, compensation for work-related injuries, educational subsidies, public infrastructure construction, and pension security. These freedoms actually push them to overthrow the current government and subvert the current country and regime.

The emperor's debauchery and cruelty were a significant catalyst. The situation favored the House of Commons.

There were all kinds of revolutionary literature flying around in the country, but the publishing fees were provided by big capitalists and industrialists. Because of its concealment and scarcity, it provided a good income for revolutionaries and sponsors. Some underground revolutionary parties and factions made huge profits from the sales of illegal political literature introduced from abroad, and they also had the funds needed to support their activities.

Revolution is not something that can be accomplished with passion alone; it requires money. Where does the money come from? It comes from here.

The people thought that it was their own will that shook the feudal rule, but in fact they were just being used as pawns by others.

In fact, in early 1890, the people of Zalambra were not yet starving. Although the grain harvest had decreased due to a severe cold wave, the stock from previous years was still there. The revolution should not have come at this time.

Although there was a peasant rebellion in October 1890, and many before that, they were all quickly suppressed due to lack of strength.

But this time is different.

In November 1891, now, the revolutionary force was led by the Cavaliers of the North Wind. This was the main force that Zalambra used to fight and suppress civil unrest. Its leaders rebelled.

Several rebellions by serfs consumed a considerable amount of labor, making the already poor harvest even worse. A large number of people went to the cities to work, and grain production dropped significantly.

In addition, in order to prepare for the Spring Festival, the emperor and the nobles continued to impose heavy taxes, hold lavish banquets, build palaces, and waste money. The large factories began to squeeze wages and extend working hours, and the farmers and workers began to feel hungry.

Being hungry in non-wartime is unbelievable. Most of the slaves in Zalambra have been suffering from hunger under the high pressure of the rebound in the past two years. So they were the first to be unable to bear it.

A revolution was the product of the conflicts between the emerging capitalist class and the old aristocracy. It was led by ambitious militarists, who added fuel to the already fierce conflicts between landlords and peasants and workers, and incited peasants and workers to launch a revolution. Although overthrowing the feudal monarchy was a huge progress, the ultimate beneficiaries were still the bourgeoisie.

That’s why there was the Second Revolution.

Inger told them about the recent situation and did not reveal what would happen in the future.

Vera: *"…if it weren't for your accent, I would have thought you were from Zalambra."

Wu Rui: "This is much more than what you can learn in modern history class."

Cheryl: "Ying, come back and give me some tutoring, right? I'll pay. Oh, you don't need money, then I'll teach you archery!"

Ninifu: *"Speak more!"

Bibi Dai: "Well, that's right. It coincides with my idea."

Inger rolled his eyes: "…"

Alex continued, "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that something is going to happen in this country, but things are still the same in the Spring Palace."

So loose, in fact, that he began to wonder if it was an act.

Vera and Ninifer looked at each other, and Ninifer threw herself into Vera's arms.

Vera said: "You don't have to overestimate the level of the people here. Those who can think of your level have either already escaped, or are preparing to cause trouble, or know the situation but can't do anything..."

Vera's last sentence was hinting that she and the little princess were of this kind.

Ninifu raised her fist: "I am on the side of the people, too!"

Vera patted her hands to quiet her.

Inger also agreed with Vera's words. This was the history presented in the comics. The Zalambra dynasty with a history of nearly 500 years collapsed in just seven days, forming a new government and country.

Bibidai: "Are we going to kill the emperor?"

Vera was shocked.

Cheryl tightened her arms around her things. "I have no objection."

Wu Rui threw up his hands: "It's damn right."

Alex said: "He is just one of the targets, but we are just there to make up for him. He has others to kill him."

Bibi raised her eyebrows: "What do you mean?"

Inger said in a deep voice: "The one we want to kill is Anlenon Nabuchi, the current leader of the Knights of the North Wind."

Vera hugged Ninifer tightly.

Ninif heard the pronunciation of a familiar name, but she had no idea what they were talking about and was completely confused.

Wu Rui: "...So you have to let us judge for ourselves."

Alex: “Yes.”

Cheryl asked, "I don't understand. Isn't he the leader of the Revolutionary Army? Isn't he on the good side?"

Inger chuckled and said, "Cheryl, there is no such thing as pure good or bad in this world, only different standpoints."

Wu Rui frowned and asked, "So your position is to kill him? What did he do?"

Alex: "We can't tell you our reasons yet, but he must die so that more people can survive. We act for this reason."

Inger: "I will take you to witness all of this next. You can judge for yourself."

Wu Rui and Cheryl looked at each other, and saw the confusion and heaviness in each other's eyes. Wu Rui asked: "If we decide not to kill, will you do it? You said before that you would go home."

Inger was about to nod when Alex suddenly laughed and said, "I'm sorry, I lied to you."

Inger widened his eyes slightly.

Alex didn't look at him and continued, "If you don't do it, I will let Ying send you back first and I will do it myself."

Bibi Dairao asked with interest: "What if we stop you?"

Alex laughed: "You can't stop me."

The expressions on the three people's faces changed suddenly.

Inger squeezed Alex's arm.

[What's wrong with this guy? Is he crazy? ]

Alex pulled Inger's hand off. "There is no room for compromise in this matter. If he doesn't die, the number of people who will die later will be unimaginable. I can't gamble on this matter. I called you here because this way the success rate will be higher."

Bibidai: "Why are you so sure? It's as if you have seen it before..."

Wu Rui interrupted him and asked, "Is it related to the Pope's prophecy?"

Cheryl: "Alex, what are you talking about?"

Alex's smile became less aggressive, and he said, "But I'm sure you guys will think the same as I do."

Bibi Dai: "...My hands are a little itchy, practice with me."

Wu Rui: "Ha, I have the same idea."

Cheryl: "Yes! When will you take us to see it?"

Inger seemed to see the angry expressions on their faces, which were often the same as his own, and he felt a deep resonance.

Inger: "Soon, it will start tomorrow."

Inger and Alex looked at Vera.

Vera said with interest: "We will stay here and not go anywhere. We are ordinary people and cannot go out."

The door was welded shut, the windows were very high, and they weren't acrobats or knights, so they couldn't get out.

(There are references to historical documentaries and other materials, but any countries and history that appear in this article are all fictional.)