Chapter 124 Just Be Occupied Forever

The cold wind howled from the north wind and invaded Lieutenant Nokmo's neck, making him shiver uncontrollably, tightened his collar and shrank his body.

Looking up, the dark clouds in the sky were thicker than when they left the camp just now, as if they were covered with a layer of cotton that hadn't completely deseed.

"It looks like it's going to snow again." Lieutenant Nokmo exhaled lightly, and a cloud of white mist formed in front of him.

It's already mid-November. For this small town of Greenwetai, which is located in the middle of the former Frankish Kingdom and slightly north of the middle of the entire Sainz continent, it is not surprising that it is snowing.

Lieutenant Nokmo was originally an aborigine in a village near the small town of Greenville. He had lived here for more than ten years since he was a child, and he didn't leave until he joined the army of the Frankish Kingdom. Of course, he knew the weather here very well.

"Hey, captain, you said it's such a horrible weather, do we still need to run out to patrol?" A Frankish soldier who shrank his neck and followed Lieutenant Nokmo complained. "Even the rabbits are too cold to come out of their nests. I don't believe those Lampari would come to attack in this weather."

Lieutenant Nokmo glanced back at him, and snorted coldly: "Shut your beak, Makan. This is an order from above, do you have the guts not to carry it out?"

The soldier named Makan spat and muttered: "It's not the order of our Frankish commander, why do you have to listen? Those guys from the Maro Empire will only order us to do this kind of dirty work for them. They can do it themselves."

Lieutenant Nokmo frowned, glanced at the other members of the patrol team behind him, and found that the expressions on their faces were not too different from those of Ma Kan, and they all showed a trace of dissatisfaction, so he couldn't help sighing.

This is not surprising.

Not to mention that the soldiers under him were dissatisfied, even he was also somewhat dissatisfied.

Although with the help of the Maro Empire, the government-in-exile of the Frankish Kingdom and its troops finally had the hope of regaining their own territory from the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Drake, but because the Maro Empire troops occupied The absolute dominance made them soldiers of the Frankish Kingdom always sent out to do all kinds of dirty work. However, when calculating military merits, they are treated as if they do not exist, which will naturally cause the soldiers of the Frankish Kingdom to be extremely dissatisfied.

However, as an officer, Lieutenant Nuo Kemo knew more than these ordinary soldiers, so he understood that there was no way around this situation.

Without the help of the Maro Empire. The Frankish Kingdom had already perished several months ago, and there was no possibility of a counterattack at all.

Even if it wasn't for the fact that the Maro Empire hadn't dispatched a few magisters to join the war regardless of the possibility of violating taboos, I am afraid that even the Maro Empire would have no choice but to take the Kingdom of Lampari and the Duchy of Drake. hope.

So in the final analysis, the Frankish Kingdom is completely dependent on the Maro Empire, so what qualifications does it have to talk about its own status?

Complaints about soldiers. Lieutenant Nuo Kemo can understand, but relatively speaking, although he is also a little bit dissatisfied, he is more grateful.

If it wasn't for the help of the Maro Empire, it might be difficult for him to return to this familiar land in his life.

Since several months ago, the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Franks and the Maro Empire retreated one after another under the attack of the coalition forces of the Kingdom of Lampari and the Principality of Drake, and surrendered the small town of Greenville, Lieutenant Nokmo and himself stayed in the Family members in nearby villages have completely lost contact.

And half a month ago, after the Marfa coalition forces recaptured the small town of Greenview from the Lampari Kingdom, Lieutenant Nokmo took the time to go back. Reconnected with family.

Because of this, Lieutenant Nuo Kemo certainly has a sense of gratitude to the Maro Empire.

But thinking of the situation when he met his family again, Lieutenant Nokmo felt that his gratitude to the Maro Empire was not so clear...

After seeing his family members, to his surprise, not only did they not suffer all kinds of persecution by the army of the Lampari Kingdom as he imagined, but they were all radiant and full of energy, except that they were a little worried because they lost contact with him Besides, life seems to be better than before.

When referring to the situation after the Kingdom of Lampari occupied the place, the family members have no complaints against the Kingdom of Lampari. It was even full of praise, saying that after the Kingdom of Lampari occupied this place, they directly exempted most of the heavy taxes that ordinary farmers had to pay every year, and also sent a farmland magic mechanical harvesting team to help in the previous autumn harvest. They harvest. It makes their autumn harvest this year extremely easy.

Because of this, Lieutenant Nokmo's parents and grown-up brother who stayed at home could save some time to work for a few months in offices set up by several chambers of commerce in the Lampali Kingdom in the small town of Greenview. And based on this, he earned a total of more than 30 gold coins.

This situation was far beyond Lieutenant Nokmo's expectation, and it also made him feel a little doubtful.

The small town of Greenview was originally the private territory of Earl Green of the Frankish Kingdom. When this land was still under the rule of the Frankish Kingdom, the people of the Frankish Kingdom on the territory had to pay a large amount of taxes to the lord Earl Green according to tradition. Only part of the rations can be left to fill the stomach.

Although Earl Green is one of the few conscientious lords in the Frankish Kingdom who are willing to take care of civilian life, the people in almost all the territories, including Lieutenant Nokmo, still live very tensely, and it is even more difficult to be hungry. routine.

However, when the territory near the small town of Greenville fell under the control of the Lampari Kingdom, most of the taxes that the civilians in the territory should have paid were directly exempted, which instantly caused a huge change in the lives of these civilians. change.

Among other things, Lieutenant Nuo Kemo's family alone harvested 1,300 catties of wheat in this autumn harvest.

In the past, a total of 800 catties of the 1,300 catties of wheat would be handed over to Earl Green, and then leaving aside the part left for planting, he would only have around 400 catties left.

Except for Lieutenant Nuo Kemo, who has already joined the army, Lieutenant Nuo Kemo's family has five members. They have to rely on the four hundred catties of wheat to survive until the next spring harvest. One can imagine the hardships of life.

But when this place was occupied by the Lampari Kingdom, according to the new policy announced by the Lampari Kingdom, the 1,300 catties of wheat only needed to be paid up to 300 catties, and the rest was left to Lieutenant Nokmo’s family. For personal use.

One thousand catties of wheat compared to the previous four hundred catties of wheat. That was more than twice as much, which naturally made the life of Lieutenant Nokmo's family much easier.

Moreover, after the Lampari Kingdom occupied the small town of Greenview, several chambers of commerce from the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Rulson, and the Duchy of Drake moved in and carried out various preliminary developments on the small town of Greenview. A large number of local manpower was recruited, so that many people could find a job and receive several or even dozens of golden gold coins that these civilians could not even imagine before.

With the help of gold coins, life at Lieutenant Nokmo's house became more comfortable.

Because of the lack of food and clothing, every winter in the past was the most difficult time for Lieutenant Nokmo's family. But after this winter, the other five members of Lieutenant Nokmo’s family can not only have enough to eat, but also rely on the dozens of gold coins earned by their parents and adult younger brother to buy two new ones for each of them. The brand-new padded jacket produced by the Armani Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari no longer has to suffer from hunger and cold like before.

Thinking of the two new padded jackets that his younger siblings showed off to him, Lieutenant Nokmo couldn't help but look down at what he was wearing.

As an officer, he was equipped with better clothing than ordinary soldiers, but it was nothing more than a thin layer of cotton jacket under a layer of rotten leather armor that was so rough that it was almost worn out.

He didn't need to touch it with his hands at all, he could feel how light and thin the padded jacket was just by relying on his body, and he could even feel the cold wind directly seeping in, which showed how poor the quality of the padded jacket was.

But it was this rotten cotton jacket. When he was equipped, three gold coins were abruptly deducted from his officer's salary.

You know, his annual salary as a lieutenant officer is only fifteen gold coins.

Thinking of this, Lieutenant Nokmo raised a wry smile again.

In the past, his annual salary of fifteen gold coins was a great supplement to the family, which made the life of the family slightly better than that of other families in the village. This also allowed him to receive a lot of special treatment every time he returned home .

However, now, the younger brother has already earned more than ten gold coins just by working for a few months at the office of the Lampari Kingdom in the small town of Greenville.

Coupled with his parents' income, his fifteen gold coins are not so important.

Even when my younger brother talked about it with him again. With a look of disdain, he told him not to be a soldier at all, he might as well go to work in those chambers of commerce in the Lampari Kingdom.

Because he heard that if he did a good job in those chambers of commerce, it would not be surprising to even get fifteen gold coins a month.

besides. There is one more obvious difference.

The new padded jackets worn by the younger siblings are thick and warm, and they still look good. When they were bought from the Armani Chamber of Commerce, they only cost one gold coin and forty silver coins.

If you buy two at a time, you can even save ten silver coins.

In comparison, the value of the thin padded jacket he was wearing was not worth it.

But Lieutenant Nokmo had a hard time complaining. Because no matter in the former Frankish Kingdom or the Maro Empire where he stayed in the past few months, the price of padded jackets filled with precious cotton remained high.

With the thin padded jacket on his body, it would not be a problem to sell it for two gold coins.

God knows why this damn Armani Chamber of Commerce can sell so cheaply, aren't you afraid of losing money and killing them?

But after thinking about it, it made sense for the Frankish Kingdom to refuse the Armani Chamber of Commerce to enter the Frankish Kingdom.

If the Armani Chamber of Commerce came in, all the merchants in the Frankish kingdom who made a fortune by selling cotton jackets every winter would probably be squeezed out.

However... what does this have to do with ordinary civilians?

As a commoner who can't wait to break open a silver coin and spend it carefully, who wouldn't want to be able to buy a new padded jacket that is cheap, especially warm, and even looks better?

"Brother, it would be great if this place was occupied by the Lampari Kingdom forever."

Thinking of the innocent words that his eleven-year-old sister blinked and said, the wry smile on Lieutenant Nokmo's face deepened a little.

These words sound naive, but are they not from the heart of my sister, perhaps even from the heart of my parents and younger brother, and even from the hearts of all the civilians near the small town of Greenville? (~^~)