A Tale of Strategies For the Throne - 60. Chapter 60

The boy knelt in front of the two of them, his forehead pressed tightly to the ground, and his whole body was shaking.

After accidentally seeing the exposed corner of malachite, he vaguely guessed that the child in civilian clothes must be the child of a nobleman or a wealthy merchant, because only they could own malachite.

He went to the streets today to do odd jobs, because he barely knew a few numbers, so even if he was still young, there were shops willing to let him do odd jobs, guarding the shop and counting the goods. After he got today’s wages, he has been worrying all the time. The family is almost a mess, and his mother is still seriously ill. This little money can barely buy some ointment, but it can’t make her better.

Although their family was poor, but with the little finances left by the dead father and the hard work of the mother, the family can still guarantee food and clothing. The mother even saved a little savings, and then found a master who knew how to count. Recognize numbers and some simple and commonly used words.

Common people can only learn the crude and simple words of common people at best, and the beautiful and noble Aaron Landis script, which can only be learned and used by nobles and priests.

noble.

The boy thought, while feeling huge fear in his heart, he couldn’t help gritting his teeth with hatred.

If it weren’t for those damn-

His mother will not fall to where it is now!

Obviously because of the kindness bestowed by King Camos not long ago, he and his mother are still looking forward to a brand new, clean and bright new house, full of hope for the future.

Not only them, but also the people around them, everyone who lived in the slum talked about it cheerfully, grateful for the grace of King Camos, and happily looking forward to the day when they moved into the new house.

However, only a few days later, they were thrown into hell from heaven.

The facts made them realize that these lowly poor people do not deserve to have a bright future.

His mother was seriously injured because of this incident, the house was also smashed, and all her savings were spent.

He didn’t think much about it when he picked up the purse, but when he saw the tip of the malachite, he was a ghost. He secretly followed the kid for a long time, and the heavens and people were fighting in his mind, telling him that he couldn’t do this, and then again. Thinking of her dying mother who was seriously ill in bed.

He thought, if this continues, my mother may not last long. Although he feels ashamed of robbing a child, but… but his father is dead, if even his mother has died, he will be forced to become a slave to the group of nobles who killed his mother, then he Would rather die!

[Malachite is the most beloved gemstone of the god of wisdom Solga, it can drive away evil, drive away the sick, and regain the soul of the dying from the hands of death. 】

The young man with these words in his mind finally couldn’t resist the temptation and snatched the child’s malachite talisman.

As long as he can save his mother, he is willing to pay any price!

The boy kneeling on the ground gritted his teeth and thought.

He has indeed saved his life, even if he uses his life to make amends to this noble child, as long as he can save his mother——

Looking at the young man kneeling in front of him, Gallan did not speak, but bypassed the young man and ran to the stake.

On the low wooden stakes, the original beautifully carved malachite tokens have been smashed to pieces. The emerald green rubble is full of the wooden stakes, large and small, and the characters originally carved on it are no longer visible. I can’t tell that this is a token.

Fataya sighed after following him.

“You actually have this kind of gem… You are not a child of a commoner family?”

She asked: “Are you a junior noble?”

Because Gallan had a fairer complexion like her, Fataya guessed that the child should be from a lower-level noble family like her, and should still be a very wealthy family.

She looked at the smashed malachite talisman with regret.

Just by looking at the hollowed-out line pattern on the larger stone, you can guess that the complete amulet must be very delicate. The child said that it was uploaded by the ancestor, and it was broken like this, which is really a pity.

Fataya sighed and turned around. The trousers on her lower body were slightly tight, and her pair of toned and slender thighs became more visible. As soon as she took her long legs, she stepped directly to the boy’s side and reached out to hold him.

“Okay, follow me to the city guard.”

As soon as the boy heard this, he immediately struggled, but the female knight pressed him to death with one hand, and he couldn’t get rid of it.

He begged: “I won’t run away, but please, my mother—”

Fataya just remembered. The thief boy just shouted that he wanted to save his mother with malachite powder. She turned her head and found that the blond child did not know when he had reached the door of the low wooden house.

She dragged the boy over, stood behind the boy and looked into the room.

I saw a middle-aged woman lying on the bed with a haggard, the house was very old, but cleaned. Women in a coma are all wounded, their faces are gray, their breath is weak, and their lips are so dry that they will stop breathing in the next second.

And looking at those wounds, many of them were already inflamed, and even a few of them were serious and began to fester and pus.

The female knight was taken aback, and the boy broke free of her hand, ran to the stake and rushed into the room holding the broken malachite, and then carefully wiped the malachite powder on the pus-filled wounds. Wiping it while watching the woman’s face nervously.

Garlan looked around the room and thought it was a bit strange, but it couldn’t be said to be strange. When he took a closer look, he suddenly understood. It turned out that the tables, chairs and other supplies in this room were all wrong. Not only were they old, they were almost all rotten, and it seemed that they were smashed recently, and they were barely repaired and used.

It feels like… Someone has come to beat up recently.

Gallan was still thinking about it, and suddenly heard a bang from outside, and then the sound of a cracking wooden fence being smashed.

The teenager who was still kneeling on the low bed applying malachite powder to a woman suddenly shook his body when he heard this sound, his face became pale, he looked at his mother who was still sleeping, gritted his teeth, got up and walked out.

“Get out of here! You are not welcome here!”

He yelled at the people coming.

“Little guy, what’s the noise?”

A frivolous voice sounded, very frivolous, Garland followed the sound and saw a thin, tall and frivolous man standing there, followed by more than a dozen strong men of five big and three thick.

He looked at the boy’s face with a smile, but his curved eyes were full of malice.

“Master is here to give you money, don’t you understand?”

He took out a purse and squeezed it. The sound of the coin crashing sounded. The tall man squinted his eyes to listen to the coin crash, as if he had heard the most beautiful music in the world.

He smiled and gave the money bag to the boy.

“Hey, money, don’t even have money, are you stupid?”

“Seeing that this place is about to be renovated. A new house can only be bought with money. I will give you money. It is just right for you to buy a new house.”

The man squinted his eyes and smiled and said, “That is to say, the uncle has a good heart and is willing to lend you money, why don’t you accept my kindness from uncle? Isn’t this throwing my kindness to the ground?”

The boy gritted his teeth and said, “Go! I would rather die than borrow your money!”

The man let out a vicious light in his eyes.

“Just say that your kid is ignorant. Come, I’ll’reason’ with your mother. Your mother is in the house, right? Come on—”

As he walked forward, he winked at the dozen or so big guys behind him, and they continued to smash them ping-pong.

The wooden fence surrounding the yard, some labor tools in the yard, earthen jars and the like were all smashed to pieces by them.

“What are you doing? What are you doing! Don’t move my mother!”

The boy flushed anxiously, and rushed to stop the tall man, but he was pushed hard by the man, staggered back and almost fell.

A hand stretched out from behind and pressed his shoulder, so that he did not fall to the ground.

“What are you doing?”

A clear female voice sounded, and the female knight who came out of the room appeared in front of everyone.

The man froze for a moment, and he stopped trying to break into the house with fear.

“Oh, isn’t this Lord Fataya? What are you doing in such a broken place?”

“you know me?”

“Where is it, you, the female knight who has been a city gate guard at a young age, doesn’t know.”

The man smiled and said, although he was a little afraid, he was obviously not afraid.

“Today, the master asked us to do something. Who knew I would run into you here… Oh, yes, we are doing Kabei money.”

The female knight frowned.

She said: “I’m here to do something, and I will leave soon.”

“Well, my brothers and I won’t disturb you now.”

The man said so, turned around and left.

The city gate guard is here. Although there are people behind him who are not afraid of her, it is not appropriate to make a noise. After all, it is a felony for civilians to harm aristocrats. He will come later, and he is not in a hurry at this time, anyway, the family is desperate.

He went to another shop first and asked that one to borrow the money.

Tsk tsk, why are these pariahs so disobedient? He has to bring someone to the door to fight and kill. How ugly, it’s ugly to be honest and obedient, just borrow the money, and you have to let him go back and forth. To run–

While the man complained in his heart, he took the person away.

Gallan on the side was a little fascinated by watching this play. Those fierce and wicked people over there insisted on giving money to this young man, and the young man didn’t want to live or die.

It feels like one wants to borrow money forcibly, and the other refuses to borrow.

What the hell is this?

“Are they… are they going to lend you money?”

Garlan asked.

The boy was originally staring blankly at the back of the group of people leaving, and was suddenly excited by Garlan’s question.

“I won’t borrow it! Even if I am killed here! I will never borrow a cent from those villains!”

He gritted his teeth.

After speaking so violently, he sank down on the ground, holding his head in his hands, looking at a loss but helpless.

“I’m sorry… I’m really sorry…”

He muttered an apology, and his eyes flushed.

“I’ll go with you, I’ll go to jail, as long as my mother works, she will be fine…”

Fataya frowned and watched the group of thugs leave, and then asked: “Kabei money line, the actual controller behind it is the chief director.”

The Chief Secretary is a high-ranking person in the royal court second only to the left and right sides. At the same time, his family is also the in-laws of the previous king and is very prominent in the royal city.

She did not dare to provoke such a low-level noble, how could the untouchables in the slums provoke that money line?

“How did you get into Kabei Money?”

The young man sitting on the ground with his head slumped in his arms paused for a while, and then began to talk in a choked tone.

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“Gallan hasn’t gotten up yet?”

Huimos asked, this was the second time he had come to Garlan in the afternoon.

The maid knelt on the ground and lowered her head to answer: “Yes, Your Highness, Prince Garland has been sleeping all the time.”

Because Gallan had told them not to wake themselves up, they just kept guarding in the courtyard, not daring to enter the house.

Was it because I was tired of archery in the morning?

Hiemos thought so, and glanced across the room again.

The room was quiet, and through the open window, one could vaguely see the blankets bulging up into a ball on the bed. The child seemed to like to wrap himself in a blanket on the bed, like a ball.

He shook his head, turned around and planned to leave, and come back at dinner, and suddenly swish, a golden figure like an arrow rushing past his feet.

When he turned his head, he saw that the little lion had fallen on the door and scratched the door with his paws.

Now Nega almost came here every other time, the original delicate carved wooden door was scratched with claw marks by it.

Hiemos walked over quickly, trying to pick up the little guy who was disturbing Garlan’s rest. Who knows that he hasn’t walked over yet, the little lion heard his footsteps, turned around, screamed at him fiercely, and then turned around and ran and jumped, but he jumped directly into the concealed window next to him. Get in from there.

This guy–

As soon as Huimos reached out his hand, before he could pinch it, he could only watch it jump up the window, rush into the room, and then threw excitedly on the ball on the bed.

Whoops!

The little lion just wailed in excitement when the whole lion suddenly fell down.

The bulging mass of the bed was crushed by its small body, and the blanket spread out, revealing a large mass of down.

Nega’s entire lion plunged into the large group of feathers, and the feathers that were smashed by it flew all over the room.

The fluffy little lion sat in a pile of feathers with his head covered and covered his head, with a dumb face, and then sneezed with the irritation of the thin feathers.

Heymos, who jumped into the room from the window following the little Nega, looked at the empty bed and the feathers full of the room, but Gallan was not seen, and his gaze suddenly drenched.

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In addition to the royal family and nobles, the people of Aaron Landis are divided into three classes.

Common people, untouchables, slaves.

The civilians have a certain amount of constant assets and usually have small savings. They can do business, learn the civilian language, and even become grassroots officials and are protected by the law.

The untouchables are usually from poor families and have difficulty maintaining food and clothing every day. They do the hardest, most tiring and dirty work in the city, but with the lowest wages, they are despised everywhere.

Usually untouchables gather in the dirtiest and most chaotic shadow corners of the city. The places where they gather are called slums. They lead an extremely hard life, extremely humble, hard and numb.

But this time, King Camos gave the untouchables in the royal city a hope.

King Camos issued an imperial order to renovate the slums of the royal city, repair this messy place into a clean and tidy place, and build houses, roads and shops on the same scale.

This command immediately exploded the pot in the royal city.

You know, the housing prices in Wangcheng are extremely expensive, which can be described as an inch of gold. However, because the slums are too dirty, no one has ever made an idea about that place.

But now Wang Ling, everyone knows that after the renovation of that place, the land price and housing price will surely increase exponentially, and it is possible to double it several times. As a result, countless greedy noble officials are ready to move, wanting to act first and take the land there into their own hands.

However, King Camos knew very well the greed of some officials and nobles. Therefore, in order to prevent them from secretly using leases and other means to take the land as their own, he issued an order that the renovated houses and shops can only be sold, and money must be used. Buy it or you can’t use it.

At the same time, in order to protect the interests of the original untouchables, he also issued an order that untouchables living in slums can buy a small house at a very small price, provided that they must be untouchables who originally lived here.

The price is really very low. Even if it is a pariah, most people can get it out, but they can’t get it out. They can borrow a sum of money from the state, buy a house, and then pay it back slowly.

only……

There are policies and measures to counter.

Aristocratic officials who are as greedy as silverfish are always good at finding loopholes in the law.

Don’t let us buy it at a low price, right?

Okay, just let those untouchables buy a house first.

By the way, don’t you need a sum of money to buy a house?

Come and come, I will introduce you a money bank, and you can borrow it.

Mortgage, no hurry, just use your future house as a mortgage.

What? Do you want to borrow a national loan?

No, you can only borrow from those money banks.

What? Do you have enough money? Don’t borrow?

You can’t borrow it!

If you don’t borrow my money, I won’t let you buy this house.

What, are you still reluctant to borrow?

As a result, people come to make trouble, smash, and hurt people every day, until you are willing to borrow money.

In short, right or wrong is forcing you to borrow this money from me.

Of course, the interest on this loan is terribly high, and it is still profitable. Even the civilians who borrowed this kind of money may not be able to pay off, let alone the poor untouchables.

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With the support of some forces behind them, the officials involved in these matters were stubborn and deceived.

As a result, these secret operations have caused the noble officials behind the scenes to succumb to their mouths. The transformation of the slums has not even begun, and a large number of land and houses have almost fallen into their hands. They held countless loan slips in their hands. When the time came, when the untouchables got the house, they would take these slips to force their debts.

Such a high profit can not be repaid by the untouchables, of course, they can only repay the mortgaged house.

After all, paying off debts is justified.

The house is still not enough. What should I do? I can only sell myself to repay the debt.

It is conceivable that by that time, the vast majority of the untouchables in this slum will not only lose their houses, but also lose most of their life savings, and will become slaves to those noble officials.

It was originally a project that benefited the country and the people, but it has become the fat in the mouths of the greedy noble officials, who eat human flesh and drink human blood.

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When looking at the message in the previous chapter…

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I:”???”

A look dumbfounded.

Wait, guys, your focus is completely wrong.