Magic Industry Empire - 1110. Chapter 1110

The cold wind roared from the north wind and penetrated into Lieutenant Nokmo’s neck, causing him to shiver, tighten his collar hard, and shrink his body.

Looking up, the dark clouds in the sky were already thicker than when they left the camp just now, and it was so gloomy as if they were covered with a layer of cotton that was not completely deseed.

“It looks like it’s going to snow again.” Lieutenant Nokmo let out a breath, and a clear white mist formed in front of him.

It was already the weather in mid-November. For this small town of Greenwich, located in the middle of the original Frankish kingdom and slightly north of the entire Sainz continent, even if it was snowing, it was nothing strange.

Lieutenant Nokmo was originally an aboriginal in a village near the small town of Greenwich. He lived here for more than ten years since he was a child. 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 this kind of horrible weather, do we still need to run out to patrol?” A Frankish kingdom soldier who narrowed his neck and followed Lieutenant Nokmo complained. “Even the rabbits are so cold that they don’t want to get out of the nest. I don’t believe that the Lampari people will come and attack in this kind of weather.”

Lieutenant Nokmo glanced back at him and snorted coldly: “Close your beak, Makan. This is the order given from above. Are you brave enough not to execute it?”

The soldier known as Macan sipped, and muttered: “It’s not our chief Frank’s order, why do you have to listen. Those Marlow Empire guys will only direct us to help them with this dirty work, yes They have the ability to 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 Makan, and they all showed a trace of dissatisfaction, so he couldn’t help sighing.

This is not surprising.

Don’t say that these soldiers are dissatisfied, even if he is also a little dissatisfied.

Although with the help of the Maro Empire, their Frankish government in exile and their troops finally have the hope of regaining their own territory from the Lampari Kingdom and the Duchy of Drake, but because the Maro Empire army is occupied by the coalition forces The absolute superiority makes them, the soldiers of the Frankish Kingdom, are always sent out to do all kinds of dirty work, and when calculating their military merits, they do not exist, which naturally causes the soldiers of the Frankish Kingdom to be extremely dissatisfied.

However, as an officer, Lieutenant Nokmo knows more than these ordinary soldiers, so he understands that there is nothing he can do about this situation.

Without the help of the Malo Empire, the Frankish kingdom would have perished several months ago, and there is no possibility of counterattack at all.

Even if it weren’t for the Maro Empire to dispatch several Magisters to fight against the taboos, I am afraid that even the Maro Empire can use the Lampari Kingdom and the Duchy of Drake, and the Frank Kingdom will be even more unsuccessful in its restoration by relying on its own power. Hope.

So after all, the Frankish kingdom is completely dependent on the Marlow Empire, so what qualifications does it have to talk about its status?

Lieutenant Nokmo understands the complaints of the soldiers, but relatively speaking, although he has a slight dissatisfaction, he is still grateful for more.

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

Since a few months ago, the coalition forces of the Frankish Kingdom and the Malo Empire retreated one after another under the combined attack of the Lampari Kingdom and the Duchy of Drake, and gave up the small town of Greenwich, Lieutenant Nokmo stayed with himself. The family members in the nearby villages have completely lost contact.

Only half a month ago, after the Marfa coalition forces regained the small town of Greenwich from the Kingdom of Lampari, Lieutenant Nokmo took the time to go back and reconnected with his family.

Because of this, Lieutenant Nokmo certainly held a touch of gratitude to the Marlow Empire.

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

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

When referring to the situation after the kingdom of Lampari occupied here, the family did not complain about the kingdom of Lampari, or even praised them, saying that after the kingdom of Lampari occupied this place, they directly exempted them, ordinary farmers. Most of the heavy taxes have to be paid every year, and a farmland magic mechanical harvesting team was sent to help them harvest during the previous autumn harvest, making their autumn harvest this year extremely easy.

Because of this, Lieutenant Nokmo’s parents and his grown-up brother can also save some time to go to the offices of several chambers of commerce in the kingdom of Lampari in the small town of Greenwich for a few months of part-time work. Based on this, he earned more than 30 gold coins.

This situation was far beyond Lieutenant Nokmo’s expectations, and it also gave him a trace of doubt.

The small town of Greenwich was originally the private domain of Earl Green of the Frankish kingdom. When this land was under the rule of the Frankish kingdom, the people of the Frankish kingdom on the territory had to pay a lot of taxes to the lord Earl Green according to tradition. Leave some rations to fill your stomach.

Although Earl Green is one of the few conscientious lords in the Frankish kingdom who is willing to take care of civilian life, the people in almost all the territories, including Lieutenant Nokmo, are still living very nervously. It is even more so when you are hungry. Commonplace.

However, when the territory near the small town of Greenwich fell into the control of the Lampari Kingdom, it directly exempted most of the civilians from paying taxes that should have been paid, and instantly caused a huge change in the lives of these civilians. change.

Among other things, the home of Lieutenant Nokmo alone harvested 1,300 catties of wheat in this autumn harvest.

Putting it aside, a full 800 catties of the three hundred catties of wheat would have to be handed over to Earl Green, and then leaving aside the part left for planting, only four hundred catties were left.

In addition to Lieutenant Nokmo himself who had joined the army, the whole family of Lieutenant Nokmo, and five other people, had to rely on these four hundred catties of wheat to support the spring harvest next year. The hardships of the days can be imagined.

However, when it was occupied by the Lampari Kingdom, according to the new policy announced by the Lampari Kingdom, this 1,300 catties of wheat only needs to be paid for 300 catties, and all the rest is left to Lieutenant Nokmo’s family. For own use.

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

Moreover, after the Lampari Kingdom occupied the small town of Greenway, several chambers of commerce from the Kingdom of Lampari, the Kingdom of Ruelson, and the Duchy of Drake moved in and carried out various preliminary developments on the small town of Greenway and recruited a large number of them. The local manpower made it possible for many people to find a job and receive several or even dozens of golden coins that the civilians could not even think of before.

With the help of gold coins, the life of Lieutenant Nokmo’s family was more comfortable.

Because of lack of food and clothing, the winter of each year was the hardest day in Lieutenant Nokmo’s family. However, after the winter this year, the remaining five members of Lieutenant Nokmo’s family could not only have enough food, but also rely on their parents and already With dozens of gold coins earned by his adult brother’s part-time work, everyone bought two brand-new quilted jackets from the Armani Chamber of Commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari, so he no longer has to endure the hunger and cold as before.

Thinking of the two new quilted jackets that the younger brother and sister showed off to themselves before, Lieutenant Nokmo couldn’t help but look down at what he was wearing.

As an officer, he was equipped with better clothes than ordinary soldiers, but it was nothing more than a thin padded jacket under a layer of rotten leather armor that was about to be worn out.

You don’t need to touch it with your hands at all. You can feel how light and thin the padded jacket is by relying on his body. He can even feel the cold wind directly infiltrating in, showing how poor the quality of the padded jacket is.

However, this rotten padded jacket, when it was outfitted for him, still abruptly deducted three gold coins from his officer’s salary.

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

Thinking of this, the corner of Lieutenant Nokmo’s mouth raised a wry smile again.

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

However, now, just a few months of part-time job in the office established by the Kingdom of Lampari in the small town of Greenwich, his brother has earned more than ten gold coins.

Coupled with the income of his parents, his fifteen gold coins seem less important.

Even when his younger brother talked to him about this matter again, he still told him not to be a soldier at all with a look of disdain, so he might as well go to work in the chambers of commerce in the Kingdom of Lampari.

Because he heard that he did a good job in those chambers of commerce, and it was not surprising that he even got fifteen gold coins a month.

In addition, there is one more obvious difference.

The new padded jackets worn by the younger brothers and sisters are thick and warm, and they look good. When they were purchased from the Armani Chamber of Commerce, they only needed one gold coin and forty silver coins.

If you buy two pieces at a time, you can even get another ten silver coins cheaper.

In comparison, the value of this thin padded jacket on him is too inadequate.

But Lieutenant Nokmo can hardly complain about anything, because the price of quilted jackets filled with precious cotton cannot be kept high in either the former Frankish kingdom or the Marlow Empire where he was staying in the past few months.

With this thin padded jacket on him, it is not a problem to sell two gold coins.

God knows why this damn Armani Chamber of Commerce can sell it so cheaply, is it not afraid of losing money to them?

But on second thought, it was reasonable for the Frank Kingdom to refuse the Armani Chamber of Commerce to enter the Frank Kingdom.

If the Armani Chamber of Commerce comes in, all the merchants in the Frankish kingdom who rely on selling quilted jackets to make a fortune every winter will probably be crushed.

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

As a commoner who can’t even wait to break a silver coin and spend it carefully, who doesn’t want to be able to buy a cheap, warm, and even better-looking new quilted jacket?

“Brother, it would be nice if this place was occupied by the Kingdom of Lampari forever.”

Thinking of the innocent words that the eleven-year-old sister said with her big eyes blinking, the wry smile on Lieutenant Nokmo’s face deepened a bit.

This sounds naive, but is it not the heart of my sister, or even the heart of my parents and younger brother, or even the heart of all the civilians near the small town of Greenwich?