This is the tallest and most majestic building in King Hamidas, and it is also the power center of the former Kingdom of Haneyabada. Luther III summoned his nobles and ministers to deal with the administrative affairs of the kingdom. There are thirty-six huge columns alone, all of which are made of lapis lazuli, with exquisite patterns and patterns carved on them, most of which are based on folk myths and legends. This is Haneyabad The famous Hebbitra Palace in the Kingdom, also known as the Palace of Thirty-six Columns.
At this moment, people are coming and going in the main hall of the Thirty-Six Pillars Palace, and they are full of joy, because Lorist is going to hold a grand celebration banquet here to celebrate the Norton family's victory over the Kingdom of Haneyabad and the fulfillment of the Norton crimes. , a promise that will be punished even though it is far away.
"The first glass of wine, let us honor those soldiers who fought bravely in this war of annihilation, avenged their families, and sacrificed their lives for the liberation of slaves!" Lorist sprinkled a full glass of wine with a solemn expression. on the ground.
In the main hall, nearly a hundred family knights in bright armor and more than a dozen civil servants in gorgeous dresses also spilled wine on the ground.
"The second glass of wine is a toast to the slaves who have suffered in the Haneyabad Islands for nearly a hundred years. They were oppressed, exploited, and enslaved. They used their hands to open up this wild overseas archipelago into today's paradise. Have you seen this majestic Palace of Thirty-Six Columns? But who knows that there are many slave bones buried under its pedestal! They lost their freedom here, and their life here is not as good as that of an animal. In the eyes of the demonic slave owner, they are just a group of two-legged cattle and sheep who are ready to be slaughtered...
But now we are here, our Norton family armed to destroy this evil country! They finally gained freedom and the dignity that belongs to human beings, but we came too late, and more slaves fell on this overseas territory. Let us pay homage to these slaves who suffered and buried their bones in foreign lands. This second cup of wine is dedicated to them... "
Lorist spilled the wine on the ground again. There is no way, even if his real purpose is to rob Haneyabada Kingdom's wealth accumulated for nearly a hundred years, but on the surface, he still wants to dress himself up as an angel who rescues slaves from suffering. This is political correctness.
As for those freed slaves who were unwilling to join the harvesting and farming teams convened by the Norton family to continue working, they would spend every day in camps all over the royal city and starve to death with two bowls of thin porridge a day. It doesn't matter, the slaves have been given freedom anyway, they can go wherever they like, as long as they don't interfere with the expropriation and looting of the Norton family, they can do whatever they want...
But now all the assets of the former kingdom on the Haneyabad Islands belong to the Norton family in name, and even a piece of wheat is the sacred and inviolable family property of the Norton family, let alone being able to send people away from this archipelago to return home. The sea boat on the way home. Without Lorist's warrant, no one would be able to board the ship.
The slaves who used to stay in the camp freely and enjoy the taste of freedom were hungry. They took farm tools and wanted to go to the field to harvest some wheat. As a result, they were stopped by patrolling Norton family soldiers as soon as they left the camp. Except for these free slaves, almost everything belongs to the Norton family and Lorist...
The slaves were very unconvinced and argued a few words why they couldn't eat the wheat they had grown. Then they were invited to the Norton armed camp. First, they were asked to look at the remains of nearly a thousand Norton family soldiers who had died heroically for the cause of slave emancipation. Then, twenty leather whips each made them understand why they could not eat The wheat I planted and why everything on the island except the slaves belonged to the Norton family, but after being whipped, these slaves didn’t have to starve. The next day they were forced to join the harvesting team to harvest wheat.
Just as Fatty Shi propagandized to these family soldiers, it was our Norton family armed forces who made huge sacrifices to destroy the Kingdom of Haneyabada and liberate these slaves, so all the gains on this archipelago belong to us Norton family. Without us, these slaves are still slaves, and their life and death are still in the hands of their masters. Now they are free, and this freedom is given to them by our Norton family, so they have no right to ask us to feed them and enjoy the huge price our Norton family has paid.
All the soldiers of the Norton family thought that Fatty Shi's words were very reasonable. Besides, the Norton family did not let these freed slaves ignore them. As long as these slaves are willing to work with their hands, they will not only be fed and clothed, but also get money. This is almost a far cry from the hard work they did when they were slaves without the guarantee of their lives. Therefore, he was very resentful towards the soldiers of the Norton family who were unwilling to work, and thought that they were ungrateful and ashamed, so he was very rude to them.
"I dedicate the third glass of wine to those gladiators who poured it before dawn." Lorist nodded to the dozens of slave gladiators sitting beside him, led by the great swordsman Hughes: "Without them Fighting with blood, our Norton family could not conquer this majestic royal city with such slight casualties. It was they who used their blood and lives to hold back the last crazy counterattack of the enemies in the royal city, and held the arena until the arrival of our Norton family armed forces .Let us honor their bravery and sacrifice with this drink..."
After the three cups of wine were over, the lively and joyful atmosphere resumed in the hall. Everyone toasted and celebrated. Hiked found many young and beautiful female slaves and many slaves with unique skills to conquer the new Haneyabad Islands. The audience presented dazzling dances and wonderful acrobatics and magic performances, and the cheers and applause became one.
Today was a celebration, and the Norton family armed forces in the camp were rewarded generously. Each family soldier who went out received ten Gold Ford bonuses, and the wounded doubled. In addition, they enjoyed a sumptuous banquet. The slaves who labored willingly for the Nortons were given a mug of ale and a hunk of bacon jerky each. As for the slaves who had nothing to do in the camp around Wangcheng, they also got a so-called sandwich with two pieces of black bread and a piece of dried meat as a gift... .
The next day, Lorist once again called the important family knights and civil servants for a meeting. This meeting decided on the final disposal plan for the Haneyabad Islands.
Everyone has no objection to making the Haneyabada Islands the Norton family's overseas territory. Lorist has no other ideas about the arrangements for the more than 400,000 freed slaves on the islands. They are just discussing the disposal of Hamida People here have different opinions on the resolution of Siwang City.
The opinions of several civil servants such as Xi Kede are to preserve the royal city. Such a majestic giant castle is a rare architectural miracle. Although it is built on the bones of countless slaves, it can be regarded as a great building that can be passed down to future generations. , should be properly kept.
Hughes Great Swordsman and two golden gladiators Jades and Mason, who participated in the Norton family meeting for the first time, unanimously demanded to destroy the royal city, especially the arena, which was the greatest pain in their hearts, and fell down on the arena How many slave gladiators and their friends, only by completely destroying the arena can alleviate the pain in their hearts...
Bodfinger believed that it would be easier to win the hearts of the slaves by destroying the royal city. When he was in charge of setting up ten guard camps with slaves, he learned that all the slaves hated the Hamidas royal city, thinking that it was a den of demons, a hell where demons live. . If the royal city is destroyed, the slaves will happily obey the family's orders even more.
Malek thought that anyway, he had to dig three feet to find the buried treasures of the big slave owners and nobles, so it would be more beneficial to search for the treasures if he decided to destroy the royal city.
Fatty Shi looked at the problem from another angle. He believed that destroying the royal city would be more beneficial to the Norton family's rule over the Haneyabad Islands. First of all, the Haneyabad Islands are located far away overseas, and it is a great burden for the family to preserve a majestic and huge castle here. Moreover, it is impossible for the family to shift their focus to the archipelago, and it is unnecessary to keep this royal city.
Just like the palace of Hebbitra, which is the Palace of Thirty-Six Pillars, the annual cost of maintaining such a palace is no less than two or three hundred gold dollars. It adds up to one or two thousand, which is a huge sum of money after ten or a hundred years. These gold coins are spent on the maintenance of this royal city, just like being thrown into the water, and there is no sound at all.
Secondly, the Haneyabad Islands are too far away from the family territory. With such a royal city, it is easy for the military commanders staying behind to breed unnecessary ambitions. In order to prevent it from happening, it is easier to destroy the royal city in line with the family's desire for the archipelago. Rule, even if there is a rebellion, the family's armed forces can be put down without paying too much casualties.
The last point is that according to Lorist's arrangements for those freed slaves, although nearly 100,000 slaves will be left in the Wangcheng Plain to settle down and divide their fields and build houses, the family armed forces left behind in the Wangcheng are at most about 3,000 people per battalion. It is almost useless for the defense of the huge royal city, so the area of defense must be reduced. In the future, the role of the royal city will only be two, one is to serve as a market for foreign goods, and the other is to serve as a warehouse for food supplies.
The three reasons mentioned by Fatty Shi became the final decision to destroy the royal city. Lorist immediately decided to destroy other areas of the royal city except for the business district in the east city for future reconstruction. The Noble Quarters and Royal Courts were thoroughly searched to unearth buried treasures before they were destroyed and burned.
Lorist thought for a while and said that he should try his best to leave half of the remnants of the thirty-six pillars and the auditorium of the arena, and let future generations know that there were once two great buildings built by slaves here, and leave the rest as they please. .
After deciding the fate of Hamidas King City, Lorist announced that the first governor of the Haneyabad Archipelago was to be Hiked for a five-year term. Tens of thousands of slaves were divided into fields and houses, allowing them to settle down in the archipelago and become citizens of the Norton family's overseas territories with peace of mind.
The Golden Knights Josk and Yuri will lead the scout light cavalry to sweep all the king villages in the Wangcheng Plain again, and hunt down all the citizens of the Kingdom of Haneyabada who have slipped through the net, and no one will escape. And transfer all the property of Wang Family Manor to Wang City.
The Golden Knight Malek is responsible for searching for the buried property in Wangcheng and transshipment of all material reserves in Xicheng District. Except for some food reserves left behind, all other materials are transferred to Nubit Port, waiting to be shipped back to Shirowas Island.
Half of the armed forces of the Norton family led by Golden Knight Tiger Ross stayed in Wangcheng to help Malek transfer property and supplies, and the other half was responsible for driving the slaves around the Wangcheng to Nubit Port. Slaves, and the rest are not allowed to stay. The Norton family promised the expelled slaves that the slaves who wanted to go back to their hometown would board a sea ship in Nubit Port to transport them to the Galintia continent free of charge and ensure their safety along the way.
In the end, Lorist allocated two golden gladiators, Jades and Mason, to Bodfinger as his assistants. They had three tasks. One was to help Bodfinger form another ten garrison battalions, and the sixteen who were willing to join the Norton family Silver gladiators and more than 400 bronze and black iron gladiators were included. The second task is to escort all the nearly 100,000 nationals of the Kingdom of Haneyabada captured by Wangcheng to Nubit Port, and join the more than 20,000 captives of Nubit Port there. The third task was to clean up the battlefield, urging the soldiers of the newly formed garrison battalion to chop off the heads of the enemy's corpses on the battlefield, embalm them and transport them to Nubit Port. As for the corpses, they were all burned.
Maybe it was because Lorist ordered to cut off the heads of the enemy's corpses. This order was a bit weird, so that Fatty Shi asked curiously what Lorist planned to do with the tens of thousands of captives from the Kingdom of Haneyabad.
Lorist was silent for a long time with a gloomy face, and finally said his decision softly: "It's all cut..."
Everyone at the scene was shocked, and Sickled and Fatty Shi jumped up with a sudden change of expression: "Your Excellency, this is more than a hundred thousand people..."
"These are not human beings, they are just beasts in human skin!" Lorist responded, "They never treat slaves as human beings, they are the demons of this sinful kingdom, even if they are commoners, their I also have the blood, tears and ghosts of slaves in my hands. I once swore that if every soldier of the captured family dies, I will use a hundred citizens of the Kingdom of Haneyabada to be buried with him. Now the 100,000 people are not enough to pay homage to him. Our family soldiers and knights who died heroically in the arena! This is my final decision, and I will bear the consequences!"
After Lorist finished speaking, he walked away...
On October 24th, 1773, the head of the Norton family, the head of the Norton family, Earl Norton Lorist, ordered that nearly 100,000 people from the Kingdom of Haneyabada should be placed on the beach in the outskirts of Nubitt Harbor. The nationalists beheaded and used 176,243 human heads to build a 33-meter-high pyramid of human heads, which was called "Jingguan".
At the time of the beheading, Sir Sickled, who was then the governor of the Haneyabad Islands, knelt in front of Lorist's big tent and begged for seven hours. Finally, he got Lorist's consent and rescued ten thousand people from the knife. Two thousand young women were distributed as wives to the freed slaves who remained in Haneyabad. So far, the Kingdom of Haneyabada has perished and become extinct.
It was not until March and April of 1774 in the Gellinthian calendar that the rescued slaves who had returned home from the Haneyabad Islands set foot on the Gallintean continent, and the news that the Kingdom of Haneyabad was destroyed by the Norton family did not come to light. As word got out, the story of Lorist building the capital with 170,000 heads spread to every country in the mainland. All of a sudden, the Norton family's reputation as a roaring and angry bear even became the main means for housewives to frighten disobedient children...
In May 1774, the news of the demise of the Kingdom of Haneyabad finally reached another archipelago kingdom——the Kingdom of Shaysia, an archipelago kingdom famous for producing spices. The queen is the only cousin of Luther III, the former king of the Haneyabadah Kingdom. Hearing that the Haneyabadah Kingdom was destroyed, she cried bitterly on the spot and fell into a coma. He set off to the Haneyabad Islands to avenge his mother and queen.
The so-called expeditionary army of the Kingdom of Shaysia had a total of 18,000 people. It was already late June when they arrived at Nubit Port in more than 40 ships. . At that time, there was only a garrison battalion of the Norton family in Nubit Port with 3,000 people, and the defense facilities of the city wall were not yet complete.
It’s just that no one thought that the fleet of the Kingdom of Shaysia just circled around the Pyramid of Human Heads before turning around and sailing out to sea, never to return, as if they just came to visit the Pyramid of Human Heads, no one Disembarking and landing…
In August, Sambawood's sea corps brought six sailing bombardment warships to patrol the Haneyabad Islands. When they heard about this, they were furious and went on an expedition to the Kingdom of Shaysia. The white flag was hoisted. After asking, I found out that everyone was terrified by the pyramid of human heads in Nubit Port, and no one wanted to build another pyramid of human heads in the Kingdom of Shaysia. It is better to surrender early.
The Kingdom of Shaysia thus became the first kingdom to be attached to the Norton family. This was the first kingdom in the history of Galintia to surrender to the family, creating history.
This is no joke.
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