svetikya Chapter 109 Impact, Right and Wrong
Chapter 109 Impact, Right and Wrong
Of all the roads that Viscount Iron Sword rebuilt, the first one to be constructed was naturally the one leading from Iron Felt City to Tea Mountain Ridge.
At the same time, this road is also the best maintained road in Iron Sword Territory!
On the other side of Chashan Territory, roughly symmetrical to Linying Village, in the territory of Viscount Bloodfang, there is another village under construction—called Linying Village.
There, a road is also under construction, leading directly to Viscount Bloodfang's castle.
By this time, winter had fully arrived.
The winter wheat planted by farmers between winter and summer has fully sprouted and grown into lush green seedlings.
At first glance, the vibrant greenery broadened Luo Ang's mind considerably.
Although it was almost nightfall, farmers were still busy working in the fields, tidying up the wheat...
In Iron Felt City, the new agricultural tax has been announced, reducing it from 70% to 40%.
Although it's unclear whether the order is real or fake... in recent times, the nobles in Iron Felt City have been much stricter in their control over the soldiers.
After two soldiers were hanged for their sycophancy, the incident of soldiers trampling or eating wheat seedlings stopped.
With just this small change, the farmers who were busy tending the wheat fields before nightfall gained a vibrant new life.
Loon traveled to Ironfell City by carriage—provided by the Iron Sword family, which carried a banner embroidered with Loon's auspicious cloud symbol.
These marks are everywhere on Chashan Ridge, and the farmers who are still tending to the wheat seedlings can recognize them at a glance.
When the carriage passed by, although they dared not go forward to greet it, they still bowed from a distance, showing the utmost respect.
Clearly, although Viscount Iron Sword and his men hadn't publicized it, these farmers all knew who was responsible for the current changes...
Luo Ang raised his hand and parted the curtains. Looking at the farmers bowing to him and at the land that seemed to have suddenly lost its deathly silence, Luo Ang couldn't help but feel a mix of emotions.
First came a wave of shame...
In his mind, he had done nothing for this land—he had merely killed a viscount and forced the nobles of Iron Sword Territory to stop collecting such high agricultural taxes.
They then killed several barons as a deterrent.
That's it.
He felt that the insignificant things he had done were unworthy of the farmers' respect—after all, he had hardly put any effort into it.
Everything was just done on a whim.
Compared to the plight of those farmers, what Loon did was not even as good as a rain during a drought—at most, it was just a gust of wind.
But now it seems that even a gust of wind has great significance for these farmers.
"Is this what a wizard is?"
"Is this the influence wizards have on the world?"
"Just because you don't like something, can it directly affect such a large area?"
Luo Ang silently loosened his fingers, letting the curtains fall, separating him from the world.
"Even if I do nothing—as long as my wizard tower stands on Forked Ridge, as long as I still have even the slightest inclination in my heart, wouldn't that be a kind of liberation for these countless farmers?"
Luo Ang closed his eyes.
The vibrant life bursting forth from the earth.
The respectful postures and grateful eyes of the farmers kept flashing through his mind.
"Does mere existence have meaning?" He seemed to suddenly understand the mindset of his predecessors in his past life, as well as the orchid wizards in this life, when they pushed for change.
"In that case, let's set a small goal first—to make my wizard tower stand in Forked Ridge for as long as possible, and to make the area of influence of the wizard tower as large as possible."
In the blink of an eye, Luo Ang's eyes snapped open.
A flash of lightning seemed to pass through his pupils, illuminating the dark carriage.
In their souls, the totems bestowed upon them by their hometown seemed to become clearer at this moment.
Some of the dust in their souls was swept away, and their connection with that 'mystery' became even stronger.
An incredibly mysterious power flowed along the totem into the bloodline, making the white eagle's bloodline even more vibrant and profound.
The will hidden within its bloodline also seemed to grow stronger at this moment, carrying the bloodline of the white eagle, becoming even more robust.
Deep within the white eagle's bloodline, some even more mysterious changes also arose.
Luo Ang calmed himself down—he could clearly feel that the concentration of his own bloodline had suddenly increased.
And after tonight's meditation, his mental strength will surely see a small improvement.
……
Before night completely fell, the carriage entered the Iron Felt City.
Upon receiving the news, Viscount Iron Sword personally guarded the city gate of Iron Felt City, leading Loen all the way into the Iron Sword family's castle.
The castle can be roughly divided into three parts based on the traces.
The first part is the original appearance.
The second part consists of traces of damage and subsequent repair during the war.
The third part is about the expansion of the castle after the Iron Sword family moved to Iron Felt City more than 20 years ago, after they were transformed from a baronial family to a viscountial family.
As far as Loon knew, there was no clear causal relationship between a noble's rank and the expansion of their territory—it was not that if your rank was raised, you would receive a corresponding amount of territory.
More often than not, after your title is promoted, your territory remains unchanged—sometimes you even need to carve out a portion of your own territory to bestow upon other nobles under your command.
As for moving from one place to another, that's even more rare.
Generally speaking, even if a nobleman's territory expands, he will not easily leave the place that his family has been cultivating for a long time. Like the Iron Sword family, after becoming a viscount family, he not only obtained a new territory, but also moved directly to the new territory.
This only shows that the Iron Sword family made such great contributions in that war that they had to be given a territory befitting a viscount, and that the kingdom had to give some barons, along with their territories, directly to Viscount Iron Sword as his subordinates in order to secure this territory.
This also shows that the Iron Sword family suffered really great losses in that war—so great that all the hard work the family had put into their business became meaningless, and the places they had worked so hard to build could be completely abandoned.
As for this young viscount of the Iron Sword family... although he was forced into this position, he has clearly adapted to his current status and knows very well who his biggest backer is.