Cosma Empire
Chapter 17
The guards were not originally an inherent ethnic group of the Yaoxing empire. A war broke out about 60 years ago. The guards'' country was destroyed by the Yaoxing empire. The guards and the places where they lived were all incorporated into the territory of the Yaoxing Empire and became a part of the Yaoxing empire. It is undeniable that the guards showed the quality of being willing to die on the battlefield rather than retreat in the patriotic war, which caused great trouble for the Yaoxing Empire at that time. Later, in order to prevent the defeated guards from gathering together and finally causing trouble, a big man at that time thought of a move, that is, to break up the guards and send them to all parts of the country.
The guaertes who were suddenly dispersed, even if they wanted to hold a group, it was difficult to succeed. In addition, the Yaoxing Empire had frequent frictions with neighboring countries on the border, and the Third World War, known as the golden wine cup war, broke out. A large number of young guards were forced to enlist and died on the battlefield, which made the guards face an extremely harsh living environment. In addition, a large number of young guards were recruited again in the war that ended not long ago, and the strength of the guards has been greatly weakened.
Now, when the gualt people lose their family labor force and backbone, everyone thinks that it is better to do more than less. Gradually, the gualt people are not much different from ordinary people, and even more afraid of making trouble. In this rapidly changing society, guards have become synonymous with "honest people" and "counsellors".
There are almost more than 2000 families of guards in tener. There are less than 300 men under the age of 40 and over the age of 16. The rest have become the cannon fodder of the Empire in the war that ended not long ago. They have added a lot of chips to the Empire and won a disastrous victory. It was a terrible victory. In fact, for the aldings, the main race of the Empire, they were not a terrible victory at all, but a great victory.
They used the population of ethnic minorities to replace the alding people to go to war, and successfully consumed the development potential and future of these more and more ethnic minorities within the Empire. They not only won the war, but also purified the ethnic proportion of the population. It is killing two birds with one stone!
Under such circumstances, durin put forward the concept of "hometown Association". After Graf''s publicity, it immediately received the response of many people, especially those who have just reached the age of 16 and slightly younger children. It is precisely because they personally feel the malice from the Empire and the society that these children are more eager to improve the gualt people and their living environment through their own hands and efforts.
Let alone Dolin is willing to provide these children who do not have the upper class status with a fairly good salary to support themselves and their families.
Looking at a group of half teenagers aged 14, 56, durin looked at Graf with an inexplicable look in his eyes, including three girls. If not for the expectation and vitality of the future hidden in the eyes of these children, Du Lin might have to deny these teenagers. At this time, he forgot that he himself was a man of this age, no more than other people.
Durin pulled Graf to one corner, looked back at twenty or thirty boys and three girls, and asked in a low voice, "are there no adults? In their twenties?"
Graf smiled awkwardly. The Imperial military headquarters forcibly recruited tenar men over the age of 16 and under the age of 40 into the army during tenar''s recruitment. There were no young men except those who hid in the wild early on. As for those who run away, they are even less willing to join the local association with obvious Gang intentions.
These timid people, as well as some people who only wanted to live a safe and secure life, flatly refused Graf''s invitation. This made Graf feel very ashamed, but also secretly hated in his heart. At ordinary times, when those people asked him for help, he never said no. now, when fighting for their rights and interests for the guards, he actually flinched. It doesn''t look like a guart at all. He doesn''t have even a little courage and courage.
So he can only recruit these aggressive children who are dissatisfied with the reality.
In the face of Graf''s detailed explanation, Turin also felt bursts of silence. It''s just that it''s coming. In addition, Turin needs hands, so he can only recognize it by pinching his nose. Although minors lack some experience and lessons than adults, he can only spend more time educating these guys.
When they returned to the crowd, many people obviously showed a nervous look. Their eyes stayed on Turin, eager to get a positive answer.
A moment later, when some people were disappointed, Du Lin nodded, "fellow villagers will welcome you!"
Graff pulled Turin''s hand directly at this time, and cut the knife mark that had only grown in his palm for two days in Turin''s panic. The blood immediately poured out, but in the face of the blood, the boys, including the girls, did not show the slightest fear, but were very excited one by one.
Without Graf''s operation, the boys and girls lined up, took the dagger from Graf''s hand, opened their palms and held them tightly with Turin''s palms. Unlike last time, the boys and girls kissed the back of his hand.
The last etiquette was the etiquette of cooperation and the ceremony of never betraying friends. This time, it was the ceremony of loyalty.
In the unique minority religious culture of the guart people, kissing the back of the hand is a very important etiquette and ceremony implemented by family members to their parents, which originated from the families of the guart aristocrats. On New Year''s holidays, nobles would line up to kiss the back of the king''s hand to show their respect and obedience to the king. This kind of ceremony has long become a ritual in daily life, and everyone in gualt basically knows something.
Especially the young people living in the city, because of the social environment, they worship and yearn for everything in the guart Kingdom, remember the past and inspire themselves at the same time.
When the last of the last three girls kissed the back of Turin''s numb hand, Turin glanced at the bloody floor under his feet, and he smoked from the corner of his mouth.
This time the palm doesn''t feel. Don''t say, the arm is a little numb. Will it be amputated?
Of course, even if you cry at this time, you should laugh and cry.
He nodded hard with a straight face, "from today on, we are all a family. We share glory regardless of each other!"
Graf''s face turned a little red. He patted his chest and roared, "share the glory with each other!"
Looking at the hysterical roaring teenagers, durin was surprised by the consequences of a ceremony and a sentence, and his heart beat a little faster. He narrowed his eyes slightly and felt like an immortal!
The establishment of the association was nothing more than an insignificant drop of water falling into the lake in tener City, which could not even make ripples. Even if some people learned about it through some channels, they didn''t care much.
Can a group of half grown children set up a homecoming Association, which is like playing, still have an impact on the underground world pattern of tenell that has not changed for several years? Don''t be kidding. Apart from those small gangs that can only occupy one or two streets, how many real big gangs are easy to mess with? There is not only a more professional team of thugs, but also powerful crossbows and thermal crossbows that are forbidden to be owned by civilians!
This is a big killer. A thermal crossbow is enough to wipe out No. 20 or 30 people in one breath, so everyone regards the hometown Association as a fun for children.
Some people don''t care about the establishment of the association, but others care about the establishment of the association. In the city of tener, there is a big man of the upper class, the vice president of tener branch of the imperial chamber of Commerce, and also a guarte - hedler. He pays close attention to the initiation and establishment of the association.
This is a legendary gualt, but also a gualt who has been discriminated against by the gualt.
This may be a detour. In fact, before the demise of the kingdom of gualt, some gualt people surrendered earlier and became "good people on the side of justice". One of them was heidler''s father. At that time, in order to shorten the war as soon as possible and reduce the ogding people who died in the war, the Yaoxing empire gave these surrendered guart people great benefits and high treatment, hoping to "influence" the resistance of the guart kingdom in this way.
Indeed, these people played a great role, but after the destruction of the kingdom of gualt, their situation was very embarrassing. The ogding people were unwilling to give more benefits to these good people, and took back part of their privileges under various excuses. Heidler''s father was also greatly impacted, and the family was even on the verge of bankruptcy. Heidler''s father died of cerebral infarction and handed over the precarious family property to heidler, who was less than 20 at that time.
With his superb means and personal ability, heidler rose and fell several times, and finally established his position in the chamber of Commerce of Yaoxing Empire and became a man of honor.
It is precisely because of the ups and downs that hedler hopes that the scattered guards can unite. But he can''t do it. His position is high enough. Someone has been wary of hedler, a guardt who occupies one of the 36 members of the chamber of Commerce, so he can''t do it. If he did, those wolf like guys would have excuses and reasons to kick him out.
When he learned that a fellow named Dulin kesma had set up a hometown Association, he immediately began to investigate all social information of Dulin. He wanted to meet this man.