Chapter 308 Travel
"Hey, I heard the latest news today. The troops on the front line killed two more greenskin warlords."

"Oh, if I had known, I would have missed the trial today. I heard Chief Judge Feng En severely punish that shameless bastard who cheated and deceived people everywhere, and I also heard the newspaper reader read the war report from the front line."

"Before, we saved money and delivered food to the rebels every day, but we could only kill one rebel a year. Now our committee is different. It's very powerful. In just a few months, we have killed seven or eight rebels."

"Yes, yes. The soldiers on the front line fought hard and beat those green-skinned bastards. It's a pity that a few months ago, when I tried to join the army, the committee didn't want me."

"You old thing, you don't have much flesh on your body, how can you lift a knife?"

"Humph, I couldn't make it, but my son did. When I sent him away, I told him to kill as many green-skinned bastards as possible on the front line. This time, my son must have killed quite a few."

"Tsk, you were lazy again and didn't learn in the literacy class. It's said on the notice board that the soldiers going to the front line this time are elite soldiers. The new recruits are still in training, so it's not their turn to go to the battlefield. Your son is today's new recruit, so there's no way he'll get a turn."

"I'm not going to talk to you about this anymore. It's boring."

"Hey, I said a few words to you and you got upset again."

Zago led his warhorse and walked slowly into the town gate, and heard the voices of two townspeople talking to each other.

He glanced at them out of the corner of his eye.

All I saw were two people in simple clothes, carrying tools on their shoulders, walking out and chatting with each other.

No matter how many times he had seen it, Zago would find it hard to imagine.

In the United Army, ordinary civilians are actually indifferent to the Green Tide.

Even though many civilians became refugees because of the Green Tide, except for a few people who have a blood feud and deep hatred for the Green Tide, most civilians have become numb.

The pressure of survival and rising taxes has overwhelmed them. Even if there is a blood feud, they do not have the energy and time to hate the Green Tide.

In the Allied Forces, this kind of conversation would only occur at banquets of nobles and knights, where they would toast each other and elegantly discuss matters related to the Green Tide.

At the war committee, even the villagers in the village could chat with Zago about the Green Tide. If they met someone who was more concerned about the war on the front line, they could even chat with Zago for half an hour or an hour.

From the establishment of the rebels, the rebels under Locke's leadership, to the overthrow and reconstruction of the War Council, and the War Council under Roland's leadership.

As long as Zago is willing to listen and occasionally respond, he can chat with Zago forever.

It can be said that the entire war committee was filled with a strong trend of hostility and hatred towards the Green Tide.

In this regard, Zago naturally saw that the War Committee was deliberately promoting this trend of thought. However, Zago did not think there was anything wrong with it. On the contrary, he felt that the committee was absolutely right to do so.

Compared to the United Army's extravagance, their disregard for the Green Tide, their infighting among the upper echelons, their confusion among the lower echelons, and their numbness at the bottom, the War Council's idea that the entire country is united, hostile to the Green Tide, and eager for revenge is absolutely right.

This is what a Donnar revenge regime should look like. As expected, I should have headed north long ago.

Zago smiled slightly and walked into the town leading his warhorse.

After finding an official hotel to settle his warhorse, Zago quickly ran to the bulletin board in the town center.

Ever since he learned about the existence of the bulletin board, every time Zago arrived in a town, he would run to see if there was any new news from the War Council.

Although most of the information on the bulletin board is screened before being published, it also provides a lot of useful information, and the flow of information is much faster and more convenient than that of the United Army.

On the coalition side, if you want to know this information, you basically have to ask around on your own. Moreover, the information you get is inconsistent, so you can only piece together the approximate information yourself.

For example, Zago had no idea what the situation was like on the Allied Forces' front line.

As a free knight, Zago does not have many channels for information. He can only get news from other free knights and combine it with information circulated in various places to estimate the situation.

However, even so, Zago could see the corruption of the coalition forces from these few words.

Especially from the mouths of some free knights or soldiers who retreated from the front lines, Zago was able to piece together the chaotic situation on the front lines.

Of course, collecting this intelligence is very troublesome, and Zago needs to spend a lot of time and energy to collect and integrate it.

However, on the War Council side, everything was much more convenient. Zago could find out a lot of things just by looking at the bulletin board in the town.

Not to mention the situation on the front line, Zago was also able to learn about some important decisions of the War Council and the situation in the town where he was.

As it was already getting dark, the townspeople had gone home for dinner and the newspaper reader had gone off work to rest. Therefore, there were not many people near the bulletin board, only a few ordinary townspeople wandering around.

Zago glanced at them, ignored them, walked to the bulletin board and looked up.

Although the characters used by the war council are somewhat different from traditional Donnar characters, the number of strokes and structure have been significantly simplified, but most of these simplified characters still have traces of traditional Donnar characters.

Therefore, when Zago first came into contact with it, he could understand the general idea by guessing. After receiving several free literacy educations, Zago was able to fully understand these simplified characters.

At first, Zago was not used to these simplified characters, but after looking at them for a long time, he got used to them.

Although he didn't know why the War Committee did this, Zago had been having various questions since he joined the War Committee. Although he had thought about the issue of text simplification, he didn't really care about it. As long as he could understand it, it didn't matter what else.

Zago looked at the battle report posted on the bulletin board.

The army, led by Roland, Chairman of the War Council, is marching from one victory to another on the front line.

Currently, the front-line army is divided into three armies, commanded by Roland, Tula and Odin respectively.

In the latest battle report, the armies led by Tula and Odin each successfully killed a greenskin warlord.

According to all the battle reports Zago had seen, Tula had killed five greenskin warlords, and Odin had killed four.

As for the army commanded by the Chairman himself, its performance was not so impressive. So far, it had only killed two green-skinned warlords.

Adding up all these achievements, the War Council has killed eleven greenskin warlords.

This is a rather exaggerated number. Zago recalled the United Army's military achievements over the years. Since its establishment, the United Army has only killed six or seven green-skinned warlords.

The War Council's record in just a few months was better than the United Nations' record in all those years.

Moreover, all of these kills of the Allied Forces were killed by Eleanor.

At the beginning, after the United Army retreated to its current territory, after the green tide gradually subsided, Eleanor consolidated her power to be promoted to a legend, and then she took the initiative to lead the United Army to charge into the green tide.

He killed six or seven green-skinned warlords in one breath and recovered a large amount of lost territory.

Then, the green tide that had originally calmed down rolled over again, and Kanaozu led the green tide to fight back directly.

Eleanor was defeated by Kan'aozu, and all the lost territories she had just recovered were occupied by the Green Tide again.

Although in the end, Eleanor and Kan'aozu had a great battle, forcing Kan'aozu to retreat and making the Green Tide calm down again, but since then, Eleanor has completely degenerated, indulging in various pleasures, and no longer launched any offensive against the Green Tide.

Through the battle reports and scattered information on the bulletin board, Zago also knew the situation of Roland, Tula and Odin.

Odin himself knew her quite well. She was born into a royal family and was trained as the heir to the kingdom since she was a child. It was rumored that she was successfully promoted to the Knight of the Four Rings when she was less than 20 years old, and took over the Extraordinary Knights of the kingdom. She was a very famous genius in the whole of Donnar.

I heard that the royal families who wanted to marry into her family had to wait patiently for her to come.

Of course, what impressed Zago the most was that she was the only one in her family who chose to stay in the resistance and fight against the Green Tide. She even publicly criticized the family members who fled south and tore their faces, so that she was expelled from the family.

However, although they were removed from the list, at her call, most of the extraordinary knights controlled by her family chose to continue to support and be loyal to Odin, and only a few members followed other family members to the south.

Zago knew about this family scandal because of the fierce factional struggles within the United Army, with each faction exposing each other's shortcomings.

As for Tula, Zago also learned a little about it through the news on the bulletin board.

She had been loyal to Roland before the establishment of the War Council. According to some rumors he had heard, Tula was one of Roland's first batch of soldiers in Donnar and was an ordinary refugee.

It is said that he is gifted and after being recognized by Roland, he quickly soared to become a Three-Ring Knight in just a few years.

Although she had not yet been promoted to the fourth ring and her strength was not enough for Odin, she had successfully won the recognition of other fourth ring knights with her outstanding command skills and became the commander of one of the armies.

The fact that Tula was able to kill one more greenskin warlord than Odin was enough to prove the value of her command skills.

As for Roland, the mysterious spellcaster from Sinar, Zago didn't know much about him.

The main reason was that there were too many and exaggerated rumors about Roland, and they sounded like fantasy. Zago definitely wouldn't believe them.

If Roland was really like what these rumors and gossips said, then why didn't he just slap Kan'ozu and kill him directly instead of hesitating here?

Of course, Zago didn't think Roland was incompetent.

As someone who entered Donnar unarmed with only Hela a few years ago, Roland was able to accumulate a huge military force in just a few years. He even joined forces with the border faction to launch a coup, overthrow the rebels, and swept across the area at a speed that the outside world could not react to at all, and quickly established a war committee.

Moreover, you have to know that there is actually not much difference between the resistance army and the current war committee, they have the same territory and population.

When they were rebelling, they killed one greenskin warlord a year, but now, they have killed eleven greenskin warlords in just a few months.

Who is the important person who changed all this? There is no doubt that it must be Roland.

Only a fool would think that Roland is incapable.

Besides, all kinds of rumors and gossips must have a source, right? Even if Roland was not as exaggerated as the rumors and gossips, he should at least have done a small part of it.

After reading the battle report, Zago also looked at other information on the bulletin board.

Most of the content on the bulletin board is very routine, including: administrative decision-making matters, policy and legal adjustments, city hall procurement and financial management, disclosure of some information and miscellaneous other matters.

In simple terms, it includes: who has been transferred, explanations and revisions to some policies, price adjustments for some items in the official store, recruitment of new engineering teams, conscription work, some roads being designated for military use, and Feng En's live text broadcast, etc.

Zago watched the latest Feng En text live broadcast with interest.

This is a new case of fraud happening in several goblin villages.

Some goblins forged their identities and pretended to be committee officials to recruit laborers in goblin villages, and used their identities to eat and ask for money everywhere.

Originally they stayed in each village for a few days and then left, and no goblins noticed anything was wrong.

But because the problem had not been discovered, they became bolder and bolder, stayed longer and longer, and demanded more and more food and money.

To the extent that even the village officials noticed something was wrong and questioned them.

In the end, no one knew what had given these scammers the guts to beat up the village officials.

Now he has been upgraded from an ordinary fraudster to a repeat offender who assaults officials.

After being beaten, the village official directly reported to his superiors using a communication device.

Just happened to pass by Feng En and got directly involved in the case.

Strike hard against all these fraudsters.

According to the Golden Rule, all illegal gains will be confiscated and the money will be returned to the victims in proportion.

Since the amount involved was more than ten times the annual minimum wage, the verdict was: deprive all criminals of all political rights for life and sentence them to death.

All these scammers were hanged by people sent by Feng En.

At the end of the live text broadcast, Feng En also analyzed the case and the reasons why the fraudsters were able to run rampant for so long by relying on completely false identification. He encouraged citizens to receive literacy education and not be deceived by such inferior means.

At the same time, they should be more vigilant, enforce the powers granted to them by the Golden Law, and promptly inform the village officials if they find anything wrong.

In addition, he also issued a judicial warning to the village officials who allowed the fraudsters to carry out the fraud without even looking at the proof.

No one was killed, so it's not considered serious dereliction of duty, otherwise every one of them would have to be fired. Of course, although they haven't been fired yet, this heavy mark will definitely remain on their resumes.

After watching the live text broadcast, Zago didn't feel anything. After all, although his family background was not as good as those powerful families, he had the capital to become a free knight, so no matter how bad his family background was, it would not be that bad.

Although he was more sympathetic towards ordinary people, he had never worried about survival even in the most difficult times, so he could not understand the thoughts of ordinary people.

Therefore, he was not very moved by this case and felt that the punishment should not be so severe.

It’s not that he sympathizes with the fraudsters who were hanged. He wouldn’t mind if any of these criminals died.

He mainly felt that there was no need to warn and punish local village officials for such a small matter.

After all, in his opinion, these local village officials were equivalent to the local petty nobles of the Allied Forces. They were just cheated out of a little money, so there was no need to publicly humiliate and punish them like this.

However, Zago, who was aware of the severity of the Golden Law, did not say anything. After all, the War Council really implemented the law thoroughly.

Based on what he had learned during this period, if someone really died, even a goblin's life, the War Committee would ruthlessly dismiss all the village officials, or even execute them.

Previously, when Zago passed through a town, he witnessed a First Ring Knight being publicly executed for illegally plundering the wealth of hundreds of people, causing more than a hundred people to be seriously injured.

Thinking of this, Zago felt that public humiliation and punishment didn't seem to be a big deal. At least he wasn't dead, right?
After Zago looked through everything else from beginning to end, he turned and left the bulletin board, preparing to go back to the official hotel to rest.

Although the various regulations and restrictions of the War Council [Golden Law] were numerous and strict, Zago was generally able to accept them.

After all, as long as you don't oppress civilians and actively and intentionally cause casualties and property, there will basically be no danger to life.

As Zago, who identifies with the traditional chivalry of Donnar, he believes that these restrictions are generally good.

At least, under the rule of the War Council, civilians can live relatively peacefully without having to worry about being robbed and slaughtered by foreign knights one day.

This kind of thing was not uncommon for Zago. In the territory of the Allied Forces, villages were often suddenly massacred.

Although the official statement is that the people were massacred by bandits, the bandits are not fools and it is rare for them to directly massacre an entire village.

Therefore, the massacres in many villages were simply blamed on the bandits.

Zago himself had witnessed some free knights and even noble knights slaughtering villages. The former did it for money, while the latter might have done it simply for the sake of killing.

And various related rumors have never disappeared.

(End of this chapter)