Chapter 505 The End of Stormwind
Blizzard is the largest city in the world of Azeroth at this time, and the population is the most population. The honor was Landolon before, but Landren suffered a natural disaster of the undead, the country was destroyed, and the population loss was as high as 70 %.
The population of the King City of Lodan has not exceeded 100,000 now, and the population of Blizzard has exceeded 200,000 at this time. At the same time, 300,000 people lived around Blizzard.
There are so many populations in the storm, and the self -sufficiency rate of food is not more than 50 %. The remaining food is basically transported from the Elvin Forest, Western Wastel and other areas.
In the past, Alvin Forest Land was an important food for the Storm City, but here was due to a series of questions such as the Nature of the undead, which caused its food output to plummet, so the Kingdom of Storm City began to develop the western wasteland.
It is just that the Western Wasteland has been occupied by Vannisa. Most of the northern areas have apologized for the production of food due to war and other reasons. The food of the Kingdom of Storm City has begun to fall into a shortage.
Of course, it is said that it is a shortage of food, but it is only that people at the bottom do not have to eat. Those nobles are still spending the sky and enjoying it.
After all, what is the bottom of these people? They are just a group of cattle and horses, no, they are speaking tools.
Niuma tools die, die old, new ones will naturally appear.
So in this case, the nobles of the Storm City decided to ensure the food supply of the army, and then took out a part of the grain to be sold in the market.
It's just that the price of this sale has more than ten times more than before. As for what the poor, they can't control it. I don't want to care, even many civilians in the city have no money to buy food.
King Warian naturally knows these things. After all, he knows the problem of food shortage. To this end, he also specially invited a large number of nobles in the city to let these nobles take out some food to give the people at the bottom.
I just knew what the nobles would do with their knees. Even if the king asked, no aristocratic agreed to take out the grain to help the poor.
Even the Duke of Bervar Fitgen came to persuade King Varian.
"His Majesty, now things are troublesome, and it is difficult for us to find a full plan in a short time, so we can only choose to sacrifice some people."
"Bervar, you mean" Wa Wang's face is a little dignified.
"Your Majesty, our current situation is that the food is not enough to make everyone full, so we must make a choice."
"When the food in this country is only enough to eat, give these foods to the army or civilians?"
"Give it to the army, the soldiers have a full stomach, and they can still protect their families. Even if many civilians die because of this, this country is still us."
"To the civilians, the civilians are full, then the soldiers will be hungry. When there is no army, the country will die."
"Your Majesty, the question is now, how do you choose?" As a noble representative, Count Bervar looked at the king.
King Walian couldn't speak for a while. He wanted to preserve the civilians and troops below, but now it seems that he can only choose one.
Walian could only bow his head in the end.
"Then please," Varian sighed, closed his eyes and said.
Hearing the king's words, everyone immediately got up to respect the ritual: "I would like to serve your Majesty!"
Immediately after Berval and several other ministers slowly quit two meters, they got up and left.
What Varian didn't know was that Bervar's rhetoric completely ignored a vital issue. Perhaps Varian found that he just pretended not to know, maybe he really didn't pay attention.
That is, even if these foods are divided into soldiers, can they ensure that soldiers guard the country?
You must know that many soldiers are born in freedoms and belong to the civilian class. They are also family, relatives, and friends. And almost all of these people are civilians.
According to the morals of the nobles, these nobles will not feed the family, relatives and friends of the soldiers.
These nobles will not waste food. They will only ask soldiers to stay in the barracks, and then ensure the food supply of the barracks, rather than protecting the food supply including soldiers and relatives.
The soldiers are not satisfied, so what will the result become?
Therefore, even if the king agrees to divide the food to the soldiers, it will still not solve the fundamental problem and even intensify the contradiction.
Because these soldiers will not starve their families, relatives and friends, let alone these people have force, so what will happen in the end is self -evident.
After the army was withdrawn in the Blizzard City, it became a group of magic dances. Insufficient grain made many people in the city unable to eat, and law and order became chaotic. On the other side, the nobles of the nobles have also affected below.
The puppets between Reggamp and Berval cannot be resolved. But Berval's nobles have more grains, and the Riejids factions have a lot less grain.
As a result, the grain distribution in the army also began to appear unfair. The food that belongs to the Reaginad faction is less than Bervar.
All kinds of dirty and tired work are also assigned to Reggampard. After all, who has made you Reggampa defeat, and you are the culprit that leads to the current situation of Storm City.
Reaganard wants to change this situation, but insufficient strength.
After this situation lasted for a while, a bigger conflict finally broke out because of the food problem. Of course, Vanessa also takes credit for this.
Vanessa's propaganda made a large number of low-class people start to move closer to her, "Kill the nobles, divide the fields, and pay less taxes." 'The slogan spread wildly in Stormwind City.
Vanessa announced that she would allocate land to all common people and cancel all exorbitant taxes, paying only 20% of the tax. This makes the common people who have been squeezed and bankrupted very much yearned for it.
Immediately afterwards, Vanessa took out a large amount of food and began to recruit refugees, and even sent many spies to develop in Stormwind City.
During this period of time, Vanessa's development can be said to be one day at a time.
The decadent Kingdom of Stormwind is now facing not only a lack of food, but also an internal struggle for power among the nobles, a shortage of food for the civilian population in the army, the Northern Alliance's eye on the outside, and Vanessa's continuous agrarian revolution in the rear.
Let alone the decadent Kingdom of Stormwind, if it were any kingdom, facing this situation, it would most likely be doomed.
Stormwind City is no exception, unless they can resolve all conflicts in a short period of time.
Stormwind City still looks calm now, but there is an undercurrent surging under the water. The entire Kingdom of Stormwind City is like sitting on a powder keg, only a spark is missing to ignite it.
In Stormwind City, in a dilapidated house, a large number of sallow and skinny civilians gathered here. In addition to the civilians, there were also many strong soldiers, but these soldiers also had a look of hunger on their faces.
Not all soldiers had enough to eat, and many secretly distributed the food to their families.
At this time, in the center of the house, a young man wearing old linen clothes was giving a speech.
"Compatriots, we work at sunrise and rest at sunset every day. We have almost no rest all year round. We have to work hard every day to farm and work in the workshop, so that we can earn a meager income."
"And then rely on that meager income to support themselves and their families."
"At the same time, for every copper coin we earn, we need to pay a tax of one copper coin. We are at the bottom of this kingdom, and we have to work hard to survive!"
"Is this because we don't work hard enough?"
“Why are we having such a hard time?”
"Those big shots told us that the country is in difficulty now, and we need to spend money and pay taxes to support the country in launching wars and defeating the enemy, so that we can survive."
"But is that really what happened?"
"There are also people who tell us that we are living so hard because we do not believe in the Light."
"So many of us went to church to believe in the Holy Light! But did we have enough to eat?"
"Not really!"
"We are still hungry!"
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"So those people told us that it was because we were not religious enough!"
"Haha! These people always tell us what we haven't done and what we should do, but what about them?"
"They are high up, they have endless white bread, they can spread honey jam on the white bread, they can taste the fragrant barbecue, sweet wine, countless unnamed fruits. But we don't even have a piece of black bread. No!"
"Now I want to know, why?"
"Why can they enjoy a warm house, wear gorgeous clothes, sleep in soft velvet, hold fair-skinned beauties with pretty faces in their arms, and enjoy the service of servants, but we have nothing!"
"I want to ask you, why!" the young man shouted loudly, raising his right arm and clenching his fist.
"Why!"
Others in the room also raised their fists and shouted angrily: "Why!"
"We work hard, but we don't have enough to eat. We participate in wars through life and death, but are impoverished. Those nobles just have the title of noble, and they can enjoy things that we may not have seen in our lives!"
"Why!"
The eyes of all the people in the room were red. At this moment, they thought of the difficulties they had encountered since birth. When they looked at the lives of those nobles, they could beat, scold and humiliate themselves arbitrarily, and even their food was not even eaten. No one is as good as a noble dog.
Those nobles would rather feed grain to dogs than to us.
At this moment, all the difficulties they had experienced were detonated, and everyone was furious.
"All our difficulties are brought to us by this decadent country. They took away the last grain of food and the last copper in our pockets, and then left us to fend for ourselves."
"Let us, like weeds, starve to death in an inconspicuous corner one night!"
"Tell me, are you willing to do this?"
Everyone looked at each other, and they saw the endless anger in each other's eyes and the unwillingness in each other's hearts.
"Not willing to give in!"
everyone shouted.
"Then pick up our weapons. We must pick up our own weapons, fists, stones, and sticks, and then take back all our own food and money!"
"Get it back!" At this moment, these ordinary people who were like lambs completely awakened.
This scene happened in every remote corner of Stormwind City. Finally, led by these people, the civilians in the city who were almost starving to death began to take up various weapons to resist.
Soon, countless people holding various simple weapons began to gather in the inner city. There were even a large number of soldiers among them. Many patrolling soldiers saw these people gathering, and they were immediately as if they were facing a great enemy, but soon some soldiers in the crowd came forward to tell them.
After hearing what these soldiers said, a large number of patrol soldiers also joined them.
The size of these people grew rapidly like a snowball, and more and more people gathered around them spontaneously. When these people came near the inner city, they were finally known by the nobles in the city.
Hearing that a large number of civilians gathered together to rob food, these nobles were furious. Until now, these nobles still did not plan to share some of the food, and even decided to kill all these people.
The nobles immediately mobilized the army to suppress these "mobs". But when the army came, many of the civilians who were originally going to suppress them directly joined the "mob". Only those soldiers loyal to the nobles wanted to suppress these "mobs"!
But facing so many mobs, these people also looked solemn. After all, there were too many people, and they didn't dare to act rashly now.
But at this moment, a roar sounded from the crowd: "Kill these noble lackeys!"
"We want bread! We want food!"
Accompanied by a roar, the extremely tense situation broke out at this moment. Countless civilians rushed directly to the noble soldiers.
These civilians attacked the soldiers with stones, sticks and other weapons. Even if these soldiers had armor and weapons, their number was too small.
However, in the blink of an eye, they were directly submerged, and countless civilians rushed directly into the inner city. These civilians who were already tortured by hunger broke out with amazing power at this moment.
Everyone shouted and rushed into the inner city. The soldiers in the inner city had no time to react and were killed by countless people. At the same time, a large number of soldiers joined them.
These people began to rush to the granary and the luxurious manors of the nobles. Caught off guard, a large number of noble manors were directly broken by these people.
Many noble guards wanted to resist, but they were directly solved by the strong hidden in the crowd before they could do anything. The results of Vanessa's careful preparations over the past few months were revealed at this moment.
The entire Stormwind City was completely plunged into chaos.