Chapter 687 (1/2)
It's in the small conference room on the top floor of the headquarters.
Joe saw Margaret III with a haggard face and baggy eyes.
He solemnly saluted Marguerite III and said nothing.
Marguerite III rubbed her eyebrows and patted the thick document on the desk in front of her.
”Ah, it's all useless nonsense.”
”Food, clothes, medicine, tents and simple houses are needed everywhere...”
”In addition, it is necessary to increase the number of police forces in various places, increase the number of joint defense members, and even call for the mobilization of garrisons to maintain order.”
”Refugees, refugees from more than a dozen provinces... Oh, those provinces in the north are all complaining.”
”Hunger and cold steal, Joe. That's human nature.”
”Once kind and resolute imperial people, they were forced to a desperate situation... Ah, really...”
”Because of our incompetence, they can only escape from their homes. They are displaced. Those nobles and rich people are OK. They can still live in luxury wherever they go...”
”But those ordinary people... Even some well-off businessmen, lawyers, writers, actors... They have become famous in the society. They live a comfortable life. In the eyes of the people at the bottom, they are already very, very... Hard to reach upper class people.”
”But a war, a natural disaster... Except for the nobles and the rich, everything was washed white, everything showed its original shape...”
”They have become nothing.”
”The house, the carriage, the clothes, the cash... Everything they've worked so hard to save is gone.”
”In addition to the nobility and the rich, who account for less than one thousandth of the population, they can still spend a lot of time... The rest of the people, who account for more than 999 per thousand... What they want to eat, what they want to wear, what they want to live in... When their families and relatives are sick, they want all kinds of medicinal materials...”
”It's common sense, Joe. People want to live. They want their families, their lovers and their children to live...”
”However, this disaster took away everything from them. They fled to the north in the wind and rain, and to the” peaceful place ”where the natural disaster could not cover for the time being... Those neighboring provinces have tried their best to rescue, but you know, who could have predicted that this disaster would be so terrible... And so fast and swift?”
Margaret III looked at Joe with stern eyes: ”rabbits are forced to rush, and they will kick eagles... The good people of the Empire are forced to a desperate situation, and they will revolt... There are more than 1000 cases reported here, all of which are the good people of the imperial elite who are the most law-abiding, the most elegant and the least likely to break the law, What they've caused.... ”
”Look at this. This composer, who fled to Lanyu province with his family from Tulun harbor, has created 57 well-known operas and hundreds of popular songs in the past 30 years... Because his little daughter was seriously ill and had a fever, he robbed a drugstore with a gun and injured two innocent drugstore clerks...”
”Look at this, who is also a beautiful little girl who escaped from port Tulun. She sings very well... She and her lover lost on the way of escape... I don't want to talk about the next thing... She degenerates so fast.”
”For the sake of money, there have been more than 30 idiots who think they are lucky enough to die in the hands of her and her accomplices.”
”This, a famous poet.”
”Well, a famous writer.”
”This is a famous painter.”
”They were respectable people who were once famous and respected... In order to survive, they... Gambled and quickly degenerated.”