Vol Chapter 2 (1/2)

Chapter 2 – Golden sea

Two years passed In just two years, reatly Outsidewaves of wheat He’s done quite well in only two years, is what I was thinking, Earl Terejia can be proud of what he’s accomplished

Due to the despotism of the Cardia family, the people’s resources here had been stretched to the limits Since my shallow father had been scared of rebellion, he repressed the people so est problem of this domain If they don’t work in the fields, then there will be less income Even an idiot could see that this would only eventually lead to self-ruin

But, saying that my father did not coht have been an exaggeration He knew that repressing the people as much as he did would reduce income Then, how did he maintain such an opulent lifestyle in bad taste?

……When I learned about my family’s incredibly evil “source of inco up at the bottomless pits of human desire and evil, even if he was my own father

A the punish called forced labor Basically, putting someone to work With my common sense fro like this in my country, so at first I was a bit confused

When o, he would take girls frohteen years old, and boys from ten to fifteen years old, and force the it, he was basically treating the domain’s people as slaves

In the Axia Kingdoal

It’s clearly stated in national law that slavery is illegal, but, it’s only there in the first place because the state church, the Ar Kusha church, protested slavery on a large scale The actuality is that most commoners are under a system similar to slavery, called serfdom, in this country

Father, with his despicable cleverness, caet around the title of “slavery” First, saying that this wasn’t a deathered laborers to other do this only as “labor” to the very end

In this country, no, on this entire continent, people are merely considered to be the property of their domain’s lord This was considered to be co, a rental fee could be earned by loaning out the “property,” it had to be concealed in this flashy manner, and nobody would blame my father

Since anti-slavery laws are strong in the Axia Kingdo exiled Although Earl Terejia see sense of ethics, there’s probably corrupt nobles in other parts of Axia

Because this country has enjoyed a long period of peace, I wonder if that’s caused Axia to stagnate and begin to rot from inside Unfortunately, I found out that “laborers” were dispatched to countless houses And, even now there are still many laborers

These laborers are an example of the numerous despotic laws that my father enacted like vonancy would be abused even ical dae dealt to them

Since they were under an unbearably high tax,starvation, and there were sothe quality of life within ress

That’s why I’s are better already Earl Terejia had put the safety of my domain’s people as his first priority

He started with the hunger issue He sold off all the senselessly expensive stuff in the house That’s good I wouldn’t even knohere to sell all these things That money was used to provide free meals to the people

At the saes, he also proers that had been forced into banditry by the terrible conditions At this time I didn’t know it yet but, Earl Terejia seems to have purchased food and supplies from out of his own pocket as well But, he calculated it as a loan to Viscountess Cardia in my name, is what I found out later

Next, he captured all the wrongdoers that benefitted froether with my father Since le day, they had all fled I learned this after I started associating with other nobles The reason being, they had taken what valuables they could with the the pri their wealth, along with addressing the hunger issue, the people’s resentree turn and view us in a ht

After that, it’s just aour popularity with the people inthat the people were so weak that they weren’t even able to consider revolt Their bodies and minds had been completely in tatters, after all

And so, for the past two years Earl Terejia has worked tirelessly day and night for the sake of ht outside e