The carriages rumbled, the horses neighed, and the pedestrians held their bows and arrows at their waists.
The long procession walked on the road that was not very wide. It was like a long dragon, with no end in sight. It stretched from the eastern horizon all the way to the western horizon.
This was the migration team sent by the merchants of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins.
In order to avoid war, the Goddess of Wealth finally proposed the idea of "merchants to the north, nobles to the south," dividing the huge Commonwealth of Gold Coins into two.
Although the middle and lower class small merchants and nobles had a lot of opinions about this, the upper class big merchants and great nobles accepted this proposal after negotiations.
In any case, this was still better than fighting a war.
Although they all wanted to kill each other and rob all the other's wealth, even if the aristocratic party had the advantage, they actually did not really have a big chance of winning.
Or rather, even if the entire aristocratic party had a chance of winning, as for a specific big noble, he might not necessarily be confident that his family would be able to make up for the losses in the future war that would engulf the entire Commonwealth of Gold Coins.
Since this was the case, it was better not to lose anything.
So despite the opposition of the nobles in the north and the merchants in the south, this matter was finally settled.
After it was settled, it was a long migration.
Merchants to the north, nobles to the south.
This was probably the largest migration that had occurred since the great migration of humans. The total population involved on both sides might be close to a million.
Originally, the merchants suggested that everyone only migrate their property and families, not their territory and people — they even said that they could use money to buy off the nobles' territory. But after some discussion, the nobles in the north finally said that they wanted people to leave and land to stay, not leaving enough people for the merchants.
On one hand, this was to prevent the merchants from becoming stronger, and on the other hand, to have enough strength to fight for territory in the south.
When the merchants in the south migrated, they naturally left behind many areas that they had been operating for many years. In order to occupy these areas, of course, a lot of people were needed — the farming model chosen by the nobles required far more people than the merchants. If the people from the north were not migrated over, it would be difficult for the nobles who had changed their territory to have enough people to farm.
And more importantly, these people were the foundation of their rule. Their army also came from them. If they left them behind, it meant that their army would lose its foundation. Even if it couldn't be seen in the short term, as time went on, they would find that their army was getting smaller and smaller.
The central government of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins was not strong. There were many battles and killings among the aristocratic lords. It could be said that the world was in chaos. Without a reliable army, even if they reached the south, they would only be a group of pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
When the merchants in the south discovered that the nobles in the north wanted to migrate their people away, they were naturally unwilling to do so. They protested angrily, and even the nobles felt pressured.
However, in front of the Northern Alliance of Nobles, who had already made up their minds and reached an agreement, the reputation and authority of the great nobles were no longer useful.
Faced with the persuasion and threats of the great nobles, the representatives of the Northern Alliance of Nobles did not have the slightest intention of backing down. They straightforwardly expressed that they did not trust the other party, and wanted to ensure that the nobles moving south had enough power to protect themselves.
This was a complete fall out, but the great nobles really couldn't refute it.
In fact, their original plan was to devour all the nobles who were migrating to the south.
Of course, these plans couldn't be made public. It would have been better if they could keep it a secret, but now that it had been exposed, no matter how thick-skinned they were, they couldn't help but feel embarrassed.
In addition to being embarrassed, they were more angry.
A big piece of fat meat was about to fall into their mouths, but now they actually had to run away. How could they not be angry?
But the attitude of the nobles moving south was very fierce. They even put on an attitude of "if worst comes to worst, let's all go our separate ways. If there's a civil war in the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, so be it." They refused to give in even the slightest bit.
For them, it was already very hard to leave their home that they had managed for so many years and go to the south to start anew. It was impossible for them to make any more concessions.
In fact, many of the nobles moving south had already contacted each other in private. When they arrived in the south, the first thing they would do was to jointly send out troops to beat the nearby southern nobles. First, they would stabilize their rule, and then strive to expand their territory.
A few of the powerful nobles moving south had even set their sights on the two Marquises of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, wanting to knock them down from their high and mighty thrones.
When a pack of jackals and wolves migrated, they wanted to confirm their status. Of course, they could do it by bullying the rabbits and goats in the place of migration, but the most appropriate way was to kill the local wolf king.
Even the netizens on Earth knew how to joke, "If I kill a panda, I'll be a national treasure." How could these cruel and merciless nobles not know?
… Haha, if it were not for the possibility of snatching benefits, it would not be so easy for these nobles to give up their territory in the north and migrate to the south!
Seeing that the aristocratic party was moving south with a large number of people, the merchant party, who had originally planned to go north lightly, naturally changed their minds. They spent money like crazy, prepared a large amount of food, recruited a large number of people, formed a huge pioneering team, and headed north.
Naturally, the nobles in the south were unwilling to let their subjects leave — the subjects were the foundation of the lord's rule. Without the subjects, the lord would be a commander without an army. In the Commonwealth of Gold Coins, where battles were frequent, the nobles who were a commander without an army were even worse than dogs!
At least a dog would not stay in its own den, and then a Galen would jump down from the sky and turn it into dog meat.
So they immediately took action to stop it. But this time, the merchant party showed an extremely firm attitude, and even issued a threat of war.
Who did not understand the importance of population? If there was not enough population in the north, then what was the use of going there!
In the face of the merchant party's threat of war, the big nobles had to do the work of the small and medium nobles. They even used force to forcibly suppress two lords who wanted to stop their subjects from being hired away.
Of course, they also set a rule that merchants could only hire no more than 30% of the population from the same territory.
As a result, this 30% was almost 30% of the entire south.
In general, the south of the Commonwealth of Gold Coins was richer than the north, and the population density was higher. The 30% of the population in the entire southern region was about more than 60% of the total population in the northern region.
This number was almost enough to meet the needs of the merchants. Even if there were some vacancies, there would still be a lot of people left in the north.
After all, it was not only the aristocratic party in the north, there were also many merchants.
So, the merchants went north, the nobles went south, and countless migrants formed a long line on the ground, slowly moving in their respective directions.
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