"Tomorrow is the summer celebration. There have been more and more riots recently. I feel like we won't be able to suppress them any longer, Marshal," a high-ranking officer from the William Family said to Alonso.
"You may leave first." Alonso had been frowning recently. During this period of time, there had been too many things, too many things that were troubling him.
There were too many problems in the Empire. The high price of housing made it impossible for the poor to even have a roof over their heads. The successive wars and disasters were undoubtedly another heavy blow to the aging Imperium.
A large number of refugees were displaced and homeless, but the nobles were rich and extravagant. Natural disasters and man-made disasters had almost depleted the Empire's food supply. However, the upper echelons of the Empire were even more extravagant and wasteful. They did not care about the lives of the commoners.
In Kelandil, the price of food had become almost all the expenses of the commoners. Even so, they could not afford to eat meat. It was good enough that they could eat bread. Most importantly, it was just enough to maintain a state of mild hunger.
The most frightening thing was that more and more refugees were pouring into the city. Not only did they bring chaos, but they also brought diseases and plagues.
In the past month or so, the Church had also changed their style. They began to brazenly arrest people on the streets and execute people at will. This was also tacitly approved by Emperor Keith. Alonso couldn't do anything about it even if he wanted to. After all, the people of the Church didn't directly touch the interests of the Empire. They had very high authority. Even when Prince Keith was crowned as the Emperor of the Empire, it was Pope Ecci who personally crowned him in San Antonio Cathedral.
As for the Empire's Chief Magic Advisor, he was still as secretive as before. However, they still had to be on guard. Who knew what he was up to?
People didn't want to work anymore. They became like Emperor Keyes. They only wanted to drink and drink today. They were greedy for pleasure and didn't want to make progress. Only things like riots, smashing, and looting could arouse their interest. They wanted to reap without sowing.
Alonso was really tired. He felt an unprecedented pressure and exhaustion.
In the north, the newly established Kingdom of Northland was also eyeing the Empire covetously. Reclaiming the north by force was just a pipe dream. The Empire no longer had the strength to do so.
In the Holy City, the secret organizations formed by the people at the bottom of the society also rose up without restraint. They couldn't be caught or killed off completely. Instead, they became more and more violent.
Tomorrow was the annual summer celebration. If Theoden The Great was still alive, what would he do if he saw this? How would he feel when he saw the once incomparably glorious empire become like this?
There was no doubt about Alonso's loyalty. Originally, he was just an unknown lord on the political stage of the Empire. Now, he was almost in charge of the military power of the Empire. It was just that this burden might be a little too heavy.
In fact, what Alonso didn't know was that at this moment, he was still up and worried about the country and its people. But what were the upper class nobles doing? If he had the stone ball like Morse, he would see some of the nobles gathered together to eat moon candy and have fun with a group of beautiful naked female slaves. Lastly, there were four nobles who were having sex with a female slave. One must know that the female slave was actually just an ordinary civilian who was arrested after being accused of being a witch by the Church. She was then bought by the nobles to have fun. One must know that she was only 14 years old.
Looking at the naked female slaves who ate moon candy and were extremely happy, one couldn't help but wonder how their parents would feel.
On this ordinary yet extraordinary night, what was Emperor Kaiser doing?
Our Emperor, Keyes, was currently playing with a group of maids in the main hall of his residence. However, they seemed to be covered in sweat. It was a dazzling sight.
Do you think this is the end? Our Emperor especially liked to have these scenes recorded with a magic crystal ball and had those court painters paint on the spot.
In short, on the eve of the summer celebration, our Emperor was having a lot of fun.
Alonso was alone in the military tent. He had already done his best to arrange all the available forces to ensure the safety of tomorrow.
Although he was still a little worried, he had already done his best. There was nothing else he could do.
He drank alone. At this moment, he didn't even have someone to talk to. He even wondered why he was doing this.
He didn't sleep for the whole night. He was drunk even though he wasn't drunk. Until the east was white, a new day had arrived.
As usual, Alonso washed up and changed into a full set of armor. This set of armor had accompanied him on many expeditions for many years. Now, it was also full of scars and was not shiny and beautiful.
It seemed that today was a cloudy day. The sky was covered by dark clouds. This kind of situation was rare. For so many years, the summer celebration was usually held in sunny weather.
Alonso called for a meeting with his subordinate officers and once again deployed the security and other work in detail.
After the meeting, Alonso personally led his men to patrol the city.
What was different this year was that almost no one had traveled thousands of miles to attend the summer celebration. There were only Derman citizens from all over the country, and many of them were actually refugees.
The city's defense couldn't be relaxed for even a moment. These refugees affected the city's appearance and brought chaos and plagues. Many of them were chased out of the city by the city's defense forces. That place was heavily guarded by Alonso's William family, as well as the imperial city's defense forces.
Everything was arranged properly. In the morning, the imperial guards would be inspected in front of the newly built Hall of Heroes. Ever since the Hall of Heroes was destroyed by Black Dragon Irdele, Alonso had led his men to rebuild it. In recent years, Kaiser The Great had ordered a large number of construction projects to be carried out, spending huge amounts of money to make the Hall of Heroes even more magnificent and magnificent. However, this also increased the burden on the populace, but Kaiser The Great chose to turn a blind eye to it. In contrast to the Hall of Heroes, the imperial guards weren't as good as they used to be.
Whether it was the selection of soldiers, the internal management, or the daily training, all the real elites had been used up during the Black Dragon's attack.
This year, the square in front of the Hall of Heroes wasn't crowded. The few citizens who were there had helpless expressions on their faces.
Under the protection of Kaiser The Great's men, Darlina also showed up in front of the Hall of Heroes.
Before Kaiser The Great could say anything, it started to drizzle from the cloudy sky.
In front of the Hall of Heroes, the populace was silent. The atmosphere was extremely awkward.
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