Chapter 890
The Royal Family Flees West
Those royals and nobles could flee with their assets, but for the people at the very bottom, this was their home. They had no way to do that.
Leaving a familiar place for an unfamiliar one, they might not even be able to support their families.
After the royal family retreated with its army, the Commoner Army swiftly reached the imperial city. Without encountering any resistance, the army entered the city just like that.
What surprised them somewhat was that the human nobles had already retreated. Aside from families like the Darian family and the Edwen family, most families chose to leave with the royal family.
The Commoner Army released the head of the Darian family from prison. The Commoner Army soldiers knew that he was Lord Mel's father-in-law, so naturally, they could not put him on trial.
The expected slaughter and looting never came. These soldiers merely conducted inspections throughout the city, focusing mainly on noble residential districts. This army did not rob the common people at the bottom.
Three days later, these commoners finally set their minds at ease. Saik, commander of the Commoner Army, had someone announce the latest decree. Apart from the tiered commercial tax being somewhat hard to accept, the rest was not so unacceptable.
The nobles had already fled, so there was naturally no way to put them on trial. However, the local gangs were uprooted entirely.
"Those are gang members, right? These rebel soldiers are incredible. They just entered, and they're already going to execute them all!"
"A little cruel, isn't it?"
"What is cruel about it? Those scourges should have died long ago. They entrenched themselves in the imperial city and harmed who knew how many people."
The gangs of the imperial city had always