The carnival—or chaos, more appropriately—continued into the evening, and only after everyone was exhausted did the Faber Village area become quiet.
Although the body was tired, everyone's mood was still very high, and everyone found a lot of good things.
Everyone gathered in the Baden Family's mansion, showing off to each other their gains today. People plan to rest for a while and then return to their villages.
Among the crowd, only Kevin didn't take anything. He worriedly gathered together a few people who usually had a higher reputation in the village.
He expressed his worries: They were robbing Faber Village, and the lord would definitely not let them go.
Everyone felt as if a basin of cold water was poured on their heads, and their previously hot hearts immediately cooled down.
When resentment accumulates beyond a certain threshold, impulse overwhelms reason and one does things one would not normally dare to do. However, they have forgotten that there is a higher existence that maintains the order of Arda, although this order is oppressing them.
Someone murmured and asked, "But... but... wasn't Baden the one who made the mistake first? He also beat our people to death. Several of the people who were hit by slings before never woke up."
Kevin shook his head. "But obviously our [crime] is more serious. The lord will definitely punish us first if he knows about it."
There was resentment in his heart, resenting why the villagers were so impulsive and why they couldn't be more rational.
When everyone was searching around in confusion, Kevin had not thought about running away and ran to Franklin Harbor to report to the City Hall, asking the mayor to send someone to maintain order. However, after thinking about it, he still stayed and waited for everyone to regain their composure and then work together to find a solution.
"Haha, Kevin brother, what a [crime], it's too serious."
Just when everyone was frowning, a voice came from the side.
A man with a sinister look came over, and Kevin frowned even more tightly. He recognized this person, Biso—a scoundrel who idled around all day in the village.
"It was Landlord Baden who first set up heavy taxes behind the lord's back, forcing us to make it impossible for us to survive, so we did such an irrational thing. Besides, so many of us participated, haven't you heard of the saying that 'the law does not punish the public'?"
Kevin pointed out seriously. "Today's lord is a strong person, which can be seen from the fact that he overcame various difficulties and wiped out the pirates."
Biso shook his finger. "Even if he wants to pursue the case, what can he do to us? Hang us all? Or arrest us all for forced labor? We have gathered young and strong laborers from several villages and captured us all. What will happen to the old, weak, women and children in the village? Will he take care of us?"
Everyone in the circle looked at Biso. What this kid said seemed to make sense.
Biso said proudly, "Will the lord bear a [harsh] reputation for a landowner who is unkind for his wealth? How will the bard preach about him - the villagers were forced by the landlord to resist, but the Earl hanged all the resisters indiscriminately."
Everyone nodded secretly, Biso This kid usually doesn't work and wanders around. Unexpectedly, he has accumulated a lot of knowledge.
After he said this, the worry about his life suddenly eased a lot.
Just when everyone relaxed their brows, Biso became serious. "However, all our harvest today will be collected and returned to Baden, or... it will be received into the Lord's pocket."
One sentence made everyone cover their pockets hard.
"No one can take away the treasure in my bag!" Someone yelled immediately.
They were really scared of poverty and suddenly gained wealth, and they had to keep it even if they risked their lives.
Kevin covered his forehead, he already had a premonition of something bad happening.
Sure enough, Biso waved his fists and said, "Everyone, why don't we 'negotiate' with the lord! The ill-gotten wealth in the Baden Family was accumulated through daily plundering of people's wealth. We have the right to possess this wealth, because Baden originally robbed it from us, but now it is just returned to the original owner."
"Enough!" Kevin yelled angrily, "What can we do to negotiate with the lord? He can summon an army to deal with us!"
"Kevin, you are so cowardly!"
Biso refuted him with "righteous words": "We have the strength in numbers, and we have also captured a large number of the Baden Family's weapons. We are an army in our own right, and of course we have the capital to 'negotiate' with the lord."
"Have you forgotten how the pirates of Northwest Bay were eliminated?"
"Then do you still remember the former great pirate leader Edward? He was a being who was feared by all the lords in the northwest."
Biso ignored Kevin. Their quarrel had attracted many people to gather around.
He shouted to the people around him, "How did the pirates in the Edward period make the lords afraid? There is only one secret, and that is [unity]. They twisted into a rope and gained strength far beyond their individual strength. After Edward disappeared, the pirates fell apart, so they were defeated individually."
"Folks! We have gathered people from several villages. As long as we can work together, the lord can't do anything to us. He will eventually accept our request and allow us to keep the wealth that should belong to us!"
"Everyone, the destruction of Baden has witnessed our strength. Look, even a big landowner like him cannot stop the power of our unity!"
Everyone's hearts were heated up again by Biso. Yes, the big Landlord Baden, who usually seemed arrogant, turned into a wild dog running away with its tail between its legs under their combined efforts.
Lord? Aren't lords just larger landowners? These villagers, who only hang around the village on weekdays and have traveled as far as Franklin Harbor, have no idea how big a county is, how many people there are, or how many troops their lord can muster.
They can only speculate based on the most powerful force they have ever seen - the Baden Family clan.
Landlord Baden was easily defeated by them, so if the lord does not agree to their request and sends an army, it may be a little more difficult to defeat the lord's army. After all, he is a more powerful guy than Baden.
So everyone shouted, "Unite! Negotiate with the lord!"
Since Arda lacks grassroots feudal lords such as [knights] who take villages as their territory, farmers living in the countryside do not have an intuitive feeling for the power of the lords on weekdays. Their obedience to the lords' decrees is more based on habits accumulated over generations.
If it were in other territories, the probability of something like Faber Village happening would be very low, because the villagers would be suppressed by the knights living in the village as soon as they gathered together, and there would be no chance for multiple villages to connect with each other.