The Beginning of the Trial of the Century

As the Northern Wanderers pushed south, winning battle after battle, the clerks accompanying the army gradually grew more and more adept at conducting public trials.

They say the first time is awkward, the second is easy. After hanging nearly five hundred nobles and their lackeys from cadet branches, throwing more than twelve hundred people into prison, and sentencing over three thousand to forced labor, the clerks had long since lost any illusions about the nobility. When it came to putting nobles on trial, they were thoroughly experienced.

But putting the nobles of Demacia City on trial was not so simple.

Elsewhere, nobles owned and consolidated land. The nobles and their cadet-branch lackeys directly managed it, collecting both rent and land taxes from the peasants. The conflict between people and land was already severe.

In recent years, Demacia's avenues for advancement had been blocked, and the economy had declined year after year. The conflict between the two sides had grown intense. At such a time, the people could not have welcomed the trials of the nobility more wholeheartedly.

What was more, after the nobles were tried, the clerks would survey the land again, establish its boundaries, distribute it, and set new land taxes according to the new allocation. The peasants who benefited were naturally overjoyed.

Who wouldn't like having land distributed to them?

Even though there were still too few clerks, and local villages still had to rely for the time being on respected elders and prominent families to manage their affairs, that was enough for the peasants to embrace the Northern New Order of their own accord.

But Demacia City was different from everywhere else.

The nobles of Demacia City did not need to exploit people with their own hands. Although most of them lived extravagantly, their fiefs paid for