In Lisbon, a carriage drove towards the guard post on the main road in the north of the city leading to the suburbs. There was a large wooden box in the carriage, and the wooden box contained a box of silver pesos.
This money is the tax collected by Lisbon this month. According to regulations, it must be sent to Madrid immediately.
Therefore, dozens of Spanish knights followed closely behind the carriage. It seemed that they were here to protect the carriage.
The war in the Netherlands continues to worsen. Although the noble men in Madrid only want to live and drink, for the sake of God, in order to ensure that they can continue to live a comfortable life, they can only take care of things in the Netherlands.
Therefore, Madrid is waiting for the taxes from various cities this month to solve the problem of military financial constraints.
Of course, it is impossible for all of these taxes to be used for the war in the Netherlands. At most, only 20 to 30% will be used.
Most of the tax revenue, in addition to paying for various expenses, was either embezzled by the nobles or used to fill the royal family's shortfall.
"Hey, you guys have to be careful. I heard that things are not peaceful outside recently. A gang of robbers called the Knights of Sadaros often appears nearby and robs all kinds of supplies."
The carriage came to a slow stop near the guard post. The guard guard at the guard post checked the access documents and gave a kind reminder.
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The knights in the rear rode up to the soldiers who had just collected the garrison. The horses neighed and raised their two front hooves before falling down. The knights were very cool.
"They are just some petty thieves. These people are not taken seriously by us at all. My Sakai's sword is not a vegetarian."
After seeing this knight, the soldier's expression instantly became respectful.
"It turns out to be Mr. Sacai. I didn't expect you to personally escort the taxes this time. Now the bandits don't dare to peep. Your name is known to everyone in Lisbon."
Yes, this knight is very famous in Lisbon. His swordsmanship is very superb and he has an undefeated record of thirty-two duels. He is also a bounty hunter and has captured hundreds of mortals under his command.
And he is also a member of the Lisbon garrison, holding a mid-level military official position.
Saccay has the pride of Spain, and relies on his superb swordsmanship to never put others in his eyes.
This time, he personally escorted the taxes and did not take the recently famous Knights of Sadaros into consideration. Because in his opinion, these people are just a bandit group composed of farmers.
¡°There were five or six such bandit groups that he destroyed by his hands.
Sakai was very proud of the compliment from the new guard soldier.
He raised his chin slightly, and said to him with a proud look: "Don't let me meet these guys. If I meet them, I will definitely let them taste my sword."
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After saying that, Saka urged his mount on his crotch and rushed out.
The driver on the carriage shook his reins and followed closely.
And the knights behind the carriage also started to move, and followed the carriage and rushed past the guard post.
The garrison soldier blew a whistle and continued his duties.
No one noticed that a homing pigeon flew out of the grass, and it flapped its wings and flew away.
"Aha, what this Sakai said is really harsh. Does he really think he is the number one swordsman?"
About half an hour later, the carrier pigeon landed in a small forest northeast of Lisbon and landed on the hands of a man wearing a round wide-brimmed felt hat, black clothes and a black cloth blindfold on his face.
The man took a small piece of paper from the pigeon's leg, looked at it, and then smiled and said to his companions around him.
Around him, there were almost a hundred men in black dressed like him.
If Zhao Hongyu were here, he would definitely scream "Zorro".
Yes, the costumes of these men in black are the costumes of the later Spanish classic knight-errant film "Zorro".
They got this outfit based on someone's suggestion.
"Ignore this Sakai for now, I need to know how much tax money is on the carriage to see if it's worth it."
At this time, a man rode out slowly on horseback.
This person is none other than the young Pedro who had dealt with Zhao Hongyu.
When the leading knight saw Pedro coming out, he raised his hand and took off his blindfold to reveal his face.Allow.
And this leading knight signed a cooperation agreement with Zhao Hongyu, and was preparing to overthrow the Spanish Llano under Zhao Hongyu's training.
The two leaders of the Sadaros Knights have now appeared.
"About 80,000 silver pesos and 500 gold pesos." Lano said the numbers shown in the intelligence. "This is a huge amount of money. We can't control other cities, but Lisbon's taxes I will never let him get safely to Madrid."
As soon as Rano finished speaking, the surrounding knights shouted loudly.
As Lano said, the amount of tax money to be sent to Madrid is really quite a lot.
Eighty thousand silver pesos, plus five hundred silver pesos, is enough for a person to live comfortably for a lifetime.
And this money can be used to pay a year's military salary for a legion of about 2,000 people.
Since Llano and the others have embarked on the path of going against Spain, any plunder that can weaken the Spanish cannot be let go.
And this is a good opportunity for them.
"Follow us and find an opportunity to grab this money. Then we can buy food from the Americans. With food, we can recruit more refugees and expand our team. This is important to us. An opportunity too good to pass up.¡±
Rano¡¯s eyes flashed.
Pedro nodded: "Brothers, grab this money!"
Afterwards, Llano, Pedro and the knights, numbering about a hundred people, rode into the jungle.
About a day later, on a hill with no one in a radius of a hundred miles northeast of Madrid, Lisbon's tax money was robbed by the Knights of Sadaros, and all the guards who escorted the tax money died in this place.
Even Sac¨¦, who was famous in Lisbon, had his body hung on a crooked tree. When these people were found, their bodies were rotting and smelly, and a large part of them had been eaten by crows.
And Rano and the others, who had grabbed the tax money, only paid the price of two casualties.
They used the money to buy a large amount of grain from the genetic people left behind in the concession. These grains were used by Llano and Pedro to recruit homeless people and beggars wandering around Lisbon.
It just so happens that the city of Lisbon is still cracking down on organized crime, so there are a lot of people like this wandering around.
This allowed Lano and the others to smoothly implement their recruitment plan.
And many of these people¡¯s relatives were arrested and sent to the American continent to do hard labor.
Therefore, these people have a deep hatred for the Spaniards, and joining Llano's team is the right choice.
After Lano¡¯s team expanded, he began to selectively select those people who had deep hatred and hatred, joined a deeper echelon, and slowly led them to do some things.
Not everyone can follow Lano.
¡°After all, they are in the business of beheading, so it¡¯s not okay to be careless.
If someone betrays you, you won¡¯t even have tears to cry.
It¡¯s just that neither Lano nor Pedro knew that their reputation was getting louder and louder, and this was inseparable from the help of the genes left by Zhao Hongyu¡ª¡ª
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"Calling the whole village to the center of the village, Llano and Pedro of the Knights of Sadaros brought food to everyone. These food were all snatched from the hands of the hateful Spaniards."
Hearing that there was food, people who were starving walked out of their homes one after another and came to the small square in the center of the village.
A genetic man wearing makeup, speaking weird and stumbling Spanish, was promoting Lano and Pedro in a village where refugees gathered.
The villagers were originally very happy, but when they heard that the food was snatched from the Spanish, they suddenly looked scared.
"They are really timid guys, it seems like they need to be pushed."
The gene man glanced at it quickly and thought to himself.
"Why, you are almost starving to death. Don't you dare to eat Spanish food?"
The Gene Man¡¯s voice has increased a lot.
But there was still silence below.
"Dogs! You are all enough! Dogs of the Spanish. It's a pity that the Spaniards would rather starve you to death or sell you to the American continent. As dogs, you don't know how to choose your master. How sad!"
Gene Man¡¯s words made some people grit their teeth.
However, at this time, no one stepped forward to get the food.
"Lano and Pedro fought fiercely with the Spaniards to get this grain. After losing more than a dozen brothers, they killed all the Spaniards who pressed the grain to get it. He could have He could enjoy the food himself or sell it to get a lot of wealth, but he didn't do that because he was still thinking of you starving compatriots."
The genetic man started to stir up emotions.
"Rano and Pedro dared to stand up and fight the Spaniards and seize from their hands the food you need to fill your stomachs and not starve to death, but you people don't even have the guts to eat. I really think of Rano and Pedro. Pedro feels unworthy, you guys don¡¯t deserve to be called men at all.¡±
The villagers below who heard what the gene man said lowered their heads silently. Yes, they were really embarrassed by what he said.
Llano and Pedro risked their lives and heads to grab food for them.
But when they heard that it was Spanish food, they didn¡¯t even have the guts to eat it.
"Anyway, I'm almost starving to death and can't live any longer. No matter what, I'm going to die. I'd rather die than be a well-fed ghost!"
At this time, the person who had been arranged in advance walked out of the crowd, then walked to the place where the food was piled and stopped.
"I still have children and a wife at home. What will I do after I finish eating this food? I can't always point at Lano and Pedro. They are working hard with their heads in their belts to eat this food. I feel really ashamed, I think what if the Knights fought with the Spaniards!"
This guy started his performance time.
Under this charlatan¡¯s performance, some young people couldn¡¯t bear the excitement and stood up.
However, the effect still did not reach the level that the genetic man wanted.
It doesn¡¯t matter, there is still another move.
For such a situation, Wang Shan has already made arrangements.
"Son, you go join the knights of Llano and Pedro. Your father was arrested by the Spanish officials and has been sold to America. You don't know whether he is alive or dead. You have to avenge your father. Take it. This food can also keep my younger brothers and sisters alive, so it is better to fight to death than to starve to death."
Another wave of pre-arranged requests appeared.
Even if the effect of these support is not very good, there will still be other support that will come forward.
In short, we will never give up until we reach our goal.
In addition to this village, there are also such genetic people in other refugee villages, but their methods are different.
Some people use trolls to stir up everyone's emotions.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Some genetic men, have made use of the same old-fashioned methods that were used in later generations to defeat the islanders, and rehearsed scenes of plays for these people to see.
A young man named Oliver originally had a warm family. His father was hardworking and brave, his mother was kind and beautiful, and he also had a lovely ***.
Like most ordinary people, they are full of good hopes for life.
But all this was destroyed by the Spaniards.
Jude, who comes from Madrid, was originally a small-time gangster, one of those low-life types who didn¡¯t do well in Madrid.
This guy came to the village on the outskirts of Lisbon because of some original sounds, which is the village where Oliver and his family are located.
Jude used his identity to collude with Spanish officials and usurp the land and wealth of honest villagers.
Because Oliver¡¯s father resisted, he was arrested and tortured to death in prison.
Oliver¡¯s mother attracted Jude¡¯s attention because of her beauty.
Therefore, Oliver's mother drowned herself in the river.
Oliver¡¯s family was ruined and he had to start a beggar career with his sister.
And in the end, Oliver¡¯s sister, a kind and sensible little girl, was hit and killed by Jude¡¯s carriage while begging for food.
But Jude used his embezzled wealth to bribe Spanish officials and escape legal sanctions.
In short, this is a drama full of all kinds of nonsense.
And there are many plays like this but they are very similar.
? Adapted from The White-Haired Girl, adapted from Oliver Twist
But the effect of this kind of performance is amazing.
Because the scenes performed in the center are real to the real lives of the refugees watching below.??happened.
And they have experienced it themselves.
With the same experience, it is not surprising that the effect is amazing.
And it is precisely because of this that the fame of Llano and Pedro began to spread faster and faster and became known to more and more people as if they had wings. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)