Chapter 23, Captain’s Thoughts

Author: red heart cloth

Chapter 23, Captain’s Thoughts

The battle by the river bend is over.

The trembling serfs who were staying in Datong Shop in a few simple wooden houses next door were driven out. The low-ranking non-commissioned officers of the Wastedong Company announced to them that they had been liberated by the governor and gained their freedom.

The serfs who heard this did not move at all. They never thought that freedom was a good thing, and they did not even understand what freedom meant.

Does freedom refer to the precarious situation when wandering in the wasteland in the past? Does it refer to the hunger and cold when trying to make a living at the foot of Fuxing City?

It was quite free at that time, and you could do whatever you wanted, but you had no food to eat, no clothes to wear, and you could see dead people every day, those who died of starvation, those who died of illness, those who were robbed and killed...all kinds of things.

Especially winter is the most difficult.

Compared with those days, they are quite satisfied with their current life. Although they do not eat well and are very tired, they are laborers in the fields, and their owners will not let them starve to death - at least until they lose the ability to work.

As a result, a group of subordinates who called themselves the Governor came and beat them. Their master seemed to be finished, and he himself was liberated and regained his freedom.

But they were at a loss.

Ah? I'm free?

I almost shed tears.

However, what they said next made them feel at ease a lot.

They don't know what's good about freedom, but at least they know that bread is a good thing.

A sufficient batch of food was distributed. The serfs, who had always been half-fed every day - oh, they were freedmen now - wolfed down the food.

While they were eating, someone announced to them the next arrangement.

They are no longer serfs, but free people under the governor's rule. Next, the governor will personally manage the entire floodplain valley estate, which requires a large number of agricultural workers. Food and accommodation are provided, plus a small amount of money, but it will be provided as needed.

There will be bonuses for increased production. They can come and go freely without restrictions, and those who are willing to stay can accept employment.

No fool will be spared.

In a short time, the panic, confusion and bewilderment in the serfs' hearts almost disappeared.

They don't need to know anything else, as long as they know that they won't be hungry or blowing cold wind later, that's fine.

After eating, they should go out to work. The corpses should be collected and burnt, and the walls that were destroyed during the war should be repaired. The fields that were trampled and bombed should be cleaned up, and as much harvest as possible should be preserved.

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The entire manor was already busy.

After Yan Fangxu had roughly arranged everything, there wasn't much else to do.

He looked at the undulating mountains across the river bend and was in a daze.

Through the psyker, or cultist, he just met, he was thinking about his future.

When he was sent to the surface to serve as the governor's guard, he originally felt that his future was gloomy.

He still remembered that day, before the governor left the starship and landed on the surface, he approached the captain Yelicia for armed protection. The commodore lady originally planned to send only 300 servitors to the governor, and she would be done with them.

But who would have thought that that day, he was bored and had fun with his colleagues, and told a joke about an inexperienced woman who was promoted to captain and commodore at the speed of light?

More importantly, the captain also heard it.

The God-Emperor can learn from this. He actually doesn't have much objection to the female captain in his heart. It's just that his colleagues are joking like this, so he just laughs along.

But why did the captain hear him at the same time he spoke?

Shit!

It just so happened that the governor named Gu Hang complained that three hundred servitors were too few, so Yelicia waved her hand and asked him to take thirty marines and join the governor's command.

Under the laughter of his colleagues who were very happy and gloating about his misfortune, he, a young Marine Corps captain, could only take thirty people to the surface.

He was devastated and felt that life was gloomy.

Who doesn’t know that the governor of Raging Owl is a consumable once every two years? He is a little captain, and if he offends the captain, being thrown to the surface is equivalent to exile. Even if he protects the governor, the guy will inevitably die in the end.

He was executed because he could not pay the taxes. He would also waste two years on the Raging Owl without making any progress.

But he still has to fulfill his duties. On the one hand, it is the sense of responsibility of a soldier, and on the other hand, it is one thing if the governor is executed by the tax department, but if he dies under his protection, then his responsibility will be greater.

As for the Governor, he finally managed to deal with the taxes, and then secured his position as the planet's Governor, leading the entire planet to rejuvenate. Finally, he was grateful for his help in his later years, became his backer, and allowed him to prosper?

He had thought about this in his dream, but he never dared to think about it when he was awake.

Of course he hopes that the future will be like that, but that is too impossible. Especially since the Governor is still too whimsical. Instead of quickly taking over the alliance's political power and finding ways to raise taxes, he is thinking about developing the territory from scratch...

…Your Majesty the God Emperor, where do you have that time?

But then I thought again, what does this have to do with him? Anyway, it won’t be him who will be executed by then.

Then, as time went by, his mind gradually became alive again. Some thoughts that he only thought about in his dreams when he first landed on the surface would occasionally come to his mind when he was awake.

Is it really possible for Gu Hang to succeed?

The reason that made him think so was, of course, not just Governor Gu Hang's appearance of always having everything under control. He had seen many pretentious people, and he didn't know and didn't want to confirm whether the Governor was also that kind of person.

He doesn't want to look at attitudes, he only believes in facts.

The fact is that this governor is a rare psychic, and he will accompany these soldiers to participate in the battle. He won two battles and occupied two camps. This result is not big enough, and it is far from enough to save lives.

But the Governor is indeed moving forward with his plan.

Moreover, the Governor did not know where he got two black box making machines. The Imperial Mechanical Church would probably be willing to pay a lot of money for such magical gadgets.

These performances gave him more confidence in the Governor beyond his sense of responsibility, especially those two black boxes.

It seems like things are not going anywhere at all?

Today, he and the Governor met a psyker. At first, he thought that the man named Wohan was just an ordinary psyker, but according to the Governor's judgment, he was a cultist.

Cult, heresy... This is a very good enemy. If the so-called 'original owl beast sect' is truly recognized as a heresy, then the credit for eliminating them is not small.

But he still had doubts, was it really a 'cult'?

Is this the reason the Governor made up to ask for more aid, or is it true?

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I was attacked by Tzeentch. Chapters 22 and 23 were supposed to be tomorrow's content, but the timing was wrong...

Just think of it as an update today, brothers! There will be two updates as usual tomorrow.

The archived manuscript suffered heavy losses...

If you haven’t watched 22, you can go back and watch it, it’s already there.
Chapter completed!