Chapter 36 In the name of the people
Chapter 36 In the Name of the People
The day after the recapture of Port Fullan, Paul Greiman ordered the townspeople to gather in the square in front of the church, where he was going to hold a public trial of the pirates.
The soldiers began to go from house to house shortly after dawn to give notice, and at a little after nine o’clock in the morning the whole town was assembled in the square. People found that there were four gallows erected in the square, and speculated how many pirates the lord was going to hang.
More than two hundred pirate captives of the Shark Gang were tied up and kneeling in front of the steps of the church gate, and the townspeople’s emotions ran high at the sight of these villains who had been making a nuisance of themselves in Richland Harbor in recent months.
Now these pirates one by one as a lost dog, there is no longer a threat, people have taken out the stinky fish and shrimp to greet them, an individual simply direct stone throwing, some unlucky captives were smashed head and blood.
Many people tried to break through the cordon, directly with fists and feet to greet the captives, but immediately by the soldiers who showed their weapons forced back.
If it wasn’t for the soldiers surrounding the area, the pirates would have been beaten to death by the angry crowd.
“They robbed my family’s life-saving money!”
“My daughter was spoiled by these bastards, oooh ……”
“Lord of Light is above, let these devils go to hell!”
The sounds of complaints and curses such as these rose and fell, and the square was in an uproarious mess.
……
Paul was on the second floor balcony staring in disbelief at what was happening below.
He suddenly uttered the question, “Did you see that? Schroeder.”
The person behind him immediately replied, “Yes, Lord Count. It looks like the townspeople hate pirates with a passion.”
Paul continued, “I suddenly wondered how these townspeople would treat me if I was the one who lost yesterday’s battle, and if the captive tied up down there right now was me.”
Schroeder was silent, he didn’t know how to answer.
Paul said in a daze, “I guess it wouldn’t be any different from these pirates, the stinking fish and rocks would be thrown towards my head as usual.”
“How can this …… be? Lord Earl, you are their lord.” Schroeder comforted, but the lack of confidence in his words was easy to hear.
Paul snorted, “Yes, this lord’s family has left them unattended to by pirates for more than twenty years, and still shamelessly comes over to collect taxes.”
The old knight didn’t know how to answer, so he could only remain silent in response.
“Did you see the way those townspeople looked at me yesterday? I could see that it was actually no different from the way they looked at the sharks back there. It’s only because the big stick in my hand was a little heavier and knocked the shark down that they had a little more superficial awe for me. If the shark had knocked me down, it would have been nothing more than a different overlord to them, and it would have been the same dominion and the same oppression and extortion anyway.”
The young earl sighed softly, “It’s a long way to go to clean up the hearts of the people, let’s take these pirates and give them a chance to vent their anger first.”
……
At ten o’clock in the morning, the public trial assembly began.
Captain Holman’s voice was louder and was selected to read out the pirates’ crimes.
The Captain unrolled the scroll and began to read aloud:
“In the month of June, 1990 of the Holy Calendar …… in the name of Count Paul Greiman, Lord of Arda, a public inquisition is hereby convened to declare the evil deeds of the pirate gang, the Sharks, which have been discussed and summarized as follows …… “
“Robbing money and amassing countless millions.”
“Raped and raped women without shame.”
“Slaughtering innocents, brutalizing and unkind. “
“Blocking trade routes and being greedy.”
“Violent resistance to the law, unrepentant.”
…… One by one, the charges were read out, and the pirates at the bottom of the steps were all ashen.
“Kill them! Kill them!” The shouts of the townspeople converged into a wave of sound that repeatedly struck at the hearts of this group of people who were wearing their sins.
After the crime was declared, the sentence for the pirates began, according to yesterday’s discussion, Shark was dead, just killing the old lord was enough for him to die several times, even if Paul did not sentence him to death, the other high ranking people in the territory would not let him go.
Other big and small leaders can not be spared, in the Sharks can be mixed on the head of the gang, all are not ruthless generation, hands do not know how many people’s blood stained.
As for the bottom of those minions, it is necessary to do the appearance of screening, killed or raped a woman, death, committed other crimes, hard labor.
Screening work to the people, so a townspeople as long as claimed to be pirates have been bullied, you can enter the police circle, lined up to identify those minions committed personal crimes.
One of the townspeople grabbed a pirate and dragged him out of the pile of captives, “It’s him, I saw this man try to leave the other day without paying for his meal, and when poor old Glenn chased after him, the bastard stabbed him in the stomach.”
An older woman kept clawing at the beast who raped her daughter, “My daughter was spoiled by this villain, you must do right by my daughter!”
Similar things continued to be staged until three o’clock in the afternoon when all the identifications were made, and the pirates who had committed felonies were dragged out, knowing that their deaths were imminent, they waited for the upcoming final judgment with their eyes closed.
Paul stood above the balcony and shouted to the crowd below:
“Townspeople of Port Fullan! I, Paul Gleiman, Lord of Arda, hereby announce the judgment of the pirates! For these remaining lesser offenders, they are sentenced to serve three to five years of hard labor.”
He slowly turned his eyes to the felons in custody, and spoke with a solemn expression, “For these men who have been testified to be guilty of the most heinous offenses, non-death penalty will not be enough to appease your wrath, and so I sentence them to be hanged! In the name of the people, immediate execution!”
Soldiers immediately escorted the felons to the gallows for execution, they put the noose around the necks of the prisoners and kicked away the stools under their feet, the prisoners lost their lives after some unnecessary struggles, then the second and third batches …… accompanied by the departure of a single sinful soul, the crowd constantly erupted in cheers.
After the execution was completed, Paul once again shouted to the crowd, “People of the Alda Collar, in order to offset the losses caused by pirate plunder, I declare the coastal areas of the Alda Collar to be exempt from taxes for one year!”
“Wow!” The townspeople exclaimed in astonishment, this was indeed a heavenly good news.
Not waiting for them to finish their astonishment, they heard the lord shout again, “In the presence of the God of Heaven, I, Paul Greiman, hereby swear that from now on-“
Paul hesitated for a moment when someone behind him gently poked him in the waist.
“No matter who the enemy is, no matter how powerful the enemy is, no matter if they come from the sea or from the land, I will never abandon you, and I will always be with you in honor and in disgrace.”
“I shall make your safety my own, and I shall make your happiness my own.”
“I, for one, will spend my life in defense of your safety and happiness!”
The people of Fulan Harbor were moved, they were truly moved, after all, the people of this era were still relatively simple.
They coincidentally remembered the legends of those great and honorable nobles in the mouths of the bards, in which the noble lords were just, compassionate, and loved the people like their children, and had always laughed it off as a joke before, but now there was a living example right in front of their eyes, ah.
Paul turned back to Cecil and quietly complained, “Shit, from which third-rate poet’s manuscript you copied this paragraph, too damn fleshy, I am now covered with goose bumps.”
Cecil heatedly smiled: “Sir, this is the effect we want, the more fleshy it is, the more it can stir up emotions, the people here eat this kind of thing.”
Father Merson hid in the corner and watched the entire public trial, he silently put his hands together in front of his chest and prayed in a low voice: “Omniscient Lord, may your light always shine on Lord Paul Gleeman.”
Along with the end of the public trial assembly, the Pirate Rebellion that had lasted for several months since the beginning of spring in Alda Territory finally came to an end.
It took a day of work to fix the typos and incorrect punctuation in the previous chapters, I didn’t realize there were so many, I’m really sorry guys.
The other thing is to change the protagonist’s daily address from the last name to the first name, feel a little bit more smooth.
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(End of chapter)