Chapter 218 – 20. The Human Kingdom
20. Human kingdom
Kingdom of Consillieri.
It is the official name of the so-called ‘human kingdom’.
It was founded about 300 years ago, and is currently ruled by the 17th king, Rayleigh de Concilieri.
As for the location, if you come out of the tower’s south gate and get out of the wide-open outer city, there are huge mountain ranges, and it is located in a huge basin that comes out after crossing about 5 such mountain ranges.
Based on the wagon, it took about 40 days from the Outer City of the Tower to the border of the Kingdom of Consillieri.
Even though it penetrated that distance, there was almost no village or city that could be called an intermediate point, so it was also a difficult place to reach with dizzying preparation.
The kingdom’s capital is located at the very center of the Great Basin.
As it is now called, “Royal Road Consillieri”. It is a city with a history of over 2,000 years.
The population was a whopping 300,000, and it was one of the largest cities outside the tower, and commerce was developed as well.
A noisy, cheerful and lively city.
It wasn’t much of a difference when it comes to fat.
Because it was a continent, there were cases in which whole villages were wiped out due to food shortages, but thanks to advanced agricultural technology, most of them had a level of farming that could manage to survive.
On the surface, the kingdom appeared to be all right.
There is no foreign invasion and various industries are stable.
If you look at it in detail, it can be said that it is the biggest heyday after settling in this basin.
Okay.
So that was the problem.
“… Is that true?”
“Yes….”
“….”
A room in silence.
A heavy atmosphere weighed on the people.
“Why… Why didn’t you tell me beforehand?!”
The red-haired woman sitting at the top of her seat exclaimed.
She seemed to be a woman of considerable position, judging by her luxurious jewelry and neat and tidy clothes.
“Sorry, sorry….”
“Sorry? I’m sorry, I wouldn’t even have a meeting like this if it was going to end!! How the hell did you do that to handle this!!!”
The people sitting on both sides lowered their heads in unison at her screams her.
Even though they were all the nobles of the kingdom, they couldn’t say a word to the woman properly.
It’s not just because of power.
Because they know what a big mistake they have done.
Exceeding the ‘number of humans’.
The kingdom now faces that terrible moment.
It was believed that at least by the end of this month, the “Human number” Would be exceeded.
The consequences of that neglect would lead to a horrific carnage.
‘Genocide’ by noblesse will occur and kill half of the population, about 5 million people.
“You know very well that this is the most urgent and important thing than anything else! But how do you hide this?!”
“… I have nothing to say.”
The reason why the situation has deteriorated so much is because of the greed of each nobleman.
Originally, each territory governed by nobles had an allotted population.
This was a decision made through consultation between the ‘Management Committee’ and the royal government, and cannot be changed in any way.
It is the lords and knights who manage not to exceed this allocated population. Of course, since humans are not perfect beings, errors such as intentionally missing the population or errors in the calculation process may occur.
For this reason, the ‘management committee’ and the royal government send fishermen to various places to catch such errors.
The problem is that the eosa is also a human being, so he can have bad feelings for reasons such as his own greed or sympathy for the people. In particular, the eosa dispatched by the royal government has had such cases.
The “Management committee” Was aware of this, but due to lack of hands, they minimized this by taking turns in charge of each area.
But there are always selfish and unnecessarily daring beings.
There is a lord who makes a profit by deceiving the population even though he will be caught someday, and there is a lord who turns a blind eye to this.
At first, it was a small number, but as it increased and the lords began to quarrel, the size increased.
It made many people live deep underground or deep in the mountains without registering their births or declaring them dead as they gradually hush up each other.
Now, every territory has an underground city, and every deep mountain valley has villages.
All of them are unregistered, and they are hard-to-reach corners.
“After… Yet… It’s not over, is it?”
“Yes… If what we’ve figured out is correct… Probably.”
“….”
As far as I understood, it did not exceed ‘right now’.
However, considering the speed of information transfer and the possibility that even the nobles here could not have discovered it, it could have already been surpassed.
“What about the management committee? Do you know?”
“These provinces are currently in charge of the royal government’s fishermen, so you won’t know yet. Besides, they haven’t been that enthusiastic lately… Even the newcomers this time aren’t very active.”
“Um….”
Fortunately, the noblesse who were recently dispatched as management committee members were not very enthusiastic.
It is the same even with language. It’s a tiresome job to just walk around the whole province, inspecting documents and conducting field investigations.
If they are not armed with tremendous loyalty and hostility to humans, they will inevitably become lazy as time goes by, and the same goes for the ‘custodians’ who inspect documents and make various decisions.
Humans are controlling themselves anyway, so why do I have to come to this faraway place and suffer?
There were people who just played around with this idea.
Representatively, Hari Yu, who served as a member of the management committee until recently.
She was truly the epitome of generosity.
“First… As soon as… Issue a first-class order.”
“First-class orders… Are you talking?”
“Yes. I will receive your father’s ashes, so sirs, now secretly send a delegation to enforce it.”
A face where coldness and sadness coexist.
But she had to make a decision.
1st class orders.
Kingdoms are graded when managing their population.
Grades 1 through 9.
Among them, the 9th grade is also expressed as the ‘killing department’.
Most of them consist of serious criminals, seniors over 80 years of age, and severely disabled, and other grades are divided in detail according to region, gender, age, and disability.
The ‘1st level order’ means to kill all those who received the ‘9th level’ punishment, that is, those who were in the killing department.
It is the first order to be issued among the deadly drugs, and there is a record of it being issued intermittently in history.
Of course, this is a temporary expedient.
Since the number of surpluses is only in the thousands, and the number of young couples who can increase the population remains the same, if you leave the “First-class order” And neglect it, you will eventually have to issue another such order in the near future.
In the end, in order to solve the fundamental problem, it is necessary to lower the overall fertility rate in society by setting stricter birth control than now, and to take destructive measures to slaughter women who can give birth to children in certain regions if the The situation is not favorable.
It’s terrible, but it’s a choice that can’t be helped in a situation that’s already close to ‘human numbers’. If this is not done, then half the population will be slaughtered.
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As Yuhari said, the human kingdom was quite far away.
And the road to it was very rough.
It’s still a rough and rough continent, but the road to it is so rough.
“Did I tell you? It’s far Still, it came incredibly quickly.”
Sihwan’s party arrived at the human kingdom about three days after leaving the tower.
The current location is a moderately sized village on the border beyond the mountain. It was a place where about 200 families lived.
“I know. It is far, far away.”
“But isn’t it as barren as you thought?”
Instead of a crumbling inn or village chief’s house, the group decided to stay in the camper they brought.
Ina, who was sipping her tea in a fairly large room, said.
According to her words of her, she was less barren than she thought.
Women like Tae-hee even described the outside as ‘hell’, but no matter how you look at it, it wasn’t that much.
On the contrary, if it is cultivated well, it can survive.
Hari smiled at her question.
“It looks like that~. I thought like you at first too.”
“All of my intellect is rushing to the tower. The only thing keeping it green right now is mutant weeds that have evolved with extreme efficiency.”
“Oh~. Do you know Have you been out before?”
“I know when I see it.”
“It is as he said. From the outside, something seems rich and prosperous, doesn’t it? The mountains are all covered with grass. But those are the things I can’t eat. Well, noblesses like us are so strong that it might not matter, but non-species aren’t worth it. The moment you eat it, your vitality will be sucked from then on, so you might search for it.”
“It’s brutal.”
“And, did this get a lot better? Even 200 years ago, it wasn’t green at all. It was just all gray.”
“But you told your mother-in-law that you had something to do, didn’t you? What is it? You can tell me now.”
Hari, chewing on her jerky her, glanced at her vision her through her rotten eyes her.
“People are talking, but they don’t respond, they’re talking about something else. And what is the mother-in-law? She needs to know that she’s cocky anyway.”
“So what’s the business?”
Tsk tsk. She clicked her tongue and drank her glass of water.
And then he spat it out casually.
“It’s not a big deal, I already exceeded the ‘number of people’ when I was a ‘trustee’. To tell you that.”
