Chapter 636: Road to survival

Karen is a teenager from a village near Tianji City. He has dark brown hair, bright black eyes, and fair skin. He is a very typical stone man.

The Dorn people living in the south of the Crimson Mountains are roughly divided into three major ethnic groups. Although they are collectively called the Dorn people, they are divided in detail.

The salt people live by the sea, mainly in the corner of Broken Arms near the Dorn Sea in the Crimson Mountains.

They are soft and dark, with smooth olive skin and long black hair wafting in the wind. They are mostly fishermen and sailors, and are experienced sailors in the Dorn fleet.

Oberon and the Martell family are typical salt people.

The sand people live in deserts and narrow river valleys. They are even darker than the salt people. They are exposed to strong sunlight all day and their faces are reddish brown.

As for the last big ethnic group, the stone people, they live in the mountains and passes of the Crimson Mountains. Among the three are the best and the most beautiful. They are descendants of the Andals and their ancestors, with brown hair or blond hair. .

Compared with the rejection of the other two major ethnic groups, the Stone people are the most friendly group of people in the outside world among the Dorn people, because their ancestors are also descendants of the Andals and ancestors.

But within Dorn, because of this very obvious appearance and cultural difference, the faces of the stone people are very similar to their enemies, and there is almost no difference. Therefore, the stone people are also the most excluded objects from the other two ethnic groups in Dorn. .

Now, Karen, a young man in the village near Tianji City, is leading the villagers to escape from their hometown where they have lived for generations to the outside world.

However, all the roads leading to the outside world have been closed by the noble lords.

The avenue at the Prince’s Pass was once unobstructed and was the main road to and from Dorn. It is easier to walk than the bone road, and there are no steep cliffs.

But now the Prince's Pass has been severely checked, and only caravans can enter and exit, and the number of people has also been greatly restricted.

Therefore, Karen, with his mother, younger brother, and dozens of villagers from Tianji City, could only take great risks and try to cross the Crimson Mountains to the frontiers, and even the kingdoms of the rivers.

The reason why these Dorn people fled their hometown was not too complicated. Naturally, it was because they couldn't make ends meet.

Traditional nobles paid very high taxes on their fiefs. During the war, they even had to leave a meal without starving to death.

But this system has disappeared in other parts of the Seven Kingdoms, and the days for the nobles to decide how much taxation should be paid have passed.

Tax officials under the Iron Throne now go to various places to collect taxes. Taxes are paid according to a certain proportion, and they are transparent and open. Compared with the previous taxes, the people's living standards have also been significantly improved.

And these are also a chain reaction. When the people's living standards improve, even the bandits, bullies, and brotherhoods are reduced by a lot. If there is no way out, no one will choose to take risks.

The policy changes of the Iron Throne produced a virtuous circle.

But among these changes, Dorn, the only one in the Seven Kingdoms that has not changed, appears very abrupt.

The Dorn people initially relied on their privileges to dominate the rest of the Seven Kingdoms. The local aristocratic officials dared not say anything. After all, there was a Dorn queen behind them.

However, with the end of the war, the Seven Kingdoms gradually returned to peace, and the privileges of the Dornites gradually became unavailable.

King’s Landing’s garrison no longer turned a blind eye to the crimes committed by the Dornians. The Dorn’s caravan started to be aggressive and offended many of its peers, but also encountered joint suppression by other caravans, and eventually had to flee in embarrassment. Out of King's Landing.

The gradual loss of privileges is one aspect, but in the end, the Dorn people even find that they often strike out against the outside world. However, in fact, their life is not as good as the other party's, and the behavior before the combination looks like a clown.

The living standards of the people in other parts of the Seven Kingdoms are rising, and only Donne is standing still, and even faintly retreating.

And many of the colleagues who participated in the first and second conquest wars were canonized as knights, property knights, and even lords because of their military merits.

The number of lords in the Seven Kingdoms has produced a big explosive growth. Although most of them cut the big territories into countless small territories and entrusted them to these meritorious soldiers, they did not have any dissatisfaction. On the contrary, it was too late to be happy. After all, they have already leapfrogged the dragon gate and completed the class leap.

However, the Dornites did not participate in all this, because the king promised a high degree of self-control by the Dornites. The merits of the Dorn soldiers should be canonized by their noble masters. The Iron Throne will not interfere, and the Dorn nobles naturally do not. Willing to take out his own land for enfeoffment.

To sum up, these cumbersome reasons caused the first batch of Dorn people to lose their balance. They left their hometown to develop in King's Landing, Seagull Town, Lannisport and other places.

Later, more Dornites also left their hometowns and embarked on a journey northward, and finally formed a scale. The population of a large number of villages declined sharply, which aroused the vigilance of the Dorn nobles and began to prohibit the people in their own territory from leaving. , But by this time it was too late.

"We will leave alive, won't we, Karen?"

The mother of the brown-haired teenager embraced her younger brother, wrapped in a headscarf with some unkempt appearance, and said with a trembling voice.

At the moment they were hiding in the woods of the Crimson Mountains. The young Karen was most familiar with the terrain here, so he acted as a guide and led the other villagers to flee together.

Among the dozens of remaining villagers, there are many tall and strong warriors~www.NovelMTL.com~ who have even served in the Dorn army, holding self-made spears and long swords, and are waiting for them.

Hearing what his mother said, the brown-haired boy turned his head to look at her, and his brother in his arms, and then silently nodded.

"Um!"

"Most definitely."

In fact, Karen had a little regret and ran away. Although life in Dorn was not very satisfactory, he did not starve to death after all, and this is his hometown.

However, now that they have run out, there is no chance of turning back. The village chief discovered that some of their families may have reported it to Count Franklin Fowler.

The "Old Falcon Eagle" of Tianji City had already issued orders and spread them throughout the surrounding villages. Anyone who dared to leave their homes without returning was caught by death.

In other words, Karen and others fled to the Prince's Pass, and there was no turning back.