Work Prophet
Chapter 110 - 26 Why Not

Chapter 110: Chapter 26 Why Not

The once-mighty Weiting Family was on par with the Figrola family, another mammoth entity from the western realms, and was listed among the Twelve Great Nobles of Lion Heart Castle.

Perched at the pinnacle of power, yet still unsatisfied, they sought even more, coveting the Beast King Crown of the Vespasian Family.

The Weiting Family spent a long time planning and secretly gathered a group of suicide troops. They also bribed people close to Edward II, intending to stage a palace coup, believing they had accounted for every contingency. However, the day before the coup, the plot leaked.

The family members in the Royal Capital were captured by the Imperial Army.

When the news reached Crab’s Corner, Family Head Hilda hurriedly mustered troops, assembling an impressive army of 30,000 within just ten days.

However, the composition of this large army was quite complex, consisting not only of the Weiting’s own people but also summoned vassals, dozens of Mercenary Groups, the Slave Army, and even pirates joined in.

Even many of the Weiting’s vassals did not favor this haphazard army and were reluctant to fight alongside mercenaries and pirates.

Hilda was forced to divide her forces, entrusting the vassals and family’s own troops to her eldest son to advance first, while she stayed behind to reorganize the remaining forces.

But before Hilda could properly organize her troops, news arrived that her son had been defeated and captured.

In just five days since the initial movement, Hilda knew the cause was lost, so she ceased any futile resistance, disbursed some money, dismissed the remaining forces, and surrendered the city willingly.

Counting the time Hilda spent gathering people, the entire rebellion lasted merely fifteen days, resembling more of a farce, but the consequences were severe.

Furious, the Emperor had almost all members of the Weiting Family captured, even affecting some distant relatives. Only women who had married into the Royal Family or other noble families were spared.

After executing Hilda and over forty other involved members, Edward II’s anger subsided significantly, and many who pleaded for leniency during that period gradually calmed his wrath.

He did not continue the executions but did not indicate what should be done with the remaining members, leaving them locked up in the dungeon for a full five years.

Only recently, noted with the dungeons overfilled, the Emperor remembered the remnants of the Weiting Family and ordered them stripped of all noble titles and possessions, to be exiled to the western realms to fend for themselves.

It is said that the number of Weiting Family members incarcerated exceeded a thousand, necessitating their separation. The dungeons in the Royal Capital and those in several nearby cities became so overcrowded with new prisoners that new dungeons had to be constructed.

Of those, only less than one hundred twenty ultimately survived and successfully reached the western realms.

These one hundred or so people became a hot potato.

After all, the Weiting Family was implicated in a rebellion, a matter always viewed with great caution by the Royal Family. Even if the masterminds had been executed, the remaining members could not easily be absolved.

Hosting such rebels could potentially displease the Emperor, and the nobles of the western realms were also uncertain how to deal with these remnants of the Weiting Family.

After all, they had once been a top-tier noble house of the Empire. Even now, many noble families, including the Royal Family, still had ties to the Weiting Family, which was why Edward II hadn’t completely eradicated them.

But to allow these individuals too comfortable a life might again displease the Emperor.

So the resettlement of these people had become a problem.

Ireya was initially opposed, but the harvest time was already upon them.

That might have been overlookable, but the lizard people had previously killed many people and destroyed many crops, so there were still enough workers to harvest the crops. However, in two months, they would need to start planting again.

If those empty lands weren’t sown with wheat and rye by September, there would surely be a reduction in yield by next June, and that was all money.

Since receiving the news about the refugees, Miss Rabbit had been troubled for several days and had discussed it many times with Fosto and others.

Ultimately, they concluded that if they didn’t take in these people from the Weiting family, their best-case scenario would be to recruit only a handful of freemen by September, far from compensating for the previous losses.

So the girl finally decided, "Take them, why not? Since His Majesty dared to send them to us, what should we be afraid of in accepting them?"

"But these people had committed the crime of rebellion in the past, if they make any moves later..." someone worried.

Ireya said, "If we can’t defeat over a thousand lizard people, can’t we also handle a hundred or so delicate nobles? If anyone dares to cause trouble, just arrest them immediately."

"Speaking of nobles, it reminds me of something else," Yago, the new steward, said, "Do these people from the Weiting family know how to farm?"

As soon as he said this, everyone fell silent.

Quickly, Miss Rabbit spoke up viciously, "They’ll learn. If they don’t know how, can’t they learn? The Double Rest Sect lizard people also didn’t know how to farm, and Merlin specifically hired a few old farmers to teach them. If the Weiting family doesn’t know, I can also find someone to teach them. Just tell them straight that if they don’t farm well, they will starve. I want to see who dares not to take it seriously!"

The people of the Arias family looked at each other when they heard this.

What she said wasn’t wrong, but it felt somewhat surreal to their ears.

The once unassailable Weiting family, regarded as one of the Twelve Great Nobles of the Empire, had now fallen to the point of having to beg for a living in Green Field and farm for the undistinguished Arias family.

If they didn’t farm well, they’d have to starve; this was truly... Put five years ago, if told as a joke, probably no one would believe it.

"You all are thinking too much," Ireya added. "Once they start working in the fields, after working so hard every day, they naturally won’t have the time to think about any messy stuff.

"As for worrying about His Majesty having a bad impression of us, there’s even less need to worry. His Majesty has no impression of our Arias family at all; if anything happens, Marquis Kuren will be the first to deal with it."

The girl’s last sentence convinced everyone present.

Indeed, given the Arias family’s prestige in the Empire, they didn’t need to worry too much about political implications.

An imaginary thing, why bother about it?

Everyone was now thinking about living peacefully in Green Field, not about moving towards the Royal Capital. Why look back and forth? Just take the people and let them farm.