章 299: Women power

"He called the imperial guards back to the capital? This is ridiculous!" Yoichi exclaimed. "How could he ignore the needs of an entire city like Oakenfair? I'm sure the Emperor knew that this place would sink into chaos without anyone to enforce the rules," he added, publicly complaining about Shinzo Nishiyama. 

Unlike Goldhaven, the city that housed the Imperial Palace, the Emperor could be named and even despised publicly in North Tentochu. Distant and desolate towns like Grimbrook or Oakenfair gathered thousands and thousands of people who would kill the Emperor with their own hands if they had the chance.

Yoichi thought that those who had never left Goldhaven would never know that a good chunk of the faction's population despised Shinzo. However, spreading the word of the northern peoples to the south would be a fool's errand. 

Indeed, speaking ill of the Emperor in Goldhaven County was considered a crime punishable by death through public execution.