章 328: Chapter 19 Two Guards

The words of the old mendicant monk deeply impacted Winters, who countered, "Isn't the Highlands Republic currently akin to sitting atop a volcano?"

"Pretty much, at least that's the case for the Newly Reclaimed Land," Brother Reed conceded, "Paratu does not restrain amalgamation, and a minority control most of the land. The rich have fields stretching far and wide, like the Mitchell Family; the poor have no place to call their own, not even able to become tenant farmers, only long-term laborers. The landlords' greed knows no bounds, suppressing the poor to seize even more land for cultivation. If this were in the Far East, chaos would have erupted long ago. In my view, the only reason a peasant revolt has not occurred here is simply due to the 'vastness of the land and sparsity of the population'."