Chapter 865 - A Spoon Full Of Crap!
Everyone was fully engaged in the discussion, as they candidly expressed their opinions.
"Your majesty Landon, I agree with removing the council." Mike, who was one of Henry's aides, said.
And another aide massaged his chin and nodded in agreement as well.
"Yes, I second that.
Not only should they be removed, but the practices should be changed as well.
These laws were made way back when Deiferus had numerous empires within it.
At that time, Deiferus' size was similar to a handful of a few cities, towns, and villages.
Its size was relatively small back then.
But because of that, the early leaders made these rules to ensure that only the strongest warriors would be birthed and survive in order to conquer the other territories, hence expanding Deiferus' size to what it is today.
These rules only want the string to survive in Deiferus and had no place for the weak, which shouldn't be the case.
Your highness Henry, your majesty Landon, Lady and Gentlemen... I speak in agreement because I came from a poor pleasant family and understand the pains of those below power.
The rich can always bribe the council leaders to share their child's life, but many peasants have suffered tremendously because of these laws."
Everyone listened with pain at all the injustice within the empire.
For Mike and Trenton, they earnestly prayed that this meeting wasn't a dream.
Why?
Because many have fought for change but failed and were smacked in the face with refusal from those with higher authorities.
No one thought that this day would come.
Women were killed or sold into slavery after 27 (menopause period in this era) if they couldn't birth a child.
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Again, it was a rule for slaves to be used as lab rats for the training soldiers.
They would send slaves to fight these trainees.
The slaves weren't allowed to kill the trainees, but the trainees could kill them if they wanted to.
Slaves were nothing but dirt.
So if they died, what did it have to do with the empire?
In short, there were more than 100 rules available that kept the people living in fear.
Be it men or women; they lived in constant fear that one day, someone would end their lives for these reasons.
And so those without money lived miserably.
Everyone carefully went through these laws in Deiferus and decided which one stayed and which one could go.
These rules were made way back then.
So now that the empire was this big and stable, then obviously, a change was needed.
The meeting went on until they reached the final thing on their Agenda.
"Alright.
The last thing for today is more so about the dangers of some jobs in your empire.
And the most troubling job is that of the Chimney Cleaners."
Eh?
Everyone, including the Baymardians, looked at him in confusion.
Chimney cleaners?
What's so dangerous about that?
Landon looked at them sternly.
This matter was indeed a serious one which was no joking matter.
"Everyone, please turn to page 32, and we'll begin from there."
Flip Flip Flip Flip.
With that, many turned their pages and were immediately met with a gruesome visual that almost made them puke.
The picture was so disgusting that it caused a gut-wrenching effect on their insides.
What was this?
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Landon observed and was pleased with their reactions.
Why exactly were chimney cleaners at risk?
Well, that was all because of what they took in while cleaning the chimneys.
The story starts with Deiferus' unique buildings.
Because unlike the other memories that built their chimneys in a strategic way that didn't rely on chimney cleaners, Deiferus' famous buildings did.
Without a doubt, the master architect for the buildings in Deiferus was a very artistic person that loved to think outside the box.
Of course, the person launched a vision of what he wanted Deiferus to look like thousands of years ago.
And since then, the nobles also chose the building styles as well since it made them feel closer to the royals, who by the way had the same building designs too.
Unlike other buildings in other empires, Deiferus' buildings had smaller and narrower Chimneys.
And in massive buildings for the rich that had over 15 or so fireplaces, rather than separating the chimney Flues (passages/ducts), Deiferus made it complicated instead.
One can imagine their setup as a maze that connected, separated, and reconnected over and over again before finally exiting through a massive while at the very top of the building.
There were both horizontal and vertical Flues (chimney spaces), with some bending at right angles and whatnot.
The entire thing was like a puzzle that utterly confused the people that had to clean it up.
Oh yes, most people would happily think of Disney's Mary Poppins when they imagine Chimney cleaners.
But the truth was, these poor cleaners lived very brutal and short lives.
In fact, one could arguably say that they had the shortest life spans due to the cruel nature of their jobs.
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With the very narrow and maze-like Chimneys in Deiferus, the design constantly needed people's help to clean it up, unlike the other chimneys in other empires.
And for how narrow the chimney was, only small children could fit into them.
So, these children would start right from the base of the buildings, using one fireplace.
So they would begin climbing up the chimney with some firm bushes/plants which were tied together to form a brush.
They would climb up with the brush over their heads.
As they climbed, they did what any ordinary cleaner would do.
Brush down the soot, which would fall straight to the bottom.
Again, with how narrow the flues were, they typically crushed like lizards completely nude while climbing up and trying to find on to their dear lives.
Because if they fell, then the results would be disastrous.
Buildings in this era were typically tall, massive and were primarily high-ceiling ones.
Just the ground floor was as tall as 2 and a half modern-day building floors combined.
They loved the very castle-like tall designs that showcased their paint on the walls and ceilings, which in turn showed off their wealth.
You could enter a hall on the second floor and feel like an ant within the massive tall room with enormous pillars.
The higher the floor height, the wealthier one seemed.
So if a building had 3 or 4 stories, then that was extremely high.
But since the chimneys needed cleaning, the boys had to climb up and do their jobs.
From there, everything was a maze that troubled the very young boys.
One should know that after climbing up vertically for a bit, they would be met with several horizontal and vertical paths leading to other directions.
The whole thing was a dangerous web that Landon felt the need to educate these people before it was too late.
Because no spoon full of sugar would make this medicine go down.
And that was a fact!
You hear that Mary Poppins?
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[Mary Poppins: erm... Could you please leave me out of this?... Just a spoon...
Landon: Shut up! She's an accomplice. Take Her Away!
Mary Poppins: Wait! I'm innocent; I'm innocent... It was Walt's idea.
Walt Disney: Excuse me ma'am, but who are you?
Marry Poppins: (-_-)
Landon: Take her away Boys!... A spoon full of sugar, my ass!!!]