Of course someone will follow.

The next scene that surprised Cherchen appeared. The man\'s words were like a spark falling into the dry firewood: the brewers drank up their last sip of wine; Ploughmen and shepherds broke their ploughs and sheep whip; The blacksmith and the Cooper carried the iron bar on their back······

For a time, everyone became bellicose Cossacks.

At this time, Chechen seemed to understand what the Cossacks led by Bogdan hemelinitsky had fought against the Republic with winged cavalry for nearly ten years, could win many times, and could make a comeback even if they failed.

Soon, dozens of people gathered. They packed up their simple luggage and shouted to go with the little leader.

Cherchen looked at Blair. He thought Blair would stop all this. After all, these young people would embark on a road of no return, but Blair smiled and looked at all this. He not only didn\'t stop at all, but his eyes were full of praise and hope for victory.

Just then, Henrik pototsky, under the protection of two zaporoze Cossack cavalry, was preparing to buy supplies. He also saw this scene when he passed by. The nobleman said contemptuously, "without kings and nobles, this is a land without law and lawlessness."

"What are you talking about!" Blair glared at Henrik pototsky.

Henrik Leng hummed and walked away without answering.

For the first time, Cherchen agreed with Henrik pototsky.

Yes, there is no law. There is no law.

This impression made Cherchen feel some instinctively disgusted. This is not only because of his knight family background, but also because of Cherchen\'s strict demands on rules and discipline as the head of the mercenary regiment. Without organization and discipline, it can only be a mob.

The slightest favor that Cherchen had just given birth to was so dashed.

At the instigation of the Cossack leader, the streets were soon empty, and the original busy market was replaced by desolation.

Blair also left the meeting. Because he happened to see an old acquaintance of his. The two were hanging shoulder to shoulder and ready to go for a few drinks. Blair originally invited Cherchen to go with him, but Cherchen refused.

After Blair left, Cherchen stood alone in the street. He jumped off his horse and walked to the left of the town. At this time, a girl of eleven or twelve years old came out of the thatched house on one side. She had no clothes attached to her body and bare feet. She only wrapped a rag around her body. The rag was full of holes, revealing the little girl\'s delicate skin. The girl walked very slowly. She would squat down and pick up something at each step, and then squat down again and again.

When the girl picked up Cherchen, Cherchen saw that the girl was picking up the ears of wheat falling on the ground. And she has picked up a small hand full.

"Is this her food?" Chechen thought sadly. In Poland, in the course of participating in the Polish campaign, Cherchen saw such hungry people. In order to keep the walls clean, alvid wiedenberg destroyed all the villages in the suburbs of Warsaw where agriculture and trade were originally developed, and all food was taken away by the Swedes. A large number of residents who survived the massacre died of famine and plague. If King Jan kazimiri had not distributed food to the hungry people, the death would be even worse. But even so, after the liberation of Warsaw, the population of residents in the devastated Warsaw city decreased by 90%, the streets were full of dead people, and many famous families disappeared. In Ukraine, especially so close to Kiev, Cherchen didn\'t expect to see the same scene again.

With pity, Che Chen squatted down and took out a taler from his body.

"Here," said Chechen. He thought, with this tale, girls can buy a lot of food.

The girl looked blankly at Taylor in Cherchen\'s hand. She didn\'t seem to understand what her little brother did for her taller. Soon, the girl turned her eyes to Chechen\'s mount and couldn\'t leave for a long time.

Chechen looked down the girl\'s eyes. It turned out that the girl was looking at a piece of beef next to the saddle - that\'s what Chechen ate last night.

"Do you want that?" Chechen pointed to the beef.

The girl nodded hard.

Chechen stood up and was about to take down the beef. Suddenly, a naked woman ran out of the thatched house.

The woman looked at the age should be the girl\'s mother. The woman ran to Cherchen and grabbed taler in Cherchen\'s hand with a lightning speed.

"Thank you, dear young master. Amusha hasn\'t seen tale and doesn\'t know its value." the woman said gratefully.

Although she had a relationship with Fatima and Natalie, seeing a woman\'s body in such broad daylight still had a great impact on Cherchen. He quickly covered his eyes, and then fumbled for a cloak to cover the woman\'s nudity.

"You put this on," said Chechen.

The woman put her cloak on her body, but her two * * hanging on her chest like rags because of malnutrition are still exposed. She continued to express her thanks to Chechen.

"Is this your daughter?" Chechen asked.

The woman held the girl in her arms.

"Yes, yes. She is my daughter, amusha." the woman hugged her daughter more tightly. She put her face on her daughter\'s face.

"How can you live so poor? Where\'s your husband?"

"Young master, my husband was abducted by the Tatars shortly after he was born in amusha. My husband thought he would be safe under the rule of the great khmelinitsky chief, but the Tatars abducted him. Many farmers who work at home have suffered the same fate. Our life is very hard. People starve and freeze to death every day. Please Don\'t get me wrong. I\'m not a debauchery woman. It\'s because I don\'t even have a dress at home... "The woman clung to her cloak as if she was worried that Chechen would take it back.

The woman\'s words shocked Chechen. Because he had just seen the Cossacks trading with each other, it was obvious that the Cossacks in this town were not short of materials and food.

"Master, it\'s the Cossack masters. They defend us and of course should enjoy the best." the woman only said this carefully.

"I\'m not a Cossack," Chechen said.

The woman seemed relieved. She secretly told Cherchen that in their small town, except that one seventh of the land belongs to the church and two seventh to the farmers, the rest of the land, as well as the mills and breweries, all belong to the Cossack group of hundreds of people. These lands and mills originally belonged to polish nobles. After the Cossacks drove away the Polish nobles, the Cossack master above gave the land and other things to the meritorious Cossacks, while the residents still lived on the previous land. But even so, if there were no war, the residents of the small town could still live hungry and full, because the land of Ukraine is fertile. But the war made everyone suffer. Only the Cossacks could have enough food and clothing.

Chechen understood. He looked around and saw more heads sticking out of the thatched houses on both sides. Most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and their clothes are not attached to their bodies, and their faces are colorful.

Chechen left a bag of tall and all the beef. Before leaving, the woman wanted to give her daughter to Cherchen and told Cherchen that her daughter was still a virgin and that she would do anything her master ordered.

Cherchen naturally refused. He told the poor woman that peace in Ukraine would come soon and amusha would have a better life.

After that, under the influence of the tragic mother and daughter, Cherchen was not interested in everything. He even deliberately avoided Blair. He was silent about what Blair said to him.

Every time Cherchen passed by a town in Ukraine, he found an excuse not to go in again. He even reminded Blair that he should hurry as soon as possible, otherwise he would rather eat and sleep outside the city.

Cherchen\'s unusual move certainly attracted Blair\'s attention. Finally, on one occasion, Blair directly asked Cherchen why.

Chechen didn\'t answer positively. He patted the shoulder with his hand, looked at the distant horizon and said, "Blair, why do you have to fight with the Republic? The Cossacks can live well by craft, and the people of Ukraine are already tired."

"Why do you ask?" Blair asked.

Che Chen nodded and said: "Yes, Blair. You saw it in the last town. Everyone can support their families and live a good life with their own skills. But when a person cheers up, the people there follow him like crazy. What do they do? Not to pray, not to attend a banquet, but to fight. Of course, I don\'t mean to destroy pagans for the glory of God Wrong. But now there is no war between the Cossack emirate and the Ottoman Turkey. Don\'t they know how much harm they will bring to their country and themselves by their blind action and doing whatever they want? Moreover, after you left, I met a resident, a poor woman. She and her daughter even had a clothes to go out No clothes. She said that after the Polish nobles were driven away, the land left by the nobles went to the Cossacks who made war achievements, and they got nothing. "

When Blair heard Cherchen say so, he showed a rare expression of sadness.

"Cherchen, I didn\'t expect you to say that, and I didn\'t expect the people of Ukraine to see that," Blair said disappointed.

"Is this wrong?" Chechen wondered.

"Of course not." Blair\'s hand tightened the saber. He seemed to fall into a deep memory. After a while, he said: "You only see that the Ukrainian people are unhappy now, but do you know what kind of life the people here lived before Bogdan hemelinitsky led us to drive away the poles? Let me give an example: Polish soldiers would pick up Ukrainian girls head down in the street for no reason, just because they felt that the girls had colorful long skirts Like tulips. "

Chechen was silent.

In fact, it\'s no wonder that Cherchen couldn\'t understand the current situation of Cossacks and Ukraine, because the lawless character of Cossacks was a special character that came into being in the only semi nomadic and semi agricultural zone in Europe in the difficult 16th and 17th centuries.

At that time, after the Mongolian Western Expedition, the great Kiev rose turned into scorched earth. Vast areas of Ukraine were abandoned by their former princes and abandoned by the invasion of Mongolian predators. When their homes were in ruins and kings and nobles were unable to protect their subjects, people here became brave and no longer knew what fear was.

When Lithuania and Poland merged into a republic, the Polish nobles began to expand towards Ukraine. They occupied a large amount of land as their private fiefs, and lured the Ukrainians into farming with a preferential period of 20 or even 30 years. When the time limit was reached, they serf those farmers.

Of course, when the farmers protest, the nobles will take out the law and tell them that it was agreed at the beginning.

Ukrainians began to flee in large numbers. They no longer believe in the law.

Since the law cannot protect their interests from the beginning, lawlessness has become the only option.

Moreover, the powerful Crimean Khanate came to Ukraine from time to time to harvest the "harvest of grassland people". The local Polish defenders either fled or shrank in solid castles and threw the people to the Tatars as slaves, but the only resistance was the Cossacks. For a long time, the pioneers, colonists, fugitives and other ethnic groups composed of poles, Russians and other nationalities Escaped serfs and adventurers, Cossacks once despised by Ukrainians, gradually corrected their names and became heroes, which also attracted more and more Ukrainians to join this group.

This was the situation that Chechen saw that wine steamers, blacksmiths, car makers and farmers were all Cossacks. Because everyone must be able to fight and protect his wife, children and land.

In the face of violence and looting that may occur at any time, the best way to pay back is tooth for tooth and blood for blood. When the poles oppressed the Cossacks, the Cossacks beat the poles; The Turks oppressed the Cossacks, and the Cossacks beat up the pagans.

The poor people that Chechen saw were not all the fault of Bogdan hemelinitsky or the Cossack group. Bogdan hemelinitsky once issued some policies to improve people\'s lives, but after years of war, these policies have no conditions for implementation.

Moreover, in order to be free, Ukrainian mothers sacrificed too many children - the battle of berestecko, where the bodies of 30000 Cossack soldiers fell near the narrow retreat pontoon; In the battle of suchava fortress, 12000 Cossacks were destroyed, and the eldest son of hemelinitsky was killed. Ukraine has no chance to recuperate. She can only do her best to support the Cossack soldiers.

Seeing that Cherchen didn\'t speak, Blair asked Cherchen: "Cherchen, do you still think the Cossacks should give in to the poles and let the Ukrainians be ruled by the poles again?"