When the Holy Maiden Comes, No Grain Is Collected

【Medieval Fantasy · Taiping Heavenly Kingdom · Clockpunk · Peasant Uprising】

Holy Pope, golden scepter.

Knight King, silver bridal bed.

The one who grows wheat eats wheat bran, the one who weaves cloth has no clothes to wear.

When Eve and Adam were tilling the fields, did the nobles sit in the halls above?

You seize my wife, take my house, and kill my dear parents!

Countless heads roll, and blood debts must be repaid with blood!

Kill the priests! Kill the pope!

Kill the knights! Kill the king!

Cut down every injustice, and settle every grievance and debt.

We common folk are all treated like pigs and sheep—now the saintess comes to kill!

When the saintess comes, there are no priests!

When the saintess comes, there is no king!

When the saintess comes, there is no corvée labor!

When the saintess comes, there is no grain tax!

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PS: This is not a gender-bender novel; the protagonist is male.