The next morning started with an incredible number of people flooding into the town, and from the sounds of the arguments outside, not all of them were in agreement that the rule of the Grand Dutchies had been a bad thing.
Of course, that could just mean that there were a lot of Grand Dutchies soldiers outside, but it didn't sound quite that lopsided, as the soldiers only made up one in twenty of the residents.
They had also brought in merchants and others to help the city run according to their vision, such as the auction master that Wolfe had dealt with the last time he was in one of their towns. But just listening to the arguments outside made him wonder how things actually were for the residents here, other than the ones kept as slaves for having magic.