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Chapter 1747 Tianyuan
"Then teacher, what is the second mountain?" Qi Sheng asked impatiently.

"The second mountain is the Lord!" Liu Xu tapped the table lightly. "The Lord is the master of each world sealed by the Heavenly Court. The entire Gu'an world has 2 middle worlds and 72 small worlds. Each world is a Lord."

"Just as the Heaven Court oppresses the common people in their own world, these feudal lords oppress the people in their own world in the same way, and the degree of oppression is even greater than that of the main world. Although the Heaven Court has set rules for these feudal lords, requiring them to collect 50% of the heavenly tax, 20% of which must be handed over to the Heaven Court as the tax revenue of the Heaven Court, the remaining 30% is the income of each feudal lord!"

"But in fact, many feudal lords are trying to get more fish than they can chew. They also want to collect 50% of the heavenly tax like the Heavenly Court, but they cannot reduce the 20% of the Heavenly Court. Therefore, the heavenly tax they collect in their respective worlds reaches an astonishing 70%. If it were not for the fact that once it exceeds 70%, even some strong men around 20 years old would not be able to bear it and would fall asleep directly, then I think these feudal lords would not mind adjusting the tax rate to more than 70% at all."

"Oh my God, how could they do this!" Qi Sheng gritted his teeth and his face was full of anger, but he managed to suppress it in the end and asked, "What about the third mountain? Only the feudal lords and the heavenly court can collect taxes. In this way, there should be no other mountains that can oppress the people."

"Of course there are. The third mountain is the Heavenly Officials and Heavenly Generals!" Liu Xu continued, "Although the Heavenly Officials and Heavenly Generals do not collect taxes directly, their oppression is sometimes greater than the first two."

"The Heavenly Officials are appointed by the Heavenly Court to serve in various realms, as well as the countries, provinces, roads, counties, cities, townships, villages, etc. under the realms. Each level has its own Heavenly Official and corresponding Heavenly General. Every Heavenly Official and Heavenly General holds a Heavenly Seal in his hand."

"This Heavenly Seal matches the land under their jurisdiction. The Heavenly Seal of the Heavenly Official can control the climate, natural disasters, and land disasters in the corresponding area. The Heavenly General's seal can recruit civilians as soldiers in the area, and then use these soldiers as a foundation to practice and gain Heavenly Power, so as to carry out various attacks and defenses, and become an army to protect the safety of Gu'an World!"

"Teacher, I know what you said, and everyone in the world knows it, but isn't this a good thing? How did it become a mountain that oppresses ordinary people?"

"If these celestial officials and generals all follow the requirements of the celestial rules and perform their missions diligently, then it will naturally be a good thing."

"But now the rules of heaven are scattered, and the heavenly officials in various places only care about their own selfish interests. They should have used the heavenly seals in their hands to ensure that the areas under their jurisdiction have good weather, good harvests, good governance, and a growing population."

"But these officials only have the Heavenly Yuan in their eyes, because the Heavenly Yuan is the power of the world, and it is also the foundation for the Heavenly Officials and Heavenly Generals to improve their strength. Logically speaking, after the Heavenly Court collects the Heavenly Tax, it will in turn give the Heavenly Yuan to the Heavenly Officials and Heavenly Generals as salaries, so that the Heavenly Officials and Heavenly Generals can reasonably use the Heavenly Yuan to practice, improve their spirits, strengthen their wills, and at the same time refine it into Heavenly Power, thereby prolonging their lives, and even have the opportunity to go a step further and become a feudal lord, so that they can live forever and live as long as the world."

"At the same time, Tianyuan is also the real currency of this world. Ordinary people use copper coins to buy goods, which can only buy the most basic daily necessities. Various powerful weapons, luxurious enjoyment, various skills, etc., all need to be purchased with Tianyuan. This is the real money!"

"But now the heaven is extravagant and wasteful. All the taxes collected are used by the emperor of the heaven, various nobles and the lords of the world. The salaries that should have been paid to the heavenly officials and generals are less than 30% of the original amount."

"What use would the Heavenly Officials and Heavenly Generals have for such a small amount of income? So they naturally set their sights on the lowest class of people. As mentioned before, the maximum tax rate that ordinary people can bear is actually 70%, so these people are aiming at the extra 20% and starting to collect Heavenly Taxes in various pretexts." "If the people don't obey, then the Heavenly Seal, which was originally used to bring about good weather and good harvests, will become a natural disaster that brings about constant disasters. They will use droughts, floods and earthquakes to force the people under their rule to contribute an extra 20% of Heavenly Yuan to them, calling it a donation."

"If the heavenly officials harvested the Tian Yuan, they would remember to leave 30% for the common people, otherwise they would all die and there would be no more Tian Yuan to harvest in the future."

"The methods used by the generals to collect the Heavenly Yuan are much more brutal. Most of them will falsely report the number of their Heavenly Soldiers, and at the same time only pay half of their salary, or even winter salary, to the remaining Heavenly Soldiers. That is, they only pay a quarter of their salary in winter every year, and no salary at other times!"

"This is still considered merciful, but in the last tens of thousands of years, the control of Heaven has weakened, and chaos is imminent. The generals from all walks of life have begun to think of ways to gather more troops to expand their strength, so the previous method of drinking the blood of the soldiers is no longer enough. They directly began naked robbery and tax collection, and even killed the population of entire villages, so as to take away all their remaining Tianyuan and make a fortune. But the poor people have died tragically, and the roads are full of rotten bones!" Liu Xu said expressionlessly, but the little guy Qi Sheng was so angry that he was shaking all over.

He never thought that the truth of this world could be so terrifying.

Qi Sheng's family is definitely not a wealthy family, but it is actually a well-off family, otherwise Qi Sheng would not have been able to enter the school in the city. Education is a treatment that 98% of the children in the world cannot even enjoy... Although this also consumed a large amount of Qi Sheng's family savings, the whole family lived a very embarrassing life.

Although Qi Sheng had read many books and had heard a little about what Liu Xu had just said, he still felt that what he read on paper was superficial. Qi Sheng only thought that it was something recorded in the book, but had never personally felt the feeling of these mountains pressing down on his head.

Take the Heavenly Tax for example. Because underage children cannot withstand the physical strain and the amount of Heavenly Yuan that can be harvested is not much, the Heavenly Tax has always been collected only from adults over the age of 16.

Although Qi Sheng just turned 16 this year, he has become a role model because of his meritorious service. He also came to Shengdu Zhaoxue to study. Naturally, the local officials would not be so blind as to collect taxes from him.

Since he had never experienced these things, Qi Sheng naturally had no idea what this world really looked like. Although Qi Sheng had been visiting the countryside for a month before, this place was after all near the Holy City, and the heavenly officials and generals did not dare to go too far, so Qi Sheng could not see many things.

Until Liu Xu broke them apart and crushed them bit by bit, presenting them completely before his eyes.

(End of this chapter)