"Don't you have any land?"
"No."
Ils nodded, then looked at another forest citizen.
"What about your family?"
"Your Majesty, there are seven people in our family. I have three sisters and three brothers."
"Where are your parents?"
"They... they all died of illness."
"Did the local madam steward offer any help?"
"No."
"Does your family have any land?"
"I once had fifty acres of land, but later I had no money to pay taxes and it was taken away."
"How much tax does the Ecclesiastical Order pay you?"
"Seventy percent."
"Hehehe, [-]%, then do you know that the tax rate set by the Great Mercy Tree King is only [-]%?"
"what!?"
As soon as this statement came out, everyone present was shocked.
[-]% tax, is this Sumeru or paradise?
Ils shook his head. Now that he can allocate the database in the void system, he naturally knows how the Great Mercy Tree King governed Sumeru back then.
Frankly speaking, she is much more powerful than Nacida.
But considering that he is already a mature politician, while Naxida is still a girl, this comparison is inappropriate. Sister Naxi still has great potential, she just needs to study more, think more, and make more friends with the opposite sex and the same sex.
The last sentence means to communicate more with others, and has no other meaning. Students who think too much should reflect on themselves.
Ils then asked a few mercenaries who were born from the forest people. The best of them were from poor families, and the worst of them were completely dead. All their families had died long ago.
It is normal that the survival ability of small farmers is very poor in the face of natural and man-made disasters. In the farming era, disasters often take one year, two years of relief, and three years to stand up. If officials do not behave, then they will be flooded with refugees. , there will be wars everywhere. .
How do you think Li Zicheng appeared? He didn't let him resist when he lost his job, and didn't let him resist when he was framed by the government. But when he found that he was about to starve to death, he exploded, and then you can fast forward to Chongzhen's Self-Hanging Southeast Branch.
Those who sympathize with Emperor Chongzhen, can you share your sympathy with the common people who deserve sympathy the most? No matter how bad their lives are, they are not so bad that they will starve to death. A group of people who are not sure what they will eat next. Sympathy for the rulers, really (shakes head).
Following Iers' inquiry, the desert people who had previously wanted to kill people fell silent.
We all have such a miserable relationship!
Here I would like to explain specifically what Xumi is like in reality.
Evaluated from the level of civilization, local productivity is equivalent to the agricultural era and roughly equivalent to the level of agriculture in the [-]th century.
Because Xumi has been blessed by the grass god, the forest area is full of vitality and has fertile farmland that makes Liyue envious. Xumi is also the largest food exporter on the Teyvat continent, and land is the largest means of production here. , and can be sold privately.
Here, the traditional drama begins to play out. Private land ownership brings about land annexation. When the Great Mercy Tree King can still manage Xumi efficiently, the problem in the forest is not very serious, but she is forced to deal with the taboos that have eroded the World Tree. After the knowledge, the state management of Xumi began to plummet, and more and more functions and powers were replaced by the sect.
High emotional intelligence: The era of mankind has arrived!
Low EQ: The time to be worse than worse has arrived!
Due to the too rapid transfer of state power, all the late symptoms of the feudal dynasty immediately broke out in Xumi under the rule of the Order. Moreover, the Order had no knowledge of similar problems before, and the handling methods could not be said to be very effective. It can only be said that quack medicine harms people.
Based on the cancer of land annexation, a large number of complications followed. Vested interests under the privileged monopoly appeared in all strata. There were gangs at the grassroots level, businessmen at the middle level, and the Ecclesiarchy at the top level.
The French caricature of priests and nobles pressing down on peasants was now presented in another way.
He didn't have the fate of the [-]th century, but he suffered from the disease after the [-]th century. At that time, Qianlong knew that he wanted to suppress land annexation and attack the privileges of the gentry (the magical maneuvers in his later years are another matter). The Imperial Academy really did not change anything and took everything Take the dross and get rid of the essence.
From a macro perspective, this is not all a problem with the Order, but in reality, the epilepsy of the superstructure is causing countless ordinary people in Xumi who have worked hard all their lives but ended up homeless. [-]% of the agricultural tax and I don't know when the corvees were suddenly dispatched, but they were used as disposable dry batteries. The teaching council didn't think there was anything wrong with what they were doing, and they were moved to think that they were making Sumeru greater.
How many dishes are there? If you drink them like this, drag them down and give them some cephalosporins!Hall Master Hu recently had a sale.
Iles doesn't need to talk to these people about big things. Just asking them about their origins and experiences can unite most of them.
Everyone is miserable, no one looks down on anyone.
Or more realistically, the poor guy has a lot of money.
After Iers asked this question, everyone present fell silent, and an awkward atmosphere began to arise among everyone.
Although they don't understand the truth, they at least understand that we are all poor and there is no need to hurt each other.
So the question is, if the enemy is not the distinct forest people, then who is it?
Once you think about it this far, the rest is much simpler.
Whoever has the money earns it!
"Let me ask you, before you became a mercenary, who did you work for?"
"Jiaolingyuan!" "Landlord!" "Steward!" "Businessman!"
"Are they good to you?"
"Not good!" "Average." "Not a good person anyway."
"Are they taking your stuff?"
"Robbing!" "They robbed my sister!" "They also robbed our land!"
"Do they have any money?"
"Yes!" "I have seen with my own eyes that Master Bai's family has more than 30 granaries, and they are all full!"
"Are they assholes?"
"Yes!" "Probably not." "I think so!"
"Some may not be, but most of them are definitely. If you arrest ten and shoot them all, you will be unjust, but if you shoot nine, there will definitely be some missing. Therefore, they are our enemies. They took away what we should have. Things, should we take back our things now?"
"should!"
"Okay, then follow me to Xumi City and take back our own things!"
"Willing to follow His Majesty!"
Look, the effect is immediate. The next thing to do is to let them continue to think along this path. The more they think, the greater the hatred will be, and the more ruthless the attack will be. But because the target is clear, the attack range is small, and the relationship between enemy and friend is It is clear that as long as they win a few games, the next person who will suffer the most is the Order Academy.
So, as long as you take the right medicine, you will definitely get the result.
Section 15: Loyalty?
Under the awe-inspiring spirit of Ils, the mercenaries who were born from the forest people... decided to leave.
Why, you still expect them to be defeated by Ils with a few words. Except for those helpless guys who can be the protagonists at the starting point, if there are worries about the family that cannot be let go, they will be forced to a dead end. Before, ordinary people would not choose to resist.
If humans could not be domesticated, the state would not be possible.
Most dynasties are like this. Without horses and oxen to carry the burden, no ruler can live peacefully.
Ils was not surprised by the choice of these forest people. He did not stop them and even gave them beasts of burden and enough food and water so that they could leave safely.
The kindness of women?
No, no, no, this is a people-centered conspiracy.
People are more willing to believe in their own choices than others' indoctrination. Once they find out that they made the wrong choice, they will regret it crazily and deny everything before, and then make the opposite choice.
"You literally let them go."
Desiya looked at Ils. The latter's decision greatly changed her attitude towards His Majesty the Red King.
But Iles sighed and said, "I'm afraid they won't end well."
"why?"
"I'm sure that one of them will report what happened here to the Order."
Disiya frowned and said, "You knew this would happen, why did you let them go?"
Iles shook his head: "I have never put the Order in my eyes. I just pity those loyal innocent people."
Disiya asked with a surprised look on her face: "Do you think they are loyal?"
"From the perspective of Sumeru, and from the perspective of the Order Council, they are indeed loyal. Before the old order is completely overthrown, ordinary people's choice to succumb to past habits does not constitute a crime. In fact, they have no choice at all. But after those bastards from the Order suffered a loss, I’m afraid they will take their anger out on these whistleblowers.”
It is a normal biological logic for a weak person to wield a knife to attack a weaker person, or to flatter the stronger person. However, humans are complex and changeable animals. When Ils was killing people in the south and pointed his sword at the thin chaff, some The local people reported the movements of the rebels, but when the Qing army was bruised and swollen by the rebels, these reporters were arrested and beheaded by the Qing army on the grounds that they were suspected of colluding with the rebels and deliberately leading the Qing army into a trap, resulting in The Qing army suffered a disastrous defeat.
In fact, it is to let them take the blame and tell the Tartar Emperor that we, the Qingqing, are still invincible. If we had not fallen into the tricks of these unscrupulous people, we would have come back with the head of the rebel boss. It is all because of our kindness. Too gentle and too kind. Please understand our good intentions. We will definitely win next time.
Fan Xi, who was far away in the sky, believed it. The defeated military leaders kept their official positions and succeeded in covering up the situation.
Only those few stubborn heads bear the sins that they should not bear. Not only did they not get any reward, but their family members were also implicated.
Of course, some people will definitely say that this is what it means to be on the wrong team, and those traitors deserve what they deserve.
A long time ago, Iles did think so, but when he encountered this kind of thing later, he only felt very sad.
In the face of the general trend of history, ordinary people can make almost no choices. They are all puppets being pushed around. They don't know when they will be smashed to pieces by the waves that occasionally hit them, and that wave is not even running toward them. Come on, he was just a fish in the pond who was affected when the city gate was on fire.
"Xiaoyi, you are very strong. Your unreasonable strength allows you to be willful when facing difficulties. You can smash everything just for a happy life. However, those ordinary people, those people, face In times of injustice and suffering, we often cry out that the sky should not respond, and that the earth and the earth are not working. We all know Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, but the people who followed them to resist the Qin Dynasty, how many people in the world know that reality is only fair to the people, It means that it treats every member of the people unfairly. You have to have empathy, you have to have compassion, and you have to think from that position. If you don’t have this power, this kind of help, and you don’t have the willfulness, What should you do when faced with those natural and man-made disasters?”
The teacher's words echoed in my ears. Many things can only be seen clearly by looking from the bottom up.
Desiya wanted to say something more, but Ils had already turned around and left.
There are many things to do next, and from now on, every minute and every second is precious.
The first thing is to integrate the team and count how many of the mercenaries are literate.
The result made Ils very pleased. Xumi is worthy of being the country of the God of Wisdom. The learning atmosphere is very strong. The mercenaries can basically read simple words, at least to the extent of writing their own names. This is It can be said to be a dream start.
Iles still can't forget the hardships of leading a group of illiterate uprisings in the late Qing Dynasty. It is really difficult to lead an illiterate team, and it is really easy for an uneducated army to turn into thugs. Or why is the US military so scumbag? Now The level of knowledge required to join the military has been reduced to the standard of junior high school students. Considering the happy education in the United States, I am afraid that in the future, I will not directly follow the gray animals.
Tsarist Russia is orthodox to the United States.
But that alone wasn't enough, Iles needed to get them to figure out two things;
First, what are we fighting for.
Second, where does our suffering come from.
Of course, desires such as money, girls, and houses can also drive war machines, but as long as such an army collides with an army with faith, even if the faith is an art student, it will be smashed to pieces in an instant.
No one will challenge death for five thousand rubles, but they can rush to the nuclear reactor for the sake of the motherland and the people.
As a time traveler who has traveled through countless eras and witnessed countless histories, Iles will certainly not make such a mistake.
Although the people of the forest who were let go would report it, from the time they reported the incident to the time when the troops actually started to be assembled in the Order (I am a breast-feeder, and the national StarCraft uniforms are all gone, bite me if you don’t accept it, a little bit) (Slightly), if the time in between can be compressed to less than half a year, Ils is willing to call them the Great Qin Empire. In fact, based on the current performance of the Imperial Academy, it would be good to figure out what is happening here in the desert within a year. If Iers was still willing to pretend a little bit, the Order would not realize the seriousness of the problem until he actually conquered a city on the side of the Sumeru Forest.
It’s normal. Before 911/[-], no one believed that the U.S.’s domestic air defense was that bad.
Of course, the training work cannot be carried out in the desert. The team of more than 2000 people needs a place to stay. After searching on the map, Iles finally selected an oasis [-] kilometers away from Aru Village.
It is said to be an oasis, but due to the small water area and limited resources, except for some passing caravans, usually only various wild animals are common here, but Ils can reshape it through the power of the grass god he possesses.
What surprised Iles even more was that after arriving at the destination, while manipulating the plants to reshape the terrain, he discovered that there were dense rivers here and the groundwater area was very large. It was called an underground Dongting Lake. Now there was no need to worry about water resources. .
The unique local sand fruit tree will grow rapidly when there is abundant water, and grow a large number of coconut-like fruits. This fruit is rich in nutrients. The only problem is that it consumes a lot of water resources during the growth process, but as long as there are enough water pipes, this kind of fruit can be grown. Nutritious fruits can help you understand what a natural complete set of vitamins is.
In the same way, other plants that can grow in the desert have either developed root systems or strong water-holding capabilities, or both. With the power of the grass god, it is not a dream to create a paradise.
But Iles did not want them to build a utopia together here. The oasis is just a base for advancement, and his future goal is to reshape the entire Sumeru. This is his promise to Sister Naxi.
"The stage is ready, actors please take their seats!"
Chapter 16: I vote for the Red King!
(Dear readers, where are your comments (*?ω?))
"Holy crap (OωO?)! Is this guy so serious, or is he really the Red King!?"
Businessmen's intelligence is always fast and accurate. For example, a certain Xumi businessman was shocked by what happened deep in the desert.
As a qualified businessman, Dolly must of course know more about her partners, so of course she found a collaborator in the mercenary group under Ils. It's not that she wants to do anything about the assassin's biography, it's just simple. Report to him what Ils has done along the way.
As a result, when the other party came back, he brought a stack of photos of the collapse of the Red King's Tomb and of Ils showing off his power.
At this time, Dolly no longer had time to lament how useful Fontaine's photo camera was. She just wanted to know what Ilse wanted to do.
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