AWB Chapter 811 is disgusting
Chapter 811 is disgusting
"Although most of the officials in Liangzhou are corrupt, there are still a few good officials who are willing to stand up for the people, so the common people still have a way to survive!"
Yang Zheng said in a deep voice: "But in Youzhou, the people can only live under the tyranny of the Lu family. The people who have no land to cultivate either depend on the Lu family and become their serfs, or work for the Lu family and become their tenant farmers!"
Anyone born into the Lu family can ride roughshod over the common people. The people toil hard for the Lu family, earning barely enough for two meals a day—enough to feed themselves, let alone their families!
Upon hearing this, Chen Dao nodded subconsciously. In the Xia Kingdom, where almost everyone depends on the land for survival, the Lu family, which owns 70% of the land in Youzhou, is essentially in control of all the means of production in Youzhou. They can exploit and oppress the people of Youzhou without any restraint.
"After thousands of years of reproduction, the Lu family has grown to tens of thousands of people. If we divide the people of Youzhou into different classes, these tens of thousands of Lu family members are the upper class of Youzhou, while the common people of Youzhou are even worse than cattle and horses, working hard all day long for the Lu family, barely able to fill their stomachs!"
Listening to Yang Zheng's description, Chen Dao could already imagine how miserable the people of Youzhou were.
Given the situation in Youzhou, the people had no choice but to become either serfs or tenant farmers of the Lu family.
Under such circumstances, the Lu family would obviously not treat these people kindly, but would instead intensify their exploitation of the people of Youzhou until they were completely drained of their value!
"Have no people in Youzhou ever rebelled against the Lu family?"
Chen Dao asked, "Even the corporate slaves of Earth in their previous life would choose to resign in anger when they could no longer bear it. The Lu family oppresses the people of Youzhou so much, is there no one in Youzhou who stands up to resist?"
"Of course there is!"
Yang Zheng nodded and said, "However, almost all the officials in Youzhou, from top to bottom, are related to the Lu family. The Lu family's control over Youzhou is far greater than that of the imperial court. If the people of Youzhou rebel in anger, they will be suppressed by the Lu family as soon as they make a fuss. They will not have time to grow their power!"
This is truly...despairing!
Chen Dao sighed inwardly. Rebellion meant death, but not rebelling was worse than death!
Just thinking about it makes Chen Dao feel desperate for the people of Youzhou!
"The Lu family's greed goes far beyond this!"
Yang Zheng's face was full of disgust: "In addition to exploiting the people of Youzhou, the Lu family also colluded with the barbarians beyond the Great Wall, trading with them and supplying them with scarce resources such as grain, tea, salt, and pig iron in exchange for various precious medicinal herbs from the grasslands!"
For thousands of years, the Lu family has made a fortune trading with barbarian tribes; their wealth surpasses even the imperial treasury!
"..."
Chen Dao listened in silence for a long time.
He knew the Lu family was greedy, but he never imagined they could be this greedy. Not satisfied with owning 70% of Youzhou's land, they also wanted to trade with the Xia people, a foreign race with whom they had a blood feud.
Even ordinary people know that those who are not of our kind will surely have different hearts, but what about the Lu family?
While enjoying the preferential treatment from the imperial court, the Lu family also secretly colluded with foreign tribes for their own benefit, supplying them with various resources to strengthen their tribes.
The greed of the Lu family is disgusting!
"It is precisely because of the trade with the barbarians that the Lu family was able to offer a large number of rare medicinal herbs to invite powerful figures from all over the world!"
"Well……"
Chen Dao pondered for a moment and asked, "Commander Yang, do you know why the Lu family is inviting martial artists from all over the world?"
"I don't know!"
Yang Zheng shook his head: "However, I suspect that this matter is inextricably linked to the Great Wall Army."
"Why?"
"General Tian Yu, the commander of the Great Wall Army, has always looked down on the Lu family and is extremely disgusted by their collusion with foreign tribes!"
Yang Zheng explained: "General Tian had previously impeached the Lu family for colluding with the barbarians on several occasions. The Lu family had also impeached General Tian for abusing his power. However, because both the Lu family and General Tian were very important, the court did not punish either of them. Instead, the emperor issued a decree to reprimand them in a mild manner."
Although neither side was able to defeat the other in the imperial court, the grudges remained!
The Lu family wanted to trade with the barbarians, and the Great Wall was an unavoidable problem. General Tian, who had always hated the barbarians, would naturally not sit idly by and watch such a thing happen, which would benefit the enemy.
Therefore, since General Tian took over as the chief commander of the barbarians, he has frequently seized the goods that the Lu family was transporting to the grasslands to trade with the barbarians.
Especially recently, after the imperial court cut off the Great Wall Army's pay, General Tian increased patrols along the Great Wall and seized more and more of the Lu family's goods, making the entire Lu family hate General Tian to the core.
Chen Dao noticed that when Yang Zheng spoke of Tian Yu, he used the respectful title "Tian Yu," but when he spoke of the Lu family, his face was full of disgust and disdain.
Clearly, Yang Zheng's affection for Tian Yu far surpasses that for the Lu family.
"Therefore, after learning that the Lu family had invited powerful figures from all over the world, Yang guessed that the Lu family was likely planning to deal with General Tian!"
Yang Zheng said with a solemn expression.
Seeing this, Chen Dao pondered for a moment and asked, "Commander Yang doesn't seem to want to see General Tian get into trouble?"
"of course not!"
Without hesitation, Yang Zheng replied, "Although I was born a cowherd, I know how ferocious the barbarians are! Once the barbarians invade the Nine Provinces, there will surely be widespread suffering and countless families will be destroyed!"
General Tian is the pillar of the Great Wall Army. If something happens to General Tian, the defense of the Great Wall will definitely have a loophole, giving the barbarians an opportunity to enter the Nine Provinces to burn, kill, and plunder, and to carry out a cruel massacre of the people of the Nine Provinces!
Whether out of personal motives or a sense of national duty, Yang did not want General Tian to get into trouble, otherwise...
Kyushu will perish! "
The Xia people lived on the Nine Provinces, while the barbarians lived on the grasslands. The Xia people fought each other to the death within the Nine Provinces, but it did not affect the Xia people's lineage. It was just a matter of changing emperors and dynasties!
But if barbarians were to invade the Nine Provinces, it wouldn't be as simple as a change of dynasty; it would mean the extinction of the entire race!
At that time, young women will be raped and killed by barbarians, and then devoured by them;
The elderly would be mercilessly killed by barbarians because they had no value as laborers, and their bodies would be left to rot in the wilderness.
Young men would be enslaved by barbarians and forced to work the fields for them;
Young children were raised in captivity by barbarians, treated like pigs and sheep...
Just thinking about the consequences of barbarian invasion of Kyushu made Yang Zheng shudder.
He would rather lose the world than let the barbarians enter the land.
Listening to Yang Zheng's speech, Chen Dao couldn't help but show admiration. Xia Kingdom did indeed have many corrupt officials and people who colluded with foreign tribes, but it also had many people like Yang Zheng, Xue Qi and Jiang Weiyu back then, and Tian Yu, who were either righteous or had a strong sense of national righteousness.
It was precisely because of the existence of these people that this land was not allowed to fall into the hands of foreign races.