In the capital, from the palace and the prince's palace to the people, all the wealthy families were looted worse and cleaner than ordinary people's homes.

Because the house is almost full of good things that pirates can look at.

Development based on power, collusion between officials and businessmen, and trading of power, money, and sex are the necessary prerequisites for becoming a wealthy family in this era.

Under the circumstance that the villains from all over the country have gathered in the capital to form gangs and factions, they have gradually squeezed out the good families in the capital and specifically extorted and harmed merchants and big households, and all the rich and big families who have been able to gain a stable foothold in the capital so far are not strong backers without exception.

In other words, they are all people who collude with power and have enough power to turn the clouds and make rain, take advantage of it, do evil, and make a lot of money.

Far from being victims, these families are the beneficiaries of the Gyeonggi gangster movement...... The ruffian forces did not dare to offend them, but would give gifts....... In turn, these people will naturally shelter the underworld gangs, and even regard them as the cheapest and most powerful forces that they can secretly control, and provide various conveniences to help them develop and grow......

This is the fundamental reason why villains from all over the world can gather in the capital to gain a stable foothold, and it is also the main reason why the district of the first good district of the dignified son of heaven has actually become a paradise for the underworld.

It's not that the Gyeonggi bureaucrats are unaware that the society under their feet is becoming evil, but that such a society is more profitable, so they pretend to be deaf and dumb and ignore the deterioration, or even simply connive at it.

In this way, the big families of the government and the people in those years were really black and white, and they were more majestic and domineering in both black and white, but it was not for the fact that the withdrawal of the Marquis of Wencheng's Mansion detonated the reality that Gyeonggi was a paradise for gangsters, and the bureaucrats and related big families would have been proud until the country was brought down by the scourge, and now it is also the worst.

Now, the official's house is sad but okay after the plague of pirate extortion, at least they have cotton clothes to keep out the cold and eat, so that they will not directly freeze to death and starve to death.

The former wealthy who were not within the scope of the court's sympathy were unlucky, and no one in their families was an official, and now they were poorer and worse than the poor at the bottom of Gyeonggi.

The poor also have cheap old cotton clothes that are not luxurious and expensive but can also keep out the cold, while these wealthy families are so poor that they don't even have winter clothes to survive the winter - fur fur, brocade cotton brocade clothes and brocade quilts....... It's all gone to the pirates, and I don't know what the pirate nation in the tropics doesn't need winter clothes for.

But, it was really a beggar who lived in a mansion.

It's just that the mansion is empty.

No money, no food, no pots and bowls, no porcelain, no wine and beauty...... Except for the usual tables, chairs, and beds that pirates were not unusual, everything else, including useful people, was almost empty.

Dare to do everything possible to exploit and mutilate the people, collapse the backbone of the nation, and bring down the country, now it is not only the common people who are unlucky, but the arrogant and willful rich and noble are all suffering the same as the ordinary people, and many of them have ended up worse than the poor.

This was one of the purposes of the pirate empire's extortion and sacking of Gyeonggi, which was to teach a preliminary and profound lesson to the ruling group that was accustomed to playing power and doing evil, but was able to enjoy himself from above.

At this time, in order to maintain the rule, the imperial court naturally has to maintain the life of the officials, and the officials can get food and clothing after the disaster, and the big families who collude with power do not have this care policy, and after the disaster, they have become poor people living in the courtyard of the high gate, and they are unable to do business or anything to continue to collect wealth for the power, and there is no use value, plus the beauty used to cling to the power of collusion has also been scraped away by the beauty project of the pirates, and the power of the family has lost the beauty to enjoy, and the marriage and other power relations between the big families do not exist. It's not relatives anymore, and at this point, the big families are naturally ruthlessly abandoned by ruthless power.

In this era, the merchants and powerful people are pigs raised by the state, and when they need it, they will drag them out and slaughter a few to loot wealth, how can there be real protection of rights and interests.

Moreover, after the disaster, the country's finances are in a difficult situation, it is difficult to maintain the most basic financial resources, and the wealth accumulated by those in power has been hollowed out, and their own families are desperately short of money and food, without meat and eggs, lack of clothing, lack of sauce, vinegar and oil, lack of plates and bowls....... There is a lack of this and that, there are too many things missing, and everything depends on the little money that the imperial court has reduced and distributed to maintain the basic survival, and under worry and fear, how can they care about the life and death of the rich families who used it in the past, even if they have a conscience, how can they have the ability to take care of these families.

In fact, not only did they not take care of it, but they also looted all the materials such as rice that the pirates who did not want the big families in their home shops, making the big families completely destitute.

There's no way around it.

At that time, in the process of pirate extortion, it was impossible to transport all the materials and taxes urgently transferred from other places to meet the needs of the huge population of the capital at once, and the imperial court needed food emergency at that time, and needed to stabilize the hearts of the officials and the army, and the hearts of the people in the capital were too hungry to rebel, so they could only ruthlessly sacrifice the big households......

Under the dangerous and tense situation at that time, even the material reserves of the imperial merchants and the prince's family had to be looted and requisitioned, and arranged by the imperial court, not to mention ordinary large households.

This is the emergency policy of the imperial court under the high pressure of the critical situation, and it is something that can be resisted and changed by individual officials if they are willing or not, even if you are the prime minister.

The prime ministers, ministers, and bigwigs did not want to be attacked and questioned by the royal family who were angry about losing their wealth and wanted to take revenge, so they had to set an example, and they would never dare to take care of bankrupt households with their power. If they don't want to die, if they don't want to be guilty at this juncture, lose their status as officials, and lose the money on which they and their families depend, they can only honestly obey the policies of the imperial court, ruthlessly loot big households, and cannot use power to seek personal gain and take care of related households.

The dilapidated families living in the Gaomen compound have no food and clothing, and they don't want to freeze to death and starve to death in an empty mansion, so they can only be full of resentment and viciousness, cursing the power people who clinged to them in the past to be so ruthless and shameless, completely ignoring their life and death, putting down the arrogant frame of the past, gritting their teeth in the cold wind that they have never felt so terrible, and going out to join the demolition army, and being wantonly sarcastic, ridiculed, humiliated, excluded, bullied and even beaten by the lowly people in the capital who they used to look at with disdain with their nostrils, and all kinds of firewood and grass were plundered.......

"Yo, isn't this the richest man in Beicheng, Li Daguan, who can't enjoy the money, food, and wine for several lifetimes? Your uncles and children are so rich and well-born, why are they so thin and shabby and willing to brave the cold winter to do the dirty work that we work hard? ”

"Yo, isn't this the beauty of the girl who decently married the servant of the ministry and became the nineteenth concubine? What's wrong with you? Alas, how many of you are still wearing tattered single clothes and wearing wooden planks as shoes to work? You are following the teachings of the saints, and suddenly the Bodhisattva wants to experience how we poor people suffer from sins and earn money and food to live a hard life in this cold day......"

"How can you, who are capable and born rich and well-fated, suffer the same sin as we illiterate poor and sour to do this work?"

"This is too decent, you can't do this?"

"Yes, that's what decent people like you can do. I don't dare to work you. They all hurried home, and in the mansion, they were served by beauties, warmed up, and enjoyed their happiness. Demolishing the house is such a dangerous and tiring task, we can do it......."

Hahahaha's mocking laughter is naturally indispensable.

And so on.

These former arrogant and proud families are extremely miserable, and they are even struggling to earn a small standard of livelihood by enduring hardships and sins, and the people in the north of the city who envy and hate them in the past have invariably taken pleasure in their bad luck, and deliberately obstructed them in various ways, and exchanged their labor and blood and tears for ....... But they soon forgot about the shame of their dignity, and they didn't care about their sadness and anger, because they were ...... It's too cold, and they're used to being rich, in the past, they wore the best cotton clothes, wrapped in the most luxurious and decent furs, sat in the best sedan car and roasted the stove, and went out with the warm and tender chest of the beautiful woman and felt that they couldn't stand the cold, not to mention the clothes that were so embarrassing now. This year's winter was particularly snowy and cold, and the climate was harsh......

How can they bear this sin?

The first thought was to go home and stay comfortable, but there was nothing to play at home, and when I went home, I still had to freeze and be hungry, but I had at least rice soup to drink when I worked here.

So it was the strange scene that Zhao Yue saw in front of his eyes......

There are still some fat heads, big ears, and rich people who are sandwiched in the working crowd, wrapped in tattered clothes that they picked up out of nowhere, shivering in the cold wind, their faces are dark and black, their lips are purple, their hands and feet are swollen and swollen like bubbles, they are full of chilblains, and they are clumsily carrying wood...... From time to time, there will be people who suddenly fall down and can't get up again, and the people around them will turn a blind eye as if they don't see it, not only will they not sympathize with them, but many of them will gloat, and the relatives who have fallen down will rarely cry, numb, trembling, and come forward to help the body of the fallen person to be weak and call a few fathers and sons, etc., and they will abandon it and continue to work if they can't respond. Because they need to complete the amount of labor of the day under the watchful eye of the official overseers who are more ruthless and mean than wolves, in exchange for today's meager money and food to survive, and they are all masters who are not good at doing this, and they are much less efficient than ordinary people who are used to doing work, and there is no time to delay. As for the dead relatives, they have their own special people to collect the bodies and transport them outside the city to be discarded. Even if their loved ones are not dead and are still saved, most of them will not actively rescue them, and these days, this kind of thing has been seen a lot, and it has become more frequent and common as the cold has become more severe.

Besides, what if it is saved?

But it is to live and suffer many sins. If you are sick, how can you have money and food for treatment? Not being able to participate in labor will only drag down their already extremely difficult days and make them even more desperate.

Their only experience is that once they lose their wealth and use value, they are more incompetent, more painful and helpless than ordinary people in the national crisis, and their conceited talents and wisdom in the past are all useless jokes........

These rich people in the capital in the past have fallen to this point, full of sadness, hard work and despair, whether there is regret and reflection has passed, Zhao Yue does not know, and he does not care.

Personal creation and personal responsibility.

If we are sympathetic and sympathetic to the plight of these people, then what should we do with the grievances suffered by the many hard-working and innocent people who have been brutalized by their arrogance and pride?

At the same time, Zhao Yue didn't have much joy and relief in his heart that the rich and evil had finally been retributed.

He had expected this outcome, and seeing with his own eyes was tantamount to ignoring the tragic fate of these people, because he needed to concentrate on dealing with all kinds of dangerous tests that could erupt at any time in front of him. This is directly related to his own life and death and the overall strategic situation in the future. It is also because the people in power who are more guilty of crimes and deserve to be punished than these who are suffering disasters are still arrogant and arrogant looking down on the world, calculating proudly.......

When Zhao Yue slowly observed the changes in the capital after the disaster and went deep into the capital, a pair of sinister eyes were also secretly watching Zhao Yue's actions, and there were even more sinister methods ready to wait for Zhao Yue to come over or fall into the trap......