"Chapter Twenty-Six: The So-Called Civilization"
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- Democritus (the great materialist philosopher of ancient Greece, one of the founders of the doctrine of atomic materialism)
If Bai Feng only looked at the barbarians from the perspective of the Bai family, then the barbarians were indeed heinous existences, and the three hundred and sixty innocent old and weak women and children of the Bai family died in vain were hatreds that must be washed away by the blood of the barbarians.
However, are the so-called civilized people, led by the Celestial Dragon Empire and the Holy See, really just victims? Could it be that the barbarians are inherently savage and ignorant invaders and brutal bandits?
Everything that happened to the Bai family was, in the final analysis, just a small episode of the endless war between the barbarians and the civilized world, and they were not even qualified to make a small wave in the long river of war.
The so-called five provinces in the southern region of the Tianlong Empire used to be a quiet and peaceful home for the barbarians, and they did not take the initiative to invade the Tianlong Empire, let alone provoke any country in the civilized world, they just lived in peace and security on their own barbarian land.
One of the inferior roots of human beings is their insatiable greed and unbridled demand for land, and the more civilized they are, the more obvious they are in this inferiority.
The human Celestial Dragon Empire in the civilized world took the lead in launching a war against the barbarians, and countless barbarian tribes were ruthlessly paced by the iron cavalry of the Celestial Dragon Empire, but this was not the main reason why the barbarians hated all the forces in the civilized world and the Celestial Dragon Empire.
During the conquest of the southern regions of the Draco Empire, the generals of the Draco Empire would always resort to some stratagem against the numerous and powerful barbarian tribes, and they pretended to negotiate with many of the barbarian tribes on favorable terms of peace.
The barbarian tribes, who were already envious of the civilized life, were easily deceived by the cunning of the generals of the Celestial Dragon Empire in a vulnerable situation, and when countless barbarians who laid down their arms migrated to the territory of the Celestial Dragon Empire, they were greeted not by the promised fertile land and abundant food, but by cold swords and brutal killing.
The largest massacre was the slaughter in the southern province of San Sebastian, where 150,000 barbarians from more than thirty large barbarian tribes were brought to the county of Irun in San Sebastian, where the Dragon General of the Celestial Dragon Empire led an army of 50,000 to launch a massacre of the 150,000 unarmed men.
At that time, General Long not only had the army of the Long family under his command, but now the armies of the five provinces and five families in the southern region were all under the command of General Long; this was a great victory that was killed and publicized in the Celestial Dragon Empire and the civilized world, and the region originally called Sebastian was specially crowned by the Holy See after experiencing this victory piled up with the blood of the barbarians!
Since this massacre, the Celestial Dragon Empire has been able to establish the five major provinces belonging to the civilized world in the southern region, and it is precisely after this painful lesson that the barbarians will never believe any liars of the civilized world again.
The revenge of the barbarians against the Bai family is only one of their revenge against the civilized world, and it is also the revenge of the remnants of the barbarians who lived in the southern region against the five major families who launched the San Sebastian massacre.
The barbarian tribes south of the southern border generally do not take the initiative to provoke the Celestial Dragon Empire in the southern region, after all, the overall strength of the two sides is very different, and the barbarians themselves are not united with each other, they simply do not have the strength to take the initiative to provoke the powerful Celestial Dragon Empire.
It's a pity that the existence of war is not decided by the barbarians, the Celestial Dragon Empire has tasted enough sweetness in the process of invading the barbarians; the people of the entire Celestial Dragon Empire are madly obsessed with the barbarian slaves fighting in the arena, they prefer to use the powerful barbarian slaves to work for their own manor fields, and the barbarian slaves have become an indispensable existence of the Celestial Dragon Empire.
Huge demand will always stimulate the birth of an industry, the demand for barbarian slaves in the civilized world led by the Celestial Dragon Empire has promoted the birth and development of the slave capture industry; regardless of the powerful aristocratic families and business families, they have formed their own family slave hunting teams, the purpose is to plunder a large number of slaves from the barbarian land and sell them to the countries of the continent.
The five major families that have been dominating the southern region are also the largest barbarian slave providers in the Tianlong Empire, especially the Long family in San Sebastian Province, the barbarian slaves that their family provides to the empire every year have accounted for one-third of the slave market in the Tianlong Empire, so the Long family has also accumulated terrifying strength!
The poor barbarians were unable to organize a limited resistance against the invasion of the civilized world, and in addition to constantly moving further south, they could only use some suicidal methods to retaliate against the invaders of the Celestial Dragon Empire.
Regardless of whether such a helpless retaliatory attack of the barbarians had any effect, at least it also proved that the barbarians did not succumb to the invasion of the civilized world and the Celestial Dragon Empire, and they were using their own efforts to say no to the brutality of the civilized world!
If the generals of the Celestial Dragon Empire who opened up the five southern provinces back then could have dealt with the barbarians with more gentle means, then now many barbarians have been integrated into the Celestial Dragon Empire and will become an inseparable part of the Celestial Dragon Empire.
But the fact is that the Celestial Dragon Empire used their wisdom to gain staggering wealth in a short period of time, and also gained the undying hatred of the barbarians, which is the fundamental reason why the barbarian army that invaded the city of Rome would choose to fight to the death after being defeated.
When Bai Feng was in the Bai family, he also learned about the grievances and grievances between the Tianlong Empire and the barbarians through some ways, but after all, those were the Bai family's subjective views on the barbarians, and it was not enough to truly objectively judge the relationship between the barbarians and the Tianlong Empire.
Before officially setting out to conquer the Tasya tribe, Bai Feng learned in detail about the barbarians' views on this from Bai Sheng, a simple barbarian giant, and only after the combination of the two did Bai Feng really have a general understanding of these things.
The relationship between the civilized nations and the barbarian nations in this world is exactly the same as the relationship between the Roman Republic and the surrounding barbarian forces during the rise of the Roman Republic on the earth; Bai Feng understands the helplessness of the barbarians, but he cannot change the unfortunate fate of the barbarians.
And the only thing Bai Feng can do is to give those barbarian people enough freedom and stable life after conquering the barbarian tribes as much as possible; Bai Feng always believes that no matter how deep hatred is, it can be resolved with respect and wealth, while the sword can only temporarily suppress hatred and accumulate more hatred.