Chapter 15: The Three Mountains of Zuan
Although Catherine wanted to refute, she opened her mouth in vain, and there was nothing to say after all.
Because what Rod said is completely true......
Although Rod deliberately ignored some other factors, it is undeniable that Zuan is now looking like he is going to be finished, and Piltover is definitely one of the culprits.
In fact, the reason why the city of Zaun did not develop was because of the three mountains on its head - Piltover, the alchemy baron and foreign powers.
Piltover grabbed a large amount of Zaun's surplus value, and through the blockade, forced Zaun to work for himself, and the Zaun people were starved to death or became thugs instead of receiving a meager salary.
Baron Alchemy was one of the first leaders of Zaun, who worked for Zaun during the blockade of Zaun by Piltover, selling all the civilians of Zaun into oligarchs for personal gain, owning a large number of crystal mines and alchemy factories in Zaun, and forming a labor dispatch company to pluck the already meager salaries of Zaun civilians once more.
As for the foreign powers, they did not want to see the rise of Zaun, and because they needed a black city as a means of intelligence transportation, they were happy to fan the flames when Piltover blockaded Zaun, and supported all forms of embargo.
With a three-pronged approach, the civilians of Zaun completely lost the ability to resist.
Zaun and Piltover are both commercial cities, there is no food here, and if the Zaun people want to rebel, then the strictest food embargo will follow - the whole Zaun has no food, how can this resist?
Seeing Catherine's distraction, Rod pressed step by step!
"The Zaun people do the hardest work, but the most meager pay, they are exposed to high pollution all year round, but they are often not even able to support their families - and you, Mrs. Piltward, are born with a lot of benefits, education, basic security, free medical care and Hex, but the children of Zuan, who provide all these basic resources, do not have even the slightest benefit to enjoy!"
"Are the Zauns lazy? No! ”
"At the pier in Piltover, it's the Zauns sweating it out! In the crystal mine underground, it is the Zuan people who compete with the mining golem for efficiency! ”
"Are the Zaun people greedy? No! ”
"For the vast majority of people, the hope of the Zuan people is just to live, they don't want fancy clothes and food, they just want to live safely!"
"Are the Zaun people evil? No! ”
"The crime rate of Zaun is certainly high, but excluding those lackeys who serve the alchemy baron, the crime rate of Zaun is far less than that of Piltover, whose economic crime rate is rising!"
"Why, then, are the lives of the Zaun people poor and miserable?"
"That's because the free breakfast that you Skinnykes often throw down the sewers is often eighty percent of the sweat and sweat of one of Zuan's hard-working fathers - and with the intervention of those greedy alchemy barons who are complicit with Skinny, that father probably didn't get his share of the only twenty percent of his salary left!"
"This father did the work of one gold hex, but in the end he only got two silver hexes, and the rest is the welfare of your leather city guys!"
Rod's words were loud, this was the information he had gathered in the Violet Dream for so long, and no one could refute it - because, it was all true.
Jinx still looked heartless, and Giggs was confused, but Ike was already in tears.
Every word Rhodes said, it went to Ike's heart!
The establishment of Zuan Mi Tong is Ike's rebellion against these three mountains, but relying on Ike alone, all he can do is make the behavior of the alchemy baron less excessive, that's all!
The time assassins fought desperately, and experienced failures again and again through the rewind of time, and the final result was just a little more cold and cold left behind in the fingers of those alchemy barons who were full of brains!
Why does Ike despise Vi so much?
Because over the years, countless geniuses from Zaun have left the city and become glamorous leather city guys, who have severed themselves from the past, forgotten their past, and forgotten the Zaun people who are still struggling on the brink of life and death.
Year after year, the only one left was Ike.
In room one, everyone fell silent.
It is undeniable that Catherine is a good person - she abides by the law, maintains order, and does justice within the framework of order.
But as Mrs. Piltward, she had been sucking Zaun's blood from the moment she was born, and this kind of thing had nothing to do with her personal, which was the original sin of Catherine's class.
"Catherine, I hope that when you return to Piltover, you will be able to tell those great men who are on high that Zaun is not born a slave, and that we don't have to shed blood and sweat for Pichengkees, that Zaun is our own Zaun, and that Zauns are like Lady Piltover, that we are all created equal!"
"Zu An opposes all forms of exploitation and oppression, is it true that Picheng and the Alchemy Baron are born superior?"
"No, you're not nobler than Zuan, you're just luckier."
"However, this luck is not permanent - one day, Zuan will awaken, and I will personally blow the horn of Zuan's charge!"
You read that right - Rhodes is trying to bring some kind of terrible red mind to Zaun - a completely different idea from the order of Piltover, the freedom of Bilgewater, the iron and blood of Noxus, the justice of Demacia, the equilibrium of Ionia!
This kind of thinking is called equality.
In a place like Zu'an, where interests are intertwined, the Rhodes are lonely - although as a master, Rhodes' combat power is at the absolute top among mortals, but Rhodes can't sweep Zuan by himself.
Faced with the huge alchemy puppets, the mad alchemy poison gas, the alchemist-transformed biochemical assassins, the possible arrival of bounty hunters, and even foreign interference, Rhodes is also powerless.
In this case, Rhodes chose the craziest method.
Let's have a vigorous revolution!
This time, I'm on the side of the commoners of Zaun!
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Strictly speaking, Rhodes was a speculator in the Zaun Revolution, and his ultimate interest was not to benefit the suffering commoners of Zaun, but to be able to receive Zaun's taxes in the future......
But at least for now, he is on the side of the commoners of Zaun.
Rod's words made Catherine's brain almost blank, she had never thought of what Rod's was talking about, she hadn't even reacted to the meaning of all this, but it was certain that under Rod's narration, Catherine even felt remorse - she subconsciously began to sympathize with the Zaun.
When caught in the zoun, the Zaun pickpockets, who were less than ten years old, would be treated to a prison meal that Catherine thought was like pig food in their detention cells.
Catherine was just a little uncomfortable at the time - but according to Piltover's laws, these little ones could not go to jail or be forced to be educated, they could only be released.
Catherine had thought it was protection — but now she realized it might be Piltover's unwillingness to afford food.
When Catherine heard Rod's words, she felt a kind of disgust for Piltover......
Although Rhodes used some small tricks of seduction, the main reason for Catherine's emotions was her own sense of justice.
At this moment, Catherine felt a hot pain in her cheeks.