Chapter 191: Killing the Pig (3)
With the warm sunlight shining on his face, Wang Xiaotian stood on the high platform and watched the city go from restlessness to silence, from turbulent tide to calm in a short period of time. Wang Xiaotian has been thinking about what makes the people of this city start to get lost, what is it that gives them the confidence to challenge everything, and finally he comes to a conclusion, it is not that people are lost, but that he is too weak.
The fall of Whitehorse City was not based on blood and swords, but on conspiracy and betrayal.
In this process, the merchants who represented trade and profit-seeking played a large role. This has given them a false lead, they think that any change only requires conspiracy and power, but in fact, any innovation from ancient times to the present requires the blood of revolutionaries, and no revolution is obtained by inviting guests to dinner.
Perhaps the White Horse City had a different ruler, and the merchants might have slowly transformed the dictatorship of the aristocracy into the rule of capital. But this requires a process, a certain amount of accumulation, from feudal rule to capitalist society, which cannot be completed overnight.
What's more, Wang Xiaotian is not a dictator in the ordinary sense.
In nature, animals instinctively seek advantage and avoid harm, but humans are very peculiar, as long as you don't show their fangs, they will not know how to fear.
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The moment Wang Xiaotian showed his fangs, everyone began to be confused. Their minds are constantly recalling the phrase "How dare he!"
Yes, how dare he.
Everyone thought that the new ruler was a moderate man who wanted to stabilize the city with the help of wealthy merchants, and he needed to calm the people of the city. However, everything is self-righteous speculation, Wang Xiaotian has never been a weak person, from the very beginning, from the moment he was ready to attack White Horse City, Wang Xiaotian was ready to shed blood.
When Stilwell put the list in front of him, Wang Xiaotian didn't even bother to check it, just with a wave of his hand, countless wolf-like soldiers dragged the rich businessmen out of the mansion.
For a while, the head was rolling.
Wang Xiaotian didn't need to identify who was involved in the conspiracy, he had already automated the businessmen who were silent everyone into enemies. It's not that Wang Xiaotian is cold, he gave everyone time, and he even kept silent during the blockade of Xicheng District.
He didn't believe that these businessmen who had been in Whitehorse City for so long would have no news in private.
However, they chose to remain silent.
All the lucky ones, they have a fluke mentality in their hearts, they think that if the merchant wins, they will become rulers, enjoy a lot of privileges and greater benefits, therefore, they keep silent, in fact, they will never understand that they are not much different from the rebels in the eyes of the rulers.
The rebels planned it and acted on it. And these bystanders are witnessing things, but they just think about it but don't have time to act. And in Wang Xiaotian's opinion, there is not much difference between the two.
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Wang Xiaotian's domineering attitude undoubtedly made many people feel uneasy, such as Jonas.
He looked at Wang Xiaotian with some difficulty, his voice tried to remain steady, and said, "My lord, do you know that everything you said and did was to make enemies of the merchants of the entire White Horse City?"
Wang Xiaotian felt a little bored and plucked his ears, looked at Jonas casually, and sneered: "Of course I know." ”
Jonas was silent for a moment, and his muscles began to tense.
As the biggest businessman in White Horse City, he is not only a businessman, his political acumen is also beyond ordinary people, he is not stupid, and he seems to have understood something from Wang Xiaotian's answer.
On the contrary, Wang Xiaotian looked at Jonas's silence and glanced at him in his heart.
He is a legendary businessman.
Indeed, Wang Xiaotian's indiscriminate massacre and confiscation of many trade rights were indeed enemies of the merchants.
And yet he didn't care.
Merchants have capital, they are indeed powerful, but their strength lies in capital, in the fact that they have the wealth to mercenary armies and defeat any enemy. However, in front of Wang Xiaotian, these riches were useless.
Whitehorse was still dominated by workers and commoners, and merchants were always in the minority, even though they owned the majority of the wealth.
All the time.
Wang Xiaotian was distributing relief grain in the name of "White Horse City", and he did not let the merchants appease the workers like Lesterlos, but directly represented the "ruling class" to appease the "working class".
To some extent, this cut off the rule of the merchants over the workers.
The merchants could no longer mobilize the workers, they even distributed grain was illegal, after all, Wang Xiaotian had already ordered the confiscation of grain in the city, and once the merchants distributed grain without authorization, it would be against Wang Xiaotian.
Most of the people in White Horse City received their food from Wang Xiaotian, and they naturally had the same lineup as Wang Xiaotian.
As a great man said, "unite the majority, fight the few".
In this process, the merchants were the "very few" group of people, Wang Xiaotian appeased all the workers with food, and it was impossible for the workers to rebel with the merchants without being forced into a desperate situation, which made the merchants lose the capital to fight with him.
Without the support of the people, the merchant is a fat pig to be slaughtered in his eyes.
Now that he had decided to lift the table, Wang Xiaotian looked at the legendary businessman in front of him, without a trace of pity and hesitation in his heart.
"I hope you can resist! I hope you can really take up arms and fight me with real knives and guns, and in this snowy city of Whitehorse, I hope all your merchants can mobilize and defeat me as you overthrew Lestero!"
Wang Xiaotian's voice was very cold, like a ghost wind from the abyss, which made Jonas's heart cold.
Hearing Wang Xiaotian's tone full of contempt and contempt, Jonas, as a businessman, did not dare to have a trace of dissatisfaction, and he clearly heard the killing intent in Wang Xiaotian's words.
He had no doubt that as long as the person who dared to jump out at this time, Wang Xiaotian would not hesitate to crush that person to pieces.
Wang Xiaotian looked at Jonas quietly like this, at this moment, the atmosphere in the whole house was frozen to the extreme, Wang Xiaotian, who had a heavy army, did not give the businessmen any chance, in this city, the only thing that can fight against them is the people.
However, the people's food comes from Wang Xiaotian, they no longer need the help of merchants, people will turn into demons in times of despair, but whenever there is a little choice, the people can endure it with great perseverance.
Jonas sighed deeply, bowed almost ninety degrees to face Wang Xiaotian, and said in an almost humble manner: "If you win, you will be the only voice in White Horse City, and after today, everything in White Horse City will be restored to its original state." ”