Chapter 63: The Cruelty of Exploitation?

"Orc" is a term I have for a hybrid of youkai and humans. They have the torso of a human, the head and limbs of a beast, and they also have tails, horns, scales, feathers, wings, carapaces, tentacles and other attached things, which are strangely shaped. They are attached to powerful human monks or powerful yokai, and act as thugs, minions, assassins, disciples, cannon fodder, kabuki, war slaves, gladiators, etc., and occasionally serve as medicine men, flower fertilizer, stallions, ingredients, vases, etc.

I led my group of men to continue the march southward, and at the same time collected (looted) the arsenals of various villages and towns along the way, collected (looted) spiritual materials and elixirs from various spiritual vein points along the way, recruited (robbed) the militia of various villages and towns as my servant army, and procured (looted) all kinds of horses, livestock, carts, bows and crossbows, weapons, food, and wine. I smashed open the gates of those villages and towns, grabbed those who occupied the top positions in the villages and towns, and smashed open their secret vaults, money vaults, arsenals, wine cellars, and granaries.

Do you think I'm bad?

But when I looked at it with the "Improved Faction Identification Technique", all of them were red and purple, and purple and black. I poured it down with the "Xiuzhen version of the confessional agent", and what came out of my confession was sensational cruelty. The villages and towns I have explored with the "Xiuzhen version of forensic science" can always find twisted souls, sleepless undead, white bones that accumulate resentment, and zombies that die with hatred.

"Senior brother, are they really so bad?"

I lit the little girl's head and asked her to watch the "Xiuzhen version of the mass criticism meeting" I made. "Do you see, their riches and their beauty are based on the force they have. Those civilians and those bitter lords didn't dare to resist before, do they really not hate them?"

Xie Baoqin pinched her fingers, not knowing how to talk to me.

I sighed namelessly in my heart, she has lived in the upper social class since she was a child, and she became the peak family of Lian Yunfeng's ruling class very early. What I saw was the green mountains and white waterfalls and pines, what I learned was the cultivation of the true alchemy and the flying sword, and I was a small and beautiful lady, and I guess I never thought about what kind of existence the civilians at the bottom were.

"It's not that they don't hate, they can't afford to hate, it's useless to hate. You see, now I'm cutting off the force of those people and throwing them at them, what are they doing?"

Xie Baoqin's face turned white.

They are eating meat, they are tearing the flesh of those rich people, landlords, and town mayors! Even those so-called martial artists and heroes with a very good reputation, there is still a group of people who are originally as docile as rabbits leaning on them, jumping up to eat their meat!

"Senior brother, are we going a little too far? We just took ninety percent of the weapons, food, and livestock, and left them only a little bit, how can they live below?"

I just laughed when I looked up to the sky. The girl is so pure, so virgin, and so secondary, it's still a little cute.

"Why can't they live? They don't have anything! Where do you think I got the things I stole from my house? There are three thousand five hundred and sixty taels of gold in this town, all of which are in the mayor's house. There were sixteen thousand four hundred taels of silver, and only one hundred taels were scattered in the hands of these people in the audience. There are 50,000 stone of grain, but everyone in the audience only has 3,000 catties at home. After eating this meal, you must kneel at the door of those people and beg for the next meal. You say, I gave them a tithe, do they want to thank me? They planted the fields outside, raised the livestock, dug the mines, but they were slaves. Now that I break their chains, what can't they live?"

"Senior brother, what should you do next? We will leave later, they will definitely be killed by the people of Taishan City. I've met the mayor, he's the younger brother of one of my uncles' butlers. These people, we helped them this time, but maybe they will be killed tomorrow. ”

"Oh, have you thought about it, why would they rather risk being killed tomorrow, and would rather follow me, a passing bandit who is about to leave, than take this opportunity to kill those mayors? What kind of hatred can make people do this?"

This is the fifth day since I left Taishan City, and the town in front of me is already the seventh town that I have defeated. There are still eighteen of the twenty-five Qi cultivators who left Taishan City with me, and there are still four hundred and twenty of the five hundred warriors who left with me. But my team has swelled to a thousand men, and the army is strong. Every Qi cultivator has molted into a new form, and has continued to grow in low-intensity battles. Every samurai also changed their costumes several times, and finally regained their original appearance as a lackey of the monk by relying on the armor and martial arts that came from requisitioning (looting). As for those new annexes, they are all selected by me, and now they have experienced at least one "bloody battle", and they have a little taste.

However, most of these new annexes are under my name. If I don't say that I will assign it to a certain Qi cultivator, then no one should do anything for me. The five Qi cultivators who died later, as well as the more than fifty original warriors who died, were all made targets by me for one reason or another, and killed them to open their eyes and make memories for others.

"Uncle Shi, do you really want to take these demons? Aren't you afraid that they will fight back?" Shen Xiaotong looked at the hideous faces under the cloud carpet that looked at me with various expressions of reverence, longing, gratitude, flattery, fanaticism, and confusion, and was a little scared.

Indeed, these demons have a very bad reputation on Lianyun Peak. Fifty years ago, the feudal kingdom was divided, the mountain cities were chaotic, the demon clan was rampant, and the demon chaos was all over Lianyun Peak. Then there were many, many episodes of racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, and the most shocking thing was that fifty years ago, Xie Daoqing leveled all kinds of forces in Lianyun Peak, and even brought it to the ground to completely eradicate the demon forces in the territory, and drove the demon gangsters into the southern swamp. In that year alone, millions of demons were beheaded and built into Jingguan, piled up on both sides of the road. Then the immigrants migrated, a new class of monks and a new class of samurai appeared, and new feudal kingdoms and new mountain towns expanded, and this was the tragedy of the demon gangsters disappearing from the original land little by little. Then in order to resist this misery, they struggled very hard, killed many people, did a lot of wrong things, and finally were completely slaughtered.

Even now, in the jurisdiction of Lianyun Peak, every city, country and town, and every battle in which a samurai became famous was to hunt down those demons who had degenerated into beasts in the nearby wilderness. A human head, ten taels of silver, and a human head with spiritual roots to cultivate demonic energy, ten taels of gold jump. Seeing the head paying, Tong Su is not deceived.

"Do you think they dare to rebel, or do you think that I am really not a qualified commander and cannot suppress them?"

"Not really. Senior brother, you are so strong, how dare they? I mean, those junior brothers, aren't you afraid that they will make you bad?"

"How can they make it bad?" I smiled and pinched Xie Baoqin's little nose.

"Senior brother, you're the worst. Didn't you do worse than them yourself when you knocked down those people? Look at what we've gotten these days, it's almost all on you now. You even take money from me, isn't it even more ferocious to blackmail them?"

Hehe, little girl, you don't know that, do you? Their cruel exploitation and mine are the same in appearance but completely different in nature.

I touched a certain Qi cultivator below my hand: "Who is that? Are you from Nanyun Peak? Did you hear my junior sister's complaints? Do you also think that I have been exploiting you too cruelly, making you poor now?"

Contrary to Xie Baoqin's expectations, the Qi cultivator lowered his head and thought for a while before raising his head and saying seriously: "Uncle Chen Guanshui, I am ranked seventeenth in Nanyun Peak, and there is also a master on it. To put it mildly, he taught me spells, guided me to cultivate, and took at least twice as much from me and my family as my uncle. Moreover, Uncle Shi is very proficient in all categories of cultivation, exercises, and techniques, and often gives novel explanations to the problems we raise, pointing us to a new path. Besides, in the past few days, Uncle Shi has also traded us all kinds of pills, rune papers, and blank magic weapons at half the price on the mountain. Therefore, although my nephew hates Uncle Shi for exploiting us, this is a very fair deal, I have nothing to say, and I have to thank Uncle Shi. ”

"Huh, how could this be?" "Xie Baoqin, you are the person who rules the family of Lian Yunfeng, and you have always consumed all kinds of cultivation resources for free, so how can you understand the thoughts of those Qi cultivators below?

So I have almost everything now, but I'm very generous, so I never have to worry about what these Qi cultivators will do.