The road to national restoration that began at the end of the century - #350 - Chapter 351: Same yearning
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The former are just a bunch of profiteers who like to take small money and take gold, silver and jewelry home at most; the latter are not allowed to keep rice, an important staple food that the dog-headed people are so eager to eat until the day before they die, and must turn it all in.
Anyone who dares to eat rice indiscriminately in the Takagi Kingdom is an economic criminal of the Akitsu Empire, waiting to be sent to some place to do hard labor until death.
Money or life.
As long as they are not idiots, everyone will definitely want life.
Everyone is very clear about the principle of keeping the green mountains and not worrying about lack of firewood.
Especially in the Takagi Kingdom, eating rice is the happiest thing for the whole country.
Eating wheat…
Only animals eat wheat.
Yes.
In the eyes of many members of the dog-headed people, including Nagamasa, rice has a higher status than wheat.
However, compared with the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire who pursue polishing until only 40% of the original rice is left, the dog-headed people only polish off the rice bran on the outer layer of rice.
The pig-headed people are definitely ranked first in the world. They are a “trash” race that seems to be unaware that wasting food is a crime. Moreover, these pig-headed people do not have refined rice to eat, and they will even mutiny to force the officials above to provide enough refined rice.
What’s more hateful is that even the rice bran and a large amount of rice germ from grinding refined rice are basically discharged into the sea by the pig-headed people to feed the fish, and they are determined not to give them to any black-haired dog-headed people in the Takagi Kingdom.
Even if there is a famine in the Takagi Kingdom, there are starving people everywhere who are fleeing from famine.
Therefore, this is why Nagamasa finally chose to rise up, resist the corrupt Takagi royal family, expel the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire, and embark on the road to win independence and freedom for the black-haired dog-headed people.
Although this road is full of difficulties and obstacles, Nagamasa is now facing pressure from the Nigan Empire.
But even so, he does not believe in King Junwu’s theory of elite governance that in order to make the country strong, officials must ally with the richest groups in society, rather than with all citizens.
Strictly speaking, the elites and the people of the Takagi Kingdom do not even eat the same things, and the shapes of the tableware they use are beginning to show differences. If a few dozen or a hundred years pass, the elites who use scissors and the civilians who continue to use a pair of wooden sticks are likely to split again.
Just like the gray-haired dog-headed people back then, they were sold as commodities to the Orchid Republic in the north in exchange for industrial equipment, and then they officially became citizens of the Orchid Republic. As a result, in order to retaliate against the thousand-year-long slavery and oppression of other dog-headed races, they often publicly stated that they would launch atomic weapons attacks on the Takagi Kingdom and another dog-headed country.
This is another important reason why the Takagi royal family had to choose the fate of a vassal state.
The Orchid Republic is a country that can say and do it.
Especially the first generation of the God of War of the Orchid Republic, who once fought against 140,000 pig-headed people alone during the invasion of the Akitsu Empire, killed more than 70,000, and crippled 40,000 people in a battle, which frightened the other pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire to commit suicide in battle. After the lizardman Roth, nicknamed the killer, became the leader of the Orchid Republic, the country’s top leader, all the countries in the Neoland continent that were adjacent to the Orchid Republic did not sleep well.
Even after Roth’s death for 100 years, the Akitsu Empire did not dare to continue any military operations against the Orchid Republic. After all, Roth’s strength was based on the corpses of pig-headed people and endless burning ruins.
The name of the God of War shocked the entire Neoland continent, and also prompted the northern half of the Neoland continent, except for a few foreign colonial regimes, to immediately abolish the monarchy and take the initiative to carry the banner of the republic.
Especially, his reputation as the Pig-Headed Man Terminator is not in vain. There are also a large number of historical picture books and written records. Even on the beach where Roth fought, there are still countless Pig-Headed Man corpses that are “excavated” by the waves from time to time.
In short, the deal made by the Takagi royal family at that time was relatively worthwhile at that time. Otherwise, once the Orchid Republic gets angry, they will send Roth, or the second generation of Roth, and it will be really over.
But just as Nagamasa thought, the Takagi royal family does not have the existence of ordinary people in their eyes. Their deal with the Orchid Republic is also conducive to their rule of the Takagi Kingdom and ensure that their members from generation to generation can become the ruling force of the Takagi Kingdom.
As a result, the current civil war in the Takagi Kingdom continues. Even if there is no resistance force in the borders or places where the central government is not easy to manage, there will definitely be severe famine problems.
The Takagi royal family’s solution to the famine refugees is very simple.
Kill.
In their eyes, isn’t famine a matter of supply and demand, and too many mouths to eat? As long as they use the butcher knife to get rid of some heads that need to eat, can’t the balance of supply and demand be solved immediately?
Indeed, this is a very simple and efficient solution. But the question is how many hungry people are willing to be killed?
Although in the Gaomu Kingdom, some bankrupt farmers will hang their families from the beams when they are desperate and hungry and cold, and become corpses hanging under the beams one after another. But this is a minority, and more hungry people will choose another way.
Escape.
Escape to some deep mountains and wild ridges, and live a secluded life in the mountains.
And this is an important source of soldiers for Wanxi’s liberation force.
Compared with cities in the plains, due to the terrain environment and inconvenient transportation in mountainous areas, even King Shungo of Takata City may not necessarily know how many refugees there are in the mountainous areas.
At the same time, as a group of refugees who have been persecuted for a long time and have actually been abandoned by the country, they themselves have a natural resistance.
For this reason, what Nagamasa has to do now is very simple, absorb them and transform them into his own team members, and use their mountain skills to fight against the invasion of pig-headed men.
After all, the rice that everyone wants to eat basically falls into the hands of the pig-headed people, and under the threat of the pig-headed people’s swords and guns, they can only live on the wheat originally used to feed livestock.
Eating wheat that is only eaten by livestock, especially cheap barley, to survive is a kind of torture for the thousands of working people in the Takagi Kingdom.
This is eating feed.
feed.
It fully embodies the idea that the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire have no black-haired kobolds in their eyes.
Why do they kobolds have to eat feed like animals?
Obviously, the Takagi Kingdom still has the same understanding of staple food. Unlike some intelligent races who regard wheat as a “sacred gift”, especially the native humans who once occupied the plains with the most abundant water and grass on the continent of Neoland, the Kingdom of Takagi has elevated the status of rice very high.
Although in this way, the black-haired kobolds of the Takagi Kingdom are also developing in the direction of the “polished rice poisoning” of the pig-headed people, but compared to the pathology of the Akitsu Empire, Nagamasa still has considerable confidence in the knowledge of the black-haired kobolds. .
Who cares about the quality of the food in front of them when they have nothing to eat?
Having a meal is better than going hungry.
So this is why Nagamasa took advantage of the fact that the Negan Empire in the south was no longer willing to accept rice as a general equivalent, and he began to formulate a rice distribution plan.
Especially under the premise that he now controls more rural areas and has richer rice resources.
Resources that should be limited should not be wasted.
Just like the current Queen of the Negan Empire, she is a cook and a woman who has repeatedly asked the royal family not to be extravagant and wasteful.
It has to be said that Her Majesty the Queen is still like this, and Nagamasa himself wants to know how much money the Negan Empire has spent on people’s livelihood. You must know that there has never been a famine in the Negan Empire, and there have never even been refugees fleeing the famine. As long as people in the country are able to work, they will basically have one or even several legitimate jobs to provide themselves with the financial expenses of their families as the greatest guarantee.
Changzheng also longed for such a society.
Especially him, and too many black-haired kobolds were treated as burdens and loyal commodities by the fatuous king of Takagi Kingdom, King Shungo.
When the people of a country are reduced to commodities, can the so-called independence and freedom still exist?