Chapter 500 Where Are the People?

Autumn passes and winter comes,

The time has passed and the cold winter has passed.

The cold wind is howling and the snow is coming very fast,

A heavy snow swept across the entire land of Shenjing. Everywhere you looked, there was a blanket of silver, and the heavy snow covered everything.

Under this cold force of heaven, many poor people fell into cold hardship, and many people died on the streets.

Especially what happened half a year ago,

The dark prison where the most vicious criminals of the dynasty were imprisoned collapsed.

To rebuild,

The government conscripted a large number of low-level people in Shenjing into labor operations. They moved mountains and stones, carried them hand in hand and shouldered them, and transported the huge pieces of sacred materials from thousands of miles away to the Dead Souls Mountains, and then spent a lot of manpower. Material resources were used to excavate the mountain rocks, create passages, transport them to the vicinity of the Black Prison, and rebuild them bit by bit.

Although after the Black Prison was rebuilt, it was extremely majestic and could be said to be a miracle building that will be passed down through the ages.

This kind of labor is not a good thing for the people at the bottom of Shenjing!

Just like the Great Wall and the Grand Canal in Zhang Qingyuan's previous life,

The latecomers only saw the great achievements of those big projects, but they could not see at all the numerous skeletons under these projects, as well as the oppressed and impoverished people's livelihood in the country!

labor,

It is voluntary labor forced by the government.

do these jobs,

People need to bring their own dry food!

In terms of productivity in ancient times, a strong laborer had to bring his own dry food and be dragged to do heavy labor for three months. He was so exhausted that he was lucky to come back alive.

It is more likely that the officials under supervision, the ruthless officials, and the supervisors increased the pressure at every level, until they died of exhaustion on the way!

However, the old and weak in the family cannot bear enough heavy taxation and farm work.

The end result is that the family is destroyed!

ancient feudal society,

Every major construction project means that a large number of families with little savings are destroyed and displaced!

Therefore, wars and large-scale construction projects are carried out,

All of them were extremely criticized by ancient scholars!

Because both of these are forced recruitment of civilian labor and cause great harm to the civilian population.

Not to mention the Great Wall and the Grand Canal.

A huge rock or a huge tree was moved bit by bit from the deep mountains. The manpower and material resources required, and the cost of human lives, were simply unimaginable in ancient times!

What's more, the common people who have to work bring their own dry food, and the government does not care about the money and food of the rich people who do the hard work.

The oppression is even worse!

then,

Qin and Sui were both killed by peasant uprising armies.

In the 14th year since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, the people were forcibly conscripted and put into labor force year after year. The people were in dire straits, and the oppression made the whole country rebel, setting the precedent for a peasant uprising.

In the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang's several wars and the digging of the Grand Canal set off a million-strong peasant uprising in Wagang. The peasants who could no longer survive gathered together in anger and severely damaged the imperial army that once unified the world.

Those common people were oppressed by brutal labor. The vast peasant masses who could no longer survive set off a wave of riots.

Finally swept everything!

However,

The world in Zhang Qingyuan's previous life was an extraordinary and invisible world!

When the people at the bottom are oppressed to the point of being unable to live, left to their own devices and left to die, and finally fight to the death, the monstrous force aroused is enough to overthrow the dynasty with extremely strong military strength!

But in this extraordinary manifestation, it is not a mythical world where one person can defeat a thousand armies. All resistance is nothing more than ants shaking a tree and moths flying into a flame!

One hundred thousand Lingyuan realm monks are no match for a palm from the Dongzhen realm!

The imperial court occupies absolute power,

He has absolute control over life and death for countless civilians!

Under the powerful suppression of the imperial court,

Resistance is certain to result in death,

Instead, I endured it, endured it hard and numbly, and still had a glimmer of hope of living...

The streets of Shinkyo,

The wind and snow are cold,

In the slums,

A large number of corpses were frozen to death on the streets,

The refugees, dressed in rags and whose families had been destroyed by the hundreds of thousands of people who had been conscripted into labor not long ago, were nestled under the debris, their eyes were numb, and they could not see a trace of light.

And in the wealthy area of ​​Lingtou,

The dignitaries played and sang day and night, and a large amount of untouched wine and meat removed from the banquet were buried in the soil to prevent them from being dug up and desecrated by the untouchables.

Gu Yi

The heating formation activated by the spirit stone made the entire mansion as warm as spring. Looking at the silver-covered land outside, he even composed a poem when it rose, adding a bit more interest to this winter day. .

The whole land of Shenjing is boiling with fire and oil,

But no one cares.

They are nobles, born nobles, aloof,

In the outside world, the body is as thin as a bone, and the frozen corpse on the roadside, in their view, is just a dead ant on the roadside, not worthy of the slightest attention.

It's just that some young and powerful people are unhappy.

Because too many people died in the reconstruction of the Black Hell Prison a few days ago, and when the capital attacked the traitor Flying Demon Alliance not long ago, the entire army was wiped out.

This caused Shenjing to lose many people and become depressed.

They can no longer arbitrarily circle a place and hunt the "two-legged sheep" as they did in the past.

...

in the human world,

The water is in dire straits.

People's hearts are rapidly becoming numb, depressed, and despairing.

The joys and sorrows of the world, the various conditions of the world, the hardship of the common people, the wantonness of the powerful... Countless thoughts are rising and falling like tides in the sky above Shenjing, turning into huge tides, overwhelming the entire world!

hold head high! ! !

The golden dragon that occupies thousands of miles of emptiness in the void and represents the fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty screamed, and the light on its body quickly dimmed!

But he suffered an invisible heavy blow in an instant!

There was countless sadness in the giant dragon's golden pupils. It was severely injured and on the verge of death, and finally had to fall into a deep sleep...

"Hahaha!!!"

In the resplendent Dragon Court, the still-cold face of the Great Zhou God Emperor revealed a look of maniacal laughter. The laughter shook the nine heavens and caused the void to surge violently like a tidal wave!

Success!

At this moment,

His aura is extremely terrifying,

There is no trace of the malaise that should have appeared after the Dragon Qi of the Great Zhou Dynasty was severely damaged!

Normally speaking, due to the relationship between heaven and man with the luck of the Great Zhou Dynasty, he is deeply involved with the luck of the Great Zhou Dynasty. If the Dragon Qi of the Dynasty suffers a heavy blow, he will also suffer a heavy blow!

But at this moment,

The Great Zhou Dragon Qi above Shenjing was on the verge of death and fell into a deep sleep.

Not only did the aura of the Great Zhou God Emperor not decrease due to this, but it actually became faintly stronger!

He succeeded!

Successfully cut off the causal connection between himself and the Dragon Qi of the Dynasty!

"Hmph! I never thought that the Black Prison was broken, and the confrontation outside Shenjing would be a good thing. Now, I am finally free from the shackles of the dynasty's fate!"

The eyes of the Great Zhou Divine Emperor flashed with golden divine light.

I saw one of his hands reaching out into the void, and the palm seemed to encompass the world. He held a weak and dim golden dragon in his palm, and the cold murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

"Zhang Qingyuan, right? As a thank you, I will personally send you on your way soon!"

It is precisely because of the reconstruction of the Black Prison and the impact of the war outside Shenjing that hundreds of millions of sentient beings in Shenjing have been greatly affected.

Countless people were under heavy oppression, their families were destroyed, they were frozen to death, starved to death, and exhausted. In a short period of time, the number of people has reached hundreds of millions!

The heart is in disarray!

The dynasty fell!

At that time, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty clearly felt that the dynasty's luck in the sky above Shenjing was declining rapidly!

So he decisively seized that moment of opportunity,

Taking advantage of that moment of extreme weakness and relying on years of preparation,

At the expense of the destiny and luck power of the monks who had been captured and suppressed in the ninth floor of the Black Hell Prison, they were finally separated from the fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty in one fell swoop!

Break down barriers,

The sky is high and the sky is high,

The Great Zhou God Emperor felt that the future suddenly became extremely broad!

However,

At this moment,

Suddenly,

An extremely powerful force broke through the wind and snow, tore apart the Longting, and forced its way in!

The Great Zhou God Emperor almost counterattacked.

"You are Qi Tiandao, right? Tell me, where is that bastard named Zhang Qingyuan?!"

The Longting space was broken like glass, and as a result, an angry voice penetrated through the void and came like rolling thunder!