Chapter 351: Same Yearning

The former are just a bunch of profiteers who like to take small money and take home gold, silver and jewelry 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 hand it over.

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 outer layer of rice bran.

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, ensuring 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 to cities in the plains, due to the terrain and inconvenient transportation, even King Shungo in Takata City may not know how many refugees there are in the mountains.

At the same time, as a group of people who have been persecuted for a long time and have actually been abandoned by the country, these refugees have a natural rebellious mentality.

For this reason, what Nagamasa has to do now is very simple, absorb them into his team members, and use their ability to be good at mountains to fight against the invasion of pig-headed people.

After all, the rice that everyone wants to eat basically falls into the hands of pig-headed people, and under the threat of pig-headed people's knives and guns, they can only live on wheat originally used to feed livestock.

Eating wheat that only livestock eat, especially cheap barley, is a torture for the thousands of working people in the Takagi Kingdom.

This is eating feed.

Feed.

It fully reflects that the pig-headed people of the Akitsu Empire have no idea of ​​black-haired dog-headed people.

Why do they dog-headed people have to eat feed like animals?

Obviously, the Takagi Kingdom still has the same understanding of staple food. Unlike some intelligent races that regard wheat as a "sacred gift", especially the native indigenous humans who once occupied the most abundant plains on the Neoland continent, the Takagi Kingdom has raised the status of rice to a very high level.

Although in this way, the black-haired dog-headed people of the Takagi Kingdom are also somewhat developing in the direction of "refined rice poisoning" of the pig-headed people, but compared with the morbidity of the Akitsu Empire, Nagamasa still has considerable confidence in the cognition of the black-haired dog-headed people.

In the case of no food, who would mind the quality of the food in front of them?

It is better to have a meal than to be hungry.

So this is why Nagamasa took advantage of the fact that the southern Negan Empire was no longer willing to accept rice as a general equivalent and began to formulate a rice distribution plan.

Especially under the premise that he now controls more rural areas and rice resources are abundant.

Resources that should be restricted cannot be wasted.

Just like the current Queen of the Negan Empire, who was born as a cook, she repeatedly asked the royal family members not to waste.

It must be said that even Her Majesty the Queen is like this, and Nagamasa himself wants to know how much money the Negan Empire spends on people's livelihood. You must know that the Negan Empire has never had a famine, and there have not even been refugees fleeing famine. As long as the people in the country can work, they basically have one or even several legitimate jobs for themselves, and even their family's financial expenses as the greatest guarantee.

Nagamasa also yearns for such a society.

Especially him, there are too many black-haired dog-headed people who are regarded as burdens and loyal commodities by the tyrant King Junwu of the Takagi Kingdom.

When the people of a country become commodities, can there still be so-called independence and freedom?