The fruit of the book of pirates

Chapter 190

Therefore, the attitude of the powerful landlords in the Kingdom of Flowers has always been that they only want the land and not people. Even if they want people, they only want the strong and women. Most of the male farmers who can't survive are not qualified even if they want to sell themselves.
On the contrary, the imperial court of the country of flowers has always been inclined to support the self-cultivating peasant class because it is difficult to collect taxes from the strong.

It's just that as the imperial court gradually decayed, the external land was ceded to pay compensation, and the expenditure continued to increase; the internal administrative efficiency declined. Twenty years ago, five taels of silver could be collected into the treasury, but now it may not be possible to have even two taels.
In such a situation, the only way to maintain the imperial court is to continuously increase the tax rate, but the taxes of the powerful landlords are not easy to collect, or even cannot be collected at all, so knowing that it is impossible, they can only drink poison to quench their thirst and have been catching the bullying self-cultivating farmers. Wool, in a daze, forced them to go bankrupt one after another.
Some people may ask, isn't it afraid that the peasants will not be able to survive and rise up if they do this?
Perhaps the court of the Kingdom of Flowers is really not too afraid. The differences between individuals in this world are so great that it is almost impossible for the hungry and cold poor to defeat those powerful men with terrifying strength.

Moreover, even if there were monsters who could not be judged by common sense, due to the fact that the Kingdom of Flowers is full of powerful people, the first headaches would be the nearby powerful ones.
In fact, in the eyes of the imperial court of the Kingdom of Flowers, those local tyrants who have strong military power and can even be passed down from generation to generation can produce strong people in batches are the potential enemies who are really likely to overthrow themselves and change the dynasty. Therefore, after the imperial court weakens, it can only accommodate the powerful .

As for those farmers who can’t survive, even if they are forced to become bandits, they usually only dare to bully people who seem weaker than themselves, such as women and children.
That's why these guys in front of Mousse chose him as the "little monk" and Robin's mother and daughter after hesitating many times this day, which is really pitiful and hateful.

It's just that these poor and hateful guys, as novices, don't know that women and children who dare to appear in this kind of wilderness without guards are often more terrifying, and in the end they hit their heads on the iron plate, bleeding!
However, what Mousse thought of was not the stupidity and ignorance of these novice robbers, but the desperate situation of the peasants in the country of flowers, "This is really a slave without a chance. This is what Mr. Lu Xun said, "If you want to be a slave, you can't get it" ?”

Having said that, even in ancient China on earth, if farmers wanted to rebel, the chances of success were actually very small. Not to mention Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang, even Li Zicheng had to wait two or 300 years for one of them!

It can only be said that the gap between people on the earth is not that big. In addition, ancient China has been a complete literati society since the Song Dynasty. The army is increasingly unable to fight, even if it is unable to overthrow the imperial court. There is always a chance for the imperial court to recruit security.

Other than that, probably you can only expect to meet "honest officials" and "heroes"
Thinking of this, Mousse couldn't help but feel moved. Given the current situation in the Kingdom of Flowers, there is really a big problem in the area. It is useless to have "honest officials", but the "heroes" may make far more shocking things than those on Earth. deeds come.

But when Mousse asked, he realized that although there were indeed legends about "Heroes" in the Kingdom of Flowers, these peasants had never seen them before, and they couldn't even name them.
After thinking about it, Mousse thought of a possible reason:

"That's right. Ancient China on Earth was a literati society. Civilian warriors have always been suppressed. They themselves are oppressed just like the poor at the bottom. That's why there are more heroes with justice in their hearts, forming a knight culture."

"But in the Kingdom of Flowers, aren't civilian warriors the same as those powerful landlords? They are already the ruling class of this country, why should they stand up for the ruled class and oppose themselves?"

"If the Kingdom of Flowers is now on the verge of subjugation, there may still be a wave of saving the nation, and many people from the middle and upper classes will join in, but the Kingdom of Flowers has not yet reached that level, and survival is too difficult to survive. Yes, there are only the poorest peasants at the bottom.”

"So the current period, for the lower class, is the most desperate time for them!"

Mousse sighed silently, waved Homiz to unfreeze the robbers, and then thought about how to deal with these people.
According to the generally harsh laws of the Pirate World, even an attempted robbery can be punished by death, but Mousse will definitely not do this now.

Firstly, Robin and her mother were nearby, and Mousse didn't want to leave a bad impression on them. Secondly, these failed robbers also wanted to survive, and although robbing passers-by was doing evil, in Mousse's view, These people are always more pleasing to the eye than those "an'an hungry" who waited to die obediently after falling into despair, or even took their own lives.

But Mousse can't simply release these people, because even if they regain their freedom, they who couldn't live before still can't live.
Even after experiencing this failure, his body became weaker and his spirit became weaker, and he might not even be able to snatch ordinary women and children. Even if Mousse didn't care about them committing evil again, they might not still have that ability.

Mousse himself can feel at ease by directly letting these preparations starve to death, but it is no different from killing them, and the latter can even make them die more happily, maybe even more mercifully!

"Then give them some food and silver?"

Mousse immediately denied this idea. No matter what the reasons are, these people have indeed committed evil. If I give them food or even money out of sympathy, wouldn't it be the same as encouraging them to do evil?
But as long as these people need to pay for food and silver, and these benefits are not for nothing, then it cannot be regarded as encouragement
So Mousse asked the robbers to help the three of them carry their luggage, and at the same time gave them enough rations in advance to go to the next big city.

The service industry in big cities is far more developed than that in rural areas, and you may be able to find some jobs to make ends meet.

Even if not everyone found a job, at least they had hope again, and Mousse had enough to confess to himself.

However, to Mousse's surprise, although these "former robbers" knelt down to thank each other after hearing this, their eyes did not seem to be grateful
(End of this chapter)