Ask Sword

Li Ang sat in the auditorium, lightly pressing a newspaper with his palm, closing his eyes and resting his mind.

The friends around him knew that he was meditating, and subconsciously lowered the voice of conversation so as not to disturb him.

The first person to play was Pei Jing. He fought fiercely with his opponent for more than a quarter of an hour, and finally won a thrilling victory.

Exhausted, he raised the Canghai sword above his head,

The cheers of the audience roared like a tsunami, and on the high stands, Emperor Yu, Shangshu Pushe Pei Su, etc. also showed gratified smiles.

Followed by Ren Jiao, Ashina Que Teqin, Li Hui, Shangguan Yangyao.

Game after game, the audience cheered one after another, but Li Ang still closed his eyes, thinking about something.

This world is so real that it is ridiculous.

Competitions in the Martial Arts Arena are indeed about national honor,

The performance of the younger generation of monks represents the overall situation of monks in various countries in the next ten or twenty years, which means the peace and stability of the country.

Seeing their own players win, whether it is Emperor Yu, Shanzhang, Cardinal Taihaoshan, or the royal family of Jing State and Zhou State, the smiles on their faces are real.

In the auditorium, the proud cheers of the citizens of Yu country were also real.

but.

Li Ang lowered his head and glanced at today's newspaper.

In Luoyang, workshop workers destroyed new spinning machines.

The cause of the incident was that the owner of the workshop purchased the latest large-scale spinning machine.

Since the spinning machine is more efficient and requires fewer workers to operate, the workshop owner fired a group of workers and reduced the wages of the remaining workers.

And threatened all workers who claimed to resign - if you don't do it, some people will rush to do it. Even with reduced wages, workshop wages are still higher than farming wages.

So the laborers beat the particularly arrogant workshop owner and fled, then destroyed and burned the large spinning machine, and dispersed before the yamen servants arrived.

All this seems so familiar.

Li Ang clenched the newspaper subconsciously.

He has been to Suzhou and has seen the spinning workshops there with his own eyes, and he knows how harsh the production environment in the workshops is.

Filled with flying dust fibers,

hot and humid air,

Mechanically numb labor.

The workers in the workshop, in their twenties, aged as if they were forty years old.

The laborers in Luoyang smashed the machinery not just because they were worried that the machinery would take away their jobs, but more because of their unbearable resistance to oppression and exploitation.

They have never studied the Four Books and Five Classics, nor do they understand the profound and profound truths,

But they instinctively know that the introduction of large spinning machines will make the workshop owners lower their salaries more recklessly, will make the workshop owners more ignore the harsh environment of the workshops, and will make the workshop owners more reckless, treating people as people who can Mechanical parts that are ruthlessly discarded.

Sadly, I unknowingly made this happen.

Li Ang took a deep breath, Suzhou's land annexation is already quite serious,

Workshop owners are willing to spend five times or even ten times more to buy land along the river suitable for building workshops,

In the few villages closest to Suzhou City, many workshops have been established.

Like a straw, it crazily absorbs the surrounding population.

Everyone in the world knows that the former Sui Dynasty was destroyed in the situation of the rich have endless fields and the poor have no place to stand, but what can be done?

The ability of farmers to resist risks is extremely low. Once natural disasters and man-made disasters occur, land production will decrease, and even family members will get sick.

It is easy to go bankrupt and be forced to sell the land.

And once they lose their land, farmers who have no means of earning a living can only be forced to become factory laborers and let others slaughter their fish.

Before, because the efficiency of the workshop was low and the profit was not exaggeratedly high,

The expansion speed of the Suzhou textile workshop is still within a reasonable range - the textile workshop uses waterwheels to provide power, and must be built along the river, with relatively limited optional addresses.

But the spiritual energy machine, the spiritual energy machine provided by Li Ang and implemented by Su Feng, is completely different.

Reiki machine does not need strict site selection, workshops can be established anywhere,

And the power source of the Reiki machine is the ubiquitous Heaven and Earth Reiki, which can work without interruption,

Its production efficiency and profit margin far exceed all previous textile equipment.

In this case, the pace of workshop expansion will also be greatly accelerated.

The poor get poorer and the rich get richer.

Li Ang looked around. The place where he was located was the Academy, the apex of Yu Kingdom.

Now, how much of the country's wealth does the 2% richest people in Yu country occupy?

Fifteen percent? Twenty percent?

It's already exaggerated.

And once the spiritual energy machine is widely spread, and various workshops are established in various places, how much wealth will the two percent of the rich occupy?

Forty percent? fifty percent? Or eighty percent?

If it continues to develop, Li Ang can fully foresee that the overall wealth of Yu State will increase rapidly with the help of spiritual energy, and the scholars, businessmen, and wealthy nobles will become more extravagant and desperate.

As for the larger number of workers and farmers, their quality of life will not increase but decrease to some extent——

Faced with the exaggerated efficiencies, workers and peasants have no bargaining power. They can only choose jobs that destroy their bodies and minds. They work seven or eight hours a day in order to earn meager wages to support their families.

Even resistance has had little effect.

A monk is equivalent to an army. Facing Zhu Xiao who can come and go freely, there is no point in having more ordinary people.

Reiki machine is not only a panacea for curing diseases and saving lives,

It is also a bloodthirsty beast that eats people without spitting out bones.

Li Ang opened his eyes, slowly closed the newspaper, and his gaze stayed on the headline on the front page - it was an article praising the monks in the academy, praising the performance of the monks in the academic exchange, and won the glory for the country of Yu .

Among them, quite a lot of pen and ink were used to praise Li Ang.

Simply. Black humor.

Li Ang shook his head,

He was admitted to the academy to enable more people to live a dignified and decent life, not to make inventions and creations the exclusive wealth enjoyed by the rich and powerful.

It was he who released the scourge of the aura machine like a Pandora's box,

He should also hold the reins of this beast firmly, strangle it by the throat, and keep it from eating the flesh and blood of the people of Yu Kingdom.

It is the best platform to influence and control Yu State's academy in all aspects.

To do this, I need more prestige, higher status, greater power, and even... personal absolute force.

In the broadcast of the Martial Arts Field, the names of Li Ang and Bian Chenpei were reported,

In the auditorium in the distance, Bian Chenpei stood up abruptly, with a smile on his face, enjoying the focus of everyone's eyes, and walked slowly towards the ring below.

He is the proud son of heaven, a member of Taihao Mountain that rules all people in the world.

Risheng, it's your turn.

Li Leling reminded softly.

Um.

Li Ang stood up slowly, put the newspaper beside the seat, and looked firmly.

Now, let's start by blowing Bian Chenpei's head off.