Wolf King

After the battle, the flat land in front of the prison camp became a special place for the prisoners to relax and rest.

After more than a month of high-intensity manual labor reformation, the captives have gradually become accustomed to the life of eight in the morning and eight in the evening-there is still a two-hour break at noon. Even for the prisoners, Huoyan City only allows them to use the ten-hour work system.

In order to prevent the captives from accumulating too much pressure under the forced collective life and collective labor, and there is no window for venting and rioting (the bears are still quite combative), the soldiers in custody will arrange for them to take a daily lunch break and before going to bed every night. Nine 10 minutes to two hours of leisure and entertainment activities, such as playing games, such as doing manual work that can earn extra money, and such as arranging to listen to stories.

The latter is the most popular. The little stories accumulated by Huoyan City over the years make these bear heads want to stop, and they have increasing respect for the snow wolf guards who can tell stories, second only to the resident chef sent by Huoyan City...

During today's lunch break, the captives of each team (for the convenience of management, follow the 50-person division and grouping model used when training the cat clan) finished the morning's work, and took half an hour to get the meal and meal, and actively cooperated with the guards. According to the arrangement, rush to Huangni Square to gather early.

In the center of the yellow mud square roughly leveled by the road roller, an extremely rough and simple stage was temporarily assembled with stones and wooden boards. After the captives who were qualified to watch the performance were in place (the morning work was not completed & there were fights in the class Yes, the whole class has to bear joint and several responsibilities, can't play ball, don't listen to stories, and of course there are no performances), it is made up of human female workers in textile factories, male human workers in monosodium glutamate factories, cats and snakes Cheng's amateur drama class appeared on stage...

The background curtain was made by the goblins in their spare time when they were resting. They painted a rough landscape on the large piece of abandoned ship canvas with the painting skills comparable to elementary school students. Are the actors’ stage outfits just worn-out work clothes that they can’t bear to throw away? change.As soon as this dilapidated theater troupe came on stage, it was unknown how the bear-heads in the audience felt. Second Lieutenant Selena, who followed Xiao Yun to see how they "taught" the bear-heads, vomited on the spot.

In the "VIP Room" near the earthen wall, Selena turned her face to look at Xiao Yun, with a strange expression on her face: "This is your drama troupe?"

Selena specially emphasized the pronunciation of the word troupe.

"It's just a troupe of amateurs~" Xiao Yun didn't change his face, "You know we're always in a state of labor shortage here, how can we find people to become professional actors? Anyway, it's just another way to reform the minds of prisoners. It’s fine if you can act out the plot, you don’t need to be too particular.”

Selena took a deep breath, and took another deep breath, and the veins on her forehead disappeared before they popped out.

No matter how highly the outside world evaluates "Sage Ayun", Selena knows that this guy is a blasphemer who uses great art as a tool, so she will not make herself angry because of this!

"I'd like to see how this 'drama' like a beggar theater troupe will perform the plot!" Selina slandered, endured the torture of her eyes, and watched the performance with a correct attitude.

Well, this troupe, which was appraised by the second lieutenant Snow Elf as a "beggar troupe", puts on a show... the white-haired girl in a magic version.

The person playing the role of the white-haired girl is a snow leopard cub born with a head of white hair (the adult body size does not match, so only cubs can be on it), the father of the white-haired girl, Sal, is played by Sal, and the villain is played by Xia himself. Ah, aristocratic bastard or something, whoever gets the lottery will act...

Since it is a drama used to reform the minds of the bear clan, the plot of the white-haired girl being forced to be a concubine in the original version cannot be transplanted, because the orc clan does not have the function of rape... Except for the estrus period, the male orc's concubine Birds can only excrete.

This is not difficult for Xiao Yun. After talking with the transformed soldiers to understand the current situation of the low-level civilian life of the Bear Clan, Xiao Yun combined it with the dark history of slave labor, serfs and black labor on the earth, and replaced the oppressive plot with a more persuasive one. The way the bear heads empathize, live together~!

In the middle of the first scene, the bear heads who originally muttered in a low voice, "How could the snow leopard's father be a human being, can cats and snakes live in the same village with humans", felt disobedient about the casting of the actors. Then they disappeared without a trace, their eyes widened, their fists clenched, their eyes chasing the actors with flamboyant acting skills, unknowingly immersed in the world of the plot.

The "background" of this play is a fictional Far East village, where the villager Snow Leopard cub and her old human father Sal originally lived a poor but peaceful life.

Well, the bridge part of buying red-headed rope has naturally been replaced by buying fish to eat...

Suddenly one day, Xia, who played the role of the villain, led a group of Snake Clan men to the village, announcing that the Beast Emperor was going to start a war with the Elf Clan, and all the clans would share in the army ration preparations, requiring every household to pay two yuan in addition to the normal taxes. into food...

When the performance reached this stage, the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who were born as civilians all frowned.

Yes, the Beast Emperor’s rule (oppression) over the Far East is relatively loose, far less harsh than that of the Human Kingdom. The average tax paid by commoners is more than [-]%. Thirty percent is required.

But these are the taxes collected by the Beast Emperor. The high-level officials of various clans, elders, and military generals, are they willing to not realize their power?

Before the harvest season comes, it is a very common practice for the high-level officials of various ethnic groups to think of a reason to charge an extra [-]% or [-]% of the tax. The relatively moderate ancient Chinese officials among the feudal rulers all had to "generate income" by kicking grain buckets. It is unrealistic to require the power holders of the orc clan to be as pure as little white flowers!

Too lazy to talk to a ghostly lion clan, and set up a commodity tax to "generate income"!

On the stage, when Xia led a few snake clansmen to the house of Saar and his daughter to rummage through food tanks and pry wooden cabinets, the bear heads who had similar experiences all stared red...

The atmosphere in the yellow mud square, which was full of more than 1 spectators, was silent and depressing. Only the actor's lines that were not enough to be pronounced in the soundtrack of the stage echoed in the sky.

In such a heavy atmosphere, Xiao Yun smiled all over his face, and turned to show off to Selena: "Look, the audience is immersed in it within 10 minutes of the show. Is the plot close to life better than acting and convincing?" It's much more important."

Selena: "..."

The performance on the stage is still going on, the father and daughter of Old Sal (uh...) are aggrieved and pay [-]% more tax, and the following days are a little tense, the father and daughter (um...) try to save themselves Eat, I would rather let the other party eat when I am hungry. Such a warm plot effectively relieved the tense emotions of the bear heads. Many people showed lonely and gentle smiles, as if thinking of their family members.

The second scene opened, and it was the big villain Xia who came up on stage.

Xia, who has no interest in acting as an actor at all, took the role of "Huang Shiren". It was purely because Xiao Yun fell in love with his true performance. In the first scene, he played for less than 3 minutes and made the bear heads hate him. The first time they appeared on stage, many moon bear fighters clenched their fists subconsciously...

Xia plays the role of the deacon of "a certain great elder in the city". In the second scene, he comes to the small village where the protagonist's father and daughter live before spring plowing. An adult clan member must be dispatched to work for the Great Elder for free.

In terms of expropriation of labor, the high-ranking orcs and the nobles of the human race are very similar... The difference is that most of the human farmers cultivate the land of the nobles. They must do white jobs for the nobles, and there is no need to specially recruit them.

As for the Beastmen, the agricultural practitioners more or less have their own land. The reason is that the total population of the Beastmen in the Far East is only one-tenth of the human kingdom in the south, and the power holders of the Beastmen do not have so many lands. .

This plot where a random deacon has the power to recruit young adults when you want to use manpower is also very realistic. From Xia's appearance and announcement, to Xia's snake clan boys indifferently broke into every household to select young adults. , all Xiao Yun asked from Yuexiong Fubing's mouth...

There are only two people in the old Sal's family, and the father played by Sal, the human race, is not as strong as the white-haired girl played by the snow leopard cub, so the white-haired girl had to leave with the young people in the village and follow Xia...

Is the next plot really enough to show how the snow leopard cub suffers in the new farm of the great elder? He eats beans three times a day and is not full. Sneak into the stables secretly, eat the black beans in the forage...

"This is too exaggerated!" Seeing this passage, Second Lieutenant Selina, who was unknowingly caught in the plot, immediately acted.

Xiao Yun chuckled, and pointed to a bear-headed audience who was secretly wiping tears in a corner of the yellow mud square: "He was so hungry that he ate grass beans when he opened up wasteland for the elders of the clan. You can ask him about his exaggeration later. No exaggeration."

Selena showed a skeptical expression.

Xiao Yun glanced at her calmly, the snow elves who grew up in the Ice and Snow King City just didn't know much about it, so what happened to it, ten years ago, even a snow werewolf was hungry and wanted to steal fodder beans without stealing them!

When he just crossed over, the bag of particularly unpalatable black beans that he brought to germinate the bean sprouts was all the belongings of the original owner Ayun and his uncle Ashan...

Before dawn, he was called to work, broke the hoe, and was thrown at him by the whip of the snake supervisor. When I missed my father and hugged my stomach in the corner and cried secretly, there was a faint sobbing sound from the audience...

Except for the tea bears who don't own a lot of land suitable for farming, and the strange creatures of the lion clan who are too lazy to be frightened from top to bottom, the orcs from the bottom of other races are young and strong, and they have been recruited more or less.Or, like the protagonist in the play, he is taken by a big man's housekeeper and deacon to do white work, or he becomes an auxiliary soldier and goes out with the army like this expedition to the grassland.

To be fair, not all the high-ranking orc tribes will squeeze the labor force of the tribe mercilessly when recruiting the same tribe, and some high-level people will still provide a better working environment for the volunteer tribe. full.

But, when the lower class has to pin their situation on the moral conscience of the ruler, this is a kind of pathology in itself—the feudal ruling class in ancient China still liked to flaunt benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, and took this as political correctness, ancient peasants Is life better?

Most of the auxiliary soldiers and some soldiers felt empathy for the experience of the snow leopard cubs, and remembered the grievances they had suffered, or their eyes were red, or they shed tears silently, which can explain the problem!

Selena sniffled her nose lightly, she couldn't empathize with the plight of the snow leopard cub, but this kind of plot really made her very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable, like a heavy stone was pressed in her heart, if it wasn't for Not wanting to lose face in front of Xiao Yun, she might cry too.

With difficulty, she looked away from the crude stage that only made her feel ridiculous at the beginning, and looked at the bear's head sitting on the ground. Her eyes swept across the faces that were enduring the pain and watching intently. Celine Suddenly, an unbelievable idea popped into Na's mind, which made her unbelievable.

That bear emperor who was more difficult to deal with than every previous beast emperor and whom the Elf King had to pay special attention to, this time...maybe he will lose.