629 Why Not Fight And Kill (2/2)
After he finished, he pointed off into the distance. When Kong Ruo saw this, his eyes were filled with shock and he was at a loss...
Only to see that in the street beside the alleyway, as expected, there were numerous cloud crossing carriages, and beasts pulling them.
Some had 12, some had 18, there were even some exceeding 20. Even Grade-4 Windrider Foals were really common.
”The court encourages people to raise such mounts. The Dragon Horn Winged Horses that the Blood Cloud Cavalry uses are the best. Unfortunately, there are not more than 30,000 of them. Next would be the Wind Winged Dragon Beast, Iron Scale Wind Stepping Beast and Purple Winged Lizard etc., then there were the Windrider Foals. Usually they were on farmland and used to pull carriages. If they become big and strong, the court would set aside money to purchase them.”
Weiyuan explained whilst he led Kong Ruo to step onto the cloud crossing carriage. Kong Ruo didn't bring much luggage or belongings. In just ten minutes the group started to leave.
Looking at the scenery pass him by the window, his brows frowned deeper and deeper, and he was unable to relax.
Everything here was different from Great Shang, the atmosphere was also greatly different.
His eyes passed around the pier like he saw something. His pupils suddenly constricted as he called out, ”Prefect Wei, is even a pier coolie in our Gantian Mountain so rich?”
Just now he personally saw a few workers who were ready to cultivate. When they left, they took off their coats which were covered with dirt and dust and inside they wore brocade garments. The few of them laughed around in a carefree manner, even a coolie isn't experiencing pain and suffering?
When Weiyuan heard this, for some reason his expression turned a little bitter, ”In the past, it wasn't always like this. However, recently, the people of Donglin weren't willing to do work. Naturally, these people have good lives. They just need to work ten hours and then not only do they get enough pay, but they get food and drinks. All their bills and expenses are easily covered. How would their lives not be good?”
For some reason when Kong Ruo heard this, it seemed like Weiyuan was grumbling to him.
Luckily, Weiyuan didn't leave him in confusion, ”A year and a half ago the Ruler allowed private hunting, even building several bases under the Cloud Ocean. As long as a few thousand people had a cloud ship that could float in the air, they could enter the Cloud Ocean any time they wanted to hunt for Beast Crystals. Each time they would mostly come back with huge amounts. As long as one had slightly above average talent one would obtain substantial funds in one to two years. As such, everyone went to cultivate and so who would want to do these tough jobs?”
He scoffed coldly, ”Originally when Gantian Mountain unified Donglin, there were numerous laborers in the east. However, those meeting hall members held them hostage, not allowing people who weren't members of the cities the Ruler had direct control over to work in Rainbow City. Now, there are around 200 cities that want to be directly ruled by the Ruler. However, they were all blocked. If this goes on, what benefits are there for our Rainbow City merchant ships? One must know that the other cities along the ocean are staring aggressively.”
Kong Ruo shook his head. At the start he understood a little but now he was even more confused.
However, when others established a country they wanted all the subordinates to be under their direct control. How could one sleep beside a wall that was about to collapse? Food on one's plate couldn't be shared.
Great Shang ancestors spent 30 years wiping out the fence towns within their borders.
However, Gantian Mountain was special, these subordinate cities were pleading to be directly ruled. However, the ruler didn't care, allowing his subjects to do whatever they wanted.
One could hear the superior feeling of Weiyuan over the east of Donglin.
It was like how Great Shang people looked at Donglin.
Only this Rainbow City seemed like they had enough skill. As for Great Shang...
He instantly cast aside these thoughts as he didn't want to think about it any longer. Gantian Mountain could be compared to their Great Shang...
It was pretty inconceivable!
The carriage continued forward and entered the path. It was made entirely green wind stone, ten feet wide, which allowed the cloud crossing carriage to be extremely quick, exiting the pier in swiftly.
However, when it entered the city region, it slowed down. Sometimes, it would only move after a long while.
Kong Ruo's brows rose. Although there were many carriages here, he had only just realized. The path was extremely wide and could allow 10 carriages to travel alongside so why would there be traffic?
He couldn't see carefully by the window which so he stepped out of the carriage and looked.
Only then did the reason become apparent; there were densely packed groups of people sitting on the street.
They occupied a large portion of the path and only a small patch could be used to travel.
At this moment, he finally knew why the Prefect would send the people within the bailiff out and why he said that it was inconvenient to get out of the city.
He saw that beside the group there were numerous bailiffs and some officials who were standing under the sun with helpless expressions. They were looking at these groups, as well as some soldiers who were maintaining the order nearby.
They all had no weapons, only holding sticks in their hands.
”What is happening here?”
Kong Ruo was really curious.
”They are people in the carriage and transportation trade, unwilling to work so they sit quietly here!”
Weiyuan gritted his teeth as he answered, seemingly filled with rage, ”They grumble about the pay being too little! Within a few days they will calm down. However, if they don't want to work they can run to other places, why do they have to occupy the road?”
Kong Ruo was stunned, ”These people are going against the government?”
Such troublemakers, why didn't they just fight and kill them to chase them away?