Chapter 288 Bloodlust

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

  The friends around knew that he was meditating, and subconsciously lowered the voice of the 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.

   Match 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 absurd.

  The competition in the martial arts arena is indeed related to 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, Shan Chang, 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 State 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.

  Because the spinning machine is more efficient and requires fewer workers to operate, the workshop owner took advantage of the opportunity to fire a group of workers and reduce the salaries of the remaining workers.

   And threaten all workers who say they want to resign - if you don't do it, there will be others rushing 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 workshop there with his own eyes, knowing how harsh the production environment is.

   filled with flying dust fibers,

   hot and humid air,

   Mechanically numb labor.

  The workers in the workshop, in their twenties, aged as early as forty years old.

  The workers 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.

  The sad thing is that I unknowingly promoted all this to 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 the price 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?

  Farmers' ability 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.

   Once the land is lost, farmers who have no means of earning a living can only be forced to become workshop 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, and the available addresses are relatively limited.

   But the spiritual energy machine, the spiritual energy machine provided by Li Ang and Su Feng started to realize it, is completely different.

  Reiki machine does not need strict site selection, a workshop 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% of the richest people in Yu country occupy?

   Fifteen percent? Twenty percent?

   It's already exaggerated.

   Once the spiritual energy machine is widely spread, and various workshops have sprung up in various places, how much wealth will the 2% 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 the aura machine, and the scholars, businessmen, and wealthy nobles will become more extravagant and extravagant.

  While the quality of life of workers and farmers in greater numbers will decline instead of rising to some extent—

  Faced with 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 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 winning glory for the country of Yu.

   In it, quite a lot of pen and ink was 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, so that it will not eat the flesh and blood of the people of Yu Kingdom.

   It is the best platform to influence and control the Yu State 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 Shi suddenly stood up, 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, which rules all people in the world.

   "Sunrise, 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.

  (end of this chapter)