My brother is so cunning

Chapter 975 Learning by Doing
Jiang Yun's experience is just a microcosm of the millions of people in the Great Zhou Dynasty after their revival.

It wasn't that Wen Rui had any wicked sense of humor, or that he wanted to give the people of Great Zhou, who were about to be fully taken over by the Demon Alliance, a hard time.

There's nothing we can do; this group of people isn't very capable.

Under the rule of the feudal lords, the people were already too ignorant and timid due to the feudal lords' policies of keeping the people ignorant. Although the younger generation received enlightenment education from the Palace of Creation, most of them were still in a state of ignorance.

Receiving a population of ten million at once, eighty percent of whom are illiterate, would be incredibly time-consuming if we were to patiently explain to each of them what dehydration and storage, evading demonic calamity, and the Chaotic Era Plan are, and the results would not be very good.

The fact that citizens of the Demon Alliance can easily accept after watching a documentary once is something that the people of the Great Zhou may take a considerable amount of time to understand.

The urgent task is to organize these humans as soon as possible to restore their production and daily life, rather than indoctrinating them with information and forcing them to understand and accept it.

In addition, with everything in ruins and the Demon Alliance's post-disaster reconstruction work being extremely arduous, there are not many officials who can be transferred to take over the people of Great Zhou. Therefore, the takeover of the people of Great Zhou can only be done in a simple and rough manner.

In many aspects, the people of the Great Zhou were treated almost as less than human beings. After issuing orders in a simple and brutal manner, they were driven away like animals by electric shocks.

Whether it's a burly man or a young girl, they all receive the same treatment. The only difference might be that the voltage of the shock varies slightly depending on the physical condition of the person being shocked.

Jiang Yun finally walked through the corridor. Several light gratings scanned her along the way, and she also smelled a pungent medicinal odor. Each sudden change frightened her so much that her whole body stiffened.

After walking this stretch of road, her physical functions gradually recovered, and her mind became more agile. Suddenly, she recalled a book she had read in the Palace of Creation that mentioned that the scanning gratings might be scanning beams emitted by an instrument that probes the body's condition, and the pungent-smelling medicine might be disinfectant used to kill pathogenic bacteria and viruses.

Recalling the descriptions in the books she had read, the fear and oppression that the Iron Men brought to Jiang Yun gradually subsided. She slowly realized that those Iron Men must have been the "robots" described in the books.

Fear often stems from the unknown. Jiang Yun's knowledge reserves were not extensive, but they were sufficient, surpassing the learning of most citizens of the Great Zhou.

Before the demonic calamity arrived, the Great Zhou Dynasty had mixed feelings about the new knowledge of the Jie Sect that Wen Rui spread. They loved it because if the court appointed the students who failed the college entrance examination of the Demon Alliance, they would all be capable of becoming generals and ministers, and would soon be able to assist the king and his ministers in developing the country into a prosperous nation.

What they hate is the masses who have learned the new knowledge of the Jie Sect. The more knowledge they have, the more reactionary they become, and the harder they are to fool. They simply don't buy into the idea of ​​being ordained by Heaven.

The Zhou royal court and the feudal lords were torn between banning and accepting new knowledge of the Jiejiao sect. In the end, they reluctantly banned all adults who were coming of age from learning Jiejiao knowledge.

A junior high school education is sufficient for governing a semi-feudal, semi-slave state; further education would make it impossible to control the feudal lords and nobles.

Although the new knowledge of the Jiejiao sect was forbidden, the face of the gods could not be ignored, and the Creation Palace, which was under the banner of faith, could not be touched lightly.

You have banned the creation of the chemical palace.

Is that palace ban off?

Should Buddhist temples be banned or not?
In this magical world, you can oppose education and knowledge, but you can even openly oppose the gods... King Zhou, who destroyed his kingdom, is a living example.

Meanwhile, the Great Zhou Dynasty was protected by the goddess Nuwa, watched over by the gods, and blessed by the Buddhas. Wen Rui dared not push his luck too much in the struggle for the orthodox lineage, and a balance was achieved in the tug-of-war between the two sides.

Therefore, under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty, only the Creation and Learning Palace remained as an educational institution, at most teaching junior high school level knowledge. Citizens of the Great Zhou Dynasty who were over sixteen years old lost the privilege of attending the Creation and Learning Palace for free. Even the teenagers who went to the Creation and Learning Palace underwent rigorous screening by the Great Zhou Dynasty; children from ordinary families couldn't even dream of it. The lowest admission requirement was that they be children from politically influential families, such as local minor officials.

Wen Rui, who found that the spread of the Jiejiao faith was being obstructed, did not stoop to the level of the Zhou royal family and the feudal lords. He was also reluctant to unleash divine punishment for fear of harming the innocent.

But secretly he made a note of it in his little notebook, and then he decided to set up a trap at Mount Tai to lure the Zhou royal family and the nobles away in a wave of fun, taking advantage of the invasion of the demonic insects. No one was left alive, not even the men, women, or children.

Jiang Yun finally reached the end of the corridor, pushed open a partition door, and entered the next room that the silver iron man had indicated.

This room was also a huge tent, where a group of people dressed in the same style of cotton clothing, with only the numbers on their chests being different, had gathered.

These people included both men and women, and all of them were under sixteen years old. Jiang Yun even discovered several fellow students from the Creation Academy who were also getting free communion with her.

Clearly, the people who were able to come to this room had been selected and deliberately grouped together.

The younger generation, being more lively and having studied poetry and literacy in the Palace of Creation, possessed a greater level of knowledge and experience than their parents. When they gathered together, they forgot the fear of being brutally treated by the Iron Man when they first awoke, and chatted enthusiastically, sharing their speculations about their own circumstances.

"Where are we? I thought I was dead, but this place is different from the underworld described in the books. It's so bright and warm."

"Did that iron man shock you? I was just spacing out for a little while and I got shocked three times. It hurts!"

“Not bad. Look at that strong man lying over there. He’s a disciple of a samurai family. He actually dared to try to attack the Iron Man, but he was stunned by the electric shock and was dragged here.”

"Were we captured? What do we do? What are those iron men going to do to us? Will they eat us?"

"Don't be afraid, everyone. I've been to Liberty City with my father. Whether it's the Iron Man, the water tanks that awakened us, or the strange tents here, they are all technological creations made by the Heaven-Severing Secret Technique and the Creation Secret Technique. These are commonplace in Liberty City and there is no danger to them."

……

As the group of teenagers were discussing something, the automatic door at the other end of the large tent opened, and a black cat walking upright walked in.

Clearly, any animal capable of walking upright must be a demon.

In the cities under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty, demons are not commonly seen. The merchant caravans of the Demon Alliance Merchant Guild have deliberately reduced the number of demon employees who are at a low stage of transformation.

Upon seeing the cat demon, the group of teenagers panicked and fell silent, trying to escape. However, they were forced back by the silver iron figures standing guard throughout the large tent, their fingers crackling with electricity.

The cat demon approached the teenagers and, in a cat's unique tone that was three parts impatience and seven parts indifference, lazily said, "Meow, my name is Puna, and I am your instructor. You have now been assigned to the grassroots research and study posts of the Demon Alliance's temporary government."

"As for what the research and study posts are, the Demon Alliance, based on the principle of Zhou people governing Zhou, selects some people with good foundations and strong learning abilities from the people of Great Zhou. Under the guidance of the Demon Alliance instructors, they learn on the job. The purpose is to train officials for the new government to be established in the old Zhou territory in the future."

(End of this chapter)