Yefutidaolu

Chapter 198 Take action!

Such things happened frequently in the outer city of Cangzhou.

There are a total of 946 craftsmen of various types in the outer city.

In other words, Gao Jian spent about nine thousand six hundred gold on the elixir.

But it's worth it.

Because according to statistics, the Zuo family owed, or rather defaulted on, about 43,000 gold to this group of people.

It's amazing.

Nine hundred and forty-six people, with a total of forty-seven thousand gold, and an average of about forty-five gold per person.

Most of it is the cost of raw materials paid by the craftsmen themselves, and some is the wages that these craftsmen should receive, as well as the number of people in the workshops under them.

A workshop may have dozens of people at least, or hundreds or even thousands of people at most.

In other words, these 43,000 gold are actually the total savings of nearly 100,000 people. Without this money, people will go bankrupt or die.

If this situation is left unchecked, there will probably be 50,000 to 60,000 more corpses in Cangzhou City.

And all this is because the Zuo family is preparing to "save money".

Save money on the easiest guys to pick on.

Yes, I saved money on you.

What do you want to do? What can you do? What do you dare to do?

Report to the police? Or seek revenge?
Haha, stop joking, you can only swallow the bitter fruit yourself.

Because this is the rule underlying the law.

The laws of the Divine Dynasty are so glorious, but the most fundamental logic is still 'the survival of the fittest'.

Especially in Cangzhou.

But what if... someone is willing to help these people seek revenge?
For example, Gao Jian.

At this moment, at the gate of the inner city.

There were nine hundred and forty-six people, all of whom were injured. Many of them were obviously seriously injured, and some even needed stretchers to be carried by their disciples or family members.

There was just this group of people, plus those who cleared the way around them, and family members and relatives who carried the people, a total of three to four thousand people.

Three or four thousand people, carrying stretchers and pushing wheelchairs, set out from the outer city and headed towards the gate of the inner city.

Such a team passed among the pedestrians.

As they passed, men and women were weeping on the ground, some scratching their faces, others pulling their hair, and all hitting themselves on the mouth.

Along the way, many people, both men and women, were shaking incense burners, beating gongs and drums, and shouting to everyone they met: "Everyone come and see! The Zuo family is too cruel!"

"This Zuo family is vicious. They deliberately tried to deceive us and defrauded us of our property! Look at the contract document. They refused to give in. They also smashed my head and broke my legs. They beat us so hard that we couldn't breathe and couldn't survive!"

"I have been meticulous all my life, but I was so careless at this moment. I was so ignorant and made a mistake. I was defrauded of tens of gold! How can I live?"

"I can only use my two hands to pick up the blood-soaked clothes. How miserable! I don't ask for anything else today. I am an old woman who is already weak and exhausted. This is my only chance to die. It doesn't matter if my bones are not buried. It will be a grievance for my bones and blood. I don't want to teach you anything else. I can only tell you: 'Don't believe the Zuo family's lies!' Today, I am exhausted and my family property is gone. I only have this blood on my forehead. Now it has come out. Even if I die, I want to die in front of the Zuo family. Everyone says that my body cannot be saved, but the captain of the university said that it can be saved, so I will die with him!"

"I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid that my son will have to eat chaff and starve, and my parents-in-law will have to sell their hair to bury him. It would be better for me to die in front of the Zuo family's door."

"The yellow leaves are fluttering on the grave. My heart is sad and my eyes are bleeding. I have nothing to say. Everyone has heard what I should say. This is what I have saved for my whole life. This is my life!"

"Oh my god! Who is going to make the decision for me? Fortunately, there is a high school lieutenant who can make the decision for me!"

The road ahead is full of obstacles, and every step I take is filled with fear and tears.

Such misery, such misery, no one can answer the call to heaven, I can’t bear to listen to it, I can’t bear to listen to it.

A group of people were crying and full of sadness, and it couldn't be fake at all.

Indeed, all their life savings were easily defrauded by the Zuo family.

But the Zuo family didn't expect that this group of people would dare to gather together.

They probably wouldn't dare.

But today they have someone to back them up.

They did not hide it, they all said that it was the high school lieutenant who supported them.

It attracted the attention of many people along the way. The parade team of two to three thousand people was not formed casually, and more than nine hundred of them were masters of the first realm. They were also considered a force in the outer city. More than nine hundred people of the first realm were enough to form an army to fight!
Civilian people gathered around to watch. Some young and energetic men angrily joined in the insults, but were quickly covered by their mouths by the elderly who pulled them away and took them back home for fear of being heard by others. Women leaned over the window rails and screamed. Those who were watching the fun talked incessantly outside. The entire parade was like a giant snake. The square could not accommodate even one or two people. It turned one corner after another, as if it wanted to extend to everywhere, so that the whole city could see this surprise performance at the end of the year.

Surprise, surprise.

When some are happy, others are surprised.

For example, the inner city reacted quickly. Just as the parade was about to follow the team into the inner city gate, more than a dozen officers in police uniforms jumped into the air and blocked everyone.

There were four officers in total, wearing blue shirts, black boots, and a big "official" character on their chests. They were not afraid of stopping thousands of people. One of them took out a chain and handed it to another person.

The other two, each holding a water or fire stick, slammed it hard on the ground!
With a clang, the iron chain was extended and turned into a cage! It was like a living python, pulling out a series of blockade lines around it!

This is a complete set of standard magic weapons issued by the Divine Dynasty to officials.

The gavel, the killing stick, the water and fire stick, the silence sign, the avoidance sign, the blue umbrella, the green fan, the order sign, the clanging clasp, the shackles, the beam, the rope, the list of punishment, the shackles, and so on are all different. Their grades are different according to the specifications of the yamen.

But this is the case in all government offices across the country. These are standard magic weapons distributed by the Divine Dynasty. Each has its own power. Some of them can even borrow the power of national destiny. Although they are standard magic weapons, their power should not be underestimated.

What appeared before his eyes were the water and fire sticks and the clang.

As the old saying goes, this is called the "Five Poison Devices". The one for neck and feet is called "hengyang", the one for neck is called "hejiao", the ones for hands and feet are called "zhigua", the ones for locks are called "langdang", and the ones for whipping are called "banglue". These five kinds of magic weapons contain all five poisons, so they are called the "Five Poison Devices".

The "dang" among them is a big lock.

There is a saying that "being thrown into prison" means being locked up with cages and never being free again.

But there were thousands of people in front of them, and the clangs in front of them were obviously not enough to tie up so many people, so the two officers made a choice, unfolded the clangs, turned them into a blockade, and did not allow the entire queue to move forward.

The other two officers holding water and fire sticks stood in front of the door, holding the water and fire sticks and lighting them on the ground.

Above the ground, water vapor and fire vapor intertwined to form a "thunder pool".

The top is black and the bottom is red, the top is water and the bottom is fire, which means "water and fire are ruthless, and national laws are also ruthless." National laws are like water and fire, which cannot be crossed or ignored!
"Stop! If you dare to cross the line, be careful of being judged by the law!" Four officers stood in front of him and shouted at him!

Obviously, none of these thousands of people dared to offend. Under the obstruction of the water and fire sticks and the clanging, the road in front of them was completely blocked. The clanging made everyone around feel distressed and trembling. There was the evil of water and fire, like water getting deeper and fire getting hotter. Those who dared to invade would be dissipated and wiped out, and they were filled with worry and poison!
If they were ordinary county runners, they would only be at the first level. Occasionally, there would be a few powerful constables who could reach the second level. So there was nothing to be afraid of with nearly a thousand first-level runners.

But this is the government office in the provincial capital, and those who work here are all at the second realm or above... These are all important figures in the inner city. They are said to be officials, but who knows, they might be disciples from some immortal sect who come here to get some resume for themselves!
And now there are thousands of people coming, and those who have come are the elite among them. It can be seen that there are four of them in the third realm!

Four third realms! Standing before us!
To put it bluntly, these thousands of people are not enough for these four people to fight. They can kill them all in just a quarter of an hour.

This is the gap between the inner city and the outer city.

It seems like they are separated by a wall, but in fact, any random people from the inner city can kill the people from the outer city. It is completely the difference between immortals and mortals.

All the county towns in Cangzhou and the entire outer city only support this "inner city".

Only the inner city is the real world of practitioners.

Keeping the outer cities is just to let them work for you and continuously create endless wealth and resources for you.

After all, the raw materials of spiritual materials need to be grown by farmers, and some of the most basic things also require the painstaking processing of those first-level craftsmen. Even the lives of these people themselves, the "popularity" they constitute, is also a part of the Divine Dynasty's grand ceremony.

There is never too many people.

It is because the Divine Dynasty regards the vast number of farmers and craftsmen as the bottom-level productive units that it can support the almost "excessive" squandering of spiritual materials by the upper-level practitioners.

The spiritual materials grown, the ores mined, the profits from hunting and fishing by the hundreds of billions of people in the Divine Dynasty are all used as "taxes" and become consumables for the upper-level practitioners, or the "inner city people."

These people are responsible for production but never receive their own output.

For example, the elixirs that Gao Jian had readily available to him, they couldn’t buy them even if they had money, because their money... was not their money.

Just like when Li Jun brought the laborers to do the calculations.

No matter how much money the labor gang earns or how much turnover it has.

But after a careful calculation, more than 90% of the income flowed into the inner city through various channels.

Whether it's costs, taxes, various arrangements, or various connections, if you want to do business, you have to give out 90% of it, and you can only get a tiny fraction of it. And these nine oxen that you spit out all go into the inner city.

This was the idea from the very beginning when the system was established.

Of course the outer city has money. After all, all kinds of spiritual materials are produced from them. How could they not have money?
But the money cannot remain in their hands.

It has to flow into the inner city continuously.

However, usually this kind of gathering is "silent and subtle". Although the money comes, it comes slowly and naturally, so people don't notice it and just think that they have no plans.

It's like the sudden increase in prices, the sudden requirement to buy an insurance policy, the mysterious bill sent to you out of the blue, and the reward for selling your body.

But now, the Zuo family acted a little bit roughly.

Because the Zuo family was really short of money, their methods were not so gentle. Their impatience caused some of the people who had tubes inserted into their bodies and were having their blood drawn to wake up.

But it’s okay…

The Divine Dynasty has plenty of means to deal with these people.

"Stop!" a voice came.

"Crashing the city gates and gathering rioters, do you want to rebel?!" The four officials said in unison.

Then they shook the clappers in their hands!

The iron chains collided with each other, making a clanging sound that made one's teeth ache and even made one feel as if one's brain was being pricked by needles!
Along with the sharp scraping sound, the power of water and fire also moved along the surface at an astonishing speed. The wind that burst out instantly roared out, blowing so hard that everyone could not open their eyes.

Violent suppression always works.

After all, the Divine Dynasty government holds absolute power over violence.

There are only more than a thousand craftsmen. If they are killed, Cangzhou may lose some spiritual materials and processed products, but that's all.

There is always someone who grows up.

Chives will grow continuously, and there will be no vacuum in the ecological niche. If there is a vacancy in this position, someone will work hard to fill it in a few years.

They will fight hard on their own and don't even need the inner city to spur them on.

The entire parade stopped, and even those who had been crying and telling passers-by how miserable they were about being cheated were now unable to utter a single word.

"Everyone, if you insist on crossing the line, then you--" the officer wanted to say something.

But before he finished speaking, he saw Ma Xisheng's apprentice suddenly stand up and shout angrily: "What about us? We were cheated, can't we ask for justice?!"

"We just want justice! In this world, is there any reason to not get paid for work done?"

He shouted like that.

The officer's eyes changed from "irritated by overtime" to cold.

Then the officer stopped talking.

He just stretched out the water and fire stick and tapped the ground.

The water and fire energy on the ground suddenly moved forward and suddenly appeared under the feet of Ma Xisheng's apprentice like a swimming fish.

His skin suddenly began to show signs of ulceration. This magic was a combination of water and fire, and it was going to turn this man into rotten flesh!

As soon as he started, he was aiming to kill people!
But at this moment, the officer was seen suddenly flying backwards.

One of the water and fire sticks was missing, and the underground water and fire pool suddenly lost balance and began to explode!
Everyone was shocked!

But suddenly someone stepped on the water, fire and thunder pool, and then stomped hard!
With a loud bang, the two water and fire sticks flew out of his hands, and the water and fire thunder pool was stepped back abruptly. The energy that was about to explode died down immediately, like a wilt balloon.

Above it, a man stood at the junction of the inner city and the outer city, with a team of several thousand people behind him and an official holding a clang in front of him.

Then he took two steps forward.

The clang immediately came towards him.

But he did not dodge or evade.

Broken with a clang!

The aura is undoubtedly revealed.

It can enter water and fire, penetrate metal and stone; it can reverse mountains and rivers, and move cities and towns; it can take advantage of the void without falling, and touch solid objects without being hurt!
This is the fifth realm!
(End of this chapter)