Chapter 146: Planning and plotting, the victim comes to visit
Chapter 146: Planning and plotting, the victim arrives
The relationship between the demon production alliance established by Wen Rui and the surrounding human villages and towns is actually not harmonious at all. The two sides can work together only because they were forced to submit under the armed suppression of the Ultron robots.
Compared with humans, the demon race is easier to control. Wen Rui has the biggest fist, and the four demon kings are obedient to him. If the little demons dare to disobey, they will be dragged out and skinned alive. Might is right.
The demon tribe only recognizes this and obeys this kind of management.
The human race is much more difficult to control because they have long legs. They cannot resist power, but they can vote with their feet and choose to flee to neighboring countries for survival.
Now that the Heavenly Dao is watching over the human race, Wen Rui cannot be too harsh on them, for example, by setting up high walls on the border, managing the villages in a concentration camp style, catching fugitives and hanging them on the cross as a warning to all.
Fortunately, the Jinling Sect base has always had excess production capacity. Even for food crops, the hydroponic farm adopts full environmental control and grows genetically modified crops. The food produced in a year can feed tens of thousands of people.
As a lord, Wen Rui does not need to collect taxes from his subjects, and the country can still maintain its operation.
This provides the conditions for implementing the tax reduction and subsidy policy, attracting the human race to boldly work together with the demon race, and then arranging a large number of Ultron robots to supervise, so as to directly and violently suppress the signs of conflicts that may arise from close contact between the human and demon races.
Wen Rui, who once served as the Grand Engineer of the Shang Dynasty, understood this better than anyone else.
The output of the unpaid corvée labor on the public land was planted with high-quality seeds developed by the biochemical laboratory, and fertilizers were applied based on soil-tested formulas. Wen Rui's profits from enslaving both humans and demons were still extremely high, and he was not losing money at all.
Especially in the breeding industry, the underground base is unable to carry out large-scale breeding, and there are no modern factories for this purpose. Wen Rui has tried to develop biochemical "artificial meat" cultivation technology, but the meat produced was tasted by the monsters and the taste was really bad. It was not as delicious as the sour and dry human flesh.
After conquering the four demon kings, he built a large ranch on the territory of Wolf Two, who was the most loyal to him. He slaughtered hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep every year, and it became a production base for generating core value for the entire economy.
The livestock produced on the ranch are the hard currency of the demon clan. Most demons need to eat meat and drink blood. In order to get this mouthful of blood, even though they know that eating humans is the greatest karma, they can only drink poison to quench their thirst.
The ranch can also produce horses, which was the hardest currency among hard currencies in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The national strength of each vassal state at that time was calculated based on chariots, and one chariot required four horses.
Gold and brass could not defeat the princes, but when a chariot with good horses was taken out, the princes' eyes lit up. If this family refused to accept it, they would sell it to their enemy. Soon his country was destroyed, and the land was given to Wen Rui to pay for the chariot.
However, Wen Rui did not dare to expand his territory in Nanzhanbuzhou too blatantly. It would be fine for him to occupy a small piece of good land in Qin to grow forage and fodder. In the future, he still had to seek to seize the territory of Quanrong. It happened that the territory of Quanrong had vast grasslands and abundant grass and water, which was very suitable for the large-scale development of animal husbandry.
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The underground vehicle did not go directly to the underground high-speed mobile capsule transfer station, but drilled out of the ground within the territory because Wen Rui wanted to inspect his own territory by the way.
Compared with the tribesmen controlled by the Dingguang Immortal Sect, the human race in Wen Rui's territory certainly lives a much better life, but that's about it. Not to mention compared with the new rural areas in modern society, they can't even compare with the rural living conditions in the 60s.
According to Lord Wen's precise calculations, even if taxes were exempted, the human subjects would be without food for at least one month during the one or two months between winter and spring every year, and would have to endure hardship and hunger.
Although the merciful lord also prohibited his subjects from fishing and hunting in the mountains and rivers that belonged to him, he was not so harsh as to punish those who were caught. He just made a note of it and added it to the taxes for the next year.
Even so, many humans still fled here with their families.
Just because Lord Wen at least left them a chance to survive.
Of course, what Wen Rui coveted was not the little bit of money he could squeeze out of these poor guys, but he didn't need to be too pampering to his subjects and show too much kindness, which would end up raising a group of ungrateful people.
This is the life of this bunch of illiterate people. There is no value in education. It will be enough if they can learn to coexist with the monsters and live a life with a quality of life higher than the average of all living beings in the prehistoric world. What else do they need?
Wen Rui led Cheng Ziwei and He Lingyun to the largest market town in the territory.
The degree of development of Sect Master Wen's fiefdom is not high, and there is not even a city. Originally, demons were rampant here, and the armies of the princes could not defeat the group of small demons led by the demon king. It was a territory in a semi-abandoned state, and administrative officials did not dare to leave the town, so how could it develop?
Now that Wen Rui is in charge, the Chamber of Commerce has moved directly into the town and made it its headquarters. They have carried out large-scale construction in the town and built it into the largest logistics center and cargo distribution center in Northwest China.
The market town is now much more prosperous than before, but the lord forbids the people to engage in business, and the Chamber of Commerce only recruits the survivors of the previous dynasty. Even if they know that business is more profitable, the people are not lucky enough to participate. Wen Rui's destination is the largest courtyard building complex in the market town. It is a school. There is a plaque hanging at the school gate, which reads "Jinling No. 1 Experimental Primary School".
As you enter the courtyard, you can hear the sound of reading. The school building is made of reinforced concrete bricks and stones, and is more exquisite than all the buildings in the town. The classrooms are packed with students. It is much larger than the Dandelion Hope Primary School.
The ones who teach the children are the graduates of Dandelion Primary School. Due to the shortage of teaching staff, some teachers are still robot teachers in doll suits.
All the school-age children in the territory are here. Firstly, the lord has issued a strict order that if a family has a child who drops out of school, the tax will be doubled. Secondly, the school provides students with three meals a day for free.
After these two decrees were issued, the school enrollment rate quickly reached 100%. Even the most foolish parents would not covet their children's labor and bear the cost of doubled taxes.
The free meals option is more attractive as it can save one person's food ration, which is very important for a family to survive the long gap between food and harvest in early spring.
There are not only human children in the classroom, but also many little demons. The human and demon children study together and are not as wary as their parents. Some cute little demon children have become the darlings of the students and are often held and stroked.
What the children learn is naturally the "Jiejiao Education Series".
Cheng Ziwei had never seen so many students gathered together to study, and her understanding of Jiejiao's emphasis on education and the doctrine of teaching without discrimination deepened.
The Chan sect values qualification and affinity with immortals when recruiting disciples, and simply disdains to teach mediocre people.
Even the more inclusive human sects have to select the best candidates for admission. They will not recruit disciples with poor qualifications or comprehension, let alone monsters.
The Western religion emphasizes "wisdom" when accepting disciples. Those whose comprehension does not meet the standard are considered ignorant. For ignorant people, they only need to believe in it and will not receive the true teachings.
"I made a meal of dumplings just for this dish of vinegar." Wen Rui couldn't help but sigh: "When this generation grows up and branches out, my Jiejiao will truly have a foundation in the human world."
Although Cheng Ziwei still couldn't understand everything she saw in the Jinling Territory at the foot of Mount Li, she was greatly shocked and put away the slight contempt she still had for Sect Master Wen in her heart.
With her little cleverness, she was completely unable to understand Sect Master Wen's plan. She only knew that there was such a person in Jiejiao who was secretly planning, and that it would definitely bring about an earth-shaking change to the entire human world in the near future.
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After inspecting Jinling No. 1 Experimental Primary School, the three of them rushed back to the underground base of the Jinling Sect.
In Sect Master Wen's office, Wen Rui gathered several non-staff trainees from the Jinling Sect and introduced Cheng Ziwei, the new human disciple, to them.
Cheng Ziwei was originally quite nervous about this meeting, but when she saw the sect seniors Bing Linglong, Ya Yange, Su Yingluo and Shui Ning'er, she immediately relaxed.
Appearance is justice. Apart from Shui Ning'er who is round and cute, the others are all beautiful demon girls who are in a higher stage of transformation. They all exude pure spiritual fluctuations without any demonic aura.
The Lishan demon cultivators were kindhearted and had no prejudice or hatred towards humans, so they naturally accepted this junior niece. Cheng Ziwei quickly integrated into the group and made friends with Ya Yange and Su Yingluo. The three of them got along very well and had a great time talking to each other.
The welcome party held by the president's office had not yet ended when Jarvis reminded him, "Sir, Luan Qingyu has visited you many times during your business trip. Now he is banging on the door again and trying to burn the door with his own life blue flame to get in. Please tell me what to do?"
"What is she doing here?" Wen Rui scratched his head and said helplessly, "Let her in."
Not long after, Luan Qingyu rushed into the CEO's office and angrily accused him as soon as he entered the door: "Senior Brother, you are biased, you lied, and you bullied me! In the words of the human race, you have been infatuated with me and then abandoned me!"
When the beautiful woman in the form of Qingluan appeared, Cheng Ziwei was stunned. She thought that Fairy Crane was already a unique beauty in the world, but she never expected that the girl in green before her was not inferior to her, and even had a unique kind of nobility.
From what the green-clothed girl said, it seemed that she still had some emotional entanglement with the sloppy and down-and-out Sect Master Wen. She couldn't help but sigh in her heart, what happened to these fairies, their eyes were so big and beautiful, why were they all blind!
Wen Rui was also stunned by the question, and said in surprise: "It's as if I did something to you, I don't think I did anything, right?"
(End of this chapter)