Chapter 208: The Empire in Turmoil

Chapter 204 – Imperial Unrest
Back in the heartening Dungeon Chamber, this place was once again expanded by Owen, and now it was a thousand square meters, divided into multiple areas, and besides a small garden, there was also a display area for his works.

However, Owen was not in the mood to admire his works this time, instead he stood in front of the multi-functional advanced workbench with his hands constantly gesturing on the stereo projection, while the warm baby always responded in time, modifying it according to his meaning.

Because there were too many inspirations, Owen, who was afraid of forgetting, could only record the ideas that kept popping up first, and then slowly perfect them later.

But this retreat was unexpectedly short-lived, because the empire broke out in large-scale unrest, tens of thousands of hired farmers and slaves like ravaging locusts will destroy everywhere they go, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and even have a tendency to spread towards the north, so Maya had to get him out of the ground to sit in the town.

He came to the center of the town, received the information and intelligence compiled by Maya, and read it with a frown while drinking a cup of coffee, and after a moment of contemplation, Owen had a clear picture in his heart.

Similar turmoil is nothing new to the empire that has existed for a very long time, almost once every few decades, as for whether it’s 20 to 30 years or 50 to 60 years, it depends on how many people died in the last turmoil.

As for the reason for the unrest, it is also very simple, land annexation, serious exploitation, there is no way to live, so it is difficult not to be chaotic.

The problem is that people don’t remember to eat, no matter lords, nobles, manor owners or merchants, all are desperately trying to squeeze the last bit of value from the bottom people, as long as they don’t resist, they will squeeze to death, it’s just so cold and merciless.

Such a method of oppression, unless it is a dead person, or resistance is inevitable, and as more and more people choose to resist, it will be connected by the point into a piece, and eventually large-scale unrest appeared.

Rebellion is a rebellion against the injustice of fate, is to overthrow the head of the exploiters, but at the same time, the unrest also hindered production, interrupted commerce, damage to the interests of the beneficiaries, so in order to make up for the loss of the oppression will be even more serious, so the more resistance, the more the scope of the unrest is also bigger, is simply a dead cycle.

So the question is, after so many upheavals, did the upper echelons of the empire know the dangers of doing this?

Of course they knew, they even did it intentionally.

Once or twice you can still say that you don’t have experience, but once you’ve done it a few times, you can summarize the experience.

The problem is that they know that there will be unrest if this goes on, but there is no way to avoid it.

For one thing, the upper echelons can’t give up exploitation because it’s the foundation of their existence, whether it’s used to develop their territories, arm their soldiers, or simply used for enjoyment, exploitation is the foundation that maintains their status as the higher echelons, a foundation that can’t be changed, and once it’s changed, they too will cease to exist.

Secondly, the land resources are so much, with the increase in population, economic development, all kinds of exploitation means endless, but the output is not fixed, but the rise is very limited, so much from where, can only be squeezed hard.

Press in the end, squeeze hard, resistance and unrest will become inevitable, after all, live can not live, but also care about the consequences of what resistance.

Know the reason but can not be changed, because the land resources are so much, even if the degree of exploitation is reduced, but will only delay the time of turmoil, visible empire is not no smart people, but too smart, smart enough to find the root cause of the problem, that is, there are too many people.

So the large-scale unrest once every few decades is just a conscious metabolism of the empire to get rid of the excess.

People died almost, restless also died out, everything naturally return to the original trajectory, the work of the work, the squeeze of the squeeze, everything is the same as usual, just waiting for the next round of the beginning.

At first Owen thought it was a bit unbelievable that the empire hadn’t been overthrown after so many rounds of powerful turmoil.

This is unscientific, but very reasonable, because this world has transcendent power, and transcendent power regardless of origin, when they master the power, they already belong to the exploiting class, occasionally there is a renegade class of the Virgin Mary can not stop the general trend. In this world, one rider is a thousand, one against ten thousand, destroying cities and destroying the earth, is not an exaggerated description, but a fact.

In this situation, lack of spirit, lack of organization, lack of weapons, lack of resources, lack of everything, just relying on the number of people without any purpose of unrest is meaningless.

If it were not for the purpose of depopulation, the decapitation tactic alone would have accomplished the task of quelling the unrest in a very short period of time.

As for whether there will be reckless heroes in the civil society, of course there are, but compared to the ten deaths of the unrest, using this to join the upper class to mix glory and wealth does not smell good?
In fact, killing and setting fire to be recruited are also found here, and there are quite a few of them.

Isn’t it interesting that the upheaval for the sake of survival is just a stage to show their value in the eyes of some people?

The education he received in his previous life allowed Owen to understand everything in a very short period of time.

But just like the keyboard warrior, it meant nothing to change the status quo except to spew a few words of venting.

Although Owen was not without the ability to change, in fact the high yielding seeds, the systematic steam industry, the ability to travel through the world’s portal, any one of them could be taken out to change all of this.

The price is that Owen is completely exposed, and what awaits him is something you can figure out with your toes.

This world was not a world where good intentions were rewarded, not to mention that even if he took these out, the real beneficiaries would be those at the bottom?
Originally, it was just an emotional moment, then Owen would resume his peaceful life again, but this time was different, the empire had a new vent, and that was the Northlands.

A long time ago there was the idea of getting the troubled population to the Northlands to fend for themselves.

The reason why it has not been implemented until now is very simple, because there will be population will have development, and when the development of the northern part of the tail is not big how to do, this is not for their own cultivation of the enemy.

As for the occupation of the development, is also a good idea, the problem is to whom?
Even the emperor can not ignore the power of a northern region can bring, not to mention those nobles, may be used as a trigger to trigger the real turmoil in the empire.

Therefore, the upper echelons of the empire would rather have the excess population die from internal conflict than liberalize the borders of the Northland.

Now it is different, after two Northern Exploitation Corps, the northern part of the country has been initially developed, and a large number of northern nobles have been enrolled, even if there is a large influx of population, the chaos will be chaotic, but it will always return to the original framework, and then the northern part of the country will be the chessboard, and each of them will play their own pieces.

As for those northern nobles as the pawns are willing or not, huh, just like they have a choice.

Therefore, in a very short time, a large number of chaotic people were intentionally guided to pour into the Northland through the open mouth of the Imperial Border Army, so that the situation in the Northland which had just improved once again became chaotic.

The Second Northland Pioneer Corps only seized the land and titles through various means, but they never thought that the retribution would come so quickly, tens of thousands of chaotic people are not able to resist a single lord, and for a time, I don’t know how many Northland nobles lost their lives or their territories, with the exception of three places.

(End of chapter)