crush the rich

However, during the turbulent period in Nanyi Province, the capital city was not actually calm.

There is also the Qixi Festival in Xiaguo, and there are similar but not identical stories similar to the Cowherd and Weaver Girl, but the festival positioning is slightly different.In July of this year, Yin Lian Qixing also went out with Li Lici and others to visit the celebration.

Although the Qixi Festival here is also a big festival that is celebrated in the whole city, in fact, the celebrations in the inner city and the outer city are separated.Even in the politically corrupt imperial court, the order management in the capital is still very strict. The poor do not come to the noble areas, and the rich do not go to the poor areas. Different classes have their own regional concepts, and more class conflicts are avoided. Said is quite realistic.

Celebrating with the people does not exist. It is said that the emperor himself opened a lantern market in the palace, and the outside may not be as luxurious as the palace.

The more worlds she traverses, the more Yin Lian realizes the difference between the real world and literary creation.The ancient or different worlds in literary creation, with gorgeous clothes and throngs of slaves, look no less inconvenient than modern times.But if you really walk into history, you will find that in reality, whether they are nobles or poor people, their lives are all tightened by the productivity of the times as if they are being tightened by the rein. The influence of productivity and means of production on the times, even Greater than war and peace, harvest and famine.

It is said that life is difficult in times of calamity, and children are sold out, but how can people outside the TV think that in times of abundance, a little bit of bad luck will also lead to such results, so the ancients gathered together Many families have no resistance in the face of accidents and misfortunes because of the lack of strength of everyone.Every little bit of slack from increased productivity saves many thousands of lives.If there is an extra copper coin in the pockets of the people every day, thousands of people will die every year.

Let's just talk about the lamp market opened by the emperor in the palace. According to Li Lici, it is extravagant and wasteful. I'm afraid it will cost tens of thousands of taels of silver-tens of thousands of taels doesn't sound like much, does it?A Grand View Garden in the Red Mansion was built with millions of taels of silver, but a majestic emperor of Xia Guo was beaten into a fool because of the countless tens of thousands of taels that appeared every year during festivals-this is not wronged at all.

Take lychees as an example. The large and fresh ones cost only a few tens of dollars per catty when they are transported to the north in the current season.However, if Concubine Yang wanted to eat, the knights had to drive fast horses for more than a thousand miles, and they had to replace several horses halfway through the day and night.A good horse can be worth dozens of oxen, and a cow can be worth the manpower of several young and middle-aged men, and in times of famine, it can be worth dozens of human lives—how is this lychee not expensive?

But did they enjoy it?

This is still the industrial age, and the tens of thousands of taels of silver in the emperor's palace is nothing more than a lantern market with hundreds of thousands of lanterns. Lying down in the game cabin, the player can create a gorgeous scene that is worth tens of millions of times without even consuming a few kilowatt-hours of electricity.Even on the earth, Yin Lian made a little calculation. If the soft cost of design is excluded, Yin Lian consciously uses her own planning ability to compress the cost of such a lantern festival to less than 5 yuan, and it is guaranteed to be cheaper than at this time. The lanterns in the palace will be more gorgeous and enjoyable.

Under such circumstances, Yin Lian's degree of astonishment for even the Lantern City in the rich inner city is limited.She is somewhat interested in a few expensive lanterns with exquisite workmanship, but it is a pity that this level of craftsmanship is rare. Most of the lanterns are still shoddy mass products after all, which may not be more pleasing to the eye than the handicrafts made by machines in later generations.

The city of lights this night was not too amazing for Yin Lian.

What really shook her was the great change after Lantern City.

In the second half of the Lantern City, she saw the officers of the Secret Service walking through the street in groups, but this scene was quite common in the capital, after all, the "powers and responsibilities" of the secret service officers covered almost all areas.

But when the lantern market was over and Yin Lian started to go home in a rickshaw, something unusual happened.

When the carriage passed by an official's mansion, Yin Lian seemed to smell a faint smell of blood.She had a bad premonition in her heart at the time, and the family members of this family happened to be people she knew and had contacts with.

But in this silent night, just the carriage passing by quickly attracted the attention of nearby officers.Because the street itself was not blocked, the other party didn't do anything directly. He just asked, "Who is it? The Secret Service is doing business. Don't get close. Make a detour."

Yin Lian asked the guard to answer: "Sorry, we just finished visiting the Lantern Market, and this is our way home. We will change the road right away."

It didn't take Yin Lian a few seconds to make this decision—although she knew people, they were all family members of officials in the DPRK and China. She didn't have a deep understanding of their identities, stances, and what they had done. position and other people's evaluations... and this family, based on the evaluations Yin Lian heard and even their understanding of history, cannot judge whether this is a good person or a bad person, and the political struggles of this era are full of blood. Even more or less, human life was contaminated, and Yin Lian didn't mean to stand out for it.

However, the voice of her guard seemed to be recognized, and soon someone asked, "Is it Miss Zeng Erya's carriage?"

Yin Lian was taken aback for a moment, but she didn't think it was strange—due to some commercial considerations, although the artificial intelligence and robots she bought had a lot of voice options, almost all the voices were pleasant—the pronunciation standard had obvious characteristics. She didn't specially adjust the settings in the evening, and it's not surprising that she was recognized.

So she ordered the guard to admit her identity, and replied, "Yes."

So a person walked out of the house in a short while, and it turned out to be Li Laixi himself.Without hesitation, he approached the car window where Yin Lian was.When he approached, Yin Lian keenly smelled a bloody smell from him, but after observing through the dim light from the car, Yin Lian didn't find any blood on his body.

...was it covered or did you change your clothes?

Yin Lian had doubts in her heart.But no matter which answer, it only shows one thing.I am afraid that quite a few people under the Secret Service died tonight.

But this is not something she can get involved in.

Li Laixi glanced at the harvest in hand, laughed, and asked, "Going to see the lights?"

Yin Lian responded.

Li Laixi then said: "Be careful when you go out recently, Beijing may not be very peaceful, I'm afraid there will be a rebellious party acting secretly."

Yin Lian hesitated for a moment and asked, "Master Jing is also a rebel?"

Yin Lian thought that the other party would not answer, but Li Laixi didn't care, and said: "Jing Lai secretly collected firearms for people, and the evidence is conclusive. If he dares to do such a thing, there will be no good end... But Beijing is currently There is not only one Jing who secretly colludes with the rebel party."

Then he said to Yin Lian half persuasion and half warning: "Zeng Erya, you are a smart person, don't mix with people who shouldn't be mixed together."

Yin Lian: "...Lord Li, don't worry, I'm timid, and I don't dare to get involved in such a big matter as treason."

However, Li Laixi took a deep look at him, and then ordered his men to come down and lead her carriage and leave by another road.

While leaving, Yin Lian heard some kind of commotion behind him, it seemed that someone was shouting and begging for mercy, and someone was cursing, but soon the officers guarding the door rushed in and suppressed the commotion.

Yin Lian frowned, but didn't even turn her head.

After driving all the way to the intersection, the officer went back, and Yin Lian asked the guards to continue driving.In the end, before he had taken a few steps, a figure suddenly appeared from the shadows in front of him. He seemed to be holding something in his hand, and fell directly in front of the rickshaw. It was a vivid scene of touching porcelain.

As a robot, the guards did not panic in the face of this scene. They stopped the carriage steadily in front of the porcelain toucher, and waited for Yin Lian's instructions.

Yin Lian sat in the car for a few seconds without moving, but found that the figure in front of her moved a little, and then let out a low cry, which seemed to be calling Yin Lian's name.

At this moment, the "thing" held by the man also moved, so Yin Lian finally realized that it might not be a "thing" at all, but a living child.

She already had guesses about the identity of the Porcelain Toucher in her heart.

Although Yin Lian has killed quite a few people, those kind of people are all villains.But in the face of seemingly innocent women and children, she still couldn't do nothing to save them.

So she asked the guards to get out of the car and asked about the situation.

After the guard got out of the car, Yin Lian also saw clearly the appearance of the person lying on the ground through the projection on the personal side. It turned out to be the old lady Jing and her grandson, Jing Lai's youngest son.Although she didn't know how they escaped through the blockade of the Secret Service, Yin Lian could tell at a glance that the situation of the old lady was very wrong.

Although the old man was still holding the child, his cheeks were red, his speech was slurred, his arms were even stiff and hard to bend, and he was still muttering something in his mouth. Yin Lian thought he was calling her, but in fact it was hard to distinguish the content. Say it looks like it, and say it doesn't look like it.

The guard would not have thoughts, even if the old man stared at her, she would not have any emotional reaction.Yin Lian hesitated for a moment, looked at the old man through the projection for a moment, and finally issued an order.

The guard stretched out his hand and hugged the child whose cheeks were flushed and could only whimper softly.

Seeing this, the old man finally let go of his hand and fell to the ground without moving.

Yin Lian looked at her and knew that if she brought the old man to the future now, the old man might still be saved.But she looked at the undercurrents in the Jing family's house, and finally she was cruel. She hugged the child and asked the guards to drive the carriage past the old man, and let her lie in the dust. Last breath.

She is not a person of this era, and cannot decide the case for people of this era.She didn't even know whether Jing Lai was a good person or a villain, a hero or a sinner.She can try her best to save Yue Ke and help the prince, but she cannot intervene in this incident in Beijing, because she is not qualified to be a judge—that is, to understand the cause, effect and truth of the matter.

She thought, life really has a price.Just like when Chang Ning was about to have an accident, even at the risk of exposing the door, she still wanted to save him, because he was her dear brother.And if Yue Ke was in danger at this time, she would probably try her best to save her, because Yue Ke's life was priceless in the eyes of her and future Xia people.

It is said that there is no high or low in human life, but the powerful regard the poor as worthless, history sees the incompetent as dust, and even ordinary people will regard people as relatives.The equality of all beings is after all just a false illusion and a beautiful illusion.

Yin Lian felt a little guilty about not saving her life, but she didn't look back.

A total of six official residences in central Beijing were ransacked by the Secret Service, and many people were even killed on the spot—the news caused a great commotion in the capital the next day.However, in this era without mobile phones and Moments, Yin Lian didn't know the commotion and panic this incident caused in the city until an officer from the Secret Service knocked on the door.

It was only early in the morning that the door of her mansion was knocked loudly.As soon as the concierge opened the door, he was so frightened by the search warrant brought out by the officer that he almost crouched on the ground.