Chapter 19: Life and Death
Hao Qi didn't know the reason why Shi Zhen let him come to this world, but there must be a reason for this, and it must have something to do with his ability to cut himself off, although he didn't know the reason for this world, but he didn't want to be a person who lived only for power, or only for himself, and then had no bottom line.
There are too many such people, most of them have become the villains he hates the most, and a small number of them have become the middle wall-riding faction, the vast majority of the warriors in the Seven Seas era, those warrior families with vested interests, those warrior sects with vested interests, and those warrior forces with vested interests, they are not like this, and even in the earlier ancient eras, the formation of the puppet world, isn't it also because such people have such thoughts?
For oneself, and there is no bottom line to accomplish anything, maybe at the beginning just to get some small benefits, but if you succeed, you will want to get greater benefits, and then pursue greater success, such people abound in any world, in any era, in any period, Hao Qi would rather die than become such a person, including now.
Whether it is stubborn, extravagant hope, recklessness, or even immaturity, Hao Qi has never changed the idea in his heart since he began to practice martial arts, and since he has been successful in practicing martial arts.
What is the matter of training martial arts? just to survive? just to survive better, to become stronger, to detach, to go to a new map to become stronger, and then to transcend to another level and continue this repetition?
The reason for the so-called martial arts, or the so-called extraordinary strength, is to no longer compromise and no longer regret!
Seeking immortality is for this, seeking detachment is for this, seeking to become stronger, seeking invincibility, why not for this?
There may be insane people who are mentally abnormal, who are simply to become stronger for the sake of becoming stronger, to be detached for the sake of detachment, and to live for the sake of immortality, but basically as long as they are not mentally abnormal, all living beings should be able to get more choices and more degrees of freedom and embark on such a path, which is the case in the technological world, and the same is true in the transcendent world.
So Hao Qi didn't continue to observe, at least this one, soon, there were two more loli behind him, and in which grass shed and outside the grass shed, there were some more twisted and shattered pieces of meat.
The little girl with spiritual sense seemed to be calm, or even had no basic emotional expression, while her sister was very, very frightened, she didn't even dare to look at Hao Qi, she just hid behind her sister and moved forward.
Just now, Hao Qi appeared in their daily routine "work", and then with a slight wave of his palm, several big men turned into lumps of meat that couldn't even see the shape, not counting, Hao Qi took them out of the grass shed, and then beat his father, who was drinking, into a meat puree in the eyes of the two, and then, he asked them to follow, and they didn't dare not follow......
"I'm not a goblin, I don't know how good the elf's ideal home is, and I don't know where the elf's ideal home is, but at least I know where the world is, and what the world is like, so stay with me for the time being. Hao Qi said.
He knew that he could easily save these two girls, and even easily make them live better than anyone in this era, better than nobles, better than princesses, better than kings, but he could save two, but he couldn't save all, yes, save people alone, unless he had detached, otherwise he would definitely not be able to save all the individual individuals, even the overlords of the Inner Universe Realm couldn't do it.
So he can only save the world.
Trapped outside the city are not only the commoners living at the bottom, but also a part of the middle class, their number in this era is not large, but at least more than the number of nobles, the vast majority of the middle class is composed of small and medium-sized merchants, some descendants of the down-and-out aristocracy, or cultural people who serve the nobility in the city, and in this time of war, in addition to maintaining a slightly decent life, in fact, most of the situation is the same as the commoners, and there is no privilege at all, at least until the situation stabilizes, they also need to pay a lot of money to enter the town, and at the same time find enough connections。
Hao Qi's third observation is at these middle-class people, and what he wants to achieve, if you think about it, can only be achieved in the middle class, or above the middle class.
To be precise, if you want to achieve Hao Qi's idea, the nobles, the big nobles, and the king are naturally the most likely to do it, but Hao Qi does not believe that these biggest vested interests will give up their status, even if there are one or two alternatives, their ability is also up for debate.
And the largest number of oppressed and exploited people, there must be many of them who want to change everything they have encountered, but because of the problem of knowledge, because of the problem of knowledge, because of the problem of ability, what they want is actually to become a superior person, to become an exploiter, to become a vested interest, and they are the same as those with the highest vested interests, in fact, they are the most determined and conservative sequence.
On the contrary, as these people in the middle class, they not only have enough insight and knowledge, but also know the inside story of many exploitation and political power, and have a certain amount of money and power, and at the same time contact with the upper and lower classes, they are not complete vested interests, nor are they complete exploited, they belong to the middle layer, and they are the level with the largest proportion of reformers, in the history of human civilization on the earth in Hao Qi's previous life, in the vast majority of civilization replacement and civilization progress, as the main force is never the highest level, and it is almost difficult to appear at the bottom of the people, and its main force is basically the middle class of people。
But it's a pity that Hao has spent a whole day screening all the middle classes outside this town, and even the middle class in the town, he has been there, and it is a pity that no one is to his liking.
(I don't believe it, isn't there any hero who thinks otherwise about such a dark age?)
Benevolence, heroes, heroes, such people in any era, any world, any environment will never be lacking, although the proportion of the number of appearances must be pitifully low, but there must be, although this world is a world that Hao Qi once read comics, but since it is no longer a comic, but turned into a real world, then this world should have enough logical self-justification, many characters who are not described and appeared in comics should also have their existence, as long as the number is sufficient, there must be outstanding people among them, there are no heroes in the worldThe grass is mostly a dragon snake.
Hao Qi did not continue to stay in this town, he did not choose a location, but with his spiritual instinct, he took the two little girls on the road, walking on this land at will, he believed that since Shi Zhen sent him here, then he would not return empty-handed, and at the same time he had confidence in his own strength level, although he couldn't do what he wanted, but he followed his feelings, and the final result would not be bad.
That's it, Hao Qi came to a port city a few days later, and this port city is not far from the location of Hao Qi and Gus when they were separated, and from the distribution of the surrounding cities, this city is likely to be the port where Gus and them are looking for a ship in the original book, in other words, Hao Qi went around and back.
And in this port, in the station of a small merchant group, several butlers were talking to a young man in his twenties.
The young man looked ordinary-looking, but he was meticulously groomed, and while looking at some of the things written on the parchment, he said to the butlers: " If there are not enough cargo ships, the most valuable goods will be carried on the ship first, and after loading one, they will immediately set off one, and the last cargo ship will not carry any goods, and the remaining goods will all be left in the warehouse, and the speed should be fast, and the speed can be stimulated by increasing the salary, and if the speed is increased by fifty, our salary will be increased by two times, and the speed will be doubled, and the salary will be increased by five times, and I want to see all the cargo ships full in three days. ”
The stewards looked at each other, and they saw distrust and disdain in each other's eyes.
This young man is the young master of the merchant group, although he does not have any bad deeds on weekdays, but obviously he does not know anything about business, or the way of survival, and now this port is a promising time, but he strongly demanded to withdraw immediately, and at the same time even this kind of loss-making order has been issued, you must know that all the ships of their merchant group combined, can only transport about half of the goods of the merchant group in this port at most, and they must speed up the loading, and increase the salary, such a thing is unheard of at all.
The reason is very simple, this era is not the capitalist era after the progress of human civilization, and there is not even a shadow of capitalism in the bud, in this dark age, thorough oppression and exploitation is common sense, and people who are willing to use remuneration to improve work efficiency will only be regarded as fools and idiots in any other situation except the army.
The stewards still made this point cryptically, saying that having a leather whip and a guard was enough to make the laborers increase their speed, and as for the pay, or something...... An extra piece of black bread is enough for these untouchables to kneel on the ground and kiss their toes, so why waste money?
The young man just shook his head, he didn't bother to explain, and these housekeepers couldn't be stubborn, especially when this young man's status was special, they didn't bother to give any more advice, and they left the room after taking the order.
The young man continued to look at the parchment again, and at this time, another young man next to him suddenly said: "Olivier, I can understand that you are paying more money, after all, you have always sympathized with those lower class people, but why do you want to leave now?" And in such a hurry, you must know that the head of the Vatimio family has come to this city, even if you don't have a relationship with the Vatimio family, but with the arrival of the head of the Vatimio family, as well as those big nobles, as well as their army, and the arrival of the remaining nobles in Mitland, the goods of the merchant group will be bought by them immediately, and even the supply will exceed demand, you see how many merchant groups are coming now, but you have to leave...... You must know that your eldest brother and second brother are also coming, if you leave like this, your inheritance will definitely ......."
The young man still only shook his head, he looked out the window, then at the civilians on the streets of the port city, and after a long time said, "Go faster, or ...... It's too late. ”