Starting from the lifting of human restrictions

Chapter 176
"...I heard that another caravan got lost in the mountains. It's getting harder and harder in this world."

"Don't talk about caravans. I heard that there was another plague of locusts in the east a few days ago. I don't know if there will be a harvest in summer."

"It's far away. I'm afraid you don't know it? It's Linguo County under our county government. Yes, it's the most remote county. It seems that people go to that place and don't come back. According to people, there may be another You are evil, but the gentlemen in the county don't care."

"Hey, no one cares about this in the county now. The previous county guard was decapitated in the middle of the night. I don't know if it was some gangster or those servants who did it."

"Keep your voice down, do you want to die?!"

In a restaurant in the city of Yunguo County, Yang Chu sat on the street by the window, listening to the conversations of various drinkers and diners coming into his ears, and constantly analyzing the information in these words.

Since entering this county, Yang Chu has been listening to all kinds of news around him.

After walking through the streets and alleys for a while, he came to this restaurant called "Food First".

The restaurant looks a bit dilapidated, but there are quite a few people eating and drinking in the store, and it looks quite lively.

In fact, after Yang Chu entered Yunguo County, what he saw along the way was much better than he expected.

Although there was some confusion, there were many fights, quarrels, and murders, but generally speaking, it seemed that most people had adapted to such a situation.

When he was in Baiyao Mountain and Linguo County, from what Yang Chu saw and heard, he really felt that this so-called Chen Dynasty was a world of demons and monsters.

But after leaving the area of ​​Baiyao Mountain and Linguo County, Yang Chucai gradually realized that although the morals of the world were not peaceful and the order was about to collapse, they barely maintained it.

There are many rumors about mountain spirits and ghosts, and many people have even seen them, but most people seem to ignore the many in order to make a living.

This world does look like the end of the dynasty, with chaos everywhere, but there are many deviations from the one Yang Chu knows.

Since Yang Chu entered the city, he relied on his extraordinary perception and psychic ability to capture information all the way, what he learned, and what he heard in this restaurant.

The common people in the city of Yunguo County only talk about some Jiangyang robbers, or bandit bullies, or disasters and weird things, and there is no such thing as separatist forces, rebellion by rebels, and the like.

This is completely different from the situation in the last years of most dynasties, when the lords competed and the princes separatist regimes.

Yunguo County is already considered a county town, even if it is located in a remote place, if there is such news, it is impossible for no one to know about it.

But it is true in this city, no one mentions this, but occasionally someone will talk about the imperial court, and some other dharma meetings.

Although most people don't care where the so-called imperial court is, business travelers and rangers who come and go will always have some news.

"The reason for this is probably caused by the civil strife in the Chen Dynasty in the past."

Yang Chu whispered to himself, he was analyzing the current situation of himself and the Chen Dynasty based on more and more information.

The death of a large number of people has led to many ghosts and disasters among the people. In fact, the people can't say they can't live, but the government has lost the control of the bottom, so the entire humane society is in some kind of disorder and chaos.

This kind of chaos, of course, in Yang Chu's view, there are probably some demons and ghosts who are behind the scenes and deliberately doing it.

but--

Yang Chu looked at the dishes on the table in front of him. He ordered a total of ten hot and cold dishes, and six of them were already on the table.

There is no shortage of poultry, beef and mutton, as well as vegetable snacks.

In his perception, even if the diners at other tables are not as rich as what he ordered, they are still passable.

Judging from Yang Chu's experience in Yunguo County, the living conditions of the people are not bad.

Yang Chu felt that this should be the reason why no large-scale rebellion and uprising broke out.

In the history he has known, there have been many such situations. Most of the time, the old dynasty collapsed, and after rounds of wars, a new dynasty was established.

This is the so-called law of dynasty cycles. After the merger and monopoly of land were broken, a new dynasty was established and the people could recuperate.

The current situation of the Chen Dynasty lies in the fact that several consecutive rebellions and civil wars in the past have resulted in the loss of a large number of people and the imbalance of official order.

As a result, many ghosts and ghosts that may have never appeared in the past, or have only a few stars, have been able to develop rapidly during the years of wars, whether they devoured a large amount of human flesh and blood, or large areas were uninhabited.

But on the other hand, for those who barely survived, the government's control is not strong enough, but they have not completely collapsed. The livelihood of the people at the bottom these years is actually not difficult.

A large amount of land is unowned. As long as someone is willing to plant it, the people at the bottom can still get a respite.

Of course, this also led to another problem, that is, the imbalance of order, so that although the people at the bottom seemed to have improved in terms of basic necessities of life, they lost the protection of the most important right to life.

Without a strong court and official order to maintain, the population at the bottom either huddled together to keep warm and form order.Either face exploitation and killing by a more powerful force.

So from this point of view, such a life may not be a good one.

Most of the people who fled to Baiyao Mountain are probably due to this reason.

"Oh, I told you already, I don't recruit workers here."

Just when Yang Chu was analyzing the current situation based on the captured information, suddenly there was a noise in the lobby of the restaurant.

Yang Chu glanced slightly sideways, and saw a young man dressed as a scholar standing in front of the counter with a sad face.

This young scholar has delicate features and is extremely handsome.It's just that the clothes on his body have been washed and turned white, and he looks quite down and out.

At this moment, the scholar was standing timidly in front of the counter, and said to the middle-aged shopkeeper who was thinking: "Shopkeeper, I'm really capable. Whether it's waiting in the hall or washing dishes, I can do it all." .I have also studied, and I can do the work even if I write and do calculations. I really need a job to support myself.”

"Ning Caichen, you are a scholar, you can't lift your shoulders, you can't lift your hands, you can't do my job in this restaurant."

Behind the counter of the restaurant, the middle-aged shopkeeper with mustache waved his hands impatiently, "As for you can write and do calculations, if you do this, are you the shopkeeper or me?"

"This this……"

The young scholar was squeezed for a while, and he didn't seem to know how to speak. Suddenly, he saw the waiter next to him bring out some small dishes on a tray, and rushed up in a few steps, "I'll come, I'll come, little brother ,let me do it……"

"Hey, what are you doing?!"

The shop waiter who came out from the back kitchen with the food and drink was startled by the young scholar's sudden movement, and quickly shouted.

"I'm coming, I'm coming..."

The young scholar ignored the waiter's obstruction, put his hands on the tray, lowered his head slightly, and asked the waiter in embarrassment, "Brother, may I ask which table is the customer?"

"The table farthest by the window."

Seeing that the young scholar had snatched the tray, the waiter in the shop did not continue to fight, so as not to overturn the side dishes in the tray.It's just that he had seen this Scholar Ning before, and knowing that the other party was here to steal his job, he put a white towel on his shoulder and said something angrily.

"Okay, I'll send it over right now."

The young scholar showed a grateful smile on his face, holding the dish in his hands, and walked towards the innermost seat by the window of the restaurant.

That seat is exactly Yang Chu.

However, just as the scholar was carrying a few dishes on the tray and was about to walk not far from Yang Chu's table, when he passed by a guest table, a middle-aged man with a plaster on his face suddenly stretched out his foot Made a stumbling block.

"Ouch—"

The young scholar suddenly became unsteady and fell towards the table where Yang Chu was.

(End of this chapter)