Sometimes, there are benefits to having a low limit. The disaster in Chu State was actually much more serious than that in Tang State, but because Chu State's lower limit was lower, it seemed that there was no problem at all.
The people of Chu State have become accustomed to Chu State's bureaucracy system which has no governance ability at all, so they do not have any expectations for their country.
Just because they had no expectations, they had no complaints against the country. Therefore, they lost their land and houses and drowned in the river. They could only blame themselves for being born in the wrong child.
And because there are not that many roads, not that many factories, and not that much infrastructure, Chu State's losses in the flood were not large.
This kind of thing once made the king of Chu very proud, and he even had a heroic theory that it was better to let nature take its course than to build it painstakingly.
In addition to advocating a perverted version of the rule of inaction, the Chu State was also afraid of its northern neighbor, the Tang State, so it hugged the thighs of its overlord, the Dahua Empire, and declared war on the Tang State.
But a declaration of war is a declaration of war, and Chu State itself knows that it actually has nothing to offer. Except for four small battleships, what Chu State can offer is dead soldiers.
These dead warriors are all trained since childhood. Because they are too poor, countless such children are adopted by dignitaries, including the royal family of the Chu Kingdom, every year, and are eventually trained to become dead warriors.
Their lives do not belong to themselves, but to their masters. These people have known from a very early age that sooner or later they will have to pay back the debts they owe to those who gave them the power to live.
Chu Yangren was such a person. His family was poor and could not afford to raise a child like him, so he was sent to a royal palace of the Chu Kingdom since he was a child. Most people in Chu State knew what this place was for. Even if families were extremely poor, they would rarely sell their children here.
So the children who grew up here know very well that they were sold by their parents for a good price.
Only after he fights here, grows up, and eventually becomes an inhuman murderer, will he understand what kind of people his parents abandoned them to for money.
He does not have his own name, or in other words, the most powerful dead soldiers raised by the Chu royal family all have a common name, Chu Yangren.
When they go out to perform tasks, they will all have names one after another. For example, now, his name is Guo Ergou. This is a very ordinary name. There are a lot of them in the territory of Tang State, Chu State and Dahua State.
Walking in the rain, Guo Ergou looked at the muddy streets and seemed to have finally found some real feelings.
When he first lurked here, he was a little uncomfortable with the neat asphalt roads and was very interested in those weird round manhole covers.
He was a little overwhelmed by the huge billboards and flashing lights on the street. The three- and four-story buildings that were gradually being built behind the billboard made him instinctively fearful of this place.
Everything felt unreal and false to Guo Ergou. He never dared to imagine that there would be such a place in the world.
He saw endless fertile fields outside the town, and saw that the roads extending into the distance were equally smooth.
He saw huge chimneys erected in factories in the suburbs, black smoke covering the sky and busy traffic on the streets.
He saw expensive steel being laid on the sleepers, as if it was free of charge, and it was connected to Tongcheng, Chang'an, and a place he couldn't name.
He watched people here build dams and plant trees. He also watched people here change from naked clothes to happy looking people wearing work clothes overnight.
In the beginning, people in his small town all wore the same clothes. A type of clothing called work clothes. Everyone in the city wears navy blue clothes. Men and women even look the same.
The front of the clothes is printed with the logo of Egret Group, and the back is printed with the four characters Datang Bank. I heard that these are the names of the sponsors.
Although this kind of clothes is not good-looking, it is very cheap. The first batch was almost distributed as relief supplies, and they cost no money at all.
He still clearly remembered that he also got such clothes. He had never seen or touched the thick material since he could remember, and there was not a single patch on the clothes!
This is a good thing that he has never seen in the Chu country for so long! It is very common to put a few patches on the clothes of Chu people.
Later, by the third year, he had become accustomed to the changes in the world before him. Even though we are in a small town, the clothes on the streets have begun to become colorful.
In the beginning, women wearing pink or white skirts were relatives brought by consuls and military officers, making them very easy to identify. Later, the women of the merchants also started to wear them, revealing their beautiful shoes and slender calves.
At that time, he felt that the country had fallen, the women were shameless, and the men were promiscuous... But those white calves were so beautiful.
In short, the town where he was ordered to lurk and live was close to a big river. It was not as prosperous as Copper City and Chang'an Linshui, but it was still like a fairyland on earth.
As an old immigrant who also wears work clothes, Guo Ergou actually has his own life. Because he is alone and works in the factory every day, the benefits of the factory where he works and his own income can even allow him to eat three meals a day.
If he hadn't had a woman in Chu State before he came, a very gentle woman, and this woman had his child before he left, he would have even wanted to completely forget his past.
It's a pity that he is no longer alone. He has to sacrifice his life at the critical moment to extend the lives of his son and his woman.
This is a man's responsibility, and it is also the meaning of life that Guo Ergou has found for himself! If he didn't want his son to fall into reincarnation and become a Chu yangren, he had to hand over his life.
Everything is caused by cause and effect, this is a fate that he cannot escape in this life.
In fact, he was already satisfied with being able to live in the Tang Kingdom for such a long time and seeing how beautiful this world was.
For a moment, he was even a little grateful to the old eunuch of Chu who raised him and sent him to such a place to perform his mission.
There has been no task assigned to him for such a long time, so that he can continue to live here and enjoy such a peaceful and fulfilling life.
But all this is an illusion after all, a luxury hope and a fantasy. Because a flood came and a war followed.
Chu State declared war on Tang State, which made Guo Ergou nervous. That identity that he had almost forgotten stimulated his heart and made him nervous.
Because of necessity, he, who was burning boilers in a factory, also went to the embankment and repaired the embankment with the army soldiers, driving back the deadly floods time and time again.
During this process, he was terrified, fearing that the devils who raised him would come to his door. But everything happened, one day someone holding a sign found him and gave him something.
If he doesn't cooperate, this sign may appear in the hands of the Tang police, with his bright red fingerprints on it and his true identity.
His son will be castrated and become a new yangren, and his woman will be sold to a brothel... all of this is like a nightmare, torturing Guo Ergou.
The rain hit the hood of the raincoat, making a clicking sound. For him, the beauty in front of him at this moment was like an illusion in hell, twisting and tearing, making him miserable.
There was a dike in front of him, and there were busy soldiers there. Guo Ergou even found the sandbags he had built on the dike and saw the soldiers fighting the disaster side by side with him.
The other person nodded to him and smiled, showing his white teeth.
He also smiled at the other party and walked along the embankment, choosing a place with few people...
He actually held a bomb in his hand, and he could light the fuse with an expensive metal lighter if he wanted to.
At this time, he was in great pain, because the things he cared about, the things he had built with his own hands, had to be destroyed by his own hands - this was a kind of sadness, a complete devastation.
After all, I still have to blame myself for not having a good pregnancy. He thought silently in his heart, his chest filled with hatred for his parents for turning him into a Chu Yangren.
He lit the fuse, walked to an inconspicuous place, sat down on the embankment with tears in his eyes, and let the thick smoke from his raincoat float out from his collar.
Guo Ergou closed his eyes, and the rain hit the hood of his raincoat, making a crackling sound. In front of him was the ferocious raging river, and behind him were all the beautiful things he yearned for.
Wait! The Tang Congress took revenge! If it were possible, the Chu State would perish, and everything that tortured him would be destroyed! There will be no more Chu Yangren in this world. If his child is not unlucky, he will become a Tang person, a real Tang person.
At that time, he will study in school, grow up healthily, become a worker, and meet a woman who is as gentle as his mother...
Well, he must have better luck than me. Guo Ergou thought so.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and Guo Ergou's thoughts stopped here. At the same time, a sandbag collapsed due to the explosion, and the raging flood completed the remaining work, breaking the embankment and rushing away into the fields in the distance.
"The embankment has burst! The embankment has burst!" The people patrolling the embankment and the surrounding soldiers were alarmed by the explosion. They ran towards here and shouted loudly.
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Sorry, I was already writing this and forgot to post it... There are four chapters in total today.
