Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland.

Chapter 555 Secret

Chapter 555 Secret
"So that's it..."

Under the starry field, two good friends from the White Eyebrow Clan walked side by side in the breeze.

The big thing is over.

Ji Ye also revealed part of the truth to Qing Rong.

From the Scarlet Rebellion, the decline of Mournhold, being wanted by the United Cities, to the Merchant Guild... and the Red King.

"It's been so long, and when people mention the Bloody Rebellion, they only remember that it was a joint uprising of slaves and peasants, saying that they didn't remember the grace of their masters and stubbornly raised the banner of rebellion..." Jiye recalled, "However, few people would think that before that, the participants of the Bloody Rebellion had already been unable to survive... The chaos was directly caused by the unprecedented drought that year, which led to a large reduction in food production... The Southern United City could not sustain itself at all."

Heavy taxes, breakdown of order, slave defections...large tracts of farms were almost deserted.

"As usual, the Merchant Guild will be responsible for transporting food from the north as support."

Just that year.

The merchant guilds, whose logistics networks were ubiquitous, seemed to be paralyzed and had lost contact.

Combined with natural disasters, the horrific famine finally began to spread on a large scale.

Grass roots and tree bark, dig three feet into the ground.

Thousands of miles of bones.

This is a portrayal of the ordinary lower class.

Then the Bloody Rebellion broke out.

However, when the mob broke into the palace for the first time, they discovered that even the besieged Emperor Anxi had starved to death in his own bedroom.

It is said that his last words before his death were not to give his vote on the succession, but to ask the attendants around him... Is there any food in the palace?
However, no one responded to him.

Because except for the last old eunuch who was dying of hunger and could not run, the rest of the people either starved to death or had found ways to slip away long ago. The palace was emptied, and there was no food stored as the rebels imagined.

Just when people realized something was wrong, support finally arrived.

——But the people who came were not the merchant guild's grain transport team, but the troops of the great lords of various city-states who came to serve the king.

They arrived late and began the killing.

Without leadership and organization, and in a state of extreme hunger, how could the mob be a match for the elite warriors and hooded guards? Except for a small number of people who were later called the "bloody remnants" who escaped, the rest either surrendered or died in the street battles.

The blood flowed and dyed the earth red.

Afterwards, the Merchants' Guild explained that this was because the Northern United City was under attack by the Holy Empire, and the northern grain-producing town of Bast was destroyed in the Holy War of God's Wrath; and when the large-scale grain transport troops passed through the border area, they were looted by the Shek army led by King Shager at the time - the other side was also short of food, and the entire kingdom was once the largest bandit force.

As for the part of grain that was still delivered to the major lords of the Southern United City, why they were not distributed to the areas where the Bloody Rebellion broke out, nor were they delivered to the hands of Emperor Anxi...it is unknown.

What the world knows is:

Anxi, who was considered a powerful emperor even in the history of the United Cities, died in the Bloody Rebellion, and his entire family was exterminated;

As for the new emperor, Tengu, elected by the nobles... with the appointment of General Chairman Long En into the cabinet, he has become a virtual puppet, and most people are happy to see this happen;

The major lords of the Southern United City did not suffer much loss, but the decline of Anxi's original fiefdom, Zhiji Ai Mining Town, and the shift of the economic center from the south to the north also intensified the north-south confrontation in the United City;
The surviving rebels were enslaved, and in order to prevent the peasants from rising again, the laws were made more stringent, the scale of slavery was expanding, and the military and police continued to fight against the bloody remnants and terrorists, and the crackdown was intensifying...

"I met a friend named Chad in the Depression Lake. He is a technology hunter." Ji Hai took the wine from Qing Rong but did not drink it. "In the archives recorded by the technology hunters, some information about the past was recorded, but it was not disclosed to the public."

In order to continue cooperation with the United Cities and to operate safely within the Empire.

The tech hunters still know how to cooperate with the local official narrative, and won't say things that shouldn't be said... at least not in the name of the organization.

In a sense.

He is also very good at dealing with people.

Qing Rong held the wine to his lips and took a sip. Facing the breeze, although the wine did not enter his throat, he felt a spicy and fishy feeling in his throat as if he had taken a large gulp of strong liquor.

"Father always thought that this was a conflict within the United Cities. Although Shandi was sandwiched between the North and South United Cities, it had nothing to do with us..." Ji Hai smiled, "Now, I think he has changed his mind a little."

Qing Rong nodded.

None of them were witnesses to the Bloody Rebellion.

But just by listening to this retelling, one can also hear the subtle role of the Merchant Guild: It seems that the Merchant Guild's lateness is just the most insignificant part of the Bloody Rebellion. They are facing various external coincidences, and the explanation is reasonable...

But if history has an assumption: What if the merchant guild is responsible for logistics and successfully transports the food allocated by the Northern United City... although ordinary people in the south will still be oppressed, at least they will not fall to the point of starvation and death.

It will be difficult to rise up in rebellion.

Will this bloody rebellion break out again?
This is of course hypothetical.

From an observer's perspective, it is impossible to blame the Merchant Guild... But for the two people who had just experienced the beast disaster, the feeling was different.

If the Red King hadn't intervened.

Wumian and Ren Lin's plan was successful.

The White Eyebrow Clan was destroyed in the beaks of the long-necked beasts. From the outside, it seemed that they died in a natural disaster and could only blame themselves for their bad luck. Apart from the final beneficiary, how could anyone find any trace of the Merchant Guild's mischief?

So, same thing.

At that time, the Bloody Rebellion broke out due to various coincidences...what was the real role of the Merchant Guild in it?
"But why would the United City want you under the name of 'Bloody Remnant'?" Qing Rong asked in confusion.

Calculate from the time.

The year the Bloody Rebellion broke out.

Ji Hai was just a half-grown child at that time, and he lived with himself on the prairie in Shan.

There is no contact with the Bloody Rebellion at all.

In fact, it was not until later when the Merchant Guild established a liaison station in Shan that Wu Ma, the patriarch of the White Eyebrow Clan, sent his son Ji Hai, who had just grown up and showed some talent, to the South United City, hoping that he could make friends with the nobles and deepen cooperation and relations, thus acting as a hostage.

Then, the incident happened.

"That's another matter..." He shook his head. To Ji Hai, those experiences were still full of mysteries and could not be fully understood.

The so-called King of Red...

It was because of these things that Ji Hai was approached.

He was about to speak.

Suddenly, an alarm sounded from the camp behind them.

The two men immediately became alert and turned around abruptly.

Just a glance and you'll see:

In the moonlight, a figure stumbled towards us in the distance.

That person also noticed them—or to be more precise, he looked at Ji Hai.

A happy smile appeared on the broken face:

"That's right... I found you..."