Don't mess with that dragon

Chapter 680 Difficult
For the [-]% of the poor citizens living in the dirty and messy slums in the city, it is normal to be hungry and cold. Not the same class.

These urban poor who mainly work in lowly industries such as handicraft helpers, day laborers, bankrupt owners, laundry workers, dust scrapers, and manure pickers have an unstable source of income.

I am exhausted from working to death every day, but I can barely get a little food to fill my stomach.

In their view, being able to fill their stomachs with black bread is the greatest happiness.

However, a large part of the prosperity of a city is established by the oppression of exploitation on them.

Without a lot of cheap labor, it would be impossible to produce a variety of handicraft products, and it would be impossible to attract more people to come and trade, bringing prosperity to the city.

In any city, these poor classes living at the bottom occupy the majority.

And these years, with the dumping of a large number of cheap industrial and commercial products from the southern Blue Dragon Kingdom.

The bottom of the southern countries are all suffering from it.

These low-level civilians who are illiterate naturally don't understand the relationship, and even many businessmen can't understand the economic rationale. The untouchable explained, but instead spent his time participating in the large-scale trade with the Blue Dragon Kingdom in the south, earning a lot of profits.

Although I don't know the reason, but one thing is obvious.

With the impact of various cheap industrial and commercial products in the Blue Dragon Kingdom, the handicraft industry in major cities has suffered a lot in the past few years, and business has become more and more difficult to do. , life is getting worse and worse.

In the city of Xile, there is a grain merchant who can almost be called a thousand people's accusation. Many civilians will scold the black-hearted guy who dirty his heart with oil pan ashes when he mentions that merchant's name.

Because he was the one who mixed more than half of the sawdust on the black bread he sold!

The so-called black bread is not made of white bread flour, but a dry and hard bread made by mixing the husks of wheat that have been crushed during the milling process.

These black breads are not the fermented, soft, nutritious black breads of Austin's previous life. Just imagine the taste of a woman in the middle world who knocked a burglar unconscious with a piece of black bread.

Because the husk of the crushed wheat is very dry and tastes like wood chips, some unscrupulous merchants add a lot of wood chips in the process of making brown bread to make profits.

This method is comparable to those in Austin's previous life who mixed sand in the grain.

This is obviously a profiteer.

Those who can add more than half the amount of sawdust to black bread are even more profiteers among profiteers.

however,
The business of such a food profiteer has been getting better and better among the many low-level civilians over the years, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.

why?
That is precisely because the black bread sold by the other party is the cheapest.

Only his family's black bread, those poor people living in poor areas with yellow and thin faces and ribs clearly visible all over their bodies, can afford it.

So what if it is mixed with more than half of the sawdust?
At least you can fill your stomach.

The dumping of industrial and commercial products in the Blue Dragon Kingdom has caused a great impact and damage to the primitive handicraft industry. Many handicraft workshop owners in cities have closed their workshops, which has also caused the majority of urban bottom-level people to lose their biggest source of income.

Over the years, the lives of the common people in the city have gone from bad to worse. Many families are struggling with budgeting, and they don't even know when was the last time they were able to fill their stomachs.

The patience of the people at the bottom of the city has almost reached its limit.

It was also during the past year or so that with the natural disasters and the tide of refugees going south, a group of handicraft laborers who could not survive left the cities and went to the south as soon as they fled, which made these cities barely support themselves.

However, even so, the law and order in the city is becoming more and more chaotic, and riots occur from time to time. Even in some dark neighborhoods, if someone is not careful, the body cannot be found the next day. Dare to dig a hole and bury it, for fear that those wandering guys will dig it out.

Hunger drives people crazy.

A hungry man can do anything.

These are desperate times.

There are fewer and fewer jobs to survive on, and frequent natural disasters, high food prices, and the threat of war in the southern Blue Dragon Kingdom, the king collects war taxes, and the actual operation of tax increases has increased several times.

These civilians struggling to live at the bottom are not even as good as pigs and dogs.

In this context, the arrival and rule of the Blue Dragon Kingdom, along with the establishment of the grassroots administrative system and the implementation of the wartime system, gave these vast urban poor a chance to have enough to eat.

The broad masses of the people are rapidly returning to support.

For these poor people who spread over half of the city, the heavy daily life has already oppressed them into insensitivity. They don't understand the racial concept of human supremacy, and they don't care that their ruler has changed from a king to a king. One train.

they only know
His majesty the blue dragon Austin has come, and they have bread to eat.

"...May your majesty shine on us forever."

A skinny six-year-old with ribs visible and a dirty face, after receiving his portion of food, first put his hands together and prayed earnestly.

Then he wolfed down the white kudzu root rice.

This is an inconspicuous little beggar named York, whose parents died early, broke into this cruel world like a weak and innocent little beast, barely surviving on the occasional help from a few kind neighbors and picking up rubbish.

In recent days, everyone’s life is not very satisfactory. Those kind-hearted aunts are also worried about the lack of food. Little York has not been able to get food that can fill his stomach for a long time. The usual garbage that can be eaten and useful can no longer be picked up. arrive.

That day, he was so hungry that he had no energy left. He was lying on a pile of moldy straws, unconsciously chewing the straws with dirt in the corner of his mouth, so as to make his stomach feel better.

At that time, he felt an unprecedented chill all over his body, as if the god of death had come to him.

Then suddenly I dreamed that many, many delicious things appeared in front of my eyes.

There were countless white breads, which were said to be food that only noble gentlemen were entitled to. They piled up the whole room, and they were placed in front of him. Little York was about to pounce.

then,

A huge roaring explosion sounded, waking him up.

(End of this chapter)