Chapter 258 A Sober Person

When everyone was reveling, were there any sober people in Wano Country? Actually, there were. The first daimyo who came into contact with the idea of ​​the beasts, Shimotsuki Yasuie, was the sober one.

In the past few years, Shimotsuki Yasuie has never stopped exploring the beasts. Although the preaching group of the beasts has disappeared, the school of the beasts has been built in the past two years, and the teaching has become more unified. Shimotsuki Yasuie has repeatedly transformed into Tono Yasushi, a name that should have appeared more than ten years later in the original timeline, and then went to lie in the corner to eavesdrop on the content of the class at the school of the beasts.

As the manager of the harbor before the arrival of the beasts, although Shimotsuki Yasuie has never been out to sea, he is more open-minded than other daimyo. Even if it weren't for the beasts, Shimotsuki Yasuie would be the first person in Wano Country to open his eyes to the world in a few years. Unlike Kozuki Oden, who only knows to go out to sea to find freedom, Shimotsuki Yasuie really cares about the people at the bottom of Wano Country.

Although he was unable to do so due to the inertia of thinking in Wano Country for many years, at least he really wanted to do it. The tax rate of the people under his command was the lowest 10% tax, which was the same as Kozuki Oden's policy at the time. Moreover, the Hakumai where Shimotsuki Yasuji was located was not comparable to Kozuki Oden's Kuri. It was more prosperous and there were no bandits. At the same time, the exorbitant taxes levied by the samurai under his command were relatively small. Before the arrival of the Beasts, Shimotsuki Yasuji was the most famous.

Of course, as the saying goes, it is not afraid of comparing goods, but it is afraid of comparing people. Compared with the policies of the Beasts, the policies of the Shimotsuki Yasuji were also quite bad. However, the Shimotsuki Yasuji was not like others who only saw the evil of the Beasts to them, but saw the good of the Beasts to the people. He wanted to know why the people liked the Beasts so much. In the extremely xenophobic country of Wano Country, the Beasts could have such a high prestige. He felt that it was not something that could be achieved by simply reducing taxes.

So Shimotsuki Yasuie tried his best to understand the situation of the Beasts, from collecting the words of the lecture group, to listening to the lectures in the corners, and then running to the fields to watch the people working. Especially after knowing that Shusui Denjiro joined the Beasts, he became more curious. After all, the Shimotsuki clan is the descendant of the former sword saint Ryuma, and it is normal for them to have a connection with the Shusui clan who created the famous sword Shusui.

If you don't know this, you won't know. Once you know it, you will be shocked. He found that the perfection of the policy of the beasts is beyond the reach of Wano Country. After all, a simple tax rate of 30% can make the entire nobles and samurai class of Wano Country jump up. Such a low tax is simply a fantasy. Secondly, there are no excessive taxes. How to calculate, how to collect, and why to collect are all clearly written. It doesn't matter if you can't understand or are illiterate. There are people to help you interpret. At the same time, the beasts also opened up trade routes. Various commodities imported from overseas quickly occupied the market of Wano Country. After all, the people have money and need to consume. In the past, they didn't consume because they had no money, not because they had no desire to consume. These novel commodities of the beasts just meet their needs.

Then, free education gave the people space to learn more things, and the extremely low but extremely excellent medical level protected the lives of the people. Various diseases that were difficult to cure in the eyes of local doctors in Wano Country were not a problem in the eyes of these beasts' doctors.

When the survival guarantee was completed, the factories and mines of the Beasts also gave new employment opportunities to those people who still had spare energy and skilled craftsmen. After all, the Beasts really paid. In the past, mining in Wano Country relied on corvée labor, and the forging of weapons was also strictly controlled. Only the top craftsmen could forge weapons at will. Ordinary craftsmen could only forge weapons when they were recruited by nobles or samurai. They usually forged farm tools, etc. Many ambitious craftsmen were buried because they did not have enough opportunities to display their talents, and the Beasts gave them a chance to come out.

Finally, the top craftsmen in Wano Country, especially those who could polish seastone, were treated well enough by the Beasts. This not only retained talents, but also told others that capable people could really get respect in the Beasts, so that those ordinary craftsmen began to roll in crazily, for better treatment and more wages, and to live a better life. After all, the Beasts were not painting cakes, they really made cakes. As long as you have the ability, you can eat this cake, and you don’t have to worry about holding it up. The Beasts are backing you up.

Of course, what Hundred Beasts brings is not only involution, but also the sharing of technology, such as seastone craftsmen. These people have inherited their craftsmanship from their families and will hardly pass it on to outsiders. After all, the mining of seastone in Wano Country itself is so limited. If there are more people who master this technology, their jobs will be lost. Therefore, every seastone craftsman is very careful to avoid being learned by outsiders. Even if someone above asks him to hand it over, it is impossible. These people will threaten to die and will not hand it over no matter what. After all, taking away the technology they rely on for their livelihood is no different from taking their lives.

But it is different here in Hundred Beasts. The amount of seastone mined is large, and the demand for various products is naturally large. What should we do when this demand completely exceeds the work capacity of the craftsmen? Then we can only ask for help. After all, Hundred Beasts charges money by piece. The more they do, the more money they can make. These craftsmen first selected people from their own families. Later, when there were not enough people at home, they could only start to accept apprentices and let more people join in.

Not only has the number of people increased, but the demand has also forced the technology to upgrade. In order to earn more, these craftsmen began to think about whether this technology that has not changed for hundreds of years can be further improved. After all, if they can find a better and faster polishing technology, they can do it faster than others and earn more.

There are more than one or two people who have this idea. Many craftsmen have begun to try it. After a few attempts, they really succeeded. Now the polishing technology of the sea tower stone products of Baishou is more than twice as fast as before, and now they have begun to prepare for the second technology upgrade.

The seastone craftsmen were like this, so naturally those excellent weapon craftsmen could not lag behind, especially when they knew that there was a swordsmith in the Beasts who had forged the 12th level of the Supreme Great Work - Oak Thorin, they were even more crazy. After all, in Wano Country, swords are always the main weapons. They are fanatical about the pursuit of swords, but there are almost no people who can forge the Supreme Great Work. At most, they can forge the 21st level of the Great Work. This led to Oak Thorin having a transcendent status among the craftsmen in Wano Country. If these craftsmen had not retained the last bit of rationality, they might have become his apprentices on the spot.

However, even if those old craftsmen did not become his apprentices, these craftsmen grabbed their nephews and nieces and stuffed them into Thorin's place. They did not ask for formal disciples, but even if they could just listen to the lectures, as long as they could learn a few tricks from this top swordsmith, they would not have to worry about their lives.

Old Thorin is now very powerful. Wherever he goes, he is surrounded by people. When he visits the homes of local swordsmiths and craftsmen in Wano Country, those swordsmiths will definitely welcome him at the village entrance, and when he leaves, they will also see him off for ten miles. This also makes Baishou's reputation in the craftsmanship world rise.

The more Shimotsuki Yasuji watched these scenes, the more he felt the horror of Baishou. This is really digging the roots of Wano Country! And it is a digging of roots that Wano Country cannot resist at all, because Shimotsuki Yasuji knows his country too well. Those nobles and samurai like him have never paid attention to these. They always think that they are the foundation of this country, but they forget that if they do not produce anything without the support of the lower-class people, they are nothing. Now Baishou is stepping on the oxygen supply tubes of these people. As long as Baishou's feet fall completely, there is no need to start a war. Those samurai and nobles in Wano Country will be destroyed in internal strife and hunger.

Shimotsuki Yasuji feels more and more headache. He doesn't know who he should help now. Should he help the samurai and nobles? Yes, I should help them, after all, I am also one of them, but I can't betray my conscience, because my conscience tells me that the beasts' approach is correct, and the way Wano Country used to treat human lives as worthless is absolutely wrong, and I can't force myself to see the right as wrong.

Then help the beasts? Shimotsuki Yasuie hesitated again. It is difficult for a person who grew up in such an environment and is in an oppressor class to betray his class. The education he received since childhood made it difficult for him to make a decision. Shimotsuki Yasuie admired Shumizu Denjiro very much. They did not have the firm determination of Shumizu Denjiro, who could go all out for the right cause and devote themselves to it without hesitation.

"What should I do?" Shimotsuki Yasuie looked at the secret note in front of him. It was a message from Kozuki Oden to him, telling him to fight against the beasts together in the New Year. Shimotsuki Yasuie hesitated again. He didn't know what to choose. Kozuki Oden, the young people he once taught, Wano Country, where he lived, the people of Wano Country, the people he once determined to treat well, and the beasts, the forces doing the right thing.

He.

How to choose.

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