For Fang Zheng, this was far from his first time doing something like this, so he was naturally well versed in it. Whether in Britannia or the Xun Qin World, the first thing Fang Zheng had to do was make his people understand the true nature of their struggle.
It was not some empty, meaningless slogan like justice or freedom. That stuff was like smoking weed—you got insanely high while shouting it, then felt hollow once you were done. Japanese anime often had characters like that: they shouted about their self-righteous justice, then discovered reality was different from what they had hoped for, began doubting themselves, and ultimately chose betrayal... That was every villain's routine.
But protagonists were not much better. They shouted about peace and the people, yet in the end, they only treated the symptoms rather than the cause. Once they beat the BOSS, they considered their mission complete, without giving a single thought to the structural contradictions underneath.
Of course, perhaps that was just setting things up for a second season.
So, if you could not deeply understand and analyze the reasons behind the current situation, then everything you did would be meaningless and directionless.
It was like overthrowing the local tyrants and redistributing the land.
Of course, most landlords were exploiters who oppressed the peasants, but were there good landlords? Certainly. But did the existence of good landlords mean the landlord class should not be targeted?
In the eyes of protagonists from Japanese or Western games and anime, they definitely could not be targeted.
Because only some of them were bad, while some were good. We should strike at the bad ones and keep the good ones—that was justice.
What bullshit.
Ultimately, landlords had to be targeted because, as an exploiting class, they occupied vast assets