Soul Land: The Heavens and the Earth
Chapter 597

Red Assembly

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The news of the seven members of the Spirit Hall Team setting fire to farmland eventually reached the ears of the higher-ups of various major forces.

When the Pope of the Spirit Hall learned of this, she first frowned, then took out the portraits of Huo Zhanji and the others that she had previously ordered someone to record. Comparing them with the images of the seven members of the Spirit Hall Team in her mind, her memories, which had been altered due to the departure of Huo Zhanji and the others, returned. She then realized that they were innocent and had simply been impersonated.

But--

Those people from other dimensions eventually returned to their original dimensions. Even if upon closer examination there are many differences in the details, someone still needs to take responsibility for this matter.

Who is it?

The original members of the Spirit Hall Team: Lu Renjia and others.

How pitiful! How lamentable!

After some time passed, no one mentioned it again, and Zhou Qing took the opportunity to rebuild a group.

Zhou Qing is the president, Tang San is the Vice President, and Xiao Wu, Romantina, Wang Sheng, Bu Yi, and others are all members.

"To accomplish anything, you need a set of guidelines."

Seeing that everyone was a little confused, Zhou Qing smiled and said, "The so-called outline is a specific analysis of the goal. Generally speaking, it can be divided into five parts: nature, target, motivation, strategy, and objective."

For all members, there are only two fundamental goals: destruction and construction.

To break it down, the nature of these two things is simply to create a better world and to remove the privileged class who hold positions of power without doing their jobs.

Targets: The Two Great Empires, the high-ranking officials of the Spirit Hall, including most of the nobles and sects, as well as some families.

Motivation: For ordinary people, the desire to live a better life, to be free from oppression, and to be able to achieve equality with others in terms of social status.

Strategy: Civilize their minds, toughen their bodies!

The former is education, which enlightens the people, spreads ideas, and helps them understand the essence of how society works; the latter is teaching them to exercise their bodies and even cultivate their Soul Power so that they possess martial strength.

Whether it's destruction or construction, both intelligence and physical strength are required!

Goal: To establish a nation led by all its people!

After Zhou Qing explained it to him, Tang San suddenly understood and realized that no matter how big or small the matter was, it could essentially be analyzed into these five parts.

Just like his research on grain varieties—

Nature: One or more attempts to cultivate high-yield crops.

Target plants: Rice, Wolf Bristle Grass, Blue Silver Grass, etc.

Motivation: For him, he would feel a sense of inner satisfaction because people are able to eat their fill; when people are well-fed, they will support and admire them.

Strategy: Utilize the Blue Silver Grass's talent of Listening to All Things to cultivate new types of crops and guide interested people to join the research process (such as Xiaolan).

Objective: To cultivate high-yield crops.

How can we get other people interested in their research?

Educate.

Hope Primary School were established for this purpose.

Enlighten the people!

Spread ideas!

"So when will we rebel? Oh no, when will we demand back the rights that rightfully belong to the common people from the Two Great Empires?" Romantina asked.

"It's not the right time yet."

Zhou Qing grinned, "To truly begin a change, three basic conditions are needed: popular support, social contradictions, and resistance forces."

"We already have a solid foundation among the people. In just three years, the villagers on both sides of the coast from Holy Soul Village to Vast Sea City on the west side have become quite supportive of us because of our guidance in building roads, which has made transportation and economic circulation easier. In Tang San, the high-yield grain varieties that you cultivated have spread. But it's not enough, we still need to keep working hard."

"Social conflicts include those between commoners and Soul Master, between commoners and nobles, and between Soul Master and nobles. There are many more subcategories, but they are mainly these two."

For change to occur, the contradictions must first reach an unbearable level.

For example: commoners can no longer survive under the oppression of nobles. Or: commoner Soul Master can no longer tolerate the arrogant attitude of noble Commoner Soul Master.

Judging from the current situation, it's impossible to achieve complete reform in the Soul Master World. This is because the Soul Master World is part of the existing aristocratic political system, with deeply entangled interests. Without a complete overhaul, lower-level Soul Master are unlikely to rebel, nor do they possess the will to do so—the example of Falling Star City, I think everyone remembers, right? Most Commoner Soul Master in the Soul Master World are essentially the same as the people of Falling Star City; they don't easily take sides, lack grand dreams, but they all possess a certain shrewdness.

They'll help whoever wins.

Wang Sheng complained, "They will never become true strongmen."

You can't say that.

Zhou Qing's gaze turned serious. "Strictly speaking, they are no different from ordinary people, except for their power. Moreover, it is precisely because of their simple and honest nature of 'helping whoever wins' that they have the opportunity to be won over to our side."

The reason is very simple.

If the will of most Commoner Soul Master in the Soul Master World is also very firm, then the difficulty for Zhou Qing to make changes will increase exponentially.

On the contrary, it is precisely because most people lack willpower that there is a basis for change.

Only after the transformation is completed can new ideas be disseminated and a sound legal system be established during the construction process, with morality and law working in tandem.

"Finally, the resistance forces. Based on the above two points, it is easier to understand. We have popular support, and social contradictions have reached an extreme point. In that case, other places will inevitably erupt, and we can then take action."

Zhou Qing added, "However, at this stage, we only have one condition: a solid public base, and the current number is not enough; we need to continue developing..."

The next two points—

At this point in time, the conflict between commoners and nobles on the Douluo Continent has not reached an extreme level, and the forces of resistance... are almost non-existent.

Many adventurers and free Soul Master who choose not to join any faction are, in a sense, representatives of the resistance against the aristocratic class, but their method of resistance is to give up.

After all, whether they are adventurers in the Adventurer's Guild or Soul Hunting in Soul Hunting Team, they all essentially earn money by relying on tasks posted by others.

Soul Master are the most noble profession on the entire continent...

In the ancient times when human living space was extremely limited, Soul Master, as the elite among human beings, were indeed noble for opening up living space for the human race.

However, in the current era of highly centralized political environment, the nobility of the Soul Master profession is more awe-inspiring to ordinary people due to the power of the Soul Master.

Not absolutely.

But that's the general idea.

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