Boom!
The moment Le Yu stepped out of the tunnel, he heard several consecutive thunderous explosions in the distance!
More than a dozen little fire dragons shot into the sky at once, illuminating the night with an orange-red glow like dusk. It meant tonight's revelry had entered its final, fevered stage.
If the earlier riots might have involved someone secretly lending a hand, then the workers themselves were now putting forth their full strength.
The working class represented advanced productive forces. And so-called advanced productive forces did not merely mean that they were economic livestock that ate grass and produced milk. It also meant that they possessed the capital to produce violence!
Even though the Ting family's firearms factory was not in Profound Candle Prefecture, the prefecture already had enough resources for the workers to squander. They were not unarmed. Having touched the means of production every day, they naturally had the ability to transform those means of production into weapons.
Armor, swords, firearms... The merchant shops in the Outer City had probably already been completely looted. The goods these capitalists had produced by exploiting the workers were about to be used by the workers to hang the capitalists.
Profound Candle Prefecture also had a strong demand for fireworks. As it happened, Blazing Radiant Gunpowder was not all that different from fireworks. Skilled craftsmen only needed to add Radiant Stone fragments to fireworks to vastly increase their power. The explosions in the Inner City were probably caused by gunpowder made from these "modified fireworks."
Originally, dangerous goods such as Radiant Stone fragments and fireworks were strictly guarded by the various merchant associations. But by now, the Silver Blood Society cadres in the Outer City had probably either surrendered or thrown themselves into the river. There was no longer any force