Chapter 46: A History Half-True, Half-False

No matter how many doubts she had in her mind, the hunger in her stomach couldn’t be faked.

After finishing breakfast like a whirlwind, Tang Yunle leaned back in her chair and let out a burp without any semblance of grace, attracting frequent glances from others.

Even Lin Haiyu and Li Wei couldn’t help but mutter to themselves when they saw such an unladylike scene:

‘What’s wrong with Ah Le today? Isn’t she afraid of affecting her future rating by acting like this?’

Tang Yunle didn’t understand what the two of them were thinking. After eating, she took out her phone and started scrolling through short videos.

Since she didn’t know if she had transmigrated or was in a prank dream, she would just go with the flow and take it one step at a time.

If she had transmigrated, she would see what this parallel world was like. If it was a dream, she would see the limits of a dream!

The content in the short videos was somewhat indescribable and challenged her worldview. But thankfully, after the series of major shocks this morning, Tang Yunle’s worldview could barely withstand it.

After breakfast, the group first returned to their dorm to play on their phones for a while. Then, they grabbed their history books and went to class at the appointed time.

Teaching building, history class.

Tang Yunle looked at her history textbook, took a deep breath, and opened it.

If she had transmigrated and this was a parallel world, then she would see the history of this parallel world.

The book recorded that eight hundred years ago, the Yuan Empire collapsed, and warlords rose up.

The first speaker, with twenty horsemen, swept across the land, suppressed the rebellious kings, and established the Huayuan Confederation.

In ten years, he had cleared out the dragons and snakes. In twenty years, he had enriched the country and strengthened the army.

But not long after the establishment of the Confederation, a huge economic problem arose.

A dozen or so minutes later…

With a “thud,” the history textbook fell to the floor.

Tang Yunle’s hands trembled as she picked it up, unable to hide the shock in her heart.

The history of this world was similar to the history she had learned, but in some places, it was extremely terrifying to think about.

Even…

somewhat horrifying.

It is said that two percent of the people in society control eighty percent of the wealth. This was also true in the Huayuan Confederation, which was founded eight hundred years ago.

A large amount of resources and wealth were concentrated in the hands of the families established by the brothers who had fought alongside the speaker to conquer the land.

At that time, there were two choices before the speaker: either put a knife to the necks of these families and make them spit out all their resources and property to build the Confederation and run the economy; or sit back and watch the problem grow, waiting for the peasants who could no longer survive to launch the next peasant uprising to overthrow him.

In theory, most people would choose the first option, to deal with the families and have the tangible military boots stomp on the intangible families. But the situation at that time was a bit delicate.

The Huayuan Federation was then called the Huayuan Confederation, a confederate system, similar to the enfeoffment system of the Western Zhou Dynasty. The various regions and states were governed by the old families who had fought alongside the speaker to conquer the land. To deal with them meant to deal with his own base. A single misstep could lead to the collapse of the Confederation and social turmoil.

In the history textbook Tang Yunle had learned from, the speaker in their history had hardened his heart and directly attacked those families. He didn’t care if you were an old man who had fought alongside him to conquer the land. Now that the Confederation was in trouble, it was time for you to love the Confederation. Either kneel and give money, or lie down and die.

A civil war that spanned the three continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa was fought. The entire Confederation was almost divided into two countries, and most of the former meritorious families were slaughtered.

The speaker also took the opportunity to centralize power and change the Confederation into a Federation. As for the small number of families that were left, they had either sworn allegiance to the speaker before the war and stood on the right side, or they had remained neutral during the war and had directly surrendered when the war was about to end, shouting their eternal loyalty to the speaker.

The descendants of these people formed several families that were as old as the country itself, such as the Xu family, the Chen family, and the Qin family.

But in the history textbook of this parallel world, the speaker did not go to war, but adopted a gentle approach.

For these great families, they had land, food, and money, so naturally they wanted some spiritual pursuits. The speaker saw this.

Since ancient times, what has been able to be equated with the country, what has countless scholars and poets written poems about, and what has been discussed along with heroes in countless stories?

Beauties.

Beautiful beauties.

Beauties of high status.

Beauties that made countless heroes bow their heads.

The slender horses of Yangzhou, the old women of Datong, the nuns of Mount Tai, and the boat girls of West Lake. The beauties cultivated with these techniques, plus the promotion of the first concept of luxury goods, finally created a product—

female pets.

The Confederation will not take your money for nothing. The Confederation will sell these beauties to you.

Of course, if you still don’t agree, and you hold on to your money bags and don’t let go, and you don’t know what’s good for you, the speaker’s knife is not without its sharpness.

Whether these families were willing or forced to be willing, in short, the economic problem was solved.

Every year, these families would voluntarily or be forced to purchase a batch of high-quality female pets from the Confederate government. The wealth earned would then be invested by the Confederate government in social operation, production and consumption, and technological progress. As for the price… at that time, even the first industrial revolution had not yet taken place. Human life was not worth much, and a large number of people died of starvation and disease every year.

At first, this was just an unspoken rule between the government’s upper echelons and the old families. However, a later speaker with the surname Zhou carried out drastic reforms in the Huayuan Confederation. Not only did he centralize power and change it to the Huayuan Federation, but he also promoted this system throughout the country.

From birth, all women were under the full responsibility of the state. All expenses were paid by the state, and the state was responsible for their education. After graduation, they were sold by the state to expand domestic demand, promote the economy, and increase consumption. A series of laws were also formulated for this purpose.

To this day, after generations, the system has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it has been continuously improved and reformed, forming a unique female pet culture that has even spread throughout the world.

Tang Yunle swallowed hard.

No wonder everything was so strange today. Whether it was the dehumanizing term “female pet,” the so-called free and delicious nutritional meals for female pets, or the rating of female pets and their inability to own private property that her roommate had mentioned, all of it pointed to this.

This world seemed to have alienated women somewhat.

Now, after coming into contact with the history textbook and understanding the history of this parallel world, the confusion was finally dispelled.

This wasn’t just some alienation of women. This was clearly treating women as a social resource, a social resource for earning wealth from the upper-class wealthy families, driving the economic cycle, and narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

“This is a f*cking H-anime world,” Tang Yunle said slowly in a low voice, letting out a long breath.

“Ah Le, what are you muttering to yourself? Class is almost over.”

“Don’t forget, we still have to go to the hospital to visit Old Qin this afternoon.”

Lin Haiyu reminded her.

Tang Yunle came back to her senses, took a deep breath to calm herself, and replied casually.

“I know. I’ll go buy some fruit as a get-well gift later.”

“What get-well gift? Aren’t you one yourself?”

Lin Haiyu looked at Tang Yunle in surprise. “My dear girl, there’s a limit to the amnesia game. Old Qin is in the hospital now. As the female pet of our dorm room 812 and a top student in the female pet major, aren’t you going to show your skills and express your concern?”