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We learn, for example, that on his field trips with Lady Gregory, Yeats had difficulty understanding the thick Irish accent of the peasants.
They were greeted as liberators by the peasants and met only desultory resistance in most cities.
Hustling, bustling peasants hawk the rich harvest of the surrounding farming country: cabbages and oranges, eggs and live chickens (they are weighed while flapping), river fish and squirming eels, and table after table of the most fragrant spices, while stalls and hole-in-the-wall cafés heat up the city’s number-one dish, the Sichuan hotpot.
This encourages peasants to move in and begin farming the land.
Then the peasants and bourgeoisie were expected to live lives of probity, while the king and his court whored and plundered as they pleased.