TAs the new landowner, he created “gentry villages” where former aristocrats, humiliated and oppressed, worked for him. They plowed the fields, built bridges and palaces for his pleasure. For “Pusha Raspy,” this was not just submission, but an act of total humiliation of the system that had once rejected him. He stopped noticing ordinary peasants. “Their spirit is weak, they are born to crawl,” he said, giving them the most useless tasks. For him, there were only two kinds of people: those who could become his tools, and those who already were.