Good chapter, humans are not evil neither good, they just strive to survive to their surroundings, even if that make them evil of good, and only a third party can truly asses if someone is evil or good, and that's after considering their own values, moral, culture and privileges.
Still this truly speak about the dilemma of the people back then, where they were no more than cattle to the royalty and nobles.
No wonder that Sei dinasty end up failing, just as his dream