From Chief to Ball

He shook his head and said, "No need. When the war comes, you expect us to be as brave as the people of our country. When the war is over, you expect us not to resist like slaves. All the good things in the world belong to you, which is unreasonable."

"Two years ago, when we were fighting for winter clothes, you said let us break up first, and then give us the answer tomorrow. We were simple-hearted at the time and thought you were different from the others, so we dispersed. As a result, after you breathed out the next day , Those who have troubled you told me that you would not agree."

"So... don't talk about it after the war. Either give us the status of a Chinese, or go to the war yourself! We will only defend Yucheng, and we will never go out with you until we get the status of a Chinese."

"If you want to use whips and sticks to force us into the battlefield, I can tell you, if you do that, you have to watch your backs, we will shoot your bows and arrows into your vests when you charge!"

After he finished speaking, he laughed, and Chen Jian also laughed.After a while, Chen Jian said: "Actually, if you think about it this way, the people you want to save must have some former masters. When you rescue them from the Dongyi people, they will actually be ashamed. The slaves who were once easy to kill have become slaves. Their savior, anyway, if it were me, I might stick my head in my crotch."

"At that time, you find a few slaves who escaped from Fengcheng, tear them apart to reveal whip marks, and let them see after you rescue them. At that time, those people were oppressed by the Dongyi people just like you were before. And you are the saviors, to stand aloft and taunt them with the marks of their whips, and isn't that one of the joys of life?"

He curled his lips in disdain and said, "We haven't guaranteed our food and clothing yet. How can we care about these happy things in life? Jixia, your skills have regressed. These words don't move us at all. You really think we Will you go to war for that moment of refreshment?"

After finishing speaking, he ignored Chen Jian, got up and left on his own, Chen Jian snorted, and reconvened the old people and members of the council in Xiacheng. This kind of matter cannot be decided by him alone, unless he wants to offend those people.

After Ji Bo repeated the conversation between Chen Jian and He, everyone looked annoyed, and someone shouted: "They are shameless, Ji Xia's methods are too soft! If you want me to say, send someone to arrest him now!" Those who take the lead are all arrested, this matter must not be allowed.”

"Isn't it just a war? Catch those leaders and lock them up or kill them, and force them to go to the battlefield. We can promise those who have made meritorious service in the war to give them the status of nationals. I don't believe that those people are monolithic. They I will fight to the death for the identity of the people of the country, and I don’t need to worry about things like shooting arrows behind their backs. Besides, if they really lose, wouldn’t those Dongyi people also capture them as slaves? They are just scaring us. !"

"If they were given the status of nationals, that would be 8000 people! What if something like this happens in the future? We don't agree! The people of Xiacheng will not agree either."

This is not just one person's opinion, it basically replaces the attitude of most Xiacheng people, a little incitement will convince many people.

Of course, the more important reason is that once these people become Chinese, the original delicate balance of Xia City will be completely broken, and no one can restrain Chen Jian, even if they form a group.

The lower-level Chinese in Xia City don't think so, but they are easily deceived by these people.

Chen Jian is still the leader of the council, which is elected once every three years. Some people in the council have built a lot of power. Originally, Chen Jian's faction was dominant.But all those who supported Chen Jian were left in Xia City, and all those who opposed Chen Jian were called here.

Because Xiacheng was united by more than a dozen surnames and many clans from the beginning, it was never a city with one surname. Chen Jian's rights were obtained through prestige and compromise.

These words are expected.

Most of the people who were called were opposed to the fact that his power was getting stronger. It could be said that it represented that the forces opposing Chen Jian in Xiacheng were concentrated in Yucheng.

After a while, Chen Jian glanced at the crowd and said, "Let's make a decision, this is beyond the discretion of the leader."

More than half of the people avoided Chen Jian's gaze and raised their hands to agree with that person's opinion. This has nothing to do with whether or not to centralize power. looking for death.

Most of the people in Yucheng supported Chen Jian, but their status was not high, and they were only able to discuss matters here because of the timing of Yucheng's initial construction.

Chen Jian sighed and said: "I don't agree with this. This breaks the rules. The rules are clear. You can't arrest people at will. If you insist on making this decision, I will temporarily hand over the authority of the leader. The council is in charge, just like when I went out to fight. I may not support giving them the status of Chinese nationals, but I will not personally break the rules I set.”

After speaking, he handed over the seal representing the rights of the chief of the city, but the Wufeng worn by Da Sima was still hanging on Chen Jian's waist, and the seal of Yucheng Workshop Division was still in his hand.Yu Qian'er held the seal of the Department of Shipping, and the seal of the Planning and Statistics Department was in the hands of Red Fish.

Putting the seal respectfully behind the wooden table of the meeting, Chen Jian still sat there as a member of the meeting, but did not say a word.

Chapter 15 Conspiracy

The whole venue fell silent instantly, and half of the people stood there in a daze. Chen Jian raised his head and said indifferently: "I set the rules, so I have to abide by them. You all know the discussion of those workshop workers when the charity decree was promulgated last year, right? Some people support it, some people oppose it, but even if they all know that if they make a decision to support it, then even if they object in their hearts, they must suppress it and do things they don’t like. That’s the case with that group of people, I am Chen Jian Not even worse than them."

Several people looked at the seal symbolizing rights on the wooden platform, and swallowed involuntarily. Chen Jian suppressed the astonishment of those who supported him, and sat there quietly.

There were very few people who knew about this matter in advance, so few that they could be counted with one hand, and those who supported Chen Jian emotionally could not be counted with two hands even in such a deformed meeting.

There are some things that Chen Jian doesn't want to touch, but that he has no chance.In the few years since he left Xia City, even though Yu Qianer was watching over him, some people's influence in Xia City expanded extremely quickly.

Chen Jian spent several years fabricating a lie. He was very disciplined, even a little rigid in the matter of discipline, so rigid that he could give up many things in order to abide by the rules.

The lies fabricated for several years finally came into play, so when he asked all the people in Xiacheng who had objections to him to come to Yucheng, no one was worried that Chen Jian would do something similar to the actions of other city leaders when they seized power. Because for five full years, Chen Jian lied so much that he almost believed himself.

Everyone thought that Chen Jian was going to reason with those people, and they were not afraid of reasoning, anyway, they didn't believe it, and what's more, they didn't expect that Chen Jian gave them a surprise... for the sake of those rules, they would rather give up the leader temporarily right.

Some things may not belong to you once you let go.

After waiting for a long time, one of them stood up and said, "Ji Xia, we are not against you... It's just that people in the country have always had opinions on some things. For example, about slaves, the public property system, etc..."

Chen Jian waved his hand and said, "I'm just a member of the council now, not the leader. All rights belong to the council. You don't have to say anything, just do it."

Everyone looked at each other, but they couldn't move their eyes away from the seal.No one knows that Chen Jian's prestige is unmatched at this time, but... But what if he proves that he did something wrong?

As long as this matter gets started and the prestige is greatly reduced, there will be no need to be so cautious about many things in the future, and even the prestige accumulated by Chen Jian can be completely dissipated after a few years. People are good at forgetting.

Faced with such a choice, someone finally stood up and said, "Since Jixia is unwilling to break the rules she established, then the council will decide whether to stick to that rule or cancel that rule?"

Chen Jian spent two years deploying manpower to form the weird structure of this deformed council. At this moment, the situation he wanted to see finally appeared: the people in the room opposed him and accounted for the majority, so that the majority thought that they were the whole summer. majority of the city.

After a while, the rule about not arresting and exiling workshop workers without reason was abolished, and then, in the name of the common council, ordered Red Fish to hand over the list of workshop workers leading troublemakers provided by the informer, and at the same time asked Chen Jian to use large In the name of Sima, he mobilized the black guards to prepare for the shock.

Chen Jian complied with the resolution of the council. Since he wanted to play the politics of the people of the city, he had to abide by the rules of the game.

The people in the meeting are no longer as simple as they were a few years ago, and their methods are much better than they were back then.

After a little discussion, a solution was decided.

In the name of preparing for the expedition, the Xiacheng people gathered in Yucheng, and Chen Jian made it clear to them that this was a decision of the council, and the name must be corrected first.

Then order the workshop workers to continue to work, not to let them prepare in advance, and at the same time divide the workshop into separate arrests.

The black-clothed guards are responsible for guarding the government hall. If there is a violent resistance, kill them.

The Department of Planning and Statistics formulated new rules overnight, including the measures that workshop workers can enjoy the status of Chinese nationals after killing the enemy, and strive to divide those workshop workers.

Contact the whistleblowers among the workshop workers and the representatives of the workshop workers who were bought, and let them promote the idea of ​​non-resistance and win-win cooperation, and set up those whistleblowers and workshop workers who were bought as models, and take the lead in giving them the status of Chinese.

In the morning, the first few things to be done in the next few days were determined. Although these people in the Yucheng system did not understand what Chen Jian meant, the idea of ​​the most rules that Chen Jian instilled on a daily basis still prevailed at this time .

These people decided to abide by the council's decision. After all, the council is the highest authority. Chen Jian is the leader of the council to act on behalf of the council, but he has given up at this time.

Faced with this situation, Chen Jian was very relieved that at least these people in the Yucheng system had begun to abide by the rules.

His own victory ultimately comes from the victory of the rules. Obeying the rules is the greatest support for him. Besides, he hasn't said anything or expressed anything. It is beyond his wish for these people to abide by the decision of the council.

Everyone, including Chen Jian, followed the resolutions of the council to prepare for the shock operation before the expedition. This sudden situation, as well as the attitude of Yucheng people to abide by the rules of the council, exposed the ambitions of some people. I have [-]% certainty that I can win.

In their view, the key to everything has nothing to do with this arrest, and this is just the beginning.In their view, all of this is already a matter of inevitable success, so there is no need to consider arresting and suppressing, it is time to consider the next thing.

It's not dark yet, and the conspiracy has gathered in a corner that people can't see. This is the most gathering of all high-level opponents in the entire Xia City.

"Everyone, our destiny is at stake here. I have no objection to Jixia's growing power. But everyone, look at the lives of the people in other cities? Look at the relatives and nobles in other cities. What is the life of the children? Yucheng has banned the election system, and everything starts from the school. All children are the same. Why? We disbanded the clan for the establishment of Xiacheng. When Xiacheng was first built, we Working hard, why do those people's children have the same starting point as us?"

"He Jixia has no heirs, and his family is extinct. Do we want everyone to be like him? The city belongs to officials, and the children are still officials; the leader of the clan in the city, the children still have the power of slaves in fertile land. What about us? ?Now let’s not talk about the succession of children, even slaves can’t be seen in Yucheng, how can this work? Jixia actually wants every child to learn to write and count, and she wants to work hard. Who will do the hard work? Let me tell you, the whole Xia City only needs one hundred people who can read, if those workshop workers can't read, if those stupid Chinese can't read, how can there be so many shits?"

"As long as it is done this time, Jixia's prestige will definitely be greatly damaged. He has done a lot of right things, but now he has started to make mistakes."

"Xiacheng is the Xiacheng of Xiacheng people. This is what he has always said. We are not against him, but to make Xiacheng better; better for you, me and our children. There is no such thing in other cities. Isn't it just as good? Without Ji Xia, Xia City is still Xia City!"

"He thought he had figured everything out, so he called us here, hoping to reason with us and make us agree with his reasoning. But I don't agree with it, and you don't agree with it, but because of his prestige, we have to agree. .”