From Chief to Ball

"Now that his prestige is increasing, those stupid ordinary people trust him more and more. This is our last chance. If you want to do great things, you must not be afraid of death."

The plotters clenched their fists, still a little scared in their hearts, but the leading few said something terrifying that made them no longer afraid.

"I know you are afraid, but as long as we work together, things may not be impossible."

"Once the matter with the workshop workers is settled, don't we know that bringing such a person to the battlefield is easy to cause chaos? Of course we do, and we just want to make Yucheng chaos, just to take advantage of Ji Xia's consistent idea of ​​obeying the rules Let him lead mutinous soldiers into battle."

"Since he is the great Sima, he must lead the troops this time."

When the speaker said this, he snorted and said with a smile: "We are in the city, and we have run out of food for the army. This is not a war of tens of miles, but a battle spanning five hundred miles. After he leaves, we will continue to oppress those workshop workers." , Let them destroy the ships, how can we transport food without ships?"

"No matter how capable he is, Jixia, he might not be able to win without food, right? He naively thought that we were persuaded by him to support him in the expedition, but the proposal for the expedition was made by him, and we can't blame us for the failure. .”

"If Dongyi wins, Jixia's prestige will be ruined. It would be best if he dies. If he doesn't die, he will be considered to have escaped. Even if those stupid people still support him, can he still be the leader?"

"If he is really capable, he can still win without food, but the slaves brought back belong to the public property. Let's propose that the black-clothed guards have meritorious service in the battle, and the slaves belong to the black-clothed guards. Who will the black-clothed guards support at that time? Seeing that they are getting closer to Jixia now, but I think they will definitely stand by our side when the public property is really distributed to them. Besides, even if we win, the food and grass will be cut off, and the black guards will be killed and injured. What does Ji Xia rely on?"

"Ji Bo is Ji Xia's dog, and he is the only one who believes in him, so he is not suitable to be the leader of the black-clothed guards. When he was going to fight against Dongyi... let him accidentally ignite the gunpowder and explode himself to death."

"As for ordinary people, they are all stupid, they can only see the small profits in front of them. After this is done, the slave system will be restored... and all the public property will be distributed to every Xiacheng countryman, including the public land in Xiacheng And the workshops here, fully liberalize the control of private workshops, including iron smelting. Those Chinese people are stupid, and they don’t understand. Let us pay the money to the Chinese people in exchange for the management rights of the smelting workshops in their hands. Properly share some benefits with them. Let them rejoice."

"You have to know that the root of Jixia's rights lies in these public properties. Once the public property system is broken, what is the difference between him and us? These people are wolves who can't get enough to feed them. When Jixia can't give them, they can only To be able to feed myself to them."

"The public property that Jixia prepared with great care turned out to be the best reward for us to buy the people of the country. The public property of an iron smelting workshop is invisible and intangible. In name, it belongs to all the people of the country, but it is not like slave land. How can it be compared? The private property of [-] mu of land distributed by the previous family?"

"Everyone, this is our last chance. If we lose this time, Xia City will be completely changed."

"If we don't do anything because of fear, none of us will struggle for another three years. When those common people's children learn and grow up, we will also be old, and it will be over by then."

"Sihuo Ji is Jixia's younger sister. In fact, many people can do what she can do, so it may not be good. She can do well only because Jixia holds the public property and supports him. Once the public property is divided into private, Her rights are gone, and this can be left alone."

"As for Hongyu...remind everyone that she is a foreigner, and force her to hand over power. If Jixia is not dead, let's say that Redyu bewitched Jixia to make these wrong decisions and forced Jixia to kill her .”

"Xiachengguo people, go to the people to prepare immediately. We have a lot of people there, control the civet cat and a few people, and the wolf skin is in charge of the fiefdom as Zongbo. Some people have already had opinions on him, and we must take this opportunity to take it down. .”

"White Horse...give him the land, north of Yangguan, all of which belong to him, and tell him whether the meeting will treat him badly."

"Send someone to contact Eyuewei, Hesuyue and other leaders, and say that we are willing to exchange technologies such as copper and iron smelting in exchange for their support. Give up Xiacheng's mine income in the two cities of Ewei, and just ask them to stand on our side side. They'll agree."

"I don't know about others, but in the vicinity of Onozawa, there are already many leaders who are dissatisfied with Jixia's rules. Last time I went to Sucheng, several leaders also secretly approached me and made friends with each other. I think this Friendship is enough for them to make a decision."

"The rest of the cities have already disliked Jixia. If a person who is smart and hard-working is against it, then he must have done something wrong."

"You don't have to be afraid, even if things fail, we can still go to other cities. With our skills and everything we have learned in Xiacheng, we can be just as beautiful in other cities. And...someone welcomes us to go, We are also welcome to do such a thing, and the black-clothed troops trained in Yucheng in some cities can also be temporarily used by us."

"There are rumors in other cities that once it is done, we will destroy the school, only allow relatives and precious children to study, cut off the assessment system, return the election first and then return the blood lineage, and all the different rules of Yucheng will be removed."

"As long as we do this, the clans of the entire Great River Tribe will support us, and they have promised a lot."

"Without those things, our rights still exist, and our children can still inherit everything from us. Those schools and workshops will only make the stupid lower class more cunning and cunning. It is better to destroy them. Anyway, we still have slaves."

"This is the right way for Xiacheng. The rest of the cities are like this. Why does Xiacheng have to be different? Since Ji Xia has always said that Xiacheng belongs to Xiacheng people, every person in Xiacheng must be responsible for the rise and fall of Xiacheng. do everything."

"Don't think that we are cruel and merciless, and don't think that we are harming our own clansmen by inciting mutiny by cutting off food. You must remember that we are trying to bring Xia City back to the right path. Jixia went wrong! These dead people are just sacrifices. , and these sacrifices will make Xia City's future better, I think they wouldn't blame us even if they knew it. They are too short-sighted and dull, let us make decisions for them!"

"This... is for Xia Cheng!"

Chapter No.16 Scream

On the night after the plot, several people returned to Xia City by boat.Chen Jian did what he said, let go of his rights but did not slow down his work, he would not stop him from doing what he should do, and he also made proper arrangements for people to return to Xiacheng during the meeting.

Several people found Chen Jian, but Chen Jian didn't say anything, and he didn't discuss anything secretly with others. It seemed that he was really rigid enough to stick to the rules.So Chen Jian got the evaluation of a gentleman from the members of the council.

The seemingly calm Xia City was already turbulent, but the person who should be at the top of the wave seemed not to have noticed these waves at all.

On the third day of May, Chen Jian declared in front of all the people that he would temporarily relinquish his powers and responsibilities as the leader of the council in order to abide by the rules he set.

When the people of the country were frightened, Chen Jian left, and the members of the council read out the resolution of the council: In order to deal with the coming war, the people of the country temporarily stopped working in the workshop and prepared weapons to start training.

The black-clothed guards were fully armed, and at the same time secretly protected the informers, keeping them from being exposed for the time being, and preparing for the subsidence of the subsequent incident.

At this critical moment, Chen Jian returned to his room to rest under the pretext of having a headache, and declared that he would not care about this matter any more.

Some people are so happy, thinking that Chen Jian is just making the last struggle, trying to use this kind of passive confrontation to make the council accept his proposal of changing the rules, which seems a bit ridiculous, it is best if you are sick, and we may implore you in normal times When I came back, I was afraid that you would break the rules and fight back violently, but since you obey the rules, it will be easy to handle.

These people in Xiacheng seem to have learned a lot of dirty things, but they haven't experienced real blood and rain. Many stories are heard, and their leaders don't do such dirty things, so they feel that seizing power is actually very difficult. Simple.

Those people felt that the chances of this matter being done were too great, and the workshop workers were divided into various workshops, so it should be impossible to resist, and they also didn't believe that this group of people were so fearless, so they were full of confidence.

Similarly, Chen Jian felt that the chances of these people being successful were too small. These workshop workers had fought against him for two years and learned for two years. The bottom line of people is the rules, because once the rules are broken, they will fall back and become slaves.

Not the content of that little rule, but the meaning of the rule itself.

Furthermore, when Yucheng was first built, Chen Jian insisted on digging inland rivers everywhere, not only for the convenience of transportation and saving the process of making bricks, but also to divide the terrain.

The horse-drawn chariots in the open space were unstoppable, but with ravines and rivers, the impact of the horse-drawn chariots would be greatly limited, and the narrow terrain divided by waterways was also very suitable for the defense of the spear phalanx.

Gunpowder workshops, weapon workshops, grain warehouses, etc. are all near the workshop group, separated by river forks and some simple parapets have been built, so workshop workers can easily seize these places.

The military training that the workshop workers started a year and a half ago also ensured that they would not be slaughtered at will, and the wooden sticks without spearheads had already been distributed.

They have their own organization, there are people selected according to Chen Jian's request to promote why they are fighting, they have strict organization, they have the blood of violent resistance, and they have the discipline of training for a year and a half.

Before the group resistance, they were still thinking of destroying tools like slaves. They were forced by Chen Jian's rules to prevent them from destroying tools. The low-level resistance learned to group together; Jian used deception and spears to wake up; before the charity decree, it was a time when they didn't know what they were going to pursue in the future, and they discussed it clearly by themselves.

Organized, purposeful, demanding, know how to give in, and do not compromise.

They are different from those slaves who resisted alone, so Chen Jian is also full of confidence.

He only did one thing for the remaining points. He told Xie about the plan to suppress by some means, and provided a list of whistleblowers, and by the way gave them half a day of preparation time.

It's just that they didn't let them know that they did it by themselves, just like the cloth they provided two years ago.

Chen Jian is not afraid of chaos in the city, what he is afraid of is the stability of the delicate balance, and the chaos is not severe enough.

Only great chaos can lead to great order. Take advantage of Suyue's expedition and make a big chaos once, otherwise in the future, if there is any future chaos, you will have to worry about external forces.

The arrest time scheduled by the council was the morning of the fourth day of May. Early in the morning, they were still blowing whistles and working as usual, but no one noticed that there were a few people missing in several workshops. The reason was that they had some minor illnesses and were resting.

Three days of money will be deducted for every day off, and in order to force them to work every day, a sum of money will be paid at the end of each month. If there is no work for one day, the money will be deducted, so there are very few workshop workers. Asking for leave does not mean that you cannot ask for leave, because after the last struggle, you are no longer directly thrown to the island to fend for yourself if you are sick.

Those who didn't come with a minor illness, there are a few well-known figures among the workshop workers, such as the iron man who never gets sick.

The workshop workers also thought that this day would be the same as usual, but soon discovered that the Xiacheng people who worked with them did not show up.

Or because of the possibility of war, the workshop workers did not think much, and prepared early near the smelting furnace, handed over the tools, and prepared to cast a new batch of ironware.

Ze was counting the iron fans, when a whistle sounded suddenly, several Xiacheng people walked into the smelting workshop with my spear, and then one of them shouted: "Come out if you read the name."