From Chief to Ball

Those who were hidden from the whistleblowers began to promote propaganda, and those who were trained by Chen Jian to teach these people why they fought spoke out the most practical reason that there was no need for lies and deception: no longer being slaves.

The operation started almost at the same time. After confirming the fact that the rules had changed and the arrests began, the group first controlled the whistleblowers on the list and tied them all up with ropes.

The group of people in the council thought that people were stupid and cowardly, but they ignored the organization that had always existed inside the workshop workers, and even more ignored that the least likely to betray among them betrayed the vested interest class.

The resistance and arrest were fierce and quick, and those who had called for sick leave quickly came to the warehouse area of ​​the wharf after hearing the news from the smelting department.

More than 30 core members connected with most of the workshop workers of the Transportation Department took the lead, cut off the wooden bridge on the waterway, occupied the pier, and expelled the Xiacheng people near the pier.

Then, according to the usual training of one hundred people, the entire transportation department connected the dock porters to organize six hundred people, relying on the distributed wooden poles to form a formation.

The two centurions were responsible for guarding the waterway and strictly guarding against the support of Xiacheng people; the remaining four quickly surrounded the armory and grain warehouse.

There were only thirty Xiacheng people guarding the grain warehouse. Facing the menacing workshop workers, these Xiacheng people did not back down.

Their task is to guard the granary, and no one can take it away without the order of the Planning and Statistics Department. Even if they face ten times as many enemies, they are still fearless.

The opposite side also showed terrible courage. Even though the wooden poles in their hands had no spearheads at all, they responded to the feathered arrows and copper swords with neat steps, and started the battle in the narrow terrain.

The first batch of casualties in the civil strife occurred in the granaries and military equipment depots. Seven people from Xiacheng Kingdom died in battle, and the rest were arrested.The workshop workers killed eight people and injured more than 30 people.

Then he lit a bonfire in front of the armory and piled up wet grass. The rising smoke was telling the rest of the workshops that he had succeeded.

Not long after, the other workshops also lit up with thick smoke, and the workshop workers came in order to receive a large number of spears that Chen Jian had piled up here a long time ago.

After controlling the most important places, the two ships on the pier left to go to the farms and mines to contact the farm laborers and workshop workers there.

A year ago, more than a dozen people had been sent to the mine and the farm for various reasons, which was also tacitly approved by Chen Jian.

In less than half a day, the entire workshop area and dock warehouse area were controlled by the workshop workers, and the entire Yucheng was divided into two halves by the wide waterway in the middle.

On the other side of the waterway, Chen Jian didn't care and let the people in the council toss.Scattered arrests, unexpected resistance, etc., made the workshop workers with a superior number quickly win at the other end of the waterway, and even made a gesture of attacking the government hall, which made the people in the council very nervous and mobilized a limited number of people. The mobile force prepared to defend, but it turned out to be a false alarm.

This false alarm bought time for the workshop workers on the opposite side, and the leaders lurking in each workshop quickly organized people.The women began digging the earth to build parapets, making the very narrow streets divided by waterways more difficult to hit.

Facing the mishandling of this false alarm, the disadvantages of the aristocratic council system were undoubtedly revealed. The remnants of the clan alliance responded to emergencies without any damage to Chen Jian's prestige, only revealing their strength. inability.

In just half a day, the conspirators who were originally full of confidence were already gloomy.

Their plan was perfect, and once the first step was done, the rest seemed to fall into place.

In their view, arresting a few people could not be easier. When slaves rebel in other cities, as long as they catch the leader and kill those slaves, they will be safe for a while.

This simplest step was the beginning of weakening Chen Jian's prestige. Their plan was grand, and they had guessed many possibilities of failure, but they never thought that the first step would fail.

In the face of such chaos, they have nothing to do.When Chen Jian threw away his rights, they picked them up, thinking they could fly to the sky, but they didn't expect that the people of the country would only realize the stupidity and short-sightedness of the old council.

Perhaps in other cities, rights cannot be thrown around, and once thrown away, it is difficult to get them back.But here, Chen Jian doesn't care at all, because the social form here is completely different from other cities, and what he learned from other cities is not applicable here, and will only be counterproductive.

It's time to let the clan aristocratic deliberation system left over from the clan era completely get out of the Xiacheng system, it's time to completely deprive them of their rights, and it's time to clear all internal obstacles for the future.

Killing people can also be done, and it seems to be the easiest way.Chen Jian has military power, he obeys the rules just pretending to be himself, others believe him, but he can change his morality at any time.

But he was too lazy to kill, because killing could not be of educational significance, and it would leave sequelae, and he would have to face even more difficult military nobles in the future.

So it is better to kill than to kill.

And the hearts are hidden in the belly, and only by letting their hearts be exposed can they be punished.If you want them to show their hearts, power is the best laparotomy.

Chapter 18 There is strength in being organized and purposeful

On the seventh day of May, the entire city of Yucheng had been divided into two halves.

A very narrow inland river divides the entire Yucheng into two halves. I thought it would take more than a hundred people to complete the arrest, but the reality is that those workshop workers organized together and used dense spears to declare that half of Yucheng has belonged. them.

Chen Jian didn't do anything except deliver the news.Because he has already done what he should have done in the previous two years, and now he only needs to wait.

Those who were full of thinking about managing slaves had never faced this kind of situation at all, while those who could handle these situations were just like Chen Jian, keeping their mouths shut.

Through the parapet and the inner river, you can see the movement of the workshop, everything is as usual, and even the smelting furnace is still smoking.

The other party restrained their behavior very much. Except for the riots and the battle to seize the warehouse, none of the captured Xiacheng people were killed, and they were treated normally.

The divided land and the forest of spears also make it difficult for Xiacheng to act, because many people will die. Even if the meeting hopes to be completely messed up, it still has to consider the opinions of those Chinese. He didn't dare to give too much orders, so he could only confront them temporarily.

There is actually a lot to be done in a peaceful confrontation.For example, let people on both sides know why they are fighting.

But those old councils didn't care about this matter at all, the propaganda department was completely in Chen Jian's hands, and it was even more silent at this time, without a word.

On the other side, those army propagandists who had been trained by Chen Jian for more than a year showed their skills and learned to use wooden or earthen horns to continuously shout towards the council.

The content is nothing more than: "You destroy the rules first, then don't blame us for not obeying the rules; we don't want to kill people, but you want to send us to the gallows, we will not wait to die; we are not slaves, we just want to be human ;We will not destroy your workshop, we just take back what belongs to us, we want to leave here, your city will be exchanged for you, and then we will give you the sweat we have shed for two years..."

Seemingly useless things have played a huge role, people's hearts are unstable, everyone is thinking, and it is easy to think too much when thinking.

In the face of the onslaught, the corrupt and old members of the council came up with the rotten rhetoric, which was nothing more than glory and courage to the people of the country; but it was the same old style to the opponent, such as Is it right for you to resist? Yes, you and Yucheng depend on each other.

Limp and lacking in momentum, the few propagandists controlled by Chen Jian scolded their mothers in private. They are about to leave Yucheng to build a city elsewhere, and they still depend on each other?

Those who believed in the power of words felt that in just a few days, their aura would be completely destroyed.

What was even more frightening was that in the evening, some internal preaching on the opposite side was spread here through the narrow river.

The voice was intermittent, but many people recognized that it was the leader of the workshop workers who was supposed to be arrested and hanged who was yelling.

"We used to naively thought that those people would agree to our request to become Chinese. But now it seems that we are getting farther and farther away from what we want."

"Now that we are united, since those people want to make us slaves again, of course we must resist."

"We don't want to kill people, but if someone else's spear is on our necks, we will never close our eyes and wait for death."

"There are a lot of people in Xiacheng, but many are not here. Yucheng has everything we want, but we can't hold it. Now we have controlled the docks, ships, and smelting workshops. Some people say that they will take this opportunity to drive them away. Xiacheng people, let us become the masters of Yucheng, I object."

"It's not because of those who are embarrassed or feel so bad, or even because this place belongs to Xiacheng people, but because we can't hold it for too long. No city will allow a group of former slaves to become a city. Master of Yi."

"What we will face in the future is not only the people of Xiacheng, but also the counterattack of our former masters in other cities, so we have to go."

"But we have to go, not run away. Before we go, we need to take back what should belong to us. We need plowshares and iron tools, winter coats and felts, and columbine tools, and we can do all of these."

"Now there are more than 6000 men and women on the island, and more than 4000 people from the farms and mines. We need a lot of things, so we have to guard the workshop enough for us to open up our own. A multitude of tools to oppress our cities again."

"When we have all these things, we will leave. Jixia said that the sky is high and the land is wide, and there is a lot to do, which is reasonable. The boats are enough for us to cross the big river. We will build a city of our own on the south bank of the big river. A city without slaves."

"At that time, if someone attacks us, we will understand that we are fighting for ourselves, because we are the masters of that city. Those Xiacheng people let us fight for it, and they can't convince us, because they don't They are going to treat us as adults, so why should we fight for Xiacheng?"

"Would you like to have a city that can be human, our own, on the south bank of the great river?"

Hundreds of people answered yes in unison, and shouted: "Then half a month from now until the evacuation, half of the people will continue to work in the workshop, and the other half will hold the weapons in their hands, and follow me to block those Xiacheng people. Those of us who have been arrested... are your most trusted people. From now on, more than 50 of us will stand at the front; when we withdraw, we will walk at the back!"