The person who suggested lowered his head, feeling uneasy in his heart, and the person who refuted looked at the people who were intimidated by him, and said in a word: "Now we can only give up Yucheng, return to Xiacheng, and let Yuxia separate."

Chapter 20 Let Him Go

"Can it be done?"

One man's question is many man's question, only asked by one man.

"It can be done."

Just answering these two words is not enough. After staying in Xiacheng for a long time, it is difficult not to be constrained by those plans or statistics. acquired this habit.

"First, most of Jixia's people are in Yucheng, and our people are basically in Xiacheng. Most of the rest will only stand on the side of the winner."

"Secondly, Yucheng is already in chaos. Jixia has only one way to go, even if we caused this incident. When we return to Xiacheng and control the situation, Jixia can only rely on those workshops if he wants to go back and seize power. This proves that he has betrayed his tribe, as long as there is a workshop worker who follows Jixia back, he will not be able to tell. As long as the person is dead, everything is easy to talk about."

"Thirdly, Xiacheng still has a lot of public land, which will be divided up immediately after returning. Everyone knows that Jixia will take back the public land after returning, and a large number of public land slaves can definitely buy most of the people in Xiacheng."

"Fourth, the two cities of Ewei will also support us. They don't want a strong Xia city. They are extremely dissatisfied with many things that Jixia discussed with them. We can give up a lot of public property in the two cities, such as mining. The rights of human beings are supported by them. Common property is something that ordinary Chinese cannot see or touch, and their vision is very shallow, so they will not object."

"Fifth, the white horse has been defending the grassland at Yangguan for several years, and there are many riders. Is he willing to share the rights of Xiacheng equally with his descendant, Sun Yongji, or continue to be the same as it is today? Those people are least affected by Ji Xia, and those people can be used by us. And For some settlements on the grassland, as long as they agree to help us deal with Jixia who led the army, we can sell them bronze soldiers."

"Sixth, the distance between Xiacheng and Yucheng is too far. It will take more than 20 days for Ji Xia's soldiers to go there, and this will be after the chaos in Yucheng is quelled. We have seals in our hands, and there are always four It takes five months to prepare, as long as it lasts until autumn, Ji Xia will have no choice but to retreat."

"Seventhly, Su Yue and other leaders also want to see civil strife in Xia City. I think they will stand by us when the time comes, as long as we give them something they want."

After summing up a few items, smiles gradually appeared on everyone's faces, and it seemed that it was indeed possible.As for their internal strife after success, we always have to wait until everything subsides. Now we still have common needs and enemies, so we are very united.

"So the most important thing to do now is to add fuel to the chaos in Yucheng and make it even more chaotic! Didn't Xiacheng say that these public properties belong to the people of the country? It's just that the current ownership is not Well, we can make it better."

After saying this with a smile, they talked about some details, and the group dispersed after everyone smiled.

On the same day, the only three boats controlled by Yucheng were mobilized by the council, and the person in charge of punting the boats was replaced by someone else, and the original person took up arms and went ashore according to the council's order.

Then some people were secretly transferred to the upper reaches, the reason was to meet a group of soldiers from other cities who came to support them, but in fact, it was the conspirators who pulled out all the clansmen hidden in Yucheng under their control and retreated to Xiacheng in advance. Not much.

Then that night, a piece of news spread among the people of the country: the council decided to completely distribute the public property to everyone, anyway, the workshops in Yucheng had been controlled by those workshop workers.As long as it can be taken back, the public property of these workshops will be divided according to the merits of this quelling turmoil, including those farms, all of which will be privately owned.Realize that the public property is owned by every person in the country, not the situation that Jixia does the nominal ownership and still has someone fully responsible for the jurisdiction.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation. Everyone in the country knew how many things the smelting workshop could exchange for Yucheng every day. Those things were actually used by themselves, but it was not the same as actually holding them in their hands.

For a while, the part that didn't know why they were fighting seemed to have found a reason. They couldn't turn their heads for a while, but their hands had already clenched their spears. The whole half of the city was discussing this matter, only about this matter. The discussion was not one-sided, but people with two opinions started arguing.

Even though the debate started, Chen Jian still didn't show up, as if he had completely let the whole city go into chaos, and he didn't even care about the chaos in his mind.

When these things reached Chen Jian's ears, Chen Jian just smiled and told the anxious Hongyu and his sister not to worry.

"At this time, I choose to believe our people. I believe that they are not stupid. If they are really stupid, what you hear is not an argument, but a voice that is full of victories. Because there are arguments, people's hearts are divided, because people's hearts are not One, it is even more impossible to rush across the other side in one go, so everything is fantasy, isn't it?"

After finishing speaking, he glanced at the few people who were tied up not far away and said with a smile: "It seems that your abilities stop here, I think you never thought it would become like this when you first discussed these things, right? You guys are too naive and too ridiculous, always thinking that Chinese people are stupid, weak and afraid of death, and that a closed hut can decide everything."

Those few people lowered their heads. They were the people who took the boat back to Xia City many days ago when the riots first started. None of them went back but were detained.

The reason for the seizure was simple. Chen Jian was the chief minister and had high power during the incident, so at the beginning of the incident, he seemingly unintentionally issued an order: Now is the time when Yucheng is in danger. Those who were conscripted into the army were not allowed to leave Yucheng until the chaos subsided, otherwise they would be punished as fleeing the battle.

When those people asked this group of people to go back to Xiacheng to prepare in the name of the meeting, Chen Jian didn't care, and no one cared about the normal order that Chen Jian issued before.

So he legally mobilized some of Ji Bo's subordinates, followed them on horseback and captured them all, because the few who left were Chinese soldiers who needed to serve in the military when the war came. There is no council seal.

Some of these people also participated in the battle against the chaos in Fengcheng back then, so they are very clear about the methods of interrogation back then.After being caught, he was already harboring ulterior motives, thinking that the matter was brought to light, so he confided everything before he came back.

They don't know too much, but there is also a lot, such as some words brought to the two cities of Ewei, so the black-clothed guards in charge of the arrest broke out in a cold sweat, and they no longer cared about orders like the council. , secretly hid these people, and told Ji Bai.

Ji Bai found Chen Jian, and after telling the story, he wanted to take the black guards to arrest him, but was stopped by Chen Jian.

"Ask questions without asking the heart. Will they admit it now? Words can be fabricated at will. In the future, some people will learn to judge people based on their mouths. It will not be good for Xia Cheng. Keep it, don't say it, wait until they do it I'll talk about it later."

Ji Bai gritted his teeth and said, "This has already betrayed Xia Cheng, so do you still have to obey the rules? People who don't follow the rules can always beat those who obey the rules! If Ji Xia waits any longer, Xia Cheng will be finished."

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "Will it? I don't think so. Copper mines will always be stones without being smelted by fire, and jade will never be emerald without carving, and the same goes for people's hearts. The loss of this public property can be exchanged for the hearts of the people. I think it's worth it to know the sinful hearts of those people."

"Ji Bo, Xiacheng is not this city, not these workshops, not these public properties, not even the rules I have to abide by, but the thousands of Chinese people who are like us."

"With such people, the city can be rebuilt if it is destroyed, the workshop can be rebuilt if it is gone, and the land can be reclaimed if it is gone. The sky is high and the land is wide, how can there be no room for a city? As long as people are still there, wherever they stand, there is Xiacheng .”

"Go ahead, let them do it, let them toss, toss until the people of the country see them do it. I don't want to kill people, I just want to kill people."

Those arrested people also heard the many days of conversations. The few days in detention made them feel even more uneasy, because they didn't see Chen Jian frowning, nor did they see Chen Jian conspiring with anyone to discuss anything. .

There was really no conspiracy, only a few small things done according to the rules, so they could only think of the word disdain, which meant that they didn't take it to heart at all.He even used the past few days to ask a few students who knew something about Dongyi's situation, but those students were also left in this place, and they were very happy because they could learn a lot that others couldn't. thing.

After a while, Ji Bo walked in and said anxiously: "Ji Xia, those people in the council seem to be running away, they are mobilizing ships, do you want to stop them?"

"Don't stop them, let them go. A group of flies are mixed among the bees, buzzing and buzzing. Facing honey, bees and flies are the same, and it is difficult for you to catch. The best way is to dig a cesspit and let them The flies swarmed together."

"If you want me to say, it's a good thing for them to run away. So what if they run away? It's nothing more than separating Xiacheng from Yucheng, but there are ten people who support them, and ninety people who support us. He doesn't run away." , How can people know what they are going to do? Pretending to be bees and flying with us is not good, but it will make Chinese people think that they are also hardworking, and Chinese people are easily deceived."

"This is a matter of how Xiacheng should go in the future. It cannot be reconciled. Should a small group of people grab most of the benefits of the city like other cities? Or let more people share the benefits of the city? ?”

"You, Ji Bo, don't have the ability to persuade them, and I don't have the ability either. Instead of hiding it like this, it's better to separate."

"After running away, it can play an educational role for the people of the country and let them know that they have been deceived. This is a great thing. Recognize it early and object early, recognize it later and object later. If you can't recognize it, you can't object. No matter how you look at it. The sooner you realize it the better."

"Let them go. They can be fooled for a while, but they can't be fooled forever. The worst result is to smash everything into pieces. Just like ore, it seems to be smashed into pieces, and it seems to be burned, but in the end impurities are squeezed out and become Unstoppable copper and iron."

"If it's broken, it can be rebuilt."

Chapter 21 Another Voice

It's easy to say, it's nothing more than a broken reconstruction, but my heart is still full of regrets for this worst possibility.

After all, the two cities were built by everyone's sweat and sweat. There is sweat on the walls and blood in the soil. It takes a lot of courage to rebuild it if it is really broken, and not everyone has it.

After hearing these words, Ji Bai was surprised by Chen Jian's ruthless decision. Although he had great trust in Chen Jian and even admired him, he still couldn't help asking, "Does Ji Xia really have the heart? It is our own people who died. I think... I think that if there is internal fighting, there will be no heroes and no winners."

"If you can't bear it, what can you do? You can use your words to move others. How can there be wars in this world? Why do wars start? Isn't it a benefit? It is the same between cities, and it is also the same within cities."

"If we captured a city, we didn't capture those people as slaves, but allowed them to live according to their previous habits, and even helped them build it for free...Will the captured city hate us? "

"Obviously not. But the question is why do we have to do this? Isn't the purpose of the war to capture slaves and plunder wealth? In the final analysis, it is still profit. Xiacheng has the bottom, and other cities also have the bottom, but if Xiacheng wins , the bottom layer of Xiacheng is higher than that of other cities, and it has invisibly exploited the bottom layers of other cities. The glory of the city, the glory of the ancestors, and the like are the skins of interests. something to cover up."

"Unless you capture other cities just to make them live better, as I said, I'm afraid no one will do that, right? The war against the rest of the cities can be covered up with words like for the cities, for the cities There is no way to cover up the city with such nice words, but the essence is the same, don’t say that there are no heroes in internal fighting, it depends on whether you want to live better for the majority of the city.”

"If you live a better life for the majority of the city, why are you not a hero?"

"If you ask this question, if a clansman kills someone, steals, or steals money, he cannot be executed just because he is a clansman? So the person who caught him and executed him should be blamed for having the strength to kill the clansman but not Going to kill foreign enemies is a coward and not a hero? Stealing is stealing openly, but isn’t it secretly?”

Ji Bo thought for a long time, and suddenly said happily: "I understand!"

Chen Jian waved his hand and said, "Not only do you need to understand, but also every black-clothed guard understands. This is why the workshop workers on the opposite side can unite so quickly, because they know why they are fighting. This is very important. When things are calm here, we will have people like this in our army. Only by knowing why to fight can we be invincible.”

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