From Chief to Ball

"If the word is still the kind of rebellion you have in mind, I'd say it's because those few people who defined rebellion quietly made them believe what they were saying and forget where they really stood. It's pathetic Yes. Ji Yun is right, you think you are one in a thousand, and it is admirable to support everything defined by those people, but if you are not one in a thousand but support them, it only shows that you are stupid."

"People of the country, the rules of Xiacheng will remain the same in the future. Rebellion is still a felony, and it will be cut in half or hanged, but the rebellion in the future refers to the behavior of betraying the vast majority of people in Xiacheng."

"A few people may win, even in the name of Xiacheng. But their victory will become a joke after thousands of years, and become a rebellion, because they betrayed the real Xiacheng. They may borrow my words today Come to smear their rebellion with a layer of white lime, I will be dead at that time, and you will be dead too, but I believe our children and grandchildren will open their eyes and distinguish what is rebellion from what is not."

"Thousands of years later, rebellion and non-rebellion are just a passage written down in a book. Maybe the people who wrote down the book are not us, but the people who read the book are the same as us. They can distinguish clearly and understand what they read. .Even if we lose now, we will win forever.”

"The rules of Xia City may have to be changed. What's wrong is not the council, but the people in the council. Is it the relatives and leaders of the old era? Or the people you can trust? Or according to the merits of the land and property? Different people who can represent the majority of Xiacheng people selected separately?"

"I don't like the system of the city assembly, because it will make Xiacheng go very slowly, but isn't it the only way that everyone in the city assembly can express their opinions on twitter? Is it just Isn't there a way to avoid wrangling and quarrels, to concentrate on big things, and to take into account the opinions of all the people in the country?"

"This is how Xiacheng should go in the future. It is still far away before the chaos ends. Once the chaos ends, all the people in the country will have to argue for a solution, but now is not the time."

"And now, I want to ask you, are you willing to hand over the right to define rebellion to the hands of every citizen? Are you willing to go 'rebellion' with me?"

Chen Jian didn't get an answer right away, all he got was silence, but he knew that silence was not necessarily opposition, but sometimes it was also a kind of power, a power that was constantly accumulating, and a power of constant thinking.

So he is not afraid.

The silence didn't last long. After thinking about these words, more than a thousand voices shouted at the same time: "Yes!"

Among them, there were even some voices from the other side, because many of what Chen Jian said were actually meant for the other side.

After getting everyone's answers, Chen Jian pulled out Wufeng and shouted: "Drumming! Playing the flute! Team up!"

This place is on the edge of the inland river, and may be attacked by the opposite feather arrows at any time, but when Wufeng drew out, these Chinese people quietly formed a team in the open space by the river in a row of Shiwu.

The hostility with the other side is not over yet, but the Chinese people are no longer at a loss. They believe that Chen Jian will bring them victory.

In front of the enemies on the other side, Chen Jian loudly issued orders to deal with them.

It's weird.

"Tomorrow morning."

"You, bring thirty black-clothed guards to the upper reaches of the river, and prepare to blow up the water channel, let the river flow along the original channel, and cut off the inner river."

"You, take 50 people, go out of the headland, dig holes on the headland and blow up the headland, and prepare to block the waterway from the pier to the outside. At the same time, blow up the ship lock, let the inland water flow into Onozawa, and dry up the waterway."

"You, take 100 archers, and guard the headland. Any ship passing by will immediately shoot a volley of arrows. [-] black guards will protect the archers. It is strictly forbidden for food and personnel to pass through the blown headland."

"Ji Bo, take the rest of the black guards and prepare to raid the smelting workshop. Once the inland river diverts, attack the smelting workshop immediately. Once the workshop is taken, dig the river again to defend and take back the workshop bit by bit."

"Yuqian'er and Hongyu, the commander will withdraw money and food, count the amount of weapons, feathers, arrows, gunpowder and food tonight, and report it to me tomorrow morning."

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In just a moment, the originally chaotic right bank of the inland river was reunited again. At least these people saw hope and knew what to do.

Many people also knew that Chen Jian said these words deliberately to the other side, and many people would die in a war. When these Chinese people decided to let Chen Jian be arbitrary, they had actually accepted the opinion of the other side for peace talks in their hearts.

It's just that even in peace talks, bargaining is required.The various chaotic resolutions of the council and the fact that the military power is actually in the hands of Chen Jian gave the opponent enough capital, because they could leave, which made those people extremely dissatisfied.

Chen Jian's method sounds like it is scaring people. The opponent's spears have already become a forest. Even if the tactics are correct, the losses will be huge. No one wants this situation.

But it was in Chen Jian's hands whether to carry out the scaring words, which made the other party a little panicked.

Exploding the river channel to dry up the inland river water cut off their possibility of defending based on the river fork; blocking the headland bay meant that they could not get in touch with the farms and mines outside, and it also meant that they could not leave safely by boat; and the smelting workshop It is also the source of the tools they need to build the city in the future. This is the most important thing they refuse to wait here.

Fighting desperately, they don't think they can win, and they understand that even if they don't win, they can kill many people on the other side. However, the situation on the other side is no longer what it was before. They missed the best opportunity to capture Yucheng. I paid the price for my initial shrinking and compromise.

These few orders were fatal to these workshop workers, because they cut off their hope, blocked their purpose, and frustrated their desire to leave Yucheng and build a city alone.

Once hopes are dashed, those lower hopes begin to gain the upper hand.

A few people who were careful found that all the orders issued by Chen Jian were tomorrow morning, which meant that tonight would be the last night that Chen Jian would choose for them.

This is a game. The workshop workers can bet that Chen Jian just scares them from fighting to the death, but what if they lose the bet?

Do they dare to bet?

Chapter 23 The farce where the hero defeats the villain

This was destined to be an unusual night. The two parties were like poisonous snakes biting each other's body. Even if they could bite each other to death, the other party would inject deadly venom before dying.

Chen Jian is not the kind of person who is as smart as a monster, but he knows that the other party dare not bet.

The fact that these workshop workers opposed the charity decree and demanded their own special status a year ago is the source of Chen Jian's belief that they dare not gamble.

From that moment on, these people were no longer pure rebels, but became part of the city system, and their compromising nature surpassed their fighting nature.

Compromise is the foundation of a country or a country's embryonic city.

Like concepts such as chastity and private ownership, the embryonic form of the country has not always existed.

When cities or countries appear, it means that the society has fallen into unsolvable self-contradiction, and people are divided into irreconcilable opposites along with the social division of labor, and these opposites cannot be shaken off.

These conflicting opposites, in order not to destroy each other in senseless struggle, require a power over all.The reason why this kind of power exists is to ease the conflict, to keep the conflict within the scope of "rules and order", so as to prevent the self-destruction of both sides.

This kind of power is the country, or the embryonic form of the country.

In the embryonic state of the country, each class has to damage part of its own interests, while at the same time enjoying part of the interests given up by others, and compromise with each other until one party no longer gives up, which leads to a life-and-death mutual destruction. This is a troubled world .

In troubled times, there are not only countless hungry and dead bodies with blood, but also relatives and noble heads. This is mutual destruction.

From the moment those workshop workers learn to compromise, it means that they are truly qualified to become Chinese and a member of the country's embryonic form.

From the moment the people of Xiacheng wanted these workshop workers to stay, it meant that the people of the country were truly qualified to become the ruling class who knew how to give up their interests in exchange for stability, the most important member of the country's embryonic form.

All these doomed Chen Jian's only remaining fantasy to fail, and it was doomed that this would not be a soul-stirring epic.

Fortunately, this is the first act.The first act is mere comedy or tragedy, somewhat heroic.And when the second act is performed by those who have learned a long time later, it will inevitably become an embarrassing farce.

Even if this incident happened decades later, even if Chen Jian was already dead and rotten at that time, he would still not let him go—if at that time, faced with such a chaotic situation and no one could do anything, they would naturally Someone puts on Chen Jian's rotten bones, even though what he does is not the same as what Chen Jian did: to bring the dead back to life in a way is to praise the justice of his actions, because he wears the bones of the dead, and people in the When solving problems, you never imagine out of thin air, but look for spiritual sustenance from the past.

This is sad, imagining the comeback of a saint, so as long as there is a person who is somewhat similar to the bones, has a blood relationship, or even deliberately imitates, he will still get tens of thousands of fans, even if it is a mediocre person.

It can be said that today's touching scene of thousands of people calling for the support of thousands of people is the beginning of countless dirty political farces in the future.The same is true for other cities, but the corpse borrowed by the farce is not Chen Jian.

When Ji Yun called out Ji Xia's dictatorship and was supported by many people, Chen Jian had a wry smile in surprise, because the authorities were fans of him.

Now when I jump out of the authorities and think about all the reasons as a bystander, I finally understand that this is actually an inevitable result.

Because Xiacheng... is basically a fake slave clan city.

With the emergence of workshops, the things produced by slaves are no longer the lifeblood and pillar of survival of the city.

It is not private individuals who rule the workshops, but the class of Chinese people who still need to work. They are different from the workshop workers, but they have not formed a class that is completely opposed to the workshop workers. They have no strength and no theory to pursue their own political demands and real rule.