Wolf King

The straight-line distance between the Huoyan tribe and the Tauren tribe is about 400 kilometers. Note that it is a straight-line distance. You can’t walk outside without turning, because although the general terrain of the grassland is a plain, there are many streams, streams, springs, and swamps. , No matter how tough you are, you can't go all the way.

In winter, when the snow freezes, the journey is much smoother, because it is covered by a layer of snow less than two meters deep... Especially in the deep winter, the snow on the upper surface of the stratum is still soft, and the lower part is as hard as rammed earth. , rivers and swamps can be crossed directly...

Uh, of course, you still have to go around when you encounter woods, especially not close to big trees, otherwise even if you are two meters high, you will have to be welded to the snow pits around the big trees, and you will not be able to get out without rescue.

The speed of the Russian dog sled can reach [-] kilometers per hour. If the snow werewolf pulls the sled, the average speed is [-] kilometers per hour. , When it was dark, the group saw the tribe where the tauren lived.

The enthusiastic Tauren immediately brought the group of frozen fools into a mud brick house with a kang. Qin, who has a good relationship with Xiao Yun, brought hot water and food to clean up the dust for everyone, especially the food. They also knew that the Snow Werewolf After transforming for a long time, I was so hungry that I cooked the smoked jerky into two large pots, added bean sprouts, small green vegetables, leeks, and pickled radish slices grown in a room with floor heating, and my eyes turned green from hunger. Xiao Yun and Mu Mu were fed until their bellies rounded.

Xiao Yun breathed a sigh of relief and wiped his mouth, then took out a large jar of maltose and a small glass bottle of honey that were loaded on the sleigh cart... It's not that he is stingy, bees rely on honey to survive the winter, and they don't have much food left over.

The focus is on malt sugar. The tauren grow a lot of rice by themselves. After teaching them to build a house, they can also produce malt in winter. It is said that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish. Xiao Yun came to teach them how to make sugar... He himself It's too embarrassing to take advantage of the tauren, so I can't get used to seeing the tauren consume wool with cheap sugar for the caravan.

"So it turns out that you can make sugar out of rice and malt!" Qin happily held her hands together, and immediately went to gather all the tauren women in the tribe to teach Xiao Yun how to make sugar—Xiao Yun said there was still something to do, but she couldn't If you stay here for too long, of course it is best to let more people come and learn together, and there will always be someone who can learn and successfully make candy.

Sugar is a hard currency. The homemade maltose is sweet but not greasy, and does not contain many impurities like the sugar sold by the caravan. After trying the maltose in the jar, Xiao Yun once again fell into the sea of ​​tauren women...

After these women happily went back to their homes to ferment malt, Xiao Yun finally broke free and lay down to sleep... Thanks to his tactful teaching of the tauren to build a house and a fire kang, if he was allowed to sleep on the cold floor in this weather, he would It's about to die.

The next day, Xiao Yun, who came here specially in the winter to teach sugar making skills, was personally received by the patriarch Huoer. In the house of the patriarch Huoer, he built a kang and a fireplace, and sat around in front of the fireplace burning cow dung. Drinking warm goat milk is also a kind of comfort.

Then Xiao Yun stared at the burning cow dung in the fireplace for more than half a minute... It's not that cow dung has never been burned in his own tribe, so it feels weird to burn it here!

Patriarch Hall smiled ferociously and kindly, and Qin, who was sitting beside him, translated with a smile: "Patriarch Hall said, I am very grateful that the Snow Werewolf did not forget to care about us in the cold winter, but it is indeed dangerous to go out in this weather."

Xiao Yun... To be honest, I still can't accept the tauren's style of communication, so he showed his professionalism and smiled: "Actually, I mainly want to come out to see how the other snow wolf tribes are going through the winter. Our tribe has just moved I have only been here for two years, and my understanding of the surroundings is limited to the grassroots tribe not far from our tribe, so I want to ask Patriarch Hall to learn about the surrounding situation."

It’s right to come to the tauren for this matter... The Hor tribe is the closest to the southwest corner of the grassland among the tauren tribes. No one can compare them to how many races and how many tribes there are in this area. Understand - because every year or every other year these tribes come to them for autumn.

For example, Saladin didn't stay in the tribe at the moment, but took people out to deliver food to a small tribe of the cat tribe... This is the benefit of being no more than a hundred kilometers away from the Tauren tribe. The tauren is willing to send it to someone if you come to report it.

Patriarch Hall understood Xiao Yun's meaning, and stared at him suspiciously, Qin also had a strange expression on his face.

Xiao Yun and the two of them stared at each other for a while before realizing that the Virgin of the Tauren is not a Brainless Virgin. They would also be on guard against the actions of the Tiger Clan, so they slapped their thighs: "Hey, it's not you! As you think, our Snow Wolf Clan is not a Tiger Clan, so we won't attack others!"

Anyway, the Huoyan Tribe started farming and the Huo Tribe knew it very well, Xiao Yun did not hide it from them, and reported the development policy of the Huoyan Tribe: Simply put, the Snow Wolf Tribe also wants to develop like the Tauren. Gather more clansmen to farm together.

If the snow wolves adopted the nomadic method, a tribe would not be able to support many mouths. If it were replaced by farming, not only would there be enough food, but it would be more than enough. Affordable, so the Huoyan Tribe hopes to be able to connect with those tribes who are not having a good life...

Of course, it is unreliable to ask others to merge with oneself as soon as you come up. This is no different from the gangsters on the earth who rushed to the mainland with guns and shouted "Open the door, free trade", so Xiao Yun proposed again Don't engage in integration until the trust between the two parties reaches a certain level, but you can use other methods to help each other. For example, the Huoyan Tribe uses the location closer to the sea to make a deal with a new human caravan. , to solve the shortage of rations of some Snow Wolf tribes by hiring manpower for food.

As for cuddling grass and beating rabbits to see if we can get some more gray dwarves and the like... Xiao Yun wisely didn't mention it. Even the tauren who wanted to contact other Snow Wolf clan tribes were so vigilant. The reason why Balu and the others can be taken away smoothly is because Hongye and Ah Shan rescued Shire, otherwise Tauren would not have been pretending to be transparent.

Xiao Yun has never underestimated these bullheads. He first stated his ultimate goal, and then explained clearly the relatively mild and non-conflicting compromise communication method adopted to achieve this goal. Hall The patriarch's expression quickly eased.

"The Patriarch Hall said that we can help you contact the Snow Wolf Tribe in the western region." Qin stared at Hall for a while, and dutifully translated, "We hope that there will always be peace among the tribes in the west of the grassland. There are conflicts on a tribal scale."

These words are relatively gentle, but after listening to Qin's translation, Xiao Yun unconsciously appeared in his mind a cow-headed monk wearing a cassock, holding a Buddhist staff in his left hand and a saber in his right. Just send the poor monk to hell!

…With the stubbornness of these bullheads who dared to challenge the Tiger Clan head-on and made the Tiger Clan retreat a step, Xiao Yun had no doubt that these guys could do it...

Peaceful development is what Xiao Yun needs most at the moment. The Tauren expressed their hope for peace with such a clear-cut attitude. How could Xiao Yun not rush to follow, and immediately hit it off with Patriarch Hall—he doesn't care what purpose Patriarch Hall thinks, anyway. He has held up the peace banner of the tauren!

In case of any conflict with someone, Xiao Yun ordered to drag the tauren out first... Ahem, he ordered to bind his own stance with the peaceful stance of the tauren.

So Patriarch Hall sent two Tauren warriors to lead the way, and took them to visit the surrounding Snow Wolf Tribes—to lead the way and monitor, and Patriarch Hall didn't completely believe that their group had contact with other Snow Wolf Tribes. For the purpose, the two elder brothers sent here are stronger than the other.

Moreover, the snow werewolf pulls the sled, and the tauren can also pull the sled. There are also some grains and hard-frozen Chinese cabbage piled on the sled, which is to send warmth by the way...

Going on the road, Qingyan didn't dare to wave any more, honestly wrapped in animal skins and sat together with Mu Mu and Qiu, Xiao Yun pulled the sled and galloped in the snow following the sled of the tauren warrior in front; Even if Xiao Yun is not a warrior, he can see that the tauren is really powerful in fighting. The tauren who can't transform has thick thighs and funny big hooves. His two legs can run faster than his transformed snow werewolf. What's going on!

The speed disadvantage of the Emotional Snow Wolf Clan is really not just for fun!

Ten days later, Xiao Yun and others, whose skin was thickened by the wind, returned to the tribe and rested firmly for two days before recovering. In the next day, I will pay a clean bill, and I will suffer a lot!

Of course, this crime is not in vain. Xiao Yun has roughly calculated the topography of the southwest corner of the grassland, and the iconic landmarks that cannot be covered by heavy snow have also been painted on the cloth scroll. Block is no longer blindfolded:

In the southwest corner of the grassland, which is relatively barren, there are six snow wolf tribes besides their own tribe. The nearest tribe to them is actually [-] kilometers northeast of the grassroots tribe, but because of the usual That place is full of vast water lakes and mountains and forests, spring, summer and autumn are impassable, so the two sides have lived side by side for so many years without knowing that they still have a neighbor...

At least half of the province is in the southwest corner of the grassland, and the snow werewolf tribes scattered in it are as inconspicuous as the few sesame seeds that unscrupulous merchants stingily throw on the pancake. The largest tribe has hundreds of holes People, the smallest tribe has sixty or seventy, because of the long-term business relationship here, it is not as embarrassing as the Huoyan tribe two years ago, at least it is also the size of the original grassroots tribe-don’t worry about eating enough, at least Not to die of starvation, to have a newborn baby.

One of the tribes also took in more than a dozen goblins, relying on the ability of these goblins to find stalks and food, relying on the large area of ​​mountains and forests around the tribe, they lived quite well. When Xiao Yun and the others came to the door under the guidance of the tauren, this The tribe also entertained them with the sweet potato pieces that they "stocked" around the forest... Xiao Yun speculated that the potato pieces brought by the guano of large birds germinated. The goblins deliberately cultivated these severely degraded sweet potatoes, relying on the humus layer provided by the forest to cultivate this crop... But they didn't have the awareness of drainage and fertilization, some places were rotten, and the starch content was quite high.

No matter how these tribes are doing, the salt and jars of maltose on Xiao Yun’s sleigh are the most popular gifts. After throwing out gifts, and then offering to hire some soldiers with food next year, these tribes are very willing to agree—— The tauren were still worried that they would be deceived, and the generally stupid and cute snow werewolves were completely unconscious...which made Xiao Yun's heart very complicated.

If they were not the tribe living in the south closest to the sea, if Carlisle and the others encountered other tribes of the Snowwolf tribe first when they went ashore, Xiao Yun was really worried that some Snowwolf tribe would be fooled away by that funny knight Dan Crowdy , went to a foreign country to serve as a mount for someone... Just thinking about it makes me angry! !

After this matter was settled, the tribe returned to the state of progress in literacy and learning. Those who needed extra time to make up lessons, except for Balk who was locked up by the chemical experiment, had more red leaves and feathers—hired warriors and the tribe. The soldiers will have to rely on them to lead them when they walk outside in the future. If they don't teach them to be smarter, how can they do it!

Therefore, after Hongye and Yu read the story written by Xiao Yun on the bark paper with the others, Xiao Yun would take him over to teach the "story" behind the story - blue fruit, grass root, blue rock, big water, green grass A few were on the sidelines as spectators of the rubbish class.

"Uh... Snow White wants to escape because if she doesn't escape, she will be bullied by her successors?" Yu stammered.

"No, this is just a story on the surface. We can't just look at the surface, but look at the essence through the phenomenon. Think about it carefully, Maomao." Xiao Yun shook his head.

Beads of sweat on Yu's forehead trickled down his temples, and he held back for a while before he said, "That is... Snow White doesn't want to be used by her successor?"

"Well, there is something, continue." Xiao Yun pointed his finger.

"Uh...the nobles in the kingdom support Snow White, and if they usurp the throne, they cannot deprive Snow White of her inheritance...so...so..."

"So if Snow White is under the control of her successor, the nobles who support her are likely to be won over by the righteous successor before she succeeds. She can't compromise and can only fight hard." Hongye reminded.

Xiao Yun looked over with piercing eyes: "Hong Ye, you can't influence him, let him think for himself, what he thinks up is his."

Momiji closed her mouth.

Yu frowned, his eyes were dull, and his whole body was empty... The few who attended the class also frowned and thought hard. Although Ayun would not ask them questions, they could not help thinking about how they should answer if they were asked questions.

Xiao Yun had no choice but to remind him again: "Hongye's answer has her reasons. Although you can't copy her answer, you can refer to her thinking. There are always multiple solutions to a problem. Before the actual attempt, we It cannot be said that there is a standard answer for solving things—"

"Hmm..." Yu swallowed hard. As a soldier who can live a lifetime as long as he patrols and hunts conscientiously, being forced to learn "understanding" with an unbelievable depth and intensity is simply killing him. "In that case... Uh, is it because the noble supporters of the kingdom supported the old king and Snow White, and then murdered the old king. To get as much support as possible, Snow White must support her... …Snow White's compromise is equivalent to tacitly acquiescing to the successor's dominance?"

"That's right—" Xiao Yun clapped his hands, "The royal family's ruling power lies with the royal family, and the queen does not naturally have legal rule. The queen can only sit on the throne when people in the royal family support the queen. This is not a stepdaughter The dispute between the family and the family that followed was about dominance, a life-and-death contest, so as Snow White, who was educated by the elite royal family since childhood, she could not compromise on this position..."

In Xiao Yunmo's "Snow White" story, the escaped Snow White did not go to the forest to be taken care of by the seven dwarfs, but took the opportunity of holding a birthday party to attract seven nobles, and borrowed the strength of the seven nobles to move away. Following the castle that covered the sky with one hand...

What's next is the struggle between the princess who wants to use the seven nobles to fight for power with the successor, the noble who wants to please the next person in power to take the position, and the successor who wants to kill the princess...

Xiao Yun, who forcibly instills the world view of human nature and evil in his clansmen by using the dark fairy tales of magic reform, does not shy away from the essence of the power struggle at all. Crushed and said.

"Let's use an analogy. If the patriarch Huoyan died suddenly, Huoyan designated Hongye as the patriarch's successor before he died, but Mao Mao, you are supported by the grassroots patriarch and have the qualifications to compete for the next patriarch. At this time, Hongye must and Maomao, you are on the right side... Then at this time, which of you two can take the position, the support of the tribe is especially important, how do you get the support of the tribe?"

With a "poof", the grassroots patriarch who was watching sprayed directly.

"Hongye said that I will adhere to the policy of Patriarch Huoyan, and I am willing to listen to Ayun, that is, my suggestion, so that the tribe will continue to be strong and develop. And Maomao will say, I am ten years older than you, and I know Ayun, too. It is the importance of my suggestion, after my death, I will transfer the position of patriarch to Ah Yun."

"At this moment, in my, and also Ayun's, point of view, there is not much difference between Maomao and Hongye's position in taking over the Huoyan Tribe. The same Maomao suggested that he might die ten years earlier than Hongye..."

Hongye and Yu were dumbfounded by listening directly...

Xiao Yun analyzed the whole conversation, then changed the topic: "...But there is still a problem that cannot be avoided. Both of you can speak nicely when you are fighting for support, but you two succeeded as patriarchs and survived to death. What about after the elder grassroots patriarch who has the same right to speak as you? If you are greedy for power and choose your own people to take over after the death of the grassroots patriarch, or simply become the only patriarch yourself, at this time your power No one can limit it, and you can completely kick away the person who affects your authority, that is, me..."

Hongye and Yu were sweating profusely, and the horrified gazes of the observers couldn't help turning to them.

"As a young adult, how can I compete with one of you who has mastered the tribe for many years? At this time, I have two choices. One is to find a way to kill you, and the other is to take away some of the tribe who trust me and start anew. , anyway, I am still young, and it will take ten years to build a brand new, prosperous and powerful tribe in time..."

Hongye and Yuxiao's faces turned pale, and the horrified gazes of a few observers fell on Xiao Yun.

"At this time, a new problem has arisen." Xiao Yun's face remained unchanged, and he continued to evolve his hypothetical situation, "If I murder you as I did later, obviously, this kind of life-and-death issue will cause a lot of trouble in the tribe. No matter how well I do the cover-up work, there will still be some people who don't trust me, are alienated from me, and even fear me, fear me, and lose their hearts. Even in the future, everyone will still listen to me and implement it. Efficiency will also decrease, and even the things I arrange are difficult to implement, because everyone cannot unreservedly believe that I will kill you without hesitation in order to fight for power, and everyone will worry that I will dislike him anytime and hurt him. superior."

"..." The grassroots patriarch was stunned!

"And if I take away a group of people and start a new stove, it is of course the best choice for me. However, our tribe will also be divided, and our power will be divided. No matter who stays between us Those who still leave will be weaker than ever before, and their ability to resist risks and strikes has dropped by more than half. If external forces intervene at this time, then both of us will be at the mercy of others because of our reduced strength."

"The conclusion is that when those of us who have the opportunity to fight for and chase power have selfishness, no matter how carefully we make choices, as long as we consider the problem only for ourselves and for us self-interest considerations, then our actions will definitely cause harm to everyone in the tribe."

The entire audience trembled...

"Going back to the story itself, the successor wanted to seize the dominance of the old king and murdered the old king, causing shock in the whole country and part of the nobles' renunciation; Snow White was unwilling to hand over the power and brazenly fought with the successor, which led to turmoil in the kingdom. The nobles split again... The ending of the story, the forces of other countries stepped in to support Snow White and kill the evil queen. It seems to be a very perfect ending, but... at this time, Snow White's right to rule is still pure. Is it true? Her country has been intervened by other countries, and her prestige does not even come from the support of the people, but from the support of other countries. Is this a good thing for the people?"

"No." Hongye and Yu said in unison, raising their hands to wipe away their sweat.

Xiao Yun smiled slightly: "So, a collective, a whole, whether it's our tribe or the kingdom in the story, if we want to become bigger and stronger, we must be united and put the interests of the collective as the first. One interest, others must be compromised, this must be our common will. These words are not only shouted to us as managers to the people we lead, but also to ourselves, because we people, These people who are relatively more capable and more destructive to the collective, once selfishness outweighs the public, then no matter how beautiful our words are or how much we have contributed, we will become the most harmful pests to the tribe as a whole. "

"So we have to understand how scary the outside power struggle is, how much it destroys everything, and learn to understand it thoroughly. This is not only for our tribe not to suffer when dealing with external forces, but also to see through the essence of those superficial phenomena. It is also to warn us not to do such stupid things."

These words made everyone who was frightened into a cold sweat nod... Although what Ayun said is too much, too deep and complicated, it will take some time for them to fully understand, but everyone can feel Ayun's intentions owned.

Looking at the people who were trying to absorb new knowledge, Xiao Yun also heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. Talking about power and human nature is the true and sincere way of getting along. Taboos and taboos can be avoided verbally, but not in private. Don't do it; people will have selfishness. If you don't admit the existence of selfishness, it is self-deception. The correct way is to limit selfishness to the scope of less influence and destructive power.

Wrong example, Xiao Yun has seen too much on the earth... Parents who don't know how to count want their children to be innocent and pure, and hope that their children will bring their own cheats to avoid bad guys from being hurt, want their children to listen to their parents, and are not happy that their children are outside. Being deceived by outsiders casually, the result is to toss the child crazy; the reality can no longer be realistic, the man who is full of five poisons who prostitutes and cheats hopes that women are pure and foolish love brains, and finds that women are not so easy to be fooled, so we still have to be realistic , these men just pretended to be hurt and said something like "The most stupid thing about me is that I believe in love in the world"-Xiao Yun didn't even want to complain about these nonsense, paying more attention would lose his IQ.

One hundred days of winter have passed, and in three or forty days, the heavy snow should stop. Before the snow stops, Xiao Yun has to hurry up and get all the stupid and cute clansmen out...he was coaxed away casually Absolutely nothing!Everyone outside is a big pig's hoof!

The author has something to say: Xiao Yun: The outside world is very scary, everyone must be fully armed ideologically!