From Chief to Ball

"I don't think it's his problem alone. It's a demonstration for me! Everyone thinks that they have meritorious service, knowledge, become officials, and don't want to go to a place of hardship. You let me go forward, and I shouted slogans Go forward, but step back!"

"Fortunately, it's close. Fortunately, it's still within [-] miles of Yucheng. Fortunately, there are black-clothed guards to check. Otherwise, next year, hehe, this joke will be big!"

The people below bowed their heads like still water, but their hearts were full of waves.Many people are also somewhat dissatisfied with some of Chen Jian's policies, especially when they instinctively feel that something may threaten themselves and their descendants.

But facing Chen Jian, they are not easy to express their opposition. If Chen Jian hadn't chatted with them for two days a few days ago to resolve some people's dissatisfaction and make everyone full of hope, I'm afraid they might not make such a move in a long time. thing.

There are a few villages and farms, more than a dozen old people from Xiacheng, and they are all knowledgeable and capable backbones of Xiacheng ten years later. If it is just one person's opinion, I am afraid that they will not be so unanimous.

They didn't necessarily think about objecting, they just vented their dissatisfaction in a negative way, but they didn't expect that this kind of negativity would make Chen Jian so angry.

Red Fish looked at Chen Jian running around the room like a wild dog whose feet had been pricked by thorns, with a ferocious expression on his face, some blood oozed from the linen bandage on one hand, and the other hand tremblingly picked up the brush as if to write something.

Fearing that Chen Jian would make some irreversible decision, Red Fish took a deep breath and walked to Chen Jianjian's side and said, "Jixia, Xiacheng rules, don't ask questions. Don't break this rule. This is a farming accident , How they think can not determine their punishment."

Chen Jian was already so angry that he was going to ask the black guard to arrest people directly, but when he got to his lips, he was suppressed by Red Fish's words.

Red Fish said that Ji Xia was reminding him that Xiacheng's rules were established by him, and Xiacheng's habit of asking questions without caring about his heart was also brought about by him, and he is the leader.Even if those people were dissatisfied, they only objected passively within the rules and did not dare to break the rules, let alone you as the leader.If you break the rules, the rules are meaningless.

Chapter 1 Zero Three

For a long time, Chen Jian sat on the ground weakly, stretched out his hand to ask someone to continue bandaging, panted a few times, and finally managed to calm down, but the irritability in his heart made his head a mess.

This is a trivial matter. There will be more and more such things in the future. How to deal with such things?

If you want to expand the basic population, you need to let more people become vested interests, which will inevitably damage the current vested interests.Since Yucheng is not the Yucheng of those workshop workers, why do people fight for it?

With military power and prestige in their hands, those people should not dare to resist openly for what they want to do, but this kind of passive confrontation will increase, and the passivity and slack of the official group will also increase day by day.

After thinking for a long time, he waved his hands helplessly and said: "You go to work first. Those who are familiar with the people over there should pass on a message first. If they know their mistakes, they can correct them. Let them come to me by themselves. Explain in front of everyone. Criticize yourself for your own mistakes, as long as you can recognize your mistakes, you can always use them again. Now is the time when there is a shortage of people.”

"Xiacheng's rule has always been to cure illnesses and save lives. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Exposing them is not to harm him, but to save him. Just like the people in the Department of Medicine, they must ask you about your illness before giving you herbal medicine. If you don’t tell your mistakes, it’s not helping him, it’s hurting him. The better the relationship at this time, the more you should talk to him carefully, that’s right.”

"You all think about it, let's go first."

After the crowd dispersed, Chen Jian half-lyed on the chair. Hong Yu walked up behind him, pinched his head, and sighed: "When you asked them to go to the village farm, I told them they were unwilling. Now You can take care of Xiacheng and Yucheng, there will be more cities in the future, do you really think you can see things thousands of miles away? Don’t you rely on them in the end? "

Chen Jianchang took a deep breath and said, "Just now, the black-clothed guards were almost sent to arrest people. This kind of person... hey, you said he did something wrong? But he did everything according to what you said; you said he Didn't do anything wrong? I'm afraid they won't believe it in their hearts. My head is in a mess now, what can you do?"

"No. I don't have a long-term solution at all, but I have a suitable candidate to deal with this kind of person. But once this person dies or this person changes, it's over. So this is just a temporary solution, isn't it The way of the whole life."

"Who?"

"Ji Song."

Hearing this name, Chen Jian sat up straight suddenly.

Red Fish smiled and said, "If he knows what these people are doing, I'm afraid he will be as angry as you. To survive, he only needs three things: dry biscuits, clean water, and doing things—doing what he thinks is right." So when you said that in order to make other settlements as hungry as Xiacheng, he went to the wild settlements where no one would go to spread our written language and ancestor sacrifice customs without saying a word. He felt that he was doing the right thing and thought They will be very happy, and not happy because they wear well and eat well. Such people are rare, but they exist.”

"You always say that he asks about his heart, and you ask about things. In fact, it's just that people don't know what to do when they go from the clan to the city and all the rules and morals have changed. You look forward and he looks back."

"You think all these strife are inevitable, and the only way to end them is, as you've been telling me all day, when there's more to eat than to wear. What he's thinking is that everybody does what you say A gentleman, even if he does not have enough food and clothing, will still be united as in the clan era."

"Back in Xia City, there were some people who, like him, were thrown by you into those remote wild villages to spread our word sacrifices, but now they are the best people to do this."

Chen Jian thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I can trust him. But what if he is dead? How can we guarantee that the selected person is like him? This method can only be used for a while, but once it is used, it will never be found again." Before there is a better way, we can only let future generations continue to adopt this kind of method. In the end, we still follow Ji Song's path - expecting those in power to have extremely high morality, and can only rely on those in power to have extremely high morality. That's not Is it the same as what I gave to those children in other cities?"

Red Fish smiled and stretched out ten fingers and said, "Ten years! After ten years, there are already as many literate people as you want, and the distinction between good and bad that you want the tribe to have is also available, as long as you let He has survived these ten years, and he will talk about what will happen ten years later. If you still can’t do it after ten years, it proves that your path will not work.”

Chen Jian smiled wryly and said, "I don't know if my way will work, but I know his way won't work."

Red Fish smiled and said: "But he is the kind of person you need. You don't need everyone to be Ji Song, but you need some Ji Song to help you do what you want. Just don't let this kind of relying on a gentleman do it for you." Officials are the only way to make the world harmonious."

"Hey, you can think about the solution slowly. Don't you want to do nothing until you come up with the perfect solution? You and Yuqian'er are really brothers and sisters, you have to be neat and perfect..."

Chen Jian was amused by the red fish, shook his head and said, "I just didn't expect this kind of thing to happen so early. I thought it could last for a few years."

After thinking for a long time, Chen Jian finally agreed.

He asked Hong Yu to bring the silk, and recalled the names of those people who had thought similar to Ji Song's and were thrown to the deserted settlements to be missionaries, and wrote these names one by one with a brush.

At the end of the fabric, Chen Jian picked up a brush and drew a shield. On the top of the shield was engraved a bronze sword of Xiacheng standard. On both sides of the shield were two wheat ears that were the symbol of Xiacheng, wrapping the two wings of the shield.

After writing, put it into a leather tube and seal it with hot wax, and found two guards in black.

"Send this back to Xiacheng, and ask Sihu to transfer the people inside as soon as possible. Tell Sihu, let the people at the bronze workshop use brass to cast the bottom thing, and send it along with those people.

"Find two more people and ride to the next city where Shiqi Jisong and the others may go, stop them, tell them to return to Yucheng immediately, and they are not allowed to perform the previous plays in other cities. This is me and each city. The agreement sworn by the leader of the town."

After the black clothes guard left, Chen Jian sat there, took a brush and wrote a few words on the cloth at will. Hongyu stood behind and looked at it, but only recognized half of the words.

"Xiacheng... Qing Rebellion... and Sabotage... What do those words in the middle say?"

Chen Jian woke up, looked at the line of words he had written, and suddenly slapped himself hard, grabbed the cloth and rolled it into a ball, and set it on the fire to light it.

"This way won't work!"

"Go and tell the black-clothed guard who delivered the letter that the letter to Yu Qian'er doesn't need to be delivered! That thing doesn't need to be melted either. Just let Shizhi Jisong and the others come back!"

Red Fish was surprised: "You don't need that method anymore?"

"It won't work! It takes a leader with a clear head to ensure that this method works. The question is, if every leader can be guaranteed to have a clear head, why use this method?"

"If there is a method of supervising officials, a leader uses it very well, and his son uses it very well after he succeeds, but when he is twelve generations of descendants, he uses it in such a mess that the ancestors' sacrifices are cut off and their hair is changed. Then this method proves wrong. A method that is applicable to one and not applicable to the other is not a really good method, and a really good method is applicable to both of them."

Red Fish frowned and said, "What do you mean, either to ensure that every leader is sober-minded like a saint ancestor, or to create a rule that can be maintained without a sober-minded leader?"

"Yes. The former looks very good, but it is absolutely impossible to do now, just as Ji Song thought, it is impossible; the latter seems to have many problems, but at least there is still time to try out a feasible method .”

It seemed that Red Fish really wanted to ask something, Chen Jian shook the half-burnt ball of cloth, and after making sure it was completely burnt, he said: "Don't talk about that, I'm going to the farm to find a way. "

"In the past few days, you should pay attention to the plans to go to Sucheng and Zhecheng upstream, and bring back the exchanged linen, and prepare winter clothes. It is also cold, and the cities are also preparing to slaughter cattle and sheep. The ordered cattle and sheepskins are also ready. Bring them all back. The house at the Dyeing and Spinning Department will be completed as soon as possible."

Red Fish picked up the note and wrote it on the wooden slip. Chen Jian got up and went out. When the messenger handed him the leather container, he opened it and checked it to make sure it was correct. Then he burned it.

Then he whistled and gathered the black-clothed guards, and took a boat to the farms that he had been unable to manage recently.

It’s not that he doesn’t value these farms. In the future, these farms will be the guarantee of Yucheng’s food self-sufficiency, and the people in the farms will also be a backup for workshop workers. The future system will be a selection mechanism of slaves-farm laborers-workshop workers, with Ensure future manpower expansion.

Holding food in other people's hands, one year is fine, but three years will surely cause chaos. Chen Jian knows it very well, but he thinks that the first contact of Xiacheng people is farming, and every Xiacheng person should know how to eat. How to do it, those people are selected people should know better, never expected such a thing to happen.

When he got close to the farm, he was even more speechless.

The wild fruits all over the mountains are bright red, persimmons are hanging on the trees, acorns are piled up in a layer under the Zhe forest, and prickly chestnuts can be seen occasionally, fish jump in the nearby pools, and a herd of wild deer swims around.

But the people in the farm seemed to disappear, digging pits on the freshly burnt land with stone tools in their faces. It seemed that they wanted to build a canal, but the scale of the canal was as large as that used by Xia Cheng. Thousands of people on a similar scale, not to mention extremely poor tools and no leveling or planning at all.

The wheat has become too slender to survive the winter, and several simple wooden houses are emitting smoke. Two huge characters are written in black charcoal on the earthen walls outside the wooden houses: study.