From Chief to Ball

"Furthermore, Dongyi is powerful and has a sharp edge. If after capturing three or five cities, the spears will be blunt, and the people want to return, and we can easily win."

These young people were the first to follow Chen Jian to learn those dirty things. It was unexpected and reasonable to put forward such opinions. Chen Jian smiled and was very relieved, and did not scold them.

These young people somewhat know Chen Jian's ambitions, and they also understand that the more fame and power Chen Jian has, the more troops he can command, and the greater the possibility of conquering the surrounding lands and making great achievements. At that time, they will be divided out .

Obviously, Xiacheng can't control things thousands of miles away, especially in the land of Yidi, where there are constant resistance and roads are impassable. If Xiacheng controls everything, there will be no good results.

Faced with such a proposal, Chen Jian only said: "Now is not the time, you are right, but you are too anxious. Besides, it is okay to think like this now, if our Xia City really becomes the leader of the tribes of Dahe in the future, You are divided out, are you willing to be sacrificed?"

"How big the heart is, how great the merits are. If you really have such thoughts, what you have to consider in the future is not just Yucheng Xiacheng, but the entire Dahe tribe, otherwise your vision will be too small after all."

Several young people laughed: "Aren't we still the leaders of the ministries? Then our thoughts will naturally change..."

Chen Jian laughed and said, "It doesn't take a day to freeze three feet, how can it be so easy?"

Ji Bai shook his head and said, "Isn't it the same for other cities? Jixia asked about the war between Sucheng and Dongyi a few years ago, didn't it mean that Suyue deliberately let go of many cities seeking alliances because of Dongyi's threat?" Did Su Yue kill some Dongyi people? Besides, if Su Yue really believed that the intimacy of all clans cannot be abandoned, how could he have withdrawn from the alliance before sending troops? It is precisely to attack Dongyi by taking advantage of the chaos after the death of the old leader of Dongyi... "

These are all dark thoughts instilled by Chen Jian. Chen Jian smiled and waved his fingers and said: "So he, Su Yue, has only a thousand miles in his heart, and he is destined to be the leader of a small alliance. And our heart should be thousands of miles away. The source is all in the heart. How can there be vision without even a heart? Su Yue is old, and I am still young!"

Ji Bo didn't say any more, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.Yes, the leader is still young, so why not himself?

"Ji Bo, you have been with me for a long time. From now on, you will regard our Xia City as the leader of the Huahua Alliance. When facing this matter, what should you do with this perspective?"

Several people discussed in low voices for a while, and finally Ji Bai summarized their opinions and said: "If Xia Cheng is the leader of the Huahua Alliance, we will naturally send troops to rescue."

"Obviously the Dongyi people know about Suyue's leader's expedition. They will not stop breaking Fengcheng and will continue to march westward. If they didn't capture one of our relatives, they would have an extra slave. By the time the leader Suyue returns It is July, August needs autumn planting, September is rainy, and October is frosty and cold. Soldiers cannot be used. If you want to fight back, you can only wait until next spring, and the Dongyi people have plundered so many slaves to work for a year, and they can support more soldiers ..."

Chen Jian smiled and said: "That's right, so if you have a big heart, you shouldn't be thinking about those meddling dogs. If you want to send troops, what should you do?"

Ji Bo's heart was beating wildly. It had been so long since he joined the Black Clothes Guard, and he had learned a lot from Chen Jian. This was the first time he expressed his opinion, and he used all his abilities to suppress his beating heart. But when he didn't want to speak, his voice trembled a little.

"It takes five or six hundred miles from Fengcheng to Dayozawa, at least seven or eight days. Besides, this time the Dongyi is very powerful. We can't just have three to five hundred people like the last raid. If there are too many people, the speed will be slow. Furthermore, the leader abandons the city and runs away, fearing that everyone's minds will be distracted, and when we arrive at Fengcheng, we will definitely be defeated."

"Back then, Jixia defeated the Meteor tribe, and the white horses sneaked into the grassland settlements...the methods they used were similar. When Qiongxi went to war, the cities of Dongyi were empty, only women and children were left, old, weak, sick and disabled, and there were many slaves from our Dahe tribes... ..."

"We have boats, gunpowder and ladders, so we can ignore Qiongxi's army and bypass them to sneak attack on Dongyi city. He knows that the news must be retreated, so we will plunder. If Qiongxi retreats urgently and Dongyi soldiers are exhausted, we will be halfway Ambush. Even if it can't be completely wiped out, if you can defend the city, at least you can let Qiongxi exchange the people from Fengcheng."

"If we don't withdraw, we will continue to attack Dongyi cities. Bypass those cities that oppose Qiongxi, and attack those cities that support Qiongxi. It's not necessarily his."

After speaking, he peeked at Chen Jian uneasily. Seeing Chen Jian clapping his hands in praise, he felt relaxed in his heart, as if the pores all over his body had been stretched.

"That's very good. As you said, if we want to win, we must go as fast as possible, but where do the soldiers come from? There are thousands of Xiacheng people in the city, but most of them must stay. There are soldiers from Xiacheng There are [-] black soldiers in total, and [-] soldiers from other cities have been trained by me, but I can’t use them, and they can’t listen to me.”

Ji Bo muttered: "Aren't there still those workshop workers? They are all light and strong. They could already hear the drums and whistles last August, and now they have been trained for half a year. They are the most suitable for pressing the battle."

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "That's not going to work. They said at the beginning that they would never go out after the battle of Onozawa Shili. If they were forced to go out, I wouldn't feel at ease with these 2000 people. How can soldiers with resentment be used?" ?”

Ji Bai gritted his teeth and said, "We, the Black Clothes Guards, have discussed it in secret a long time ago. We will surely fight many more battles in the future. What they want is a Chinese identity. Now that there are many workshops and they make a lot of money in a year, let them be a Chinese identity." ... so what?"

"Besides, this group of people are not afraid of death and are willing to do things. They are completely different from other slaves. At the beginning, they all risked their lives to escape. If such people become Chinese, they are the best soldiers."

Chen Jian only talked about strategies and tactics to the black-clothed guards, and rarely talked about conflicts of interest. At this time, he asked: "What can I do? Suddenly there are eight thousand more people in the country, the public property is shared, and military merits are awarded. ...As a Chinese, one can participate in state affairs, study in schools, accumulate meritorious service, and even become an official. There are more wolves and less meat, so some people will naturally be unwilling."

"The reason why you are willing is because your surname is Ji, and you are my relative. You are a black guard, and you can accumulate meritorious service with your military exploits. Of course, I hope that more spearmen will cover your side, but what about those who are not surnamed Ji?" What about those who have a super-high share of the public property? What about those who have meritorious land and don’t want to have great ambitions and only think about Qianbei slaves? What about those who aspire to be elected as officials and even let their children become officials?”

Ji Bai retreated to the side dejectedly, feeling that Chen Jian's tone was very tired, as if a little tired.He also knew that it was okay for him to think about fighting, but if he thought about these things, he might not be able to figure it out, and he would not speak.

Little did he know that Chen Jian was secretly laughing in his heart, what he was waiting for was the attitude of these off-duty soldiers, since this matter must be done sooner or later, it might as well let these soldiers think about it first, so that if something really happens, they can Make choices instantly.

Chapter 13 Talking to People

The side of the full-time soldiers is obviously looking forward to the war, and it is easy to convince them.

To convince different people, you need different reasons. Sometimes some high-sounding words may not be able to convince everyone, but only good people.

Half of Xiacheng's council members and the original clan leaders are in Yucheng. Although they don't have much power, they have high authority and influence among the clansmen. The circle formed by kinship can easily become an obstacle.

And it's not easy to convince them.

In the government hall, half of the people unconditionally supported Chen Jian, but half of the people still had different opinions.

"If you want me to say, don't fight now. If the Dongyi people enter the hinterland with a winning streak, we will go out again, so that our reputation will be higher."

"Furthermore, our workshops are selling well now. If we can fight, we don't want to fight. Once there is a war, all the workshops will stop. Why? How strong can the Dongyi people be? They can't fight us, they can't fight No less than a few cities will be retreated."

"When leader Suyue comes back, we can send troops. At that time, we only need three to five hundred soldiers. Now we want to fight the Dongyi people, how can there be so many people? Even if there are, they are all our clansmen. Why should you die for the people of the Windy City?"

Everyone wants different things, here is a conflict of interest.Chen Jian is very ambitious, and these people know that they can't become the leader, and they can't make too much contribution in the war. They are unwilling and impossible to be willing to fight foreign wars.

Originally, they could plunder slaves, but now that the clan has been broken and the meritorious system has been rebuilt, they don't get much of the slaves they plundered, so they have no interest.

There's not even a sentence or two in the debate about the common ancestry, in their opinion it doesn't matter, it's short lived, some things just aren't innate.

After listening to everyone's opinions, Chen Jian asked the black-clothed guards to guard the door, leaving only the management and Gao Xun figures in the entire Xiacheng system.

"What you said is reasonable, but have you ever thought about it? When we set off, Windy City had already been breached, and thousands of people in Windy City were rescued by us. Where did they go?"

"Rebuild the city in the Windy City? It's impossible for them to dare. They have nothing, who can they rely on? Don't they rely on us? Those relatives are the same as those ordinary people, what else is left except their lives? They want to maintain their original lives , is there any way other than exploiting ordinary Chinese even more?"

"Those ordinary people have nothing. They want to live... Ha, they can only make a living near Yucheng. Everyone... the charity law is not for our kindness. Now you have money, and the public property has skilled labor and technology , What is missing? What is missing is people. Once these people come, the city will loosen some controls and allow more private workshops."

The half of the people who originally opposed hesitated for a moment, with ecstasy on their faces, but then said: "But they still have a leader..."

"Leader? If Feng Zhuo is really dedicated to the clan, it's easy to say. His clan needs to borrow things for us if they want to survive. They borrow a lot, and they will agree to whatever we want."

"It would be better if he is not only for the clan, but only for himself. At that time, he can only oppress the bottom of the country. What if... I mean, what if the bottom of the country riots and drives him away and begs to attach Xiacheng?" ? Or, what if he dies?"

There is a lot to do in this case, those people immediately understood what Chen Jian meant, and almost immediately thought of many ways to deal with it, and clenched their fists one by one.

That is a city of seven to eight thousand people. Once attached to Yucheng, they must abide by the charity law, and they are not the indispensable workshop workers of Yucheng, they can be divided and ruled.Winning relatives and nobles, bullying the bottom, and dividing the middle, there are thousands of ways to make these people unable to form a group.

With the experience of fighting workshop workers for two years, this group of people is no longer those who did not know how to manage and rule the new workshop system instead of the slave system. They already have the ability to grab their own interests within the rules The method does not need to be as crude, simple and ugly as before.

Population means that the price of hired labor in private workshops has dropped again, and it even means that those workshop workers have no capital to threaten the city.

After thinking about it for a while, everyone nodded in unison, agreeing to this expedition, and then dispersed separately, starting to prepare the materials and other arrangements needed for this expedition.

After finishing the upper management, Chen Jian ordered people to blow the whistle to stop most of the work in the workshops that could be suspended, and gathered all the young Chinese who needed to serve in the military, along with their relatives and children from various cities. .

These people are full of food and warmly dressed. They may not be as good as those high-level people, but the benefits in the city system make them very comfortable. In addition, Chen Jian's promotion every ten days, Shi Qi and others' performances, etc., let them I agree with, believe in, and even feel a little proud of the concept of ethnic group ancestors.

After all, without the guidance of their ancestors, they might live the same life as those barbarians, or even worse than them.

For this group of people, Chen Jian doesn't need and can't do the same as he said in the meeting.

He climbed onto the wooden platform and heard their trust in him amidst the cheers of the crowd.Some are called names, some are called leaders, and some are called Mr.

After paying tribute, Chen Jian shouted: "You have also heard that the Dongyi people have invaded our land. That is the inch of land that our ancestors fought for with dripping blood, and that is the fertile field watered by our ancestors' sweat."