Chapter 84: A Journey to the South Seas (15)
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It would be fine if everyone was equal, but how can things in the world be truly fair?
For example, if you have the obligation and power to pay taxes, no one wants to ask for this power. This is only an obligation, and to speak of power is to become a clumsy deception to treat the people as fools.
Are ordinary people really that stupid?
For example, this time the behavior of pulling Zhuang Ding definitely did not attract a few wealthy businessmen and overseas Chinese leaders and even a few big clans. Even those who have a little money or power are looking for someone to replace them.
It's just that the people don't know or don't care! It's definitely not fair to know.
But since the beginning of the meat eaters, the game has not changed for thousands of years. It hasn't changed.
Master Zhou is also a meat eater, and the reason why he couldn't get rid of it was just that he was late. The first to arrive has already occupied the position, and the later Zhou family has become the target of suppression.
And the Zhou family inevitably didn't take their former "little friends" too seriously, and openly refused to let the children of the family come out.
This is an act of flapping the table and slapping the face, so that everyone has no fun. Naturally, it aroused the hostility of several upper-class people who were aspiring to share it. In fact, even if there is no dust, the Zhou family will inevitably become a "typical" and target.
Speak well, maybe you will really be spared. But who told the Zhou family to think very highly of themselves and become a bird?
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I have to say that there is no character who can mix up to the top level who is not a human spirit. In fact, at the moment when Chen's words were just spoken, Lichen already understood that he was being tricked by this group of people.
It's good, it's awesome, it's amazing. Insiders are insiders, outsiders are outsiders. There are a thousand ways to live, but there are also many ways to die.
For example, play a trick on the dust.
Lichen has been an outsider for two lives, and the world is inevitably a little rusty.
In his previous life, he rarely interacted with people. Few people dare to play tricks on him in this life. When it's too late for the gods to offer, how can they play such a small trick that can't be put on the table?
But the dust did fall into this little trick. A guy who claims to be inaccurate and omniscient has been used by human spirits among mortals.
Lichen smiled, remembering these guys deeply.
If you dare to play with the land immortals, you will inevitably be retaliated against.
Sometimes the dust is quite broad-hearted, but sometimes the heart is smaller than the eye of a needle.
Today, the city is divided into two worlds, the inner and the outside. On one side, the Chinese occupy a three-mile radius, and on the other hand, the natives, who have surrounded the place where the Chinese gathered. Moreover, many natives from the nearby natives who heard the news came one after another. Some also carried bloody heads on flagpoles to show off their "martial bravery" or brutality.
Among these people are men, and women are also old people and children. Obviously, the natives have been planning for a long time, and they are launching it at the same time. They apparently broke through some of the Chinese villages outside the city. Now it's showing off with these bloody "trophies".
There is nothing more instructive than seeing the facts with your own eyes. When the heads of people are tired into a hill and put in front of the Chinese, you can imagine the mood of the Chinese at this moment. Some are even people they know and know well. (The natives inside the city have apparently begun to learn from the natives outside the city.)
The cries around the Xuanguang Temple shook the sky, and the scolding also shook the sky. Even the people who brought incense and prayed for blessings in the Taoist temple were about to burst the Taoist temple.
The people who were still clamoring to try to reach a compromise with the natives, and the lives of the province were ruined, and everyone went back to their old lives, now they also tightly shut their stinky mouths. It turned out that he was reluctant to let his children or men go out to serve as soldiers, and his voice was much quieter.
The Chinese have been educated, educated with bloody facts.
Now everyone knows that they can't help but defend themselves. But somehow, a piece of news began to circulate among the crowd.
"None of the descendants of several big families and major clans in the city have come out. However, it openly requires all Chinese families to draw one out of two without discrimination. There are even some wealthy families who can buy it off with money, and then find a reasonable reason to exempt the Ding, or find someone to replace it. β
It has to be said that the citizens of the city are more difficult to discipline than the peasants in the countryside. After staying in the city for a long time, the vision is indeed not comparable to that of an old farmer who does not live a five-mile radius for life.
The rumors spread more and more, and then they got more and more serious.
Many Chinese were outraged on the spot!
The things of the world do not afflict the few, but suffer from the unequal. And those overseas Chinese leaders and patriarchs of big clans just took advantage of a wealthy and powerful person, and the commoners felt that they were a head shorter on weekdays. They are not really that prestigious and influential, and they are not inherently orthodox officials appointed by the imperial court. Why convince them?
Now in the midst of great calamity, these old men are just playing with everyone, so what's the point?
There is no shortage of good people everywhere, especially those who are already very dissatisfied with their men being forced to serve in the army. In addition, there are some people who are obviously dissatisfied with the current overseas Chinese leaders and patriarchs of the big clans, and Tian shamelessly claims to be in a high position. So slightly picked. A storm was immediately stirred up.
Speaking of which, overseas Chinese are relatively equal, except for more money and less money, there is not much difference in status, and there is not such a strict hierarchical advantage. For several generations, everyone was just mud legs who had been exiled here together. Why should you be noble?
The crowd gathered, and soon surrounded a courtyard of the Wang family.
This is where the temporary "command" organization contributed by the Wang family is located. But there are no plaques or soldiers. The guards here are none other than the Wang family's hospital bodyguards. Naturally, there is no deterrent effect on Chinese citizens at all.
The shouts outside shook the sky, and in the lobby of the Wang family's courtyard, several overseas Chinese leaders and patriarchs of the big clan were also anxious like ants on a hot pot.
What is called catching blindness, this is called catching blindness!
The dissatisfied crowd outside was desperately shouting, looking at the posture of the crowd gathering more and more, it would definitely not be able to stop the Wang family's guards with dozens of people. If that reason is not come out quickly, people may rush in, and this "provisional government" that has just become a day will be overthrown immediately.
"A bunch of Diaomin! I don't know what to do. If we had not taken refuge ... The patriarch of the Li family heard the earth-shattering noise outside, and slammed the table with a flushed face. A sentence blurted out, but it was interrupted before it could be finished.
"Brother Li said cautiously, it's not me who is sheltering everyone now!" Master Wang and the Li family are a little bit at odds, but there is no big hatred either. Seeing that the patriarch of the Li family began to pat his own table, he hurriedly reminded.
"Yes, yes..." The patriarch of the Li family is not a fool, although he is thick-skinned, everyone knows the roots, and it is difficult to tell nonsense. "But" didn't come out for a long time, and the old man of the Zhang family, who was sitting next to him, spoke again: "Yes, Brother Li." In today's situation, it's better to think of a way. If we really get broken into by that group of people, what face will we have there? If you can stay in a high position again in the future? β
"What matters now is how to quell the rumors and anger outside. Otherwise, wouldn't we all have to sit on wax? Master Liu picked up the teacup in his hand, and the old god said unhurriedly on the ground.
The patriarch of the Zhang family never spoke much, just watched silently. He has many sons, and there are several who are unlikable. You can go out and "smoke". So he didn't care about this turmoil.
"Yes, yes! What matters now is how to quell the rumors outside. As soon as Master Liu finished speaking, the following businessmen and patriarchs who followed the Liu family hurriedly echoed.
When Master Wang heard this, he disdainfully skimmed a few of the Liu family's followers with his eyes. Speaking of which, these merchants and the patriarch of the small clan are not qualified to sit here. Isn't this what the Liu family wants them to do?
"Yes! It seems that my family also needs to find a few helpers, otherwise the momentum of speaking is not enough, and the Liu family will have the upper hand? The old man of the Wang family thought to himself.
In fact, not only is Master Wang making this calculation, but even the Li family, the Zhang family, the Liu family and other bigwigs are not beginning to think about pulling helpers in and helping themselves to be "pawns"?
It's just that they themselves don't know what kind of consequences their careful thinking today will bring!
If you pull three in, I'll pull five, and if you pull five, I'll pull seven!
As more and more people they pulled into the meeting, in the end, there was a trend that small places could not fit in, and then a few bigwigs realized that something was wrong.
However, it is easy to bring people in, but it is difficult to get rid of them. After all, the one who can be brought into the meeting is not a small one with power and prestige. And there are factions and bosses, if you move the people of the Wang family, the Wang family will naturally not do it, and if you move the people of the Li family, the Li family will be ready to smash the field every minute.
Later, several bigwigs finally discussed to start limiting the number of people and allocating seats. A few years after the founding of the country, this group of "pawns" who came to help also had their own place to discuss matters.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are interests, there must be disputes. At the beginning, these "pawns" were still clearly divided into factions, but after a short period of time, they began to dilute the factions and began to freely combine according to their own interests.
Maybe one, two, or even three or four are not necessarily the opponents of big families such as the Wang family, the Li family, and the Zhang family, but what about ten, dozens of families?
So a monster that could not be born on its own in Daming came out of the cage!
When the small families, in order to confront the big families and safeguard their own interests, began to win over the commoners to win the support of the "people" for themselves, and when the "pawns" began to get rid of the control of several big families and began to fight and compromise with each other for their own interests, something called "parliament" and "democracy" finally appeared.
In the final analysis, although the major families occupy the highest level, they do not have the ability to control everything below.
Moreover, several major families contain each other, and no one refuses to let others be dictators. It can only be discussed by a few or even dozens of companies. Shifting power down is no more natural.
History, under the "nonsense" that I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, made a big joke.
As a result, in this small country thousands of miles away from the Ming Dynasty, there was gradually a formal parliament and elected members. Then, in order to maintain unity and not let the country fall apart, there is a constitution that the majority agrees with, and there are guidelines that everyone must abide by.
"Why don't we go out and tell them that several of our families have already been released, and then fill in the list and put it back when the turmoil subsides?" A "small businessman" who followed the Liu family suddenly proposed.
"What heart do you have? All the reports went up, as soon as I entered the gate, how many pairs of eyes stared, if it was time to go to fight with the natives, those people outside did not see the children of our families, and they were not in a big mess? No one mentioned it, everyone didn't have an idea, and now that someone has mentioned it, naturally everyone will stare at it. Where is there a chance to put it back. When the time comes, what will happen if the children of our family are killed or injured? No one's children were picked up! Patriarch Li glared at the guy who had made the offer and refused.
"I don't know who is doing it, I have to let me know that I have to skin them!" Master Wang gritted his teeth and said hatefully.
"Alright, alright! Brother Wang, what's the use of talking about this now. Let's find a way to solve this problem! Anyway, I only have two sons, and according to the rule of drawing one from two dings, wouldn't I have to give away one son? That's not going to work. Even the old mother in the family would not agree. I dare to agree, the old mother in the family can beat me to death first with a lonely crutch," the head of the Liu family waved his hand and sighed.
"Who's got more sons? But things have to be solved! Master Li said a little frustrated.
"I can't help the wolf with the child, and now, I can't cover it up, so everyone just follows the rules. It's just that you have to think carefully about where to arrange, and you can't let your own children really go to death with the gang of civilians outside! Seeing that after discussing for so long, the noise outside was getting louder and louder, and it was about to be uncontrollable, the old man of the Li family finally gritted his teeth and spoke.
"Yes! Aren't the Taoist priests of Xuanguangguan also not required to join the army! However, he organized a team of Taoist priests who accompanied the army, responsible for treating the wounded and surpassing the battle of the dead. You don't really have to go to the battlefield, and you haven't seen what those people outside say, huh? The patriarch of the Liu family slapped his face and suddenly woke up.
Obviously, Master Liu wants his children to do "logistics" like Taoist priests. It's not a big deal, but it's safe, isn't it?
"Zhu Bajie marries a daughter-in-law - it's beautiful to think, do you think everyone is a fool?" Master Li said disdainfully.
"Not necessarily, now the Xuanguang Temple is in full swing, as long as they approve of it, it will be said that our children have already entered the Tao, and with the prestige of the Xuanguang Temple, it can still be suppressed. After all, now it is Xuanguangguan who has saved everyone," Master Liu said unconvinced.
"I think it's feasible, I don't have time to discuss it now, I have to go out and give someone an explanation immediately." Only if you discuss the caliber with Xuanguang Guan first. It can only be said that the children of several of our families have already become disciples of Xuanguangguan, but they did not enter the Tao to avoid desertion," Master Zhang nodded and said.
"Okay, immediately send someone to Xuanguang Temple to say hello, let's go outside together to calm down the situation first!" Master Wang also followed.
After these people finished discussing, they walked outside together, but they forgot that the Xuanguang Temple was not in their hands.
"Self-righteous, short-sighted, selfish, and stupid" When several big men and patriarchs appeared in front of the crowd together, Lichen was also playing chess with Zhu Zaikai. Halfway down, Lichen suddenly sneered, shook his head and sighed.
"It seems that these overseas Chinese leaders and patriarchs of the big clan have not yet had the consciousness and level to be leaders!" Lichen thought to himself.