"Little Yunzhou Song Jiang, meet the Admiral."

In the captain's room of the "Enterprising" exploration ship under sail, the dark Song Jiang forcibly endured the feeling of vomiting and saluted Wu Tiexin, who was burly, fair-skinned, and had slightly yellowed hair and beard.

"Hmm, you're their leader?" Wu Tiexin looked at Song Jiang and asked.

"The small ones are not talented, but they are looked up to by ordinary brothers." Song Jiang had a smile on his face.

"Oh." Wu Tiexin said, "Yesterday, the Enterprise arrived near Yinzhou!" You can already see the coastline of Yinzhou. Moreover, the days are long and the nights are short here in Yinzhou, which is convenient for searching. It is estimated that we will soon find a suitable place to place you. ”

It's summer, and of course the days are longer in the high latitudes, but it's the other way around in winter.

"Congratulations to the little captain." Song Jiang still has a well-behaved attitude.

"When we find a place," Wu Tiexin said, "I'll let you go...... The Marines will help you blaze a trail. If you are sure that there are no enemies, you will live the next year.

Food, winter clothes, weapons, and tools will be left for you. But the 108 of you also have rules and regulations...... Do you know what that means? ”

"Yes, yes...... The little one understands. Song Jiang nodded again and again, "There are no rules, there is no square circle." If the captain has any rules, just show them. ”

"It's not my rules, it's your own. From now on, you will be self-governing and self-defence. Naturally, you set the rules yourself, just show me when you set them. Wu Tiexin paused, and then said, "You can't have the final say alone, everyone has to discuss and make a covenant." This covenant is not about sharing blessings and hardships. The general principle of autonomy must be stipulated...... Do you know what autonomy means? ”

"The little ones know......," Song Jiang said, "the little ones have always been autonomous." ”

The 108 grain thieves were transported on a ship to "Yinzhou" for colonization, which was of course the result of careful planning.

What is the cost of using 2 "Discovery" class ships, plus hundreds of sailors, more than 100 marines, to work for two years?

So you have to think clearly about who to send over!

The kind of good people who have been wronged, bad people who have gone astray on the spur of the moment, are not qualified to go to the New World at all.

It has to be a vicious habitual bandit!

And it has to be a group of habitual bandits, there are leaders, minions, and organizations, and more than a hundred bandits can form a group, and they can only survive when they arrive in Yinzhou.

And the charm of Song Jiang, the bandit leader, is indeed satisfying. Wu Tiexin has actually been paying attention to observing, on the way to Japan, Song Jiang was about to faint to death, and a group of younger brothers still recognized him.

This black guy is really talented!

Song Jiang, a dark colonial talent, staggered back to the dimly lit and stinky "sinner deck", and Wu Yong, Li Kui, and Hua Rong immediately surrounded him.

"Brother Gongming," Li Kui asked, "what did the official ask you to do?" ”

Song Jiang found a corner and sat down, and said with a smile: "Sit down, sit down, my brother has something to tell you today." ”

The heroes in the "Sinner Deck" gathered one after another and gathered around Song Jiang.

"We all came out of Yunzhou, and we have followed Song Jiang for all these years, but we have endured hardships......"

"Where did my brother come from......

"Without my brother, my younger brother's life would have been gone."

"That's right, without my brother, how many of us can survive to this day?"

"Today is dead, and there is no loss, and finally there is a big fish and meat."

“……”

The heroes are convinced of Song Jiang, even if they follow him to endure hardships, they are willing.

Song Jiang nodded with satisfaction, "Now the 108 of us have been far away from the Central Plains for more than 10,000 miles, and we have arrived in Yinzhou, a deserted place. In the future, we can only support each other and struggle to survive...... Admiral Wu above said that in the next few years, we will have to develop and build in Yinzhou. 108 people have to be twisted into a rope in order to live, to have clothes to wear, and to have women, to take root in Yinzhou, and to scatter the leaves.

Admiral Wu also said that in the future, he will send us weapons, tools, food, clothing, and women. But they will not send us an official government, nor will they send troops to protect us for a long time.

We must be self-governing and self-defensive! ”

Hearing what Song Jiang said, the heroes present were a little incredulous.

Weapons, tools, food, clothing, and women can all be given, and there is no government or officers and soldiers...... For a group of habitual bandits, where is this exile, it is simply heaven!

The only pity is that this place is extremely desolate, and most of the time there is nothing to grab.

Of course, this arrangement is also for the sake of cost control.

If you want to be so far away in Yinzhou, so desolate, that no one can even see a colony, establish a bureaucracy, deploy an army. That's a staggering expense!

Sending an official to the governor of Yinzhou can't be said to be a few times more than that!

As for the army, it must be mercenaries, and it has to be paid several times the salary.

And these officials and troops have nothing to do in Yinzhou. Even if Yinzhou is a bit indigenous, it can't be dealt with by armed colonists?

If there really are such natives, it will not be too late to send officials and troops.

And because these armed colonists sent out did not have officials and troops to manage them, of course, they had to be autonomous and self-defensive.

And if you want autonomy and self-defense, of course, you have to have a rule.

"Brother Gongming, let's all listen to you!"

"Yes, whatever my brother says, we'll do it."

Of course, the heroes all listened to Song Jiang.

Song Jiang waved his hand and said with a smile: "Brothers, Song Jiang is ashamed to have won your wrong love. But it is not an overnight thing for us to settle down in Yinzhou. Maybe generations, more than a dozen generations...... Song Jiang is in his fifties this year, how many years can he live? If you can't set a rule of autonomy now, Song Jiang will be gone in the future, who will everyone listen to? Without a rule, you might kill each other.

This is not the Central Plains! If the 108 of us can't get together, there is only a dead end. ”

"Brother Gongming is right." Wu Yong echoed, "Then how should we be autonomous?" Brother, let's talk about it. ”

Song Jiang waved his hand, "How to be autonomous, Song Jiang doesn't know, just has some ideas." ”

He paused, "The first choice is that the 108 of us should make a blood alliance and voluntarily become brothers with different surnames." ”

"Good! It should be righteous! ”

"From now on, we will be brothers!"

Song Jiang said: "Not only the 108 of us, but also the Han men who will arrive in Yinzhou in the future, as long as they are willing to join our stronghold, they are also our brothers with different surnames." And all brothers are equal, regardless of their order. You can't learn from Da Zhou, a citizen is still divided into three, six, nine and so on. ”

Originally, Song Jiang's gang did not have any concept of equality, but the Great Zhou Republic engaged in an unequal system of citizens and civilians.

And also beat the heroes into the lowest "sinners". After fully understanding the "inequality" of the Great Zhou Republic, Song Jiang finally realized the preciousness of equality.

Li Kui glared, "Yes! Brothers should be equal, but Brother Gongming is still our big leader! ”

The heroes below also chimed in.

Song Jiang said again: "Secondly, in order to allow our stronghold to develop and grow overseas thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, we need to formulate and promulgate some decrees, rules, and regulations from time to time that are beneficial to all our brothers, and we also need to elect big and small leaders.

The third is that all of our brothers pledge to abide by the laws, regulations, and regulations promulgated by the autonomous bases. And fight for the interests of the stronghold at any time!

I can't think of anything else for the time being, just these three, if the big guy doesn't have an opinion, let the military advisor write it down, let's find an opportunity to make a blood alliance. ”

"No comment."

"Listen to Brother Gongming's ......"

The heroes of Liangshan themselves don't know that they are doing something that is enough to circulate in the annals of history!

Because of this event, for many centuries to come, people living in the New World will remember these ancestors who did not actually land on the land of the New World.

Although they only thought they had set foot on the New World and became the first settlers and pioneers in the New World. But they set a very important precedent for those who actually set foot in the New World in the future—they formulated the first political compact document in the history of the New World, which, although simple, occupies an important place in the later history of political thought in the New World, because it foreshadowed many ideas of republican politics......

The original text of the covenant is as follows: In the name of Heavenly Justice, 108 of us, today we have made an alliance of blood, and hereby swear that we will voluntarily become brothers with different surnames, and form an autonomous brotherly body.

In order to establish the initial stronghold in the land of Yinzhou, we will help each other on an equal footing, unite as one, formulate just and equal laws, regulations, and ordinances in the stronghold, and elect leaders large and small.

All 108 of us pledge to abide by and obey, and if we break our oath, we will not tolerate it......

And then there are the signatures and handprints of the 108 heroes!

This covenant was later known by historians as the "Enterprising Convention" or the "Covenant of the 108 Brothers."

The 108 brothers later established an important colonial transit point in the town of Liangshan, an ice-free bay with a pleasant climate in Yinzhou (Kamchatka Peninsula), and this "Endeavor Convention" was engraved on a large stone tablet in the center of Liangshan Town.

In the years that followed, Liangshan Town was an important transit point for immigrants from the Great Zhou Republic and the Eastern Song Dynasty to the New World.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants read the "Convention" on the stele in Liangshan Town, and after arriving in their new homeland, they made similar conventions and established countless autonomous colonial posts.

Some of these colonies eventually formed a United States in the New World...... Because the founding concept of the United States originated from the "Enterprise Convention", the stone tablet engraved with the full text of the Convention was later transported to Huashengfu, the capital of the United States, and enshrined as a national treasure.