For those workshop workers in Yucheng, the thirty-fourth year of Huali was a strange year, and at least thirty-four years they were not from Xiacheng. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Many new rules, new laws and even currency reforms seem to them to be far away, and it seems that they are the same as before, but the conflict between reality and ideals is quietly coming.

Between ideals and reality, they hardly hesitate to choose the reality that is at stake with them.

This choice heralded a great change in their hearts, and they were no longer hostile to Yucheng, but linked their own interests with Yucheng.

In the entire thirty-four years of the Chinese calendar, these workshop workers only made a collective disturbance once, and the reason for the disturbance was because of the charity decree issued in the late spring.

With the promulgation of the decree and the publicity of Yucheng, many non-slave village communities fled to the vicinity of Onozawa, and although the number was not large for the time being, the number of them tended to increase day by day.

When the more than 3,000 slave girls appeared, the workshop workers were very excited, but then rumors and uneasiness began to spread among them.

The workshop in Yucheng is growing, and the temporary surplus can accommodate these people, but some of the workshop workers feel a deep sense of unease.

There were also internal quarrels among Ze Min and the others, and there were dozens of thirteen people at the beginning. After one work, dozens of people discussed the seemingly unrelated ordinance in a dark corner, and eventually quarreled.

There are people who support it, and the reason for it is that they were originally slaves too. After the success of the last rebellion, they liked their current position, at least as human beings rather than slaves. So they hope that more slaves will escape here and escape the fate they once wanted to get rid of.

He even proposed that he would secretly leave Yucheng and go to those cities to encourage slaves to flee, and suggested that everyone make up some money to buy a batch of grain and hide it on the road, so that everyone who fled here would not starve to death on the road.

He plans to build a few cabins with food stacked in them, and leave a few people behind as a secret path to freedom.

There are people who are in favor, naturally there are people who are against, otherwise those people would not quarrel.

Some of the first thirteen were opposed, not only by not supporting the plan to build wooden houses so that more people could flee here, but also by opposing the Charity Act itself.

They think very realistically, their current status as a human being has been earned, they have shed blood and starved, and how many of their companions died when they fled from the city? What did those people do in the first place? Now you want to enjoy the same treatment as yourself?

And they thought that as more and more people gathered in Onozawa, it would be difficult for them to fight against Yucheng. Because if you don't do it, someone else will naturally do it, and the charity law will force those people to do it, which is much less than what you ask for, so why should these people ask Yucheng to back down at that time?

They do not hate the decree itself, they hate those who are going to rob them of their special status.

Dozens of people quarreled in the corner for a long time, with reality on one side and ideals on the other. Naturally, he was devastated, with only seven of the fifty-seven supporting him and the remaining forty-eight opposing.

Ze didn't say anything, he supported it in his heart, but he knew that once the situation that was united now was broken, all the people who followed him would have no support.

When he angrily proposed to separate from those seven people to do things alone, Ze scolded and asked him if he had disagreeing with him, so what was the use of those oaths at the beginning? Is it true that in the future, as long as we have different opinions, we will go it alone? What can you accomplish alone? How much can the eight of you make up even if you put together the money?

"A chopstick is easily broken, a pair of chopsticks are huddled together, the people of Xia Cheng say this all day long, haven't you heard it? Dozens of us are going to do big things, we must have a head, we must have a direction and a goal. What is a head? The head is the brains of the people, and it is the head that is to think for the majority. ”

"People are not the same, there will definitely be differences or even contradictory ideas, what should we do at this time? Is it separated? Or do you decide to do something after discussion? Are those who oppose going to leave? If you want me to say, no! If you oppose it, you can oppose it, but if you oppose it and the people still don't agree, then swallow your opposition into your stomach, and not only can't say it, but you have to do those things that you are against. ”

"Only in this way can we do great things, otherwise it will be a pile of loose sand. Sand can be burned into hard, refractory bricks, but if separated, it can be kicked away by a child. ”

"Is this the only thing we are facing? No, there will be more in the future. It is because we have the same opinion on most things that we come together. Does the difference in one thing mean that all our opinions are contradictory? It's the same to go to the distant summer city, some people take a car, some people ride horses, and some people take a boat, but isn't the ultimate goal the same? ”

Relying on his prestige and his own feelings from the heart, he finally suppressed the dissatisfaction of those people, and kept his head shut and didn't speak, but in the end he agreed when he was asked to do it.

These people are the souls of the workshop workers, and there are even some people who have gone to the farms and mines by some means, and they can always incite the most workshop workers.

So in June, the elected representatives of the workshop workers proposed to Chen Jian that if they did not agree, it could cause a riot.

The delegates were very clear to Jian Chen and Yucheng's management: "We oppose the Charity Act. ”

Jian Chen clearly told them that they had no right to interfere with the rules, because this was the rules of Xia City, and it had nothing to do with the workshop, and they were not from Xia Cheng yet.

The workshop workers knew exactly what they were against, so this time they improved over the last time, and made some advance bargaining preparations.

Jian Chen was very happy that they raised such an objection, and Jian Chen already knew about it when they got together to discuss things, because someone came to tell him that night.

Chen Jian is happy that the quarrel proves one thing: the idea of this group of workshop workers has changed.

What they used to object to was the pyramid structure itself, now they object to not being in the penultimate layer of the pyramid. Because the ugly skin of the slave was replaced by Chen Jian, the change in mentality was not so entangled.

From ideals to reality, from opposition to compromise, and even to see themselves as the vested interests of the Yucheng workshop, they have lost their radicalism and become conservative, and they are no longer the spokesmen of the lowest level but the beneficiaries of the upper class of the Yucheng - the bottom is now those newcomers who have no labor skills and no organization to apply to the charity law.

So from the moment they began to oppose the charity law, Yucheng had four political forces.

The first batch of Xiacheng old countrymen with many meritorious slaves were the beneficiaries of slavery and pseudo-slavery in the workshops. They objected to these Yucheng workshop workers becoming Xia Cheng nationals.

The first workshop workers who worked in Yucheng opposed slavery and were dissatisfied with their current economic status but were interdependent with Yucheng. They opposed the oppression of the first group of old Chinese, but they also opposed the joining of a new group of fugitives who had nothing.

The low-level non-management Xia Chengguo people, they are the ruling class, but they work with the workshop workers on weekdays, and they can't help but feel sympathy, and if the system is changed, it will have the least impact on them. They eat and drink enough, have compassion for the bottom, but are extremely opposed to the violent resistance of the bottom, unwilling to change the existing situation, but hope to improve the life of the workshop workers who work with them without affecting their own lives.

and the last leader layer led by Chen Jian and the army and cutting-edge nobles who are completely out of production, they are not thinking about the interests of the present, but about the future war, and even some people are a little blind to Chen Jian.

As for the remaining people who have too strong an ideal taste, such as sigh and agaricus, they are a minority, and without the space and material conditions for them to realize their dreams, they can be ignored.

Originally, there was a balance between these four forces, because there were also many problems involved in Xia Cheng, and in addition to the off-duty army, the main force of the Xia City army was still composed of slave owners and civilians, and the civilians were easily influenced by those who were quite powerful.

Originally, those workshop workers only opposed but did not compromise, let alone show where their position was, to overthrow the system of Yucheng? Or will it compromise with the Yucheng system and become a vested interest?

Now when they clearly express their attitude, this balance is about to be broken, because Yucheng now has an extra group of people, a group of people who are bound to Yucheng and will stand by their side when necessary.

As a temptation, Jian Chen did not quarrel too much with this group of people, but after discussing with half of the members of the council, he proposed a resolution that would not affect the interests of the old nobles of Xia City for the time being.

Three days later, Chen Jian replied to the workshop workers: "It is absolutely impossible to revoke the charity law, but a new law will be introduced." From the beginning of July, only those who have worked in Yucheng for more than three years are eligible to enter several very important workshop departments such as smelting, dyeing and spinning. ”

The workshop workers agreed to this answer after discussion, and three years was enough time for them to close the gap in work efficiency with the newcomers.

The elders of the council did not oppose this decree, they had seen the benefits brought by the workshop group, and they also understood the losses caused by the shutdown, and they did not realize Chen Jian's sinister intentions - this decree and the charity decree had created a special class, which was in favor of Yucheng, but absolutely opposed to the old aristocracy.

This group of people is powerful, especially under the deliberate connivance and instigation of Jian Chen.

At the end of August, with the joy of another victory, the group of workshop workers fulfilled an additional condition after last year's struggle, and a team of nearly 1,000 people could understand the drums moving forward and retreating.

Because they work together on weekdays, they have good coordination and discipline. Because they eat and sleep together and listen to the sentry work, their obedience is also very good.

Xia Cheng was not without such soldiers, such as a group of subordinate peasants liberated by Chen Jian during the war with Xirong, allowing them to break away from slavery status and take credit as heads.

But those slave soldiers were brave but not disciplined, and the individual struggle on the battlefield was very brave, but it was easy to collapse, and sometimes they had to face the situation of charging ahead to disrupt the formation.

The black-clothed army in Yucheng did not like that kind of soldiers, as chariot cavalry and shock troops, they preferred the Ge spear phalanx soldiers who could stabilize the front, and preferred this kind of workshop workers with strong organizational ability who could understand the progress and retreat of the drums.

From the beginning of the establishment of the off-duty army, Xia Cheng pursued a tactical line of confrontation, in which the off-duty soldiers completed the assault when the front was scorched, and tore apart the opponent's line at a certain position to cause a total rout.

Dull, boring tactics, nothing without trickery, but also simple and easy to understand. The other party always sees it, and he also knows where the weakness is, it is nothing more than smashing the opponent's shield before the spear pierces him, so that Xia Cheng will collapse first, but it is a little difficult to do.

After watching the drills of these workshop workers with Jian Chen, the black-clothed soldiers did not like to hand over their backs or flanks to those rather fanatical but unsustainable slave soldiers, who could not steal their merits at all, and could make them feel at ease.

However, they didn't say anything, and this group of workshop workers made it clear that they would never go out of Yucheng to fight until they obtained the status of a countryman. It's not something the Black Coats can be involved in deciding.

Chen Jian did not say anything to the army people, but fulfilled his promise to the workshop workers, and allocated a sum of money from the public property to fund the half-time study of the children of the workshop workers, as well as to subsidize the selected people of the workshop workers to complete their full-time studies for education.

The struggle that began last winter has only now come to an end, and the workshop workers have made Chen's refusal last year meaningless.

At that time, Chen Jian said that they were not qualified to be Chinese, because they could not fight at the most basic level, but now at least they can stand up straight and understand the sound of drums, forward and backward.

At that time, they were against the entire Yucheng Xiacheng's rule system, but now they are only against the rules and decrees that are unfavorable to them, but they no longer oppose the Xiacheng itself.

If you think about it carefully, it seems that you are one step closer to being qualified to be a countryman. (To be continued.) )