There are no people who think purely rationally, and what the workshop workers put forward seems to be a rational analysis of interests, but it is impossible for Chen Jian to directly agree without consulting with the old Chinese. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Asking for a price and paying back the money on the spot, but time is equally precious to both parties, Chen Jian didn't cut their conditions anymore, and asked directly: "You made such a request because you feel that you are also part of Yucheng, right?" ”

"What does Ji Xia mean, aren't we from Yucheng?"

"Yes, of course, you are not slaves. Since you think you are from Yucheng, what will you do if Yucheng is attacked by the enemy one day? Although you live a very hard life, you are the only one who looks at the world and is not a slave but a human being. Once Yucheng is breached, you are afraid that you will not be able to work as a workshop worker, let alone your children go to school...... When the school is gone, who will teach you? ”

"Let's put it this way, although you are workshop workers, you are still better than the slaves in the rest of the cities, at least you are human. And the reason why you are stronger than the rest of the city slaves is because the goods sold by these workshops are exchanged for food and clothing. You are at the bottom of the elm city, but you are still secretly exploiting the slaves of the rest of the city. I'm not wrong, right? ”

"You used to be fugitive slaves, but now you are not much different from those slave owners, except that they carry leather whips, and you do not carry leather whips. Thinking about it this way, you are actually still connected to Yucheng, and without the stability of Yucheng, there would be no life for you today. ”

"So, you guys are making trouble, but I hope that one day when the enemy comes, you don't say anything about the quality of Yucheng that has nothing to do with you, and it will be too late for you to know that you are wrong in the future. Unless one day the world speaks the same words and writes the same words everywhere, there is only the difference between the workshop worker and the workshop owner, and there is no difference between the city group and the ancestors. ”

"Besides, I see you as human because you and we are the same ancestor, and that's my bottom line. You can ask the people of Xiacheng how I treat those steppe tribes in Xiacheng. ”

A rather corrective rhetoric against this group of workshop workers is still extremely effective, and no one has seen what it will be like for many years, at least at this time, listening to what Chen Jian said still makes sense.

After a while, he asked, "Ji Xia is right, but what do you want us to do?" ”

"If you want to eat bear's paws, you risk being bitten by a bear. If you want to maintain your current life, and even maintain the possibility that you can fight and improve, you must also consider yourself a part of the Yucheng and fulfill the same obligations as the people of Xiacheng. ”

"If Yucheng is attacked by the enemy, you have the obligation to take up arms and go to the battlefield, otherwise I will not grant you the right to ask."

He snorted and said, "I listened to Ji Xia's lecture and talked about obligations and rights. I would like to ask, if you go on a foreign war, who will you get the booty and slaves? ”

"Returned to the public property of Xia City."

"That means it's not ours, because we're people, but not from Xiacheng."

"Yes."

"Then we can only promise that if someone attacks Yucheng, we will take up arms to defend Yucheng; But if we go to war abroad, we won't go on an expedition, unless you give us the status of a citizen of Xia City, so that the public property of Xia City is our public property, and we are obliged to fight. ”

"No, the council can't agree, you haven't proven that you are qualified to be a Xia Cheng person."

"For example?"

"Fighting. You are brave and not afraid of death, but ten people will definitely not be able to defeat ten Xia Cheng people who have picked up arms and lined up, do you believe it? ”

He recalled that he was arrested when he was changing salt, and nodded helplessly, this is a fact, and there is no need to argue for the so-called dignity.

Jian Chen pretended to think about it for a while, and agreed for a long time: "Since this is the case, it is not impossible. You must first understand that to defend Yucheng is to protect yourselves, and then you must also swear that you will abide by this agreement, and if Yucheng is attacked, you will take up arms. ”

"But you're not qualified soldiers right now, so you need to train. From now on, you will do things for nine days every ten days, and set aside one day to practice the spears and form a whole queue, and at the end of each month you will have to train for three days, otherwise your vows will be meaningless. ”

Jian Chen glanced at it and said with a smile: "You are a very good person to speak, and the workshop workers can understand the reasoning you say, so what I just said will be relayed by you to all the workshop workers, telling them that protecting Yucheng is protecting yourself." It's not cheating, it's true. ”

He was startled, and knew in his heart that he was afraid that Jian Chen had already guessed that the words circulating among the workshop workers were said by himself, but his face was still shocked, and he asked rhetorically: "Just rely on a set of winter clothes, a sick house will let us fight for you?" When training...... Do you eat your own or public property? ”

Jian Chen asked in surprise: "Of course it's your own, I said, it's for yourself, not for us to fight." Let you eat public property, then you are the soldiers of Xia City. The soldiers of Xia City must follow the will of the leader, I will let you attack the Dongyi Grassland now, will you go? If you want to go, I will let you eat the public property. ”

He clenched his fists and shouted: "We have to work for nine days in ten days, and there is not much left except for eating, and now you are still making us work for nothing, what is this?" ”

Jian Chen pressed his fists with both hands and said with a smile: "Don't worry. It's still negotiable. In this way, if you can train when you can line up and listen to the drums, you can understand the advance and retreat, you can advance twenty steps with your spear and the formation is not chaotic, I can promise you some more conditions. ”

"On what terms?"

"Your children are allowed to study five days out of work every 10 days, and their meals are partly produced by the public. The eight people you have chosen to study specifically can also be funded by the public estate to learn and teach those children. ”

He shook his head and said, "There are so many people on the entire island, it is impossible to do them all." Not everyone is fit to hold a spear. Our requirement is that if you have a thousand people to do it, you have to deliver on your promise. The rest still need to train, but they can't do it that well. ”

Chen Jian pondered for a long time, nodded in agreement, and at the same time added a condition: "With 100 people as a team, we will be responsible for the training." But you need to tell the reason I said earlier why you are fighting in a way that the workshop workers can understand, and each team chooses one person to tell them why they are training. Otherwise, they will always think that this city with slaves has nothing to do with the masters fighting against them? That's not going to work. Those you choose must learn from me, and they must be the bravest. ”

Somewhat scared, he said, "We don't like to talk to you...... I don't want everyone to listen. ”

"You're not afraid of me, you're afraid of telling the truth."

"Your truth is only half the truth! I'm afraid that one day they will be told that they will go to war with you, and they will not get anything! ”

Chen Jian spread his hands and said: "Then it depends on your ability, the real is always true, and the fake is always false, is it possible that the lie becomes the truth after I tell it?" ”

"Sooner or later, you will go out to war with us. You see, some of you, some of you, such as Ze and you, hope that the people under the world will no longer be slaves, but the way you think of is to go back to the era of clan equality, but I have shown you a new path that no one has taken. So to follow us to fight is actually to fulfill the dreams of you people. You can't deny that there are no slaves left in Yucheng, right? ”

"The other part of the people just wants to get better. There are more wars, more workshops, more things in exchange, and the same thing you ask for, but the public property has changed from ten to one hundred, and it is easier for us to agree. ”

"Some people actually want to become slave owners, but ......"

Hearing this, he had already blocked his ears with his hands, and his mouth made a whining sound to prevent himself from continuing to listen to Chen Jian, and shouted: "We will not follow you out to fight, unless you give us the identity of our countrymen!" ”

"Think beautifully! The Chinese people will not agree! I am the leader, and it is impossible to go against the interests of the people! ”

He put down the hand that was blocking his ears, glanced thoughtfully at Jian Chen, who seemed to be smiling but not smiling, as if he had thought of something, no longer arguing, and nodded: "Okay then, we agree." But remember, we will never leave Onozawa without giving us the status of our countrymen, because we will still be slaves without Ohnozawa. I'll bring you the chosen ones. ”

The main purpose has been achieved, the rest are some side things, the Chinese people are present, Chen Jian took out twelve points of ability and sprayed them for two days, but the daily quota was reduced and the minimum daily wage was reduced, the excess piecework wage was increased, and the compulsory work was often shortened from seven and a half hours to six and a half hours.

After the four conditions were basically discussed, Jian Chen put forward another opinion.

"Don't strike lightly, I will see this in the future, you elect eight people to be the representatives of your workshop workers, and if there is anything to talk to us through these eight people, we may be able to agree to it. In addition to the Reclamation Division, each of the eight workshops will elect one person, but it will never be just your Smelting Division. I can even give you a room to be a place for you to discuss things. ”

"Also, you belong to the normal work of the workshop, according to the rules, all those who have not gone to work in the past few days will be whipped, and the rules cannot be broken."

After the three of them left, the people of Xia Cheng who were gathered around asked puzzledly: "Ji Xia, the first few conditions are very good, there are indeed too few people on our side, and they can really help if they really want to fight in the future." Only the last one you ask them to elect eight people...... Doesn't this fuel their revolt? ”

Jian Chen smiled: "Are you stupid? A part of the money from the public property was given to the eight people who were elected to be taken off their jobs and removed from the work of the workshop workers, and even to give them some benefits. In a few months, they will still be able to share their hearts with those workshop workers? With a little fiddling, these selected people will sooner or later lose the trust of those workshop workers, and even their bottom line can tell us that it is easier than bribing whistleblowers. ”

Moreover, as soon as these eight people were well separated from their work, their minds changed. Let's just tell them all day long that the strike will actually damage the interests of the workshop workers themselves, and that we must cooperate and not fight, and that to defend us is to defend themselves, and let them preach as workshop workers, isn't it more convincing than our words? Are you going to tell them what they believe now? If the three had told me, they would have believed it. Every time before going on strike, these people will definitely know in advance, and when the time comes, they will buy a few and tell us, hey, prepare in advance, so that they can't stop. How much is a room? ”

"If this trick works, we can also buy some people to make them better off than the rest of the workshop workers, divide them, and don't let them have one mind. It seems that we have paid more, but in the long run, our losses are smaller. ”

"You all have to learn more, learn how to manage these people within the rules, maybe in the future I can take out part of the public property and let you go outside to open a workshop. The rest of the towns will only take care of slaves, but not such workshop workers, and you should not learn from other cities, which are outdated methods. Slaves work, really not as fast as workshop workers, I'm afraid that your heads will be hot and give up the workshop workers to catch slaves again, learn more. ”

A group of people were stunned for a long time, then stretched out their thumbs in admiration and praised: "High! High! It's really high! Where does this slave work as fast as a workshop worker? It's just that I didn't care about it before, for fear that they would resist. If there is a way to keep them in rebellion, where will we still wonder about the time to return to the slaves? (To be continued.) )