Chapter 20: Let Him Go
"Can it be done?"
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"It can be done."
The answer to these two words is not enough, after staying in Xia City for a long time, it is difficult not to be constrained by those planning or statistics, even if they are against the person who makes these habits, but they have unknowingly contracted this habit.
"First, most of Ji Xia's people are in Yucheng, and our people are basically in Xiacheng. And most of the rest will only be on the side of the winners. β
"Second, Yucheng is already in chaos, and Ji Xia has only one way to go, even if this incident was caused by us. When we return to Xia Cheng and control the situation, Ji Xia wants to go back and seize power, so he can only rely on those workshop workers to form an army. This confirms his words that he betrayed his people, as long as a workshop worker follows Ji Xia back, he can't tell. As long as someone dies, everything is easy to say. β
"Third, there is still a large amount of public land in Xia City, which will be divided immediately after I go back. Everyone knew that Ji Xia would reclaim the public land after he returned, and a large number of public land slaves and the like could completely buy most of the Xia City people. β
"Fourth, the two cities will also support us. They don't want a powerful Xia City, Ji Xia has negotiated with them for many things that make them extremely dissatisfied, and we can give up a lot of public property in the two cities, such as the right to open mines and other rights to get their support. As for public property, ordinary people can't see or touch it, and their vision is very shallow and they won't oppose it. β
"Fifth, the white horse has been defending the grassland in Yangguan for several years, and there are many riders, is he willing to share the rights of Xia City equally or is he willing to continue to be the same as now? There are the least affected by Ji Xia, and those people are available to us. There are also some settlements on the grassland, as long as they promise to help us deal with Ji Xia who led the troops, we can sell them bronze soldiers. β
"Sixth, Xia Cheng and Yucheng are too far apart, and it will take more than 20 days for Ji Xia's soldiers to go to the least, and this will be after quelling the Yucheng Rebellion. We have a seal in our hands, there are few people and we are fast, there are always four or five months to prepare, as long as we hold out until autumn, Ji Xia has only one way to retreat. β
"Seventh, Su Yue and other leaders also want to see civil strife in Xia City, I think they will be on our side at that time, as long as we give them some of what they want."
After summarizing a few points, a smile gradually appeared on everyone's faces, and it seemed that it was indeed okay. As for the internal struggle after success, it will always wait until everything has subsided, and now there are common needs and enemies, so they are very united.
"So the most important thing to do now is to add fuel to the chaos in Yucheng and make it even more chaotic here! Didn't Xia Cheng say that these public properties belonged to the people? It's just that this kind of belonging is not good now, and we can make it better. β
With a smile on his face, he talked about some more details, and it wasn't until everyone smiled that the group dispersed.
On the same day, the only three ships controlled by the Yucheng side were transferred by the council, and the person in charge of supporting the boat was replaced by someone else, while the original person took up arms and went ashore according to the council's orders.
Later, some people were secretly transferred upstream, on the grounds that they were going to pick up a group of soldiers from the rest of the cities who came to support, but in fact, it was the conspirators who pulled out all the clansmen hidden in Yucheng under their control and retreated to Xia City in advance, which was not a large number.
Then, that night, news spread among the people: the council had decided to divide the public property completely into everyone's hands, and the Yucheng workshop was already controlled by those workshop workers anyway. As long as they can be recovered, the public property of these workshops will be divided according to the merits of the quelling of the unrest, including those farms, all of which will be privately owned. It is true that the public property is owned by every countryman, rather than the situation where there is still someone in full responsibility for the jurisdiction of the nominal ownership as Ji Xia did.
As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a sensation, and everyone in the country knew how many things the smelting workshop could exchange for Yucheng every day, and those things were actually used by themselves, but it was not the same as actually holding it in their hands.
For a while, a part of the people who didn't know what was fighting seemed to have found a reason, and their heads couldn't turn for the time being, but their hands were already clenched in their spears, and the whole half of the city was discussing the matter, but the discussion about this matter was not side-ended, but people with two opinions began to argue.
Even after the argument began, Jian Chen still did not show up, and seemed to have completely let the entire city go into chaos, and even stopped caring about the confusion that his thoughts began to be confused.
When these things reached Chen Jian's ears, Chen Jian only smiled and told the anxious Hongyu and his sister to let them not worry.
"At this time, I choose to believe in our people, and I believe that they are not stupid. If you are really stupid, you will not hear arguments, but the voices of the mountains. Because there are arguments, there are different people's hearts, and because people's hearts are not the same, it is even more impossible to rush across the other side in one go, so everything is utopian, isn't it? β
After speaking, he glanced at a few people tied not far away and laughed: "It seems that your skills stop here, I think you never thought it would become like this when you first discussed these things, right?" You are too naΓ―ve and ridiculous to think that the people of the country are stupid and weak and afraid of death, and that a closed hut can decide everything. β
Those few people lowered their heads, and they were the few people who had been prepared to return to Xia City by boat many days ago, at the beginning of the riot, and none of them had gone back but were detained.
The reason for the detention was very simple, Chen Jian was a great Sima and had high rights during the turmoil, so at the beginning of the turmoil, he issued an order seemingly unintentionally: Now is the moment when Yucheng is in danger, and anyone who has the status of a countryman and can be called into the army must not leave Yucheng until the chaos subsides, otherwise he will be punished as fleeing.
When those people asked this group of people to go back to Xia City to prepare first in the name of the council, Chen Jian didn't care, and no one cared about the order that Chen Jian had issued before.
So he legally mobilized some of Ji Bai's men, and rode horses to arrest all these people, because the few people who left were Chinese soldiers who needed to serve in the military when the war came, although it was a resolution of the council, but there was no express text or the seal of the council.
Some of these people had participated in the Battle of the Windy City to quell the chaos that year, and they were very clear about the methods of interrogation at the beginning. After being arrested, he had a ghost in his heart, thinking that the matter was exposed, and he confided in it without waiting for him to come back.
They don't know too much, but there are a lot of them, such as some words brought to the two cities of Ewei, so the black-clothed guards who were in charge of arresting them broke out in a cold sweat, and they no longer cared about orders such as the council, so they secretly hid these people and told Ji Bai.
Ji Bai found Jian Chen, and after telling him about it, he wanted to take the black-clothed guard to arrest someone, but was stopped by Jian Chen.
"Ask questions without asking questions. Will they admit it now? The mouth can be made up at will, and in the future, it will not be good for Xia Cheng for someone to learn to convict people based on their mouths. Keep it, don't say it, wait until they do. β
Ji Bai gritted his teeth and said, "This has betrayed Xia Cheng, do you still have to abide by the rules?" The unruly will always win over the unruly! Ji Xia waits any longer, and Xia Cheng will be finished. β
Jian Chen shook his head and said, "Will it?" I don't think so. Copper ore is always stone without being smelted by fire, jade can never be green without carving, and the same is true of people's hearts. I think it's worth it to exchange this loss of public property for the hearts of the clansmen to see clearly the sinful hearts of those people. β
"Ji Bai, Xia Cheng is not this city, not this workshop, not these public properties, not even the rules I have to abide by, but the thousands of countrymen like us."
"There are such people, if the city is destroyed, it can be rebuilt, the workshop can be rebuilt, and the land can be reclaimed when it is gone. The sky is high and the earth is wide, where can there not be a city? As long as people are still there, where they stand, there is Xia City. β
"Go, let them do it, let them toss, toss until the people of the country see that they have done it. I don't want to kill, I just want to kill people. β
The few people who had been caught for many days had also heard the conversation, and the days of detention had made them even more uneasy, because they had not seen Jian Chen frowning, nor had they seen Jian conspiring with anyone to discuss something.
There was really no conspiracy, only a few little things to do according to the rules, so they could only think of the word disdain, and disdain meant that they didn't take it to heart at all. He even used the past few days to ask a few students who knew a little about the situation in Dongyi, but those students were also left in this place, and they were happy because they could learn a lot of things that others couldn't.
After a while, Ji Bai walked in, and said with a very anxious face: "Ji Xia, the group of people in the council seem to be running away, they are mobilizing ships, do you want to stop them?" β
"Don't stop them, let them go. A swarm of flies mingled among the bees, buzzing and indistinguishable. In the face of honey, bees and flies are the same, and it will be difficult for you to catch them. The best thing to do is to dig a manure pit and let the flies get together. β
"If you want me to say, it's a good thing that they ran down. What if you run away? It's nothing more than to separate Xia Cheng and Yucheng, but there are ten people who support them, but there are ninety people who support us, if he doesn't run, how can people know what they are going to do? It's not good to fly with us disguised as bees, but it makes the Chinese people think that they are also very hardworking, and the Chinese people are easy to be deceived. β
"This is how Xia Cheng should go in the future, and it can't be reconciled. Is it to let a small group of people grab most of the benefits of the city, as is the case with the rest of the city? Or do you want more people to share the benefits of the city? β
"You Ji Bai don't have the ability to move them, and I don't have the ability to do it, so why hide it like this, it's better to separate."
"It's a great thing to be able to educate the people and let them know that they have been deceived. Recognize early and oppose early, recognize late and oppose later, if you can't recognize it, you can't oppose it, no matter how you look at it, it's better to recognize it early. β
"Let them go, they can be deceived for a while, but they can't be deceived for a lifetime, and the worst result is to ruin everything. It's like an ore, which seems to be smashed and crushed, and it seems to be burned in flames, but in the end it squeezes out impurities and turns into unstoppable copper and iron. β
"If it's broken, it's going to be built again."