Chapter 56: "Democracy"

Zhao Wuxian said to the people: "The method of Daitian that I demonstrated, everyone present yesterday should have told you, and now I have really been blessed by the gods. However, whether or not to implement it in your private land has to be decided by each family, so there is this public discussion. ”

The so-called public discussion is "to discuss it with the people of the country".

After the destruction of the Shang, the rulers of the Zhou Dynasty, after summing up the lessons of the Shang demise, issued a sigh of "the sky sees itself and the people see, and the sky listens to the people and listens to itself".

The people, excluding the savage vassals, but only the "people", that is, the high-ranking citizens of the state, who have clans, private property, and armaments, are the backbone of the city-state, and are also reserves.

In the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty, the power of the Chinese people was still very large, although it was not the mainstream force, but once it broke out, it could completely change the political situation in a short period of time.

Therefore, when Zhou Li was king, he implemented the mountain and forest patents, and also "defended the mouth of the people, more than the anti-Sichuan". As a result, the people's anger was aroused, and a riot of the Chinese people was able to blast the Son of Heaven out of Zongzhou, and started a "republican administration" that had never been seen before or since.

Therefore, more than 100 years ago, when the people who defended the country were dissatisfied with Wei Yigong's love for cranes and not for the people, they spontaneously refused to defend the country with a spear: "When the general fights, the people of the country who receive armor all say: Make the crane, the crane really has a position, and the rest of the people can fight?" ”

Wei Yigong did not get the support of the people, so he had to drive alone to resist the invasion of the Di people, and as a result, he was completely defeated, and the country was almost destroyed.

In addition, during the reform of the childbearing, the people of Zheng Guo gathered in the township school to hold a citizens' assembly and openly discuss politics. What to say, "Take my clothes and take my clothes, take my fields and join them; Whoever kills the child, I will do it! "Curse the son of the ruler not to die well. If it weren't for the rapid effect of the birth reform, which reversed the perception of the country, the consequences would still be unknown......

Similarly, in the previous coups of the Jin Kingdom, the people of the capital were also a decisive force, and they were the objects of the king's and Qing's forces.

Quwo Dynasty Jin, after decades of tossing, the feudal lords of the Quwo system have killed several generations of Jin marquis of the wing system in a row, and even Zhou Tianzi and Duke Yu have no choice, but under the opposition of the people of Yicheng, they have repeatedly failed to succeed.

Fifty years ago, the Fan family and the Luan family fought in Xinjiang City, and it was also because the Chinese people finally stood on the side of the Fan family and the monarch, and Luan Yingcai was defeated.

Even, the reason why Zhao Wuxian was able to defeat the Cheng clan with one blow was also because of the dissatisfaction of other Chinese people with the Cheng clan. Afterwards, however, he could not make his countrymen obey him, and his prestige was much higher among the savage vassals, but they had no political status.

Therefore, Wuxian can only be manipulated with the help of ghosts, gods and witches......

This can be said to be a remnant of primitive military democracy, but also the germ of Chinese democracy, and to some extent, even a little similar to the Greco-Roman civic system of the same era. It is a pity that in the future Warring States Period, most of the people were demoted to the head of Qian, and the dawn of "democracy" was "fighting for the city and killing the city; Fight for the wilderness, kill people" The cruel war was so devastated that there was not even a scum left.

Zhao Wuxian had a good impression of the independent character of the Chinese people in this era, and also respected this quaint public discussion system. But he also understands that this time he has to "play with democracy", after all, the times and the vision of the Chinese people have limitations, otherwise they cannot implement the next series of innovations.

Moreover, he also recognized a sentence that Simon Leopard said when he ruled Ye in later generations.

"The people can be happy, not with worry!"

At least until the literacy rate of the population reaches a certain level, this is the only way.

So he stretched out his hands, one left and one right, as if he wanted to take the entire Chengxiang into his arms: "Those who want to plant the field in winter are right, and those who don't want to be left!" ”

Hulala, as soon as the words ended, the first to walk to the right were those Chengxiang people who were in the middle of Zhao Wuxian's command, they had already been greeted by their boss Yang Yurong and others, and they must support the gentleman today. The evil boy Tian Ben even threatened that if anyone did not comply, he would be expelled from the army, and he would bring someone to the door.

The obedience of the soldiers was indeed the highest, Zhao Wuxian was very satisfied, he smiled, and then looked at Dou Pengzu who was standing in the front row.

Dou Pengzu was also looking at Wuxian, and he remembered what Cheng Wu had said when he came to him last night.

"The day of serving the gentleman is in the Ming Dynasty!"

Yesterday, Wuxian summoned Chengwu to talk secretly and explained several tasks, one of which was to authorize him to lobby overnight, and since Dou Pengzu, who has never been firm, can be pulled into the water by Chengwu once, then he can have a second ......

After being awarded the post of Xiangsitu, Dou Pengzu is still very grateful and trusting to this Zhao gentleman, and the old farmers in Dou Li also said that the Daitian method shown by the gentleman yesterday is likely to be effective, but I don't know if it can really increase production.

Even if you can't increase production, you can try it out in one season, and it's unlikely that the fields will be completely ruined, right?

What's more, the gentleman has secretly promised that if there is no harvest in the coming year, he will definitely transfer food from the lower palace, and he will not let Douli fall into famine.

So Dou Pengzu, who was carefree, took the first step and stood on the right, and the landless people of Dou Li also followed him.

But those who have fields are still a little hesitant.

At this moment, he saw that all the people of Jiali followed closely and also went to the right.

The patriarch of the Jia clan had a different mind than Dou Pengzu, and when Cheng Wu came to lobby last night, he agreed without even thinking about it.

Last time, he missed the first merit of serving the gentleman, and let Dou Pengzu, the incompetent fat man, become a township situ, this time he can't miss it.

Anyway, their Jia clan was born in Chidi, and they like to hunt and gather, so they really don't care about digging in the field. Put it in your own hands, the private land under the soil has no harvest every year, and with the gentleman's method of replacing the field, can you still destroy the land? How could it be so fast, so he could simply agree.

What's more, Cheng Wu also brought a promise from the gentleman: the gentleman will form more light knights in the future, among which the two Sima, Wu Chang and other grassroots officers will first choose the children of the Jia clan who are skilled in bows and horses.

With Dou Pengzu and the Jia clan taking the lead, the people of Arita also began to waver.

Zhao Wuxian saw that the fire was almost over, so he made a promise loudly: "Rest assured, all the winter planting and wheat seeds this time will be provided by the township temple, and every fifth household can borrow a cow or horse to help plough!" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was in an uproar, and some people ran to the right one after another.

Their previous concern was nothing more than the fear that not only would they not be able to increase production, but they would consume the land and the gains would outweigh the losses.

But now, the gods have said that the method of winter planting and replacing fields is auspicious! In addition, the wheat seeds are free, and you can also borrow cattle and horses!

Such a good thing is not done by fools!

Finally, even in the four miles of the Cheng family, there were people who took a step.

Cheng Lang, who came to attend the public meeting on behalf of Cheng Weng and Uncle Cheng, was anxious and wanted to step forward to stop them, but he couldn't stop more people from following him.

He knew in his heart what the will of the gods was, which was obviously deliberately said by the gentleman without mercy under the mouth of a witch!

But he did not dare to tell the truth openly, for fear that the superstitious and angry people would think that he was blaspheming the lord of the mountains and the water, and would expel him from his hometown.

So Cheng Lang turned around and found that in addition to their Cheng clan, only the mulberry sheep had not moved.

He breathed a sigh of relief, who would have thought that this old farmer with a furrow on his face and calloused hands was in full view of everyone, but he resolutely walked to the left, he opposed the method of winter planting instead of fields!

The patriarch of Sangli hurriedly ran to Lasang Yangweng and said, "Ah Weng, don't be strong, come with me!" ”

Sang Yang Weng was unmoved, "Old decay is gone!" I still don't believe it, the method that a gentleman has seen in the hands of a savage farmer can be better than my decades of farming experience! ”

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