Chapter 114: Seesaw
The clouds of chaos had already spread over Yucheng, and both sides had exercised restraint for the time being, everything was still going according to plan, and there was basically no more resistance alone. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info
The whistleblowers continued to pass on the news, and the people of Xia City began to prepare in full swing. But the specific plan was not stated, but after the weapons were distributed, a large number of sticks and shields were organized.
At the end of the first month of November, the private meetings of the workshop workers became more and more intensive, and the time was set for three days later, when all the workshop workers who came into contact with them, starting from the smelting department, stopped their work, and did not violently resist or cooperate with the people of Xiacheng.
The number of people is not large, only 30% of the workshop workers on the entire island, but it is enough to completely mess up Yucheng, because at this time, Yucheng has gradually become a system, and it is no longer a scattered operation like a small farmer.
On the day of the holiday, the informant told this side the last time, and the people of Xia Cheng took advantage of the day of the holiday to organize the people of the country closely, under the pretext of training on weekdays to deal with future wars.
The place where he was going to do it was near the docks, and the informant was someone from the Transportation Division, where he would take the group of people to argue with the people of Xia Cheng, and someone would be responsible for throwing stones in the middle of the way so that the people of Xia Cheng could find an excuse.
The day of the summer break is only meaningful to the people of Xiacheng, and the workshop workers do not have such an opportunity to relax, but they are still in a happy mood and feel that this day is of great significance.
Thinking that he would be able to launch his first possible victory in a few days, he wandered for the first time when he went to the lecture, and he didn't know what he was listening to for an hour.
It was late at night when he returned to his lodgings, and as he turned a small wooden drawbridge over the river, a piece of linen caught his attention.
There was no concept of garbage in this era, especially for people like him, a small piece of linen cloth could be padded in clothes.
Sighing that he was lucky, maybe someone had dropped it here, picked it up casually, and returned to the place where he lived. He roasted his hands on the embers of the stove, unfolded the cloth, and couldn't help but be shocked.
There seem to be some black charcoal traces on it, he has no wooden cloth to use in the school, and he is very envious that the people of Xia Cheng can use wooden brushes, and he is a little curious out of a habit developed in the school.
He poked the embers with a stick, looked at them a few times by the light of the fire, and was suddenly shocked.
There are four paintings on it, the first one is obviously a workshop worker talking to the Xia Cheng people, because the person still has numbers on his body, these numbers are also recognized by the school, and the characteristics of the Xia Cheng people are also obvious, with a black and white circle painted on his body, which is one of the strange signs of Xia Cheng.
The second painting shows a group of workshop workers standing there, simple charcoal figures, with empty hands and faint numbers written on them. In front of them was a group of Xia Cheng soldiers armed with spears. There was an extra box on the head of the workshop worker, and in it were written two words that he knew - winter clothes.
The third painting is the numbered workshopman at the beginning, hiding in the crowd and throwing stones at the soldiers of Summertown.
In the fourth painting, the soldiers of Xiacheng are stabbing the workshop workers with their spears, many of them hanging from the gallows, and the man throwing stones is at the very edge of the painting, painting a cow and many ditches in unison.
There is nothing left on these four simple canvases, and there is no handwriting that can prove the identity of the owner, which is abundant in Yucheng, and charcoal can be found everywhere.
A cold sweat broke out all over his body, and the numbered workshopman recognized it himself, and he knew that this person knew his own plans.
The most terrifying thing is where the painting appears, and it is clear that the person who painted it is well aware that he is the central organizer of this revolt.
Almost the moment he unfolded the painting, he believed what it was about, because he could understand what it meant by a little thought, and even more so the consequences of doing so.
It doesn't matter who painted this painting, he hid the cloth in his closest place, and walked out of the house to find Ze and the others.
Thirteen people gathered together and unfurled the cloth, and everyone looked at this easy-to-understand painting in amazement, and they were all stunned.
The things on the painting could not be more obvious, and everyone here knew that if the situation continued as in this painting, I was afraid that at least 100 people would be killed and wounded, and that there would be too much blood to be shed.
Even if everyone is angry, I am afraid that they will be scared back and lose their spirit these days.
"Who drew this? Why did he tell us? β
"It doesn't matter, what matters is whether this thing can be trusted or not?"
"I think it's credible. This man obviously knew that we existed, and even knew that I could understand it, because I had been to the academy and knew the word winter coat. If he really wants to deal with us, it's easier to deal with me directly. β
This was hardly a matter of much discussion, and soon thirteen people agreed that the contents of the painting were credible.
"What's going on in this man's mind? That's the life of a hundred and ten people who fled to Onozawa together, and he really dares to do this? β
"Hmph, you didn't look at the fourth painting, people ran to the place where we couldn't find the farm. What does our life and death have to do with him? Our 100 lives are exchanged for a good life for others. β
"What's next?"
"In addition to that person, there must be other people mixed in, and once they get together, no one can control it, and they will also give those Xia Cheng people a mouthful. When the time comes, we will all be in our own houses, and if those people in Xia Cheng ask, we will say that we are all sick without winter clothes. But we can't talk about this matter first, as far as the thirteen of us know, we'll tell the rest of us until the night before. β
After learning from the experience of this time, everyone also agreed with this approach, Ze frowned and looked at the number of the person on the cloth, and asked, "What about this person?" β
He stretched out his palm, wiped it towards his neck, and said, "Kill him." Tomorrow I'll go with two of you, and find a chance to kill him at night. When the time comes, he will say that we have to do something else, and he will definitely come so that he can tell those Xia Cheng people. β
"Don't miss a shot."
He smiled and nodded, took out a sharpened stone dagger from his arms, gritted his teeth, and said, "I'll do it, don't worry." β
The crowd deliberated for a while, and at last dispersed.
On the morning of the third day, the men of the Transport Division saw a corpse on the shore, with a wound on the neck that had stained the reeds next to it, and several fish pecking at the blistered white flesh.
The body was quickly fished out and carried to the government hall of the city, and the faces of the people of Xia Cheng became extremely ugly one by one, and the most valuable informant died like this, and no one knew who did it.
Chen Jian looked at the corpse, spread his hands and said, "Burn it." β
"That'...... What about our business? β
"If they are still the same, even if he doesn't die, he can't control it. If they change their approach, we can only take one step at a time. β
"Ji Xia, how did they know about this person? Could it be ...... Could it be that one of us told them? β
Jian Chen shook his head and said, "I don't know either." I don't know what tomorrow will bring. In short, just do it according to the original plan. β
"That's all it can be."
The sudden change made the people of Xia Cheng a little discouraged, sighed, found a few random people to burn this person, and when they went to find out the rest of the informants to understand the situation, they found that these talkative informants had become distracted.
The last calm day was not peaceful, and both sides waited until night, anxiously preparing for the next day's confrontation.
In Jian Chen's hut, Hongyu whispered, "I don't know if they burned that painting?" You said you had to shed some blood to let them know that the struggle was not so simple, why did you change your mind again? Relented? At this time, the heart is soft, and more blood will be shed in the future. β
Jian Chen sighed and said: "It's not soft-hearted, it's not yet time for them to bleed, because they are not Chinese now, and there will be a gap in the future when they bleed now." I'm just pulling out the seedlings and fueling them. β
Redfish shook his head in distress and said, "I don't understand, which side are you on?" It's like having two of you, teaching the old people how to suppress on the one hand, and even helping those people resist on the other hand. Sometimes I'm scared...... I'm afraid that there is another person who looks the same as you. β
Jian Chen laughed for a while and said, "There's no need to be afraid. I am standing in Xia Cheng and on the side of the great rivers. β
He thought for a moment and asked, "Have you ever played with the seesaw that the children of Summer City play?" β
"Played."
"We're both at one end now, can you suppress me?"
"Of course I can't hold it down, I'm only one hundred and ten pounds."
"This seesaw is Xia Cheng, and there are people at both ends at any time. If one side is strong, the other side will be weak. The people below always think that they are above, just like you and me, and if you want to win me, there are only two ways. β
"One is to make yourself fat, and the other is to grab everything you can see around you to help you win. Even if there is horse manure and dog shit around you, if you really want to win, you will not hesitate to take it. I don't want more shit and horse manure on this seesaw in Summer City, so I have to make the other side fat at the same time as I make the other side fat. β
"Workshops, fertile fields, public property...... All these things, after my death, it will never be possible to maintain the same appearance that the people of the country have now, and there will definitely be people who want to grab it. β
"Grabbing is inevitable, but how? They will not use the most secret methods to seize the rules, their ruling skills are still very weak, and if they can't do it within the rules, they will not hesitate to destroy the rules. So I'm teaching both the workshop workers and our people, so that the workshop workers will fight after they become Chinese, and so that future officials will have the confidence to grab what they want without breaking the rules, otherwise guess what they will do? β
Hongyu shook his head to indicate that he couldn't think of it, and Jian Chen didn't say much, it was not that he didn't trust his own people, but that he didn't trust the head sitting on the ass of some seats.
As soon as he dies, the high-level officials of Xia Cheng will definitely find a way to seize Xia Cheng's public property and turn it into their own, which is a situation that has already occurred in the process of changing the clan land system into private land, and it is inevitable.
But if the ruling arts fail to keep up with the times, they will inevitably be weaker than the people at the bottom who have learned to resist.
The power is weak, the ruling art is not enough, and in the face of the more mature bottom of the art of resistance, the upper class of Xia Cheng will definitely unite with all the dirty, stinking, and even outdated everything, otherwise there will be no strength to resist the resistance of the bottom.
Just like the system of Xia Cheng is a rule, one end is the rule of the top, and the other end is the rebellion of the bottom.
The bottom of Xia City is stronger than the bottom of the rest of the city.
If you want to suppress, you must either have a higher art of domination and deception within the rules; Either they will be more violent, bloody, dirty, and trample on all the rules, unite all the forces that can be united, and even sell the entire city, borrowing troops to help suppress it, and not hesitating to smash this seesaw.
This is to be expected.
When they can't win within the rules, these high-level leaders will choose to break the rules, destroy the school, destroy the workshop system, destroy the non-bloodline examination and selection system that is so easy to establish, and will choose to return to the same ruling method as the rest of the cities today, because it is simpler.
If the strength of a separate group of officials is not enough, it will unite the supporters of the bloodline theory, external forces, the rest of the cities, and even the barbarians, and only seek their own stability - taking history as a mirror is by no means unfounded, Wu Sangui in the history of the previous life, because of the great merit of letting the Manchu Qing Dynasty enter the customs and borrowing teachers to help suppress it, was canonized by the orthodox Southern Ming court as the Duke of the Ming Dynasty - although it is different from Xiacheng, but the biggest rule and the greatest orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty is to restore the rivers and mountains of the Han family and crown him as the Duke of Jiguo, which is essentially destroying the bottom line of the rules, From killing all the Hu'er to stop, the iron bones of the ethnic awakening have become a dung pit of class interest groups that have abandoned the ethnic nature.
It is not uncommon in history for the ruling class to destroy the advanced level of production in order to adapt to its own ruling skills.
The Manchus did not have enough to rule, so they killed people and banned books and exterminated technology in order to regress the productive forces to the relations of production adapted to their own rulers - because they were the means of the slave aristocracy, and they could not effectively rule the new market era when capital was budding, so it was better to destroy it for their own convenience.
It is precisely because of the weakness of their means of rule that they unite with all the filthy dross to strengthen their power.
Barbarians, chieftains, distorted hypocrites, shameless officials, traitors, these people are unable to rule effectively in the face of resistance from below, so they naturally form a group.
From killing people to banning books to twisting traditions, each doing its job, there is a long honeymoon period, until one is strong enough to kick the other away, and then there is a dog-eat-dog. And when the dog eats the dog, the flame of rebellion at the bottom must have been jointly killed, and the achievements of civilization will be destroyed in one fell swoop.
This is what Jian Chen is most afraid of, the people of Xiacheng also have butts, and it is impossible not to take such a road if they have butts. At this time, the distance was too naΓ―ve for both sides, and he could only grasp one hand and lift up at the same time, mentioning a strange balance.
This kind of problem is difficult to explain, and it took Hongyu a long time to understand, so that by the time he understood, it was almost dawn.
Jian Chen put his arms around her and lay down on the bed and said, "Rest today, nothing will happen, I guess those people must all be sitting in the house and will not gather on the street." If these people don't even have this workaround, then I don't have to bother, obviously these few are difficult to achieve big things, it is better to kill them. I don't have to worry about giving them the status of my countrymen. (To be continued.) )
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