Chapter 2 The Coming of War
The three-day protection period for the entire planet-based civilization arena has ended, and the movement restrictions in each settlement area have been lifted. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Chen Xiaochu knew that he had wasted a lot of time in his three days of chagrin, and on this planet, backwardness was not to be beaten, but to wait to be eliminated.
"I can live, I can, the third chapter of the law is my first step in trying to become a ruler, with the help of the power of replicants, to find my own way of survival." Chen Xiaochu stood on the humble high platform that had been temporarily erected, looked at the thousand replicants who had been forcibly summoned, and muttered to himself.
In the central clearing, on both sides of the humble high platform, stood four hundred clone Han army soldiers. Mighty armor, bright red banners and uniforms, as well as striking lacquered shields and ring-headed swords, are intimidating.
"Today, Lord Chen and all of you and your fathers and fellow villagers have agreed on three chapters of the law and coexist in harmony, please listen quietly and remember this statement." Lin Ji, the son of the village elder, was selected by Chen Xiaochu, standing under the stage holding the carved wooden plaque and saying loudly.
"Chen made a covenant with his fathers, those who kill will pay for their lives, those who hurt others will be punished, and those who steal will be punished with hard labor. This is a heavenly guide, and it will always exist in this realm. After Lin Ji finished speaking, he walked to the entrance of the village under Chen Xiaochu's signal, and the carpenter who had been waiting for him took the wooden sign and nailed it to the big tree.
With the sound of carpenter's tapping, the group mood of the replicants has obviously changed, and they are tired from the riots and riots they have had for three days, and this life can finally be over.
Chen Xiaochu understood that his imitation of Gaozu had indeed had an effect, and the disorder in the three days had been stopped at this moment, this was the power of power, the power of the ruler.
The disheveled peasants had no more demand from the rulers, they only demanded the simplest of stable conditions in which they could farm and feed their families, and they were willing to hand over their surplus food, believing that it was only natural that it would become someone else's property.
The artisans of all kinds, who were detached from basic farming, were the first to survive without direct access to food, who needed more unskilled people to become their customers, to provide them with food, and who did not mind doing extra work to obtain the food that the rulers had extracted from the peasants.
Mr. Teaching, as a very unlikely being teleported from a thousand replicants, is very excited about the appearance of the third chapter of the covenant, which shows that the ruler is not a robber who only knows how to exploit, but has a temperate and step-by-step way to get what he wants from the people. For him who has mastered knowledge, understanding basic astronomy and geography is already an existence that rulers have to rely on, and the interpretation of stargazing and calendars is very important for agricultural civilization, which is also an important reason for knowledge to rule the world and build civilization. He has decided to do everything he can for Chen Xiaochu and get the status and dignity that belongs to a scholar.
After getting the explanation that it could be dissolved, the replicants scattered, and even the eyes of the woman holding the child looking at Chen Xiaochu changed a little, and after the noise, only the village elder and his son Lin Ji were left in place.
"Village Elder, I need you to do something." Chen Xiaochu stepped down from the high platform and said very directly.
"Your Excellency, please speak." The village elder bowed his hand.
"I need your son to be the head of my militia regiment, to organize all the more than 200 young people in the village, to serve the people in peacetime and soldiers in wartime, can you do it? How about I exempt your family from all servitude and taxes, and make you the first head of my village?" Chen Xiaochu looked at the village elder and said intently.
"Dare to disobey." The village elder was expressionless and arched his hand.
"Very good, Lin Ji, come with me, go to the school to find Mr. to make a military register and engrave a card, and immediately form a militia group." After hearing the village elder's reply, Chen Xiaochu walked to the school hall with a look of impatience.
Chen Xiaochu knew that his fate was only limited in his own hands, because of the existence of clones, Chen Xiaochu controlled the fate of replicants and drove them to develop in the direction he wanted. Free will is often suppressed from time to time because of the external environment and one's own gains and losses.
Lin Ji was a little stunned when he heard this, but he still kept up with Chen Xiaochu's footsteps under the signal of his father's eyes. Although he knew that Chen Xiaochu wanted to use his family's popularity in the village to form a militia group, he had no room for resistance, and after thinking about it, using Chen Xiaochu to improve the status of the family was a loss and a gain, and the reluctance driven by others in his mind disappeared.
The 230 young men in the village, most of them were farmers, and some were the sons of craftsmen, down to the age of 14 and up to the age of 34, all of whom were forcibly incorporated into the militia by Chen Xiaochu.
"Farming civilization, hehe." Chen Xiaochu stood on the wooden wall surrounding the village, looking at the continuous farmland outside the wall and the woods, rivers, and mountains in the distance, and suddenly felt a little emotional.
In the process of delaying almost all the families' farm work, the young and strong people were forcibly summoned to line up at the entrance of the village to sign up for the compilation of the book from Mr. Wu, who was teaching. After reporting their names, everyone couldn't wait to return to their farmland with their farm tools.
"Agrarian civilization is not a sheep, but a shortcut for human beings to move towards a higher social form, the farmland outside the settlement is like a green leaf that absorbs energy, the surrounding wooden wall is like a cell wall, the settlement itself is like a cell core, and the inhabitants are like carrying genetic DNA, the cell division and then grows, the generation of cities towering and building, and the close communication between each other, just like the birth of a high-level life composed of many different cells, this life is a country, a civilization." Chen Xiaochu said with emotion.
After Mr. Wu finished reporting the situation of the military register to Chen Xiaochu, he returned to his school and continued his copying, in a world without printing conditions, if you want more villagers to accept the baptism of knowledge, you must have more books.
"The cell walls of my current civilization seem to be a little rudimentary, I have to find a way to strengthen these wooden walls, and then use the power of the militia and clones to build a few wooden arrow towers, danger may come at any time." Chen Xiaochu wandered around outside his settlement, imagining the setting of the defense system.
The four hundred clone Han soldiers who left the factory from the alien Heavenly Palace, in addition to guarding the arsenal and granary, automatically patrolled the surroundings of the settlement.
"If I don't give them orders, it seems that they will always be like this, with the same food and sleep needs as normal humans, but no basic emotional needs, more like robots, they follow my orders, and it seems to have something to do with the alien watch in my hand." Chen Xiaochu gave various orders to the clones, experimenting with the conclusions of his own imagination.
"Is it more like a baby in some ways, with the ability to receive memories and learn, because some aspects are suppressed by extraterrestrial biotechnology?" Watching the clone doing push-ups and sit-ups under his own guidance, Chen Xiaochu was a little confused again.
As the sun set, a large number of birds appeared in the distance of the woods, and the ground began to shake slightly, and Chen Xiaochu, who was doing a cloning experiment, was awakened from his thoughts.
"There is a large number of birds in the woods in the distance, is there anything passing through them?" Chen Xiaochu returned to the entrance of the village, climbed the simple wooden wall, and looked into the distance.
The shaking intensified, making it feel like a precursor to an earthquake, and the replicators on the farmland began to panic and look at the trees in the distance in fear.
"Is it human? Nomads? Not good. After seeing the first nomad who appeared from the flat land in the distance, Chen Xiaochu realized that the war was coming, although he imagined the upcoming battle after the regional restrictions were lifted, but he did not think that everything would come so quickly.
"Where is Lin Ji? Where is Lin Ji? Come out and organize a militia group, let all the villagers go back to the village, no one is allowed to be missed, no outside things are needed, and return to the village as quickly as possible. Chen Xiaochu shouted loudly on the wooden wall.
The clones began to assemble on the flat ground in the middle of the village under Chen Xiaochu's constant orders, and the solemnity of the four hundred Han army soldiers gave Chen Xiaochu a sense of security, and at this moment, Chen Xiaochu felt both scared and enthusiastic.
The arsenal was opened, and Chen Xiaochu put on a hundred-man armor of the Han army with the help of the clones, holding a red and black lacquered shield in one hand, and a sharp ring-head knife in the other.
"Lin Ji, I have ordered the army to open the arsenal, and the weapons militia in it can take it for themselves, take more crossbows and halberds, and then quickly assemble to the location at the entrance of the village." Chen Xiaochu said to Lin Ji, who organized the replicants to return to the village.
"Don't worry, my lord, at this time of survival, I dare not slack off." Lin Ji arched his hand, and after speaking, he rushed to the arsenal with the chaotic replicant Qingzhuang.
"Close the gate, the crossbowmen go up the wall, the archer line is behind the wall, and the halberders and sword and shield men line up behind the gate." Chen Xiaochu kept giving orders, and the four hundred clones completed the orders they received with great efficiency.
"By the way, I still have civilization points, which can be teleported, three hundred civilization points can be teleported to thirty Han soldiers, or three hundred replicants, how to choose?" Chen Xiaochu hesitated for a moment and made a decision, "Send thirty Han army soldiers, if the three hundred replicants are all old and weak, women and children, not only can it not increase combat effectiveness, but it will become a burden to consume food, and the grain storage in the grain depot is limited." ”
Clicking on the watch, the familiar floating screen popped up, the void quickly manipulated, and soon found the teleportation interface of the Han soldiers, "Teleport thirty Han soldiers." Chen Xiaochu decisively chose to click.
"The teleportation conditions do not match, and the seeds of civilization are in a hostile state of mutual discovery and cannot be teleported." The information on the floating screen made Chen Xiaochu feel the urge to smash the wall, but he couldn't transmit it. In the face of unknown dangers, having more combat power at this time increases the chance of survival, but there is often no perfect thing in the world.
"Damn, it looks like that's all I have at the moment." Looking at the clones who were gathering behind him, Chen Xiaochu was a little helpless, there was no extra time to train the clones, the war was their first baptism, and the reality was often so cruel.
"Report to your lordship, the militia of 230 people has been assembled, and we will wait for your lordship's orders." Lin Ji arched his hand, he was also a little nervous at the moment when he was wearing a military uniform, and there were more and more nomadic riders who could be seen outside the settlement, and the gray one was squirming on the ground, heading in the direction of the settlement.
"Let them all assemble behind the gate, I will let a ten-member squad of the Han army be behind them as a law enforcement team of the prison army, and if there are those who dare to escape, they will be beheaded immediately, and their families will be punished with hard labor, and the order will be conveyed." Chen Xiaochu said this sentence ruthlessly, when it was related to his own life, everything was in vain.
The replicants were a little frightened when they received the order, and the noise continued until the ten clones stood behind them with ring-headed knives in hand, and suddenly fell silent.
"I know you want to live." Chen Xiaochu returned to the wooden wall and said to the replicants below, "I want to too, but those people who come over outside the wooden wall want to kill us." Maybe you can run away today, but what about your family, your fragile children and wife, and your elderly parents? Chen Xiaochu pointed his knife at the replicant and shouted.
"Maybe someone wants to choose not to resist, but doesn't it matter who is ruled? Someone must think so. I am Chen Xiaochu of Chinese civilization, if you are not willing to choose my existence, you can turn your back on me now, take your family to surrender to the nomadic army outside, you will see a group of people using violence to occupy a place, not for the sake of the locals, but to get everything that your group wants, and all this is taken away from you, if you are willing to pay all this. ”
"Is it possible for you to be a part of them and share in the benefits? Only a few people have done it, maybe not a single one, so choose now, fight to the death with me, or surrender to those outside or flee for their lives. Chen Xiaochu's eyes swept over the replicants below, his chest rising and falling excitedly.
After Lin Ji heard Chen Xiaochu's roar, he was the first to stand up and draw his sword in response, "I am willing to fight to the death with adults and protect my homeland." ”
Under the leadership of Lin Ji, who raised his arms and shouted, the replicators were excited, "Fight to the death!" "Fight to the death!"
"The Han army is mighty!" Chen Xiaochu ordered four hundred clones to shout in unison, the sound of swords and shields clapping against each other, and the sound of halberds burning the pre-battle atmosphere to the top, and fear and nervousness seemed to be instantly withdrawn from everyone's bodies.