Chapter 7: The Yihan Covenant Quarrel
After the Yihan Alliance, in the process of chatting with his subordinates, Lin Feng once said with a wry smile: "The three-day Yihan alliance is actually a big quarrel!" It is similar to condensing the city-wide discussion in the first fifteen days of the Blood Alliance Oath into three days, and then putting it alone in a Jingjiang Festival Envoy's Mansion! ”
At that time, all the people present were amused, this metaphor of Lord Lin was too vivid! In those three days, the entire Jingjiang Festival Embassy was a noisy vegetable market!
Afterwards, the "Yihan Covenant Quarrel" gradually became the symbol of the highest level of quarrel debate, and slowly became a very popular saying.
Early in the morning of December 1, more than 10 different ethnic groups in the Guiguan area, such as Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong, Gelao, Maonan, Hui, Jing, Shui, and Yi, as well as the heads and chiefs of different ethnic groups and mountains, flocked to the Jiedu Embassy.
Two long tables blocked the door of the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion, and Lin Feng stood behind the table with Wang Kui, the commander of the Ma Bujun of the Chu State, and Ma Jiwei, the deputy general of the Wuchang Army.
In front of them, a heavily armed Datang soldier said the first extremely realistic question to these guests, which immediately made everyone explode. "The space of the Jiedu Embassy Hall is limited, and each ethnic group can only choose representatives to enter!"
In order to be able to enter the government as representatives, people of all ethnic groups quarreled not only with the people of the Jiedu Embassy, but also with their own people around the methods and standards of the selection of representatives.
A leader of the Yao nationality, who had a large number of people, shouted that he would choose representatives in proportion to the number of people, and was soon scolded by people of other nationalities and shut up: In the Guiguan area, although the Han people do not have an advantage in the total number, if they are compared individually, they are more than any one ethnic minority! If you choose it in this way, it will be the Han people who will take advantage.
Someone else proposed to select the number of delegates according to the number of territories occupied by each tribe, but they were immediately ridiculed by others and fell silent: how to count the territories? Who counts the territory? Who can guarantee the impartiality of the statistics? Besides, when you find someone who is recognized by everyone and count it, then you will get the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Month? Lord Lin gave three days!
In this way, no one could convince anyone, and the quarrel was louder and louder. After a while, Lin Feng sent a soldier to stand on the horse tethering stone in front of the gate of the Jiedu Envoy, held a piece of white paper high above his head, turned it back and forth to show it, and then pasted it on the wall in front of the mansion.
Everyone stopped arguing and sent people to squeeze in front of the paper.
The content on the paper is very simple, it is a proposal by Lin Feng: including the Han people, each ethnic group should send five representatives to enter the country.
This is an impartial and middle-of-the-road policy, but because it suppresses the Han nationality, which has the largest number of people, and the three ethnic groups that have the second largest number, such as Zhuang, Yao, and Miao, it has naturally obtained the consent of other disadvantaged ethnic groups.
The surging crowd was silent for only a moment, and soon began to quarrel loudly again, which ethnic group also has dozens of chieftains, and each of them has a lot of subordinates, who can represent their own nation?
The quarrel continued to escalate. When some people couldn't quarrel, they began to "subdue people with force", first of all, the two leaders of the Gelao tribe who had a vendetta took the lead in beating them, and the Hui and Jing tribes also followed closely behind, and the fight quickly spread in front of the mansion. The fight became hot, and many people drank and directly took out their weapons, and the fight quickly entered a climax.
Seeing this scene, Wang Kui, who had been standing quietly behind Lin Feng, couldn't help but ask: "Lord Lin, arguing like this, or even fighting, is really insulting, and the impact is a little bad." ”
Lin Feng smiled lightly and replied meaningfully: "Sometimes, it is much better to hit the surface than to hit the secret!" After speaking, Lin Feng waved his hand, and the heavily armed soldiers rushed out of the mansion and took everyone involved in the fight aside.
The soldier who had just held up the blank paper stood up again, shook the white paper in his hand again, and turned around and pasted it against the wall.
This time, the content is also very simple: each ethnic group must appoint five representatives within a quarter of an hour, and those who exceed the time will be directly disqualified from representing that ethnic group; If one person of that ethnic group fights, one representative is reduced, and so on, if more than five people fight, the qualification of the ethnic group is directly deducted. A small leak was also placed on the front table.
At this moment, the "martial fight" within the nation quickly turned into a "cultural fight", everyone quickened the speed of speech, danced with their hands, spat splashed, and showed their strength, talked about qualifications, talked about feelings, and set friendships, and they all wanted to prove that they were the most suitable candidates for their own nation.
The Shui and Yi tribes, which had the smallest number of people, were the first to choose five representatives, and they swaggered to the door, turning their heads and looking at the other tribes proudly.
Seeing this scene, listening to the more leaky voices of "Dede", the other people of all ethnic groups became more anxious, their speed of speech was faster, and the arguments became more intense.
The situation is pressing, and several basic principles were quickly determined by everyone, consciously or unconsciously: first, according to the theory of state territoriality, if the scope exceeds five states, each state can produce at most one representative, and neighboring states are combined; Those in the same state will be selected according to their strength, and those with equal strength will be drawn on the spot......
One of the two leaders of the Gelao clan who had just fought won the lottery and proudly raised his feud, the leader snorted coldly, got up and left, but was pulled by the servant behind him, whispered a few times, and the leader stopped with a hesitant face and stayed outside the door.
The Hui and Jing people who participated in the fight were also intentionally or unintentionally overshadowed by other leaders, and they were also forced to participate in the lottery.
A quarter of an hour was quickly up, and all 60 deputies of all 12 nationalities had been elected, and they stood excitedly at the door. Lin Feng immediately ordered the soldiers to move the table in front of the mansion and stretched out his hand to welcome these "national representatives" to the council hall.
As soon as they entered the chamber, the delegates were immediately stunned by the arrangement in front of them: the long strips were enclosed into two irregular circles, the inner circle was a full circle, and the outer circle was divided into four arcs to facilitate the entry and exit of the people in the inner circle. On the table in front of each chair is a name tag folded from white paper, on which is written the words "so-and-so". Next to the name tag is a teacup, a saucer, on which are placed the special fruits and shellfish snacks of various ethnic groups.
Lin Feng took Ma Jiwei and Wang Kui to sit down in the representative position of the Han nationality in the north, and the other ethnic groups also simply came back and gave in twice, and fell to the corresponding positions in the inner and outer circles respectively.
Lin Feng raised his hand, motioned for everyone to be quiet, and opened his mouth to say: "Thank you for your respectful guests, please understand." To tell the truth, everyone's enthusiastic performance in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion just now surprised Lin! ”
Many representatives couldn't help but smile awkwardly, but Lin Feng's following words made them feel relieved immediately.
"If I were you, I would have beaten you harder than you! For what? Because this representation is not only a symbol of status, but also a glory that will go down in history. But most importantly, this representation has a bearing on the rights, interests and future of our peoples. If a person does not even fight for his own vital interests and the vital interests of his own nation, do you dare to believe such a person? Lin Feng asked loudly.
"I don't believe it!" "Lord Lin said it well!" Immediately, a few heads said grinningly, and couldn't help but put a smile on their faces, this Lord Lin doesn't speak like other Han officials, pulling around the corners, dragging the literary style, and being happy! Foursquare!
Lin Feng stood up, made a circle to the leaders, and then picked up the assorted plates in front of him before he spoke: "Today, the distinguished representatives of all ethnic groups in the Guiguan region have gathered together, which can be described as a gathering of heroes. Lin gave an inappropriate analogy, just like this assorted plate in front of everyone, colorful and different, but every part is indispensable! This is the characteristic of our Guiguan area, and it is also the advantage of the Guiguan area!
Today, Lin Feng invited everyone to come here to let everyone speak freely on the basis of equality and justice, and to formulate a charter and rules that everyone can agree on for the future prosperity and development of the Guiguan area. To put it simply, it is to require common ground while reserving differences and win-win cooperation! ”