Chapter Eighty-Seven: A Hundred Years of Rain and Wind Blowing Away One
In short, among the Big Four and the Idler, there are two that are not so salty and want to jump two more times.
As a screw in the once huge machine, Shen Yan's thinking is actually a small governmentist, he prefers what Lao Tzu called "small countries and widows", hoping that the government will be a transparent, streamlined, efficient and economical management body, rather than a gold-swallowing monster.
Because he knows very well how many resources that huge machine will devour in the process of operation, but it can spit out less and less. I remember that the news said that the management fee of a charitable fund was as high as 100% - that is, 100 yuan was donated to it, and all the 100 yuan was spent by the administrator. The people of the whole country are shocked, what is the use of our donations? But if you calculate the "operating cost ratio" of a large machine according to this method...... Do not say.
But Shen Yan didn't have a choice, the governmentization of Green Horn Bay is imperative, and it must be done as soon as possible.
Because the situation on the Penrin Peninsula is heading towards all-out war - at most next year, Stormwind will take steps to unify the South; The kingdom of Havenstone, one of the three northern kingdoms, will be plunged into elven turmoil by the slumber of the goddess of the silver moon; The demons on the Cloud Plateau are likely to invade the peninsula in advance, and there will be a confrontation between the north and the south in the future, and a full-scale war is actually imminent!
This also means that the legendary "dawn of the unification of the Penrin Peninsula" is likely to really appear.
If Green Horn does not have the power to defend itself soon, then this small village, located between the north and the south, is likely to be wiped out in the first wave of the offensive...... Of course, everyone's dreams will collapse like soap bubbles. So now is not the time to stop! Despite Shen Yan's disgust, he must also get the power structure up and running as soon as possible!
Utopia can exist, but it can't be now.
"I'll figure it out, Omar, and I'll probably need your help."
"Waiting for you at any time."
In the early morning, Shen Yan was woken up by the sound of training.
When he opened the window with sleepy eyes (the windows of Green Horn Bay were all opaque boards), he saw a large group of young men and women armed with wooden swords and shields, fighting with each other. They worked hard in the cold morning, and the rising water vapor condensed into white smoke over the playground.
That vigorous and upward youthful atmosphere makes a certain salted fish feel uplifted!
"Penny, let's sleep for five more minutes!"
Salted fish closed the window, plugged it in, and said in high spirits.
Penny, "......"
"duang~duang~" knocked on the door, "Teacher Shen?" Mr. Shen? We see you, get up and come out and teach us a lesson. A group of children shouted happily outside the door.
"Shen Yan said he wasn't there!" Shen Yan shouted towards the door, and then the world was clear, well, these children are so obedient!
"Shen Yan, what about your discipline?" Penny asked faintly in her mind.
Why don't you stop shouting when those kids? Because when Shen Yan shouted that sentence just now, the voice he used was a female voice......
When did this child's education start to deviate? Penny fell into a deep sense of self-reproach.
As for why there is such a thing as concentrated training all of a sudden, it has to start from a month ago. At that time, Shen Yan had been missing for several days, Omar had not returned from reconnaissance, and the remaining people wanted to "carry on his legacy" - Shen Yan said that there should be a school, so there was a school.
Inside the Green Horn camp, hundreds of children gathered in the late autumn sunbath.
Milton stood right in front of the group of children. "There are some things that must and can only be said to you by me.
Some of you are war orphans, some of you are not. But since you have come here together and are standing on the same land, there will be no difference between you! I'm talking about experience, and race!
From this day forward, it will be up to me to teach you how to fight; Omar teaches you how to hide your whereabouts and spy on the environment; Catherine taught you archery and the maintenance of bows and arrows; The tiger teaches you how to use armor and shields properly...... Well, we also have a brother out there, you know, Eller Curtis, who's taking some kids to learn how to be a bard.
These are the things you are going to learn at the moment.
In the future, Mr. Shen will teach you more and more amazing knowledge, and it is up to him to decide. And I know a magician, and some of you may be lucky enough to become a magician's apprentice. This is your chance, and I dare say that even those children living in the city will not come across it, and there is no other opportunity in the world!
After a while, you will find that you are not suitable for a particular task, and I will allow you to quit. If you don't fit all the lessons, you can just leave the training ground and choose to be a normal person, and that's okay...... But as long as you remain on the field, we will treat you as future warriors! We will not only train you strictly, but also test you more strictly!
No matter whether it is training or testing, it will be tiring, painful, injured, and even leave lifelong disability or even life-threatening! Everyone's talent is different, and when you feel that you have reached your limit, you can quit early and become an ordinary person.
In addition, I think you have all heard the story about Zhang Xiaohua told by Shen Yan...... Let's do that. Unless you graduate, neither I nor your teachers want to remember your names, and until then, everyone has only numbers. ”
The root of everything is still that story - Shen Yan said it casually during the journey, and Milton and the others also listened to the story at the beginning.
But adults must not be simple-minded than children, eat and sleep, wake up and play. The more they think about it, the more they feel that the concentrated education mentioned in the story is really a good method. But when they really started thinking about how to do it, they encountered a lot of problems, after all, this is something that no one has done since ancient times. However, when they revisit the story, they will find that the solution has long been hidden in the story. In the end, the painful discovery of the few people actually didn't have to think about it at all, just do it according to the method in the story - this is the first time they feel the pain of being crushed, and it is really deep in the bone marrow!
They thought it was Shen Yan's wisdom, but they didn't know that they were actually being crushed by the times.
Since he reluctantly accepted the method in the story, he naturally had to accept the concept - the child only had a number before graduation, no name, and a small compulsion.
Because it was the first time, even Shen Yan couldn't set the personnel screening criteria, so he could only enter and exit widely, and strictly eliminate the mechanism. However, most of the first children were war orphans who had endured hardship, and they were able to survive until they were adopted by the convoy, proving that they were resilient enough! It is precisely because they are fed up with the suffering of powerlessness that they absolutely don't want to be "ordinary people" if they have the opportunity!
Once the dominant atmosphere is formed, the remaining children will be infected unconsciously. As a result, for more than half a month since the beginning of intensive teaching, there are more than a dozen children who have been eliminated because they are really unqualified, but none of them have taken the initiative to quit.
As for the two classes originally arranged for "Teacher Shen" today, ahem, didn't you see that Teacher Shen was tutoring female students?!
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"Going out again?"
"I can't be idle."
"Well, be careful, it just snowed, and there are many wolves outside."
Shen Yan smiled thankfully at the tiger guarding the door, and ran out of the gate with a light stirrup. At this moment he had a scimitar hanging from his waist, a longbow on his back, new leather armor, a wooden shield and a bag of twelve sharp arrows hanging from his horse. His outfit was a bit unconventional, but it was armed to the teeth - for the sake of how well prepared he was, the Big Four no longer stopped him from going out.
The canyon is already warm, and as soon as the heavy snow stops, the snow at the bottom of the valley will melt away in less than two days.
Then the light green sparsely popped up on the field, so vibrant that Shen Yan was emotional. Rationally speaking, he knew that this was actually a pit that fell from the debris around the city a hundred years ago; But emotionally speaking, Green Horn is really like one of those legendary godsends! Fertility and abundance visible to the naked eye.
Shen Yan rode his horse and galloped on the ridge, and the horse's hooves stepped on the slightly muddy soil, which was extremely stable. Pipi shrimp ran all the way, and before it was afternoon, he took Shen Yan back to the bottom of the snow mountain. Shen Yan dismounted and let the "Pipi Shrimp" move freely, he stretched his hands and feet, and began to climb up the snow-covered slope.
"Penny, is this it?" Shen Yan searched for a long time on the sloping snow-capped cliff before he found the exit that was blown open by Augustine that day. The exit was now heavily sealed with snow, and the entire wall was smooth and smooth, and he would never have been able to find it without Penny's help.
"A little further left, stop, this is it." Looking at the snow wall that was the same on the surface, Shen Yan couldn't guess how Penny was positioned. He thrust his scimitar into the snow wall, cutting open, revealing a dark cavern inside. Shen Yan first cleaned the exit with a knife, and then slipped out one by one, sliding along the slope towards the cave **. Leather armor has always been used as pajamas at night, as a life jacket when falling into the water, and as a leather pad when skiing.
It takes about half an hour to climb up this road, and it doesn't take a minute to slide down.
When he was about to reach the bottom of the pit, Shen Yan took advantage of the situation to roll and stop in front of the portal again. This time, however, his target was the interior of the church behind the door.
The last time he was about to dig up the snow, Penny whispered to him, "Don't dig it." "That's because if Augustine had seen it, it wouldn't have been anything to him.
Even if he could threaten Augustine, the pride of the legendary magician made it impossible for him to compromise. If forced by circumstances, he will eventually have to choose between killing Augustine or allowing him to plunder the church. Augustine is a legend after all, Shen Yan can kill him, but he can't support him like a dog, no one can.
Taking out the knife again and cutting through a layer of ice and snow that was not too thick, Shen Yan finally entered the long-awaited interior of the sunken cathedral.
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PS: Lao Lei hereby swears that Penny is a pit or something, this is the real golden thigh!
PS2: Please don't make a noise with a gift, Lao Lei was watching the news of a foreigner at the time, and he felt depressed before writing two sentences. What they aid Africa is medicines, ***, corn, Nike shoes, iPhones, and trendy clothes, consuming surplus materials and cultivating brand identity; And what we help is power stations, roads, water conservancy, pesticides, hands-on farming, and vegetable planting...... The locals think that Western dishes are better cooked, and we are really too real.