Chapter III: Secret ballot
The old men here are in a mess, and they don't know what is coming or how many there are. In this war with people, they are all the best, and they are full of guts. But in these two black borderlands, no one has a bottom in their hearts. In an instant, wolf smoke erupted. "Where's my knife?" "Alas, don't rob it, it's mine." "Damn it, where's it?" Zhou Yu stood in the middle of Huangchao and Zhang Jiao, holding a pergola and looking into the distance, only to see a small dot running from a distance, and there was a puff of sand and dust behind him, and he couldn't see anything chasing.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up, line up, one foot away." Zhou Yu shouted loudly to command. The crowd gradually recovered from the chaos and lined up according to the instructions. Behind them were dozens of underworld soldiers, standing together in a disorderly manner. Fifty zhang, twenty zhang, and ten zhang, everyone saw clearly that there were two huge creatures like cattle and horses chasing the two. Bai Qi looked at Toyotomi Hideyoshi on the left and Zhang Xianzhong on the right, licked his lips, and thought to himself, how much meat does this have? The stomach gurgled a little, when did this grandson still want to eat! Sure enough, it is a generation of war gods, and everyone can't help but sigh.
"Close, close." After the cattle and horses quickly rushed into the crowd, Zhou Yu commanded everyone to surround the two giant beasts. The two adult cows and horses were spewing rough air from their mouths and noses, and their small eyes were red. Rush this way, and the man will retreat; Rush that way, and everyone dodges. At this moment, it was obvious that the real warrior was a fierce general, and the black tooth often jumped up half a foot high, aimed at one of the cows and horses in the neck and stabbed them down, but only a spear head was missing, and the people stepped on the heads of the cattle and horses. The animal was in pain, and shook it so hard that the man with a gun threw the black tooth out five feet away, and fell heavily to the ground. Blacktooth leaned over to stand up, and a mouthful of old blood spurted out halfway. Gao Yang, who was near, hurriedly helped him up and blocked him behind him.
At this time, the encirclement will automatically merge into two, and the two cattle and horses, one male and one female, will be cut off. Zhou Yu's mind was spinning rapidly, he looked at the injured cow and horse, blue blood was gurgling from his neck, and it gradually stained the sand blue, but it seemed that the beastly hair was sprinting back and forth and running more and more violently. At this time, he suddenly thought of a way that he didn't know if it was feasible, he asked Lu Bu to borrow the fiery red cloak, and took the quiver from Bai Qi's back, weighed the arrow inside, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.
"Spread out and see me." Zhou Yu shouted.
I saw him carry the quiver behind his back, unfold his cloak with both hands on the side of his side, as if he had taken a tablecloth, and shook the cloak in front of the giant beast. The beast was attracted to him, and regardless of the others, it slashed its hooves and slammed into him. Zhou Yu saw that it was getting closer and faster, and beads of sweat the size of beans oozed from his head. He had seen this bullfighting on TV, but he had never actually fought it.
Try it today, but if you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent. Seeing that the horn was about to come over, everyone was shocked. Huang Chao and Zhang Jiao exclaimed together: "Brother Zhou" and "Little Brother". But seeing that Zhou Yu turned slightly to the side, he could avoid the top of the thunder, and in an instant, he pulled out an arrow feather from his back and stabbed it into the wound on its neck, and half of it was not halfway, and the arrow feather shook on the back of the cow and horse and made a buzzing sound.
When the cow and horse saw that the blow missed and the body was in pain, they became angry. Turning around and running again, Zhou Yu concocted the same method, five or six rounds later, the cow and horse were stabbed with five or six arrows, and most of the blue blood was sprinkled back and forth on the ground, and the body was too short of blood, so he was unable to do it, and slowly turned sideways and fell to the ground. The exhalation in the mouth and nose is getting less and less, and the eyes are fully closed.
Everyone saw that this method was effective, and with a stick of incense, they killed a giant beast, and their confidence rose, and they joined forces to surround another giant beast. At this time, Lai Junchen came over with a wicked smile and said, "What's inside, Brother Zhou, I see, I think this style is very fun, let me give it a try?" ”
Zhou Yu secretly laughed in his heart, when has this happened, you kid is still so big-hearted. He handed him the quiver and cloak in his hand, and was about to tell him something, but before he could say anything, the boy took a few steps to the middle and began to fight bulls. But what line do you not know the essence of this cat and tiger? He stabbed out with an arrow, and the mad bull's neck had no wound, the rough skin and thick flesh did not pierce it at all, and the arrow feathers were broken into two.
Lai Junchen was still scratching his scalp and wondering, the mad cow came from behind and lifted him up a foot high, fell to the ground and couldn't get up. Seeing this situation, even the lying black-toothed Chang Zhi couldn't help laughing, he didn't take a breath, coughed up a mouthful of old blood, and hurriedly held his breath and didn't dare to laugh anymore.
Still Bai Qi reacted quickly, he held two mountain axes, one dragged over Lai Junchen on the ground, and took the cloak and quiver. Seeing the coming cow, he first slashed his back with an axe, cutting a long wound, and waited until he watched the blue blood gushing out before he learned from Zhou Yu's appearance and stabbed it out with one arrow. Seeing this mighty white-bearded old man learning the moves of bullfighting, his movements were stiff like a marionette, and Zhou Yu couldn't help laughing.
After a short while, the other adult cow fell to the ground. The crowd hurriedly gathered around, and the gossip began.
"Good teacher, you are well-informed, can you know this?" Zhang Xianzhong stroked his beard and asked.
"I haven't seen it." Zhang Jiao replied to him leisurely.
"Can you eat this thing that is not a cow or a horse? It can't be toxic, right? Gao Yang swallowed, obviously hungry.
"According to the opinion of this master, this thing is not a thing in the yang world." Dong Zhuo moved forward and pulled Toyotomi Hideyoshi next to him. He was short, and there was a bit of a disadvantage in the crowd.
"Damn, I'm fed up, I don't care if I can eat it or not, even if it's a human bone, I have to gnaw on it today." Shi Hu looked a little irritable, he was an intermittent psychopath, and everyone was used to it. Ran Min glanced at him obliquely and snorted disdainfully.
"Don't be anxious, everybody. If the younger brother's calculation is correct, the object should be named a rhinoceros. In the world, it is born in Africa. This, uh... Did you know about Africa? Zhou Yu scratched his scalp, not knowing how to teach them geography lessons. Everyone stared at each other and shook their heads.
"This Africa, I'll explain it to you in detail later. The human rhinoceros has dark skin, and few albino variants are pure white. However, this blue rhinoceros, the younger brother is unheard of, and it should be unique to this borderland. Zhou Yu touched the pocket of his clothes and wanted to take out a cigarette and light it, but found that the pocket was empty, so he snorted himself.
"So, can you eat that?" Fan Er leaned over and asked with wide eyes.
"It should be edible." Zhou Yu said loudly.
With a bang, everyone exploded. Suddenly, there was laughter and laughter in the camp, and even Lai Junchen and Black Tooth, who were lying next to them, couldn't help but want to lean over to participate in the carnival.
Then came a grand breakfast. Whether it was breakfast or the last supper, everyone called the underworld soldiers, shouted the trumpet, and carried the corpses of the two giant beasts to the edge of the water source, and joined the little rhinoceros. Looking at the struggling appearance of the Difu soldiers, it took ten people to barely be able to lift one, which shows how heavy this giant beast is. Three rhinos, even if there are more than 40 people here, it is enough to eat for two or three days.
There are bloodletting, there are skin cutting, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi is still humming a Japanese tune that he doesn't understand, obviously very happy. But in the matter of making fire, it was Zhou Yu's idea again. He ordered someone to take the dry branches and plants, focused them with a big wrench in Dong Zhuo's hand, and took the fire out under the illumination of the four suns. Zhou Yu sighed in his heart, these emperors led thousands of people and instructed the society, but the only thing they lacked was scientific knowledge. Knowledge, knowledge is power.
Meat, meaty. The emperors, who were so hungry that they even gnawed on insects and bark, saw the rhinoceros legs roasted on the branches, and the hala was more than a foot long. One by one, they held the daggers of self-defense in their hands, and they wanted to cut off a piece and send it to their mouths before they were cooked. Zhou Yu watched the blue meat squeak and grill on the fire, but he didn't have that much appetite. However, after taking a piece of barbecue meat handed over by Ran Min and sending it to his mouth, it was very delicious, and it was not much better than the barbecue in the yang world.
Everyone and the underworld soldiers had a full meal, and they all had a crooked stomach. Zhou Yu has never had a problem with waste, and he instructed a group of soldiers to cut the remaining blue rhinoceros into strips, smear salt on the trunk of the tree and dry it into jerky. The advantages of this type of jerky are that it lasts for a long time and is easy to carry. Otherwise, under this great sun, the meat will stink in less than two days. In addition, he had the bladders of three rhinoceros cut off and repeatedly tanned them with sand to make three super large water bladders, which were filled with water. In the future, even if you leave here in a hurry, you can guarantee ten days of drinking water.
Looking at the clean-cleaned rhinoceros bones, his eyes stopped on the three rhinoceros horns. I don't know if this thing is different from the yang world, and whether it also has very important medicinal value. Whatever, take it first, he took Junchen's dagger, and it took a lot of effort to cut it off by the roots, and threw it to Fan Er for him to load.
As for the skin of the blue rhinoceros, it was an excellent material for clothing, and in this ghost place where it was so cold that it was impossible to do anything at night, he ordered everyone to go into battle, cut one piece each, dig out two holes, and simply tanned it with sand to make a number of leather vests, and put them on his body. The emperors admired his endless ideas so much that they threw themselves on the ground.
Early the next morning, Zhou Yu was still copying the party constitution in his sleep, and he heard someone calling him, and he saw that it was Huang Chao.
"Brother Huang, what's wrong?" Zhou Yu asked puzzled.
"That's right, Brother Zhou. A few of us discussed, this army has no generals, no kings, no kings, we have been here for some time, we have been fighting like headless flies, we want to choose a leader to come out, take everyone to break through. Huang Chao glanced at Zhou Yu embarrassedly.
"This is a good thing, Brother Huang, you are a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, if you have nothing to do, you can stage all kinds of singing and dancing dramas that you see, and you have to manage and manage them well." Zhou Yu said firmly.
"I have discussed it with everyone, and they, they all agree that little brother, you have learned and have commendable courage, and you are the only one to take on this important responsibility!"
"What?" Zhou Yu looked at him with wide eyes.
"No, no, the younger brother is only a shallow learner, a newcomer, and he is not very familiar with the emperor brothers, so it is difficult to be competent!"
"Little brother, don't refuse, if you don't agree to let me, oh let Huang be very difficult to do, Huang was recommended by everyone to be this lobbyist!" Huang Chao scratched his scalp embarrassedly.
Zhou Yu got up and looked into the distance, and saw that all the emperors were looking over here from ten meters away, some with pretended concerned eyes, and some seemed to be exchanging ears. He muttered to himself: "These old foxes are all good actors." “
He rolled his eyes and had a plan, stood up and pulled Huang Chao's sleeve and strode towards everyone. He smiled as he walked, and when he saw that he was only more than ten meters away, he laughed and said: "Brothers, how can you allow the emperor's brothers to take care of this important responsibility, but it is really disrespectful and deserved!" Don't dare to be, don't dare to be! “
"Where, where!"
"Little brother is too modest!"
"Yes, yes!"
All sorts of compliments and high-sounding grandeurs come and go. Zhou Yu looked around, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and he thought in his heart: You turtle grandchildren, choose Lao Tzu to be the leader in this place where birds don't shit, and you don't have to be afraid of being embarrassed if no one knows you here; Second, there is a risk of hanging up at any time, so you can choose me as a shield, and enjoy the blessings of you, you will send me to death, what do you think about this? Do you think your brother who has lived for more than a thousand years has his head pumped by the door bow?
Zhou Yu is used to seeing the deceit of the real society, and the means of playing Tai Chi are easy to come by.
He arched his hands to the emperors and lords in the three directions in front of him to show his respect, and then said slowly: "Brothers, don't be embarrassed for the younger brother, the younger brother has a way to make a compromise, I don't know whether to talk about it or not." “
After looking around, he didn't wait for Grandpa Bi to speak, cleared his throat and said, "This is no rule, and the dragons without a leader cannot become normal." After all, you are all the dragons and phoenixes among people and Nokia among mobile phones. As the so-called gold will be spent sooner or later, since the younger brother and you are destined, they will inevitably join the fate, cherish the fate, and will inevitably share life and death, honor and disgrace. If you big brothers put Nanshan, I will wait for you to come again. “
Seeing that all the grandfathers were bowing their heads and pondering, the mist rising in their eyes was hazy, and they seemed to be recalling their Rongma Jingo. He changed his words and said: "However, this matter of the Great Commander cannot be as you wish, this matter is very important, and it must not be decided hastily." But the younger brother has an idea to discuss with the eldest brothers, and it is completely to discuss the feasibility. That is, we can establish a rotation system. “
"Rotation?" Everyone frowned, obviously not having heard the word and didn't understand what it was new.
"The rotation system is an important measure for modern society to improve work efficiency, enrich work methods, and improve supervision and supervision. To put it simply, select a few respected people to take turns to be the leader, once a month, and automatically give way to the next one when the time comes. This has the advantage of not only preventing the dictatorship of one person, but also allowing for the pooling of wisdom and the enrichment of the leadership's opinions and means.
The most important thing is that the big brothers in this world know better than me, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and there will inevitably be factional battles, and the rotation system can effectively reduce the disparity in strength between factions, so that each other is jealous, which helps to form a dynamic balance. “
"Wonderful, Brother Zhou!" Zhang Jiao took the lead and praised it.
"yes, yes, that's a good idea!" Bai Qi, who had some prestige, also echoed.
Everyone nodded incessantly, only Ran Min frowned slightly. He said in a small voice: "But there are so many of us, how can we elect the emperor and general who are qualified to serve in the rotation?" "It just so happened that a few bigwigs around could hear it.
Everyone's eyes fell on Zhou Yu again. Zhou Yu understands that this moment is a critical moment in the distribution of interests, which is related to the life and death of everyone and the division of spheres of influence. He smiled indifferently and said two words: "Vote".
Voting is a political form of fake democracy and true * that has been tried and tested many times in today's society, but in the eyes of the ancients, it is definitely fair across the ages. Zhou Yu elaborated: "The so-called voting is to give each person a piece of bark, you write the names of the three princes you think are the most capable of taking on this position, you can include yourself, write it and recycle it and read it out one by one in front of everyone, and the four people with the highest number of votes win, as the leaders of the four rotations." “
The people in front of you, if you let them fight cocks and lackeys or give orders, they are all good players, but if you let them do the math, it is really a personal life. But even the elm pimple head can think of it, this plan is fair, too fair.
So, under the greeting of Huang Chao, a group of people sat on the ground, one-two-three-four-two-two-three-four, Zhou Yu looked up. Huo, good guy, the rows are like practicing yoga, a small square neatly arranged. The first few rows are full of bigwigs, and the back rows are all underworld soldiers, and I think I know that the underworld soldiers are here to play soy sauce with my heels.
Lai Junchen, who is a good craftsman, made dozens of bark ballots with a dagger, sent them down in turn, and then found an open space on the side of the third row and sat down. Zhou Yu said: "The younger brother is not talented, if the eldest brother does not object, the younger brother will serve as the scrutineer of this vote, and I am repeating the voting rules below." First... "Zhou Yu came again foaming at the mouth, mainly to tell the underworld soldiers who didn't hear it just now." Finally, I would like to add another sentence, in order to prevent unfairness, I, Zhou Yu, did not participate in this vote and gave up my right to vote and be elected. Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what medicine he was selling in his gourd.
Voting begins. At the beginning, everyone looked at me, I looked at you, and no one moved, obviously they were all waiting.
"I said, guys, you're all over a thousand years old, and you still play this game? Whoever you think can do it, you can choose whomever you want, and you don't have to hide it. Come on, Lu Bu, you take the lead. “
When Lu Bu saw his name, his old face turned red. He took out his dagger and carved it into the bark of the tree, and on the other side he blocked the view of others with his wide sleeved robe.
"Hey, look at Abu, who has a good leader. A few of you hurry up and let you make a word, is it more difficult than a funeral? “
So everyone also followed suit, secretly carving under the sleeve robe. This is a thorough understanding and inference, but there is no need to teach, and when handing over the bark, these old thieves are handing over the bark with a drop of water, for fear of being seen who they choose.
"Now I designate someone to sing the vote, and the vote is to read out the name of the person everyone chosen. Come to Junchen, you read it, Lu Bu, you will see if there is any cat in the back. Zhou Yu crossed Bai Qi's rolling eyes, took an arrow from his quiver, and scratched it on the ground.
"Huang Chao, Zhang Jiao, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ran Min!"
"Zhang Jiao, Dong Zhuo, Shi Hu, Gao Yang!"
"Huang Chao, Zhang Jiao, Bai Qi, Ran Min!"
As Lai Junchen shouted and shouted, Zhou Yu kept drawing orthography on the ground.
"Come Junchen, come Junchen, come Junchen, come Junchen, come..." The more Lai Junchen read it, the quieter it became, and he couldn't help but read it, and Lu Bu looked at the bark in his hand with a tiger's eye.
"you, little bunny... Obviously, everyone knows whose vote it is, Zhang Xianzhong and Bai Qi opened their eyes angrily, and they rushed over to tear Lai Junchen in half with anger on their faces.
"Uh, it's embarrassing! Irritating or not? Wonderful or not? Zhou Yu glared at Junchen fiercely, and hurriedly walked over to hold the two of them.
"What's the anger of the two old generals, this thief is just playing tricks, you see he doesn't only have these 4 votes. If I choose this way, knowing that I don't have a vote, if I don't cheer myself up, will I still be a man? Zhou Yu loudly relieved Lai Junchen.
"That's the same thing." Some people in the crowd were drinking, and even Zhou Yu saw a few sympathetic glances floating in the back row. Looking at Junchen again, there seemed to be a little tear in his eyes, and he shook Zhou Yu heavily.
Zhou Yu smiled, who doesn't accept this favor for nothing.
The votes continued, one after another. On and off the stage, I couldn't stop sighing. The battle in the final stage was very fierce, Huang Chao, Zhang Jiao, and Ran Min were far ahead, and the last seat was fiercely contested between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Gao Yang. Unexpectedly, Gao Yang won by a narrow margin of 35 to 34 votes and 1 vote after the last vote and won the position of the last rotating leader.
But when you think about it, this result is not surprising. The main force of this election, that is, the source of votes, mainly comes from the prefecture soldiers. Everyone generally has a consensus, the choice of the leader is the election of the king, you see this group of killer demon kings, but how many people really have the spirit of a king? In fact, there are few, Ran Min is one of the undoubted candidates, and without him, the Han civilization would basically be extinct.
Zhang Jiao has no doubt, he has both the advantage of being old and one of the creators of the word revolution; Huang Chao has led the guerrillas in the prefecture for a long time to engage in the struggle behind enemy lines, and has the experience of struggle and the mass base. As for Gao Yang, that is, he is a big man, and the Xianbei Han emperor is also considered a Han person, and he is also an emperor. What's more, what's more, the parents are still a little handsome, Zhou Yu secretly glanced at Gao Yang, he is indeed a talent, dignified appearance, and a little bit of Huang Zitao's strength. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but shiver, and quickly stopped his terrible thoughts.
As for the others, Zhou Yu pondered in his heart: This Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Heiya Tsuneyuki are both handsome talents, and they are good at leading troops to fight, and it is a little difficult for them to guide the country, and they are still of different races. Lai Junchen is a playful minister, Bai Qi has intermittent schizophrenia and annihilation syndrome, Lu Bu is a bodyguard, Dong Zhuo is a lustful dead fat man, Shi Hu is a long-term fine score, Zhang Xianzhong is good, but he has a black history of being recruited by the government, so maybe the democratic evaluation has not passed!
After the election, the situation at the scene can really be described as a few joys and a few sorrows. The nominees kept complimenting each other, and those who fell off the list were depressed. Zhou Yu slapped three times hard, and said, "I said everyone, this rotation system is not over yet." In order to ensure absolute fairness and prevent some people from being villains and hypocrites, we take a round of leaders once a quarter, and after four quarters, we have a year. At the end of the year, each person scored the 4 commanders, and scored them in terms of morality, ability, diligence and performance, and the full score was 10 points. The one with the lowest score will automatically abdicate, and the sage will be selected from the other selection, and that's all. Hearing Zhou Yu say this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Zhang Xianzhong and others seemed to see hope again, and their faces slowly returned to normal.
"Well, in this case, except for the 4 commanders, the others will disperse first, let them hold the first Standing Committee first." Everyone generally understood what Zhou Yu meant, although they didn't know much about some of the strange words in his mouth, but it did not hinder communication. The gap between dynasties is very different, some were born in Sichuan and some were born in Liaoning, I think these old men communicate properly.
"Wait a minute, everyone, the four of us have something to announce!" Just when Zhou Yu was about to disperse with everyone and go to see the sunset with Fan Er, Huang Chao blocked everyone. He coughed and said, "State politics comes from the center. If you are not a sage of Taixuan, it is difficult to go to the church to worship the prime minister. Zhou Junzi is sensitive, and his strength and righteousness can match the sages of the past, and his handsome talent is enough for Zhou's affairs in the world. After the discussion of the four of us, we unanimously recommended Brother Zhou as our governor, under the rotating leader, and the leaders with the same counselor, do not participate in the rotation, and the descendants are hereditary... “
I'm your uncle! Zhou Yu looked at Huang Chao with wide eyes, as if he saw the four old children snickering in his sincere eyes.
After being forcibly pulled onto a thief ship, Zhou Yu reluctantly participated in the first Standing Committee. For this kind of meeting, Zhou Yu had some experience in his previous life, which was similar to the year-end retreat of various units. But the four brothers are not very good.
They are used to having the final say, and when they went to court in the past, they also listened to reports, nodded and walked away from the court, and played birds in the harem. Especially in this clueless borderland, in the face of unknown dangers and unknowns, how to navigate the world is really a great science.
When the four of them stared, Zhou Yu took the lead in speaking.
"With the love of the four eldest brothers, let's not be humble and respectful. The younger brother said a few words first, and he should throw bricks and lead the way. “
"Where, where is it, the Metropolitan Governor, please speak!" Zhang Jiao made a gesture of please.
"Now that we're in the Borderlands, I think we need to define our goals. The long-term goal is to return to the underworld, even to the world we have been absent from for a long time, although there is very little hope. But I think people must have ideals and hopes, otherwise what is the difference between them and salted fish. Second, we need to set a short-term goal, which is to live, not only to live, but to live well, to live like this borderland. ”
"Under the guidance of such a long-term and short-term goal, I think there are three problems that need to be solved urgently: first, continue to expand the team, people are the primary productive force, and special personnel should be arranged to answer, rescue, and transfer the brothers who were beaten down at the black hole. The second is to establish a sound and complete administrative system and mechanism, division of labor and responsibility, to the household, whether you are the king of heaven and the tiger or the queen mother of the Jade Emperor, Bi Ma Wen you will go to manage the horse, Taishang Laojun you will go to alchemy, anyway, we do not raise idlers here, whether mules or horses have to run. Third, we must develop and grow in order to survive. We've got to figure out what the ground looks like right under our feet. As the saying goes, know what it is, know why it is, know yourself and know the other side to win all battles. Don't expand, don't invade, don't rob women and food, what do we eat, what do we wear, what do we stink and beauty if we don't have anything? The above three points, the younger brother has a humble opinion, and hopes that the leaders will correct them. ”
The four rotating leaders, you look at me, I look at you, nodded together, and said in unison: "Yes! “
"Then, the top priority is to use all the people, and I suggest that a general meeting of all personnel be held tomorrow to appoint and dismiss a group of middle-level leading cadres!" Zhou Yu said categorically.
"The Metropolitan Governor bothered!"
"Please make the Governor of the Continent!"