Chapter 16: The Island of Light (3)

Entering the dimensional gate again, Gu Shiyu was still dizzy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 He closed his eyes tightly until everything had stopped, and then he found himself at the gate of a castle.

"Are you the Governor sent by the Isle of Light?" said a shaman. Gu Shiyu nodded, and the shaman said, "In that case, please enter the city, now this city belongs to you." ā€

After entering the city, Gu Shiyu found that this was a human castle, but it was much smaller than the princess city he was building. The streets are filthy, there are hardly any people in the bazaar, and no one is busy with their lives.

At this moment, the melodious sound of bells was heard from the bell tower in the center of the castle. Residents came out of their rooms and headed for the square.

"What are they doing here?" Gu Shiyu couldn't help but ask.

"It's meal time, and they're all going to the public dining hall in the square. The shaman replied.

"What? Don't they have to prepare their own food?"

"The island of Light is a utopian system, and all the necessities of life are uniformly rationed. People do not have private property and distribute it according to their needs. ā€

ā€œ...... Will there still be people to work? Somebody has to manage things!"

"Yes, the inhabitants elected a management committee, which arranged the labor and living goods in a unified manner. ā€

"Please call the members of the management committee, I have something to ask them. "Valley time rain road.

"They're not coming. The priest shook his head and said, "I heard that the Holy Light Island was going to send a governor to manage it, and they left the castle one after another in protest. Infuriatingly, they also took almost all the belongings and food from the city. ā€

"How can this work?!" Gu Shiyu said angrily: "Since you implement a distribution according to demand system, and everyone does not have to own private property, how can they take away what belongs to everyone and keep it for themselves?"

"These people are liars!" said the shaman, indignantly, "They preach that private ownership is the root of all evil, but in fact they themselves take the opportunity to make a lot of money and cultivate their own power." Anyone who dared to resist would be mercilessly beaten and persecuted. ā€

Gu Shiyu said angrily: "I don't think you are a utopia, it is completely ignorant slavery, but it is just another way of saying it." The wealth of all men is concentrated in the hands of the chosen representatives, who take advantage of the rights given by all, deceive them with illusory idealism, and drive you to work for them in exchange for the material things necessary for survival. ā€

"Yes. The inhabitants are hungry and cold, but they sing and dance every day in the mansion, and their extravagance is extremely degenerate! Everyone is very dissatisfied, and now they have begun to work without work. ā€

The word utopia Gu Shiyu seems to have heard it, and the meaning should be utopian countries and systems. They don't need laws, they don't need bureaucracy, they practice self-management. Everyone has no private property, and they work in unison, each according to his needs. But this can only be a beautiful vision, at least for now, unattainable. To achieve this, it requires a highly developed productive forces and a strong material foundation, and in addition to this, all citizens need to have high moral qualities. If the living environment is very harsh, no matter how noble people are, they will inevitably develop selfish desires, breed laziness and parasites, and breed depravity, corruption, and crime.

In the Book of Genesis, Jehovah, the creator of the world, was furious when he saw that the world was full of moral corruption, corrupt power, and lawlessness, and he decided to wash everything in the world with a monstrous flood, which led to the legend of Noah's Ark.

Gu Shiyu already felt that the situation was serious, quite serious! If no measures were taken, regardless of whether there would be a flood or not, a riot of the hungry people would definitely occur.

Now is the time to prepare for a rainy day and prevent tragedy before anything happens.

Gu Shiyu ordered: "The first thing to do now is to get back what belongs to everyone." Gather all the guards in the city at once and set out with me!"

The shaman shook his head and said, "You have to know that utopia does not have an army, and in case of war, it can only defend itself in the form of mercenaries. ā€

If there is no army, then how can I get back what belongs to you for you? With a three-inch tongue? Gu Shiyu had a headache.

"This Governor has decreed that, (1) the Governing Council shall be renamed the National Assembly and shall be re-elected forthright, (2) that all land and productive resources shall be allocated to the inhabitants and that private ownership shall be temporarily exercised until a better system is found; (3) soldiers shall be recruited immediately from among the inhabitants to defend their homeland and the fruits of our labours." ā€

Gu Shiyu originally wanted to immediately implement the socialist system and run directly from a slave society into a socialist society, but he did not have a corresponding theoretical basis to guide practice. Who told you that you don't usually care about politics, so let's take a step at a time for the time being.

As soon as the decree was issued, the shaman's face was full of spring breeze, and he immediately ran away.

The castle was boiling, and many of the able-bodied inhabitants immediately rushed to the gates, asking to join the army.

But everyone's hands were empty. Fighting is not like boxing, it has to rely on real knives and real guns.

"Isn't there a blacksmith shop in the castle?" Gu Shiyu shook his head and said, "Is it so difficult to find a weapon?"

Onlookers were pushed away by a tower-like man. The man said in a loud voice, "Your Excellency, I am a blacksmith. I used to be in charge of building shovels and hoes for production in towns, but I didn't want to work for a long time. Why do I sweat like rain every day and eat only a few potatoes a day, while others lie motionless like lazy worms and eat delicious food?"

The crowd applauded.

Gu Shiyu waved his hand to stop everyone and said, "I promise that everything will change." In the future, everyone will work more and get more, work less and get less, and don't work hard. Whoever is industrious and capable will have more wealth and will live better than others. To hell with vampires and slackers, I don't want to keep them. ā€

The people shouted loudly.

"But the people on the management committee certainly don't want to see this happen. They have deceived and oppressed everyone for so long, and they will still want to continue. You say, 'What are we going to do?'

"Kill them!"

It started with a tentative shout from one person. Then the sound grew louder and louder, and finally the whole castle was like a tsunami.

"Come with me, everyone, pick up everything you can fight around you, and follow me to seek justice and take back everything that belongs to us!"

Gu Shiyu raised his arms and shouted, and immediately followed thousands of residents behind him, holding wooden sticks, hoes, and sickles, and lifted the rod.

The storm of the uprising quickly swept through the entire city of Castellos, both inside and outside the city. Within a few days, the property of the members of the management committee of the rich was confiscated and returned to all the residents of the castle.

Gu Shiyu succeeded in inspiring people's anger and becoming their leader, but it led to many bloody incidents of violence. Although he wanted to do his best to protect the lives of the family members of the former nobles and wealthy people, and avoid the fire at the city gate and the fish in the pond. After all, many of these people are innocent, but with little success.

Yes, violence is like a plague that, if left unchecked, will spread rapidly everywhere.

Fortunately, as time went on, the violence gradually decreased, and the anger in people's hearts was fully vented.

The shaman is very capable. Within a few days of Gu Shiyu leading the people to sweep around, a new law was quickly drafted in the castle and submitted to the residents who remained in the castle for discussion and adoption. Gu Shiyu had a headache when he saw these things, he originally thought that it was easy to be a governor, he could hunt around, hold banquets, or sit back and relax every day, but he was busy and anxious.

Since everyone agrees, then what else is there to say, let's do it! Gu Shiyu waved his pen and immediately signed his name.

Within a few days, the castle was quickly restored to normal. The people who had just acquired the land were busy in the fields all day long. The market is also gradually becoming lively, and people take their surplus goods to the market to exchange for the goods they need.

The shaman still looks for the grain every day and reports it to the rain. On this day, he dragged Gu Shiyu to the tavern.

Gu Shiyu was very happy, he had been busy for so many days, and it was time to take a sip of wine and relax. It's a good thing that someone can eat and drink without spending money, so why not do it? Not to mention that now he needs someone to help him so that he can get more support.

But as soon as Gu Shiyu entered the tavern, he became worried.

It wasn't that he was worried that there were too many people in the tavern who were idle and drunk, but that the reports given to him by well-informed people in the tavern worried him.

The tavern has always been a hub for intelligence trading, where wandering heroes come to sell news or to recruit lieges.

There weren't many people in the tavern, and everyone was busy with their own business, working hard and hard for their little family. The fat tavern proprietress watched boredly as a traveling bard whispered with their governor.

Gu Shiyu threw dozens of gold coins, and the information he got was as follows:

Ranking of the strongest combat power: York, Boris, Eufritin, Altyn, Gu Shiyu.

Strongest Hero Ranking: York, Boris, Eufritin, Altyn, Gu Shiyu.

Most money ranking: Boris, York, Eufritin, Altyn, Gu Shiyu.

Oh my God, I'm going to die!

I don't have a soldier in my hand, if the enemy fights, do you want my brother to go up and fill the pit alone?

Where did all the money go? Didn't you come back with someone to grab a lot of money and food?

Gu Shiyu stared suspiciously at the shaman, the current chief congressman. It's not that you kid swallowed it privately, if my brother has evidence, he will definitely dismantle you!

"Your Excellency, in accordance with your instructions for the construction of the castle, I have spent all my funds on the construction of internal affairs and the improvement of people's livelihood. Of course, if you have any doubts, you can check every account. ā€

"I said, Mr. Speaker, you must know that there are four strong enemies around us! If they come with troops, how will you tell me to protect the castle? Will you be willing to surrender and be slaves? In any case, you must get me dozens of soldiers. ā€

"Yes, Mr. Governor. The shaman blushed and said, "You must know that I am only a little good at internal affairs, and I dare not make presumptuous claims about military and political affairs. Now the castle has reached a bottleneck, and we are short of not only gold, but also enough wood, iron ore, crystal, mercury, sulphur, and precious stones. These things have corresponding mines in the wild, but they are usually guarded by tribal warriors in the wild, and we don't have enough troops to take them. ā€

Your sister, do you want to kill me?" Gu Shiyu was very angry: "What kind of soldiers can be recruited in the castle now?"

"The guard tower and the arrow tower have already been built, so we should be able to recruit dozens of soldiers. "The shaman doesn't dare to say that these barracks were built before, otherwise wouldn't he be scolded? If the Governor removed himself from his post in anger, all his thoughts of making a fortune from it would be in vain.

Gu Shiyu wanted to smash himself to death with a wine glass. Dozens of first-class soldiers can be destroyed by themselves, and a lightning spell can kill more than a dozen. He sighed, "Alas, alas...... You put down the rest of the matter first, get me some soldiers first! Also, see if the residents can recruit some retired veterans for me, I have to take them out tomorrow to grab mines, I don't want to sit and be beaten passively. ā€