Chapter 48: The Second Village Council
A few village elders from Grizzly Bear Village, as well as a few more prestigious villagers, plus Biden and their eight Qige guardian knights, a total of more than 20 people gathered in the village meeting hall, and the village meeting hall was quite spacious at once. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Burleigh, why are you here too?" I don't know who it was, but I saw the villager Burley in the council hall, pulling his clothes and shouting, the villager Burley was in his thirties, and he was one of the more prestigious villagers in the village, and this time the village council was also being summoned.
"Why can't I come?" said Bo, who was pulling his clothes apart from his hand, and looked back to see another villager, Renard, who was also a regular village councilor.
"At the last meeting, didn't you say that Chief Ziggy would never be able to let us eat white bread? Wouldn't you yourself ever attend the village council convened by Chief Zigger?"
"Oh, did I say that? Why don't I remember?" Boehly did not admit that he had said this, when Ziggy convened the village council for the first time, and vowed to let every villager eat white bread, of course, no one believed it, and after the meeting was dismissed, the villagers talked a lot, and they despised the new little nobleman village chief, and there was more than one villager who said such things.
"Hehe, you said it. "Grizzly Village is too poor for few girls to marry into this village, and Leonard is still a bachelor in his thirties, and his grudge against Burleigh is not ordinarily deep, and he will not give up when he has the opportunity.
"Where's the evidence?" Boehly is thick-skinned, and there is no lower limit to playing a scoundrel, which fully proves the theory that only thick-skinned people can catch up with girls, and now Burleigh's sons are almost ten years old.
"Don't make any noise! the village chief has arrived!" Daddy Chuck saw that the two of them were really not talking, and stopped them from continuing to entangle.
Daddy Chuck is the most prestigious village elder, and it's hard to say whether Daddy Chuck is talking in Grizzly Bear Village now, or is Zigg, the village chief who has been parachuted in for less than two months, talking and talking?
Ziggy reckons that he doesn't have a bottom either.
But one thing is for sure, now what Ziggy said, someone listened.
This is one of the reasons why Ziggy dared to convene this village council, of course, the main thing is to mobilize the whole village to build walls and archer towers, and train the adult men in the village to serve as archers to assist the output.
It's all about holding Grizzly Village.
In view of the fact that the previous village chiefs did not do a good job, Ziggy now has no idea whether he can start it or not.
Why?
Because just like the last time the village council was held, although Ziggy saved Belinda with the help of forceps, which was accepted by the villagers and treated by Daddy Chuck, being able to deliver the baby does not mean that he can lead the villagers to get rich.
In the same way, being able to lead the villagers to get rich does not mean that you can lead the villagers to defeat the orcs!
Therefore, whether Ziggy can convince all the prestigious villagers in the village in this village council, and then mobilize the villagers of the entire Grizzly Village to build a fence and archer tower, the support of Daddy Chuck is crucial.
For this reason, Ziggy had already communicated with Daddy Chuck before the meeting, and although Daddy Chuck said that he could support Ziggy with a clear attitude at the meeting, Daddy Chuck was not optimistic about whether he could convince all the prestigious villagers at this meeting.
Sure enough, after Ziggy finished saying his thoughts, all the villagers who participated in the meeting suddenly exploded, and the entire village hall was full of discussions, "buzzing", and it was difficult to hear what they were talking about for a while, but judging from the shaking of many villagers, most people were not very optimistic about this matter.
"Silence, silence, one by one, Burleigh, you speak first!" is where Daddy Chuck comes in.
"Village Chief, what if there are too many orcs? Do you have to defend it? For example, more than forty orcs are coming. Burleigh was clearly apprehensive about the last time the fourth silly hat village chief took the villagers to their deaths.
"There were too many people coming, so we went up the mountain to hide as before, and I promised everyone that we would not take everyone to death. "This matter cannot be ambiguous, even if there is a wall, dozens of more steppe orcs will not be able to hold it, because there are too few people, even if all the villagers are mobilized to defend, the morale of these armed villagers is also very problematic, in this era of cold weapons, the morale of the soldiers is very critical to the victory of the battle, and the villagers are not professional soldiers, where can their morale be high? If there are too many steppe orcs, retreat is a wise choice.
Zige said this, and solved the heart disease of many villagers at once, they understood that Zige, the village head, is different from the previous village head, he is a pragmatic village head, plus there are so many sheep around the village, it is all food and money, regardless of whether the villagers have invested in the cooperative or not, they do not want these sheep to be robbed.
"That's nice, what about the wall? It's impossible to build a wall in less than two months, you can make the wall build overnight?"
"Overnight ......" what is afraid of something, by Jean, the old stubborn, everyone is not optimistic about Zigger's proposal to build a wall as soon as possible, indeed, even if the construction of a wooden wall, mobilizing the whole village, men, women and children, plus the money hired from other villages and towns, it will take at least a month, and the construction of an all-stone wall will take at least two or three months.
At this time, Ziggy missed the cement of modern society.
Cement is a good thing, as long as the water and sand are mixed together with cement, you can build a solid giant wall with small stones, and how high you want to build is not as high as considering whether the boulder can be lifted.
As long as the cement is solidified, it is equivalent to a stone wall, which not only saves manpower, but also saves time, and the cement will not take more than three days to solidify!
But where is the cement going to get on the ziggy now?
Limestone is needed to make cement, and Zigg doesn't even know where there is a limestone mine near Grizzly Village, and even if there is a limestone mine, there is enough time to make cement, and the production of cement needs to be ground and fired, which is more time-consuming, and what Ziggy lacks most now is time, this thousand sheepfolds are in the village, and they may be snatched by the steppe orcs who come to raid at any time.
To achieve what Papa Jean said about building a wall overnight, only cement can do it, or a magician, freeze into a wall......
"Wait......" Zigger's eyes suddenly lit up when he thought of this, and the ice became a wall, overnight! There is a way! It doesn't have to be cement, you can do it yourself!
"I can't do it overnight, but I can build a wall around our village in two days!And it won't be much worse than a stone wall!" Just when all the villagers who participated in the meeting saw Ziggy stunned without saying a word, and thought that Ziggy was annoyed and angry by Daddy Jean, Ziggy suddenly made such a promise that everyone was jumped.
How could it be possible to build a wall in two days?
The village chief can't be fooled by Daddy Jean, right?
Or did the little nobleman make the mistake of talking big again?
Ziggy's words were unanimously doubted by the villagers, and even his henchman and bearded Biden pulled Razig's clothes and whispered to Zigge: "My lord, are you sure about this?"
Tomorrow, everyone will mobilize all the villagers, those with buckets, those with shovels, and those with shovels, all of them to come out and build the wall. Ziggy ignored the bearded Biden, and his first henchmen didn't believe in him, which made Ziegy very disappointed, and at the same time made Ziggy realize that he had not yet reached the point of being a man of his word, and he did not have enough prestige, so he could not let the villagers take his words as a holy decree and implement them without hesitation.
"You little nobleman, you're going to harm our village again!" Daddy Jean almost beat his chest and cried bitterly when he heard Ziggy and asked the villagers to bring tools to build a wall.
"What do you mean, since I came, have you done something that harmed our village?" Ziggy was very unwilling to be said by Daddy Jean, but he was the main victim of the previous village chief Hu Lai, and the most important village elder after Daddy Chuck, Ziggy couldn't do anything to him, so he could only refute him like this.
"Yes, since the village chief Zigg came, we have eaten mutton. At this time, it was not Chuck's father who came out to speak for Zigger, it was Leonard, he was also a shareholder of the cooperative, others didn't know, he was clear, just the money from the sale of sheep, there were already thousands of silver coins, although he didn't know how much money he could get, but he knew in his heart, how could so much money not have his own share?
Renard's words resonated with many villagers, not to mention those who were still reminiscing about the taste of mutton soup, and all the shareholders of the cooperative were even more crazy to support Zige, because they knew better than other villagers how much the benefits of Ziggy Village Chief would be.
Is it possible for Ziggy to build a ring of walls around Grizzly Village in two days?
A must have!
This is again the advantage of modern people with the Internet and TV, because Ziggy remembered a plot in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, that is, Cao Cao vs. Ma Chao.
At that time, Cao Cao had just experienced the defeat of Chibi, and most of his elite were buried in the sea of Chibi fire, at this time, Ma Chao, as the commander of the Xiliang army, led the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to invade the Central Plains and attacked the hinterland of the Central Plains.
Cao Cao led the army to meet the battle, but Ma Chao relied on the spear and fast horse of Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and beat Cao Cao very embarrassed, Ma Chao shouted that it was Cao Cao who had a beard, Cao Cao cut off his beard, and Ma Chao shouted that it was Cao Cao who wore a red robe, and Cao Cao threw away the red robe, which is the famous "cutting beard and abandoning the robe".
Cao Cao returned to his camp to sum up the lessons and learned lessons, and found that he could not win the spear and fast horse of the Xiliang army in the field, Cao Cao's only advantage was that his supply line was short, Ma Chao's supply line was long, and he fought for consumption, Cao Cao fought hard, that is, he held on, and when Ma Chao had no food, Cao Cao had a chance to win.
But at that time, it was in the endless wilderness of the Great Plains, and if you wanted to stick to it, it would only work by building a city wall, so what should you do?
As a result, Cao Cao used Lou Gui's suggestion to have the soldiers build walls out of ordinary earth, and then constantly poured water on the soil, because it was a cold winter, the water splashed on the soil quickly froze, and overnight Cao Cao built a strong wall around his camp, or rather, a wall of frozen earth.