Chapter Ninety-Five: Blowing and Sucking Vegetables
Later, I learned that the Zhixu people disposed of the captured captives in three categories: blowing, sucking, and vegetable goods. Le-Wen
Their job is to go to the streets and alleys every day to publicize the character and merits of the national teacher, and the requirements for this work are relatively high, and it is far from enough to be able to recite poems and pole dance. Qualified blow-ups must first pass the oral test and talent assessment, and then go through a three-month probationary period before they can take up their posts. When the work starts, they will first perform a difficult acrobatics or alternative performance art in the downtown area, and after attracting enough audiences, they will suddenly raise their arms and shout "the national teacher is the first in the world and the first martial arts and martial arts in the world" and the like, often frightened people who are not psychologically prepared to pee their pants, and then the person will go to the toilet and the glorious image of the national teacher will appear in his mind, which is the embodiment of the propaganda effect. Some experienced and flexible veterans will adopt a more advanced edification method than stick and drink propaganda, and integrate praise for the national teacher into literary and artistic works, such as writing the sentences "I love you and I wish the national teacher all the best" into Tibetan poems, or arranging some touching storytelling, dramas, sketches, etc. based on the national teacher, which is very artistically expressive. At first, the Wise Void tried to get the puppets to do this kind of work, but the freaks couldn't speak, their movements were mechanical and stiff, they had no artistic cells and no brains, and they only knew how to repeat the slogans they were taught with expressionless faces, and they were completely incompetent. Later, the Zhixu people found that there were many talents in this area in the Chaos Country, so they provided this opportunity for the captives to find a second employment, and those who became bragging could get the same living conditions as the people of Mofei City, and the best of them could even get land and servants, receive special allowances, hold regular tours, and gain fame and fortune. It's no wonder that the people we saw in the prisoner of war camp last time were reluctant to go with us, they must have been full of confidence in their talent in some aspect, if Wu Aihuang, Xin Xiangjun and others were caught here, they would definitely be able to fly like a fish in water.
Suckering is drudgery, and the city has been plagued by ghost fog in recent years, and the environment has deteriorated. Zhixu first invented a huge hand-cranked blower, this thing looks like a hippopotamus, there is a thick crank on the buttocks, it takes twenty people to make it work, the wind can blow people naked, but it only blows the ghost fog out of a large hole, as soon as the shaker stops, the holes are immediately filled again. It is impossible to find so many people all day long, and it is not good to let the people on the street stay naked all day long, so the Zhixu people planted countless flowers and trees, but these plants do not absorb the ghost fog at all, but let those who walk in the dense fog frequently wrestle and meet. Later, the Zhixu people discovered that the ghost mist could only be absorbed by the human body, as long as a sufficient number of people continued to absorb it for five hours, the ghost mist in the whole city could basically be absorbed, and it would take about six or seven hours for the new ghost mist to gather. Therefore, the job of the suckers is to be driven out at the regular time of the day, all over the streets, and breathe until sunrise. Some of what they inhale becomes toxins and is absorbed by the internal organs, part of it becomes carbon dioxide and is excreted from the body, and it is absorbed by plants and converted into fresh and pure oxygen. As soon as the morning dawns, people open the doors, the sun is shining, the air is fresh, and the mood is good, which is all the credit of the silent dedication of the suckers. The toxins are not immediately fatal, but slowly devour the organs in the body, and eventually squeeze the suckers into empty shells over the years. This way of dying is slow and painful, but since I have chosen this job, the suckers are very dedicated, and no one has ever held back or left late or early, not complaining of hardship or tiredness, and even the phenomenon of saying bad things about the top, on the one hand, it depends on good ideological awareness, and on the other hand, it benefits from a perfect incentive mechanism. According to the provisions of the "Management Measures for the Performance Appraisal of Commodity Absorption", the Management Office of Commodity Absorption will organize a performance appraisal every year, through the comprehensive consideration of ideology, work style, professional ability, daily attendance, task completion, self-assessment, mass recognition, superior satisfaction and other indicators, for each person to be rated according to the qualified, good, excellent and outstanding grade, and those who have been rated as "outstanding absorption" for five consecutive years can be turned into blowing goods and awarded the "Retirement Commemorative Medal" A self-portrait signed by the national teacher is a great honor, and the suckers feel very hopeful and naturally full of enthusiasm.
As for vegetables, as the name suggests, they are meant to be eaten. Zhixu regularly sends gifts to friendly cannibal tribes on nearby islands, including a large number of vegetables, after all, there is not much to eat on the island. The treatment of vegetables is quite high, eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, wearing silk and satin, living in Qionglou Yuyu, except for the lack of Yulu and touring, the others are not worse than the best in the blowing goods, this is all in order to keep them in sufficient nutrition and beautiful mood, and be competent for their own work. Because once the food is malnourished or depressed, the meat is not palatable, and if it is not delicious, it will have diarrhea, and the cannibals are very particular about food, and when they see and smell that something is wrong, they will angrily eat the messenger who delivered the food. From this point of view alone, the management art of Zhixu people is obviously many times better than those leaders who blindly ask their subordinates to work overtime and are not willing to give a dime.
In comparison, vegetables are addicted to death, sucking is chronic suicide, the safest and most comfortable is to blow goods, there is more money and less things to do near home and a great future, it can be seen that people who work with their lives are always inferior to those who work with their mouths, but people in the three industries are honest and have a good time, and the leaders are very relieved.
The wise people in the city are also divided into three categories: civilians, puppets, and leaders. Civilians are people under the age of twenty, puppets are people who grow masks after the age of twenty, and those who do not have masks but have flesh marks become leaders.
The leaders and puppets constitute the administrative system of Mo Fei City, the leaders are responsible for giving orders, and the puppets are responsible for implementing them, cooperating tacitly and orderly. Although they can't speak or think, these puppets are highly perceptive, and can translate the thoughts and intentions of the leaders into clear and specific instructions in the shortest possible time, and then implement them in the fastest way. A look, a movement, or a casual word from the bosses can instantly activate the puppet's action program.
In early spring, when it was warm and cold, and the drizzle continued, the leaders reached out to catch a few drops of rain and muttered to themselves: "The spring rain is as expensive as oil, but unfortunately it can't be kept." The surrounding puppets immediately swarmed up, carrying bricks and water, forgetting to sleep and eating, and fighting for several days to build a large pool of water to store spring rain. At this time, perhaps the rain has stopped, and the puppets will organize the "rain urging" in an orderly manner: a large number of puppets are shot into the sky with a kind of giant ballista, and each puppet carries several large bags of salt powder in their arms, and when they fly to the clouds, they will open the bags, sprinkle the salt powder into the clouds, and stir it with their hands and feet from time to time to make the salt powder be absorbed more evenly, and then the water vapor will condense, and the sky will rain, and the leaders will get their wish. As for those puppets that flew into the sky, they ascended to heaven on the spot when they fell, and the leaders did not bother to award them medals, nor did they need to prepare funerals, eulogies and pensions, and even the steps of wiping their noses and tears were saved, which was also the convenience of using puppets.
In the middle of summer, when the scorching sun is in the sky, the leaders lie on the rattan chairs under the trees by the spring, still feel the heat unbearable, frown, and the puppets who are making a cool foot bath for the leaders comprehend, fly on the horse, and travel under the stars and nights, and transport thousands of years of cold ice from the Seven Holy Mountains to build an underground ice cave for the leaders to escape the heat.
In late autumn, everything withered, the heads leaned on the windowsill and looked at the yard and chanted melancholy on the sentence "flowers and grass and butterflies are also worried", the puppet of the gate turned his head and ran away without a trace, two days later the wind and dust appeared in the nursery, surrounded by strange flowers and plants, and the colorful butterflies flew over.
In the middle of winter, frozen for thousands of miles, a line of swans flew over the city, the leaders looked up, licked their lips twice, and the puppets who accompanied them immediately took their bows and arrows and shot down seven or eight, and sent them to the room to be handed over to another group of puppets to make seven or eight kinds of dishes and put them on the table of the leaders.