bullyxtreme Chapter 208 Minor Conflict
Chapter 208 Minor Conflict
Everything is going as planned.
After Sweetleaf Town was upgraded to Sweetleaf City, Ooze City also embarked on a stage of large-scale development. Following the Elden Pyroxene Quarry came a series of workshops and upgraded industrial chains.
Some towns and villages in the northeastern region of the entire small kingdom probably felt the deepening and decentralization of power for the first time in a hundred years.
However, in this process, some minor conflicts occasionally occurred.
People are such a group with sensitive mentality and cheap brains.
When there is nothing going on or when there is something good going on, I hope there is no restraint;
When bad things happen, people hope that there will be someone in a higher position to help them resist some of the disasters.
Now the small kingdom is in turmoil. As a result, at this time, the king sent people to guide them in military training, provide some guidance on life and affairs, and carry out some education and popularization of ideas and knowledge. In their view, this is an irresponsible behavior.
How can we be assigned to do military training and fighting?
Life guidance, do I need you to tell me how to live?
Ideological education and knowledge popularization? What the hell, can we eat it? Will we distribute food?
This series of operations, in the eyes of some civilians who do not quite understand, is a sinister way of letting things run wild.
"I know what you mean. The situation is turbulent now and you can't control it, so you teach us things that we shouldn't learn. When things are over, you will pull us back again."
"You are just like letting your livestock roam freely in the winter when there is no fodder stored, and hoping that in the spring they will be fat and plump after eating in the wild and run back for you to kill. I tell you, you are just dreaming!"
In their view, helping them build so-called fortifications, helping them with a certain degree of military training, and telling them how to form a clear and regulated political group to manage their own homes.
It is a despicable method of turning domesticated animals into free-range animals in the cold winter!
After all, as domestic animals, they only need to eat, drink, sleep and grow meat.
But once they are free-range, it means they need to dig for food in the snow and fight against hypothermia and wild beasts.
In the end, it still has to be slaughtered with one knife, which makes people feel that it is not worth it.
In their view, military training will be abolished after the dust settles, or the soldiers will be used as cannon fodder after they have completed sufficient training.
Political group building does seem to have many benefits.
Internally, they can liberate those groups in such villages and towns that are oppressed by the power of old-fashioned patriarchs and achieve clearer and more organized internal power management;
Externally, there is also a way to provide policy feedback and suggestions to the royal capital and other power centers. This means that one can truly be the master of one's own house and have a sense of participation in the construction of the kingdom.
But, again, the people don't believe it.
They believed that after the dust settled, the royal capital would not allow them to freely report their opinions and discuss policies.
And those ideological education and popularization of knowledge make them feel useless.
"What do you teach?"
"Reading, writing, numeracy, and some common sense."
"It's enough to know how to write your own name. As for calculations... we will never run out of fingers to count in our lifetime. And common sense? What common sense? I have lived for so long but I still don't know any bullshit common sense."
Behind this, there are not only the wrong guesses of ignorant people, but also some people with damaged interests who are fanning the flames with malicious intentions.
This naturally includes some feudal patriarchs. If there is an organizational system with clear rewards and punishments and fairness and justice, then they will no longer be the kind of people who have the power of life and death.
All in all, summarizing these malicious speculations, the conclusion reached by this group of people is that the king is probably unable to manage them, but wants to take back all the benefits after everything is over, so he resorts to this desperate measure.
They should resist the power of the royal capital from entering their villages and towns, and live up to the saying: "The wind can come in, the rain can come in, but the king cannot come in."
However, some of these conflicts had been resolved even before they were exposed in Abbes's case.
First of all, of course, there are some influences that Abbes arranged in advance.
For example, the personnel who were transferred to the grassroots level, such as towns and villages, which had never been subject to power, were all the good guys who had followed him for the longest time, plus an intellectual, who was one of the small nobles who were willing to bow to Abes.
Although it cannot be said that all civil and military skills can be used, it is more than enough to deal with the affairs of a village or town.
Rather, what Abes never worried about was that they could not manage the villages and towns. What Abes worried about was that he could not control the warriors and the petty noble intellectuals.
After all, the purpose is to unite the grassroots forces and reform the power system, not to allow people to abuse their power in villages and towns.
Therefore, before setting off, Abe specially did some conversations for them.
“Whether it is just, unjust, or immoral, the final dividing line between these people will depend on whether they are willing and able to unite with the working people.”
"Regarding this point, you warriors have done a great job. Whether it was entering Sweet Leaf Town or entering the Royal Capital now, you have always abided by some of my original requirements and propositions."
"As for you little nobles, you once called the shots in the capital, but now it is time to change your mindset."
"I still remember that the first person who came to see me was Burton. During the conversation with him, I also conveyed to you through his mouth the choice of being the head of a rooster or a part of a phoenix."
"Now, there are many of you who are driven by this sense of honor to swear allegiance to me. However, saying it and doing it are two completely different things. Since you have chosen to follow the Phoenix, you must experience the nine times of cleansing of the Phoenix's transformation through the flames."
“To participate in construction and labor and to put down your airs is a cleansing for you.”
Of course, they had no objection to what Abes said.
Because Abes not only said so, but also did it himself; he often participated in the construction of the new urban area. Sometimes, Abes could be seen on the assembly line and in Philip's royal patrol team.
The same is true for the other so-called "senior executives".
There is no need to say much about Kronos, Hyogi and Sister Agatha. Spells, runes, magic industry and things related to magic crafts were all made with their active participation from beginning to end.
Adechi and Philip actively safeguard the safety of the royal capital. When there is nothing to do, they become voluntary workers and help build the new city area at the east gate of the royal capital.
It can be said that half of the new city wall that is about to encircle the new city area was built with the help of this old warlock using his talent.
The only ones who didn't know what they were doing were Anivia and Gaviling.
However, one of them is a master in interrogation and persuasion, and the other is the sword of Damocles who is watching to see if there will be any problems with the army itself. The movements of the two of them are not something that these small nobles who are about to leave the royal capital can know.
And there is a group of dispatched personnel who have clear minds, military support, the drive to devote themselves to production and construction, the affinity to unite the masses, and who will not be corrupted by a little power.
Some disputes will never escalate, and some misunderstandings and suspicions can be easily resolved.
In addition, another person, or force, that resolves these minor conflicts is a series of construction projects in cities and towns.
This is like dragging rural people to work in the city. If the income after deducting living expenses and commuting is still lower than farming, why waste their youth in a working environment with high temperature, high humidity, cotton wool and toxic fumes?
However, the benefits and mobilization of the construction work carried out around the three centers of Ooze City, Sweet Leaf City and the Royal Capital are extremely huge.
If a small brick kiln at the entrance of a village recruits people, it naturally cannot offer much compensation and there are not many jobs.
However, now with the support of the magic industry's assembly line, the long-accumulated demand has suddenly exploded at this moment, and the effect is absolutely extraordinary. It is like a Fortune 500 company has opened at your doorstep.
As for the money, there is enough. As for the number of positions, there is enough.
With the infusion of such power, some feudal patriarchs in villages and towns could no longer show off their power.
Without learning calculation, how can they participate in construction work that requires runes to make money?
Without learning to read and write, it will be difficult for them to get recognition in some other jobs.
You mean hard work? Hard labor?
I'm sorry, but magic crystals are cheaper than your wages.
With just a step-by-step excavation tool and a magic engine powered by magic crystals, a distance that would take ordinary workers ten days to dig out can be dug in one day;
Just one conveyor belt can continuously transport ore to the magic blast furnace;
With just a magic crystal driving it back and forth, it can be easily bent and twisted...
There are many more like this.
When you jump directly from the feudal dynasty to a modern construction stage, no matter how much the old parents in your family tell you, they can't stop you from going out to gain benefits.
And with the mutual cooperation of [excellent dispatched personnel] and [the destruction of the traditional village and town system by extremely modern construction layout work], a pair of things that were not deliberately arranged.
The minor problems in the villages and towns were quickly resolved, and Abes didn't even see the relevant detailed reports on the desk.
Under the actively constructed new power system, the last thing Abes did was to write a few letters to invite representatives from some villages and towns to witness the unification of the capital and the planned funeral.
"Let them see how we take back the floating island and comfort the martyrs who shed blood and sacrificed their lives along the way..."