You always need a role model as strength to do things. There are positive and negative role models.
Liwang Village, Gaojia Village, Chenjia Village and Wangxiang Village. These four villages located on the edge of Jingxi Lianfengcheng have become role models, and they are negative role models.
In the meeting hall of the Black Flag Camp Commandery Office in Fengri City, Tang Qingyuan, Chen Sheng, Wang Yiming, and Wang Jian gathered together. Shen Hao was sitting at the top, with serious expressions on their faces.
Just now, Tang Qingyuan, Chen Sheng, and Wang Yiming gave a situation report first, and then Wang Jian made a supplement. But the situations described by several people are actually very similar.
"Both the missionary work and the copper cabinet have encountered great resistance. The local people simply ignore us and don't accept the sweet things we give. They just stay away from disasters."
"There are also elementary schools. At present, elementary schools are only useful in some smaller villages. Larger villages have their own elementary schools run by clans. Now that we are agitated, they have expanded the scale, which can basically guarantee that most of the children in the village Enter school.”
"It is much more difficult to outlaw the customs of worshiping gods than we previously expected. The common people simply sneered at the concept of monks and used "fake tricks" to describe the methods of the missionary team, but they were not interested in the "gods" they believed in. But I firmly believe it.”
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Shen Hao remained silent, but his brows were furrowed from the beginning.
The evil-killing plan is a long-term plan aimed at eradicating the evil monks in the Jingji Dynasty. It should be implemented slowly rather than hastily, and it will take a lot of time for the effect to take root gradually. Over time, the evil monks can endure it. The living soil has completely disappeared.
Therefore, Shen Hao was mentally prepared to encounter resistance. He had even given some suggestions and strategies to Wang Jian and others before, but he still underestimated the people in remote mountain villages who had long been accustomed to customs and worship from generation to generation. The stubbornness of the "god" misses the essence of what seems to be "custom" but is actually "interest".
"So, the chiefs in each village are just decorations, and the local yamen seriously lack jurisdiction over these remote villages. They have even followed the ancestral and family laws of each village and not the laws of the country?" Shen Hao spoke, tapping his fingers lightly on the table.
"Yes, sir, this is the current situation. The village chiefs are people elected by the ancestral elders' council in each village. They are regarded as the mouthpieces to deal with local yamen. In the village, they have no ability to influence the behavior of the villagers. Each villager has no ability to influence the behavior of the villagers. When it comes to the village, the people involved are still the ancestral hall and the clan chief.
And because the distance is too far, it is impossible for the local government offices to take care of everything in those villages. They will not show up for most of the year or even the whole year. All conflicts in the villages are caused by clan autonomy. No one in those villages cared about the law. "
Shen Hao nodded, and then asked: "It's the clan forces in the village that are hindering the plan to kill evil, right?"
"Yes sir."
One of the main contents of the evil-killing plan is to reverse the customs and habits of "worshiping gods" among the people in remote villages, because that is the soil that breeds evil monks, and it is very easy for evil monks to secretly use them to induce, threaten, or brainwash them. Coupled with some evil methods, many seedling-like reserve forces can be infected from a large number of ordinary people, and then those who can be "cultivated" can be selected from them.
However, this “custom” has become the biggest obstacle to missionary work at present. Just small favors cannot make the villagers put down the "greetings" of the ancestral elders' association and cater to the missionary work of the Black Flag Camp. Instead, they directly choose to ignore it and treat the missionary team as if they don't exist. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the plan to punish evil. .
Based on the reports of the people in front of him, Shen Hao realized that his previous thinking was too simple, and even fell into the cliché. He instinctively equated the people in the mountains with "ignorance" and "primitive", and ignored A very important aspect of human nature: the desire for control.
The desire for control can also be said to be the "desire for power." This can be seen in many people. From the emperor to the petty officials, even the so-called "elderly majesty" directed at the younger generation by the elders in the family is actually a kind of this desire.
Since it is an aspect of human nature, it will naturally not differ based on the living environment and the quality of life, but will exist equally.
It's just that the way the desire for power is displayed will change due to life circumstances, but the essence will not.
After hearing this, Shen Hao now understood the twists and turns. I also understand that if I want to continue to push forward the evil-killing plan, I must break this most basic and essential contradiction.
The custom of "worshiping gods" is similar to a kind of spiritual sustenance. It entrusts the expectations of the people in remote villages for good weather in the coming year, their desire for good health, and their prayers for the prosperity of their families with children and grandchildren... Of course, there are also some selfish desires that cannot be expressed in words and can only be kept in the hearts of each person.
It seems that this kind of spiritual sustenance is not only used by evil monks to recruit disciples, but also by the clan forces in these villages as an effective means to further control the villagers.
This almost benefits both the evil monks and the clan forces in the case. The evil monks can hide in the dark more safely and slowly select their disciples. The clan forces can more unscrupulously use "gods' likes and dislikes" to reward, punish and control the clansmen in the village. This can even give a more glamorous reason to various family rules in the clan.
Now that the Black Flag Camp wants to implement the custom of "worshiping gods", it will disturb the interests of the evil monks and the interests of those clan forces.
"After all, I still don't want to put down what I'm holding." Shen Hao paused and continued, "What are you going to do?"
Tang Qingyuan looked at the people present and saw that none of them had the intention to speak first, so he stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Sir, I believe that the clan forces have an irreconcilable conflict with the evil-killing plan. Even if I don't pretend to be wrong this time, I will still Problems arise every time. The best way is to break the surface and uproot the root of the problem."
"go on."
"My subordinates think that we can kill a group of people and establish a group of people. We will not let the clan forces interfere with the Zhuxie plan, nor will we completely oppose them. After all, the Zhuxie plan is a slow and detailed work according to your idea, and the clan will be preserved. Power is actually good for the plan itself.”
"Kill one group and establish another group?" Shen Hao was thoughtful after hearing this.
Tang Qingyuan continued: "Sir, we can secretly kill the ancestral elders in each village who are against us, and then set up those who are in name only, and let them serve as fists or talkers in the clan forces, and then we can Give them benefits little by little and bring them closer to our side.
Anyway, their purpose is nothing more than to rely on "customs" to strengthen their control over the tribe and consolidate their own status. I think they should agree to replace "customs" with "laws", as long as the execution power is still in their hands. ..."
