Hearing Bai Xiaonan ask about business, Xie Yu also stopped playing around.
He held Bai Xiaonan in his arms, and while stroking Bai Xiaonan's hair, he said, "Well! Do you also think that I am joking?"
Bai Xiaonan found a comfortable position in Xie Yu's arms and said in a low voice: "It's a bit. But I know that there is your own calculation behind everything you do. It may seem unacceptable at the time, but the final result , always proves you are right.”
Xie Yu suddenly laughed: "You think very highly of me. But about this matter... I really don't know what to do! I always feel that it's a bit too fast... Am I trying to encourage others?"
"Perhaps it would be better to wait until I have taken my ideological and political class for half a year before doing this. But... what we lack most now is time!"
After saying that, Xie Yu let out a long sigh.
Bai Xiaonan didn't understand why Xie Yu had such a sense of worry. Perhaps these days, the village has been in crisis of destruction, which stimulated Xie Yu.
After thinking about it, Bai Xiaonan squeezed her body into Xie Yu's arms, and then whispered: "Actually, you don't have to be so nervous. The big deal... I don't want the village anymore, I'll just wander around the world with you."
Xie Yu smiled even happier.
…
Early the next morning, everyone in the village was called to the school grounds to gather.
At the northern end of the school grounds, Xie Yu had someone build a simple platform using the wood he had cut earlier.
Fire Monkey and others have been released from the small dark room.
At this time, all four of them were standing on the stage, facing the more than 200 brothers below with anxious expressions.
After everyone calmed down, Xie Yu said loudly: "Brothers, I believe everyone knows what we are gathering for today. I won't belabor it anymore."
"Before the four of them speak, I would like to remind everyone: before you vote by a show of hands, ask yourself in your heart whether you agree with the speeches of the four of them! Did their words move you?"
"Don't think that whether or not you raise your hands has nothing to do with the overall situation! Because their decision to stay or go is up to you! Let's get started!"
After saying that, Xie Yu gave up his position in the center of the stage.
The four fire monkeys looked at me, and I looked at you. Finally, the fire monkey took a deep breath, stood in the middle of the stage, and began to examine himself.
Regardless of how these four people reflected and reviewed, in short, the people in the audience did not listen.
To be precise, everyone's focus is not on these four people.
Everyone is thinking about what Xie Yu meant by what he just said.
It's obviously something you, the heads of the family, can decide in one sentence. Why do you want to make it simple and let everyone decide?
Does what we say really count?
The four Fire Monkeys finished their speeches. Everyone also began to discuss among themselves.
Xie Yu didn't seem to be in a hurry.
He just wants everyone to think more and ask more!
After everyone calmed down again, Xie Yu also started to ask everyone to show their hands to vote whether to forgive these four people.
"If you forgive me, they stay! If you don't forgive me, they leave!"
Regardless of whether Xie Yu's decision seemed too childish, or whether everyone listened to the previous self-examination of the four fire monkeys.
During the vote by show of hands, many people still took care of face and gave forgiveness votes.
So the four fire monkeys successfully stayed.
When Xie Yu announced this decision, many people frowned and showed thoughtful expressions.
Especially those who voted for forgiveness, they always feel that they were involved in deciding whether the four Fire Monkeys should stay or go!
I also have the power to decide whether others should stay or go!
…
At noon, Xie Yu gathered the key students who had performed well in the village these days and gave them a lesson.
In class, he introduced the concepts of centralization and decentralization for the first time.
It can be seen that these key people in class are accepting new knowledge and verifying it based on what happened in the morning.
A student raised his hand and asked, "Mr. Xie, what happened this morning, does it count as decentralization?"
Xie Yu nodded: "It can be counted!"
The eyes of other students lit up: "Then if we hold more activities like this in the future, will we soon be able to realize the democracy you mentioned?"
Xie Yu laughed: "How can it be so simple? Think about it, when you exercised your power this morning, how many of you seriously thought about what I said? Carefully weighed the pros and cons of the actions of those four people?"
"How many people voted for their daily relationships? Did you really make good use of your power?"
"Decentralization is an important measure to solve the problem of centralization, but without the power of supervision, it can easily become a double-edged sword!"
Next, Xie Yu began to explain the concepts of "power supervision" and "power restriction" to everyone.
After Xie Yu finished speaking, everyone fell into thinking again.
Xie Yu didn't expect that he could teach these people to become thinkers in just a few lessons.
What he needs to do now is plant seeds in the hearts of these people.
Xie Yu doesn't know whether this kind of seed will sprout the seeds of freedom in the future.
But he’ll be looking forward to it!
…
In the next few days, Xie Yu asked Carpenter Sun to make many shields with shooting holes.
These shields are very thick, with several interlayers in the middle, and the interlayers are filled with fine sand, stones, velvet grass and other materials.
Chen Zhong didn't understand what was the use of Xie Yu making these things.
Xie Yu asked Chen Zhong to shoot these shields at close range with a compound crossbow.
As a result, the crossbow arrow, which could easily penetrate the wooden board, was deflated this time.
Chen Zhong shook his head and said: "It is indeed a defensive weapon. But it is too bulky. I really want to take it with me to fight, but I am afraid I won't be able to carry it."
Xie Yu said with a smile: "This is for guarding the stockade. Put these on the gate and wall of the stockade. Then we can hit others, but others can't hit us! As for fighting on the battlefield..."
"Just put the wheels on it."
Xie Yu was talking about the cart-type explosion-proof shield from the previous life.
But now that he didn't have enough materials on hand, he could only improvise these simple ones.
Although it is simple, it is completely enough to deal with the current firecrackers.
So within a few days, the walls on both sides of the gate of Baishi Village were already filled with such simple wooden shields.
These wooden shields were fixed in place.
From the outside, it seems that the gate and wall of Baishi Village have been raised a lot. But Xie Yu knew that there were really blind people attacking in large numbers, and those wooden shields were just shooting holes!
As long as there are enough arrows, usually three to five hundred people will not even think about attacking Baishi Village.
But what are you afraid of?
As soon as the shield was arranged, blacksmith Liu Dashan brought bad news to Xie Yu.
The pig iron in the village is almost running out! I’m afraid it’s not enough to make arrowheads!
Xie Yu wanted to buy it if it was not enough.
But then, even worse news came from the city's bosses.
It is said that General Yu from the capital really replied to his son Yu Bai!
Five hundred people from the Shenji Battalion have already set off from Gyeonggi Province to Ta County.
