Chapter 622: The Elder Zhu Openly Apologies (Please vote and subscribe)
That night, Shouya summoned the guards in the delegation and discussed the plan in his small building, including where to rob the car, how to confront the Xin tribe in the end, how to protect the other members of the delegation, and finally formulate several emergency plans according to the situation, whether to surrender and wait for the leader's rescue, or to kill the leader of the Xin tribe and run away.
A group of people discussed in the bamboo building until dark, and then returned to their respective residences to recuperate.
The next day, in Qingquan Valley where the leader of the Xin tribe lived, the sky was just getting light, and the people living here got up early, picked up various farm tools and prepared to go to the fields to plant crops. It was the time of spring plowing, so no one would be lazy at this time.
Several elders of the Xin tribe were no exception. They were all patriarchs of their respective families. At this time, they had to urge their families to plant crops well, manage many affairs of the tribe, and get some benefits for their families. They were so busy that they didn't touch the ground.
Early in the morning, the two elders Mi and Dou, who were in charge of corn and soybean planting, and the elder Zhu, who was in charge of construction, all went to the home of the elder Sheng, who was in charge of livestock and vehicles, to ask the old man for a few more carriages.
"Elder Sheng, give me another twenty carriages. I have serious things to do. It's the spring ploughing season now. I use these carriages to transport manure. Can you afford to delay the spring ploughing?" Elder Mi asked Elder Sheng with saliva flying, wanting to give him more vehicles so that he could take them back to his family members.
"Yes, give me twenty too, not one less. We need that many to grow beans. If you dare not give them to me, I will go to the commander-in-chief to sue you." Elder Dou, who was standing by, also shared the same hatred with Elder Mi and blocked Elder Sheng's way and said aggressively.
"You two are talking nonsense. We have already given you enough carts for spring ploughing. You are still trying to trick me. I tell you, there are no carts. Get out of my way. Don't delay me from breeding cattle and horses."
Elder Sheng was harassed by several people and was very impatient. They asked him for carts. The carts had already been allocated to his family. How could he have so many carts for these people? So he cursed and pushed them away.
However, he had just pushed the two people away when another person blocked his way.
"I say, Elder Sheng, we have enough vehicles for the two of them, but I still don't have enough vehicles. The commander-in-chief asked us to build him a big house like the one in the Han tribe. I really need horse-drawn carriages on my construction site to transport soil and stones.
You said you would allocate 200 vehicles to my construction site, but now I only see 70. If you keep dragging it on and delay the construction period, can you afford the consequences?"
Elder Zhu, who is in charge of the construction, said angrily. After he finished speaking, he glared at the two elders Mi and Dou next to him. He couldn't help but complain in his heart. These two old guys who eat other people's food but do nothing about other people's work only know how to get benefits for their own family. The vehicles used for official business have not been distributed enough, but they have started to get benefits for their own family. Such people really should be slaughtered as a sacrifice to the heaven, so that the gods can punish their souls and turn them into animals pulling carts in their next life.
"Hey? Mr. Zhu, what do you mean we have enough cars? Don't talk nonsense. We know you are short of cars, but we are short of cars too. Don't make trouble here. I tell you." Elder Mi, who was standing by, threatened Elder Zhu when he saw him staring at him unkindly.
Elder Sheng, who was surrounded by the three of them, was already in a big mess at this time. He was almost annoyed by them, so he hurriedly shouted at them.
"You three get out of the way. Do you still want the car?" The three of them looked at him immediately.
"Why, you old thing are willing to give it? Didn't you say you didn't have it just now? What did I say? You must have taken it to your own home." Elder Dou also began to ridicule him. Elder
Sheng's beard was shaking with anger. He said angrily, "Don't talk nonsense to me. If you continue to frame me, I won't even give you a wheel." After saying that, he saw that Elder Dou wanted to talk back, so he shouted again.
"Shut up, tell me the truth. I only have 30 cars here. I can give them to you, but it's up to you how to divide them."
Hearing that Elder Sheng was willing to compromise, Mi Dou and the others stopped arguing with him, and they looked at Elder Zhu together, "Xiao Zhu, it's okay for the three of us to have 10 cars each, right? This number is easy to calculate."
"Easy to calculate, you two have enough cars for a long time. Don't think I don't know that you are actually asking for cars for your family.
Don't say that I don't give you two face. I want 20 of the 30 cars, and you two can share the remaining 10. If you don't agree, I will report this to the commander-in-chief and let him judge." Elder Zhu looked at the two with contempt and threatened without flinching.
"You, you, you" Elder Mi was so angry that he didn't know what to say. "
What do you mean by you? Just say whether it's okay or not. If not, we'll go to the commander-in-chief to judge." Elder Zhu still showed no weakness.
The two elders Mi and Dou immediately became timid. They wanted the car for their own use, and Elder Zhu wanted the car for the commander-in-chief to build a house. If the matter was reported to the commander-in-chief, there was no need to ask what would happen. They would definitely be in trouble.
"Okay, today we'll give you a break. We'll give you this face today. Old man Sheng, where's the car? Take us to get it?" Seeing that things had turned out like this, Elder Dou also began to back off.
"Humph, who are you? If you want a car, follow me."
Elder Sheng snorted, and then reluctantly took them to the animal pen and parking lot under his jurisdiction.
However, when the few people just turned into the parking lot in the backyard, they were stopped again by a yellow-orange bronze scepter, and the person holding the scepter was the Han envoy Shouya.
Several people were startled by the sudden appearance of Shouya, and then when they looked past Shouya to the parking lot, they saw dozens of Han tribe envoys dismantling carriages. Several of the thirty carriages parked here had been destroyed by them. Some people were moving a lot of corn stalks from the shed where feed was piled, and piled them on the scattered carriage parts, pretending to start a fire. The four people were stunned.
"Han, Han envoys, what are you doing? Why are you destroying our carriages? Oh, let them stop, this carriage cannot be burned!!!"
The leading elder was shocked and shouted when he saw this.
Shouya heard him say this, and immediately laughed coldly. Not only did he not ask the envoys to stop, but he also ridiculed them.
"Your carriage? Have you paid? What about the cattle and horses you promised to pay? Half a year has passed. Since you are still unwilling to pay for the goods, how can you say that this carriage is yours? So the carriage here naturally belongs to our Han tribe.
Since it is our Han tribe's carriage, I, as an envoy visiting the Xin tribe, can naturally dispose of it. I smashed my own carriage and burned my own carriage. What does it have to do with you?"
Several people were choked and speechless. After all, it was indeed their Xin tribe that violated the agreement. However, as elders of the Xin tribe, they certainly could not watch these hard-earned vehicles being destroyed, so they listened to Elder Zhu.
"Hey, Han envoy, since you want to ask for payment, why not just talk to our commander-in-chief? Why do you have to do this? These are all good cars. It would be a great pity to destroy them. These cars are not easy to make. Let them stop."
"Haha, what's the pity? We have plenty of better cars in our Han tribe. It doesn't matter if we smash a few.
It's been more than half a year since our Han envoys went to the Xin tribe. Not only did we not receive the treatment of friends, but the Xin tribe also went back on its word and refused to pay for the goods. This really chilled our Han tribe.
Elders, we feel cold in our hearts. Your tribe is so stingy. I don't want to bother you for such a small matter. I have to smash a few cars to warm myself and comfort the cold hearts of our Han tribe. Why
are you still standing there? Burn them for me and let everyone else roast them. "Beast Fang said as he revealed a look of extreme disappointment, staring at the elders in front of him with a look of contempt, and his eyes full of anger seemed to say to them, "You forced me to do this."
When the envoys behind heard this, they hurriedly put the flames under the carriages. The carriages, which had been brushed with tung oil countless times when they left the factory, caught fire as soon as they saw the fire. In addition, there were flammable corn stalks to help burn them. More than a dozen smashed carriages caught fire in a flash, and the raging fire soared more than two feet high, and soon engulfed these well-made two-wheeled carriages.
"No, you can't burn it, Han envoy, how can you do this, we didn't say we wouldn't pay for the goods, how can you just burn our carriages, stop it quickly." When
Elder Mi saw these hard-earned carriages buried in the sea of fire in an instant, he couldn't help but want to rush over, but just after running two steps, he was pushed back by the blazing flames, which made his heart feel like a knife cutting, these were all good carriages.
When Shouya heard that this guy was still stubborn, he immediately called out to the delegation, "Smash the remaining dozen and add some firewood to the fire."
"No, stop it."
The four elders shouted in unison, and then rushed over to stop the delegation, but they were stopped by several people around Shouya. They watched the delegation chopping the wheels with axes.
The essence of the car is the wheel. Such a durable and exquisite wheel, the Xin tribe has not been able to manufacture it so far. They have gone through a lot of hardships and paid a lot of price to get these carriages.
But now they can only watch the delegation smash all the wheels one by one with an axe. They know that their tribe is absolutely unable to repair such broken wheels. So when they saw the remaining dozen cars destroyed in front of them, the old guys suddenly seemed to have lost their strength, sat on the ground in despair, and then watched the delegation throw the broken frames and wheels into the fire.
Several elders went from hope to despair, from despair to distortion, and finally from distortion to ferocity. Suddenly, one of them, Elder Mi, jumped up like crazy. He rushed in front of Shouya, grabbed Shouya's collar with both hands and cursed loudly.
"Why did you do this? Don't you just want cattle and horses? I just said we would give them to you, but you actually smashed and burned our cars. Why? Tell me why, huh?
I'm going to tell the commander-in-chief to expel your Han tribe's envoys from Zhudao. What a shitty Han envoy, you just wait, you just wait."
Shouya kicked him to the ground without any hesitation. Not only did he not panic, but he continued to threaten.
"Haha, waiting? Waiting for what? And you want to expel our delegation? I think you should be the ones waiting.
To tell you the truth, your Xin tribe is not trustworthy in transactions anyway. Those carriages have been used for such a long time and the payment has not been paid yet. In this case, there is no need for our Han tribe to continue cooperating with you.
Don't bother the elders to chase them away. I have sent half of the delegation to retrieve those vehicles, but it is unlikely to bring them all back. Burning them is also a bit troublesome, but it is very easy to destroy all the wheels. Just one axe is enough.
Your farmlands, your construction sites, your mines, your salt fields, these places will soon send news. I assure you that in less than three days, the Xin tribe will no longer have a vehicle available.
By then, there is no need for the elders to chase us away. Our Han tribe will withdraw from Zhudao."
Elder Mi, who was lying on the ground, holding his chest and groaning, became angry and anxious when he heard what Shouya said. He suddenly spit out a mouthful of blood, rolled his eyes and fainted.
The other three elders calmed down their ferocious faces immediately. Elder Zhu looked at Shouya seriously and asked in the manner of the Han tribe.
"Do you really mean what the Han envoy said just now?"
Shouya also looked solemn, and bowed in the direction of the Han tribe from a distance, and then said.
"There is a country in the north, its name is Han. The people of Han are trustworthy and strict with themselves, unlike some small countries in the corners who are fickle, treacherous and go back on their words. God hates such people."
Elder Zhu bowed again and said, "Han envoy, please calm down. This is indeed the fault of my Xin tribe, but it has nothing to do with me. I have long advised them to settle the payment for the goods to the Han tribe as soon as possible, but they didn't listen. Alas,
please be kind and stop destroying the cars. Don't act on impulse. I will go to the commander-in-chief and persuade him to settle the payment for your tribe in full."
After Elder Zhu finished speaking, he looked at Elder Dou and Elder Sheng helplessly, then turned and left angrily. He walked to Elder Mi, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead, and kicked him hatefully, making Elder Mi spit out blood on the spot and almost died.
Shouya was also somewhat surprised by the development of this matter. He did not expect that there were actually people among the elders of the Xin tribe who were on the side of the Han tribe.
In fact, what he did not know was that among the ten elders of the Xin tribe, there were indeed people who were on the side of the Han tribe, including Elder Shang Niuwei, who was brave in pioneering, good at learning, and humbly seeking advice; the other was Elder Zhu, who had just taken the initiative to apologize to Shouya.
Elder Zhu was in charge of the construction of the Xin tribe, and had a deep study of various buildings. He had already had a spiritual pursuit comparable to that of a scholar. However, the things that had been introduced by the Han tribe many times in recent years made Elder Zhu obsessed with the culture of the Han tribe.
The characters of the Han tribe, the calligraphy and paintings on ceramics, the printed books, and even the models of microscopic cities, all of which made Elder Zhu obsessed, especially the architectural models of the Han tribe. From these exquisite and magnificent buildings, he felt the profoundness of Han culture.
Therefore, in the elders of the Xin tribe, Elder Zhu became a very rare pro-Han faction, and was very keen to learn everything about the Han tribe. He even fully supported the idea of the Han tribe staying in the Xin tribe. As for providing a piece of land for the delegation, he was the first to agree. In Elder Zhu's opinion, it would be no problem for the Han tribe to live with the Xin tribe forever. If possible, he would actually prefer to live in the Han tribe.
Therefore, he was very reluctant to see the relationship between the two sides develop into this state, which is why the scene just now happened.
(End of this chapter)
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