Chapter 080: Seeing the Essence

Huoyan tribe is about 400 hundred kilometers away from the Tauren tribe in a straight line. Note that it is a straight line distance. You can't avoid it when you walk. Although the general terrain on the grassland is plain, there are a lot of Chuanxijianquan and Jingmang swamps. No matter how hard it is, there is no way to go all the way.

In winter, when the snow is heavy and frozen, the journey is much smoother, because the two meters deep snow layer is covered...especially in the deep winter, the snow on the upper surface of the stratum is still soft, and it is as hard as rammed soil. , Rivers and swamps can go directly over...　　

Uh, of course, you still have to go around the woods, especially not close to the big tree, otherwise even if you are two meters high, you have to weld the snow pit around the big tree, no people can move out by themselves at all.

The Russian dog sled can reach a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. If the snow werewolf pulls a sled, the average speed is 70 kilometers per hour. It saves more effort than usual. If you set off before dawn, Mu Mu pulls in the morning and Xiao Yun pulls in the afternoon. When it got dark, the group saw the tribe where the tauren lived.

The enthusiastic tauren immediately brought the frozen crowd into the mud-brick house with a hot kang. Qin who had a good relationship with Xiao Yun brought hot water and food to everyone, especially the food, and they also knew the snow werewolves would hungry for keeping wolf form a long time. The smoked jerky and boiled in two large pots. It had been added bean sprouts and small greens, leeks, and pickled radish slices grown in a room with floor heating, making their eyes green, Xiao Yun and Mu Mu eating their stomachs rounded.　　

Xiao Yun took his breath away, and took out a large jar of maltose and a small glass bottle of honey that were on the sled...It wasn't him who was stingy. Bees rely on honey to eat through the winter, and they don't have much food at home.

The focus is on maltose. Tauren grows a lot of rice and teaches them that they can produce malt in the winter after building a house. The so-called teaching people how to fish is worse than teaching people how to fish. Xiao Yun is here to teach them how to make sugar... I'm not embarrassed to take advantage of the tauren, so he was dislike the tauren using good wool to exchange cheap sugar from the human caravan.

"That's it, you can actually make sugar from rice and malt!" Qin happily held her heart in both hands, and immediately went to summon all the tauren women in the tribe, and let Xiao Yun teach sugar making-Xiao Yun said that there is still something to do. he could not stay here for long time, of course, is the best way for more people to learn together. There will always be someone who can learn and successfully make sugar out.

Sugar is a hard currency. The homemade maltose is sweet but not greasy, and does not contain many impurities like the sugar sold by caravans. After trying the maltose in the jar, Xiao Yun once again fell into the ocean of tauren women...

After these women happily went back to each house to malt, Xiao Yun could break free and lie down to sleep...Thanks to his witty teaching the Tauren to build a house on a fire bed, if this weather still made him sleep on a cold floor, then It's about to die. The next day, Xiao Yun, who specially came to teach sugar making skills in the winter, was personally received by Patriarch Hall. A fire was set up in Patriarch Hall's house and a fireplace was set up, sitting around the fireplace burning cow dung. Drinking warm goat's milk is also a kind of comfort.　　

Then Xiao Yun stared at the burning cow dung in the fireplace for more than half a minute...It's not that cow dung has never been burned in his own tribe. It feels weird to burn it here! Patriarch Hall smiled fiercely and cordially, and Qin, who was sitting beside him, translated with a smile: "Patriarch Hall said, I am very grateful to the Snow Werewolf for not forgetting to care about us in the cold winter, but it is indeed dangerous to go out in this kind of weather." 　　

Xiao Yun...

To be honest, he still can't accept the tauren's style of communication. I put out my professionalism and smiled: "Actually, I mainly wanted to see how other snow wolf tribes are overwintering. Our tribe has just moved here. Within two years, the understanding of the surroundings was limited to the grassroots tribes not far from our tribe, so I wanted to ask Patriarch Hall to understand the surrounding situation."　

This is the right thing to find the tauren... The Hall tribe is a tauren tribe. The one that is closest to the southwest corner of the grassland, no one knows more about how many races and tribes of each race exist in this area—because these tribes come to them every year or every other year to catch the autumn breeze.

Like this time, Saladin did not stay in the tribe, just took people out to deliver food to a small tribe of cat tribe... Not more than a hundred kilometers away from the tauren tribe is this kind of benefit. , Come to personally report the tauren is also willing to send it.

Patriarch Hall understood Xiao Yun's meaning and stared at him suspiciously, Qin's expression was also a bit strange.

Xiao Yun and the two of them stared with big eyes and small eyes for a while, only to realize that the Tauren was not a mindless Madonna. People would also be defensive to the behavior of the tiger clan, and slap the thigh: "Hey, it's not like you thought I as, our snow werewolf tribe is not like a Tiger tribe, so we won't attack others!" 　　

Anyway, the Huoyan Tribe knew that the Hall Tribe started farming, and Xiao Yun didn't hide it from them and took the Huoyan Tribe. The development policy was reported briefly: Simply put, the Snow Wolf clan also imagined that they would develop like the Tauren, and gather more clan people to farm together.

If the snow werewolf tribe adopts the nomadic method, a tribe cannot feed many mouths. If it is replaced by farming, it will not only have sufficient food, but also more than enough. For example, the harvest this year is 700,000 catties of wheat, 500,000 catties of soybeans, and 50,000 catties of rice. People can also afford it, so the Huoyan Tribe hopes to connect with those tribes who don't have a good life...　　

Of course, it's unreliable to ask others to merge with themselves when they come up. This is the same as the white skin on the earth holding guns. There is no difference between robbers rushing to the mainland and shouting "open the door, free trade", so Xiao Yun also proposed the method of not engaging in integration before the trust between the two parties reaches a certain level, but they can help each other in other ways. For example, the Huoyan tribe used its location closer to the sea to make a deal with a new human caravan, and used food to hire manpower to solve the food shortage problem of some Snow Wolf tribes.

As for raking the grass and playing rabbits to see if we can get some gray dwarfs...Xiao Yun wisely did not mention that he was so vigilant to contact the tauren of other snow wolf tribes, he had better die less-back then. They were able to take Baru away smoothly because Hongye and Ashan rescued the Shire, otherwise the tauren would not always pretend to be transparent.

Xiao Yun has never despised this group of cow skulls. He first stated his ultimate goal, and then explained the relatively mild and non-conflicting compromise communication methods adopted to achieve this goal. Hall The patriarch's expression quickly eased.

"Patriarch Hall said that we can help you contact the snow werewolf tribes in the western region." Qin stared at Hall for a while, translating with due diligence, "We hope that the tribes on the west side of the grassland can be peaceful forever. There are conflicts on the scale of tribes." 　　

This is still relatively gentle, but after listening to Qin's translation, Xiao Yun unconsciously appeared in his mind a cow-head monk wearing a robe, holding a buddist cane in his left hand and a buddist knife in his right hand, he with a majestic-looking and appear to be very firece: Amitabha, if there is no peace, you go to hell!

... With the stubbornness of this group of bulls who dared to challenge the tigers head-on, and stunned the tigers to take a step back, Xiao Yun had no doubt that these guys could do it...　　

Peaceful development is what Xiao Yun needs most at the moment, and the tauren is so clear His attitude clearly expressed his hope for peace. How could Xiao Yun not rush to catch up with Patriarch Hall? He immediately hit it off with Patriarch Hall. He didn't care about Patriarch Hall's purpose. Anyway, he set the tauren's peace banner!　　

In case of conflict with someone, Xiao Yun specified that the tauren should be dragged out first... ahem, he specified that his position should be tied to the tauren's peaceful position.

So patriarch Hall sent two tauren warriors to lead the way and took them to visit the surrounding snow werewolf tribes—to lead the way and to watch. Patriarch Hall didn't fully believe that their gang came into contact with other snow werewolf tribes. Purpose, the two brothers sent here are stronger than the other.

Moreover, the snow werewolf pulls the sledge, and the tauren can also pull the sledge. There are also some grains and hard-frozen Chinese cabbage on the sledge. This is to send warmth by the way...They are really kind...　　

Sitting honestly wrapped in animal skins with Mu Mu and Qiu, Xiao Yun pulled the sled and ran with the tauren warrior's sled in front of him in the snow. With this, even if he was not a warrior, Xiao Yun could see that the tauren was indeed powerful, the tauren who will not transform but still shook their sturdy thighs and ran faster than Xiao Yun's wolf form. It's unbelievable and shocked Xiao Yun...

The speed disadvantage of the emotional snow werewolf is really not just for fun!

Ten days later, Xiao Yun and the others, whose face skin was thickened by the wind, returned to the tribe, and took a rest for two days before relieving their energy. In that ten days, they lost so much weight which had been raised in the last 2 years!

Of course, this suffer was not in vain. The topography of the southwest corner of the grassland Xiao Yun has roughly understood, and the iconic landmarks that can not be covered by heavy snow are also painted on the cloth rolls. The most important thing is for the southwestern side of the grassland is no longer a black eye: 　　

In the southwestern corner of the grassland, which is also relatively barren. In addition to its own tribe, there are six snow wolf tribes. The nearest tribe is actually in the grassroots tribe. It's 40 kilometers to the northeast, but because that place is usually covered with vast waters and forests, it is not accessible in spring, summer and autumn, so the two sides have lived together for so many years without knowing that they have a neighbor...　　

At least half of them In the southwest corner of the province's large grassland, the snow werewolf tribes scattered in it are as inconspicuous as the few sesame seeds that unscrupulous merchants threw on the pie to make up the count. The largest tribe has a hundred people, the smallest. There are six or seventy tribes. Because of the long-term business relationship here, they are not as embarrassed as the Huoyan tribe two years ago.

At least they have the size of the original grassroots tribe. A newborn is born. One of the tribes also took in more than a dozen goblins. Relying on the ability of these goblins to find stalk food and relying on the large areas of mountain forests around the tribe, they lived well. When Xiao Yun and the others came under the guidance of the tauren, this tribe also took out the sweet potato chunks they "stocked" around the forest to entertain them... Xiao Yun speculated that it was the potato chunks brought from the bird droppings of large birds that sprouted, and the naturally growing sweet potato vine was discovered by the goblin and was blessed by the snow werewolves.

The goblin deliberately cultivated these more seriously degraded sweet potatoes, relying on the humus layer provided by the forest to cultivate this crop... but there is no consciousness of draining water and fertilizing, some places are rotten, and the starch content is quite enough.

Regardless of how these tribes live, the salt on Xiao Yun's sleigh and a can of maltose are the most popular gifts. If you smashed out a gift, and then proposed to hire some warriors with food next year, these tribes agreed very readily. The tauren would also worry that they would be deceived, and the generally stupid snow wolf man was simply unconscious... made Xiao Yun's heart very complicated.

If the tribe that lives in the south closest to the sea is not their tribe, and if Carlisle and the others meet other snow werewolf tribes first after they come ashore, Xiao Yun is really worried that there will be snow werewolf men foolishly deceived by that funny knight Dan Crowdy. Followed them to a foreign country to be a mount for human... It's so angry when he think of it! !

After the matter was settled, the tribe returned to the state of progress in literacy learning. Those who needed extra time to make up classes were not only for Balk, who was locked up by the chemical experiment, but also Hongye and Yu-the hired warriors and the tribe. The warriors who walked backwards had to rely on them to take them, don't teach you how to do it shrewdly!

So after Hongye and Yu read through the stories written by Xiao Yun on the bark paper with others, they will be picked up by Xiao Yun to educate the "stories" behind the stories-blue fruit, Cagen, Qingyan, Dashui, Qingcao, a few were to accompany as observers in the class.　　

"Uh... Snow White wants to run away because if she doesn't run away, she will be bullied afterwards?" Yu squatted.　　

"No, this is just a meaning of story on the surface. We can't just look at the surface, but see the essence through the phenomenon. You must think about it carefully." Xiao Yun shook his head.　　

The sweat beads on Yu's forehead ran down the temples, and he held back for a long time before saying: "That's...Snow White doesn't want to be used later?"

"Uh... the nobles in the kingdom support Snow White. If you succeed in usurping the throne, you can't deprive Snow White of her inheritance... so... so..." 　　

"So if Snow White is under the control of the successor, then support her nobles. It is very possible that before she succeeded to the throne, she was fought for the past by the successor who possessed the righteous name. She could not compromise and could only fight hard." Hong Ye reminded.　　

Xiao Yun looked over with piercing eyes: "Hongye, you can't influence him, let him think for himself, it is his own thing that he thinks up." 　　

Hongye closed her mouth.

Yu has a sad face, his eyes are blank, and the whole person is empty... The few who were in the class were also frowning. Although Ayun would not ask them questions, they would inevitably think about how they should answer if they were asked.

Xiao Yun had to remind him one more sentence: "Hongye's answer has her reason. Although you can't copy her answer, you can refer to her thinking. There are always multiple solutions to one thing. Before we actually try it, we It cannot be said that there is a standard answer to solve the problem—"　　

"Hmm..." Yu swallowed hard. As a warrior who can live a lifetime as long as he patrols and hunts conscientiously, he is forced to learn the depth and intensity of it is incredible." "Understanding" simply killed his life. "In that case... uh, is it because the supporters of the nobles of the kingdom supported the old king and Snow White, and afterwards murdered the old king, we must get as much support as possible , You must have Snow White to support her... If Snow White compromises, it is tantamount to acquiescing to her successor's dominance?" 　　

"That's right—" Xiao Yun clapped his hands, "The key to the ruling power of the royal family lies in the royal family, and the queen is not natural. With legal rule, the queen can only sit on the throne if the queen is supported by the royal family. This is not a family dispute between the stepdaughter and the successor, but a life-and-death contest for the right to rule, so as a child to receive the royal elite education as far as Snow White is concerned, she cannot compromise on this position..."

In the story of "Snow White" modified by Xiao Yun, the escaped Snow White did not run into the forest to be taken care of by the seven dwarfs, but to celebrate her birthday. The opportunity of the banquet invites seven nobles, and uses the power of the seven nobles to move away from the castle that will cover the sky...　　

Next, I want to use the seven nobles to fight for power with the princesses who will succeed in power, and want to please the next ruler to gain power. The struggle between the nobles and the successors who want to kill the princess...　　

Xiao Yun, who forcibly instilled the evil worldview of human nature with the demonic and dark fairy tales, is not shy about the essence of the struggle for power, and he wants to use power. Everyone broke apart how sharp the double-sided blade was.

"Let's make an analogy. If the patriarch Huoyan died suddenly, and the position of the patriarch, Huoyan, was appointed to be succeeded by Hongye before his death. But Mao Mao, you are supported by Caogen patriarch and are eligible to compete for the next patriarch. At this time, Hongye must and Maomao, you are facing...Then, at this time, which of you two can be in the position, the support of the clansman is especially important, how do you get the support of the clansmen?" 　　

"Pat" Caogen patriarch who was listening directly sprayed.

"Hongye said that I will adhere to the policy of the Huoyan patriarch, and will listen to Ayun, which is my suggestion, to let the tribe continue to prosper and grow stronger. And Maomao will say, I am ten years older than you, and I know Ayun, too. This is the importance of my advice. After I die, I will transfer the position of the patriarch to Ayun."　　

"At this time, in my view, and for Ayun, the positions of Mao Mao and Hongye taking over the Huoyan tribe are actually different. Not that big, it was Mao Mao who proposed that he might die ten years earlier than Hongye..." 　　

Hongye and Yu listened directly to the bewildered... 　　

Xiao Yun analyzed, and the conversation turned: "... However, there is still a problem here. Open, both of you can speak very well when fighting for support, but you two succeeded as the patriarch and died after the old grassroots patriarch who had the same right to speak like you? If you are greedy Power, after the death of the grassroots patriarch, choose your own person to take over, or simply become the only patriarch. At this time, no one can restrict your power, and you can completely affect the person who affects your authority, that is, me, one Kick away..." 　　

The red leaves and feathers were sweating like rain, and the horrified eyes of the observers couldn't help turning to them. "And when I am just an adult, how can I compete with one of you who have mastered the tribe for many years? At this time, I have two choices. One is to find a way to kill you, and the other is to take away some of the people who trust me and start a new stove. , Anyway, I'm still young, and it takes ten years to create a brand new, prosperous tribe..." 　　

Hongye and Yu's face was white, and the few horrified eyes of the observers fell on Xiao Yun.

"At this time, a new problem has arisen." Xiao Yun's expression remained unchanged, and he continued to evolve the situation as he assumed. "If I murder you as I succeeded, obviously, this kind of life-and-death issue will cause the tribe. No matter how well I've done the job of covering up, there will still be some people who don't trust me, are alienated from me, or even fear me, fear me, and people's hearts are lost. Even if everyone is still willing to listen to me and execute the efficiency will also be reduced, and even the things I arranged are difficult to implement, because you can't unreservedly believe that I did not hesitate to kill you in order to fight for power, and everyone will worry that when I look at someone, I will be unpleasant and hurt someone."

"..." Patriarch Caogen was stunned!

"And if I take away a group of people and set up a stove, of course it is the best choice for me. However, our tribe will also be divided as a result, and the strength will be divided between us, regardless of whether it is the remaining people. Those who are still walking will be weaker than ever, and their anti-risk and anti-strike ability will be reduced by more than half. If external forces intervene at this time, then both of us will be slaughtered because of the reduced strength." 　　

"The conclusion is that when we are these who have the opportunity to fight for and chase power have developed selfishness, so no matter how we choose carefully, as long as we consider the problem only for ourselves and only for our own interests, then our The behavior will definitely cause harm to everyone in the tribe."　　

All the audience shivered...　　

"Going back to the story itself, afterwards, I want to seek the dominance of the old king and murder the old king, which caused national shock and some aristocratic discord. ; Snow White is unwilling to give up power, and brazenly fights with the following, causing the nobles in the kingdom to split again... At the end of the story, the forces of other countries step in and support Snow White and kill the evil queen. Look It seems to be a perfect ending, but... Is Snow White's reign at this time pure? Her country is intervened by other countries, and her prestige does not even come from the support of the people, but the support of other countries. Is it a good thing for the people?" 　　

"No." Hongye and Yu said in unison, raising their hands to wipe sweat.

Xiao Yun smiled slightly: "So, a collective, a whole, whether it is our tribe or the kingdom in the story, also needs it. If you want to become bigger and stronger, you must work together and put the collective interests first. One benefit, the other must be concession, this must be our common will. These words are not only to us as managers to the people we lead, but to ourselves, we must shout again and again, because we people, these people, who are relatively more capable and have greater destructive power on the collective, once selfishness is greater than public mind, then no matter how beautiful our words are and how much we have contributed, we will all become the most harmful pests to the tribe as a whole. "

"So we have to understand how fearful and ruined outside power struggles are, and learn to understand and eat thoroughly. This is not only to let our tribe not suffer losses when dealing with foreign forces, but to see through the essence of those superficial phenomena, at the same time It is also to alert ourselves not to do such stupid things. "　　

These words made everyone who was frightened into a cold sweat nodded together... Although what Ayun said is too much, too deep and too complicated, they still need to spend some time to fully understand, but Ayun's intentions can be felt by everyone.

Seeing the people working hard to absorb new knowledge, Xiao Yun was relieved in his heart, not afraid to talk about power and human nature is the truly sincere mode of getting along. Avoiding taboos and taboos can make people not talk about them, but they can't let people secretly talk about them. Don't do it; people will have selfishness. Not admitting that selfishness exists is self-deception. It is the correct way to limit selfishness to a range with less influence and destructive power.

Wrong example, Xiao Yun had seen too much on the earth... There are few parents who want their children to be innocent and pure, and they want their children to bring their own plug-ins to avoid bad people and not be harmed. They want their children to listen to their parents and are not happy that their children are outside. Casually deceived by outsiders, the result is to toss the child crazy; the reality is too realistic, prostitution derailed with all kinds of poisonous men, hope that women are pure and silly love brains, and find that women are not so easy to be fooled, so they still have to be realistic , These men pretended to be hurt and said, "The stupidest thing about me is to believe that there is love in the world." Xiao Yun doesn't even want to vomit for these troublesome things, and he loses IQ if he pays more attention to it.

One hundred days have passed in winter, and there will be another 30 or forty days. The heavy snow should stop. Before the snow stops, Xiao Yun has to hurry up and train all the stupid tribesmen out... just be coaxed away. There must not be anything! The people outside are big liars!　　

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Xiao Yun: The outside world is terrible, and everyone must be fully ideologically armed!