Chapter 336: Strongmen and the Industrial Revolution
From the ruins, Mr. Bai crawled out in a miserable state. He hung one arm and looked at Jack with inquiring eyes. Jack shook his head at him. It was useless to fight him anymore. Jack neither pestered nor ran away. Instead, he watched Li Changgui and others clean up the scene quietly. It was unknown what he was waiting for.
After a while, the other soldiers also arrived outside the barn. It was already dawn. Some of them took taxis, and some knew how to repair cars. Three of the six soldiers who were knocked unconscious by the electric pea had regained consciousness. They were all shocked by the scene in the barn.
Assassin got out of a car, and Jack smiled at her and said, "You're here?"
Asassin also smiled and said, "Here I come."
Jack was stunned for a moment. He had already prepared several plans in his mind: what if Assassin cried when she saw him, what if she hit him, what if she ignored him, but he never expected that she could be so calm and composed.
Jack probed: "Follow Zhang Nianzu...is he good to you?"
Asassin shrugged and said, "They don't want me."
Jack looked at Asassin and said with infinite emotion: "How could this happen between you and me?"
Asassin said: "Yes, how could this happen?"
Jack said, "Are you not angry with me?"
Asasin waved his hand hastily and said, "Don't be so sweet. The relationship between you and me has always been that of master and servant. I used to be fascinated by your decisiveness, but later I found myself becoming a part of your decisiveness. You never said that you took me as your woman. A chess piece should have the consciousness of a chess piece, so you are not wrong."
Jack asked, "What's so good about Zhang Nianzu?"
Asassin seemed unwilling to talk to the insensitive person any more. He just showed Jack his back and waved his hand, saying, "Go ask Li Erhu."
Jack asked blankly, "Who is Li Erhu?"
Li Erhu straightened his back and said loudly, "I am Li Erhu - Brother Nianzu is brave and righteous. He never gives up in the face of difficulties and is willing to take responsibility when encountering setbacks. Even though he is the ancestor of the Qiangren tribe, he will never do anything illegal. These are the advantages you should learn from him."
Asasin held back his laughter and walked to Zhang Nianzu , and said to Jack behind him with a pout, "The results are out, why is he still here?"
Zhang Nianzu shook his head.
Li Changgui counted the number of soldiers present and said to Zhang Nianzu, "Our people are all here."
Jack suddenly jumped onto the ruins, waved his hand and said, "My clansmen, my name is Jack. Calculated from Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, I am the 87th ancestor."
Everyone was stunned .
Jack smiled and said, "To put it more clearly, I am the descendant of the grandfather who took 17 households to Europe."
Everyone then realized that those who were able to rush to help quickly after receiving Zhang Nianzu's call for help were all tribesmen who identified with the Qiangren tribe and were familiar with this famous historical event. However, there were still some people who found it baffling. The ancestor who called them was obviously Zhang Nianzu, so how could another ancestor appear now?
Li Changgui raised his voice and said, "You have given yourself the title of Grandfather even though no one has acknowledged you. Aren't you a little shameless?"
Jack responded sharply, "I didn't confer this title on myself. My ancestor Wang Letian was chosen as the 67th generation ancestor of the Strongman Clan. My branch is the orthodox one."
Li Changgui said, "There are more than a thousand Qiangren warriors, plus several thousand family members. Only 17 people followed your ancestors to Europe. According to what you said, these several thousand people betrayed 18 people?"
Jack said proudly: "Yes, orthodoxy is orthodoxy, and it has nothing to do with the number of people."
Zhao Qing said, "This is the first time in my life that I know I am the descendant of a traitor. The descendants of the monarchs of the Xia, Shang, Zhou, and Qin dynasties suddenly jumped out during the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties and said that they were the legitimate heirs. Did the emperor at that time have to voluntarily give up his throne to them?"
Jack said, "You are just making a sophistry. Xia, Shang, Zhou and Qin were normal dynasties. They lost the world because they lost their way. Did my ancestors do anything wrong?"
Zhang Nianzu said to Li Changgui and Lei Tingting, "So he didn't run away just to argue with me about this matter in public."
Yang Jie asked: "Since you did nothing wrong, why are there only 17 people willing to follow you?"
Jack said: "Sometimes the truth is only in the hands of a few people."
Lao Guo said, "What truth? Tell me what it is."
Jack said, "Many European countries now have kings and royal families. Take the UK for example. The Queen seems to have no real power, but she still controls huge political and financial power behind the scenes. This is the height we can expect to achieve."
Liu Bei poked Liu Erbei beside him and said, "Did you understand what he said?"
Liu Erbei shook his head and said, "I don't understand what this has to do with us."
Jack changed his tone and said, "If your ancestors had been willing to go to Europe, everyone present here might have been a prince or noble, living in a big villa, drinking French red wine, and having special medical officers and handmade craftsmen to serve you."
Old Guo gathered his sparse hair and said, "The royal families in civilized societies have survived countless internal and external struggles, and countless accidental and inevitable selections. Let me ask you, how do you plan to keep your people from the tide of the industrial revolution?"
Liu Erbei said with a bitter face: "I don't understand it anymore——"
Yang Jie looked at Lao Guo in surprise and whispered, "How can you say such words? Are you sick or not?"
Lao Guo said: "Who am I looking down on? Of course I am sick!"
Jack said, "What he meant was that the emerging bourgeoisie seized the dividends of the industrial revolution and overthrew the feudal monarchy. This is a simple matter. As long as our people are together, no one can use violence to deal with us. The failure of the ant tribe today is a good proof of this."
Wei Biao tried hard to calm down his frightened mood, then walked to the middle of the venue and said, "Let me say a few words."
Liu Xinliang said speechlessly: "Now that the old man is back, you are the one who has the least right to speak here."
Jack said, "Please speak."
Wei Biao said, "I don't understand anything about the revolution and history you're talking about. I only understand the villa and the red wine. I just want to ask, is there any good thing like this now?"
Liu Xinliang said: "What he meant was that if our ancestors followed his ancestors to conquer Europe, maybe there would be some, but then we wouldn't have met them."
"Oh, I see." Wei Biao said, "Let's not talk about hypothetical things. I just have one last question - the Qiangren tribe has a sum of money, which was distributed at a fixed time in the past. Now it's gone. Which of your two ancestors is at fault?"
Jack spread his hands and said, "Of course it's whose fault it is."
Wei Biao asked, "So which one of you should we follow so that we can continue to receive the money?"
The three Liu brothers said, "That's right. Why bother talking about those nonsense? This is what we care about most."
