Volume 7: Doing Business with the World Chapter 220 Common Sense is meant to be shattered
The hereditary system does not only exist in human society, but also exists among dwarves, elves, sea people, orcs, barbarians and other races.
But the hereditary system of long-lived species is completely different from that of short-lived species such as humans. Why? Take the dwarves and sea people, whose lifespan is 400 years, as an example. The heirs of these two races need at least 200 years of learning and training to take over, which is completely different from the 20 to 30 years it takes for the heirs of humans to take over.
Moreover, in the inheritance of power in non-human societies, there is another inheritance mechanism that can complement the hereditary system: the master-apprentice/capable abdication system.
As is well known, the current Elf Queen is hereditary, and the Dark Elf Matriarch, Elf King, and Dwarf King are the result of abdication by the previous incumbent.
The hereditary system and the abdication system complement each other and coexist, and each ethnic group has its own concept of inheritance.
Regardless of race, everyone is very cautious when considering the successor to power...it's just that the starting points are different, and the results will be very different.
Alman was originally one of the heirs of the hereditary human aristocracy, but later he abandoned his origins and entered "J", which was based on the master-disciple system of abdication. However, he himself had never considered the impact of the way of power inheritance on the collective and the group. When he listened to this group of aliens openly turning the topic to the discussion of power transfer and inheritance, he was numb both mentally and physically.
It was because the content of the discussion among this group of aliens shattered his worldview right from the start.
This discussion initiated by Xiaorui is: Why are humans obsessed with the hereditary system and cling to it tightly?
"I think it's because of the human social structure." A snow leopard with light blue pupils spoke eloquently, "Their society is made up of countless families. The royal family is the largest family, the nobles are medium-sized families, and the common people and farmers at the bottom are small families. Their property and power are divided according to the family model. In order to ensure that family property and power are not lost, the heir must naturally be chosen from family members."
Alman stared at the snow leopard, whose face looked like a pretty boy but whose body was quite strong (compared to humans and cats). Really, if he had not experienced the baptism of the sage Ayun and overheard the conversation of this group of people before, but heard these words first, his feelings would definitely be described in four words: astonished.
Xiao Yunke had never mentioned the "family dynasty" theory. This was something they figured out on their own after being led away by Bolton.
"Huh? Why do I seem to have heard someone mention this before?" Xiao Rui asked puzzledly.
"It's me." A leopard raised his hand. "Last time, I said that I think the human nobles treat others as their property, and then Zijing thought of this."
Harris nodded to the snow leopard Bauhinia and said, "I agree with Bauhinia. There are also some elders in our snake tribe who regard the people in the tribe as their personal property. They hope to hold these people tightly in their hands and oppose any changes in the tribe. Right, Elder Greg?"
Great Elder Gregor nodded with a straight face.
Alman: “…”
Wait! So the elder of the snake tribe is here too! Is it okay to say this in front of the elder? !
Another snake warrior spoke up, as if realizing something: "Chengfeng (a Snow Wolf agricultural technician) said that appropriate selfishness can inspire people's enthusiasm and work enthusiasm, which is beneficial to the collective; but inflated selfishness will endanger the interests of the collective, and in the long run it will be harmful to both the collective and the individual."
"A 'family' that is connected by blood can never have too many members. Selecting important heirs from such a small sample is too narrow a choice. In order to ensure that the 'family' retains power, the scope of power transfer is limited to a narrow range, and the road will only become narrower and narrower, and the entire collective and the small family will gradually decline."
Yarman looked at the snake warrior stiffly, and couldn't help but look at the snake elder...
Unfortunately, the position of elder of the Snake Clan is not hereditary, and Elder Gregor’s reaction was not at all what Alman expected.
The snake and cat tribes gave thirty-two likes to the snake warrior's summary, and then brainstormed to discuss the differences between the forest elf heir model that they were more familiar with and the human race, and what advantages and disadvantages it had compared to their own tribe.
To Alman, any part of the discussion these guys had was truly thought-provoking...
"The orcs I've seen are not like this--!!" Alman, who was listening, roared silently in his heart.
Although it was extremely difficult to understand, after hearing it now, Alman had to accept the extremely strange and terrifying idea that came to his mind at the beginning... These orcs were all taught by the Snow Wolf Tribe.
This is a shocking discovery that further shatters Alman's worldview...
Before coming to visit the sage Ayun, Alman took the trouble to inquire about the situation of the grassland tribes. The Fire Tribe is mainly composed of the Snow Wolf Tribe, and the other races are just dependents.
"——They are so straightforward and direct that they teach their dependent races this kind of knowledge... which should only be learned by a very small number of people at the top. What's wrong with the Snow Wolf Clan?!"
Reluctantly accepting the truth, Alman began to doubt his life again...
In Alman's common sense system, the nature and drawbacks of the human ruling model, the unspoken rules of power transfer, and how to use human nature to manage people, these things are all hidden away by the royal family and the nobles, and only the heirs are qualified to access them, and the marginalized children cannot even touch them.
To the outside world, neither the royal family nor the nobles would ever talk about these things, but would instead use the argument of noble bloodline to muddle through.
Anyway, those petty nobles and petty citizens who have no brains bigger than walnuts are not immune to this. When it comes to the "bloodline theory", the petty nobles and petty citizens are particularly loud; if anyone is appreciated by the "noble" noble lords and treated with a few words in a friendly manner, these people will brag about it until they are buried. (In real life, I have never seen a living British person but blindly believe in the elegance and style of British gentlemen. Have you seen it?)
Alman, who thought he looked down on the nobles and was proud of his power over the common people, now felt trembling... In terms of realm, he was just a grandson.
If Xiao Yun knew what Alman was thinking at this moment, he would probably say: too young, too simple.
Saonian, you are still too young.
What you call "dragon-slaying techniques" are openly taught by a group of stubborn old men in front of more than one billion people!
During the internal education, Xiao Yun did not specifically talk about the harmfulness of class rigidity to the collective, because this was quite unfamiliar to the Orcs - the Orcs did not believe in noble blood or bloodline theories, otherwise the Tiger Tribe, which had produced the Beast King, would not have ended up in such a miserable state.
But when it comes to the nature of power, Xiao Yun has always spared no effort to inspire everyone to think about it - not only the management should learn, but ordinary tribesmen should also learn. It is related to the collective interests, and everyone must truly be responsible.
In this regard, Xiao Yun used the human race as a negative example without hesitation... If he hadn't accepted Laura as his disciple, the name of Marcus Philip would definitely appear in the textbooks of the Fire Department.
Well... this is also because the population of the grassland tribes is not large. If it were the human race, it would be a lot of trouble just to popularize basic education, not to mention doing the education work in such detail - not everyone can fight against those stubborn guys who established the new China, at least Xiao Yun himself definitely can't do it.
The benefits of doing so are obvious. The snakes, who have just entered the Fire Tribe system for more than a year, are now like part of the grassland tribe; even if they are just ordinary warriors, they can subconsciously put the collective interests of the entire grassland tribe first when doing things.
Among the elders who once had the final say in the snake tribe, everyone can see clearly who is selfish and who does things without considering the public and only the family... This is a supervisory measure that is a hundred times more effective than that of Chief Ali.
When Xiao Yun came back to have dinner with his follower Isaac and the lost young man Adam, what he saw was Alman, whose soul had been thoroughly cleansed and who was truly low-key and silent.
"Mr. Alman, is your leg feeling better?" Xiao Yun greeted politely and sat down next to Alman.
"Mr. Ayun, I'm much better now." Alman bowed respectfully while sitting down. The arrogance that seemed to be there but not there had been completely gone.
Isaac ran to the kitchen to help get the food, and when he came back, he used his butt to push the young man Adam away with an expressionless face... He didn't want to have another junior brother, and Senior Sister Lola was already enough to grab the teacher's attention.
"What did Qingcao fry today?" Xiao Yun glanced at the golden fried food on the plate and introduced it to Alman enthusiastically, "We in the Snow Wolf tribe are quite confident in cooking one dish. Those of us who are not professional chefs have also studied it privately, and our skills are pretty good. Please enjoy it."
"Thank you, I won't be polite." Alman said hurriedly, picking up the chopsticks skillfully... He has been eating for a long time, and he is very skilled in using this thing.
Xiao Yun asked Isaac to sit on his left and put a piece of fried food into his mouth.
With egg liquid and breadcrumbs, anything can be fried; if there are no breadcrumbs, starch or flour can also be used.
Qingcao is also a believer in the "Everything Can Be Fried" sect. Xiao Yun has eaten her fried noodles (...), vermicelli balls, various meats, fish and even vegetables, and has become quite accustomed to Qingcao's unrestrained frying style.
But after taking this bite, Xiao Yun still vomited.
“Grass! Why did you fry watermelon too ?!”
"What's the matter? It's not that we can't eat it." Qingcao, who was standing at the kitchen door, put her hands on her hips and said righteously.
"..." The person who cooks is the most important person in the world. Xiao Yun endured it and reluctantly swallowed the fried watermelon with a strange taste.
Xiao Yun picked up another piece of fried food and spit out tears again.
"What the hell is this thing that looks like a blood clot?!"
"Berries. I bought them at the market this morning." Qingcao said proudly. "They are a bit sour when eaten raw. They taste much better when fried."
Xiao Yun stared at the grass for a few seconds, then turned around and poured all the fried food on his plate to Isaac.
Master and apprentice Alman and Adam: "..."
Adam silently pushed his plate in the teacher's direction.
Alman rolled his eyes at his disciple and continued eating... Although the contents were strange, the crispy crust was still delicious.
"Teacher, there are grasshoppers." Isaac was not picky. He ate one that was particularly delicious and showed it to Xiao Yun.
"Huh? There are grasshoppers at this time?" Xiao Yun's eyes lit up. He used chopsticks to pick apart the fried food on Isaac's plate, picked up the ones wrapped with grasshoppers, and ignored the ones that were not grasshoppers.
Master and apprentice Alman and Adam: "..."
Is this the style of painting of a true wise man? It’s too “careless”!
As a result, Xiao Yun ate two pieces of fried grasshoppers and shouted at Qingcao, "Why don't you just fry the grasshoppers separately? The taste is not right if you fry them wrapped up. You even put sweet sauce in it. What kind of cult is this?"
"You're annoying!" Qingcao yelled.
Xiao Yun shrank his neck and whispered, "Tsk, you have a bad temper now that you are a mother. You never yelled at anyone before... You must have lost all your patience because of that naughty kid Ruhua."
Master and apprentice Alman and Adam: "..."
I just don’t know whether I should be shocked that the mighty cook is actually a mother, or shocked that the sage Ayun has such a unique style …
The Snow Wolf Tribe attaches great importance to the lunch, and lunch is always very rich. In addition to fried foods, there is also a full portion of braised food, a plate of pan-fried buns that are steamed and then fried in oil, a bowl of ramen with braised soup, and a large plate of stir-fried vegetables.
Alman, Adam and Isaac together only ate as much as Xiao Yun... Although his physique was similar to Isaac, he was a member of the Snow Wolf tribe after all, so he could eat a lot.
After the cats and snakes had their fill, they continued to go shopping. Xiao Yun also had other things to deal with. This time he did not drag Adam away to do hard labor, but left him to accompany his teacher who was recovering from his injuries... Xiao Yun was not a devil after all!
The courtyard of the Knight's Mansion fell silent. Alman asked the disciples where they had been that morning, and then... he was once again shocked and doubted his life: "You mean, Sage Ayun took you to clean the cargo hold of the cargo ship for the whole morning?!"
Adam silently put down his rolled-up sleeves and showed the teacher the dust on his cuffs.
The master and apprentice were used to hard labor, so they didn't feel "humiliated", but Alman still couldn't understand: "Didn't you tell him that you are also a spellcaster?"
Adam's mouth twitched. "I said so, so I spent the whole morning cleaning...using wind magic to remove dust from the places on the cargo ship that couldn't be cleaned."
Alman: “…”
"Mr. Ayun also said that it's convenient for magicians to work." Adam looked confused. He felt that he was hit too hard by the new world and was lost at the crossroads of life. "Mr. Ayun also said that the two green dragons in their tribe are particularly good at making powder and removing moisture from vermicelli and shaping them. Lord Balk can complete the drying work of tens of thousands of kilograms of vermicelli in a day..."
Alman's body trembled.
"And Mr. Sean, um, that's the 'End of Illusion' Sean, who is good at...mechanical maintenance and troubleshooting." Adam looked devastated.
Alman's body shook again.
"The cat tribe's spellcasters are good at electrolyzing disinfectant water." Adam continued to collapse. "20% of the salt water can be used to disinfect pig pens, cattle pens and other poultry and livestock after electrolysis, thereby increasing the survival rate of poultry and livestock. After the cat tribe's spellcasters were loaned to Lord Bolton, the work of electrolyzing disinfectant water fell to the two green dragon heads, so part of the remuneration earned by the cat tribe's spellcasters had to be allocated as substitute wages to the two green dragon lords..."
Alman slowly lowered his head and held his forehead with his hand.
He needs to calm down.
Was it that the Fire Department was using spellcasters, legendary illusionists, and two green dragons in the wrong way, or was it that his common sense was wrong? !
But if you think about it carefully, Ayun, as a wise man of the grassland tribe, also picked up tools to clean the cargo hold, so it seems that there is nothing wrong with it...
The two green dragons, who only know how to destroy and sleep late, and give headaches to the forest elves, process vermicelli, so that the grassland tribe can sell tens of millions of kilograms of vermicelli every year, which is even more correct...
Alman raised his head and looked at the blue sky above the Knights' Territory.
As the saying goes, destruction precedes construction. It is always faster to reshape a shattered worldview than to modify the complete worldview into another shape... At this moment, Alman felt that the door to a new world was slowly opening before his eyes.
He did not resist, and even stretched out his hand full of curiosity.
"Adam, maybe Mr. Ayun is right. We are missing too much knowledge, and there is something wrong with our learning attitude." Looking back at his disciples, Alman said softly.
Young people tend to be extreme, but they are also easy to absorb new things. Adam's stress reaction is not as strong as the teacher's, and he needs a whole morning to buffer. Hearing this, he nodded in agreement, thought of something, and said, "Teacher, should we notify others?"
More than five hundred years have passed since Melville's death. Naturally, the successors of "J" have not been without achievements. Although they are not as powerful as those obvious unofficial forces, they have also developed to a certain scale.
Yarman thought about it, nodded first, then shook his head: "The bargaining chips we can offer are of little value to the grassland tribes. Let's first... see their attitude."
The friendliness shown by Ayun of the Snow Wolf Clan so far has been relatively restrained, and he has not rashly made any promises.
If Ah Yun had started talking nonsense about the future, the master and apprentice would have been wary; but the other party just expressed friendship and did not mention anything else, which made the master and apprentice give up the mentality of "using" and have the idea of really getting close to the other party...
So, all people are cheap.
That night, Alman limped to find Xiao Yun with his disciples. After talking in circles for a long time, he blushed and took the initiative to mention that he hoped "J" could cooperate with the grassland tribe.
In response to this, Xiao Yun remained calm.
He was furiously trying to show his presence but didn't actively recruit people, just waiting for the other party to speak first...
After all, "J" is not one or a few people, but a loose folk force similar to the declining agriculturalists and Mohists that is relatively organized, purposeful and has aspirations.
To put it bluntly, the cooperation between the two forces is similar to the relationship between men and women. Whoever confesses first will be at a disadvantage... cough cough cough!
Of course, dating does not mean marriage, and even if you are married you can still get divorced; when discussing cooperation with others, if you show a strong attitude of encroaching on and dominating the other party from the very beginning, you are doomed to be alone.
Xiao Yun positions himself as the Executive Director, Project Director, and General Manager of the Marketing Department of the Fire Department.
If a normal company had one person taking on these three duties, it would be the end of the company...but the Fire Department's situation is special, so they can only deal with it this way for now.
First, they tried to "pull investment" on site, but failed. Then they tried to change their positioning to the "J" of the partner. Xiao Yun positioned them as... a cooperative enterprise that is worthy of winning over, has cooperative (beneficial) value, and has a relatively good basis for mutual benefit during the cooperation period.
Note that the relationship between the two parties focuses on cooperation, rather than betting or supporting them like he did with Isaac, Laura, and Carlisle - Xiao Yun does not have such full confidence in these guys.
In other words, it is one level lower than the "little brothers who must unite"...
Quickly determining the position of "J" in his mind, Xiao Yun quickly changed his identity to the position of marketing manager of the Fire Department and proposed a cooperation proposal with a smile:
First of all, we warmly invite "J", a non-governmental organization friendly to the Fire Department, to send a team to the Fire Department for study and exchange.
On this basis, we sincerely suggest and invite "J" to become the local agent of the Fire Department's products. The market to be developed is the rest of the Northern Federation except the Kingdom of Kronin.
The Fire Department provides mature guidance on marketing concepts, and one-stop services from consumer group positioning to stable supply channels, marketing strategies, etc.
In a nutshell, as long as "J" is willing to cooperate and become a partner of the Fire Department, then although we cannot fully support your successful revolution, we can contribute to your ideal path!
Alman, who had never been involved in this kind of cooperation, was confused...
Although he was dizzy from the huge amount of new words, Alman, with his intelligence exceeding Mr. , quickly understood the attitude of the grassland tribe:
First, the Fire Department does not interfere with the internal environment of "J", but is willing to share their knowledge with "J".
Second, the condition for sharing knowledge is that "J" needs to send a part of its personnel to promote and sell products for the Fire Department under the arrangement and management of the Fire Department and pursue a win-win situation. Although "J" is not an open civilian force or an overt armed group like a certain association, "J" is composed entirely of spellcasters and has a relatively high proportion of supporters among human spellcasters. It also has a certain influence; and compared with other civilian organizations, "J" has the advantage of high cohesion.
Third, during the sales process, the Fire Department makes money, and "J" can also earn operating funds, so that the members of "J" don't have to work incognito to earn food when traveling outside like the master and his apprentice did.
After thinking carefully about the benefits of cooperation, Alman found that there was absolutely no reason for him to refuse and nodded shyly.
Xiao Yun kept smiling from beginning to end, and there was no sign at all that he was extremely happy.
By teaching a group of auditors, you will have a bunch of spellcasters who can be ordered around at will. It's easier than a university professor teaching graduate students. Come on!
By the way, they developed a line of dealers who did not ask for any conditions, subsidies or kickbacks, quietly used their own human resources and connections to expand the market, and took their own risks. They were doubly fast!
Nima, the more good things like this, the better!!
Xiao Yun hid his big tail very well. Two days later, he grabbed the flowery hair on the back of his neck, packed up the Sky Punisher master and apprentice, and boarded the boat back to the tribe...
Originally, he was considering whether to leave one of the master or the apprentice here to pick up other condemned ones, but after discovering that these two, one at level three and the other at level two, were fully mature laborers, Xiao Yun was reluctant to waste either of them and unceremoniously threw the task of picking up and arranging it on Isaac - what is the use of apprentices? To serve them~
When Isaac Robbins, the Knight who was conferred the title of Viscount Pope, received a list of criminals wanted by the royal families of various countries, cold sweat ran down his temples...
Isaac nearly choked to death on his own saliva when he realized belatedly that the man whose leg he had broken was actually Alman J, who had a bounty of eight thousand gold coins.
A month later, wanted criminals from many countries appeared in the Knights' Territory in groups of three or four. Isaac's nerves were so tense that they seemed to be about to break...
