goddess of revolution

Chapter 426 People's War, Mayne and Sam's Serving the People
Looking down from the air, Beta City is like two folding fans put together, facing south and unfolding in the northern part of the Shenyun Plateau.

The center of the fan bones of the two folding fans is the core area, which is now renamed the integration area. Because there is a portal directly to Epsilon, it has not yet been opened to the public.

From west to east, the folding fan below is the ecological green garden, the research institute, and the farming and animal husbandry base. There are not many buildings, and they are all large forests, farmland, and pastures.

From west to east, the fan above is the new immigrant district, the adventurer square, and the business district. Now, due to the increase in population, the business district has also expanded into a residential area for adventurers who are willing to settle in Beta City.

With the slaves and adventurers liberated from the Fort of Holy Light, and the immigrants from Shadow City, Beta City now has a population of more than [-].The whole city is centered on the high tower in the center of the integration area, and is shrouded in a protective barrier with a radius of five kilometers.The legendary magician of the Storm Islands, Zold's father, Pelor, is guarding the city in a state of pure soul quality.

Mayne walked on the streets of the new immigrant district with long legs. This place is now called the "Falling Tower District", and the name is a bit weird.If you enter the square inside and look carefully at the sculptures and notes on the square, you can understand the origin of the name.

It was a tall tower that was collapsing. Under the tower, there were several dense circles of human figure sculptures. The sculptures in the outermost circle were lifelike, and they were shouting for something.The bronze tablet under the sculpture is engraved with the origin of the tower and the whole incident.

As a member of the Youth Combat Group of the Fei Communist Party and the liaison officer of the Residents Committee of the 32nd District of the Down Tower District of Beta City, Mayne already knows the identity of each statue well. ...

She once worked as a counselor assistant in an immigrant study class, and she knows why she took this name, why there are these sculptures, and why the deeds of these people are engraved here.

In fact, she felt that she should have done this from the beginning of the study class, but fortunately it was not too late.

The immigrant from Shadow City had just finished her studies and when she moved into her new home, what she saw was like a nest of cats, dogs, rabbits and mice that had been locked in a black cage for a whole year had been released. It was extremely unbearable.

Although it was contrary to the kind nature of the paladins, Mayne had to admit that at that time she really felt that many people, even most people, were not worthy of living here, and were not worthy of being with the sculptures on the square.She had tried very hard many times to suppress her anger, not letting herself yell or even do anything.

The study class is just to let the immigrants of Shadow City understand where they are, what kind of place it is, and what kind of life they live.I have basically no concept of who I am, how I should live, and why I should live these things.

The Falling Tower District is the most comfortable and tidy residential area that Mayne has seen so far. There are many conditions that even the nobles of Alanis have not enjoyed.

The entire residential area is composed of more than 300 apartment buildings. These buildings of different shapes are built with solid wood or even stone, and there is almost no interference between the upper and lower floors.Each building has no more than five floors and can accommodate dozens or hundreds of households. If it is a single apartment, it can accommodate hundreds of people.From afar, it would really look like a small fort if it weren't for the many windows.

On paper, the residential density here is very high, but the designers of the Infrastructure Construction Commission ensured that each house has enough area and sufficient lighting.Even the single apartment that Mayne lives in has a bedroom, living room, storage room and utility room, which are [-] to [-] square meters.

The infrastructure committee did not have enough manpower and time to make interiors for the rooms, but the thick stone walls, wooden floors and ceilings were very neat and quite warm.Beta City also distributed a variety of fabrics and blankets to each household, enough to decorate a small home.

In terms of living conditions, each floor of the apartment building has public water rooms, kitchens, and toilets. You don’t have to travel long distances to get a bucket of water to go to the toilet as before, and you don’t have to toss for a long time for a meal.The life service center between the buildings also has a free bathhouse, hairdresser's room, and laundry room, which are sufficient to meet the needs of daily life.

Mayne felt that, let alone comparing with villagers in the countryside and citizens of other cities, even compared with Youxiang, as long as the immigrants were more diligent, they could be as glamorous as the people of Youxiang.

now...

Mayne turned into the street where Subdivision 32 was located, and the ten apartment buildings on both sides of the road constituted the entire subdivision.She carefully avoided the garbage discarded on the street, and even saw the swirling excrement!

The BeiTC City Hall originally planned to let old citizens take on municipal services, including water supply and drainage maintenance, street cleaning, garbage removal, and the operation of life service centers.But the old citizens joined the army one after another, so it’s impossible to get the legionnaires of Redstone and Hadron to sweep the streets, take out the garbage, cut their hair and rub their backs for the civilians. The city hall had no choice but to focus on the immigrants themselves.

Unfortunately, those with extraordinary strength, organizational skills, willingness to grow, and even those with a bit of expertise were picked away by various units, and the remaining civilians were almost the kind that made Mayne jump. people.

Look up at the windows of the apartment buildings, most of which are covered with cloth blankets or even wooden boards.

Immigrants from Shadow City are not vampires or zombies, and they will not be harmed by sunlight. They are just used to making their houses dark for generations, otherwise they will feel insecure.

Mayne sighed secretly, feeling that today's work would be very difficult.

She clenched her fists and secretly cheered herself up: "Don't let Sam laugh at me, I'm still a senior in the work of the neighborhood committee."

A few days ago, the top leaders of the Fei Communist Party held a meeting with the clerks and liaison officers of the neighborhood committees, demanding that the residents be organized and mobilized to make necessary contributions to the war.

The liaison officers of the neighborhood committees have reported that the residents do need to organize themselves, but it is already thankful that they can manage themselves and maintain their homes independently.

Cardinal Tarrence, Cardinal Aurora, Minister Stan, and Chief Asuna had an in-depth understanding of the specific situation, and they still insisted on the policy of mobilizing the residents through war mobilization.

Cardinal Aurora said at the time: "It doesn't matter whether the mud is good or bad, let's paste it on the wall first! What falls down continues to paste until it becomes dirt and has to be thrown away!"

Fortunately, the meeting decided to strengthen the grassroots forces, so that the liaison officers no longer feel desperate about their job prospects.

Many people from the legion and other departments have enriched the neighborhood committee. Mayne is very happy. Minister Stan specially transferred Sam, who was still in the study class, to the 32nd division as the chief liaison officer. She can work with Sam again.

Now there are about [-] people in the neighborhood committees of each district. The chief liaison is in charge of the overall situation, and the other liaisons are responsible for organization, life, public security, medical care, publicity, education, etc. Work is the toughest.

Establishing a resident group in each building, promoting residents to manage themselves, and mobilizing for war on this basis, is the core thread of the current resident management work.

Mayne didn't even expect any mobilization for war. She thought it would be a great victory if the residents could be organized to clean up the streets first.

Building 3201……

"Did you distribute something? Can you give us a red blanket? The one was scratched by a child and worn as clothes, no? Residents help each other? Oh, let's live an honest life and take care of ourselves, can't we? Let me tell you , the shop next door to the bread distributed yesterday secretly took two more, I saw it with my own eyes!"

"Mutual aid? No problem, but I and my partner are old and have bad legs and feet. Can you move us to the downstairs? Oh, let me tell you, today we line up to get bread, and the downstairs and upstairs are ahead of each other. After taking all the hot ones, it's our turn to be cold."

"What is mutual aid? Is there any contribution point? No? What's there to say? Is it for nothing? By the way, I went out late the day before yesterday, and I didn't get any bread! I was almost hungry and fainted before you sent it here. Life Service Center Is there something to eat? Why do you want me to run so far?"

Building 3202……

"No problem, no problem, I will do whatever you say, but my brother has joined the reserve army, why don't I have special treatment? I want to figure this out first. Besides, the bread these days doesn't taste right, Is it made of spoiled wheat flour?"

"It's not that I don't open the door, Ms. Liaison Officer, I'm afraid of light. Everyone knows it in the study class. Mutual aid? What can I do with my appearance? Sunglasses? Oh, I can't see the way clearly when I wear them. Oh, you Can you tell the higher-ups, don’t get spider meat anymore, today’s bread is mixed with spider meat, I feel like throwing up when I smell that smell.”

"My name is Winnie. I remember you. Your name is Mayne. You're an assistant to Counselor Sam. Can I live with you? I'm a single girl on the whole floor. Single apartment? My aunt and I Registered in a house, but she and... I can't talk about it, can't I? Well, but if you need me to do anything, just tell me, although I can't do anything. "

Hundreds of people from the two apartment buildings ran down, and one-third of them were not at home, most of them were watching mirages in the life service center.One-third seemed to be sleeping soundly and ignored it at all, and one-third saw her either complaining about this or that.

There was even a guy with a weird smile on his face, who wanted to touch her, but was kicked by her and dragged down the stairs to the soldiers of the Redstone Legion stationed in the garrison.The whole process also attracted other residents to point fingers, as if she was committing violence.

On the upper floor of the life service center, in the office of the neighborhood committee, Mayne slumped in a chair exhausted, smiling wryly at the other liaison officers who ran the apartment building.

"Don't you have much to gain?"

Sam sighed: "Those people downstairs know to watch mirages all day long. Turn off the mirage, maybe they will make trouble. Leave it alone, they don't care about other things at all."

"I don't think this is right! This is a problem with the system!"

Mayne couldn't help but take a dangerous step: "From the very beginning, they shouldn't be given free board and lodging, free houses! If you want to eat and have a house, you have to work. This is everywhere in Finn's world." truth!"

"It's good now, it's our duty to feed them and give them a house to live in. If we ask them to do anything, we have to coax them, and we have to trade with them for benefits!"

"How can this state make them make any donations? If it continues like this, if they shit, we will be guilty if we don't hand over the paper, and we are oppressing them!"

Sam caressed his forehead: "Mayne, pay attention to your image..."

Mayne crossed his legs in a disfigured way: "How did the first old citizens come here? I asked Asuna and Katie, and they all said that they earned themselves step by step from slaves to limited contracts, and then to citizens. of!"

"Those old citizens are so good. They are vying to do everything. They don't care about contribution points. They only care about whether things are beneficial to Beta City and whether they make others admire them. I still don't understand why these immigrants should be treated differently. Serve like a master."

"Mayne, I reminded you not to doze off during the meeting," Sam sighed. "These immigrants came from their homes, and they have nothing. They are not slaves, at least not in that form. Give them food and drink, provide them with accommodation, It is the basic condition we should provide, and..."

Sam said in a somewhat confused tone: "Minister Stan said that we just use this group of people as the basis to build...a society based on public ownership instead of going back to the old society. This is also an experiment and can only be successful. Can't fail."

Mayne's eyes widened: "Public ownership? Is it the kind of divine birth system that only the extreme churches will do?"

The others also looked at each other in blank dismay, this was the first time they had heard of this.

The so-called divine property system means that regardless of land, houses, grain, cattle and sheep, gold bushes, and even each believer himself, all are owned by the gods.In this kind of church, all believers are not allowed to have private property, and any harvest must be dedicated to the church, which will distribute it in the name of gods.

Because this kind of church is too extreme, only neutral or even evil gods such as the Lady of Pain and the Goddess of Blood can exist.Even the loyal court that Queen Theresia is working to overthrow will only squeeze believers with tithes, holy water taxes, indulgences, etc., and will not go that far.

When Mayne said this, everyone was a little terrified. Think about it carefully, the old Cardinal Tarrence was once the high priest of the Lady of Pain. Could it be that the Fei Gong also wanted to establish such a system?

"Fei Gong's belief is that everyone is for one, and one is for everyone." Sam is also a member of the Youth Fighting Group and has no theoretical attainments, but he should have received special mention from Stan on this matter, and he can also say something: "Public ownership means that everyone owns it together. It is completely different from the fact that everything produced by the gods belongs to God and then distributed by the church."

He thought of something, and said again: "I remember that before you, Mayne, and... talked about the life of the religious order, it was similar to that."

Mayne's face darkened, suppressing a certain figure that was about to emerge in his mind, thinking along Sam's words, and suddenly said: "It's good if that's the case, the fields of the sect are reclaimed by everyone, and the house is cultivated by everyone. We build together, and the gold bushels we earn are exchanged for the materials we need. We are like brothers and sisters, except for personal things, there is nothing that cannot be shared..."

She spread her hands and said, "But that is the sect of the paladins, and everyone is a paladin. Do you expect these scumbags to be as strict as the paladins, to be strict with themselves, abide by the rules, and not care about personal gains and losses?"

"Of course it's impossible to achieve the level of a paladin," Sam said. "But this seems to be the goal of Fei Gong, so let us try."

Mayne thought of the things on the street again, pinched his nose and said mockingly: "It's really a sacred cause."

Sam said again: "Everyone, don't be discouraged, Fei Gong doesn't put everything on us."

"Cardinal Aurora is preparing a publicity campaign for the review of the history of Shadow City, to awaken their hearts that have been numb due to oppression by magicians. At the same time, they will also promote the Shadow City fighters who have performed outstandingly in the war. The materials will be sent to us soon. We need Get busy."

"In two days, each district will send an education team to the neighborhood committee to organize all the children for education, which is also a preparation for the establishment of a school in the future."

"Following the education team is the medical team. They will use their experience in treating the magic warriors to treat the soul erosion disease of the people of Shadow City, so that they can live longer."

"The Planning and Development Committee and the Civil Affairs Security Committee have also determined the living subsidy plan for residents. If you are not an extraordinary person, you will not be able to use your personal assistant. Therefore, residents will be given a fixed amount of red coins every month to purchase daily necessities in designated service markets. Apartment buildings will also Do some remodeling so that everyone has their own kitchen, I heard that the kind of steel wood salvaged from the Storm Islands is very durable when used as firewood."

"The amount of red coins is not high, only enough to meet the basic needs of life. The Planning and Development Commission releases various tasks as entrustments, which are collected by residents and earn more red coins."

"It should have been like this a long time ago," Mayne and the others let out a long breath. It seems that the Fei Gong had devoted all their attention to the war before, and had not had time to make more detailed plans for immigration. Now they finally have some rules.

Let the people of Shadow City remember the history and how they got their freedom, and let them cherish what they have now.

Sort out the supply relationship, let them have their own complete lives, and at the same time provide them with jobs to keep them busy.

Break through the fog of fate for them in terms of medical care and education, let them have expectations for the future, and their attitude towards life will no longer be so decadent.

However, judging from Mayne's experience today, she felt that the effect might not be as good as expected.

"I think even if these measures are implemented, the people of Shadow City will not change much." A certain liaison officer is more pessimistic than Mayne: "Those people I contacted feel that they are waiting to die. They have no clear idea at all. I don’t know the direction of my life, I don’t know how long I can live, I don’t know what I can do.”

Another liaison officer smiled bitterly: "The people of Shadow City who have a direction are all working hard for their lives."

Sam shook his head: "How come the people I come into contact with are not like this?"

"I'm in charge of the organization and liaison in Building 3210. Although the mutual group has not yet been established, there are already a few activists. After I finish what I just said, I will talk to a few people tomorrow, and the backbone will be there. The group will be formed quickly."

Mayne smiled and said, "Because you are Sam, you are very powerful."

The other liaison officers also agreed that Sam, a fat halfling, has a natural affinity in his image, and coupled with the communication skills honed in the study class, of course, it will not be disadvantageous.

"I don't think there is anything special about me." Sam rubbed his belly a little embarrassedly: "I just talk to them like I am in a study class."

"Talk well? How can they be good talkers?" A liaison officer yelled angrily, it seemed that they had hit too many walls.

"how could be?"

Sam said gently and patiently: "People in Shadow City are no different from people in other places. Except for those people who have a bad heart, they are all ordinary people. As long as they are ordinary people, they will not refuse other people's concern."

"Treat them as friends, or even family members, chat with them about life, about the past, understand their preferences, and understand their worries, and they will naturally accept you."

"I think, you have never been able to enter their hearts, because you have divided yourself from them into two types of people from the beginning. Don't treat them as people from the Shadow City, don't treat them as strangers, and don't think I am giving them alms."

"If you want to stand with them spiritually from the very beginning, you don't have to be relatives or good friends. That would definitely be unnatural, but you can completely regard them as companions who have a spiritual problem."

"I don't have any tricks, I just know that unless you have committed a crime, or have a wrong position, such as oppressing other people, and take this kind of thing for granted, everyone else is the same as me."

"We have to work ourselves to get rewards. We are all good people, and we don't want to squeeze others to satisfy ourselves. There must be something in our hearts. As long as he is willing and I can do my best, I will help him wholeheartedly."

The fat halfling was very short, and he raised his head when talking to everyone, but at this moment, not only Mayne, but everyone else felt that they were looking up at him.

Sam said sincerely: "Minister Stan asked me how I do mass work, and I also told him these words. He said that this is actually serving the people. I don't think I am that great. I believe you all It can be done."

Thinking of Sam saving himself and that person in Redstone, remembering that Sam was with him in Cheyandia, and by his hospital bed in Beta City, Mayne felt his nose ache.

"Sam, it turns out that you treat me no differently than you treat other people." Mayne turned his head and covered up the fluctuations in his heart with complaints.

"Of course it's different." Sam scratched his head naively: "We are really good friends."

The liaison officers looked at Mayne and Sam, and exchanged certain glances. A certain liaison officer gave a thumbs up and said, "Sam is really... well done! I admire you so much!"

"Stop praising me." Sam's little face turned bitter: "Those guys downstairs who only know how to see illusions, I don't know how to do their work."

"Isn't that easy?"

Mayne squeezed his knuckles: "Turn off the illusion and let them make trouble! I'll give them a hard time, and then you will go to work."

She raised her eyebrows, and her ordinary face at that moment was also heart-warming: "Mayne plus Sam is the complete service to the people!"

(End of this chapter)