From Chief to Ball

"Isn't this the military formation? The military formation is discipline?"

He stared at it intently, secretly surprised in his heart, if he continued to practice like this, after a few years these children would grow up, and they would be regular opponents on the battlefield.Although he is young, he has fought with his father and brother several times, and he knows the horror of the army formation.

The barbarians in the west are very brave, but they always lose if they really want to fight. After fighting a few times, those barbarians don't want to learn the military formation, but they can't learn it well.

Looking at the dozen or so people near the school, he asked a little strangely: "Do these people not have to work on weekdays?"

"They're just working. Jixia said that this is also a kind of work. You don't have to use your hands to work. You can also work with your head."

"This is much easier than being in the land. Doesn't everyone want to do this?"

"Then you have to be able to do it. There are only so many people. You have to be better than others to do this job. The first batch is the best. They usually have time to think about these things. The rest of the people still have to work. I can only think about it later, the school is still short of people, but after waiting for so long, not many pass."

He pouted, and whispered, "See that one in the corner? He's going crazy. When others are tired of cultivating land, they sing love songs with women or lie down to rest. Counting shapes in the corner. It’s been a long time, and those in the school who don’t need to cultivate land have all figured it out. He hasn’t figured it out yet, but I hope he will figure it out soon.”

"What figure?"

"Who knows? Jixia's problem is weird and tight. It's like a leaky clay pot. Water is filling in while leaking. How long will it take to fill it up?"

Wei Xi laughed and said, "It's weird enough. If this earthenware pot is leaking, just throw it away. Why do you need to fill it with water? Your tribe lacks earthenware pots?"

The accompanying person said with a smile: "Where would there be any shortage of pottery pots? Originally, one pottery pot can be exchanged for a lot of things, but now it can be exchanged for half a pot of grain. I guess next year, even half a pot will not be able to be replaced. The black pottery of the Eyue tribe It is better than ours, as thin as an eggshell, and they can’t exchange anything with them. Instead, many tribes exchange their black pottery. The pottery officer Acorn is so worried that he can’t sleep these days. When he fell asleep that day, he Suddenly I sat up and shouted: I will! Then I lay down and snored. At that time, I was playing backgammon with the white horse. I was taken aback. I asked him the next day, but he didn’t even know.”

As he said that, he laughed, Wei Xi also shook his head, looked back at the words on the wall, the child who recited the multiplication table, and the windmill standing on the top of the mountain, scratched his head and said, "What a weird city."

Chapter 4 Don't Want to Grow Up

Progressive civilizations are always similar, but barbaric civilizations have their own distortions.

Because of this similarity, Wei Xi found the shadow of his own city in the strangeness of the city.

Standing army, separate public property, expropriated food, violence instead of preaching, law stipulates rights and obligations, distribution of rights to perform their duties...

All these, although there are many differences on the surface, they are all cattle, just like yellow cattle and flower cattle, but with different coat colors.

The country has always been a tool of the ruling class. For Xiacheng, more than 2000 people in the city are the ruling class, while nearly a thousand slaves and wild people scattered outside the village are the ruled class. It is impossible to expect them to spontaneously serve It is impossible to expect them to voluntarily pay taxes and fulfill their obligations when they fight against cities; so the standing army appeared and the law appeared.And in order to uphold the law, new agencies of violence and executive agencies also followed.

1000 slaves cannot be controlled by a tribe, so the standing army has become a necessary existence to suppress the rule; in order to maintain the standing army, taxation is indispensable; in order to ensure tax collection, some off-production personnel officially become a special existence in the ruling class.

Whether it's Wei Xi, E Yue or Chen Jian's tribe, it's the same.

The chiefs were no longer satisfied with the free and voluntary respect of the gens system, even if they could obtain it.

They transcended blood clans and no longer only represented the interests of blood relatives, but represented the interests of the ruling class in the entire city-state, so they used violence and laws to gain new respect different from the clan system.

On the surface, each tribe is not respecting rights, but following and respecting the law, but what is the law?

When the laws and regulations appeared, Ji Song was not the leader, but he had greater authority than the clan leader in punishing the clansmen.

This kind of authority is completely different from the past. It is no longer the conviction and natural respect of the clansmen, but an existence beyond the natural society relying on the violent institutions such as the army and taxation in the city.

When the clan grows up, it will always grow into Fangguo. Some people don't want to grow up, but they can't stop it.

Naturally, Wei Xi didn't think so much, and it was impossible for him to understand these things. He just instinctively felt the similarities between the two cities, and the contempt for this tribe in his heart gradually dissipated.

It's not because I saw those weird tools that can replace slaves, but because I saw an internal system that was similar to my own tribe and supported by law.

"This Jixia's method is very similar to that of my brother, but she is younger than my brother."

Thinking in his heart, he turned around and asked the accompanying humanity: "When will Jixia come back?"

"It will be soon, you can go to the house to sleep for a while, or eat something, the newly exchanged corn wine yesterday."

"No, I'll take a walk around the city to have a look."

"Okay, but you can't go over there."

The man stretched out his finger and pointed to a place that was emitting thick smoke outside the city. Wei Xi said with a smile: "Our tribe's place is not where others can go, I know."

He turned his head and walked casually along the gravel road in the city. He really didn't turn his eyes to the place where the smoke was rising, but asked curiously about many novelties that he didn't understand.

After more than an hour, Chen Jian finally came from Heyin City, followed by several blindfolded people.

Wei Xi saw those familiar people, but he didn't see his uncle. He smiled and went up to him and said, "This is the miner we are looking for. Since you have caught it, we will send fifty sheep to him soon." Bring it over. It's just...there's another one?"

"We also met that person, but he has jade on his body, not a miner."

"He is, but he ran away before he could pick off Yujue. Please return this person to our tribe."

Chen Jian held up the jade wrench and said: "Before you came, he gave this to me and begged me to send him to the Eyue tribe. I have already agreed. You came to our tribe after that. There are nine people in total, each It's worth six sheep, I want these six sheep more than this finger wrench, but I want to keep my promise."

Wei Xi was a little at a loss, thinking that if he encountered such a thing, he might do the same. This person named Ji Xia kept his promise, but what should his brother do if he asked him to do it?

"Well, I'll send him to the Eyue tribe, and then you can talk to the Eyue tribe, do you think it's okay?"

He nodded and said: "That's how it is. Is it okay to put those miners in your city first? When I come back and take them away, I can give you my jade. When we bring the sheep Give it to me sometime."

"Hahaha, there is no need, I can trust it. Have you seen E Yue?"

"No, but I know this surname, a very prestigious tribe."

He pointed to the ribbon on his head and gave the answer with a smile. Of course every tribe wearing silk knew this surname.There is one thing he didn't say, that is, compared with the surname Ji, the surname E is much more famous.

Chen Jian called a few clansmen, handed his tokens to them, and said, "Go to E City by boat now, tell E Yue to leave as soon as possible, and meet in the mall. Say two things, one is Wei Another thing about the western tribe is that it’s already the beginning of autumn, and the tribes with horses in the north may start mowing grass and drying it for winter.”

After receiving the token, several clansmen repeated it to make sure they heard correctly. After Chen Jian nodded, they went to Yuqianer for food and ships.

Yu Qian'er ran out of the house and shouted, "Brother, are you going to the mall?"

"That's right, you stay in the city, we are going to cut the hay too, you need to arrange some manpower."

"I know, it was fine yesterday. If you go to the mall, I can discuss something with you."

She blinked at Chen Jian, and Chen Jian said to Wei Xi apologetically, "My sister. I'll talk to her about something."

When they reached the corner, Yu Qian'er whispered: "Brother, we can't exchange with Eyue and the others for the time being. You are not allowed to make wine, and there is not enough food for the time being. Their black pottery is so good, and they have also learned to use hay to pack baskets." There are also ox carts, which cannot be broken when transported; there are also jade, ox horns, etc. Bronze is not exchanged, food is not enough, and ox carts are slow... All we can exchange is salt, but we can't eat much salt. , If we continue to change like this, our city will have to go out to exchange for food, that’s not acceptable.”

"Then what do you say?"

"Don't change it. We will change it when we have it. Can we not allow their merchants to come to our city for the time being? Or let the merchants who pass through the mall hand over some food?"

"Then where did the grain they hand over come from? Isn't it added to the exchange? In the end, it is equivalent to us collecting grain from our own people, changing the harvest of [-] catties to [-] catties or more in disguise." .”

Yu Qian'er smiled and said, "I've thought about it a long time ago, and discussed it with Hongyu. She said that their black pottery would have to be exchanged for more food? Then those tribes wouldn't be able to afford it. I can only change the pottery made from acorns. And those jades are the same, she said that if I don’t allow the tribe to change it, the tribe will hate me, and Eyue can’t justify it.”

Chen Jian also laughed, Yu Qian'er shook his hand and said, "Is it okay?"

"No. It's the same as before. You can change whatever you want. Because we just planted, we don't have enough food and there are not many slaves, but let's look farther. I got rid of those two pieces this time, and I'm really going to be with E Yue Talk about an exchange, but it's the exact opposite of what you said."