From Chief to Ball

From the very beginning, Chen Jian was not prepared to be an omniscient and omnipotent god, nor did he have this ability. It was just the first time that such a problem had arisen since he and his tribe instilled those myths, and he had to explain it clearly.

"The ancestors said that two chopsticks are easier to break than one. Do you think this is right or wrong?"

Tong Guan thought for a while and said, "Of course it is right."

"But what if that chopstick is thicker than the sum of the two chopsticks?"

"The ancestor must mean that these three chopsticks are the same..."

After he finished speaking, he seemed to understand a little. Looking at the bronze vessel for harvesting seeds, he suddenly thought of the story Chen Jian told. There are different understandings.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a little excited. Could it be that I was also guided by my ancestors?But I didn't dream of anything, or did the newcomer who did something wrong get the guidance of his ancestors?

Chen Jian walked up to Tongguan and said: "The ancestors just told a vague shadow. He guides each of us, but not necessarily in a dream. He will tell you in your hands, in your eyes, or even When you don't even know."

"It's like casting bronze. You deal with bronze every day. When we first cast it, we cast it backwards, but the bubbles in the copper juice will always condense on the sword. Melting, so what is upright? What is upside down? If a person has never been cast, it is useless even if he knows it, right?"

Tongguan nodded, looked at his rough hands, and recalled that Chen Jian once said that when the copper and tin turned blue in the furnace together, it was the best time to smelt.

Before he worked on it himself, he had thought that the fire was red, but how could it be blue?After the copper and tin were completely melted for the first time, everyone was stunned to see the blue flame in the small crucible.

"Could it be that the guidance of the ancestors is really in the hands and eyes? Even if people who have not done these things have received the guidance of the ancestors, they may not be able to know what it means?"

"That's right, that's it. Maybe my ancestors told me Liu Qi was right, but what he said was very vague. I thought it was about the ratio of copper and tin. After all, after we smelted the spear for the first time, I never went to smelting again."

He paused, and said solemnly: "At least in the matter of casting bronze, your ancestors have given you more guidance than me, but it may not be by dreams, but by your hands and your eyes. Yours, most of the time you just don’t know.”

There was a fanatical and excited look in Tongguan's eyes, and he believed more and more that what Chen Jian said was true. There were several times when problems occurred in the smelting of the copper furnace. He did not go to Chen Jian directly, but worked according to the time. Accumulate, and feel that there is probably something wrong.

It seems that the method of casting copper is really integrated with his hands, eyes and head. Otherwise, why can't those who cast bronze less think of it?

"The longer you work in a certain line, the easier it is to get the guidance of your ancestors in this line of work? But the guidance of your ancestors is sometimes vague. How can you judge who is right and who is wrong?"

Hearing this question, Chen Jian said with a smile: "We have hands and eyes. For example, you made a copper spear and he made a leather shield. He said that his copper shield can block the sharpest spear. What do you say?" Your spear can pierce the toughest shield, who is right and who is wrong, don’t you know if you try it?”

He picked up those spears and said: "Look at these spears, they are tougher than before, you are right, you really understand the guidance of Liu Qi, and because I have been away from the copper furnace for too long, It’s not as good as you in this matter.”

Tongguan said with some fear: "No, Jixia...you..."

Chen Jian waved his hand and said: "This is a good thing. The city is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more things to do. Why do you want to become officials? It is also to tell the ancestors during the sacrifice, so that he will come to guide you. body, experience it with the eyes in the labor of the hands.”

"You did a good job. Do you remember that I said that in the future, those who made contributions to the city will be made into pottery statues and placed in the sacrificial hall so that future generations will remember them forever?"

Tongguan swallowed, of course he remembered, but he didn't expect it would really fall on him.

"In the future, your names will be remembered forever by future generations. When future generations use spears to kill the enemy, they will think that if it weren't for you, the spears might break again in the battle."

Tongguan scratched his head and smiled. He imagined that one day in the future, even if he died, his name would still be passed down. It is indeed a very lucky thing, and it is more important than his own children.

"Okay, I will remember this matter. After finishing these things, you will be lucky to be the first batch of names remembered by future generations. At least in the matter of casting copper, I am no longer as good as you. My ancestors once Tell me in a dream that a bronze sword can be cast one and a half or even two feet long, maybe one day I can see it with my own eyes..."

Originally, the copper official was still happy that his name could last forever with the city, but when he heard Chen Jian's words, he was a little surprised for a while. Can such a long copper sword really be cast?

"I will draw some things in a while. After you have finished casting the daily quota, try to cast it if you have time. Every time you cast one, the city can reward you with some food, which belongs to you. You can Go to Fangshi to exchange for whatever you want. However, the daily quota has to be fulfilled.”

"Don't worry, these spears were made after completing yesterday's quota."

He knew that those rewards might not be easy to get, but he was already very satisfied today. It turned out that the ancestors were also guiding him, which was more gratifying than anything else.In the future, the people next to the copper stove may also get guidance. Today is also a lesson. What you know may be wrong. You must see it with your eyes and try it with your hands before you can tell whether others are right or wrong.

When eating at night, the people and things about these people melting copper have spread all over the city. The clansmen looked at them enviously, and the soldiers respected these people even more. How important is the spear.

They rewarded them with a few sheep from the public property. People in the city took it for granted. Now it is no longer the time for everyone to eat the same food. Those who can’t eat are also eager to get this honor. It is a momentary freshness of tongue, and it is also a manifestation of self-worth.

They are not jealous, because although casting bronze is not as good as those people, there are still many things such as planting, milling, carpentry, and so on.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Ancestors are names, and truth is essence. It’s just another way of saying that there are no unchangeable people, and there are no unchangeable words. This is not a scripture.

In the descriptive stage of enlightenment and some technological innovations, before the education system is fully established, we can only rely on these front-line workers, and only they can summarize some details and experience, so that technology can continue to improve.

For those who have made contributions to technological progress, material rewards are indispensable, and spiritual satisfaction is equally important.

Their names will be handed down to later generations, because this is the rule of three generations in the eyes of later generations, and it is also the era when myths and legends occurred.

Mythology is just the deification of those heroes in the human conquest of nature.

What is a hero?

In the previous life, Shennong who tasted grass, Suiren who built a house with a nest, and Suiren who made fire are all mythical heroes. What they conquered and defeated was not man, but nature.

The reason why they left their names for later generations is not because they ruled the vast land, but because they brought a better life to the tribe. They are all heroes, so they naturally appear in mythology.

The myths of this world and the civilization circle have their own posterity to summarize and imagine, but Chen Jian can imagine how much romance will be added to those pottery statues and names when they are handed down to future generations.

But at this moment, people in the age of mythology in the later generations come into contact with people who may become myths in the future. It is very common for these people who will definitely become myths in the future to eat, shit and sleep, and they also have emotions, so it is not necessary. There is no worship of any kind.

Even Chen Jian himself, the clansmen only regard him as a human being.

The biggest difference between Xiacheng and other cities is that the role of priests is downplayed, and there is no primitive theocracy.

The Xia city that has grown from nothing is a blank sheet of paper, on which Chen Jian engraved the Xia city with his own pen and ink, and has not experienced that kind of natural development process.

The struggle between theocracy and secular power followed the entire pre-industrial era. Even in China in the previous life, it took countless times to destroy Buddha and Dao before gaining the absolute authority of the emperor.Those religions that seem harmless to humans and animals were all killed. The county magistrates in the imperial power era also had a very important task to destroy adultery. They were not only government officials, but also missionaries and defenders.

Chen Jian played down the meaning of theocracy, and the legitimacy of his own rights can only be to lead the city to grow and develop. There is no such thing as natural vision, but it is unknown whether there will be similar legends in the future.

In order to make the myths that may appear in the future more exciting, Chen Jian handed over the drawings that he had drawn for a day to those people who melted the bronze.

Simple gears, crossbow triggers, coins, stirrups, wheel spurs... He didn't explain what these were for, but just drew them in proportion to give them time to think about them.

There is still a process called arrival between the plan and the result. In labor practice, Chen Jian is no longer as good as these clansmen on the front line of labor in some places, and it is foreseeable that with the intensification of social division of labor, these places will become more and more inferior to others. many.

Chapter 22 Slave Management Workshop

A few days later, the motivated copper workers cast the first gear with a small number of teeth but already in shape. After Chen Jian encouraged them a few words, they told Chen Jian a bad news: originally transported copper ore Shi's boat did not arrive as scheduled.

When the clansmen were guessing what happened, a rider from the mine found Chen Jian with the news.

Because the mine cave collapsed, the slaves began to refuse to go down the mine. After another collapse accident, in order to save time, the person in charge of the mine did not take care of the collapsed mine cave. The place continues to be excavated.

In the evening, a bloody hand was exposed in the collapsed mine. The people inside did not die when it collapsed. Several people dug a small hole with their hands, but they died at the entrance of the cave in the end. The cry of pain in front of them made those slaves sympathize with each other.

As a matter of course, when descending into the mine the next day, the slaves staged a violent revolt, using chisels, drills, and stones as weapons, killing two overseers and wounding four others.Seventeen slaves escaped, and the remaining slaves were arrested. A messenger was sent to ask Chen Jian what to do.

"How many people know about this?"

"I only told you, and I didn't say anything when others asked."

"When you go out later, don't talk nonsense, just say that there is something wrong with the mine, so don't say it."