From Chief to Ball

Undoubtedly, in the eyes of the slave owner, Xie was not a good slave, even extremely hateful, and he wanted to kill him quickly; but in the eyes of the slaves who knew his story, he was a trustworthy leader.

No one can be recognized by the whole class, and there is no value that is universally applicable regardless of class, status, or where the butt is sitting.

For example, Langpi, who went into the cell with Chen Jian to re-educate the rebellion, did not understand why Chen Jian said these words; Something I haven't seen before.

The same similar words echoed in the ears of those escaped slaves who actively resisted and never gave in. Except for the dead ones, the seven or eight escaped slaves who were locked up were basically educated by Chen Jian.

Chen Jian was busy with education and agitation. According to the deployment of the council, the city had changed from a wartime mechanism to a production mechanism. Except for the normal training of the new army, the rest of the people still had to do other work in winter.

The wild people had to prepare wild animals and tributes for the New Year's sacrifice in winter, and the people in the city drove all the slaves and sent them to the nearby forests to cut down trees.

Two ice and snow roads paved on the mountain from Caohe River have already started to operate. The felled wood slides down the ice and snow road along the slope of the mountain, and the people below divide the wood into batches according to diameter and curvature.

The curved ones were used to burn charcoal for heating, while the straight ones were pulled back to the city by horses and oxen. The carpenters in the city led the people to make simple sledges with all their strength, and seized the opportunity of snow in winter to do the transportation work.

After the second heavy snow fell, Xiacheng had made nearly two hundred sets of sledges, and selected a batch of horses to harness to the sledges.

Five hundred slaves and 300 conscripts drove the long sledge team to Echeng. Chen Jian selected dozens of slaves who were already familiar with farming and mixed them in, and put the "bad" slaves such as 萑 into it. He joined the slave team and went to E City to trade grain.

This exchange was led by Chen Jian himself. Before departure, he sent envoys to inform the people in charge of salt cooking, mining, shopping malls, etc., and asked them to hand over the work to their deputy and return to the city to rest during the winter. Wait for him to come back to start the "slave management" class.

In the bitter cold wind, Chen Jian was riding on a horse with sheepskin knee pads made of red fish on his knees, but his knees were still sore from the cold.

E strider, who followed Chen Jian back, ran to the place beside Chen Jian, took out a small gourd of hot wine from the arms of the clansman, and handed it over.

Chen Jian blew his nose, wiped the heels of his shoes, took the wine gourd and said with a smile, "Strider, why do you seem to have something on your mind?"

"Ji Xia, when I go back this time, my father will definitely ask you what you think of our brothers. E City is different from your Xia City. My grandfather is the leader, and my father's position was also recommended by my grandfather. The clansmen are used to the leader's son succeeding him. , although they have the right to dismiss them, they won't do so as long as they don't do too badly."

He hesitated for a while, and said, "I have a younger brother who is valued by my father, and he didn't come to Xiacheng. Do you think my father likes me more? Or does he like that younger brother?"

After all, the Crescent Strider is not too big, nor is it the kind of person who grows up in the court of scheming. The scheming and scheming of this era are still very simple, and most people will say what they have to say. Don't think so much.

As for the sons of E Yue, Chen Jian had already received news from Yu Qian'er. The younger brother E Yue mentioned was called E Bei, who was born to E Yue's third wife. There were basically no clan members in E City except the mother. Yue also valued him very much and gave him a lot of rights.

Normally, Eyue would definitely elect the position of leader to his son. People are close and distant. The premise of giving way is that the subordinates can control the power and do a good job. But as the leader's son, he has a great advantage that he can There are many opportunities to show your abilities.

Chen Jian put himself in the situation and thought, if he was E Yue, he would definitely not choose E Bei, unless E Bei did very well and the rest of his brothers did extremely poorly, otherwise, even if he was elected, the nine tribesmen would not agree, They will even launch a rebellion after the death of E Yue. As for the reasons, countless kinds can be fabricated.

But he didn't directly reassure E Strider, and said with a smile: "It's too early for you to think about this now, your father is still very strong."

E Strider blushed slightly, and hurriedly said: "No, I am... I just..."

"Strider, who do you think will be the most important friend of E City in the next few years?"

"It must be your Xia City."

"Yeah, Xiacheng Echeng is a city of brothers. Your father is still very strong, and his eyes have been watching you all the time. Whoever has the ability to lead Echeng to become stronger is what he wants to think about. You see these No horses? They didn’t know how to pull carts and sledges at first, so before carts and sledges appeared, the quality of a horse only depended on whether the horse was fat or strong. But after learning to pull a cart, there is another evaluation of whether it is good or bad The most important thing is whether the horse can pull a cart, and whether it is obedient. The cart and sledges originated from Xiacheng and have also been passed down to Echeng. You have lived in Xiacheng for a long time, so you are the best horse and cart driver in Echeng. So besides horse riding and driving, will there be other things appearing in Xiacheng, which will change the people's evaluation of this person's ability? For example, planting, digging wells, and...making chariots?"

Chen Jian said these words without thinking, and patted E-strider on the shoulder. E-strider was still thinking about the meaning, but Chen Jian had already run away.

The journey of [-] miles would take a few days, and E-strider had been thinking about what Chen Jian said, and seemed to understand something.

E City, in the restaurant.

Yu Qian'er got up early and wiped a table transported from Xiacheng with a linen cloth for countless times, but couldn't stop, always feeling that being constantly busy seemed to make time pass faster.

"Has the fish been cleaned up? Have the dumplings been made? My brother likes to eat sweet ones. Do you still have pickled sour nuts? Don't put salt in the tofu..."

She has never babbled like this since she came to E City, and the people around her were all laughing and shouting: "Okay, everything is ready, and it will be sent to E Yue in a while, you can rest for a while, don't worry about it." Walking around like a wolf cub with its tail trampled on."

Yu Qian'er rubbed her hands, wandered around a few times and finally blocked a person holding a clay pot. After breaking a clay pot, she calmed down. She shied away when people from Echeng came to exchange tofu early in the morning.

Look at the sky, it's going to snow again, and I don't know if my brother will be there today.Looking forward to my brother's early arrival, but also not wanting my brother to rush on the road in a snowy day, I inevitably have some conflicts in my heart. The most favorite calculation on weekdays is how much food I earn today.

At noon, the sun still hadn't come out, and the wind seemed to be getting stronger, but finally two tribesmen were expected to come to the wine shop.

The clansman on horseback opened the cloth curtain outside the door, shook the snow off his body, took a bowl of hot soup and drank it, feeling extremely comfortable, deliberately not talking to Yuqianer, and teasing her.

Yu Qian'er finally couldn't help asking: "Can my brother come today?"

"Ji Xia has something to do, this time someone else led the team."

When Yu Qian'er heard this, she jumped up happily and said, "If you say so, my brother must be coming, so he won't stop coming. You must be lying to me."

The people who came laughed, ran outside on the horseback, and took down a bunch of straw bundles of straw, which were covered with red fruits and covered with a layer of yellow syrup, and were strung together by a branch. A string, as crystal clear as jade.

"Your brother asked me to bring it to you, candied haws. The seeds inside the red fruit were poked out by the red fish with chopsticks, but you have to give me one, I haven't eaten it yet."

Yu Qian'er swallowed her saliva, looked at the red fruit and yellow syrup, she was very happy, there are a lot of candied haws, it can be seen that her brother wants her to distribute a bunch to everyone here, and there will be more after counting A string, obviously more for myself.

So I stopped being impatient, sat down to bite the sweet and sour fruit, and looked at the wind and snow outside.

It was getting dark early in winter, but Chen Jian rushed to E City before dark. E Yue and others were already waiting there at the city gate. After greeting each other, Chen Jian first brought the slaves to the city to count.

The person counting pinched the slave's arm, pinched the slave's mouth open with his hand, and looked at the slave's teeth. If the teeth were not good, they would not be worth so much food. If the teeth were not good, they would be inconvenient to eat and would die early.

"Just look at them. These are all strong. Look at those women. They are all grassland tribes who can fight. I have captured quite a few of them. These women can be kept as raw slaves."

The inspector took a few glances, nodded and said: "It is very strong, and there are enough people."

After checking, he counted to nine and said, "The food has already been piled up in the warehouse. It is inevitable that there are cats watching the mice."

"Then there's no need to weigh it. Let's count it as 10,000 catties per sack. Weighing hundreds of thousands of catties is too troublesome. We brought a total of [-] sledges, and we can transport [-]+ catties back at a time. Slowly transport."

After taking a general look, Chen Jian asked: "E Yue, are these slaves going to be distributed to the family? Or are they going to be used collectively?"

E Yue said before that the public property is not enough, so the family has to pay food to buy slaves, but knowing that Xia Cheng has an eyeliner in the city, he can only say: "These slaves are strong, but they are not very good at working. After half a year, we will split up again."

After finishing speaking, he looked at these slaves and asked, "Didn't you catch these slaves who looked similar to us on the grassland?"

"No, they worked in the city before. All of them have relatives who died at my hands, so I passed them on to you."

"Heh, that's a good idea. Will these be farmed?"

"Yes, you can understand our words, and you can farm and build a house, but you have been trained for more than half a year."

E Yue went over to check the palms of several people, and found that they all had cocoons holding farm tools in their hands, and she was very satisfied.Normally, skilled slaves can be exchanged for more things than newly captured slaves, especially honest and dull ones.

He glanced at the 萑 mixed in, and felt that this person was the strongest and had the most calluses on his hands, so he asked, "Can you understand me?"

Thinking of what Chen Jian said before, he put away his hatred, put on a smile on his face and replied: "Master, I can understand what you say."

"What will be done?"

"Building a house, making mud, digging, cutting trees..."

Hearing what he said, E Yue turned around and smiled at Chen Jian: "This slave is not bad, worth so much food. Look at this man, he's as strong as a bear... Ji Xia, let's go, I'm ready." Dinner."