From Chief to Ball

The motivation brought by the yearning for freedom and land is huge. These slaves know that the opportunity is fleeting. Once they miss this time, no one knows when the next time will wait.

When the people of each clan were resting at night, the slaves lit a bonfire, and used their tired numb hands and worn shoulders to lift the soil back or tamp the foundation.

Most of the slaves only slept for two or three hours a day, and four of them died of exhaustion after two days, but those who survived did not cry or cry, and turned their lives into a burning candle, bursting out the last spark, in the Illuminate your own future in the boundless darkness.

The fastest group dug the [-]-step ditch in only four days, and the remaining five groups were similar to them.

When Chen Jian passed the inspection, the slaves in the five groups lay on the ground and wailed loudly, hitting their heads on the solid ground, begging Chen Jian to give them another chance.

The victorious slaves laughed out loud, especially after their meals changed from slaves’ hulled corn to pounded corn rice, and even a small piece of pickles accompanied by lard, they felt inhumanly tired these days And the blood blisters on your hands are worth it.

Imprisoning the free people, and giving them back the things that belonged to them in the form of alms, will always be grateful to Shanhu Long live. The slaves probably forget that if it is not for Chen Jian, they are still happy members of the clan .

While Chen Jian was resting, he found members of the council and asked these slaves to kneel down and make an oath to show that they had a new identity that can be called human. After 59 slaves bit their fingers, they vowed that they would never betray the city for the rest of their lives. .

Chen Jian also took them to see a piece of land of [-] mu, and told them that half of the harvest on this land belonged to them.

In order to encourage them to reclaim the land, Chen Jian also promised that besides the [-] mu of land, they can go outside to continue reclaiming. The newly reclaimed land is also owned by the city's public property, but they can still get half of the harvest, and each additional reclaimed land Each mu of land will receive three small shellfish, that is, thirty catties of grain, as a one-time reward.

Chen Jian has always planned to naturalize this group of slaves to supplement the population of the tribe, and strive to naturalize the wild people into city citizens when the population of the city is in an age crisis in about five years, and then naturalize these slave farmers into wild people. The people, captured slaves through war, and rapidly expanded the young and strong population in a five-year cycle.

The power of a role model is infinite, even such a deformed role model.After these 59 people obtained the land, the second phase of the project was carried out as scheduled. With the same method and the same method, these hopeful slaves exploded with four times the strength of those hopeless slaves, using efficiency and speed to let Xia Everyone in the city was dumbfounded.

Chapter 73 Struggle with heaven and earth, and enjoy endless fun (end)

Xiacheng did not receive too much rain until the wheat grain filling period, and the simplest part of the entire water conservancy system was finally basically completed in April.

There are still several places with large height gaps that have not been completed, and it is estimated that it will take one or two months to complete.

The two long canals are like a mother's hands caring for the wheat field. There are several vertical diversion canals between the two parallel canals, which divide the whole wheat field into well-shaped grids.

At the place where the Caohe River is connected to the water diversion canal, earthen baskets are filled with stones to build a diversion embankment. Taking advantage of the southward turning arc of the Cao River, the clear upper water can continuously flow into the diversion canal.

The canal flows through the depression, where it becomes a pond covering an area of ​​tens of acres, which has not been developed yet, but Chen Jian will never let that pond go to waste.

Near the shore of the pond, a silt pond was surrounded by soil, a lot of lotus root was planted, and a lot of fish were stocked.

There is only a small piece of silt surrounding the field in the entire pond, which is also a model. There is no shortage of fish in Xiacheng, but fish dung silt is also a good fertilizer. In the future, the clan will gradually learn, and these trivial matters do not need to be enforced.

On the third day of April, the fragrance of wheat blossoms spread all over the land around Xiacheng, and the wheat has entered the most critical period of grain filling.

The unfinished work was stopped by Chen Jian, and the 20-day large-scale unpaid voluntary labor finally came to an end.

A large amount of food was taken from the public property, and the whole city was drunk with wine. More than 140 people who had changed from slaves to slave farmers were also allowed to participate.

After drinking and eating, this diversion canal had a name, and someone who was half-drunk shouted: "This canal is called Xiaqu."

No one objected, so this newly-born canal has its own name. The planned Xiaqu canal has a total length of more than ten kilometers, but now only a fraction of it has been completed. It is not a system at all, only a few prototypes.

The drunken people walked to the river bank together, and the strongest young men pushed open the pine buoyancy valve that had been plugged in advance. The raging river broke away from the river course for millions of years, and for the first time flowed to where people want them to go.

The water flow in Xiaqu is not fast, and it will be very difficult to irrigate all the [-] mu of land. As the leader of the city, Chen Jian has another right: he decides where to irrigate first, because the rest cannot let everyone convince.

Chen Jian still used the lottery method and calculated the flow of water. It can irrigate [-] mu of land every day, and it takes at least six or seven days to complete a rotation.

While the clansmen were releasing water, the leader and members of the council once again came to the mountain overlooking the entire plain. The people in the distance were as small as ants crawling on the vast land, but the light from the pool could be clearly seen.

As the water level rose, it finally reached the gap between the reservoir and Xiaqu. Like everyone on the top of the mountain, Chen Jian held his breath.

Whether the water can flow smoothly is the key. If it cannot flow, then the labor of thousands of people in the city for more than [-] days will be in vain.

Although Chen Jian used the method of level measurement to ensure the smooth flow of water in the canal, there must be errors in the calculation. Once the water flow is not smooth, it will be a huge blow to the morale of the tribe.

The watching crescent stared at the head of the water in the Xiaqu, watching the uncontrolled water flowing smoothly to every corner of the Xiaqu like an army formation.

When the water soaked a standing stone man at the end of Xiaqu, there was a loud shout of joy on the hillside.

"Water, flow through!"

"As if someone was directing them, Jixia said that the terrain is a bit high, and the water really didn't flow there!"

"We can literally make the water flow the way we want!"

Chen Jian suppressed the excitement in his heart, reached into his clothes, and pulled his skin hard to make himself suffer, pretended to be indifferent, and said with a light smile: "As I said, floods and droughts are inevitable. If the mountain is in the way, move the mountain; if the water does not flow, dig the canal. There is nothing in this world that cannot be done with two hands."

Hearing these words, the clansmen were thoughtful, E Strider looked at the gray water surface inexplicably, thinking that when he stood on the top of the mountain a month ago, he was still thinking, maybe the people in Xiacheng were dreaming, and the water would Flowing in the direction that people want, this is a whole new world!

What is heaven and earth?In the eyes of Crescent Strider and most people of this era, they are nothing but insurmountable mountains, untouchable clouds, unstoppable water, elusive winds, and unchanging four seasons.

Can man overcome heaven and earth?

A year ago, E-strider never thought about this question, because this question is like asking who is older, your father or you?Such questions do not need to be answered.

But a year later, this question that didn't need to be answered had a different answer in Xiacheng.

In the impassable mountains, there is a simple road from the copper mine to the Caohe wharf. The grass used to be everywhere, but now there are only yellow sand and tenacious plantains.

Under the untouchable clouds, there are many more ethereal and dancing kites. They sway their bodies and shake their tails. Perhaps as long as the twine is long enough, they can be higher than the clouds.

In the elusive wind, two windmills are babbling and turning. The elusive wind is like a cow tied with a rope, pulling a heavy stone mill, just because people want to eat wheat flour.

Even the four seasons that cannot be changed are shattered by the two pots of gourds in the meeting hall. In winter, the clansmen don't know why Yu Qianer always wipes the stamens of the gourds with a ball of linen, but in the season when everything is silent A few small green gourds defeat the snow-white winter, making people think of Xia Yan.

In the eyes of E Strider, all of this was just curiosity, and some were just for fun, but when I saw the flowing water meandering by today, and heard Chen Jian say that man can overcome the sky, these things that I usually noticed but didn't pay attention to Everything comes together at this moment.

Humans can really overcome heaven and earth!

In fact, no, this is only the narrow sense of the world, and the broad sense of the norms between heaven and earth, no one can beat it, but E Strider is not a philosopher, so he will not consider the difference, but he feels a little... fear of Chen Jian, and more Much respect.

"If one day my father wants to go to war with Xiacheng... I must stop it."

I have seen it with my own eyes, so I can feel the power contained in it.The simple Xiaqu, but what is shocking is the three views of the E-strider. Together with those kites, windmills, gourds and roads, this land has more traces left by people besides the cities, so it shows the strength of hands and minds. Great power.

When Chen Jian opened the silk silk again, E Strider no longer looked at the question and disbelief, but silently looked at the picture.

There are still many ditches on the map, but there is no trace now; there are more farmlands on the map, which are still barren and desolate.

But when he looked at this picture again, he believed that all of this would happen eventually, and Xia City would be the same as this picture.

After silence, he said piously and emotionally: "Ji Xia, your hand has drawn Xia City."

"No, it was the hands of everyone in Xiacheng who drew Xiacheng. E-strider, if one day you are elected as the leader by the tribe, I hope you can remember this sentence. This is the first thing you learned in Xiacheng. A lesson, and the most important one, never to be forgotten."

Chapter 74 News from afar ([-])

E-strider felt that he had learned a lot, but Chen Jian told him that this was the first lesson, so he kept it in his heart and understood it easily.

History is sometimes a strange circle, a sad and pitiful strange circle, which never goes out.