From Chief to Ball

The leader at this time is not hereditary, and still needs to be elected and recognized by everyone. Lies such as being ordered by heaven and gods have not yet appeared. Chen Jian's words may be regarded as heresy and hanged on the gallows in 500 years, but at this time. It has been recognized by everyone.

E strider felt that Chen Jian was teaching him how to be a leader, so he was very happy, and paid respects to Chen Jian with the most precious etiquette in E City.

Chen Jian planted the seed, and he felt that the seed was good, so he accepted the etiquette of Crane Strider calmly.

Putting away the blueprints, he led the people down the mountain, inspected the land being irrigated, and heard the gratitude and astonishment of some clansmen. People are not sages, and Chen Jian naturally felt a little proud and satisfied.

In order to continue this pride, he led his people to install orange bars in some rugged and difficult-to-irrigate places, using levers to fetch water for irrigation.

The grouted wheat has enough water, and this year will be a bumper harvest, and Chen Jian's burden is much lighter. When the wheat is harvested, the public warehouse can at least raise more cats, and there is no need to worry about the tribe running on Taobei.

The follow-up project has been carried out since this day. Chen Jian divided [-] slaves, and according to the method of drawing one out of ten men, he drew labor from various tribes, slowly dug the remaining ditches, and tried to finish it before autumn together.

The clan has not yet disintegrated, and the rotation of ten men can ensure that the clan has enough people to work in the fields.

Clan leaders had the right to choose one out of ten, and they began to taste the taste of power. The corvee population drawn out were basically not the immediate family members of the clan leader, but some offshoots of the clan.

This can also be regarded as Chen Jian's means of selling these people in exchange for the support of the clan leaders. In the future, when the clan disintegrates and divides the land, he will not intervene. It can be predicted that those leaders will leave the most fertile land to their children. Xia City will no longer be indestructible, and the cracks in the hierarchy will eventually appear, and he cannot and cannot make up for it.

When the extracted people began to work, Chen Jian took advantage of the short gap between wheat harvesting and weeding, and brought the slaves in the city to the place where the wood was piled up in winter, and started another construction.

This construction has nothing to do with the city’s material, but a spiritual pursuit. With the improvement of the city’s productivity and the appearance of surplus products, the tribe needs some recreational activities in their spare time.

Last year, he invited people from E City and Acropolis to the alliance, and he also wanted to promote exchanges between the three cities through an entertainment event.

Sports games and theaters, this is his plan. People don't just need to eat, they also need some other adjustments after they are full. Using stories and grand events to subtly change the sense of identity of the people in the three cities.

The land has been selected, and the wood felled in winter has been piled up in the selected place.

It is only three miles away from Xiacheng. It is a small natural valley, surrounded by mountains on both sides. The mountains are not high, and there are only small hills of 40 meters.

Under the hill is a flat grassland, which has been burned in the spring, and the grass has become low after being trampled by cows and horses.

The small valley is about 200 meters long, and it will be used as a playground for future city events and exchanges between the three cities.

Using the natural terrain, a simple open-air venue can be made.

The hills with a height of tens of meters can be used as natural high and low seats, which can save a huge amount of engineering.

The slaves dug the soil into terraces according to the lines drawn in advance, with a width of two steps and one floor, a total of fifteen floors, and the height difference between each floor was about half a meter.

After it was compacted, stones were brought in, and lime and yellow mud were used to build a step every thirty steps to facilitate people's walking.

On the terraced fields, simple wooden stools are used as seats for the sports meeting, for the clansmen who come to watch and people from the other two cities to sit.

There are fifteen floors in total, and each floor can seat 500 people, which can ensure that thousands of people can watch.

Chen Jian stood on one of the top terraces and sat down, took a look, and found that the angle of view was not bad.

Cities cannot be built in a day, and wonders cannot be built in a year. With the current population, it is enough to build such a site.

After the steps and wooden chairs were repaired, Chen Jian asked the slaves to surround the place without the hillside with wood, and circled a 400-meter-square site.

At the corner between two small hills, a viewing stand was built. The foundation made of stones was three meters above the ground, making it into the shape of a tower, on which were placed chairs covered with tiger skin on three sides, as the three chiefs watched. The place.

Behind the chairs on three sides, a row of loose chairs was built to serve as seats for the members of the city council, leaders, and relatives of the two cities. In this way, the clansmen gradually accepted the difference in identity.

In the center of the field below, a circular platform with a radius of 20 meters was built with wood and stones. It will be used as a stage for future theater performances, and it can be used as a venue for wrestling, wrestling, stick fighting, fencing and other competitions during sports games.

Chen Jian planned the scale of this sports meeting. It does not need to be very large, but it must be a joyful event, so that slave owners who have spare energy and surplus products will like this kind of entertainment, form a habit, and urge these slave owners They have strong bodies.

Sports originated from war and hunting.

This time, Chen Jian had planned more than [-] events for the sports meeting. Judging from the current situation in the city, at least five victories could be guaranteed.

The prizes for the sports meeting are also being produced in secret. They must show Xiacheng's level, be able to calm down those people, and at the same time make those who get the prizes never forget it. They must also have a high value, so as to play an encouraging role .

The items that Xiacheng can ensure to suppress the other two cities include: riding, chariots, queues, and bomb throwing.

The rule of the equestrian competition is to cross some low obstacles and use the spear to pierce the straw man at the finish line. In this event, Xia City can basically beat the other two cities with certainty.

Chariot races require a larger field. In addition to speed, the role of war must also be taken into account. The left side of the car has to shoot the distant target on the Mercedes-Benz chariot, and the right side of the car has to clean up the traps and blocks deliberately set on the ground at any time. To allow the chariot to pass quickly.

Queue and throwing bombs, this can be regarded as Chen Jian dancing with his relatives, to deter the two races.

Apart from these items, Xiacheng doesn't have many advantages. For long and short running, charging with heavy loads, and sword fighting, Echeng and Acropolis must also be full of talents.

It doesn't matter whether you win or lose, as long as the people of those two races like this kind of sports meeting, the biggest winner is Chen Jian.

Xia City will become the cultural center and economic center of the northwestern border of the Dahe Cultural Circle.

Chapter 75 News from afar ([-])

Xia City's uniqueness and central position are just Chen Jian's plans and dreams. Even Acropolis and E City may not admit this at this time, not to mention the other cities on both sides of the distant river, which are similar to those cities with a long history. Compared to, Xia Cheng is still too young.

But in the eyes of some people, Xiacheng is unique and beautiful. For example, Ji Song, who left Xiacheng for half a year and is now walking home, talked more when he was close to his home, and kept walking with a group of people beside him. Talk about the beauty of Xiacheng.

"As you said, Xiacheng is really different from other cities. A village is formed in one year, and a city in two years. Heh, you have been away for half a year now, and I don't know if it will change. You don't even recognize it. ,Ha ha!"

On the bank of the river leading to Xiacheng from the lower reaches of the Cao River, Ji Song was a little angry when he heard the disbelief and slight sarcasm in the voice of the person next to him.

However, he believed in Chen Jian, and also believed that there would be some changes in Xiacheng during the six months since he left, so he replied confidently: "I don't know, but it must be different from half a year ago. There are still a few days left The road is here, and you can go and see for yourself when the time comes."

The people in the company smiled faintly, hearing the dissatisfaction in Ji Song's tone, they stopped talking, and also looked forward to seeing Xia Cheng that Ji Song had been talking about.

When Ji Song left, Xiacheng was planting winter wheat, and now that he finally came back from the lower reaches of the Cao River, it was late spring and early summer.

There was no answer to the answer he wanted to seek along the way. From the vast land between Caohe and Dahe, he passed through more than a dozen cities and settlements. Although the scenes he saw were different and each had its own characteristics, there was one thing. But it is the same.

For all the cities and tribes that got rid of gathering and hunting, the clan has almost disintegrated into a family. The only difference lies in the size of the concept of family. The clan may still have remnants, but it is like charcoal in the stove pit in the morning. With residual warmth, it will eventually be extinguished.

What Ji Song wanted to see: the situation of planting land with a large amount of surplus products while retaining the collective distribution of clan public labor has not been seen all the way.

Fire is hot and ice is cold, this is an immutable thing.

In the past, Ji Song didn't think that the disintegration of family and clan was as unchangeable as hot and cold. In his opinion, this was just a white horse and a dark horse, so he left the city to seek an answer, but it turned out that this was not a white horse and a dark horse. But ice and fire.

For half a year, after traveling thousands of miles, Song saw many cities and the world beyond the Cao River, and brought the story of Xia City to both sides of the river, so he had more people accompanying him.

The accompanying people did not make a pilgrimage after listening to the story, but came to check and inform these cities in the northwest border as envoys of Sucheng: the era of wars and conquests on both sides of the river is over, and leaders elected by more than a dozen tribes have appeared , It is time to let the surnames such as E and Wei who have left Hwaseong for more than ten years go back to worship and pay tribute.

As for the surname Ji, it is very weird and not well-known. The cities on both sides of the river have not heard of this surname after thinking about it for a long time.

However, the horses, bronze, and wheat brought by Ji Song made the leaders of the cities have to believe that such a new city belonging to the same cultural circle and seemingly qualified to be equal to them had quietly appeared in Dahe On a tributary of the river called the Grass River.

The leaders of those cities thought very simply. Neither the E surname nor the Wei surname were the most powerful tribes on both sides of the river, but they were by no means weak. A city that could be sandwiched between the two cities and swear an oath to it, It must also have similar strength.

Eyue's clansmen have migrated away from Dahe for more than ten years, and the news spread very slowly in the age of travel, so that Chen Jian, who heard the story from Eyue, thought that there were still various tribes fighting on both sides of the river. scene.