From Chief to Ball

The people in Acropolis still wanted to say something, but after Chen Jian gave these orders, he had already left first, closed the door of the meeting, and was thinking inside.

The Acropolis incident this time was obviously a case of internal and external collusion, but the essence was that there was a problem with the Acropolis system.

Today, a unified culture and system have not yet formed within the cultural circle, and each city has its own system to adapt to the surrounding environment. Some systems seem strange, but they do exist.

Looking at these weird systems from the perspective of future generations, it is certainly ridiculous and meaningless, but only history can prove who is right and who is wrong. They have been eliminated by history.

History has just begun now, and the tribes that have gone from the wilderness to civilization have many weird systems, which have not completely disappeared.

The Acropolis conquered a large number of Xirong villages, degraded some of them as slaves, and kept some small villages. Chen Jian heard from the people in the caravan that these small villages not only bear heavy corvee, but also Turn over half of the grain to the Acropolis.

The people in these villages are not necessarily slaves, but more like serfs. They are human beings and own part of the land, but they have no political rights, but they are the main producers of the Acropolis.

The most important thing is that the population ratio of these people is a bit too high, and once something happens, something big will happen.

This time, it was obviously premeditated. After launching the rebellion, Wei He was deliberately lured to pursue it. The Xirong people in the mountains set up an ambush in the valley, which can be said to be a perfect ambush.If Weihe died in the ambush, then the Acropolis would not be besieged now, maybe some people in the city would open the door, offer some food and women, and take the position of leader under the support of the Xirong people.

Yuan thought a little more, and was able to see that those people would affect his own interests, but more Acropolis people would choose to follow the trend and accept, kill those who did not accept, and accept the rest.

According to Yuan, there are about six or seven thousand people surrounding the Acropolis. The number is a bit scary, but it is not impossible.

The Xirong people learned the method of planting from the Acropolis, and those serf villages may also have received the promise of the Xirong people to provide food support.

The six or seven thousand people who can really fight may only be three or two thousand, and the rest are just make up, but they have just ambushed Weihe, and there is civil strife in the city of Acropolis, and the Xirong people outside are in full swing. Danger.

No system is inherently sound, and it needs a little accumulation. With the experience of his previous life, Chen Jian has avoided some detours. There are also peasants in Xiacheng who need to pay more than half of the grain, but their number is less than 200 people, even if they want to make trouble, they can't collude with the outside world, and the number is too small to make waves.

It would be strange if the Acropolis had a perfect slavery system from the very beginning. Chen Jian even mentioned that some cities would throw the old people into the mountains to reduce the burden on the city. The cities in this world are not exactly the same, but have taken different paths between the wild and the civilized.

Right or wrong, it is difficult to convince others in this era, only the group that survived by natural selection is the right group.

In any case, he wanted to help Acropolis, but when he could help Xia City to get the greatest benefits was also a question he had to consider as the city leader.

Fighting depends on the tribe, and the tribe also needs a reason. He also needs a promise from the Acropolis, is it to give food?to slaves?or something else?It is impossible to let the clansmen die in vain.

Now that Wei Xi is seriously injured, the rest of the accompanying people may not be able to decide, he can only choose to wait.

Words such as Xirong originated from the cultural circles on both sides of the river. The people of the tribe have not accepted this kind of indoctrination since they were young, and it is difficult to understand the meaning of it. In their view, fighting is fighting. It may be possible to help the people of the Acropolis to fight, but There must be a good reason, right?

Everything is mutual, including the identity of the ethnic group. Just because they are relatives with similar cultures, everyone will be full of fighting spirit, and the noise will shake the sky. That can only exist in fantasy.

Even if the nation is really formed in the future, it is only the dream of scholars to make brothers fight against their humiliation outside the wall. Those who have power are not afraid to borrow soldiers from other races for their own interests, even if they are emperors themselves. Even if the capital is allowed to be plundered by foreigners.

Besides, Xiacheng had only fought a battle half a year ago, and the feather arrows were consumed a lot. The wheat harvest was about to be harvested, and a large population was needed. At this time, no matter what, it was impossible to send troops, otherwise Xiacheng would not be able to recover its vitality for at least three years.

While pondering the pros and cons of it, the door of the meeting hall was opened, and Su He and others walked in, as well as some tribal leaders and members of the meeting.

The people in the council didn't quite know whether they should send troops to help, ordinarily, it would be fine if they could capture as many slaves as Shanghui did, but the people in the council considered the issue from Xiacheng's perspective, and the leaders of those tribes But don't think so.

People die in wars, and those who die are not only your own clansmen, but the slaves you snatched back last time, Ji Xia, were distributed to your clansmen, and you said that they belonged to them personally, which greatly weakened the authority and interests of the clan leaders.

Now the right to start the war is not in your hands, but in the hands of the council, even if most of the people in the council are from your side, we still have to consider our opinions.

It is not impossible to fight, but how to distribute slaves and spoils?If you continue to divide like this, the clansmen will only remember that they are from Xiacheng, who will take the clan leader seriously?

Indeed, you, Ji Xia, can make the light and strong men in the city listen to you, but we may not have no energy as leaders, it is still okay to talk about why people who die in wars fight for others.When you first forged Wufeng, you said that the military leader left the tribe and was nothing. What if everyone opposed your sending troops?

People with different thoughts were looking at Chen Jian, but Chen Jian kept silent, he was still thinking about it.

Su He didn't know much about the internal differences in Xia City. Looking at Chen Jian's silence, he thought that Chen Jian was shocked by the number of Xirong people that Yuan said. Six to seven thousand people is indeed not a small number. A large tribe may not be able to gather so many people.

"Chief Jixia, did you expect the Xirong people to be so powerful? Ten years ago we drove them all the way west along the great river. They didn't know how to plant millet at that time, but now they can gather thousands of people and have learned how to sow millet. ,Why……"

The process of conquest and expansion is originally a process of technology dissemination. Chen Jian doesn't find it strange. It would be strange if he hasn't learned planting from the tribes of Dahe after fighting for more than ten years.

Seeing that Su He broke the dullness, everyone asked one after another: "Ji Xia, do you want to help Weicheng?"

Chen Jian said slowly, "Let me think about it again."

He is determined to send troops, in order to seize the benefits after the war.

But fighting is just a process, the most important thing is what to do after the war is over?

Su He thought that Chen Jian was timid, but he didn't ridicule him. He thought that if he was the leader, he might not be able to fight this battle. There are thousands of people in Xirong.

He has seen everything about Xia Cheng, and he has a general understanding of Xia Cheng.The population of Xiacheng is not large among the tribes on both sides of the river. Even if all the men go out to fight, they can only gather 2000 people, but even if the whole city is empty, there is nothing they can do.

What's more, even if they don't want anything, they all go out, 2000 people are still too small compared to the number of Xirong people.

He had heard about the Battle of Yangguan, where the people of Xiacheng defended the city. After listening to the whole battle, he always felt that Chen Jian won by relying on great luck.

This time, if they want to get out of the siege, they need to defeat the Xirong people in an upright manner, and the expedition is hundreds of miles away, and the Xirong people are waiting for work, so this battle is not easy to fight.

There was internal turmoil in the Acropolis, Weihe was injured, and people's hearts were unstable. They couldn't gather many people to go out of the city to support them. It would be good if they could hold the city at most. There are still so many slaves in the Acropolis. Most of them are prisoners of war from Xirong. some risk factors.

"If this is in Sucheng, there may be a way. As far as Xiacheng is concerned, after all, the population is too small, and Acropolis is in danger this time."

Su He thought in his heart, shaking his head secretly, adding Su City and the surrounding tribal towns, it is possible to gather [-] people from more than a dozen cities, but the water in the distance cannot quench the thirst, and even if Su Yue knows, It is also unlikely to go out thousands of miles to save the Acropolis.

Although the Acropolis has a city wall, there is no shortage of water near the big river, and there is still a lot of food and people, but the land outside the city is occupied, no matter how much food there is, there will be a day when it is eaten up, and no matter how high the city wall is, it will be climbed one day .

At the beginning, the 71 relatives gathered together in Huacheng to make an oath, and it was so spectacular to surrender all around.

Now there are only sixty or so branches left among the 71 relatives, and perhaps there will be one less in the near future.

Seeing that Chen Jian was still thinking, Su He couldn't help but said: "It's a pity that Su City is too far away, and it will take at least a year for the army to come here... This matter is indeed difficult. Chief Ji Xia, you might as well send someone to ride a horse immediately Go to E City and tell the leader of E Yue about this."

"The six or seven thousand Xirongs will probably be very difficult to defeat. The Acropolis is besieged, and the Xia City needs to be prepared in advance. Chief Ji Xia might as well ask the tribe to strengthen the city walls and prepare weapons. If it really doesn't work, they can move east."

The leaders and the rest of the people immediately muttered a few words in dissatisfaction. Chen Jian snorted and shouted at the crowd: "Moving to the east? This is our land. Our ancestors slept in the surrounding mountains and forests. We used our hands to We have reclaimed so much land with the blood of the enemy, and we will never move eastward. One day in the future, when we die and go to the world where our ancestors lived, our ancestors asked us: Children, where is your land? What do we say? We Tell the ancestors that we can't keep it and throw it to others?"

Everyone shouted: "Yes, we're not going anywhere. Even if we do, it's because we have too many children and need to be separated. Besides, no one wants us to go."

"That is, everything has to be reset after the migration. What about the land? I am already very old, and I will meet my ancestors in the future. What should I say?"

Su He was a little embarrassed, kept silent, but said in his heart: "This is too much to say, with six to seven thousand people, even if you can hold Xiacheng, how can you hold the land outside? The people of Xirong don't Come, if you don’t come tomorrow, you will come one day. What you said today is nice, but in the future I want to see if you will move or not!”

Chapter 80 Alone, Do Great Things

"Well, I'll send someone to inform E Yue first. After all, Xiacheng and Echeng are sworn brothers, and the two surnames of Wei'e are also real relatives. Let's see what he has to say."

Chen Jian rubbed his head, did not directly answer everyone's questions, and decided to procrastinate.If the Xirong people reached Xiacheng, maybe everyone in the city would rise up and fight, but if they wanted to fight for other cities, they might not be so interested.

The crowd had no other choice for a while, so they had to send riders first, and some of those people from Acropolis went to E City together.

In the evening, all the people in the council were called together, and instead of discussing this matter, they distributed this year's winter wheat harvest.

A few days later, E Yue sent someone to reply: "E City and Xia City are cities of brothers. If Xia Cheng goes to war, he will personally lead people to go with Ji Xia."