From Chief to Ball

Chen Jian would not take the people from E City and Acropolis to visit those handicraft workshops, but he was not worried about these tribes who were still drinking their blood.

Opening the door of the warehouse, two black cats bowed their bodies, meowed a few times, and then disappeared with a whoosh. A few little bats were awakened from the gap in the warehouse, looked at the sun and turned their bodies Sleeping upside down on a wooden beam.

"So much food... How long will this be enough for Xiacheng?"

"So many pottery... How long will it take the people of Xiacheng to use it?"

Chen Jian laughed and said: "You have also seen that everything in the warehouse and in the market can be exchanged for those Taobei copper shells. There are a lot of Taobei given back to you, which can be used for the entire Xia City. This amount of grain is not enough to make wine for a year, so you can rest assured."

Those people clenched the shells in their hands and asked, "Then why don't we just exchange food?"

"Food is too heavy. Sometimes caravans don't carry so much when they go to your village. You can first exchange things for Taobei, you can go to Yangguan, Shangcheng and other places to exchange, as long as it is the land of Xiacheng, these Taobei They can be exchanged. In the future, all kinds of goods in Xiacheng can only be bought with shells, and they will no longer be exchanged directly."

"The goods in these warehouses are our Xiacheng's promise. As long as you have the Taobei and copper shells fired by Xiacheng in your hands, you can exchange everything you want in Xiacheng at any time."

"Eat, wear, use, what Xiacheng doesn't have, and other cities don't have it either."

These people who listened to Chen Jian's bragging had basically never seen other cities, and there was no horizontal comparison, only the comparison between their own settlements and the warehouses in Xiacheng. doubt.

"Can we live like this too?"

Chen Jian smiled and said: "Of course, as long as you stand with Xiacheng, we will teach you how to plant, but you have to pay part of the food for Xiacheng. This autumn, I will send some people to your village, Live there for half a year and teach you all about it."

He has already selected the manpower, that is, those who have passed the simple assessment in the school and those who have been elected by everyone but have no official positions. They will all be sent to the villages outside for a year of experience, teaching those villages planting, fishing, weaving, etc. technology.

These lowest-level industries do not require a technological monopoly, but if Xiacheng's handicraft industry wants to sell, it must have a market.If there is no market, then support them and create a market by yourself. This kind of hidden exploitation of scissors is far better than directly capturing them as slaves.

With the help of the first increase in demand caused by this separation, Xiacheng will use three years to rapidly develop the handicraft industry. Food, linen and other things need to be guaranteed by the rest of the village, otherwise the manpower will be spent on farming to develop fundamentally Can't get up.

In the previous life, a certain religion with strong expansion was sent to various villages in the early days to help the villages build houses, farm land, preach, gain people's trust, and then spread the faith, so that people of faith can see the real quality of the event Ascension, so that they are also easier to convert.

There is no religion in Xiacheng, and the birth of official religion will not be until the disintegration of slavery. People can't think of a solution to the changes of the times. They can only restrain people who have been changed by the times from the perspective of human morality.

Whether it is the enlightenment under the Bodhi tree or the holy light in the stable, they are all seeking "what to do" in the great changes of the times. The darkness brought about by change.

The people Chen Jian wants to send out are actually similar to missionaries, and the main purpose is to unify beliefs and myths.

The Chinese paternal ancestors in the previous life were actually very few, and their blood was very pure, but it took thousands of years of accumulation and development. It took thousands of years from the Yellow River to occupy the best land in East Asia.

Time can guarantee the purity of the ethnic group, but it doesn't apply here. Chen Jian can't wait for thousands of years for the population to develop enough before expanding outwards. He can only continue to use cultural advantages to absorb more population. After all, this is not the previous life. History.

The leaders of these settlements were unaware of Chen Jian's sinister intentions. On the contrary, they expressed their gratitude and promised that after learning how to plant, they would pay grain in accordance with the laws of Xiacheng, and would also come out when Xiacheng needed to collect corvee. people.

This is not only an exchange, but also because of the deterrence of Xiacheng's powerful force. The leaders of these tribes are very clear: because a certain tribe near Yangguan is close to Xiacheng, they have bronze weapons to capture slaves and accumulate wealth. The planting started near Yangguan, and those tribes who did not submit to Xiacheng did not need Xiacheng to appear. Those tribes who plundered slaves and exchanged them with Xiacheng would be happy to help Xiacheng solve those who were not convinced.

"Don't rush to make an oath yet. Acropolis, E City and more settlements will come tomorrow. After offering sacrifices to the ancestors, let's make an oath again."

Chapter 1 Carnival and Hegemony ([-])

Everything Chen Jian does is for others to see, so he has to wait for those who want to come.

The wait was tough, especially the first time the entire Xia City hosted such a large-scale celebration. There were so many things going on, and I didn't sleep well for two days in a row.

On July [-]th, all invited and spontaneous people from various clans crowded Xiacheng. Xiacheng without expansion could not accommodate so many people, so they could only be distributed outside.

With the sacrificial hall in Xiacheng as the center, the status of those who are closer to the sacrificial hall will be higher. In name, the three cities of Xia, Wei, and E are equal, but the leaders of those small settlements are far behind. Some well-known people in the city are not as good, so they can only be ranked at the outermost.

Because Dahe's cultural circle worships the sun, the sacrifice will be carried out at noon when the sun is at its hottest. All the preparations for Xia City have been completed. After reciting a eulogy, Red Fish is responsible for writing down these eulogies, engraving them on clay tablets and firing them.

The area around the cemetery was silent, and there were three wars in two consecutive years. Even though Xiacheng had system and technological advantages, there were still a lot of casualties. Fortunately, the family was not independent when the war happened, and the orphans were temporarily raised by the clan.

In the future, taking the family as the unit, raising orphans will require Xiacheng's public property expenditures. Chen Jian's offering sacrifices to the clansmen who died in battle is not only to show respect for the dead, but also to reassure everyone.

"In future battles, if you are disabled, you will be supported by the public property. If you die in battle, slaves will be sent out from the city to help your family plant the land. They will be exempted from tax until the child grows up. Wine and meat will be distributed every festival. If the land is not enough to support the child's growth, The city will always take care of the children. This is the oath of the leader of Xiacheng, and no matter who is the leader in the future, he must abide by it."

Everyone in Xiacheng cheered happily, but Yuqian'er beside Chen Jian was full of sadness. She discussed with Chen Jian and came to the conclusion that this kind of welfare may take up a large proportion of the public property if it is to be sustained.

There was no family burden in the early stage, but after a few years, this burden will become more and more serious, and it will not be relieved until the new generation of Xiacheng grows up.As Xia Cheng's manager, she is afraid that she will be busy with more things in the future.

The two leaders who stood with Chen Jian felt extremely helpless. They knew that what Chen Jian said was very good, and could make Xiacheng's soldiers have no worries when fighting, but they couldn't say such good words.

Xiacheng now has a great technological advantage. The food that a coppersmith works for a day is equivalent to the labor of [-] people in the other two cities. Xiacheng has a lot of public property, so I have the confidence to say such a thing , but the two cities of Wei'e have not yet.

E Yue came to Xiacheng yesterday, saw the sailing boat sailing against the wind in Xiacheng, and was amazed, but also began to regret the oath he made with Chen Jian in the mall more than a year ago: the transaction between the two cities is not allowed to charge any fees. taxes and fees.

At that time, there were a lot of woodware, lacquerware, silk, and black pottery in Echeng, and many things could be exchanged from Xiacheng every year; The rest of the city is squeezing the handicraft industry of Echeng by virtue of the advantages of downstream transportation and the cost advantage of skilled labor.

The pottery and silk in Xiacheng are far inferior, but some small commodities in Xiacheng emerge in endlessly, gradually leading the trend of wealthy families in Echeng.With the appearance of sailing boats, E Yue understood that the food in E City would be grown for Xia City.

When he made the oath, he thought he had made a profit, but he didn't expect that Xiacheng would develop into such a situation a year later, and he couldn't regret it now.

In a trance, E Yue suddenly thought that there was nothing in Xia City a year ago, and the wheels and sailboats guaranteed the transportation and transactions, but these things did not appear at all when the oath was made. Could it be that Chen Jian had thought of all this a year ago? OK?

"If so, it would be terrible..."

Thinking of this, E Yue glanced at Chen Jian quietly, only to find that Chen Jian, as always, was bowing to those tombstones and silently praying, with incomparable sincerity, and his youthful face was harmless to humans and animals.

After a long time, the sacrifice was over. Chen Jian looked at the sky, turned around and said, "It's almost time, it's time to sacrifice. Those people are still waiting by the river."

Those people naturally refer to the envoys from the surrounding settlements and the towns to the east of the Acropolis that did not send troops to rescue them.Chen Jian assigned slaves to build some thatched pavilions on the bank of the Caohe floating bridge, and those people would rest and wait there when they arrived.

Chen Jian didn't know anything about the various tedious rituals of sacrifice, but etiquette is nothing more than a way to deter and distinguish status. As long as the purpose is achieved, the remaining details can be carved by future generations, and someone will always formulate a suitable set of norms .

By the river, the envoys of the two cities stood under the huge shadow of the sailboat, thinking about the few tribute gifts they brought, and sighed.

The sailboat was docked motionless on the pier, and it was not the motionless sailboat that shocked the two messengers, but the soldiers of Xia City who lined up along the road.

The majestic chariots lined up on both sides of the road, and in the gaps between the chariots were formations of Xiacheng's new army. Under the hot sun, there was nothing trembling except for the bundled hair fluttering in the wind.

An envoy quietly stabbed another person, and whispered: "These people have been standing here for about an hour, and they are still lined up. Xiacheng's army is so powerful."

Naturally, the envoy cannot carry a buoyancy clepsydra for timekeeping, but it is inevitable to go to the toilet frequently when he is a little older, and he can still feel it after an hour.

It is not Xiacheng that has an army, any city has an army, and the nature of the army is similar. They are all recruited slave owners, but the envoy never knew that there is an army that can stand under the scorching sun for an hour. This level of discipline Sex has gone beyond their imagination.

When the envoys from the three cities went to their cities, they heard about the great victory over the Xirong people in the mountains and rivers, but they could only understand the things the envoys said about the two thousand breaking five thousand, thunderbolt support, and chariot impact. It was people from the three cities who were bragging.

A small town has its sorrows. The means of making friends with a long distance and attacking close to it are used by great powers to fight for hegemony. For a small town, doing so is a dead end. They want to make good friends with the big cities around them, and they must also take into account the warnings of those alien races. , Seeking survival in the cracks.

After living in the cracks for a long time, I have some wisdom in the cracks.Admit mistakes, pay tribute, and offer gifts, but will never stand in line.

After listening to the envoys of the Three Cities bragging, they certainly didn't believe in the words of using less to win more thunder, but they decisively expressed their mistakes and sent envoys with gifts to calm down the Acropolis people. anger.

But there are not many gifts, just a formality. Anyway, they are hundreds of miles away. With the strength of the Acropolis, it may be difficult for them to go on an expedition. The other two of the three alliance cities are farther apart, and they are beyond reach. All they need to do is express their attitude.

However, when they saw the Xiacheng army holding relatives and dancing and those strange chariots they had never seen before, they already regretted that they carried too few gifts. At least it seemed that these people might really have the strength of two thousand to five thousand .

A row of the thickest and strongest soldiers had black pottery balls hanging on their bodies. This is the source of the saying that Tianlei helped the messengers. What kind of power will it have.