From Chief to Ball

The ones at the front are obviously some harshly trained sword and shield soldiers, leaning their bodies to charge against the defense on the opposite side; the "archers" in the back row suddenly fired "cold arrows" to attack the weakest place on the opposite side; the rangers waited for the opportunity Either intimidate or attack from the side...

The simple ball, practiced in the form of a military formation, made most of the audience who had been on the battlefield applaud loudly, as if seeing their own shadow.

There are only so many competitions on the first day, and the four competitions are full of expectations. They have guided the spiritual needs of everyone, and shamelessly snatched the title of the top four strongest to Xiacheng.

Whether it's chariots or riding skills, the rest of the cities can't compete. The leaders of the cities have no honor, so they naturally thought of getting some chariots and horses from Xiacheng, especially when they saw those people wearing garlands and listening to the city. When the people of the Yi clan cheered, they also hoped that the cheers would appear on their own people.

In the competition that started the next day, people from other cities appeared, such as javelin, bow and arrow, and race. The cities were evenly matched, and there were a lot of people participating.

If you want to compete, there are few requirements: not a slave.

After the contest, the rewards are many: vanity, fame, cheers, prizes, and courtship from the opposite sex.

During the competition, the three cities and the people in those small settlements got closer, promoted exchanges, and left expectations.

After five days of carnival, everyone reluctantly left, looking forward to the start of the next one.

After discussion, the three cities agreed that such a carnival would be held once every three years in Xia City. The project had already been fixed, and the rewards were still generous.

Chen Jian looks forward to not only these people participating next time, but perhaps more.In order to promote the communication between the three cities, Chen Jian also told the people in the other cities that Xiacheng has a new drama and will go to the other cities to perform. If people in the other cities have time, they can also come to Xiacheng to watch it. .

For this carnival, Xiacheng consumed a lot of resources and food, which made Yuqian'er feel pain, but Chen Jian just smiled lightly after seeing those numbers.

All of this is worthwhile, and it cannot be measured by grain money, because it can promote exchanges between cities and speed up mutual recognition and sense of belonging.

And...Through this carnival, Xiacheng demonstrated its economic, cultural, technological and military advantages, carried the aftermath of the Battle of Shanze, and established the hegemony within a radius of [-] miles of Caohe, at least within a few years Unshakable, and more and more settlements will move closer to the city.

The Three Cities Alliance seems to be equal, but it is a balance between one strong and two weak, and Xiacheng is still the leader.

Ba Zhe, Bo Ye.Uncle, the elder brother of the family, although this elder brother is wild and self-proclaimed.An elder brother does not need to bully his younger brother, but to deal with the disputes between younger brothers, conquer those who are not convinced, and win over those who are convinced. Chen Jian is very clear-headed. This is not the time to oppress and oppress, and he needs to maintain a fair and fair image , Continue to stand the archway, under the banner of family harmony.

After the carnival that achieved its goal, Xiacheng gradually calmed down, repeating the past life, but the subtle changes in life were revealed in the repetition, and everyone was struggling with their own lives in the ordinary life after the carnival.

Yu Qian'er was busy working hard for her promise, followed the sailing boat to Echeng, calculated the difference between the transportation with the oxcart, and started sailing between Xiacheng and Echeng once every ten days, and occasionally opened a new play in Xiacheng. Sometimes, the people of Echeng will use the speed of Taobei from Xiacheng to come and go by boat, and the civet cat who desperately reported the news after the decisive battle with the Meteor tribe ran out if it didn't rain.

After the civet cat won the cheer and title of the fastest runner, it ushered in Lancao's second pregnancy. With its military exploits, it built a new house outside the city, which was decorated beautifully. If someone wants to push Chen Jian down in the next year, they will use spears to make those people retreat, and those who contact secretly will naturally have white horses.

The white horse was sent to Yangguan, stationed there for three years and at the same time served as the manager of Yangguan. As a model of lightly opening up foreign wars and provoking frontiers, Chen Jian vigorously advocated it, and became the prototype of a new scene in Xiacheng.

Shi Shan still hated the white horse, but kept his original vow and would never seek trouble again.The few surviving people on the grassland left the clan and agreed to work together, and the children in the future would also be together. Regardless of the amount of land, everything was distributed equally.Sometimes they would also go to the cemetery to commemorate those comrades who lived together but did not die together. They would get drunk every time and couldn't get out of the nightmare of parting on the grassland that night.

Mu Ma, a model supported by Chen Jian, bought four sheep, opened up a lot of land, and was elected as Li Si by everyone, and was in charge of more than 50 companies.His house has been built long ago, and women have also lived in his house. Perhaps the life of children playing and women doing laundry that Chen Jian drew for them will come true soon.After clearing the land and returning home, the woman warmed up his favorite tofu and fermented sauce, and a gourd of yellow-green pea wine. After drinking, she made a sound of snoring. The woman covered him with sheepskin, curled up in his arms, and said that he should go to the market tomorrow. Get a large clay pot, but don't burn the acorns.

Acorn withdrew from the New Army and vowed to make excellent pottery, but it was difficult to reach the level of black pottery in Echeng. After being mocked and ridiculed by Yu Qianer, he finally gave up and only burned those simple pottery to sell in those small settlements. .But after finishing his busy work, he always secretly burns it by himself, hoping that one day his name will appear in the ballad. Of course, this ballad must not be a song that describes the tax official as a big rat.

The tax official Ji Yun, who was once sung by the wild people who cut down trees as a mouse, gradually got used to the singing that cursed him, and began to accept gifts from the wild people's village.

However, shortly after accepting the gift, Ji Song, who had lost his hand, beat him up. Although Ji Song was no longer Xiacheng's commander, Ji Yun did not dare to resist this beating, because Ji Song was the leader of Xiacheng. He broke his hand, tasted herbs for his tribe, and went to a faraway country to find a way for how to get Xiacheng.

There are more and more people who have the same doubts as Ji Song. After the reform, various problems under private ownership began to appear, which were more serious than before the disintegration of the clan.They are not many in number, but they are spring-singing frogs. They have begun to think in the changing times, with a kind of depression of ideals but not knowing how to go.

When the clans were busy measuring the land and preparing to divide the land next year, the people who walked with Ji Song were called to the sacrificial hall by Chen Jian. After talking for a long time, Ji Song didn't know whether he understood or not, but he thought of himself. The first time a deer sledge went to the settlement controlled by the Meteor tribe to act as a god.

These people were used by Chen Jian in the most suitable place for them to go. With Xiacheng's planting technology and new way of life, they went to the settlements in the mountains, spread Xiacheng's beliefs and ancestor worship, taught those people to plant and live, And try to build your own ideal village.They are not afraid of suffering and simple life, but only want to seek an answer. Chen Jian believes that after tempering, these people will pass on their simple thoughts about the times, the spark of these thoughts and the doubts of "how to do" in the transformation , will be brewing in the times and mature one day in the future.

Living people interpret various life styles, joy, anger, sorrow are connected with each other, each person inadvertently affects the rest of the people, Xiacheng is alive, and the world is changing.

And this kind of life, this kind of life that is no longer like a machine, made Chen Jian feel relieved, arranged things in the city, and set foot on the road to both sides of the river at the end of autumn.

Volume Four Up and Down the River

Chapter 1 Qiu Qing

Blue sky, yellow leaves.Autumn is sunny and rainless.

Under the swaying pines, a group of people rode horses, stepping on the leaves rustling.

"The sailing boat went down along the big river first, waiting for us in front. There is a city about forty or fifty miles ahead, and the leader takes Yue as the surname. The ancestors are also in charge of the calendar. Several ethnic groups use light and shadow as their calendar, and they use the moon as their calendar. It is somewhat similar to the calendar that Yuqianer thought before. If there is no E city nearby, I am afraid that we will In the future, the moon will be used as the calendar."

On the horseback, a young child who had followed Ji Song for a long distance pointed to the distance and introduced the clan cities along the way to Chen Jian.

This time Chen Jian only brought five or sixty people along the river because there was no road.Although Ji Song, who returned half a year ago, did not draw a map, he did jot down the outline of the cities and villages along the road.

At this time, it has been more than a month, and it is getting late into autumn. Fortunately, there is no continuous autumn rain this autumn, and the life of eating and sleeping along the way is much better than that of two years ago. The people who accompanied me did not have too many complaints.

There is no road, and the horse-drawn carriage cannot go together, and some gifts are always prepared when going to the winter hunting, so the boats are called to carry the gifts and food, and move forward slowly along the way.

Now that the boat is estimated to have reached Dahe, Chen Jian took his people to the city mentioned by the guide.

In addition to grain and bronze salt, there are two barrels of gunpowder, a bronze flower poured by split casting method, small things like bronze mirrors, a bag of extracted narcissine, and a bag of beautiful lead drinkers and lead sugar.

It has been two years since Chen Jian planned to improve the seeds, and he has never had time to spare. Finally, he used steamed wine and day lily to extract some impure narcissine before heading to Dahe.Lead ore was also found in the mines, and besides being used to make bronze alloys, some beautiful vessels were also made.

The color of the bronze is dull, not as bright as the lead and tin utensils. At this time, the brewing technology in some cities is not very mature, and there are often cases of excessive sour brewing. The fusion of lead and acetic acid into lead sugar can not only remove the sour taste Add sweetness...

Because of poisonous sterilization, whether it is narcissine or these lead sugar and lead utensils, Chen Jian used them for political murder.

No one knows the specific situation. Chen Jian hopes to accumulate reputation in decades and be elected as the leader of the alliance after the formation of the clan alliance. He must also consider using these slow poisons to kill competitors at the right time.

But before considering these things, the first thing he has to do is to fight for a title for Xiacheng and Ji. Xiacheng is now the overlord of the upper reaches of the Caohe River, but it is still an unknown tribe in the vast land of hundreds of countries and thousands of states. Even though Su He and the others had already left first, with the current speed of news spreading, they might have to wait a few years before they could straighten their backs and pat their chests and say that they are from Xiacheng... Otherwise, it would be very embarrassing: Where is Xiacheng?Why haven't I heard of Ji's surname?

Chen Jian would visit all the cities he passed along the way and present exquisite gifts and various seeds made by Xiacheng.

Relying on Xiacheng's not-so-developed bronze craftsmanship and some gadgets, Chen Jian still received a lot of amazement and hospitality in the cities along the way, at least getting acquainted with those leaders.

This is an era of extremely uneven development. There are tribes that drink blood, and there are cities that enter the plantation. Everything you see along the way seems to be a picture scroll that is constantly switching between wildness and civilization.

Fortunately, now that they have reached the banks of the great river, the cities they pass through are all in the same cultural circle. Even though Xiacheng is still unknown, they can always get recognized quickly by virtue of their clothes, hair accessories, language and etiquette.

The city that the guide said was led by Yue is naturally a part of the same cultural circle, not too big, but after all, it is one of the relatives who swore the oath back then, so Chen Jian brought more abundant gifts, and hoped that he could support Xia City at that time Become one of the relatives who are eligible to elect a leader.

The gift was on the horse's back. After checking it, Chen Jian held up his whip and said, "Since the city is in front, let's hurry up, or we will have to live outside again at night."

Dozens of people clamped down on the horse's belly, and when they walked halfway up the mountain, a few touches of green appeared in the withered and yellow valley. Before they could see clearly, they heard someone shouting in the distance.

Chen Jian squinted his eyes and looked at it, and said with a broken smile: "It turns out to be a human being, wearing silk, he must be a person of some status in the city, go and have a look."

As he ran closer, he finally saw seven or eight people in the valley, neatly dressed, surrounded by a young girl, not vigilant, but curiously looking at the horse that Chen Jian and others were riding.

The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a green silk shirt, a small jade pendant around her waist, and a crescent-shaped emerald stone around her neck. Because of this, there is some frosty red between the two cheeks.

Before Chen Jian could speak, the girl said first, "You are from Xiacheng, right? You can ride a horse, right?"

Chen Jian was taken aback for a moment, and asked in surprise, "How do you know?"

"Someone came here a year ago, maybe his name is Ji Song? Since he was riding a horse, it must be someone from Xiacheng."

Chen Jian jumped off his horse and said with a smile, "The person riding the horse may not necessarily be from Xiacheng, but you guessed it right, we are really from Xiacheng."