From Chief to Ball

"Looks like you caught it?" Su Tang thought.

It was indeed caught, Chen Jian confirmed.The leader of the city did not die, but he was knocked unconscious. More than a dozen close relatives resisted desperately and were dispersed. Chen Jian ordered to seize the opportunity and stop following the attack in a team of five. Shoot and kill, the opponent is not allowed to reorganize the formation, the archer and the flute player followed up, each thirty or fifty paces, one person shouted.

The son of the old leader followed us, and Chen Jian asked someone to come quickly. After confirming that the unconscious person in his hand was the leader of the city, he ordered people to strictly guard him and asked the son of the old leader to lead the way to arrest his family.

The tiger-like attack disintegrated the defenses in the city, and resistance without an effective organization was meaningless. More people thought of Chen Jian's nonsense words in the city, and after knowing that they were no match, they thought of a way to make themselves feel at ease. Non-resistance rhetoric: Jixia really has a way to destroy the city in half a day, maybe he really doesn't need to send people into the city to set fire to kill people?Then the saying that the new leader did not admit his mistake but shot arrows led to the Xiacheng people's siege...is it also true?There seems to be some truth to it.

This if-based logic was established because the if became a reality, and the Xiacheng people did not retaliate against their insults, but kept shouting almost the same words, and there was no robbery except to catch those who were still resisting. sweep.

They also didn't want to suffer another explosion from the vicinity of the city wall. With the publicity and rush of the Xiacheng people, many people followed the advice of the Xiacheng people: go back to the house and come out after the evening calms down. When someone plunders, you can go directly to the son of the old leader. He is your relative and will uphold justice for you.

The only sound left on the street was the propaganda of Xiacheng maintaining order. Chen Jian looked at those arrested and asked the old chief's son, "Is his family here?"

"All of them have been caught. And many of his relatives have also been caught."

Chen Jian walked around, looked at the leaders and followers who resisted the most, and called a few people: "Take them to an empty room and beat them. Use a whip dipped in salt water to whip them, and use a knife to stab their shoulder blades." Stuck with a stick dipped in salt, scalded with red-hot bronze, pierced with thorns, wrapped in sackcloth and stretched into the stomach. Ask them who knows about setting fires."

The soldiers trembled a little just thinking about these kinds of tortures, and Chen Jian said again: "Ask before dark, if the person is still alive, the two of you will share a piece of land and give it to the slaves thirty. I'll ask someone else now."

The soldiers hurriedly said: "There is no need to change people, I will definitely be able to ask."

"It's like telling a story. Time, place, character, tone of voice, whether he smiled and asked them to set fire to his own people, you have to ask clearly. I think he must have laughed and asked them to set fire to himself. In order to achieve the purpose of deceiving the tribe and us to kill each other."

"We think so too. He must have said it with a smile. This kind of person has no human heart and is as cruel as a wolf."

The soldiers nodded again and again, expressing deep agreement, pressing down the few people who had stones stuffed in their mouths, their bodies were bound and their faces were earthy and trembling, and they left.

The son of the old leader beside him turned cold, and he saw Chen Jian turned around and said with a smile: "Congratulations, you saved your clansman from being deceived by bad guys, you saved the clansman in the whole city, yours Father will be pleased."

After speaking, with a smile on his face, he patted the young man on the shoulder, and said softly, earnestly and kindly: "Be a good leader."

Chapter 66 Leader to the left Soldiers to the right

Those who dare to bear mistakes are brave, so there must be brave men under severe punishment.

Facing the whips raised high by Xiacheng soldiers, these captured people did not choose to laugh out loud, nor did they angrily make the devil's palace shake with laughter. He admitted everything they did when he was young, and took on what they didn't do but Chen Jian hoped they would do.

The soldiers who were tortured were very excited, and then agreed that the slaves divided into two groups should not be separated, but should be made into private soldiers like wolf skins. They made an appointment to do a big event in the west of Xia City, leaving enough legacy for future generations to sacrifice all the year round. .

In another room, Chen Jian woke up the leader who had been the leader for less than a month, and dismissed the rest of the people in the room, leaving only himself.

After the leader woke up, he didn't yell, but lowered his head dismally. Chen Jian sat aside and said with a smile: "You are dead. But your child may not necessarily die. People must die, but if there are no children after death It's always scary to give a bowl of rice to a blood priest. All eight of your children have been arrested, and none of them ran out. I don't know if you have any illegitimate children. I don't bother to look for them, but it's not like before , women can’t plow the fields to support themselves, they always have to find a man to survive, your child calls someone else his father, even if he sacrifices to you in the future, he will use other people’s land property, and even sacrifice secretly, so Then again, what is the difference between you and the unsightly Shuoshu who steal other people's food for a living?"

Facing Chen Jian's accusations and threats, the other party showed the demeanor that a leader should have, and responded lightly: "Has Jixia ever heard such a story? A long time ago, some clans did not have the habit of martyrdom, until there was a leader For the first time, human sacrifices began. After a long time, his family was destroyed, and the descendants of later generations were sacrificed by the victors who accepted the custom of human sacrifice."

"From the time of the Huasu Alliance, the leader who made a mistake will be exiled at most, but he will not touch his descendants, let alone the land slaves accumulated by the family for sacrifices. Jixia wants to kill me and divide me. Tian Chan, aren’t you afraid that after a long time, someone will learn from you, and your descendants will suffer the same disaster? You started the beginning, but you can’t see the end. You broke the long-standing rules that people have not clearly stated, and my end will be the same Your end."

Chen Jian looked up to the sky and said with a smile: "I'm not afraid. I have left fame, land, and slaves for my descendants. They started higher than ordinary clansmen. This is the benefit they have received. Similarly, after my death, they may be exiled, Being killed is also more likely than ordinary clansmen. This is the disadvantage they have suffered. Now that they have suffered the benefits, they must be prepared to suffer the disadvantages. If he does not want to, he can not accept any of the land left by me and make a living by himself If you break away from any relationship with me, naturally there will be no such disasters as you mentioned. Besides, I never thought that my descendants could be a family forever, like the birds and fish you said, you are not me, you will not I don't believe you will understand what I want."

The leader snorted and said, "I heard that Ji Xia has no heirs so far, so you can say such things. After you have children, will you still say so resolutely? You have never been a father, how would you know?" That kind of inheritance wish?"

He stared into Chen Jian's eyes for a long time, and finally said in a vicious tone: "Ji Xia has no heirs until now, isn't it because you have done too many things like this, and heaven, earth and ancestors punished you? "

He thought that Chen Jian would at least become angry from embarrassment, or at least be shocked, but after watching it for a long time, he was finally disappointed. Chen Jian stood upright, his eyes were firm, and he was humming a strange song he had never heard before, with a smile on his face , without dodging or hesitating at all, shrugged and said, "So what? Do I care?"

The leader sighed for a long time, not knowing what kind of person he was facing, maybe he couldn't figure it out as he said?This kind of person seems to have no human feelings, as cold as the land, and he can't make him back down even if he talks about offspring. Is it true that some people don't want their offspring to be in the superior circle forever?

"There will be no such person, so he is lying, or he is a lunatic. Yes, he is a lunatic... He will really break the unspoken rules, and he will really kill me and my children!"

In an instant, the leader's heart became discouraged, and he asked with final doubts: "Ji Xia, touch your heart and say, are you really attacking me for the reasons you mentioned? I have always I didn't think about it clearly, Xiacheng is far away in Caohe, what good does it do for you?"

Chen Jian smiled and did not speak, nor did he explain. Of course he was not driven by the so-called justice, but facing a loser, he did not explain anything to the other party, but asked rhetorically: "I can't give you an answer to this question. If your soul will See me in another world, ask again."

"Think about it, I have already read the previous mistakes to you in front of the city, plus the mistake of arson and burning the people to death, admit it together. If you don't admit it, I will mobilize the whole city to judge you and Your family, you know that angry people are terrible and irrational, and you have many slaves in your property, angry people may kill all your descendants and exterminate your family."

"If you admit it, I will not mobilize the whole city to judge you. The leaders will be the judges instead of the angry people who were persuaded by me. Considering your past achievements, I will give you a funeral. Your two A child under the age of 14 can survive and will not be a slave, I will leave them twenty slaves, enough land for them to live on, and sacrificial vessels will also be left for them, and corn glutinous rice will be sacrificed every year."

The leader recalled those sarcastic performances and words under the city wall, and asked slightly sarcastically: "Jixia knows better than me how terrible the anger of these laborers is, and is better at manipulating their hearts than I am, but Jixia also made them understand. Aren’t you afraid that one day their anger will fall on your head after they wake up? Just like the bronze sword in your hand, it can kill people or hurt yourself. You are the leader.”

Chen Jian nodded happily: "That's exactly what I'm looking forward to, not what I'm afraid of. I know what you're afraid of, so I can threaten you; but you don't know what I'm afraid of, so your words are so weak .Now what you have to consider is not how to persuade me to persuade me, but when to give me an answer."

The leader shook his head with a wry smile and said, "What else can I say? I accept it, and I will admit my fault, but I beg Ji Xia not to let me die so humiliatingly, keep your promise to leave my heir, and don't be It would be a great insult for those laborers to execute me."

"Since Jixia walked in, I haven't questioned my punishment. In fact, in Jixia's heart, these so-called punishments are not what Jixia values, are they?"

Chen Jian stood up and stared at him, and smiled contemptuously: "You hope that before you die, you can accept death with the thought of 'Ji Xia is actually as despicable and vicious as me, but he won and I lost' , to comfort myself? Well, you say yes."

Smiling, he turned his back and left the room, hanging down the light-transmitting grass curtains, leaving only the dark, damp and squeaking mice.

Chapter 67 Leader to the left Soldiers to the right

In another room after a while, Chen Jian was shaking his head and reading a bunch of things in popular language, all of which were understandable to ordinary people.

The soldiers in charge of the torture had already left, but Chen Jian was not very satisfied with the content of the torture, so he took a little time to concoct it.

"...The leader smiled and asked us to set fire to a few people to death at night, saying that those laborers died as soon as they died, as long as they can secure the position of leader, let these people hate Xiacheng people, and after killing each other, there will be If you have a blood feud, you can defect to Dongyi, and the people in the city will not object."

"A few of us also objected, and asked him if he didn't want his ancestors anymore? He wanted to learn the etiquette of the Dongyi people. How would he meet his ancestors in the future? What did the leader say about ancestors? Only in this way can we secure the position of leader, you guys If anyone thinks that the ancestors are very important and dare not betray, I will send you to see the ancestors now. We dare not refute, so we had to burn those houses, and slandered that people from Xiacheng crawled in and burned them. Climbing outside, he was pushed into the fire by the leader's younger brother, and he had already died on the city wall, that must be his ancestor's punishment..."

After reading, Chen Jian asked those who were arrested: "Is this the case? If so, it seems that you were just deceived and deceived, and the crime is not worthy of death."

The few who had been beaten were stupefied, and the few who confessed without much punishment nodded excitedly and said: "Yes, that's how it is, that's right at all."

Chen Jian nodded with satisfaction and said, "It turns out that's the case, you should remember it well, don't forget it."

"This is what we have personally experienced. How can we forget what we have heard and seen? Ji Xia, it really is like this! We were all deceived! Now we have repented."

"If you repent, it proves that you can still be saved. I'll read it again, and you guys can hear if you have forgotten anything..."

After several times in a row, Chen Jian looked at the wounds of those bruised and bruised people. The soldiers were a bit heavy-handed. The festering burns could not survive in the summer. He knew that if he wanted to judge, he had to hurry up. Dead people are nothing. persuasive.

The soldiers were outside discussing how to distribute the benefits of the fief in the future. After seeing Chen Jian coming out and chatting with Chen Jian for a while, those who went to count the fields and warehouses also came back.

"Jixia, in the siege battle, more than 60 people died in the city. Thirty of them were relatives of the leader, and the other half were only citizens of the city. Huo Ji is not here, it is difficult for us to count, but there are many."

Chen Jian tore a piece of cloth into strips, handed it over, and said, "Tear some cloth into strips like this, find some corn, boil some paste, and paste them crosswise to prove that we didn't take any of them. Anyway, this is from another city." Things, we can't mess around, as for the military rations that the leaders will give us in the future, that's another story."

Then he asked in a low voice: "Is there any looting in Sucheng?"

"There are a few. But the military laws of our Xiacheng cannot control Sucheng, so we dare not do anything."

"Remember who it is, ask them to drink and stabilize them. I will go and talk to Su Tang later and arrest them. I just want to borrow their heads."

"Will Su Tang be unhappy?"

"No. Just don't plunder."

"Of course we won't. Jixia is not allowed to rob. After we rob, Jixia will definitely not reuse us, and he can't divide the land into slaves. Compared with these, what is the looted thing?"