From Chief to Ball

Everyone nodded their heads and praised: "I heard Ji Xia's lectures during the League meeting last year, and she really knew a lot of truths, which impressed us. This truth is so true, alas, we didn't even think of it. "

"Yes, there was a dispute over some land in the city last year, but it was only a palm-sized land, and the two poor families almost used their swords. If there are people with permanent property, how can they dispute over this land? How can you know how to govern the city and share the worries of the chief if you work hard every day? Those who eat millet are despicable, but those who eat meat are wise."

"Ji Xia's words are really convincing."

Su Yue also praised, and said: "I said so much before, because of the chaos among the cities and towns these years, how can we calm this chaos? Many people don't know what to do, but Jixia's words The words made me think a lot, and it seems that there is really a way to calm down."

"Like a city, if there is a tiger as the leader, there are cats that can climb trees, and dogs that can smell...then if the leader wants to kill prey like a tiger, the best choice is the offspring of the tiger; if there is a leader who can climb trees assistant leader, then the cat's offspring is the best choice... and so on."

"Only such a rule can make the city free from civil strife and love each other. Those who govern the city will rule from generation to generation, those who are responsible for farming will farm for generations, and those who will be responsible for divination will be divination for generations... Once such rules come out, how can the city be in chaos? Get up? Just like the number nine in Echeng, her mother used to be in charge of divination and calendars. Is there anyone in the world who knows more about calendars and divination than her? Jixia just got the guidance of her ancestors. How many people in the world can get the guidance of their ancestors? So what happened to Jixia can't be regarded as an ordinary matter in the city, but what I said should be something that every city has to face."

"Furthermore, those who have permanent property can not be greedy for the slightest profit. Those who are responsible for managing livestock and fighting have permanent property. How can there be chaos in the city if they assist the leader for generations?"

These leaders dreamed of such rules, but they couldn't come up with convincing theoretical support to convince everyone, and they couldn't make themselves do it justifiably. Su Yue's words simply gave them what they wanted the most. , and many people also know that Su Yue is indeed brave in fighting all over the world, but it is impossible to come up with such a flawless theory. They all thought of Chen Jian who was theorizing with everyone when the comet appeared, and they were very grateful.

Seeing that no one objected, Su Yue hurriedly added: "Of course, what the leader of the alliance has to do is just what the leader usually does. It is also a tiger, and the cubs born of the strongest tiger will die when their father dies. The latter may not be the strongest, as long as one is selected from among the tigers."

After dispelling the doubts that everyone was most likely to object to, and confirming that the position of the leader of the alliance should be elected for the time being, Su Yue knew in his heart that in the end it was his strength to speak, but at this time, he would still be opposed if he said it clearly, so he removed it in advance.

For a while, everyone only thought that they finally had a reasonable theoretical support for the succession of fathers and sons, and they couldn't help being excited, but they also knew that it might be difficult to make this thing. Even though these theories are correct, it is still difficult for people to accept It will take time, and there may even be resistance... Those who are likely to succeed the leader after the death of the old leader will accept the theory of perseverance and perseverance, and will support the theory of succession after father dies, but they may not accept the theory of cats, tigers and dogs. This rhetoric—but then they thought that they could leave this matter to Chen Jian and let those people hate him.

Seeing everyone's excited expressions, Su Yue lowered his voice and said, "We are not as good as Ji Xia in terms of reasoning. We can wait for him to come back. Presumably what he said must be more convincing than what I said. But let's talk about this matter." Don’t worry, I heard Suhe mentioned that before Xiacheng went to Xirong, he performed a few plays; before returning to the hometown of Dahe’s ancestors, he had people tell many stories. Are these things we can learn from.”

"As long as we know these words, those vulgar people are not smart enough to understand, or they may object. Let's not say all of them first, and learn from the people of Xiacheng, acting and telling stories, so that the people in the city will gradually believe it."

"The other one, don't be in a hurry, you have to cook it little by little, just like cooking meat, it will be charred if it is directly roasted, but it will be tough when boiled, and it will be tender only when it is slowly boiled in cold water."

"I'm really worried that the eastern city will appear after our death. The elected leader has betrayed his ancestors, so how can I have the face to meet my ancestors even if I die?"

"That's why I thought, when we elect leaders in our cities in the future, several of our cities will have witnesses. Another thing is to teach our children to prey earlier, so that our children can get the support of everyone in the city earlier."

"Although there may be some people who are born smart, and their fathers are not tigers, they will prey on them. If such a person is elected as the leader, he is fair and will not betray his ancestors. It's okay for us to support him, but there are probably few such people. But If those stupid people elect someone who is just and brutal in secret, we can't let our city repeat the story of the east. People in the city are easy to be fooled, but we are not easy to be fooled. It is to bear the infamy that he must be expelled from the position of leader!"

"During this period, I learned from Xia Cheng, told stories, acted, and taught people the truth that tigers beget tigers and dogs beget dogs. After a long time, as I said before, each of them will perform their own duties, and it will last forever."

"I don't have any selfish intentions, it's for the whole city!"

Chapter 74 Su Xia Limited Sovereignty System ([-])

Men themselves make their own history, but they do not make it as they please, not under conditions of their own choice, but under conditions directly encountered, given, inherited from the past.

The traditions of all dead fathers haunt the minds of the living like nightmares.Men tremblingly call upon the spirits of the dead to do their service when they seem to be busy remaking themselves and the things around them and creating things that have never been heard before.

The widespread use of slaves and the establishment of the private system have made the legacy of the clan era embarrassing. All the applicable systems and seemingly beautiful aspects of the clan system have been unable to gain a foothold with the emergence of private ownership. They are slowly aging and difficult to adapt to the new era. .

Infighting in cities, uneven distribution, and power struggles are happening ten times and a hundred times more than in the clan era. People are looking for a way just like every great change of the times, and they first look at the past that has been passed down to the present.

Some people dream of going back to the clan era, recalling the era when unity and internal fighting were rare, and they are convinced that that is the only feasible way in this era, such as Ji Song of Xiacheng.

Some people have seen the precedents of father-son succession and mother-daughter succession in the clan era, and think that they have found a feasible method without considering the inherent wisdom inheritance for the survival of the clan. For example, most of the city leaders and newly emerged nobleman.

Today, what the leaders and emerging nobles want to believe has been given a seemingly complete theoretical framework, and they are ecstatic. No matter what kind of remarks can be justified, they are irrefutable in this era.

So when Chen Jian returned to Sucheng with the victorious clansmen and petitioning elders, the nobles of the city who had heard Suyue's propaganda welcomed Chen Jian with extremely high standards, because Chen Jian said that they wanted to say but Didn't dare to say or didn't know how to say it.

Praises and praises were accompanied by the smell of wine and meat until ten miles away, Chen Jian was a little flattered, and he didn't know why.

Soon, Su Yue sent people to receive Chen Jian, encouraged Su Tang, and told Chen Jian that it would be best to wait until the leaders of all relatives gathered before entering the city, restore the ancestors to quell the rebellion, and return the jade ax after the sacrifice in order to be known to God.

This request is not too much. Chen Jian asked when the chiefs of the various clans would be able to come together. The messenger told him that it would take about half a month. Fortunately, there were vehicles, boats and horses in Xiacheng, otherwise this time would be delayed for another month and a half. .

Chen Jian was also looking forward to taking this opportunity to achieve his goal, so he was not in a hurry. He took down the jade ax and ordered Su Tang to take it under custody, while he took the opportunity to ask to go to Onozawa to exterminate those fugitive slaves who did not obey the rules.

Su Yue didn't quite understand what happened in Onozawa, the people from Xiacheng were very tight-lipped, and the people they sent couldn't find where the boat from Xiacheng was heading, let alone that Chen Jian didn't borrow How can a city be built if people don't change slaves?

Although he was curious in his heart, he hoped that this city would be built as soon as possible, that gunpowder workshops and weapon smelting could be developed, and at the same time help each city to train troops, so he readily agreed to let Sutang temporarily station outside the city. just fine.

This victory did not take many heads or captured many slaves, but it was a different victory for this alliance, so it had to be treated with the most special etiquette, but this was only for the city leaders, Chen Jian I can't imagine that the relatives and nobles in these cities will be so enthusiastic.

All kinds of slaves shuttled around in the field, prepared the best fat sheep wine, rewarded the soldiers who returned from victory, and congratulated Chen Jian frequently, and praised Chen Jian so that Chen Jian was a little overwhelmed.

After some questioning during the banquet, I realized why these people love me so much, because Su Yue pushed all these remarks that might cause dissatisfaction among the people at the bottom of the country to Chen Jian, and Chen Jian became the knife in his hand. Cut, when confessing the crime, there was blood on the knife, and the fingers were white.

Some people love him, others will hate him, and many ordinary people in the city disdain these remarks, so they will not go out of the city to meet Chen Jian, and besides their enthusiasm, they can't bring out good wine and fat sheep.

After listening to the praises of the group, Chen Jian raised his bowl in embarrassment, twitched his mouth and put on a kind smile, but no one noticed that he let out a contemptuous breath.

Originally he regarded Suyue as a formidable opponent, but after hearing this trick that obviously transferred the anger of the low-level people to him, he looked at Suyue again and felt that Suyue seemed to be the scum in the turbid wine. Without too much magnanimity, he will never reach the height of the alliance back then.

Just like the farce of the alliance at the beginning, Su Yue's pattern once again made Chen Jian confirm that this is just a dead bone in a tomb. He shook the turbid wine in the bowl until his own reflection was blurred, and he smiled at the vague Unable to see whose reflection it was, said: "You are old, and your body smells of rotten earth."

After finishing speaking, he laughed heartily, drank a few bowls happily, and accepted the scapegoat calmly.As for Su Yue, in Chen Jian's eyes, he is already a daring, democratic and immeasurable little man. Maybe his schemes and calculations can succeed for a while, but his structure is too small and his vision is too short-sighted. He has entered the era of slave aristocrats, but he is still thinking at the end of the clan .

All he advocated was for the integration of the cultural circle into a family patriarchal system, but Au Yue only saw a few nearby cities and his own blood inheritance.Chen Jian felt that his eyes had already seen the seashore and mountains, while Su Yue's eyes were still staring at the cities on both sides of the river.

Maybe it was because of the wine that he was a little arrogant and wanted to laugh, and a kind of attitude called contempt was born in his heart. Thinking of the strength he imagined before, he prepared a lead utensil to make his family extinct. Feeling a little embarrassed, I offered a bowl of millet soup.

Before deciding to intervene, Chen Jian knew that if he wanted to gain the support of the other clans through the secret agreement of the family circle, the blood lineage theory would definitely emerge, but he didn't expect Su Yue to be so impatient, and in order to prevent himself from being infamous, he would use this shit He pinned it on himself, and used the flattery of these new nobles to divert the dissatisfaction of the people at the bottom.

But it doesn't matter.

With the widening gap between the rich and the poor and birth inequality caused by inheritance, the ruling class has changed from all the people of the country to some people who got rich first, and the cities are no longer the cities of all people but the cities of some people. , the part of the people I offended will no longer be counted as human beings in hundreds of years, and they will completely become the nominal ruling class without the slightest right to speak. The only way to express their anger is to violently resist when the contradictions are intensified to the extreme. At this time It was still early, so he was not afraid of being hated by those people.

If you want to get the support of some people, you have to face opposition from some people. There is no such thing as a good old man and a sage whom everyone admires. The crux of the problem is always who supports and who opposes?

Now it seems that Awayake, who has a strong ideological remnant from the clan era, must be wrong.

Moreover, he also left loopholes when he concocted the theory of slave owners: people with real estate are more capable and moral than ordinary people without real estate, but he did not say that this is certain, and the leader of the eastern city is A living example of the opposite.

His so-called morality of the ruling class determines justice. On the surface, it seems to let the people accept the fact that they are gradually losing their public rights, but it also ignites a kind of fire: it is legal to overthrow the immoral leader. Not unjust, but a heroic feat.

Xiacheng, as the basic board, uses the nomination and examination system that the nobles entrust and refrain from politics, and completely runs counter to the theory of bloodlines. The entire Xiacheng is like a large state-run entity, at least before his death, the bureaucracy will be exposed at most Inertia and slowness, but there will be no situation where the structure is closed and the upper and lower layers are difficult to circulate, and the lower layers will not lose hope.

Hopefully something this subtle will alleviate a lot of the contradictions.

Now that Su Yue took advantage of him and pushed him to the forefront, Chen Jian also knew that he could not compete with the whole era, so he thought very clearly, acquiesced to the theory of bloodlines, instilled the theory of anti-bloodliness in Xiacheng and Yucheng as seeds, and at the same time Suppress these emerging blood nobles on the moral level, even if it is hypocritical morality, they must accept the shackles, produce a set of noble moral laws, and use the violence they have mastered as the support for their implementation, and anesthetize the common people at the same time The new nobility.

Since these emerging aristocratic classes arrogantly believe that the lower class people are stupid and can be deceived, why do I not believe that these emerging aristocratic classes can also be deceived?

In order to ensure the stability of the world's succession and avoid disasters, the inner core gave birth to Song Xianggong. In order to ensure the chivalry of the feudal retinue system, Don Quixote was confused. This kind of deception can always last for hundreds of years.

In addition, before the development of productive forces to the Iron Age of Cattle Farming, nothing can restrict them except morality based on the heart.

After this long wait is over, it will be the time when the material accumulation of technology dissemination and the disintegration of the aristocratic moral system are intertwined, and it is the time when both the system and morality will undergo earth-shaking changes.

With confidence in the ethnic group and the people, and with disdain and contempt for the idiots, Chen Jian drank a lot this time and was very happy.

At the end of the banquet, Chen Jian explained that he would go to Onozawa to exterminate those fugitive slaves tomorrow. Amid the praises of everyone, Chen Jian took out his copper sword and danced a few times with a drunken madness. Leather drum, cheers loudly.