From Chief to Ball

In the staggering steps and crooked posture, Chen Jian looked up to the sky and screamed, pointing his sword at the congratulatory relatives and nobles and said: "After hundreds of years, we will all die, and die cleanly, hahahaha..."

After speaking, he fell to the ground, snoring sounded, and the group of people looked at each other in dismay, and said in embarrassment: "Ji Xia made a great contribution, and was so happy that he was drunk. This is interesting. Who will not die after hundreds of years? It's just that this death is clean." What means?"

Chapter 75 Su Xia Limited Sovereignty System ([-])

In the early morning after the hangover, Su Tang did not go with Chen Jian. Although he was curious about how Chen Jian built the city in Onozawa, he didn't ask in detail. He always felt that he would see it soon.

The ships transporting grain in Xiacheng dock near Sucheng every day. The grain exchanged for bronze before can last for a while. With the live advertisement of this war, the sales of gunpowder must have become a bulk commodity, and it will last as long as Onozawa. It is more than enough to establish a group of workshops, after all, there are a group of free slaves who only want a minimum survival.

Seeing the ships transporting grain, Chen Jian, who still had a headache, was relieved. It seemed that there were no disturbances in Onozawa during the time he was away.

Thinking of the only people he could openly communicate with, it was inevitable that he was tired and eager to relax. Even though the bow of the boat broke through the waves and shocked many villagers holding small rafts to sigh, he still felt a little slow.

Two days later, I finally got close to the cape island. The waves outside dissipated in the cape bay along with two natural anti-wave stone walls, calm like a bronze mirror.

From a distance, the sound of busy work on the island could be heard. The two women followed Xiacheng's rules and managed everything in an orderly manner. Those who cooked, boiled water, worked, and rested were arranged in an orderly manner.

Thousands of brawny men with bare upper body and bulging muscles were shouting Xia Cheng's name there, which was Chen Jianding's favorite scene.

The trees in front of the one-mile-wide promontory bay have been cut down, and the burnt ash has accumulated a thick layer. Xiacheng people know that this thing can be used to make soap, wash away grease, and also fertilize the fields for planting nitrate, so they did not sprinkle it into the lake. Instead they are piled together.

The cleared place is about [-] steps away from the shore of Cape Bay Lake, which is the place where Chen Jian found the highest water rise after digging.Two simple wooden and stone piers have been erected and a path has been trodden.

The two large canals in the center above the lake have been dug and crossed into a cross. Some river water was poured into them as a reference level. The height of the tied ropes was kept almost the same. I know that it must be tied by my sister who likes to be neat.

The canal has not yet communicated with the lake, because it is higher than the lake, and Yuqian'er and Hongyu don't know what to do to ensure that all the water does not flow into the lake, so they are waiting for him to come back.

In the future, the canal that will be used as an inland river in the city will be about four or five steps wide. It is not grand and even makes Chen Jian, who has seen many big scenes, feel a little petty, but it is enough for this city.

The excavated soil was transported to the side, and there was a lot of white clay inside. Several huge kilns had already taken shape under the supervision of Xiacheng masons brought by Chen Jian, but they had not yet been ignited. A group of women sat Under the scorching sun, wooden molds are used to make brick molds, and a row of simple houses are built with branches and thatch as a place to stay at night, and some are used as pergola to dry these adobes in the shade.

On the island, the red fish who was planning to withdraw the amount of corn was slightly pushed on the shoulder by someone. He raised his head blankly and saw the boat on the shore. Regardless of the kind smile of the female tribe next to him, he dropped the things in his hand and ran to the shore side.

"Why did you come back? There are only so few people left for us. Could it be that you are thinking about that woman named Yuemei, and you don't want to break your oath with me, so you simply hope that these people on the island will resist and kill me?"

Smiling and reproached, he stretched out his hand to brush the dust off the man's shoulders, raised his hands slightly upwards, Chen Jian squatted down tacitly and asked the woman to tidy his hair up.

"You've lost some weight. Look, your eyes are a little swollen. I've eaten dry biscuits for a month. I'll prepare what I want to eat at night."

Red Fish took Chen Jian's hand and even asked a few words, but Chen Jian didn't answer, his heart felt warm as if he had been scorched by the early autumn sun.

"Is there anything wrong with the island?"

"No, Yuqian'er and I have managed thousands of people in Xia City. We have finished all the work you arranged before you left, and now we have assigned some people to make billets there."

"how did you make it?"

"It's like what you did when you caught me as a slave. Let them do it for a day first. I counted how much each person can do in a day on average, and then set an amount, which is slightly less than this amount. To reach this amount Well, you can withdraw corn, salt and pottery every day, and there will be rewards for exceeding this amount. At that time, you used this method to deceive me, but I saw through it, and I deliberately pretended that I couldn’t spin yarn.”

The two finally had a common memory. Although the memory was not good at the beginning, full of the cunning of the slave owner and the slave's resistance, but now thinking of it, they looked at each other with a smile. Seeing this man's eyes, his heart was a little turbulent, a little numb, as if water was about to drip from his eyes.

Looking at the crowds of people around, knowing that the longing for more than a month will be endured until the moon comes out, while suppressing the enthusiasm in his heart, his eyes are on the boat, and he whispers in Chen Jian's ear but not shyly, look Seeing Chen Jian deliberately smiling and shaking his head, pinching him lightly, it took a long time to calm down the turmoil in his heart, looking up at the sky, only hoping that it would get dark soon.

The two walked aimlessly, and the number of people gradually increased. A few people greeted Chen Jian, and more people bowed their heads in the clay pile and made mud bricks, and even saw the emergence of a few small cooperative groups. , There are a lot of adobes around them, and they are very skilled in making them, but they hide their skills from others to see.

Chen Jian smiled, and said to himself that the Onozawa that Ze and Ge imagined had changed, and this change must be Red Fish's idea.

Red Fish looked at Chen Jian's familiar smile and felt very proud. This is her favorite kind of smile, like a kitten who succeeded in stealing the jerky hidden by its owner. When it smiled, its eyes squinted, like Another hit at a certain time of night.

"How did you get them to do this?"

"It's very simple. When you imprisoned me, there were only three or four people around me, and they believed in me, so I can unite with them to spin the yarn very slowly. In fact, Ze and He are very smart, they should have guessed I want to do something, so I try to make these people do it slowly, so that the ration will be less and more corn can be drawn."

"But there are a lot of people. Although these people believe in Ze, there are thousands of people, and everyone has their own little plans, which is different from the three or four people I was at that time. I said, one hundred more every day. There is meat and fish, and after the workshop is established in the future, they can guide them to work and get more corn every day."

"I heard people say that Ze and He also ran to tell these people to slow down as much as possible, so that everyone can get the most corn, but although everyone believed in Ze and He, they didn't convince the rest of them. They always thought, If you believe in what Ze says, what will you do if others don’t listen? So what Ze says is useless, even if he has prestige, isn’t it because of people’s selfishness? Isn’t this exactly your plan?”

"Then, I pretended to mention a few people who smiled at me unintentionally, told them that three or five people can work together, and quietly taught them how to cooperate. After two or three days, they kneaded more bricks than others in a day. I immediately rewarded them with some good things, and promised that if they continue to do so, they will not have to work hard when the workshop is established."

Red Fish covered her mouth with a soft smile and said, "In order to make them different from others, I even asked people to burn a few pottery nameplates for them instead of their wood. I made twenty of them, and only gave out five. [-], and the remaining [-] hang around all day, and those who think they are faster than others are working hard."

Chen Jian hugged the red fish and laughed for a while, teasingly said: "Sure enough, I know how to manage a slave well after I have been a slave."

After putting down Red Fish, he wrote two very abstract characters on the ground, which Red Fish didn't recognize, but felt familiar, as if several words were disassembled and put together.

Chen Jian pointed to an open space in the distance and said: "I will go to Sucheng in a few days, and when the first batch of bricks are fired, you can lead people to build a brick wall, which should be four or five steps high, three Ten steps long. Then paint these two large characters on it."

Red Fish picked up the wooden stick and gestured at the two characters written by Chen Jian. Although they looked familiar, they couldn't guess what they were.

Chen Jian said in a straight voice: "Learn, learn."

There is a school in Xiacheng, but it is only a specific word, just like referring to the room of the conference hall, it is just a unique name for a special existence, not a combination of school and hall.

Red Fish followed up with the strange pronunciation several times, Chen Jian told Red Fish how to pronounce it with a few characters he created for reverse cut phonetic notation, after trying several times, he looked at Chen Jian suspiciously and said, "I can read it. But what is it?"

Chen Jian unwrapped the characters and said, "This is the eaves, and these are the children. Studying together in groups is just like our Xiacheng children in school, listening to others in the room and studying this character."

"What about this, what do you think it looks like?"

"It looks familiar to me. This is half of a bird's feather. I can write and recognize the feather. But what is it when you take the half apart?"

"You're right, it's half of the feathers. It means that the birds are still fledglings. The feathers have just grown but they can't fly with their feathers. Are the feathers that can't fly complete? Of course not, so this half of the feathers is It means test flight."

"Together, it is learning. What is learning? It is the birds who never fly until they are full of feathers, and the children listen to the preaching under the eaves. , from not being able to farm to being able to farm, and... from being a slave to being a qualified slave owner, this is all learning."

"Paint these two characters, they should be big, especially big. Under these two characters, draw the simple characters you can write, and use the simplest dozens of characters I made up for phonetic notation. Some."

Red Fish muttered about learning two characters, and suddenly felt endless aftertaste. The only thing he didn't understand was why these two characters had to be written so big?

"Because... fish is like fish. Wheat is like wheat. You can see through it at a glance, but it is like the sourness of vinegar, the strength of wine, and the pain of the heart. How should I write it? When I am happy, I can Shouting to the sky, but how to write it out to let you know? It’s time for more words.”

Red Fish blinked suddenly and said, "Like these two characters? Do you want to think about it? Make an analogy? Every word is no longer a shape, every word is a story, a metaphor?"

Chapter 76 Su Xia Limited Sovereignty System ([-])

Learning is a terrible thing, and Red Fish is particularly aware of this, especially after understanding the meaning of learning that Chen Jian misunderstood.

Looking at the slaves working here who have nothing but freedom, Red Fish murmured the word learning, and asked in surprise: "You want to teach this group of people to learn? People who have learned are terrible. I thought you You just want to manage the free slaves here like we used to manage our clan, it seems that this is not the only thing you think?"

Chen Jian nodded and said: "Yes, it's not just that. There are too few people in Xia City. These people come from different clans, but they have a common destiny and identity. They have no blood relationship as a link, and they will not fight each other because of kinship. Just like Xiacheng whose clan was forcibly disbanded by me, they are the most suitable people to become Xiacheng people. There is no way, there are too few people in Xiacheng."

Listening to the last word "person" that Chen Jian could emphasize, Red Fish was a little confused.

"The slaves in Xiacheng are not human beings first, so even if they live in Xiacheng, they are not from Xiacheng. When an enemy attacks Xiacheng, the people of Xiacheng can fight for their land, but the slaves in Xiacheng will not , because they are slaves first, and slaves of Xiacheng second, and they are still slaves if another group of people are changed, this will not change, and they will not be able to fight for Xiacheng."

"This is far away from Xiacheng, and it is impossible to move the entire Xiacheng here, so there is a need for new Xiacheng people, people who can fight for the city. Once in Xiacheng, I needed to support the soldiers who were out of production, and I needed the city. the rewards of the countrymen, and these rewards can only be obtained by crushing the slaves hard."

"If I squeeze one more slave, I can raise more soldiers, allocate more people to build workshops, and allocate more people to go to school instead of working. This is an essential accumulation. Food does not fall from the sky. If I want to gain the support of the people of the city, I must squeeze the slaves and feed back to the people of the country.”