From Chief to Ball

As soon as the voice fell, the whole venue was like a bowl of water poured into a hot copper pot full of grease, and it became chaotic after a while. The guards in black who were guarding in the distance thought that something happened, and they all clenched their hands tightly. Putting down the weapon, he didn't feel relieved until he saw Chen Jian standing there in good condition, and turned around again.

This question is extremely terrifying, and those who understand that one plus one equals two are instantly confused. Indeed, where did the [-] slaves go?

After waiting for a long time, everyone calmed down and looked at Chen Jian in unison, hoping that their leader would give them an explanation. Chen Jian shook his head and said, "I don't know where I went. But I know, the seven thousand two The hundred slaves are not ours, but the things produced by the seven thousand two hundred slaves are ours, right?"

"Then this brings us back to the question just now: Do we raise slaves for the sake of the slaves themselves? Or for the things produced by the slaves?"

This time the question was not difficult to answer, and everyone said in unison: "Of course it is for the things produced by slaves."

Chen Jian clapped his hands and praised: "That's right! It's for the things produced by slaves. Then, whether these [-] slaves are raised by us or other cities, isn't it all the same?"

Everyone laughed, and someone shouted loudly: "It's not the same. We didn't have to feed those slaves, and we don't have to worry about them rebelling! This is like the woman who was reprimanded by Red Fish last time. A man's meal, but sleeping with someone else. The guy she slept with was for a certain piece of her body, not for her whole person, right? "

"Ha ha ha ha……"

The atmosphere was immediately enlivened, and Chen Jian was also out of breath from laughing, and it took him a long time to suppress his hands and tell everyone not to laugh.

"Although I always say that the relatives are in harmony with the relatives, in fact, think about it, are the slaves of those relatives working for their masters? Or are they working for us? We want the things produced by the slaves, but we don't have to bear the beatings." The reputation of slaughtering slaves, you are not willing to do such a good thing? Do you want a beautiful woman to sleep or to support her?"

As soon as the slightly sexist joke was said, many women sitting around were a little dissatisfied. They laughed and scolded a few times but accepted the truth.

After Chen Jian and others accepted this nonsense, they continued: "Why should I exchange methods such as bronze and ridge farming? Because the same 700 slaves who were quietly stolen by us burned wasteland with stones. The grain produced is different from the grain produced by ridge farming with oxen! Now it is sixty-seven million catties, but in the future it will be 2000 million catties, can it be the same?"

"Furthermore, don't let them have those tools, don't let them produce so much grain, who will sell so many goods in our future smelting department and dyeing and spinning department? If we can't sell them, how can we steal other goods after production? A slave in a city?"

"Just according to the previous method of burning wasteland and sowing seeds, in another three years, our copper will not be able to be exchanged for anything. Why? Because they can't afford it. How can we make them exchange it? Then we have to let them produce linen, When there is more food, they will have extra things to exchange with us, and we will exchange more and more things.”

"Just like those settlements in the west of our Xiacheng, they can only exchange some furs, and they can't get anything else, so our copper smelting furnace is probably demolished by now! Isn't it?"

This time, the audience spontaneously applauded, and those who opposed Chen Jian before also embarrassedly admitted their mistake. Chen Jian took advantage of the opportunity when everyone's minds were not turned around, and shouted: "Isn't it just a hundred thousand slaves? Three Years! Within three years, our Yucheng will be able to steal [-] slaves from other cities, and we don’t need to raise this slave! Do you believe it or not?”

"letter!"

More than a hundred people shouted in unison, and Chen Jian said mysteriously: "You guys are all focused on the vicinity of Xiacheng. If I ask you, you have no ambitions."

"The countless lands of Dongyi, Beidi, Nanman, and Xirong will use our Xiacheng's rules, Xiacheng's language, Xiacheng's language, and Xiacheng's sacrifices in the future. When it is so far away, even if I want to control you, I will not be able to control you. , when you made a mistake and I sent someone to arrest you, it might have been three to five years."

"Even if you made a mistake, I know, and I will send someone to arrest you. After all, Jixia can only send one or two hundred troops over two thousand miles away. If there are more logistics supplies, then What else am I afraid of? Just lead people to kill these 200 people!"

"So, even if you want to rebel in the future, you have to be able to count and understand military formations, right? When you meet someone whose brain is not working well, you know that you have made a mistake. They are separated by two thousand miles, there is no road, and it is difficult to pass, but they also flee in despair. , Isn’t that a joke? If there were such a fool, I wouldn’t ask you first, but hang up and beat the gentleman who taught you arithmetic and military formation! How did you teach this?”

Everyone laughed, knowing that this was a joke, but they also knew that Chen Jian always made some dark things clear, and no one could guarantee that he would be so obedient when the time came.

"Don't laugh, what do you think I'm giving you all the titles and other officials for now? Just to manage this little Xiacheng Yucheng?"

"If you can be a fifth-class official in Yucheng, I can say that you can manage a land with a radius of eight hundred miles; if you can be a sixth-class official, you can manage a land with a radius of three or four hundred miles."

"From the East China Sea that you have never seen before, to the source of the great river that you have imagined, such a vast land, are you afraid that you will not be able to separate you?

"At that time, it is obvious that you are officials of Xiacheng, but you are actually the leaders of hundreds of miles around. Isn't it better than caring about dozens of slaves in a family?"

"If you want to be a good leader, you won't be overthrown by the people below and kill all your offspring. You have to learn. If you don't learn well, you won't learn how to manage people and how to balance resistance and deprivation. At that time, you will really have to divide When you go out, giving you a place with a radius of hundreds of miles is not good for you, it is harming you. When the people below riot, even if Xiacheng wants to help you stay too far away, it will not be able to help you."

After pouring down a bowl of chicken blood, Chen Jian pointed to his head and said, "Think about the [-] slaves you stole, how did you steal them?"

"Rely on what? Rely on the head! Knowledge! Learning!"

"Now you don't study, you don't have knowledge, and you don't know how to count. In the future, your slaves will be stolen by people from other cities. Not only do you not know, but you also thank other cities for exchanging them with you!"

"If you want to steal slaves from other cities, you have to be more knowledgeable than other cities, and you have to rely on learning. Whoever learns more and learns better can steal others; steal……"

The vulgar and simple words continued to attract bursts of laughter and praise. Starting from the simplest thinking, Chen Jian told these people little by little the truths they might understand, drew big pies, made promises, Let the grievances accumulated before because of incomprehension be resolved little by little.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. At the busiest time in Yucheng, Chen Jian spent two whole days talking to these people about a lot of things. There was only one purpose, to unify his thinking and work towards the same goal—no For others, just to maximize and perpetuate their own interests.

In two days, the voice became hoarse, which brought many applause and laughter. If Chen Jian's voice was not completely speechless the next evening, these people still refused to disperse.

In the end, Red Fish helped Chen Jian, whose voice was already hoarse like a bellows, back to the house, pinched his waist and drove away those who wanted to ask Chen Jian some questions, and went back to sleep.

Before entering the room, Chen Jian glanced at the group of people for the last time. Hearing that they were still discussing what they had heard before, he smiled slightly. He lay on the wooden bed and asked Red Fish to wake him up at dawn tomorrow morning. Before taking off his clothes, he fell into a deep sleep.

Chapter 1 and one eat fish

During the seven-day meeting, none of the relatives and children of the cities, including Yuemei, participated, and they didn't even know what was said. Those who attended were very tight-lipped.

Aside from being curious, a strange emotion called jealousy rose in Yuemei's heart. She felt a little alienated. After all, she was not from Xiacheng.

Her daily life is much more fulfilling than when she was in Yueyi, and now she has learned the third text, can use vertical calculations to add and subtract, and even learned to ride a horse frontally.

More than a month ago, Chen Jian told her to see the city with her eyes, so she always sat by the erected wall with many words written on it after studying, watching the busyness of Yucheng.

From the time Chen Jian left the island to go to the mine to the seven-day meeting after returning, when Yue Mei saw Chen Jian again after more than [-] days, what she heard was a hoarse and strange voice like a bird singing.

It was the second morning after the meeting, it was a bit misty, and the school whistle had not yet blown, and a strange smell that was completely different from the green smoke of firewood permeated the island, which was a bit pungent.

She didn't go to say hello to Chen Jian, but looked at Chen Jian silently, wondering what he was going to do today.The foundations dug frantically in the past few days have left the chaotic island riddled with holes. It is said that houses will be built in these riddled places in the future.

She thinks this is the most important thing on the island, because it will be cold in a few days, but Chen Jian promised them to let them live in a brick house before winter.

But to her surprise, Chen Jian, who had finally finished his work, did not immediately order those people to build a house, but brought a few people to the lake, where the ditches in the city ended without water.

Out of curiosity, Yuemei followed. When she got there, Chen Jian had already talked to someone for a long time, and she only heard the last few words.

"On the side near the lake, count [-] steps, and block it with bricks and stones while there is no water. The [-] steps blocked will be widened. In the future, boats coming from the lake will first go to the [-] steps of the river. block the connection with the lake, let water flow from above, and raise the water level of the sixty paces of the inner river to the same height as the inner river inside, so that boats can pass directly from the lake to the city.”

"There is no rush to do this. I just want you to prepare and block the sixty-step ship lock in advance. It will be connected to the small river in a while. If there is water, it will be difficult to dig in the future. There is no water now, so block it. Can the 200 people of you finish the six-step-wide dry river between noon?"

Yue Mei didn't quite understand. She only saw the leader nodding and patted his chest to ensure that it would be closed after lunch. She also saw Chen Jian writing a wooden slip, and that man made a handprint with his hand.

Then I saw a group of people in the distance resisting some of the small boats that were originally moored in the headland into the dry canal inland where there is no water now, and some people began to move bricks into those small boats.

The clay used for bricks is the soil from excavating inland rivers, so brick kilns are everywhere, and materials are nearby, but they are far away from the construction area planned with lime a few days ago.

At this time, a sharp whistle sounded in the distance, which was to inform these relatives and children to eat breakfast. Yue Meixin said that she would not eat this meal, but she wanted to see what he was going to do. Anyway, he was still far away from school. There is an hour.

Chen Jian also didn't seem to notice that Yue Mei followed behind. After finishing his work here, he led the people to the small river above the city.

"Get ready, dig a hole, and prepare gunpowder. When the blockage below is completed at noon, blow up this side and let the river flow into the inland river. The drainage channel has been repaired below, and it is paved with bricks. It is two steps above the bottom of the inland river, which means that the water in the inland river can be discharged into the Onozawa when it is two steps deep."

"Tell the people in the Supply and Marketing Department to prepare some people to block the river downstream of this small river. Once your side explodes and the water diverts, immediately go catch fish and pick up clams and snails."

"Part of the fish is placed in the big pits below for easy catching, and the other part is dried. It is estimated that it weighs 10,000+ catties. The clam shell and snail shell are dried and used as buttons. If found in the clam shell The beads are also kept, let’s make a count.”

"Tell the people in the construction department that when the people in the supply and marketing department are catching fish, they should not be idle. They will transport the stones in the dry river to the inner river to fill the foundation. They are all pebbles, which are not too big or too small."

"Downstream near the lake, there is a lot of river mud. In the future, nitrification ponds and compost ponds will be built there, and those muds can also be used for raising nitrification. The pig farm and cattle and sheep pens are also nearby. When the work here is over, we can then A ditch was dug out of the original river channel to facilitate the diversion of water for washing.”

While talking here, the black-clothed guards over there kept bringing the wooden slips written by Chen Jian and what he had heard to people in different workshops, and the rest of the black-clothed guards were busy digging holes and planting gunpowder. A lot of mud and wood have accumulated, and it seems that they are going to block the original river after the explosion.