From Chief to Ball

"Originally, Xiacheng could accumulate ten per year, and we accumulated five, so Xiacheng has become stronger and richer than us in a few years. Now Xiacheng has helped us become rich, we accumulate twenty every year, but Xiacheng accumulates one hundred. We are Prosperous, but the gap between us and Xiacheng is getting bigger every year."

"It's impossible for Jixia's thoughts to be just the little Caohe. He didn't pay attention to Caohe from the beginning, otherwise he wouldn't go to rescue the Acropolis, let alone go to Sucheng to make an oath. Suyue is old, The old man only had dreams, but he forgot that dreams require strength. Jixia had never met Su Yue, but he did not hesitate to offend many clans when the comet came, and stood up to speak for the oath. He did this in Caohe matter?"

The people below were surprised: "You mean... Jixia wants to do what Hua did back then?"

Shujiu shook his head and said: "It's bigger than that. When you talked to E Yue just now, you said that we shouldn't go thousands of miles away. Thousands of miles... Who knew what Li was five years ago? Now Yuqian'er was here in the small wine shop It is still open, and the tofu shop is also open. Every day, some characters are written on the wooden boards. Have you ever used Xiacheng’s Taobei? Do you know Xiacheng’s characters? Have you learned Xiacheng’s customs? Looking forward to Xiacheng’s ironware ? Believe in Xia Cheng's story?"

"Do you hate Xiacheng people? Did you hate Jixia before this incident? Do you like Xiacheng? Have you ever seen cars with different ruts? Have you seen different mus, different paces, different rulers, different Have you ever seen other styles of leather armor? Have you ever seen a city where the clan was divided into Xia City but it is still intact?"

After asking a few more questions, Shujiu stretched out two fingers and said: "We have only two ways to go. Either, at the risk of exterminating the clan, unite all cities to destroy Xiacheng. Or, go even more with Xiacheng. closer."

Everyone shook their heads and said: "Destroy Xia City? How can it be so easy? Besides, how can we unite so many cities? They are far away, but we are close. If we really fight Xia City, the reinforcements from those cities will Before we arrive, Xia City may have already blown away our city walls... The thing about the eastern city was just last year."

Counting nine, he spread his hands and said: "Then we can only get closer to him. Last year the leader promised Ji Xia some things, and this year, the bronze, gunpowder and other things we get are worth more than thousands of slaves." More. Xiacheng's set... can only be used in Xiacheng, we don't have to worry about anything. He Jixia only has a head and a pair of eyes. He has to go to Yucheng to leave Yuqian in Xiacheng himself. Is it possible that he can manage such a vast land? In the end, the leaders will share it, so what are you worried about?"

After a long time, count nine before solemnly saying: "The insult you think is actually because you dare not face up to the strength of Xiacheng. Do you ever feel insulted when the Huahui League was a few decades ago?"

"No, because Huacheng was always strong at that time, and Xiacheng borrowed food from us a few years ago. It's like a weak person who suddenly becomes stronger than you one day. This is what you think is The reason for the insult. You don’t want to believe that this is true, and you are still stuck in the memory of several years ago.”

"You hold on to the glory of the past and refuse to let go, and even bury your heads in the past so that you dare not think about the future. If this continues, E City will wither and wither like old grass in autumn."

"My fellow clansmen, you should look forward. The glory belongs to the past. You can talk about it with your children and grandchildren, but you can't regard it as the future."

"I don't want the children and grandchildren of Echeng to hear this one day and ask us why the past is so glorious, but now it is so bleak? I don't want to answer this question, so it's best not to ask this question!"

The crowd bowed their heads, and it was difficult for them to refute their priest verbally, not because of their status, but because of reason.

E Yue thought for a while, then let out a long roar, and shouted: "Then go!"

……

A few days later, in the Acropolis, there were only two people in the house.

The leader Wei He, and Wei Yuan who persuaded Chen Jian to save Wei.

What the two of them were talking about was also about Xia Cheng's invitation.

"What does the leader think is the difference between us and E City?"

"I don't know, please advise."

"To the east of E City is the kinship city, to the west is Xiacheng, and to the north are the tribes of the vast wilderness and grassland. To the east of Acropolis is the kinship city, to the north is Xiacheng, but to the west is the Xirong settlement. The skin color is clear, and there is no way to go in the city of E. But the Acropolis is different. The land in the west is open, and the people of Xirong are not much different from us and have no horses. The source of the great river has opened up thousands of miles."

Wei He was a little puzzled, and asked, "You mean...we won't make an alliance with Ji Xia?"

"Go, of course. Copper, iron, gunpowder... all these, we have to rely on Xia City. And with these, it will be easier for us to attack westward. The leader thinks that Ji Xia's thoughts are only on the little grass river? "

Wei He shook his head and said, "Of course not."

Wei Yuan asked again: "Now that Su Yue is the leader, if Su Yue dies, will Su Tang have the reputation of Jixia?"

"No."

"The iron tools have been released, who will be stronger between Xiacheng and Sucheng ten years from now?"

"It must be Xia City."

Wei Yuan clapped his hands and said: "Since this is the case, Xiacheng's mind is on both sides of the river, and it is bound to fight the other cities. It will take a long time. At that time, we used the copper and iron gunpowder of Xiacheng to go all the way west and open up the land of Xirong. .”

"A few years later, there will be tens of thousands of slaves in our Acropolis, and Zun Jixia will be the leader. Dong, he can help Xia secure the world and make great achievements. The world is in trouble, and Jixia must not persecute the Acropolis."

"If the world is at peace, it would be good if all the land west of Jixia's Fengcheng Acropolis belongs to the Acropolis. But Jixia wants to smash the clans like Xiacheng and take the leadership rights. There are big rivers as moats, mountains in the north as walls, and thousands of miles of fields in the west. Even if you cannot win, you can still protect yourself."

"Thus, three points go east to help Xia; seven points go west to consider yourself. Within five years, Jixia will listen to whatever she says, go out to battle, and praise whatever she proposes, in order to get copper and iron. Five years later, the black clothes It has been completed, there are many spears and spears, and the land is opened to the west, Ming Zun Jixia, and a big event is secretly achieved."

Wei He was overjoyed and said happily, "Please teach me."

Wei Yuan bowed and said: "Boss, Yuan has been observing Xiacheng. There are many rules in Xiacheng, with weird ideas and ever-changing ideas. You can't learn everything in Weicheng, but you must learn it."

"Quanxue, Wei Xia is different, like a cat envious of a peng bird soaring, jumping from a cliff, thinking in one way. If you don't learn, it's like a wolf cub not hunting with its mother, and it will be difficult to be emaciated when it grows up."

"Xia City has the rules, so the Acropolis also has the rules, but the rules are different from Xia City. The leader already has a reputation and his clan supports him, so the Acropolis can be decided by the leader."

"Rewards and punishments are made clear, regardless of surname or non-surname, all are bound by rules."

"If you want to go west, you need more soldiers. There are surnames in the Acropolis, and the leader needs to make a choice."

"Is it the leader of the entire Acropolis, with more than ten thousand clansmen who are united to the west, and the Acropolis with a distance of thousands of miles? Or the leader of the clan with the Wei surname, but with more than a thousand clansmen, and the Acropolis with a place hundreds of miles away?"

This was a question that Wei Yuan had raised when Xirong was rioting, but with the retreat of Xirong and the support of Xiacheng's weapons, the war against Xirong has been won for the time being, and it does not require the concerted efforts of all anonymous people.

Coupled with the sweetness that the Acropolis has tasted from the food and slave trade in the past two years, the internal contradictions were temporarily suppressed.

Now that this acute question has been brought up again, Weihe also understands that if this matter is not resolved, Weicheng has no ability to open up land to the west, so it can only stick to this place. When Xiacheng grows up day by day, he is still the same as before. .

After thinking for a long time, Wei He sighed bitterly: "Don't I want to be as broad-minded as my father? But now how can people with the surname Wei want those who have no surname to share the slave land and accumulate military merit? If I bring up these things you said , I’m afraid that there will be another chaos in the Acropolis. This is something I have been thinking about, please teach me.”

Yuan said solemnly: "This is what Yuan has been thinking about these years. If the leader is really ambitious, he may not be unable to do it."

Yuan got up, bowed and saluted: "This matter can't be rushed, and it will be effective in three to five years. First set the rules, regardless of surname, they will be treated the same, those who have merit will be rewarded and those who are guilty will be punished. But it was not issued, waiting for the right time."

"Train black clothes like Xiacheng. As long as there are no surnames, they will not be supported by the public property, but the private property of the leader. Just like the private soldiers in the fiefdoms of Xiacheng, rewards and punishments are given but not from the public property. Relatives with the surname Wei do not If they oppose it, those people will surely die."

"A few years later, three hundred black-clothed guards will be in hand, the rules will be promulgated, and those who disobey...kill them!"

Wei He's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again and said: "With my private property, it is difficult to support three hundred black-clothed guards."

Wei Yuan laughed and said: "Originally it wasn't possible, but now Jixia's invitation is acceptable. This is just the right time. If the land slaves in the hands of the leader are farmed with iron tools, the annual output will be several times that of today. Jixia's method There are many more, could it be that this time Ji Xia asked the leader to go, just to make us submit? There must be many ways, he used to ask for food in Xiacheng, but now he doesn’t, but does he need people for iron smelting and mining? Sewing winter clothes Do you need linen and wool for the felt? As long as the leader follows Jixia to do it, he might not be able to afford three hundred black clothes."

"A few years later, at that time, there were no more than a thousand relatives with the surname Wei, and there were only three to five hundred people who would really oppose it, but the leader had the support of thousands of people without a surname, and the black-clothed guards in his hands. Could it be possible that something big will happen? "

"If someone plots to rebel and the leader temporarily loses, you can take the head of Wei Yuan to quell the anger of the relatives. I only hope that the leader will not change his original intention after death. The Acropolis will no longer have surnames, and there will be thousands of slaves for thousands of miles. Hundreds of years If someone still remembers my name in the future, it is enough to comfort my whole life.”

Wei He raised his brows, thought for a while, bowed to Wei Yuan again, then stood up and drew out his bronze sword, cut his fingers and said, "Wei He swore an oath with the ancestors of heaven and earth, and we will live up to Yuan in this life! It's like offering to all ages!"

Chapter 2 Agricultural Transformation ([-])

In February, the grass river melts.

The boats began to pass through, and every day, a large number of people took boats to the distant city of Yucheng. There were people from Xiacheng and other cities. Every day, the whole Caohe River seemed to come alive.

By the time the Grass River melted, the willow branches near Yucheng had already bloomed, and the bees began to collect pollen to provide food for their larvae throughout the summer.

Even if the bees are like this, people will naturally have to be busy, and spring plowing will be at most one month away. The cattle from other cities, the horses from Xiacheng, the wooden plow from the carpentry department, and the plowshares and shovels from the smelting department began to be continuously transported to various places. farm.

The people of Xiacheng, who had dug a canal in winter, couldn’t bear it any longer, especially after Manyuan publicly admitted his mistakes in Yucheng, the offensive and defensive alliance collapsed, and everyone prepared their own farm construction plans and sent them to Chen Jian one after another. hands.

The Planning and Statistics Department also stipulated the fixed output of the farm this year as the standard of reward and punishment in autumn.