From Chief to Ball

"It's already very difficult to change these two points from discussing politics to being arbitrary, and from public land to taxation."

"Other cities can't do it, but you can do it, because I helped you remove and detain many people who hinder change."

"And I build the city here, you can exchange for what you want, everything except weapons."

"Actually, you and I both know that a covenant is nonsense. It's just that I have my things to do, and you have yours to do. In the end, we still have to rely on spears to speak. But for three years, you and I will attack each other. It’s not a good thing to say.”

Chen Jian paused, and said bluntly: "Now you defend with all your strength and I can't attack. The Xiacheng Laoshi expedition will not have too many people, and you can't beat you in the field. And we are defending, and you have nothing to do. You dare to send troops to attack us. West, I will set off from here and enter your hinterland."

"If it's still like this three years later, the covenant will naturally continue. If it's not like this after three years, what's the point of the covenant?"

Chapter 52 Home

"Three years, how many things can be changed? I heard some words from the captured Xiacheng people. I didn't think it was a big deal when I first heard it, but as time passed, these words have been in my memory. echoed in the head."

"You and I also exchange ten thousand people, but ten thousand people are not the same under your command and under my command. Now you don't have the ability to win a field battle with me, what will it be like in three years' time?"

Qiongxi said something that sounded a little tired, and she was really helpless in the face of these things now.

Chen Jian smiled lightly for a while, then shook his head and said, "If you think you won't be able to defeat the tribes of Dahe in a few years, why don't you make preparations early? Take your tribe and go far away, Henan, mountains and north, the sky is high and the earth is wide, you can't go anywhere Woolen cloth?"

"Why didn't Jixia take your clansman away?"

"Because the land here is fertile, the population of the various parts of the river will increase. The south is too humid and hot, with many diseases in summer and many mosquitoes. The north is cold and dry, and it is difficult to survive in winter. The west of the river is high and the east is low. From Yucheng to here, There are no mountains to block, a piece of fertile plains, it is destined that only one ethnic group can survive here. The weaker one can only give up the best place and go to those bitter cold and sultry places."

He glanced at Qiongxi, and said lightly: "We are all trying to win the most fertile land for our descendants. The one who loses can only leave. This is not for the present, but for the future. It is such a simple matter. It's like the land under your feet and me, didn't there be other ethnic groups a long time ago? But where are they now?"

"If you are asked to give up the customs of the Dongyi tribes, stop worshiping the sky, forget your language and speak the language of the Dahe tribes, the war between us is just for our own rights, but you refuse to give up, then What else is there to do but war?"

"No one knows what it will be like in three years, but my proposals in three years are good for you and me. If you still have ambitions, you should agree. Fighting with others is a lot of fun. Use these three years Since there is only one winner, why do you have to lose? If you have been frightened by those words, then don’t say anything, just change the customs, change the language and prepare to surrender. Then in the past three years There is no need to talk about the covenant.”

Qiong Xi was silent for a long while, suddenly full of pride, and laughed: "That's fine, I will make a three-year covenant with Ji Xia. It's also good to see what Ji Xia wants to do in these three years. I can always do things for others. Guess some, but I can't guess you."

He stared at Chen Jian, and said frankly: "Ji Xia has gained the prestige that Su Yue expected but failed to obtain this time, but Ji Xia's road ahead will be even more difficult."

"I have heard a lot of stories about Xiacheng along the way. There is a saying in our Dongyi, don't pee in the well, because you may also drink the water in the well. But what Jixia is doing now is obviously finding a small stream You no longer need to drink the water in the well, so you not only pee, but also shit in the well. You Xiacheng has iron tools to farm cattle, a school to impart knowledge, and workshops. You can use less slaves and no clansmen to cultivate the public land, and you can use the people in the school Manage the city, and even tell the secrets that should have been passed on between the families. But other cities do not have such conditions. Those leaders are more afraid of Xiacheng than Dongyi. I really want to see How on earth can Jixia gain a foothold among the tribes of Dahe?"

Chen Jian also laughed, waved his hands and said, "Let's take a look, it will be very interesting. So what does Qiong Xi mean by agreeing to the three-year covenant?"

"Aside from accepting, is there any other way?"

"Then prepare quickly. It's already September, and winter is about to come. I can't stay here for too long, and you can't keep the army nearby to confront me. Those who are released still need to endure After this winter, we have to prepare for next year’s spring plowing.”

"Up to now, you and I have no tricks to use. Unless you can let the people left in your city work alone to support the army of more than [-], the sooner this matter can be resolved, the better. Yucheng is too far away from here. Even if I loot a lot of food, I can’t let these people stop working here, I’ve already got what I want, and I won’t pursue more glory and fame, otherwise all previous efforts will be wasted if I fail.”

These two cities are not the only ones along the river, nor are the two leaders. Their biggest enemies are not each other for the time being, they just want to get what they want through each other.

Now that an agreement has been reached on this, and there is nothing too harsh in the agreement, it is very simple. It only took two days to agree on the specific operation.

On the seventh day of September, Chen Jian and Qiong Xi took an oath together in front of the battle, under the witness of more than ten thousand people.

The former is in the name of the ancestors, and the latter is in the name of the sky. Naturally, some things that should not be said in front of everyone will not be said, but this oath is also somewhat inappropriate. After all, Chen Jian is not the leader of the Dahe tribe.

Qiongxi didn't care. When Chen Jian and Qiongxi cut their fingers together and slaughtered sacrifices, it imperceptibly showed one thing. Xiacheng already had the qualification to be compared with the enemy's ally.

The two parties in this covenant are not Xiacheng and Dongyi tribes, but Dahe tribes and Dongyi tribes, but even the relatives and heirs of the other cities did not feel that there was anything wrong with it, it seemed to be taken for granted Can.

For the Dahe tribes and the Dongyi tribes, this year's battle was a tie, with each winning and losing and breaking each other's cities.

But for Xiacheng and the Dongyi tribes, it was obvious that Xiacheng had won this year's battle. Among the more than ten thousand people captured by Qiongxi, there were only a few dozen Xiacheng people, but Xiacheng broke through three of his cities. Yi captured more than [-] people.

These relatives and heirs who followed Chen Jian inadvertently stood on Xiacheng's side to consider the outcome, so they thought it was a big victory, and it was an incredible victory.They are also winners, sharing the joy, glory and wealth of victory.

When Chen Jian and Qiongxi made an oath that the land here would belong to the tribes of Dahe, those young people cheered loudly. They would own the first piece of land in their lives. This is a very novel thing, the most in the past It is to make great achievements and take the clansmen to go out to build it alone or form a surname, but this is too difficult. Many people dare not think about it all their lives, but now it has come to them who were children two years ago body.

Regarding the land in the covenant, the soldiers of Dongyi were not too angry. There was a lot of land, but the only thing missing was people. At this time, there was no formal concept of territory, and the migration of cities had happened not long ago.

They only knew that when the covenant was signed, their loved ones would be released, and what was the use of uncultivated land?

At least, not now.

At the end of the covenant, according to the previously secretly agreed statement, in order to ensure the implementation of the covenant, the relatives and nobles of the other clan captured by each will be kept as hostages, lest either party will violate it.

In fact, this is unnecessary. If the covenant should not be signed, even if the children of each other are kept, it will not be implemented. Moreover, those who are left are people that the two leaders do not want to see.

According to the method of exchanging one person for another, the Dongyi people cannot exchange all the captured relatives back, but the specific exchange method has already been prepared.

For all the warriors in the army, their relatives will be exchanged first, which makes them feel at ease and trust their leader more, cheering loudly.Even if they belong to the same clan, they still cannot treat everyone equally when faced with such a situation.

Qiongxi captured a total of 4000 tribesmen from Dahe tribes. Even though they asked the soldiers not to be harsh on the road, 700 people died during the journey of more than a month, and the hostages in the covenant were eliminated. About twelve thousand remained.

Chen Jian only needed to count so many people, and in the end Xiacheng earned [-] slaves.

What's more, for the 1 people who were exchanged, their clans have been completely dispersed. Without the managers of the clans, they are just a mess and can be integrated into Xia City's system more quickly.

Feng Zhuo was still alive at this time, Chen Jian didn't think of a way to kill him, even though those people in Fengcheng would still recognize this leader, but all the relatives and relatives under the leader were wiped out, and he couldn't do anything by himself .

The city was destroyed, the food was robbed, and the cattle and sheep fled. Within three years, they had no choice but to attach themselves to Xiacheng. This was what Chen Jian had always wanted. Nothing could compare to the population.

After confirming the exchange time, Chen Jian immediately sent someone back to Yucheng first.He had asked people to build houses long before the expedition, and now that the season of autumn plowing has passed, he asked the Planning and Statistics Department to send all the young and strong from the farms to build houses, and all expenses should be covered by public production.

Qiongxi also let people return to their own city early, and escorted those captured people from the tribes of Dahe, trying not to let people die as much as possible.

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On the river bank to the east of Xinhua City, more than ten thousand people with vicissitudes of life but joyful expressions are slowly moving towards the east, helping each other and encouraging each other.

"Come on, don't fall down here, we'll be home in two days. Hold on..."

Such a voice kept echoing in the team, speaking to others as well as to himself.Captured and enslaved from their distant homeland, they had followed the enemy a long way, and now at last it was time to return home.

A child held his mother's hand. His little sister died along the way, but he survived and walked thousands of miles. His young body endured the suffering and became stronger.

He raised his head and asked his mother strangely.

"Mom, our home is in the Windy City, far, far away. It took us a long time to get here from the Windy City, but why do you say we can go home in two days? Are you lying to me? ? On the way, you lied to me that you wanted me to keep up with the team, and you would buy me a Xiacheng kite at the end of the road, but you didn’t buy it for me. Actually, I know... We were captured as a Slave, you are afraid that I will die on the road like my sister."

Mother raised her head and looked at the vast wasteland, as if she wanted to see a black and white flag.Facing the child's question, she didn't know how to answer, so she had to say: "Mom didn't lie to you this time, and she won't lie to you again in the future. We really want to go home. A home is not a house, but a place with family members." place, there is our family not far ahead."

The child excitedly squeezed his little fist and said, "Then we are no longer slaves?"

"Not anymore. Because Jixia defeated these Dongyi people, he changed us back. We are still human."

"Jixia...is that the one who made the kite? Are the family members you mentioned from Xiacheng? But we are from Fengcheng."

Next to him, a man who always took care of the child along the way picked up the child, let him rest, and said in a hoarse voice: "In the west, we are from the Windy City. But if we leave the Great River, we are all from the tribes of the Great River." People. Of course they're our family, silly boy."

The child seemed to understand, but was very happy. He stubbornly struggled away from the man's thick arms, stepped forward with his chapped little feet, and quickly followed the team, full of expectations for the future life.He has heard many stories about Xiacheng, and his favorite is those Xiacheng peddlers who half sell and half give away some gadgets, but now he wants to become a family with those people, there is nothing happier for a child than this.